Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

The cheers and applause of the audience continued, and the sound as if hundreds of thousands of firecrackers were going off all around him almost startled Qing Yue.When he saw clearly that the audience stood up and clapped vigorously for the long program he had just ended, he calmly saluted the audience in every direction to express his gratitude.

Qingyue's name was shouted out by people, whether it was old people, children, men, women, everyone present seemed to be cheering for him, constantly shouting his name, shouting that this created an ice The name of the 27-year-old men's singles player on Miracle.However, Qingyue just smiled and waved to them while breathing heavily, and then slid out of the ice rink like flying, and gave him a vigorous hug with his coach and lover Freyr.

When he touched the other person's body, Freire realized how exhausted his lover, Qing Yue, who had just completed a series of such incredible miracles on the ice, was at the moment.

Indeed, practicing skating at high altitudes can make a huge difference in stamina.But it may be a miracle that this long program can be completed.Almost all the strength in Qingyue's indescribably strong body was consumed.At this time, Qing Yue would feel his legs go weak even just standing here.Therefore, of course, Freire didn't mind supporting Qing Yue and waiting with him for a long program score that was dispensable to them at this time.

Just as Qingyue and Freire expected, Qingyue's long program made it difficult for the referee team.Because in today's scoring system, there is no 5T that Qing Yue just completed.In other words, they didn't know what kind of score they should give Qing Yue.

Qingyue and Freyer seemed to have expected this a long time ago, and deliberately did not state that he would jump a 5T in the long program on the long program technical form submitted before the competition, all because he did not jump in the short program because he jumped 4A 3A and suffered a point deduction in retaliation.Wanting to pretend that he doesn't know anything, but still glancing at the referees from time to time, this may really be a serious test for Qing Yue, not to mention that all the cameras in the audience are facing him now, Let no one of his little moves escape the eyes of ice fans all over the world.

So Freire and Qing Yue began to calculate the possible points of their long program.

"I mean, I really wish I could be the president of the International Skating Federation, and then the officials of the ice association go to skate. Make a special group of rules. If they don't include quadruple jumps in their long program, then all The jumping, the footwork, the spin, all drop down."

Hearing Qing Yue gritted his teeth and said these words in a very serious manner, Freire could hardly restrain the urge to laugh during the live broadcast to the whole world.

For both of them, the long wait seemed no longer a source of anxiety.No matter what the result is, for Qing Yue who has completed such a long program, he doesn't seem to care too much.However, it was difficult for the audience present to be as calm as the person involved.They looked anxiously at the referee group who had been caught in a long discussion, and made complaints.

After 10 minutes, the referee team consulted the International Skating Federation and finally came to a conclusion.That is... the ratio of the basic points obtained in different lap jumps in the back toe jump is forwarded to the score of the back toe five axel jump.

For Qingyue, this may not be good news.Because, under the rule system that does not pay attention to jumping, jumping out of the epoch-making jump of the back-to-out ice five-round jump did not bring Qing Yue any special bonus points, and even... the bonus points he got were even higher than before. The bonus points obtained from 3T to 4T are less.

In this case, the referee team seems to be very embarrassed.Because, if scoring strictly according to the rules, although Qing Yue won the first score in the long program by virtue of his powerful jump that almost subverted the existing scoring system, but because he only won third in the short program, in the long program Qingyue, who did not gain an overwhelming advantage, will eventually rank second in the overall score with a slight disadvantage.

Could it be...should they let such a player lose the only Olympic gold medal in his sports life because of a difference of 1.2 points?

The chief referee in the referee group turned his head and glanced at Qingyue who was waiting for a final score in the waiting area, and Freire who was by his side.Both of these players were once favored by the referees.They once left this wonderful stage, but returned here with such a gesture four years later.

"Just 1.2 points, that's not a lot."

When the gaze fell on the anxiously waiting audience, the gray-haired but extraordinarily energetic chief referee seemed to be talking to himself.

Three minutes later, Qingyue's final score was displayed on the big screen in the arena.Before he could react, Frere, who was sitting beside him, had already blocked his shoulder with his arm.Qing Yue, who had just finished a long program, almost exhausted all his strength, so he slammed into Freire's arms with his back in a defenseless posture.

