17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Beep-beep-beep looks less capable. ◎

The National Championships will be held in Songcheng, the capital of Province H this year.This place can be regarded as Luxi's base camp, after all, it used to belong to the H provincial team.

However, Lu Xi was just an external training in the end, and spent most of his time in his hometown of Hecheng. For Deng Chang, who was trained in Songcheng since he was a child, this championship is the real thing. Returning to his happy hometown.

As soon as I got off the train, I saw the big billboard of the National Championships on the advertising space of the train station. The C position was the pair skaters who had won the Winter Olympics medals, and the left and right sides were Deng Chang and Lu Xi.

Cui laughed and said, "Handsome!"

Liu Xinyu waited on him with blank eyes as usual.

There are a total of four men's singles from the national team to participate in the National Championships, namely Lu Xi, Deng Chang, Cui Xiao, and Liu Xinyu, but in fact this year's competition pressure is not very great.

First of all, Cui Xiaoban has retired, so he might not even plan to go to the World Championships. Secondly, Deng Chang will participate in the Winter Olympics without accident, so he will definitely not go to the Four Continents Championships.

Deng Chang won the silver medal in the Four Continents Competition last year, so this year the national team has two places, basically locked in Lu Xi and Liu Xinyu.

In addition, the Grand Prix and the World Championships will also decide who to send based on the situation of the Winter Olympics—simply speaking, Deng Chang’s state and physical strength. Maybe Deng Chang will go to the Grand Prix to warm up, but the World Championships will probably let him to other players.

For the national team that had only one player available in the past few years, Cui Xiao, who was able to send Liu Xinyu to the top of the Four Continents Competition on very rare occasions, the feeling that there are enough places and enough players now is like getting rich overnight. .

Especially Chen Qi, who has only focused on men's singles since the player period, saw that his natal event was so prosperous, and his happy and serious expression almost turned into a happy shape.

For the competition at home, of course there must be enough cards. The standard of the national championship is higher than that of the national championship, so Lu Xi's good brother He Wenbo unfortunately failed to be selected, but Huang Bin brought a bunch of children under his hands, Hao Dangdang came to the Songcheng team on a long-distance bus to cheer for Lu Xi.

At a glance on the day of the game, there are large banners in the auditorium to support Lu Xi, all of which were secretly placed by Huang Bin. His own players sitting in every corner of the gymnasium are even more popular than Songcheng's local athlete Deng Chang at first glance.

——Of course, Lu Xi's actual popularity is also very high. Many ice fans trained during the World Youth Championship came to Songcheng to see him after learning that he was going to participate in the National Championships.

Although this kind of cross-city chasing competition is troublesome, it is not bad when you think about it carefully. At least it is much more convenient than chasing players across borders in world-class competitions, isn't it?

There is no need for jet lag in domestic competitions, so two days of training time is enough.

On the third day, with the passionate march and quite down-to-earth banners, the 2018 National Figure Skating Championships officially began.

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The first thing to do is still the men's singles short program competition.

This season, Lu Xi has the world championship points obtained in the Galaxy Cup. Although there is only one game, among the players participating in the championship, only him, Deng Chang, Cui Xiao and Liu Xinyu have world championship points. So he was easily assigned to the last group. On the eve of the game, the players in the same group sat together to warm up and talk.

This year, Lu Xi did not intend to compete with Deng Chang at all, not because he was timid to fight, but after the program was compiled, the upper limit of technical points was placed there.

After recovering from the fracture of Lucy’s foot, he has only retrieved the 4T and 4S quadruple jumps. The 4Lo has not yet been recovered, and the 4S jumps are not very sure now, so there are only two quadruple jumps in the short program and free skating. This kind of quadruple jump has lowered the difficulty for stability.

Although Deng Chang didn't have the newly practiced backside ice four weeks—that is, 4F, he was going to wait until the grand prix to show it. He didn't want to attract attention so soon. Anyway, if Lu Xi didn't fight with him, he wouldn't have it in China. Opponent—but there is an extra 4Lo and 4Lo jumps, and his two sets of programs together have a technical score that is 30 points higher than Lu Xi. Unless he makes a super major mistake, Lu Xi will definitely not be able to skate him.

The goal this time is the runner-up.To guarantee a place to go to the Four Continents, it is best to have a look at the World Championships.

After the first few groups finished skating, a staff member came to greet them, and the four members of the national team stood up one by one and went on stage together.The red and white team uniforms and jackets stood in a row, and the provincial team players next to them were all crying.

Although the relationship between Liu Xinyu, Lu Xi, and Deng Chang in the team is not very good, it is not so bad that it will cause trouble outside. Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, the men's singles four is a very harmonious and loving team.

The order of appearance in the group will be drawn by lottery. This time, Deng Chang will be drawn first, followed by the two provincial teams, and then Cui Xiao, Lu Xi, and Liu Xinyu in order.

It stands to reason that getting the first one is not very lucky, but because it is Deng Chang who crushed the whole group in technical points, he became the first one to become the unlucky of the whole group.

