17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎The free skating track is the Chinese-style "Jasmine". ◎

In fact, Lu Xi still wanted to express his gratitude to Deng Chang. He is the kind of player who is always remembered when others treat him well or badly.

He has to repay those who are good to him, and he has to hold grudges against those who are bad to him.

Deng Chang has never been considered bad to him, but before today, he was not considered good to him either.

It's just like the two academic masters who have been in the same school from elementary school to high school, but never in the same class, "Although we have known each other for ten years, we are really not familiar with each other."

That's it.

But Deng Chang never gave Lu Xi a second chance to say thank you.

This person really took the training time very tight. After he finished teasing Liu Xinyu, he stepped back and slid twice like a normal person, and then performed a jump, squat and spin.

Everyone else started to make moves, so naturally Lu Xi couldn't disturb him anymore, so he had to give up.

Although Deng Chang still ignores Lu Xi, and this way of ending the conversation is not so pleasant, but Deng Chang did help him just now, so at least tonight, he will have "don't care how to put on a bad face" at Lu Xi's place. I will let you" one-day privilege.

So instead of beeping Deng Chang in his heart, Lucifer went to get him a bottle of the new peach-flavored sports drink after the spin class was over.

Before, there were only tasteless and lemon flavors, and the peach flavor had to be rushed to grab it.

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When Lu Xi walked back with water, Deng Chang was playing with his mobile phone. Lu Xi knew that most people didn't want someone to come over while they were looking at their mobile phones, so he made a little noise as a reminder when he walked up.

Sure enough, Deng Chang quickly pressed the phone and turned to look at him.

Lu Xi handed over the water and joked, "The coach said, don't play with your mobile phone."

Deng Chang ignored his words and took the water from Lu Xi's hand: "Thank you."

Lucy:"……"

He didn't know how many times he regretted that he had a mouth in two days.

But after all, Deng Chang spoke for him today, and he still has the privilege of being free from complaints for a day.

Lu Xi could only tell himself that Deng Chang just ignored people, so don't recruit him again, you're just making fun of yourself.

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After the spinning class, there was the footwork class. It was originally a group of two people, but because there were too many people, Lin Yingsu couldn't stand it, so it became Chen Qi's team of three plus Liu Xinyu. Four people did it together, that is, more Just put two rows of road cones.

It can be felt that Liu Xinyu has a particularly strong desire to win and lose, and he wants to fight with Lu Xi with all his energy.

But he is not very smart, maybe more than others, only footwork is the part that Lucy is best at among the three basic movements of figure skating.

They made a round of footwork by walking around the road cone twice back and forth. When Lucy finished the first half of the back and forth with twirling steps, he looked back.

Deng Chang still has one road cone left to go, Liu Xinyu has gone less than two-thirds of the way, and Zhu Sibai from the youth group has just started.

Lu Xi didn't care anymore, and continued to walk the second half of his back and forth.

After finishing the two back-and-forth twirling steps, Lu Xi greeted the coach by turning around, tapping the ice, and saluting. Lin Yingsu saw him doing footwork and watching him dance completely differently, with a smile on his face. Like a flower in full bloom.

After paying his respects, Lu Xi turned to Lu Zhui's side, just as Deng Chang also finished walking back and forth twice, at this time Liu Xinyu had just finished half of the second round back and forth, and Zhu Sibai had already been trapped.

"Lu Xi, you slide very well!" Lin Yingsu exclaimed.

This is the evaluation that should be given to Lu Xi's footwork. Chen Qi's previous nod and said "yes" was obviously too reserved.

Lucy was praised by the coach of the national team, and his invisible tail was almost raised to the sky, but his face was still reserved, and he smiled with a cute face: "Thank you, coach."

As for Liu Xinyu and Zhu Sibai, Lin Yingsu could still give them some advice. He really had nothing to criticize about Lu Xi and Deng Chang, and the people who were going to practice were still waiting in line, so Lin Yingsu pushed them aside. went.

The rule on the ice rink is to try not to stand, no matter what you do, keep to the right side and keep skating counterclockwise, so as not to bump into other people who are skating, preparing to jump, or preparing to practice footwork.

So apart from the fact that people with a particularly good relationship can talk when skating together, most of the time on the ice there is nothing to talk about.

When Lu Xi was just disbanded, he thought about whether he should talk to Deng Chang, but then he felt that he shouldn't have such a thought at all, so he simply kicked off the ice twice and went to jump.

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Lucy doesn't plan to do quadruple jumps today, because quadruple jumps are easy to get injured, so he needs to do enough warm-up exercises.

He just practiced a few triple jumps in preparation, just maintain the feeling of jumping—or "feeling of feet"—that's all.

So Lu Xi did a few three-week single jumps casually, and then he became interested, so he simply did infinite jumps there.

