Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

After the night of winning the medal, he left behind the media waiting to interview him and Xi Shu's celebration banquet. Without explaining to anyone, he ran out to find Alek by himself, and then accompanied him when the battery of his mobile phone was exhausted. Lek waited for the sunrise at the airport.Lost contact with everyone throughout the night, which caused Qing Yue to be scolded all day after returning.

Naxiu was worried about him, and stayed up almost all night because he couldn't find him.In order to cover for him, Chu Xuan circled in front of various media to create the illusion that Qing Yue had returned to the dormitory early because of too much pressure before the game and exhaustion during the game.After learning that Qingyue was missing, Freire, who was thought to be with Qingyue by Chu Xuan and others, helped to find Qingyue outside for a night. Even Freire's friend, Charman, was alarmed to help Find it together.

Therefore, when Qingyue went back, all these people gathered together, and gave Qingyue a critique dinner that would definitely impress him and remember him for many years.

A week later, the figure skating part of this Olympic Games finally came to an end at the end of the post-competition performance skating.

Due to Freire's victory, the Ice Association of Planden complied with the wishes of the domestic ice fans and specially invited Carlos, who was on the tour, so that he could play the violin for their "Planden Light" on the performance skate after the game. Perform live accompaniment.

As for Qingyue, in a poll initiated by his official website, most of the ice fans who participated in the voting said that they hoped to see Qingyue again since the COI commercial tour two years ago. Sliding masterpiece, "Lucia de Lammermore".This time, Qing Yue finally gladly accepted the ice fans' request.

Koness, who won the bronze medal in this Olympics, had the same total score as Qingyue, but in the end because the long program score was lower than Qingyue, he was placed in the third place. He seemed to want to go crazy one last time before retiring. For the first time, he jumped out of two quadruple jumps on the post-match performance slide, winning applause from the audience.

After the performance skate, Qing Yue, Chu Xuan, Freire, Charman, Ai Wa and others met to go to the bar to have a carnival together.The youngest of them, Qing Yue, turned 19 this year, which means he will never again be locked out of a bar alone because of an underage relationship.

Therefore, this gathering aroused Qing Yue's anticipation.When they changed their clothes and decided to go to the bar, Qingyue and others ran into Cornes who was planning to go back to the dormitory. On the road, he took him to the bar street noisyly.

"This Olympic Games is over, should I talk about the outlook now? Or what are the plans?"

After drinking a few sips of draft beer, Chu Xuan said in an extremely rough manner, which made the other people sitting in the same cubicle with him smile in different ways.

Among them, Koness was the first to speak. He took a sip of the beer, let the slightly bitter taste slip through his taste buds, tasted it and said noncommittally: "I have nothing to say, after the game is over In the subsequent press conference, I have already indicated that I am ready to retire, and I will not even participate in the World Championships for a month. I am a quasi-retired player."

"I still plan to skate for another Olympic season. I will retire at the age of 24. I just didn't waste my golden age. I don't need to be like that one. I still have to do quadruple jumps when I'm old, huh?"

After Cornes finished speaking, Chu Xuan continued.After finishing speaking, the implication was very obvious. Sitting next to him, Qingyue had made him worry a lot since entering the adult group.Chu Xuan's words made everyone look at Qing Yue, the youngest among them.

Koness, who had already confirmed his retirement, asked in surprise: "So, you plan to skate for more than one more Olympic season?"

Facing everyone's surprised gazes, Qing Yue nodded a little embarrassedly and said, "Yes, I plan to skate for two more Olympic seasons and retire at the age of 27. Because... besides skating, I really can't think of anything else I can do. what."

Qing Yue's words seemed to hit the hearts of many of them, and the atmosphere fell silent for a while.Everyone just listened to the sexy voice of the bar singer outside the cubicle and didn't speak.

Then, Charman, who was holding a glass of cocktail in his hand, smiled and joked: "Maybe, you can try to be a graphic model? I can guarantee that most of the actions you can do, most of the current graphic models I can’t even do it. Besides, wasn’t the commercial you shot for NX at that time very good? I still remember the title of the entertainment news—16-year-old figure skater…”

"Scharmain! You don't have to remember that all the time!"

Charman spoke very slowly about the entertainment news headlines that shocked them all at the time, making Qing Yue yell at him before he finished speaking, so that he knew what happened at that time The three of Plandon couldn't help sniggering.Cornes on the side didn't know what happened, so he asked Charman's partner, Eva, and got an answer that made him laugh.

When the smile stopped, Koness, who seemed to have started thinking the moment he got off the podium, said a thought that had not yet formed in his mind: "Actually, I am not sure about what I can do in the future." So lost. I might go back to college though, maybe photography would be a good major.”

Cones said seriously.The eyes with classic melancholy temperament are so beautiful that one can't help but want to wish him a smooth journey in the future.Therefore, the few people sitting together clinked their glasses, and then took a big sip of wine.

Under the influence of alcohol, Chu Xuan felt the sweltering heat in the room, and opened his neckline and said, "But then again, if I plan to participate in the next Olympic Games, I really have to practice hard for four weeks." Jumped. Otherwise, maybe it will be fourth or fifth, or even no fifth. Because...by the time of the next Olympic Games, there will be so many world-class competitions in men's singles that almost anyone can jump Jumped around."

