On January 5, Beijing time, the national training team of figure skating conducted the last public training session before the Winter Olympics, and Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, who had already determined to win the Olympic seat, were perfecting the technical actions and program details according to the plan to make final preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
As the Beijing Winter Olympics enter the thirty-day countdown, nearly three months have passed since the Last Appearance of the Chinese Pair Skating Duo on the International Stage. When players from Russia, Japan, the United States and other countries have successively ushered in the "window period" of national championships and domestic selection competitions, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, who have already determined to win the Olympic seats, are perfecting technical actions and program details according to the plan to make final preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Sui Wenjing/Han Cong in training.
Due to travel restrictions, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, who were originally assigned to two Grand Prix races, only participated in the Italian race this season, in addition to appearing in the Beijing Winter Olympic Test Match (Asian Open) before the start of the Grand Prix season. Judging from the only two races, the Peng/Jin combination is in better shape. From the Asian Open when both sets of programs had many problems, to the runner-up in Italy, only two jumps in the free skating slightly flawed, Peng Cheng and Jin Yang's ability to adjust during the tournament was eye-catching. In the open training class of the figure skating national training team double skating group held on January 5, Peng Cheng and Jin Yang maintained a good success rate in single jump and throw jump, according to the coach of the double skating group Zhao Hongbo, the recent single jump training has been increased to the maximum intensity, and at this time, the success rate of the team members to complete any single action in the program should reach about 90%.
Peng Cheng/Jin Yang in training.
For Peng Cheng, the single jump may be the technical link that makes her the most "headache", and the first technical action of the Peng/Jin combination of free skating, Sahoff three-week jump, has always been the more prone to problems between the two. In the training session, Peng Cheng and Jin Yang's Sakhov completed three weeks relatively easily. As the Winter Olympics approached, the two did focus on the single jump, and Peng Cheng also hoped to use this intensive training method to help him improve the stability of the single jump. "Single jumping has always been a problem for me," Peng Cheng said, "I am accumulating every day, forming a good muscle memory every day, and gradually making it more and more stable." "Peng Cheng's ankle has been injured before, which has also affected her single jump stability to a certain extent, and Peng Cheng's ankle is still covered with tape during this season's Grand Prix. However, Peng Cheng revealed that with the assistance of the support team, his injuries have been no longer serious.
Although Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, who won two crowns in the Grand Prix in Canada and Italy, handed over a very good answer sheet, after the end of the Italian station, the two also rated themselves as still not the best, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. Meanwhile, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's main rival, 2021 World Champion Mishinna/Gallamov, finished their Grand Prix races later than they did, winning the All-Russian Championship in December. The rise of the duo, which Zhao Hongbo described as "young and driven", also brought similar challenges to Sui Wenjing/Han Cong in the Pyeongchang cycle, but sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who are about to embark on the second Winter Olympic journey, have a different mentality at this time than they did four years ago. Han Cong used "more mature" to summarize the current mentality, and Sui Wenjing frankly said that he was "more calm and calmer".
Compared to Michelina/Gallamov and their teammates and World Championship bronze medalists Boykova/Kozlovsky, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong are slightly understretched in basic difficulty points. Even if Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's program content score is still "living alone", after two seasons of competition, these two Russian pairs have slowly improved their program content scores with stable performance, so increasing the difficulty of the action has also become a plan that Sui Wenjing and Han Cong must consider before the Winter Olympics.
During the training period after the Grand Prix, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong did try a variety of different action configurations, and the difficulty escalation was also advancing. The Sui/Han duo's signature action twist has not been used in an official game for a long time, but in the team's test, the two can already get a level 3, and they are getting closer and closer to "reappearing in the game". A month ago, Sui Wenjing also posted a training video on social media on social media of three weeks of external ice and then three weeks of external ice, which also proved that she still had a lot of difficulty reserves. Challenging the more difficult jumps is also a training method to improve the stability of the existing movements in Sui Wenjing's view, but as to whether this set of jumps will really be used in the official competition, Sui Wenjing sold a close at the end of the interview: "You will know when the time comes, who knows if it will be a surprise?" ”
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