Every athlete must do infinite jumps several times in his career. This is a very difficult way of playing, that is, after falling off the ice, he will start again and again, until he has no speed or strength, and he can't get up at all.

Lu Xi can jump six at a time. The first few are still a test of skating skills. After sliding out without exhaustion, he can jump one more. In the end, it is completely dry pulling, which is to test his jumping skills, leg strength and core strength. , Waist strength... At this stage, Lu Xi's performance was mediocre.

After six three-week jumps, the skating out has no speed at all. I just performed a landing action, and then quickly retracted my right foot.

All figure skating jumps have the same gliding posture: the right foot lands on the ice, the rear outer edge slides out, the upper body is straight, the hands are stretched out, the left leg is raised backward, all limbs are stretched as high and far as possible, and the chest is raised. , graceful, beautiful, and proud like a swan.

Coincidentally, Lu Xi slid out of the direction where the ice fell, and his face happened to be facing Deng Chang. Of course, they were quite far apart, but they could still clearly see Deng Chang's expression.

Deng Chang crossed his arms and slid forward slowly. He was indeed looking at him, but his indifferent expression gave people a feeling of "I'm looking at a fool".

Lucy:"……"

Lu Xi always felt that he was being despised again, and he also knew that Deng Changlai would probably be able to jump two or three more than him in the double jump, but he didn't try to persuade him, instead he proudly performed the ice-falling move again.

Like to watch it?Then I will show you.

Then with a light jump, he turned and left.

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Lu Xi's physique seems to be more prone to fatigue, and almost every night when he goes back to the dormitory, his body is sore, and now he regrets doing the six-in-one jump before going to bed.

He had a good massage on the bed for a long time, and before going to bed, he remembered that Cui Xiao was going to the World Championships tomorrow.

Although he just met Cui Xiao, Lu Xi already regarded Cui Xiao as a good brother in his heart, but he didn't know how to contact Cui Xiao in Russia, and he didn't know the time difference between China and Russia, so he sent a WeChat message to Coach Chen Qi, asking him for help Cheer for Cui Xiao.

Chen Qi didn't come back before going to bed, so Lu Xi didn't wait any longer.

Until the next morning, when I woke up, I read several new WeChat messages.

-Chen Qi: OK, let me convey;

- Chen Qi: Thank you;

-Chen Qi: [Video message];

It was not yet fully lit outside the window, Lu Xi rubbed his eyes and clicked on the video, Cui Xiao was wearing a training jacket, and inside was the short program of purple Kosten, obviously just finished the music.

In the noisy background music of the ice rink, his nose was red from the cold, and he gave a thumbs up to the camera:

"Thank you! Thank you! Little! West! I! Yes! Come on! Come on!"

Lucy had been in a drowsy sleep, but this roar jolted him awake, and he woke up.

Then I saw a new text message.

-[It's still that strange phone number]

- On March 3, the temperature is 18-5 degrees, and the weather is sunny to cloudy;

-Relative humidity 30%, precipitation probability 10%;

-Traveling index 60, car washing index 20, laundry index 40;

- suitable for travel and office work;

- Avoid relocation and fire;

-Tip of the day: Showing eight teeth when you smile will make you happier——

Lucy:"……"

It can't really be a system message.

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Sunny to cloudy, no need to bring an umbrella.

When we arrived at the cultural class classroom, Lu Xi chatted this text message with his good tablemate Lin Jiayun, a small table tennis player.

Lin Jiayun is the kind of child with a big heart, and said: "This is a system message! A normal person is fine—"

"call out--"

"Tuk!"

The chalk head was smashed to pieces in front of the table, and Lu Xi and Lin Jiayun looked up at the same time.

The math teacher who retired from the shooting provincial team looked at them with a smirk: "My mother seems to have said that there will be another time to whisper, regardless of whether it is the world champion or the national player, I will knock it the same."

Lucy: 0.0;

Lin Jiayun: QAQ;

Under the coercion of the math teacher, the two little ones kept silent, and no longer dared to chat, so they obediently shut up and listened to the class.

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In the afternoon, Lu Xi goes to training, and the evening training coincides with the World Championships.

Everyone practiced separately, but when a Chinese player came out, someone shouted in the radio room, and everyone rushed to the dance classroom to watch together.

In the four events of the World Championships, the men's singles, women's singles and ice dance national teams are all only seedlings, and the pair skated into the two teams.

The figure skating competition is divided into two competition days. The first competition day is a short program (ice dance is a rhythmic dance). ), the final ranking is the sum of the total points of the short program and free skating.

The duration of the short program is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and the duration of the free skating is about 4 minutes and 30 seconds. You can tell from the duration that the score of the free skating will be higher. Generally, the score of the short program will be about half of that of the free skating, so Almost every year, the performance of the short program is mediocre, but the free skating is perfect.

