17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎"Crazy?"◎

After the storm, time flies by.

The Grand Prix of the 2019-2020 season is coming in this precarious atmosphere where everything seems to be unsettled.

The Grand Prix is ​​the longest event every year. From November to February of the following year, there are 11 sub-stations and the final final.

During the period, players will participate in two sub-stations, and the top 6 players in the overall ranking will enter the finals.Last year and the year before last, Deng Chang made it to the finals, and this year he must at least make it.

Whether it is for the national team or for Deng Chang, this season is a crucial season.

Although he once won the men's singles world record and the silver medal in the Grand Prix last season, Lucy's gold medal in the World Championships overshadowed his limelight.

In the field of competitive sports, silver medals may be similar to bronze medals, but they are far from gold medals. This also made Deng Chang's attention in China temporarily shunned by Lu Xi.

After Lu Xi was injured, Deng Chang was the only men's singles player that could play in the national team this year. However, gossip about him "encountered a developmental barrier" and "was troubled by off-court affairs" emerged endlessly.

Part of their training is open to ice fans, and Deng Chang didn't deliberately avoid them to practice for four weeks, so everyone knows that his recent jump success rate is not high.

Anyway, even if the public training day is avoided, the question of "why Deng Chang hasn't practiced for four weeks" will also spark discussions.

If he can't prove himself in this year of individual combat, I'm afraid Deng Chang will have to be overwhelmed by Lucy for a long time in the eyes of ice fans.

For Deng Chang himself, this is not a problem, but for Deng Chang, who is an athlete, he must do his best to avoid this situation.

Not only because of the slogan of "Guarantee three and strive for one", but more importantly, he is responsible for his own results, as well as his ice fans.

This year, the national team has three players participating in the Grand Prix. With only six players advancing to the finals, Zhu Sibai and Liu Xinyu are basically cannon fodder.

In the end, Deng Chang was reported to China, which has home court advantage, and France, where all top players have no home court advantage.

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In the finals, at least one champion must be won in order to be sure of advancing, so the top players will tacitly avoid each other.

Geers and Orihara Qianli tacitly avoided Deng Chang, but at the French station, Deng Chang ran into Nick Ace, the junior of Geers.

Nick Ace was the champion of the World Youth Championship last year, with strong skills and a very special style of play.

Figure skaters as a whole take the elegant and beautiful ice ballet route, and most of the blond white-haired and blue-eyed white skaters took the role of little prince when they were young, but Ace is different.

He is a madman, a wolf.She has short hair, which is very rare among figure skaters, and is no different from a cropped head. She has a pair of very light gray eyes.

In all Ace's promotional videos, the scene of him on the short program of last year's World Youth Championship is indispensable.

He is wearing a gray Costen with a deep V opening, with a pattern of claw marks and torn patterns on his chest, and his platinum-blond hair is cut very short, giving off a sharp sense of danger.

After a dazzling gait, followed by an exaggerated jump in the air, the hands fell into claws as they landed on the ice.

The camera just happened to sweep over. It is said that the contestants would not pay attention to the camera during the game break, but Ace's gray eyes, which usually seem to be almost out of focus because of their light color, suddenly stared at the camera, and then the corners of his mouth raised high, showing an almost crazy look. smile, compared to a "loser" (loser) mouth.

This is a scene that is rarely seen on the figure skating arena.

The forum was blown up after the competition. Ace's behavior was too provocative, but he did win the World Youth Championship with a huge advantage.

In the post-match interview, he said another sentence that shocked everyone: "Of course I will win the championship, and I will crush the necks of every opponent."

At that time, there was a gasp in the scene.

When this sentence was forwarded by sports media in various countries, it was coded to varying degrees.

A netizen said, "This tm is crazy like a copy of Lucy", and was scolded for three days. Lucy's madness was only crazy about himself. This person can no longer be called crazy, he should be called like a mad dog.

"He is in Canada and France this year." Lucy flipped through the order book, "One stop is you, and the other stop is Asano Subaru."

"It's probably aimed at the two of us." Deng Chang said.

Ace has just been promoted to the group this year, and he is 7 years behind Orihara Chisato. There are only a handful of times when the peak period overlaps, but Deng Chang and Asano Subaru are 3 years older than him, and it is foreseeable that they can still fight for a long time.

If he wanted to provoke, he would naturally provoke Deng Chang and Subaru Asano first.

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After the start of the grand prix, the first race in China will be held.No matter what kind of sports competition, because it is an artificial referee, the home court will have an advantage, so there are no big names in China to compete with Deng Chang, only Korean teenager Kim Byung-kwon can still play.

In the China station, Deng Chang's performance was average for him, and he didn't make it to the devil jump of 4F+3Lo+3T at all, and finally got a score of 298.

He is still the champion of the sub-station, but compared to his 300+ points in every competition last year, this 298 can be said to be very conservative.

The second stop is the Canadian station. Subaru Asano and Ace participated in this stop.

Whenever there is a competition, Lu Xi and Deng Chang will watch it together to understand the difficulty and state of the opponent.Especially this scene is Ace's first appearance, and they waited in front of the TV early.

Deng Chang had a muscle strain recently, and he was lying on the massage table. The team doctor was massaging his shoulder and waist muscles. Lu Xi sat next to him and ate watermelon, and occasionally handed a piece to Deng Chang's mouth.

This scene doesn't look like the rest room of a figure skating national team, but it's a bit like a pedicure center, very leisurely.

There was also Liu Xinyu in the previous competition. Liu Xinyu played in the second group and skated well. He actually did the back and outer quadrants that Lu Xi had taught him before, but it was a pity that he did not succeed in the jump.But after more than half of the competition, it is certain that he can at least advance to tomorrow's free skating.

"Not bad." Lu Xi commented.

Ace appeared in the third group. He performed quadruple jumps in the short program. The difficulty level was not at the same level as that of other competitors in the same group. After the competition, he was far ahead and rushed to the first place, scoring as high as 103.1.

This is expected. After watching the World Youth Championship, Ace's level should be comparable to that of the last group.

But the picture in the camera still made both Lu Xi and Deng Chang stunned for a moment.

When it was time to score, Ace touched his head with both hands, made a movement of rubbing his hair in the middle, and then pointed at the camera, made a very provocative gesture slowly, and said loudly:

"Subaru, Yousuck!"

Figure skating has no tradition of talking trash, so picking things up like this is pure malice.

Lu Xi slapped the coffee table and said angrily, "Crazy?"

"Is he not normal?" Deng Chang frowned unhappily.

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Subaru Asano’s highest score in the previous short program was 102.9, which is indeed not as good as Ace’s score this time, but even Ace’s brother, Jayers, who is known for his provocative nature, would not be so blatant when there is no vengeance provocative.

There was an uproar at the scene.

The camera didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so it turned the screen to Asano Subaru.

Asano Subaru was wearing a black and white team uniform and sitting on the side of his team, with black hair softly pressed against his face, watching the game quietly, with a leisurely and elegant silhouette.

He will appear after three sets, and he looks like he doesn't care what Ace said at all, but he must understand the meaning of this sentence.

Noticing that the camera was coming, Asano Subaru tilted his head, and smiled peacefully in response to Ace.