17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎The twin stars of "delicate state". ◎

Three days later, Lucy returned to the first body with a bronze medal and a bunch of souvenirs.

In this Four Continents competition, the national team has gained a lot. Although the pair skating team sent the No. [-] and No. [-] seeds, they still won the gold and bronze medals. In addition to Lucy's bronze medal, the women's singles side also has a good team. Record, broke into the top ten, next year can bring two places.

Although Liu Xinyu's results are not very impressive compared with Lu Xiyi, he also won No.12 in the Four Continents Competition, the best in personal history.

After getting off the minibus, Lu Xi saw Deng Chang passing by not far away with his schoolbag on his back. Isn't it a coincidence, he immediately jumped off and waved enthusiastically: "Hey!"

Deng Chang looked at him upon hearing the sound, and walked over quickly: "You guys came back so early?"

"En!" Lu Xi nodded vigorously, and he was very happy to see Deng Chang, "Fortunately, I came back early, so I happened to meet you."

"Is it good to meet me?" Deng Chang asked.

"Of course." Lucy said.

Deng Chang seemed to be taken aback, but he didn't reply to this obviously a very ordinary conversation.

Lu Xi didn't take it seriously either, and patted Deng Chang, "Exactly, are you busy? If you're not busy, accompany me back to the dormitory?"

"Okay." Seeing the box he was dragging, Deng Chang stretched out his hand to help, but Lu Xi deftly avoided it.

"Why, I'm not a little girl, so I don't need you to show your gentlemanly demeanor." Lucy said with a smile.

Lu Xi dragged the suitcase, and walked side by side with Deng Chang, who was carrying a schoolbag, on the path. Turning a corner, he saw Wang Lili head-on.

"Sister Lili!" Lucy waved happily again.

"The runner-up from the Four Continents is back!" Wang Lili also greeted him warmly, and then saw Deng Chang next to him, "Hey, Xiao Deng is here too. I just saw you strolling in the garden for half an hour. Finally finished?"

Lu Xi was taken aback, got off the car by the garden just now, didn't he just pass by?

Stroll for half an hour?

"I lost an earphone just now, and I have been looking for it all the time." Deng Chang replied calmly.

"Have you found it now?" Lucy asked.

"I found it." Deng Chang replied.

Wang Lili suddenly started laughing inexplicably, and said while laughing, "Okay, just find it, you two go for a walk, I won't bother you."

After that, he smiled brightly all the way and disappeared at the end of the trail.

Lu Xi was at a loss, he couldn't understand Wang Lili today, and even Deng Chang couldn't understand him a little bit.

He asked, "Sister Lili, what are you laughing at?"

"I don't know." Deng Chang replied solemnly, "I don't understand girls."

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Idle conversations can only be regarded as life adjustments, and of course competition is more important to athletes.

Shortly after the Four Continents, the Grand Prix arrived.

The Grand Prix is ​​the longest race of the year, because there are a total of six sub-stations, and then the finals.Each player has to participate in two of the six stations. In the end, the six players with the highest total points will advance to the finals. That is to say, basically they have to win the championship in one station and be in the top three in the other station. Secure promotion.

The best record holder in my country's grand prix is ​​Chen Qi, who won the China championship and No.3 in the finals, but that was 20 years ago.

The figure skating environment 20 years ago was very different from what it is now.

At that time, most male players were equipped with three-week sets, focusing on artistic beauty rather than technical difficulty. Chen Qi was unique on the ice rink with his elegant, upright oriental beauty, which lit up the eyes of many referees. Men's singles skater legend.

Now is the age of technology.

Jumping ability is superior to expressiveness. No matter how perfect the performance is, there must be three, four or more quadruple jumps as the basis, otherwise the technical division will be directly separated. At this time, the different training levels of countries will separate the players. Powerful countries in figure skating, such as Russia, have a better way to train high-difficulty quadrupeds in batches.

As for domestic jumps such as 4F (four circles on the back of the ice), counting all the players in the national team, Deng Chang is the only one who can jump, so no one can teach him.