The short program on the first day ended, the women’s singles ranked 12th, the ice dance team was able to advance, and the pair skating performance was very good, ranking first and third respectively. Cui Xiao played perfectly and ranked eighth. Successfully advanced to the free skating.

"It would be great if Brother Cui could get in the top 10 in the end." Zhu Sibai muttered.

This is exactly the goal that the national team set for Cui Xiao before the expedition.

Because if they enter the top 10, the next year's World Championships, the national team will have two spots. Judging from the current situation, out of the three, Cui Xiao, Deng Chang, and Lu Xi, two will be able to participate.

In addition, there are always rumors that the 26-year-old Cui Xiao already wants to retire, so if he enters the top 10, the national team will be able to send Gemini to play in the World Championships next year.

"Cui Xiao's skating is good no matter what." Coach Lin Yingsu said, "No matter what the result is, Cui Xiao will try his best to skate."

What Coach Lin meant was to tell Xiaobai not to say such things as "I hope other people will achieve some results in their skating".

Athletes have already carried the expectations of the whole country. This is actually a very heavy burden. As athletes, they should be more considerate of each other. It is right not to say that this kind of pressure is blameful.

Zhu Sibai also immediately understood that what he said was not good, he just hoped to see Gemini at the end of the year.

Fortunately, Cui Xiao himself was not there, and he was not under pressure, but he was still very guilty, and quickly apologized to Coach Lin.

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A new day, same as the previous day.

Lu Xi received a long text message about the weather forecast, and also Cui Xiao's shout of "Thank you Xiao Xi, I will work hard".

It's raining today, so he brought an umbrella.

This evening is the free skating for men's singles and women's singles at the World Championships.

When Cui Xiao appeared, everyone gathered in the dance classroom again.

The free skating was the final, and everyone was more nervous than watching the short program. The coach allowed everyone to wait until the end of the competition when Cui Xiao appeared.

The teaching assistant dragged a lot of soft cushions over, and Lu Xi sat down nearby. He was used to sitting in the corner, and there was only one person sitting next to him, which was Deng Chang.

Cui Xiao's free skating track is the Chinese-style "Jasmine".He was wearing a flowing top with dark and light green gradients and black trousers, and his whole person was like a pleasant landscape in spring.

Cui Xiao stood in the middle of the ice, and his initial movements were like a young man selling wine and picking flowers among the flowers. When the music played, he turned his head slightly, showing a chic smile.

There are eight jumps required in the men’s singles skating arrangement, which is the key point for scoring technical points. Only after the eight jumps are completed can people feel relieved. All the people present are experts. Seeing Cui Xiao start jumping to help slide, it is obvious It feels like the classroom is quiet.

If the contestants have spare energy, they will arrange more jumps in the second half and get 1.1 times the bonus points. However, the 26-year-old Cui Xiao's physical strength is already declining, so he chose a more secure arrangement. At the beginning, he directly reached his highest jump. Difficult jumps, back and forth quadruple jumps.

The jump was done very well, and there were cheers from the audience.

The second jumping arrangement is the back and outside ice four weeks followed by the back and outside three weeks and the back and outside three weeks. This 4+3+3 jump is the most difficult configuration in Cui Xiao's whole set of movements.

In previous years, he would not take such a high level of difficulty. Obviously, this time he wanted to get a high score and keep the top 10.

Lucy held his breath when he jumped off the ice behind Cui Xiao. The jump fell off the ice well, but then something went wrong.

In the second back and outer three weeks, Cui Xiao only jumped into the back and outer two weeks, and did not do the third jump at all.

4+3+3变成了4+2，技术分瞬间从10.3+5.1+5.1变成了10.3+1.8，差了将近10分。

Although Cui Xiao can change a certain jump into a triple jump in the subsequent jumps to make up for the points of the third jump, but this jump occupies the position of a jump, and there can only be three jumps in a free skating. Jumping, that is, Cui Xiao is destined to get 4+2 technical points instead of 4+3 technical points for one consecutive jumping, and at least lose 3 technical points.

More importantly, the difficulty of 4+3+3 and 4+2 is completely different. Cui Xiao may do this because he feels uncomfortable on the spot. He is not a big player, and mistakes in key jumps may affect subsequent jumps.

Sure enough, Cui Xiao fell down on Axel's third jump.

The fourth jump, four weeks in the back, the number of weeks is insufficient and the feet fall on the ice.

……

There was no more sound in the classroom, and everyone watched with trepidation.

After a whole set of movements, Cui Xiao failed to do five of the eight jumps, and three of them fell. Only the first round of the outer ring and the last two sets of three-week jumps were completed cleanly.

Seeing his fourth jump, Lu Xi knew that it was basically impossible for Cui Xiao to bring him into the top 10 in this program.

Cui Xiao has never been in the top 10 before, and the eighth place in the short program is his best result in history.

