Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

Three days later, Chu Xuan, the No. [-] figure skating figure skater in Xishu, suffered a torn meniscus in his knee, and news spread that he would no longer be able to skate.

A week later, Chu Xuan, who had not fully recovered from the surgery, announced his official retirement through his blog.

For a moment, there was an uproar among Xishu's ice fans.

When the senior officials of the Xishu Ice Association learned of the news, they even caused a silent unease and... panic.Seeing that another Olympic Games is approaching, Chu Xuan, who was expected to win No.4 in the Olympic Games, and even stood on the podium with the country's number one player Qing Yue, ended his sports career completely and without any room for change. , This is how embarrassing.

Originally... after three years of hard training, Chu Xuan has almost completely mastered the quadruple jump.In the just-concluded World Championships, Chu Xuan successfully jumped two quadruple jumps in the competition, which made the Ice Association very pleased.Because... This means that Chu Xuan is very average in all technical strengths. He even conquered the fourth-level footwork last year, and Chu Xuan, who also has a high impression score in the referee group, is expected to compete in the upcoming Olympic Games Get your own place.It can even be said...he has the possibility of winning a medal.

As Qingyue's world ranking has steadily improved, Xishu's top player is no longer behind the top players of the other two countries. Even if that person is Planden's Freire, he is not absolutely sure that he can beat Qingyue.

In this case, Xishu, Plandeng, and Jiaguo stand in the world ice circle.Among the number two players from these three countries, only Xishu's Chu Xuan is the closest to the men's singles level.

Qing Yue is currently ranked second in the world, and Chu Xuan is fifth.With these two top figure skaters in the world, the Xishu Ice Association wanted to win a lot of applause at the upcoming Olympic Games.

However, Chu Xuan's sad retirement made their hope come to nothing.Perhaps, it is not only Xishu's ice association, but also Xishu's ice fans who have lost this hope.

Ten days after Chu Xuan announced his retirement statement to the public, the top management of the Ice Association found Qing Yue who was finishing the filming of the commercial and nervously preparing for the Olympics.That made Qing feel very puzzled.

Because before that, he had a very unpleasant fight with the top management of the Ice Association.There is no other reason. A figure skating coach who has a close relationship with the senior officials of the Xishu Ice Association and enjoys a high reputation in Xishu expressed his desire to become Qingyue's skating coach.

He said that Qingyue did have a rare talent in decades, but his coach turned out to be a person who retired without any sense of responsibility after winning the Olympic gold medal at the age of 17, regardless of his country's expectations.And for 20 years after that, that talented, arrogant and irresponsible person never continued to do figure skating.

The big-name figure skating coach in Xishu described Naxiu as a "skate salesman", a businessman who was teaching his students while still thinking about how to sell more pairs of skates.Moreover, the Xishu coach said that if the person who taught Qingyue was him from the beginning, or Qingyue had already won the Olympic champion in the last Olympic Games.

Obviously, Naxiu, the former legendary men's singles player from Jia country, is teaching the current Xishu legendary men's singles player.In addition, Naxiu's Jia nationality made those high-level officials in Xishu not like him very much.

However, the harsh words uttered by the highly qualified coach Xishu, who once coached an Olympic champion, were met with positive counterattacks by Qing Yue in front of the media.Those words made Qing Yue very angry, and he, who has never been very fond of tact, mercilessly satirized the coach.

"Oh, I am very grateful to him for looking at me and praising me. Thank him for finally discovering my extraordinary talent after I won two world championship gold medals and an Olympic silver medal. As for winning the last Olympic champion , maybe everyone who saw Freire's performance that year will know that this is purely a lunatic's dream."

Such a sentence almost made the coach with high reputation in Xishu country lose face, and also made Xishu Ice Association feel extremely dissatisfied with him.

But what about dissatisfaction?So what if he desperately pressed his points in the Xishu National Championships?Xishu wants to get a place on the podium of the international competition, they can only rely on Qingyue.

The Ice Association can't do anything to Qingyue, who is at the top of the world ice circle, but this unhappiness has been buried in their hearts, and the cold war between the two sides has continued from then to today.

But... the Ice Association found Qingyue at this time?This makes Qing more puzzled.However, if you don’t understand it, you still have to go.Ever since, Qing Yue took advantage of the gap between filming an advertisement to go to the headquarters of the Ice Association, which made him feel unfamiliar.

"Mr. Chairman? I'm Qingyue who made an appointment with you at two o'clock this afternoon."

Qing Yue, who came to the door of the chairman's office of the Ice Association on time, said very unaccustomedly after he was allowed to open the door and enter.I saw the old man who seemed to be in his 60s standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the flow of people and cars under the tall buildings.

When he heard Qingyue's voice, the old man who had worked in the Ice Association for 40 years turned around abruptly, and looked face to face at the person who seemed to be far and far away from the current Xishu Ice Association... ...Xishu's top men's singles player.

At this time, the old man's face didn't have the... critical and disapproval that Qing Yue was familiar with in the past.He seemed to have suffered a very big blow, which made him look a lot more depressed.He looked at Qing Yue for a moment, and then... poured Qing Yue a cup of freshly ground coffee.

He talked a lot with Qingyue, about his daily training, about his current state, and asked Qingyue very carefully whether the sports injuries accumulated so far after he transferred to the adult group were serious, and whether he would perform every jump. What a feeling.

After a long time, Xishu's chairman of the Ice Association finally asked after a long silence, "Are you going to skate until you're 27, kid?"

"Yes, Mr. Chairman."

"Are you sure, kid?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

"That's good...that's good..." After hearing Qing Yue's affirmative answer, the Chairman of the Ice Association lowered his head and repeated, which made Qing even more hesitant, who didn't know why the Chairman of the Ice Association was looking for him this time.

Until the end of this conversation, Qing Yue did not know what the Chairman of the Ice Association wanted to say to him.However, a month later, he felt... pressure from across the country.This pressure became heavier as the Olympic Games approached, making it more difficult for Qing to adapt.

It has to be said that Chu Xuan is a very predictable person.Long before the start of the long program of the last Olympic Games, he had told Qingyue that five years ago...he believed that the only people who could carry Xishu's future were himself and Qingyue.After five years, he also felt the same way, and even after another five years, he would still feel the same way.

Yes, at that time, Chu Xuan saw that Xi Shu five years later, apart from himself and Qing Yue, no one would be able to reach the podium of world-class competitions.So, now that Chu Xuan has already left the stage early, how will Xi Shu, who only has Qing Yue as the world's top figure skater, face the situation that is almost the same as that of Planden back then?How should we face the country of Jia, which has many outstanding young figure skaters?How to face the world ice world where batch after batch of outstanding figure skaters are constantly emerging?

Yes, they have realized their shortcomings in the past few years, and tried their best to make up for it. In Xishu, where the figure skating craze has been set off one after another, they are constantly looking for promising young figure skating enthusiasts, and they To be cultivated.However...how long does it take to develop a world-class figure skater?How long can Qing Yue continue to skate?

Will he... be able to slide to 27, as he said?