If you want to improve your skills, you can only rely on foreign training, that is, go abroad for training, but this also requires the willingness of the other party.

They are all competitors, and opportunities come and go.

Otherwise, it depends on talent, such as Deng Chang, such as Lu Xi.

Then rely on the experience gained by these talented players to form a training system for the national team little by little.

Therefore, domestic men's singles technically lags behind foreign countries, and the competitive environment that Deng Chang is facing now is naturally much greater than that of Chen Qi at that time.

For example, the top three in the world are from three figure skating powerhouses, each with their own style, plus Subaru Asano and the new generation, all of them are capable of playing.

Although the national team had high hopes for Deng Chang, they did not set their goals too high. They hoped that Deng Chang could win a medal in the competition, preferably two, but they did not dare to think too much.

But there is also good news.

Some top players in the Winter Olympics, especially those with injuries, will give up some A-level events in order to protect the Olympics. For example, Varichenko, who is old and has two fractures, did not participate in this Grand Prix directly. There are a total of six races, and each person can only participate in two races, so players can avoid particularly strong opponents by choosing carefully.

In short, Deng Chang participated in the China station and the Russia station after coordination.After all, there is no Laowa in Russia this year, so it is easier to fight.

Originally everyone thought that Deng Chang was still equipped with three quadruple jumps, so they did not regard him as a strong opponent. Therefore, the China and Russia stations gathered several good players who were not yet at the top and were eager to try.

As a result, for the short program of the China station, Deng Chang directly filled the configuration.

4F, 3A, 4Lo+3Lo, this difficulty configuration can be played in any arena. After the short program, coupled with the home court advantage, he directly scored a career-high score of 98.8.

This kind of performance is the strength to enter the last group even in the Winter Olympics.

The free skating also went down very well. In the end, Deng Chang won the first international arena of his career with a total score of 300+. There is no strong player in this year's China station, and his result is undoubtedly the champion. It was a home game, and there was a wave of news.

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Compared with Deng Chang, who was wearing a gold medal in the news and greeted the audience in Yushu Linfeng, Lu Xi, who still carried the "national team's men's singles hope" and confidently said "I want to be the world's number one men's singles" a year ago, seems much bleak. .

The popularity of the World Youth Championship and short video rankings has long passed, and with the Winter Olympics coming, Deng Chang was recommended as the No. [-] seed, and his discussion rate was quickly surpassed by Deng Chang.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that Lu Xi also won the bronze medal in the Four Continents Competition, and it was just this year when he recovered from injury, which is also a very good record.

It was in this atmosphere that the national team ushered in the Winter Olympics qualifiers.

The Winter Olympics qualifiers are trials that are not open to the public, and the competition period is before the Grand Prix finals.

Deng Chang had just finished the French Grand Prix, came in third, rushed into the finals as No.6, and came back to participate in the preliminaries.

Because it is not open to the public, those who can watch the Winter Olympics qualifiers are some insiders with identities such as players' family members and team staff. When we walked into the ice rink side by side, I felt a little bit guilty in my heart.

It's true that Lu Xi and Deng Chang are in the same group and the same age, so they often compete together.

So when everyone looked at Deng Chang, they thought this kid was really nice, the future hope of the national team, but when they looked at Lu Xi, they felt a little pity for him and a little suspicious. Frustration, did he and Deng Chang really look so good?

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Because of the existence of this pair of twin stars who are "delicate" in everyone's eyes, the games of other players are like cutscenes.Many people have been staring at Lu Xi and Deng Chang.

Seeing the two of them sitting side by side, from time to time Lu Xi would smile and say something to Deng Chang, so Deng Chang would nod his head. Usually Deng Chang had very little expression on his face, but today he looked very happy.

Until the name was called on the radio, Deng Chang was asked to play.

If you're sad, you should react now—everyone thinks so.

But what they saw was that after Deng Chang got up, he turned around and gave Lu Xi a high five.

Then, Lu Xi, who was "not in a good mood", raised his face and smiled at Deng Chang: "Go and fight for me first."

Deng Chang nodded, stretched his muscles and bones, and walked to the ice rink.