Winter Olympic figure skating to see Russia, the United States and Japan "Three Kingdoms Kill"! The men's singles has a high probability of "two-person turn", and the double Chinese team also competes for gold

[Global Times special correspondent Xu Yunfeng Zhuang Yu Liu Yupeng] "Russia ruled the figure skating European Championships on the first day. ESPN commented on the first day of the European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, estonia, on the 13th: in the short program competitions of the two events of pair skating and men's single skating, the Russian team won a big victory and won three places in the two short sections. Looking at various figure skating competitions, it is not difficult to see Russia's dominant position in this project, but at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, several American and Japanese athletes are also strong contenders for the gold medal, and they are eager to try this figure skating "three kingdoms kill".

"Jumping Fairy" Trusova

In the first day of the Figure Skating European Championships on the 13th, the 2021 Figure Skating World Championships pair skating champion Misena /Gallamov temporarily topped the table with 82.36 points, which was 0.02 points higher than the original double short program score set by teammates Boykova/Kozlovsky.

According to the Associated Press, Michelina/Gallamov led the short program with flawless performances, with the duo winning the World Championship last year and winning all four games of the season ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Three days after joining the national team as an injury substitute, Mozarev led Russia to sweep the top three in a men's short show.

At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Russia won a total of 1 gold and 2 silver in figure skating. It is understood that the complete lineup of the Russian figure skating team for the Beijing Winter Olympics will be determined after the European Championships. Previously, Valieva, Trusova and Serbakova had already locked up the women's single skating qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympics. "Russian Newspaper" said that the 15-year-old "genius girl" Vallieva, who holds three world records in women's single skating, won the first Russian adult figure skating championship title at the end of last year, and she mastered the four-week jumping action that even male athletes are difficult to complete when she was a teenager, which is a big weight for her winter Olympic gold.

In a recent interview, Vallieva told the Russian sports magazine Champion: "I just try to do my best. According to the Associated Press, it is also normal to see Valieva as the "overwhelming favourite" for the Winter Olympic gold medal, and her biggest challenge may come from her teammates , Trusova, a 17-year-old "jumping fairy", who is the first female player to complete difficult moves such as hooking around the jump in an official ISU competition.

The U.S. figure skating team has a total of 16 players

The American figure skating team, which has achieved full participation in the men's singles, women's singles and ice dance, recently announced the list of participants in the Beijing Winter Olympics, with a total of 16 people, Chen Wei, Zhou Zhifang, Chen Kaiwen, Liu Meixian, Kane/Leduc, Jock/Bates and other well-known players in the list. According to the Associated Press, the men's single skating probability of the Beijing Winter Olympics is a "two-man turn" between Chen Wei and Japan's famous Yusheng, who has committed to completing Axel's four-way jump (4A) in recent years and is close to Dacheng, which may be the key to his defeat of Chen Wei to achieve the three consecutive Winter Olympic championships.

Yahoo Sports said that the Beijing Winter Olympics women's single skating gold medal is not in the Pocket of the Russian team, and 16-year-old Liu Meixian also has superb jumping ability, becoming one of the few players who can compete with the Russians in the Winter Olympics. The United States won two bronze medals in the figure skating event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

In addition, although Russia has seemingly invincible mixed-ups such as Michelina/Galliamov and Tarasova/Morozov in the field of pair skating, two-time World Champion Sui Wenjing/Han Cong also stared at the gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics, "The Chinese combination has been included in the two gold medals of this season's Grand Prix in Canada and Italy, and they will strive to dye the silver medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics into gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics." Russian "Izvestia" said on the 13th that Russian pair skater Berdina Popova said: "At the Beijing Winter Olympics, our main opponent is Chinese athletes. ”

Habu knot strings strike three consecutive crowns

The Japanese figure skating team's 10-man Winter Olympics list was announced at the end of last year, and they achieved full participation in the winter Olympics in the men's singles and women's singles. According to the website of the Japanese Olympic Committee, the "Prince of Ice" Yusei yusuke is the third consecutive winter Olympics after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Masamo Uno won the silver medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which was also his second consecutive appearance in the Winter Olympics, and Yumasa Keyyama participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time. In the women's singles, Hanaori Sakamoto is participating in the Winter Olympics for the second time, while Higuchi Shinba is the first.

Japan's "The DIGEST" website said on the 13th that the Winter Olympic champion Yu Yusei and the three-time figure skating world champion Chen Wei will have a direct duel in the figure skating men's singles competition. Japan's "The Answer" website said that this will be the most noteworthy part of the Beijing Winter Olympics, where no one has yet won the championship three times in a row.

According to the Associated Press, Pyeongchang Winter Olympics runner-up Masama Uno and Yujin, who won the double crowns of France and Italy in the 2021-2022 Figure Skating Grand Prix, cannot be ignored. In the women's singles, Japan's Sankei Shimbun said that Hanori Sakamoto staged six clean three-week jumps in the free skate at the end of last year, which was a brilliant victory for the 2018 tournament champion.