"Champions! Champions! We won! We won!"

Before Freire could finish his sentence, his voice was already drowned out by the... wave-like cheers from the audience in the ice rink.In other words, it is not just a wave anymore, it is swept from all around, there are waves as high as tens of meters to hundreds of meters, filling the whole space, making Qing who has entered the adult group ten years Yue Ye was so bluffed that he couldn't say a word in a daze when he faced the reporter who was rushing towards him with a camera on his shoulder.

"I... won the championship?"

After a long time, Qing Yue turned his head slowly and with an incredible emotion to ask this question to Freire, and got a very affirmative answer from the other party.So Qing Yue frowned and turned his head back, murmured in puzzlement: "That's not right..."

When Qing Yue said these words, the photographer who was carrying the camera on the side seemed to be choked by something, and as for the reporter... it was so messed up in the wind that he couldn't ask any questions.

If Chu Xuan and his friends were by Qing Yue's side right now, they might pick up any props in their hands and throw them at Qing Yue viciously, and yell at him: "Enough is enough!"

Perhaps, no one would know that although Qing Yue's performance in the long and short programs could not impress the cruel and unchangeable rules, he did impress all the audience, including the flesh-and-blood referee team.At the last moment, Qingyue, who was the champion of the grand prix finals, was unknowingly added more GOE advantages, and finally won the crown of Olympic champion because of this slight advantage.

Perhaps, no one would disagree with such a result.

Everyone in the auditorium stood up one after another, applauding vigorously, welcoming and urging the newly born new champion to go to his podium.

The players who won the silver and bronze medals of this Olympic Games are already on the podium.The only thing waiting now is Qing Yue, who has won the championship.

The runner-up in this Olympic Games is a boy from Scott who is only 21 years old this year.According to Freire, he seems to be Koness's fellow apprentice named Leon.He left Qing Yue with an extremely serious and rigorous attitude towards skating.Although only 21 years old, he is unexpectedly generous.

However, it was such a young contestant, when he saw Qingyue walking beside him, he couldn't restrain his nervousness, he hesitated and stretched out his hand to Qingyue, as if he wanted to shake hands with his boyhood idol. A handshake.Captured by multiple cameras, Qing Yue shook hands with the ice rookie in a friendly manner. His charming smile actually made the young junior bow his head shyly after showing a smile.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the national anthem of Xishu resounded on the ice rink, which is the Olympic platform. At the moment when the national flag was raised, Qing Yue didn't know what to think, revealing a simple but more meaningful smile.

From the beginning to the end, there was only a faint smile on Qing Yue's face.There was no excitement that was almost out of control, and there was no ecstasy that made him wonder what to do.However, it was this smile that made Qing Yue's classic melancholy temperament slowly reveal, and even permeate the space around him.

Although the clothes he wears are simple in design, the display of his body lines naturally attracts the attention of others.All of these make him the most dazzling existence in this ice rink today, a dazzling existence that makes too many people lose sleep tonight.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Rhodes, the commentator who always didn't speak first, had an extremely calm personality, let out a choked voice: "Friends in the audience, Qing Yue is a men's singles player that I admire very much. Every time he competes, he always leaves a deep impression on me. Perhaps, for me personally, he is really a very special skater. Because... my first time as a commentator for a major figure skating competition , It was the match that Qingyue participated in the World Youth Championship 11 years ago. At that time, I felt... This is really a miracle bestowed by the gods in the ice world, and he will definitely achieve something.

In the following year, I continued to serve as the commentator for the World Youth Championships. Qingyue, who was transferred to the senior group in the first year, failed to achieve memorable results in the World Championships.I'm sorry about that, but I was on the TV and said, man, that's okay, until today, you've only been skating for four years, you can get more.