At the end of the last note, Cui Xiao's ending movement is like a flower bud closing, a very soft ending, but there is no joy on his face after the freeze frame is over.

Although everyone in the classroom was clapping desperately for him, and no one would blame him, Cui Xiao's smiling face was full of regret.

When the final results came out, Cui Xiao's free skating score was as low as 150, which was basically impossible to break into the top 10.

Halfway through the follow-up match, Cui Xiao had already confirmed that he would miss the top 10, but everyone was still watching, mainly to see the fairy fight between the famous Japanese player Chisato Orihara, the famous Russian player Varichenko, and the famous North American player Gilles .

On the TV screen, Japanese teenager Subaru Asano appeared on the stage. This is a young player who was promoted in the same year as Deng Chang. It is precisely because Japan has three places in the competition that he can enter the World Championships as the third seed.

Lucy was concentrating on watching, when a teaching assistant ran over, handed him a mobile phone, and whispered, "Cui Xiao is looking for you."

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"Looking for me?" Lucy was stunned, thinking he had heard wrong, "Brother Cui?"

Next to him, Deng Chang glanced at him.

The teaching assistant nodded.

Lu Xi was a little confused. He and Cui Xiao had just known each other for two days. Although Cui Xiao was indeed very kind to him, he never expected that Cui Xiao would call him after the game.

"Should I go out to pick it up?" Lucy asked.

The teaching assistant shook his head and passed the earphone to Lucy. The room was very noisy at the moment. He was answering the phone here and no one noticed. If he ran out, he would be seen by everyone.

Lu Xi answered the phone and asked in a low voice, "Brother Cui, what's the matter?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds, Cui Xiao sighed, his voice was exhausted after physical exhaustion: "Xiaoxi, I'm sorry."

"Ah?" Lucy was stunned, "Why did you say sorry to me?"

"I didn't slip into the top 10." Cui Xiao said, "Last year I delayed Xiao Deng for a year, and this year will delay you for another year. I really suck."

"Brother, don't say that." Although Lu Xi hadn't known Cui Xiao for long, he also knew that Cui Xiao was a person with a strong sense of responsibility, so he said quickly, "You didn't just skate for us in the World Championships. Sai, you went out for the country because you skated first in the trials."

Cui Xiao was taken aback when he said that, but then he sighed again: "But I..."

He probably wanted to say that he took the spot, because Deng Chang could only do two quadruple jumps at the trials, but Cui Xiao only beat him by one point, or he just wanted to say that he didn't dance well, because indeed this free skating It was his lowest score this season. If it wasn't for the difficulty of forcing 4+3+3 to keep his ranking, it might not be like this.

But Lucy didn't give Cui Xiao a chance to say these words, because Lucy saw very clearly that luck is a part of competitive sports, and ten out of ten athletes have regrets.

There is no need to be too obsessed with an abnormal performance. No matter how important the game is, if you have to say it, you will have time to worry about it after retiring.

"Brother Cui, don't think too much, your short program is already a personal best." Lucy said, "As for the quota, it's just a year late, this year Brother Deng—"

He casually wanted to say that Deng Chang would be able to get it back this year, but the small flame of half the desire to win suddenly ignited, and he changed his mind before the battle.

Who said that he would definitely not be able to win against Deng Chang in the trials.

Whoever said that there is only one place to participate in the competition can't be him, Lu Xi.

"I'll win you two places this year." Lucy finally said.

Cui Xiao was stunned for a moment, then realized that Lu Xi was a little tricky, and smiled: "Okay. Xiaoxi, if you have this kind of confidence, you will definitely be able to achieve great things."

"I am the champion of the World Youth Championship, and I have become a big deal." Lucy said.

Cui Xiao couldn't help laughing after hearing this, and said Xiaoxi, you are amazing.

Lu Xi was very happy to hear that he was in a better mood, and echoed twice with a smile, and suddenly noticed Deng Chang next to him.

Deng Chang sat very close to him, their cushions were basically touching.Lu Xi leaned against the corner and sat curled up, and Deng Chang also sat with his legs bent and one hand hugging his knees, also sitting quite casually.

Now the man rested his slender fingers on his right knee to prop up his chin, and was looking in his direction lightly.

Lucy was stunned.

Suddenly understood.

Oh.

He heard it again.

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Lu Xi was briefly guilty. After all, objectively speaking, Deng Chang is stronger than him now, and what he said seemed to be no different from the sentence "weaker than me" at the Songcheng Ice Rink ten years ago.

But Lu Xi is Lu Xi after all, and it is not unreasonable for him to be called "crazy" by many people after the World Youth Championship.

Half a second later, Lu Xi still lifted his chin confidently, and gave Deng Chang a look as confidently as if he had finished a six-in-a-row jump.

That's right, it will be stronger than you when the time comes.

Not convinced?

If you don't accept it, come and hit me.