Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

“I would learn to skate because I was so handsome on the ice and the girls loved to watch me skate. I didn’t even know at the time that I would get anything other than a girlfriend in figure skating. Even when I got When I was champion in the youth group of the Xishu National Championships, I never thought that one day I might go to the Olympics."

This is what Chu Xuan said to Qing Yue when he participated in the World Championships for the first time.However, it is such a person who is now standing on the Olympic arena, showing to the world his superb skills in figure skating and his unique personal charm, which makes everyone who comes to the arena to watch the game Everyone remembers this young Xishu player with outstanding looks.

When did your feelings towards figure skating start to change?Regarding this question, I am afraid that even Chu Xuan himself cannot answer it.If he insisted on telling the reason, it would probably be... He fell in love with this art on ice blades every time he slid, every time he rotated, every time he jumped.

Chu Xuan's excellent on-the-spot performance made him No.1 in his group, and made Qing Yue give him high fives with excitement after he left the field. It also made Chu Xuan exhale and say: "Finally, I'm not here." I made a fool of myself in the Olympics, and I said, did my performance just now save me the possibility of participating in post-competition performance skating?"

"Of course!"

Hearing Chu Xuan's question, Qing Yue gave an affirmative answer without hesitation, which also made Chu Xuan show a very charming smile, and then he was holding on to the roses thrown by the ice fans when he passed the auditorium just now , paid tribute to the auditorium, causing the female ice fans in the auditorium to burst into cheers for him again.

Unable to let Chu Xuan continue to behave like a competitive athlete here, Chu Xuan's coach dragged him down after Xiang Qingyue nodded, so that the next players can play well .

In the men's singles long program competition of the Winter Olympics, the top 24 short program rankings will be divided into 4 groups with six players in each group.The contestants ranked 19-24 in the short program will appear first, the contestants ranked 13-18 will appear in the second group, and so on.Therefore, after the short program, Freire ranked first, Alec ranked second, Koness third, and Qing Yue ranked fourth were undoubtedly one of the six finale players.

In this six-person group, draw lots to determine their respective rankings.In the lottery of the long program, Freire, the top scorer in the short program, was lucky to get the first lottery. Alek played next, and Koness was behind Alek. .And Qingyue... drew the last... dead draw of the entire game.

It is true that the later the appearance, the deeper the impression will be on the referee, but it will also bring tremendous pressure to the players.Therefore, drawing the last lottery is simply the biggest nightmare in this major event.Perhaps that kind of heavy pressure can have no less impact on players than repeated injuries.

Drawing the last lottery to play meant he'd be on the ice watching, or at least listening to, a number of players finish their long-show presentations.In the process, his warm-up exercises for a smooth presentation of the long show will likely be undone...

Just as Qing Yue was lost in thought while watching Chu Xuan's leaving figure, the commentary in the director's room sounded again: "Next, let's welcome the first player in the fifth group, Frey! Freire is the bronze medalist of the last Olympic Games! He is also the best figure skating men's singles player in Brandon in the past 4 years! In the past four years, Freire has won medals in the World Championships many times. In the short program that ended yesterday Among them, he even won the first place in the game with a huge advantage of 3 points higher than No.

Frere drew the first lottery in the final group.The player who ranked first in the short program was the first to appear in the last group of players in the long program.This is a very rare situation.Although it allows the audience to see the highest-level long program as soon as possible, but from another perspective, if the player who ranks first in the short program can still perform very well in the long program, the Olympic Games No one else has a gold medal.

Moreover, this order of appearance will bring extra enormous pressure to other contestants who rank 2-5 in the short program.Especially... the player who ranked second in the short program.

When Freire's name was called on the live broadcast, he took a deep breath, and under the coach's instructions, he secretly made a "must win" gesture in the direction of Qingyue, raised his head A laugh that can be deeply contagious.

He entered the ice rink with the title of No. [-] in the short program and the pressure, but at the beginning of the program, he created a breath of fresh air amidst the noise.

The music has not sounded, but the drums have gone.The drumbeat gradually enters the crescendo before you realize it, and the highly recognizable acoustic guitar strings enter here.

It was a piece co-arranged by Freire and Carlos, who was known as a musical prodigy back then. It perfectly integrated Frere's flamenco playing method and Carlos' classical violin melody.The audience in the venue couldn't help but prick their ears to listen to this...too beautiful piece that has not yet been commercially released.

Amidst drumbeats, clapping and acoustic guitar, Freire jumped up on the ice and began his footwork demonstration.

Frere is not a player who has spinning skills, decent jumps, and terrible footwork.In fact, he's a player who doesn't lack any skills.

His skating is remarkably smooth, and even his footwork is excellent, but that's masked by his dazzling spin.If it comes to the fourth-level footwork that is almost only Alec can do in today's ice world, it is not impossible for Freire to complete it.Even, he was able to perfectly show the fourth-level footwork in practice three years ago.

It's just... Due to the difficulty of Freire's choreography and his extremely unstable performance in the competition, almost no program choreographer dared to program such a high level of footwork in his program.I'm afraid that he didn't jump up and down on the four sides. Instead, he stumbled with his left foot and fell down with his right foot during the footwork show, which will be remembered by the referee team and the world ice circle for a lifetime...

In that case, it would be the end of Freire, the Light of Planden... completely over...

However, just as the music became more cheerful, Freire jumped out of his second series of jumps.This time, he did not seem to choose to jump out of the most difficult series of jumps at the beginning of the game when he was most physically fit like most of the other players. Instead, he jumped out a 4-3 jump after a series of footwork demonstrations. The jump of -2 made the audience resound like thunder.

Hearing such applause, Freire's contagious smile gradually deepened, and he began his spin that no one in today's ice world can match.

Freire's performance can be said to have attracted the attention of too many players.Many contestants who had finished the long program competition began to concentrate on watching Frere's long program presentation, and couldn't help but gasp in amazement when they saw that near-perfect quadruple jump.

It was a...too perfect long show presentation.It can be said that since Qingyue transferred to the adult group, he has never seen Freire perform so well on the spot in an official competition.In the four minutes and 40 seconds of the long program, he hardly showed the slightest flaw in any jump.Even a recognized jumping genius like Qingyue has successfully completed the 4-3-2 jump that would be very difficult to complete.

And... With that gifted sense of music, every time Freire falls off the ice, it can bring a special kind of spiritual shock to the audience.Although it is different from Qingyue's jump, it is full of a rigid and tense flavor, which makes people's blood boil.

That's the result of Freire's one-year offseason and his dedication to training jumps.He was so impressive that he couldn't even believe that it was Freire who had abilities that other players could hardly match, but who always lost the chain at critical moments.

With Freire showing the four-level footwork that almost only Alek could accomplish in the game before, the ice fans in Planden couldn't help but feel excited for their hero in Planden. Cheers...