17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Subaru Asano’s Japanese English is really hard to understand. ◎

Not long afterward, the posting bar was full of rumors about "Deng Chang playing big names" and "Deng Chang scolding reporters". However, both Lu Xi and Deng Chang had been in the field for a long time, and there was no disturbance at all.

Later, someone released a short video, the reporter chased Deng Chang like a woodpecker and asked questions, and then Deng Chang replied, so the original poster was attacked by a crowd, saying that the sword is not the sword, we Xiaochang still Under 18, bullying children like this?

Then came Lucy's Four Continents.

This year's Four Continents Tournament was held in China at the newly built ice rink in Haicheng next to the capital.

Haicheng is very close to the capital, and it takes only half an hour by high-speed rail, so it is considered a home game.

Having said that, Deng Chang couldn't go with him this time, because he had to fully prepare for the Grand Prix in half a month, and more importantly, the Winter Olympics to be held in February next year.

Last year, Deng Chang won the silver medal in the Four Continents Competition. According to regulations, if the representative team player enters the top ten, the next year the country's representative team can have two places, so this year Lu Xi and Liu Xinyu went together.

Cui Xiao originally wanted to go with him, but because several coaches of the national team went to Haicheng together, Cui Xiao was forced to stay behind as a semi-retired assistant coach, otherwise the coach would be short of manpower.

The Four Continents is one of several A-level figure skating events. This is the first time that Lucy has participated in an A-level event after entering the adult group.

Compared with the Grand Prix and the World Championships, the Four Continents Tournament is not that high in gold content, and the contestants are not that strong. The slightly stronger teams usually send the No. [-] and No. [-] seeds to train.

Especially in this year's Winter Olympics, the Winter Olympics must be on the agenda of top players, and the overall strength of the four continents has dropped a little.

Therefore, in this year's Four Continents Competition, the most powerful players are last year's World Championships No.6, Japanese teenager Subaru Asano, Russia's second seed, last year's Grand Prix champion Kavalenko in the United States, and last year's World Championships. Youth champion, Lucy.

Lucy's expectation for himself this time is the top three. Subaru Asano should not be able to beat him. Subaru Asano and Deng Chang have the same level of difficulty. He has already practiced four weeks of back ice pointing. Compared with last year, he has not improved much. West is equipped with one more quadruple jump, and Kavalenko is a bit more advanced than Lucy in double jumps, but it may not be impossible to fight hard.

Because Liu Xinyu has been unable to master 4Lo for a long time, it is basically certain that this trip is just a formality, and he doesn't have too many ideas.

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The national team arrived in Haicheng late. After all, there was no need to work hard to get familiar with the environment, and there was no need to suffer from jet lag. Most of the contestants had already arrived in Haicheng.

After Lu Xi had the experience of the Galaxy Cup and the World Youth Championship before, he is also familiar with the international arena. In addition, the staff are all Chinese. As a whole, he is still very relaxed at home.

There are two ways for athletes in international competitions to get to know each other. Before the competition, it is the cafeteria or various service points of the athletes’ village. to get acquainted.

Lucy doesn't have any idols, nor does he have anyone he really wants to know. The only one who is obsessed with him should be the ten-year-old kid who jumped three weeks after jumping on the ice rink. This kind of acquaintance scene, he has no interest.

So when Subaru Asano stood in front of him and stretched out his hand to him with a cute smile, Lucy showed a surprised expression of "0.0".

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Subaru Asano is 18 years old this year. He is a "genius boy" in Japan. He is of the same generation as Lu Xi and Deng Chang. He was the champion of the World Youth Championship that year.

And because the Japanese team has two or even three places in the top competitions, Subaru Asano has already appeared in both the Grand Prix and the World Championships, and his international reputation is a little higher than the two of them.

Subaru Asano's nickname in China is "Little Cat". Apart from the homonym of his name, he is really cute, with a two-dimensional face shape, a dimple at the corner of his mouth, and a pair of small canine teeth when he smiles. Interview The personality revealed on the screen is also very lively, and she is a little sweet in every sense.

International players generally communicate in English, and Lucy's English is pretty good. Since Subaru Asano came over on his own initiative, he shook hands and greeted him by the way.

Then I found that Subaru Asano's Japanese English was really difficult to understand.

Fortunately, communication about this kind of thing, as long as there is sincerity, even gestures and words, you can barely communicate. Asano Subaru said that he really likes Lucy’s little killer show. He can still slide out of style.

Lu Xi endured it for a long time before he could say "Even if I am injured, I can still make it to the top three". After all, in front of international friends, he must maintain a little traditional Chinese humility, not to mention that Asano Subaru is indeed better than him—of course , just referring to the present.

After that, Subaru Asano asked Lucy to train together at night.

Each national team has a fixed training time, but there are also mixed warm-ups by event, that is, regardless of nationality, men's singles and men's singles, women's singles and women's singles practice, this is what Subaru Asano made an appointment with.

Lucy already had a good impression of this player, so of course he readily agreed.

On the side, Liu Xinyu, who was regarded as air, rolled his eyes melancholy.

That night Lu Xi and Asano Subaru met at the ice rink, saying they were training together, but in fact they were just doing skating.

Lucy seldom talks on land, but he can start chatting mode on the ice, and warmly invites Asano Subaru to join him in his favorite activity, footwork competition.

Lucy's jumping, spinning and other abilities are mediocre in the world's first-class level, but his footwork and skating speed are at the top level in the world. Although he was injured, he even improved his skating speed during the recovery process. From talent flow to skill flow (although it is still a skill that others cannot reproduce), it has reached the same level as before.

Let alone Asano Subaru, even if Asano Subaru's senior, Japan's No. [-] player Chisato Orihara came over, Luxi was confident that he would not lose in the single-footwork competition.

The two kids were spinning around on the ice rink, and they were both popular players. Naturally, they attracted a lot of attention. Subaru Asano's coach called him over. Xi Lian talked for a long time with gestures, and called Lucy to jump with him.

It is a jumping method similar to pair skating, where two people slide in parallel and take off at adjacent points. Many players with better personal relationships like to record this kind of tidbits and send them to ice fans.

Lucy had this kind of experience for the first time, and she was quite excited. She followed Subaru Asano for two laps, and did two rounds of back and forth.

Chen Qi handed over two more mascots of the Four Continents Competition—a very ugly doll of skating socks—and asked them to hold them and do a raise, which means raising their hands above their heads when they take off.

The picture will look hilarious as he holds this ugly sock puppet in his hands.

This time I did the three-circle hook, because the hand position was very low when the three-circle hook took off. I had fun on the ice for a long time.

That night, these videos of jumping together were posted, and Lu Xi added special effects to one of the videos, which was very cool and posted on station b. The title was "Pair Skating with New Friends".

The author says:

Guess who secretly clicked on the video (