Especially the two provincial team players who were next to Deng Chang, knew that their faces were green when they slipped behind Deng Chang.

Seeing the last group of skating in the World Championship first and then watching them, isn't that waiting to be "contrasted" and then score.

The soundtrack of Deng Chang's short program this year is the world famous song "The Bell", and the theme is "Prayer".Choreographer Jiang Han picked up Lu Xi and Deng Chang, two treasures with exquisite facial features, and wanted to put them on the extreme side of the shape. For example, he choreographed for Deng Chang for two years, and one year was " "Flying Apsaras", one year is "prayer", both are performances with a very special sense of character.

This year Deng Chang's Kosten is a white main color, a top embroidered with gold patterns and black trousers. If Lucy wears this combination, he will look like an angel, but if he wears it, he will look more like a god.

The difficulty of Deng Chang's short program is similar to last year's, and the degree of completion is also good. He easily scored a 94. After that, the short programs of the two provincial teams and Cui Xiao were all 70+, and then Lucy played.

The theme of Lucy's short program this year is "Blessing", and the soundtrack used is a set of rhapsody with the theme of harvest. The overall atmosphere is very joyous and passionate.

I also know that a program with such a theme is not suitable for Lu Xi, because it is difficult for him to express those "joyful" and "passionate", but Jiang Han edited this way under Chen Qi's instruction: Since this year Children are in the technical recovery period, so it's better to get out of the comfort zone with choreography. The key word of this season is "challenge yourself", so this program came into being.

Of course, after a lot of hard training, Lucy's short program is not ugly, but compared with the little killer's style that suits him better, it is relatively mediocre. If it goes to the World Championship, plus With the current level of difficulty, it is estimated that the short program will be in the second to third groups after the competition, which is the middle level.

——But it is enough for the National Championships.

Lu Xi's score in the short program was 80.4, which was much lower than his score in the national championship. He was nearly 6 points ahead of Cui Xiao and ranked second temporarily.

Then Liu Xinyu came on stage.

During the training, Lu Xi found that Liu Xinyu was indeed in good condition, probably because of his vigor of "beating Lu Xi no matter what", this short program performed very well, and finally got the best score in history of 85.5 points.

After the short program competition, Deng Chang was first, Liu Xinyu was second, and Lu Xi was third.This result obviously made Liu Xinyu very satisfied. After eating, he sat next to Luxi with his toes high and proud, and almost had the three big characters "I am the second" embroidered on his face.

Of course, Lucy didn’t panic, because the free skating is much more stable than the short program. The free skating program has a longer front line and higher requirements for skating, and it doesn’t require delicate and compact artistic movements like the short program. All good news.

And although the theme of the free skating is very strange, called "Tengu Eats the Moon", but the overall course is to play cool, and Lucy is much more handy.

The final result came out. Sure enough, Deng Chang easily won the championship with a total score of 290+, Lu Xi free skating 170+, close to 180, and ranked second with a total score of 255+, Liu Xinyu free skating 160+, a total score of 245+, ranked second. column third.

To Lu Xi, the grades are not bad and acceptable.After all, he was injured, so he couldn't ask too much of himself, as long as he had a silver medal, he didn't expect someone to be so angry.

This person is of course Liu Xinyu.

The men's singles awards ceremony was over, Lu Xi and Liu Xinyu passed by, Liu Xinyu rolled his eyes at him again while no one was watching, and muttered: "Parallel imports."

Lu Xi never cared about him, but Deng Chang grabbed Liu Xinyu's arm: "What did you say?"

It may be that Deng Chang's tone is not very fierce, or it may be that Liu Xinyu has this kind of personality. He was just muttering, but when Deng Chang pulled his arm, he became confident:

"I said that Lucy's P score is too low, what's wrong? Every time he free skates, his P score is inflated. I can't be the only one who thinks so?"

P points are performance points. Lu Xi did get good performance points just now, but his technical points are also good. The result of reducing the difficulty is that all jump execution points get bonus points.

Deng Chang's face was not very good-looking, he seemed to want to explain to Liu Xinyu.But the P score is very subjective and cannot be explained in the first place.

So before Deng Chang could speak, Lu Xi had already pulled him to signal him to shut up.Deng Chang wasn't supposed to be a character who would shut up when he was dragged away, but he was very obedient when he was dragged away.

Lu Xi didn't have time to think about why, he looked at Liu Xinyu with a tugging face and asked, "Are you not convinced?"

Liu Xinyu looked at him vigilantly, "You can't fight on the ice rink—yes, I just don't accept it."

Lu Xi thought that if you warn me about fighting, you are not warning me. Mr. Deng really has a criminal record, but anyway, he didn't come here for fighting, so he ignored Liu Xinyu's sternness, and just stared at Liu Xinyu with a pair of dark eyes. Said bluntly: "If you don't accept it, you can solo. Beep beep seems to be less capable."