After that, I finally served as a commentator for the World Championships.It was in that year that I witnessed the rise of both Qing Yue and Chu Xuan, and witnessed the birth of an era.I thought it belonged to Alek, Freire, Qingyue, and the era of those names with countless flashing lights had already passed four years ago.But now it seems that it has not passed.At least not this year, and for a long time to come, the era of imprinting their names will not pass.It deserves to be remembered by each of us ice fans. "

The words of the narrator Rhodes completely became the propellant for the continuous tear-jerking.Because of the long program that Qing Yue slid out just now, he was deeply moved, and there were too many people who were so moved that they shed silent tears.Looking at the figure gradually disappearing in the corridor, I felt an indescribable anxiety.

They understood that this year's Olympic Games must be the... last Olympic season that Qing Yue, who is now 27 years old, will participate in in this life.

But they are so sad.Reluctant to take away that too dazzling genius from their world, let him leave the sight of ice fans forever.Maybe he was born to skate, God shouldn't force him to leave forever when he is only 27 years old.He should be here forever, forever.

When Qing Yue's figure was about to disappear in the corridor, an audience sitting in the first row finally shouted Qing Yue's name out of control.Hearing this shout, Qing Yue seemed to turn his head to look in the direction of the voice, but finally continued to walk towards the backstage.

At the subsequent press conference, Qing Yue, who hadn't said a word in front of the media since his comeback, finally spoke.

"Perhaps too many people once thought that I was a person who possessed extremely high talents but didn't know how to make progress, but what I want to say is... No one can succeed by relying on talent alone, and no one can succeed by relying only on talent." The talent is the quintuple jump. I started to learn skating very late... I have always put in as much effort as others, or even more than others. I just... don't want to talk about it. Don't say it, Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

This time I came back, not for the medals.I came back just to prove to the world that there are some things that only I can do.Nobody but me. "

When Qing Yue said these words, Freire, his coach, was looking at him from a distance from the press conference.Listening to Qing Yue's words, there seemed to be an emotion related to pride in Freire's smile.But that was not for himself.

When another reporter asked Qing Yue a question, Freire and Qing Yue seemed to sense something, and they exchanged gazes in this room with multiple media outlets.

"Yes, during the nearly three years that I was missing, or I can call that time, I saw a lot and felt a lot. Now, I have not only proved what I wanted to prove, but also found my The original intention of learning figure skating. From now on, I only skate for two people. Myself, and..."

The author has something to say:

The inside is full of cattle, this chapter should have been released at least two hours ago.But Langye, I struggled with it for a long time. The reason is this. The figure skating emperor I met in the text seemed to see that I didn't intend to let Xiaoyue win the championship, so he knocked on me and sorted out the eight kinds of jumps in Qingyue's long program. , count the points with me... Nei Niu, using the current system that emphasizes jumping... the basic score of each jump, which produces countless laughs.

At that time, I was really shaken, because when I first conceived this article... the first thing I thought of was the ending.After such a protagonist came back, he won himself and lost to the rules, but in the end he was remembered by everyone for a longer time with a kind of regret.So... this loneliness and lack of regret seem to run through the whole article, and I am very unwilling to change it at the end of the finale, (so I was told by my friends that I have seen it before. The most stubborn author, not one of them) But I am worried that the writing feels very deliberate, obviously only a few tenths away, losing, isn't this bullying.

During this period, Langye wavered for a long time, and then helplessly knocked on many friends with his small heart and asked them.One of them... Well, the gray-faced bull running, is a fan... Then we said a lot of bullshit, even though my friend tried to persuade me to write Qingyue as the champion, but no matter what Qing Yue talked about Beckham, Paolo Maldini, and... the Dutch football team, and emphasized that it would be more regrettable to let Qing Yue play in the Olympics at the age of 31 and then win the runner-up.Having said this all the way... Langxie was so ashamed and angry that he almost crawled to update. The update content was repeated five hundred times, "Qingyue is the runner-up, the runner-up, the runner-up, it's swollen!!!!"

Well I was only joking.What I want to say is that until the end, I finally realized that since Qingyue's long program has impressed the audience, he should also be able to impress the referee team, so that he won't be caught because of the difference of a few tenths. And became the runner-up.Perhaps, failing to win the gold medal at the age of 23 has become an indelible regret in his life, so let this ending be more perfect and sweeter.

In addition, this article has not yet ended, and it is estimated that there are about 1 words left. It is not the end after taking the cards!