The "beautiful" figure skating women's singles is the most eye-catching hot sport at every Winter Olympic Games, and the Beijing Winter Olympics, which will be unveiled soon, will certainly be the same.
With the Russian girl Zagitova, who won the women's single skating championship at the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, choosing to retire at the age of 17 a year later, the gold medal competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics will become more intense. The most noteworthy of these is this year's New Koko World Championship champion, also from Russia Anna Shcherbakova.
In 2019, sherbakova, who was only 15 years old at the time, won the World Figure Skating Grand Prix at the China Cup in Chongqing, so she not only has many fans in China, but also has the nickname of "Queen of Thousands of Gold" in Chinese.
"Queen" certainly refers to Serbakova's perfect performance and dominance on ice.
At the age of 14, she completed two hook-and-loop jumps in international competitions, becoming the first person in the history of women's singles skating. From the beginning of the 2018-19 season, Shcherbakova achieved three consecutive championships at the All-Russian Figure Skating Championships.
In the field of Russian women's singles skating, which is extremely heavily rolled up, it is even more difficult to achieve such a result than to win gold at the Winter Olympics. This is also an important reason why Zagitova, who won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics at the age of 16, retired at the age of 17. After winning the gold medal at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, she once said, "I think my age is very 'old' for this sport." ”
Indeed, this is a very harsh reality in the Russian figure skating world, because at the latest All-Russian Figure Skating Championships that just ended last Saturday, Serbakova, the world champion this year, failed to achieve four consecutive titles and only finished third.
The first place is another newcomer beautiful girl in the Russian ice world, 15-year-old Vallieva. Vallieva is the most uptick in the women's singles event in figure skating in 2021-22. As a World Youth Champion, she surpassed the men's single skating championship with a staggering total score of 272.71 points in a previous world record of three brush short programs, free skating and total scores in Sochi, Russia. At this all-Russian figure skating championships, Valieva once again set a new world record for short program scoring.
Of course, despite the menacing presence of the little sister, Sherbakova still has enough strength to storm the gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Sherbakova is called "Qianjin" because she was born into a family of high-ranking Russian intellectuals and has the temperament of Miss Qianjin. Her parents were both highly qualified students at Moscow State University, her father was a program physicist, and her mother was a geologist.
At the age of 3, Sherbakova began to be exposed to figure skating, and after showing her amazing talent, she was sent by her parents to start professional training under the famous Russian coach Yateri Tutberidze.
After a bumpy and arduous journey, the All-Russian Figure Skating Championships in December 2018 defeated the new Winter Olympic champion Zagitova, making Serbakova, who is not yet 15 years old, officially rank among the world's top women's single skaters.
At the World Championships in March this year, Sherbakova won her first heavyweight championship in the world's adult category.
Due to the talent of the women's singles in figure skating, the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year will be the ultimate battle of Sherbakova's sports career.