Chu Xuan's words revealed that he didn't know whether it was helplessness or eagerness to try.After he finished the cold joke, he continued to focus on Qingyue, who was on the same team as him: "However, you really don't plan to retire now? If you retire now, I will ask you to be my skater." Assistant, teach me to dance quadruple jumps and pay you by the hour."

Chu Xuan's words made Qing Yue, who was sipping beer, choke, and finally recovered, but found that all the active players who came here today laughed loudly, so he frowned and yelled at Chu Xuan angrily Said: "My hourly salary is five thousand!"

"Oh, that's too expensive, Qingyue. Why don't you call me... [-]% off and then [-]% off because we know each other so well? In that case, I'd like to invite you."

It was Frey who laughed first, and then the person who realized it was planning to cover his mouth and snigger at first, but whoever couldn't hold it back, let out a burst of extremely loud laughter, which made the scene out of control for a while , the whole group of people laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten up.

Everyone wanted to laugh and forget it, but seeing Qing Yue's expression of embarrassment turned into anger, they really couldn't stop the urge to laugh.Seeing that Qing Yue might overturn the table and let everyone present have a luxurious beer bath.

Freire held back a smile with great difficulty, trying to turn everyone's topic from Qingyue to himself, who just won the Olympic champion.He raised his hand and said, "I'm not retiring, I plan to skate for another Olympic season."

This unexpected decision made Chu Xuan look at him in horror and said: "Don't retire? You won the gold medal and you still don't retire? Be careful that we will kick you off the podium at the next Olympic Games. Then you're done."

"Not retiring, absolutely...not retiring." Freire crossed his hands, making a "never!" gesture and said: "I now have an Olympic gold medal and a bronze medal. So, buddy, don't you think I still lack What is it?"

What Freire said made everyone look at him with doubts, wondering what else a person who has already won the Olympic gold medal would lack.Freire stood up with a mug of beer and said loudly, "It's a silver medal! I still need an Olympic silver medal! I'll have to come back to get it in four years."

Such words made Freire become the target of the crowd scrambling to beat him, curling up with his head in pain.Charman, who is also from Planden, continued to shake his glass very deeply and sighed: "You are already thinking about what will happen in four years or even eight years? But I seem to be 24 years old. Listen It's sad to see you young people talking about things like this."

It seems that Charman, who should be the same age as Qingyue, immediately attracted everyone's shocked eyes when he said this.It seemed that he couldn't believe that this ice dancer, who had a deceptive baby face and became famous almost in the same year as Freire, was already 24 years old.Such suspicion made Charman glance at them, and said slowly: "But I skate ice dance, and the sports injuries and technical difficulty are much, much lower than your men's singles, and I don't need to work hard. Spinning and jumping until I'm crippled. So maybe I'll be able to skate until I'm 32. This age is not uncommon in ice dancing."

"Sharman! I can't see that you are pursuing excitement so much!" ——The words came from Chu Xuan, who was pulling Freire's collar and shaking it vigorously.

"No way, figure skating is not a traditional strength of Planden. Although we only won No.4 in the Olympics this time. But apart from our team in ice dancing, Plandon really has nothing else to participate in the Olympics. Qualified ice dance group.

So, I, Eva, and Freire are all under a lot of pressure.It's not that you can withdraw if you want to withdraw early.In fact, I also want to retire early, marry Eva and have children.At least, I finally have someone who can inherit the family business. "

"You...you...?"

The fact that Charman said unintentionally made everyone stop beating Freire unilaterally, and looked at Charman and Eve in shock.

Although the two have been partners for many years and have never had any scandals with others, it is still hard for everyone to imagine that these two people will be a pair of lovers.After all, the two don't really match each other in appearance.In Freire's words, Charmaine is a guy with the face of a teenager but the heart of a middle-aged man.But his female companion, Eva...has a mature and charming face.In terms of appearance, the two don't match at all.Even if they have a great tacit understanding, people can't think of that.

After Charman finished saying this, Eva, who was actually very cute, blushed and kept sticking Charmain's hand with a macaroni fork.Although he didn't use any force, it still made Charlene frowned in pain, and then suddenly hugged Eva in his arms, raised her left hand with the engagement ring, and announced to several people in the same group: "Eva and I are already engaged. Maybe we will get married after we return to China. When the time comes, will you come?"

The answer...of course is yes.These young people who had been drinking booed one after another, saying that they would definitely come, even if Charlene cried and begged them not to come and make trouble.

"Okay, if any of you come, I will pay for the ticket."

As soon as this remark came out, the entire compartment immediately became a sensation.

The Olympic season of that year turned the page quickly in the carnival of that night.Although in this Olympic Games, some people were frustrated and some people regretted it, but it was an Olympic season that the athletes who lived in that era... would miss very much after many years.At that time, Qingyue was 19 years old, and they were still so young, full of vigor and high spirits, and had infinite visions for the future.

The joint efforts of the players of that generation made the men's singles event of figure skating advance rapidly for more than ten years, even decades.After that Olympic Games, one after another outstanding players bloomed in the ice world, which made the ice fans all over the world grow unprecedentedly.

Many people have ridiculed this colorful era that belongs to them after all of their players have retired.It was an era in which good-looking players must be the world's top players, an era in which all athletes who appeared on the podium were able to jump quadruple jumps, and an era where almost all world-class athletes could jump quadruple jumps. An era that does not rely on anything other than the quadruple jump to determine the outcome...