After 3 stops and 5 selection matches, the final roster of the Chinese figure skating team to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics was released. In the women's singles event with the greatest suspense, 19-year-old Zhu Yi pressed Lin Shan and Chen Hongyi to qualify for the Winter Olympics. People expect the 19-year-old beautiful girl on ice to achieve a breakthrough in the women's singles event, which is relatively weak in the mainland figure skating event.
Five spots are settled
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, there were 5 minor events in figure skating, and Chinese figure skating won 2 pair skates, 1 ice dance, 1 men's single skate and 1 women's single skate, a total of 5 individual items, as well as team qualifications. On December 11, 2021, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport announced that the pair skating duo Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang and the ice dance duo Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu performed well in the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, so they were directly shortlisted for the Winter Olympics. Men's and women's singles events need to pass the selection competition, resulting in a quota of one each.
There are 5 sub-events in the figure skating events of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which are team, men's single skating, ice dance, women's single skating and pair skating according to the order of competition. The competition began on the morning of the opening ceremony on February 4 and lasted until February 19, when the final gold medal in pair skating was produced. The performance slide will be performed at noon on the closing ceremony on February 20.
In order of competition, they are team, men's singles, ice dance, women's singles and pair skating. The competition began on the morning of the opening ceremony on February 4 and lasted until February 19, when the final gold medal in pair skating was produced. The performance slide will be performed at noon on the closing ceremony on February 20.
Can "Bole" Chen Lu's wish come true?
When it comes to figure skating in China, most people probably think of pair skating. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the championship with 216.57 points, winning the first winter Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese figure skating, ending the Russians' long-term monopoly on figure skating pair skating champions. Pang Qing/Tong Jian finished second, and Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao ranked fifth.
The pair skating event is still the most highly anticipated event of Chinese figure skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Sui Wenjing/Han Cong combination gradually entered the good situation after getting rid of the injury problem; the Peng Cheng/Jin Yang combination failed to enter the free skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and then tried to get bolder at the salary, which has become the "double insurance" of the double skating.
But in fact, the earliest breakthrough of Chinese figure skating on the international stage is the women's singles skating. Known as the "butterfly on the ice", Chen Lu won a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics, China's first figure skating Olympic medal; she won the World Championships in 1995 to become China's first figure skating world champion, and in 1998 the Nagano Winter Olympics won the second bronze medal in the Winter Olympics.
But since then, China's women's single slip has fallen into a trough, and no one can reach Chen Lu's glory anymore. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the Chinese team won only one place in the women's singles, and Li Xiangning finished 22nd.
The new Olympic cycle, Zhu Yi, has become one of the stars of hope for China's figure skating women's singles event.
Zhu Yi was born in Los Angeles in 2002, in figure skating, with extraordinary love and persistence, she is extremely talented from childhood and has a beautiful aura mold. On Zhu Yi's skating path, his father also played a great role. Zhu Yi's father is a world-renowned computer vision expert, statistical and applied mathematician, and artificial intelligence expert. He has been teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for 18 years since 2002. Now he has returned to China to serve as dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Peking University. In 2018, Zhu Yi won the Women's Singles Championship in the Youth Division of the National Figure Skating Championships, when she was only 16 years old, and her talent was evident.
In September 2018, the Chinese figure skating team announced the appointment of Chen Lu as the head coach of the "Morning Road Project" training team to train women's singles and ice dancers for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In the first overseas team recruitment program, Zhu Yi became the only female singles player in the first batch. At that time, Chen Lu praised more than once that Zhu Yi's sports quality was quite high, the difficulty and level of action had surpassed the existing Chinese women's singles players, and believed that three years later in the Beijing Winter Olympics, 19-year-old Zhu Yi was in the golden age of women's singles and was very optimistic about her future. After becoming a Chinese citizen in 2019, she finished ninth in the women's singles at the 2021/22 ISU World Figure Skating Grand Prix in Italy.
Today, Zhu Yi has not lived up to the expectations of his mentor and successfully qualified for the competition. Due to the relatively weak competitiveness of China's women's singles in the international arena before, for the young player Zhu Yi, this invisibly reduces her pressure and is conducive to her exerting her own strength.
The complete list of Chinese figure skating teams participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics:
Men's Singles: Jin Boyang
Women's Singles: Zhu Yi
Pair skating: Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang
Ice Dance: Wang Shiyue /Liu Xinyu
Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua Text Editor: Yao Qinyi
图片来源：新华社 Source: Author: Yao Qinyi