17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎This is one of Deng Chang's best jumps. ◎

The air in the bedroom seemed to freeze.

Lu Xi and Chen Qi looked at each other delicately across half the bed.

Deng Chang was still basically buried under the quilt and didn't know what happened, but his intuition made him feel that something strange was happening in this room.

Deng Chang frowned, and wanted to sit up: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay!" Lu Xi burst out suddenly, slapped Deng Chang back on the bed, and then smiled like a kind little angel, "Brother Deng, you have a fever, you need to rest more."

"?" Deng Chang frowned even tighter, "But I seem to have heard the coach's voice."

"You heard it wrong." Lu Xi firmly pressed Deng Chang into the pillow, and then quickly turned around to look at Chen Qi nervously.

Chen Qi was silent for a while, turned his head and left the room silently, then walked in again with a bang, cleared his throat when he came in, and asked, "Xiao Chang, are you feeling better?"

"It's better." Deng Chang replied.

"Yeah." Chen Qi nodded with a smile on his face, "Have a good rest, I won't bother you."

"?" Deng Chang was a little strange, but he couldn't tell what was so strange. He exchanged some pleasantries with Chen Qi, and Chen Qi went out, closing the door behind him.

Deng Chang was full of doubts: "I always feel that the coach is a little deliberate."

"Your delusion." Lu Xi said firmly, and touched Deng Chang's face by the way, "Go to sleep again."

"Is the short program finished?" Deng Chang asked.

Lucy nodded.

"I didn't skate over Orihara, did I?" Deng Chang said.

Lucy hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Although admitting that this kind of thing always hurts people, Deng Chang should also have realized that Orihara Chisato is also in good condition this year, not to mention that he is still sick.

"How much is the difference?" Deng Chang asked again.

"Three to five points." Lucy replied, "3.7 to be exact."

Deng Chang said "hmm", "You mean tomorrow free skating, can I still get a medal?"

Lucy touched his face: "I don't know, it depends on your condition."

Deng Chang closed his eyes halfway, not in a very good spirit. He took Lu Xi's hand and squeezed it gently, "Then I think we should give it a try."

But it is definitely not possible to follow the top-level arrangement for free skating. Although Deng Chang is already familiar with this arrangement, he can get stuck in any section. It is nothing to miss a night of training, but physical strength It is the biggest problem. The difficult jumps are all in the second half. If you can’t hold on to the whole jump, then just go far.

So after Deng Chang recovered a bit, the whole team gathered together to adjust the arrangement for him.

The difficult jumps are moved to the first half, and the single jumps are placed in the second half.

Then everyone hesitated when adjusting a single jump.

"There are two plans. One is to reduce the difficulty to keep the P points (art points), so that the quality of the jump will be higher. The other is not to reduce the difficulty, and the P points will be lost in wrestling, but the technical points are higher." Chen Qi said.

"Based on past experience, the expected scores of the two plans are similar, and the upper limit and lower limit of the latter are both higher. Xiao Chang, you can choose."

According to his understanding of Deng Chang, Lu Xi thought he would choose the former. Deng Chang has always given people a very stable, calm, and reliable feeling, but this time Deng Chang chose the second option.

Not only Lu Xi, but also Chen Qi and other teaching assistants were stunned.

"Don't you want to lower the difficulty?" Chen Qi asked, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah." Deng Chang glanced at Lu Xi, "Xiao Xi should choose this plan, and I want to try this time too."

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The next day, the men's singles free skating competition at the World Championships began.

After the short program, Chisato Orihara ranked first, followed by Deng Chang and Giles in second and third.After the game yesterday, the question about Deng Chang's health jumped to a very high position on the real-time hot list, because Deng Chang was absent from the post-match interview, and he would not be absent under normal circumstances.

Deng Chang had a fever again after finishing the short program yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, the fever subsided in the middle of the night. He didn't go to the press conference before the match.

His free skate this year is "Flame".

The flames of the free skating and the short program are clouds, which are exactly the themes that complement each other. Compared with the short program, the free skating has much higher requirements for Deng Chang. It refers to physical strength, double the number of jumps, and the length of the slide. Double, compared to the gentle and gentle "Cloud", "Flame" has a stronger sense of power and higher explosive power, all of which are challenges.

In the new arrangement, Deng Chang has advanced all the difficult jumps and lowered the difficulty a little, but the reduction is very limited. In the second half of the program, there are still super demanding arrangements of 4Lz, 4T+3F and 4T single jumps.

Basically, this set of clean is impossible, but in order to keep the technical points, I still chose this way.

After Deng Chang got on the ice and set his starting position, the music started.

The opening was 3A as usual, today his condition seems to be better than yesterday, at least this 3A has returned to the standard, machine-like smooth, beautiful movements, and he completed it perfectly.

Next, he went straight to the double jump, 4Lo+3Lo+3F, which was originally supposed to be placed in the second half to get points, but Deng Chang knew very well that he could not do this move in the second half, so he moved ahead of time.

The finish quality is also good.

Then there is 4Lz+3F, 4Lo single jump. In the first half, it can be felt that Deng Chang is in good condition, and he has done a good job.

Halfway through the performance, when the climax came, the melody became more and more sonorous, and the drums sounded, almost hitting a dense echo in the crowded ice rink.

Deng Chang jumped on the ice with the drumbeat. His footwork has many small jumps, each of which is very powerful. As a player recovering from a serious illness, he is now in very good condition, which is comparable to yesterday's short program. Better than both, like a real throbbing, burning flame.

Entering the second half, the second half is a huge test of physical strength.

The first 4Lz single jump, Deng Chang jumped high, Lu Xi watched nervously and prayed, but of course this kind of wishful thinking would not really have any effect.

Deng Chang fell while falling on the ice.

There was a cry of regret at the scene, but Deng Chang turned over quickly and continued to the second movement, 4T+3F. When falling on the ice, his balance was unstable, but he did not fall down without support.

The third movement and the last jump, 4T, is one of Deng Chang's best jumps.

As the finale jump, his physical strength had reached his limit, so Lu Xi gritted his teeth and watched Deng Chang's movements on the ice.

Deng Chang's 4T gave a perfect answer.

Lu Xi couldn't believe it, it was as if Deng Chang hadn't been sick at all.

In the final joint rotation, there were no accidents without any mistakes. In this performance, I fell down once and lost my center of gravity once. It can be said to be a very good performance under this difficulty.

Deng Chang, who appeared second to last, delivered a performance that completely matched his appearance.

At the end of the show, at the fixed-point salutation, when the music ended three seconds later, and the audience cheered and clapped and threw toys, Deng Chang finally couldn't stand up anymore, his body shook, and he knelt on the ice on one knee.