Since the announcement of the selection method of "3 stations and 5 games to select 4 individual best results, and select the best", the figure skating Olympic Selection Competition has been deeply concerned by the majority of ice fans, and the scoring basis and judging standards of the selection competition have also aroused heated discussion. A few days ago, Wang Yumin, the chief referee of the selection competition and the international referee, and the technical supervision team answered these questions.
"The General Administration of Sport has promulgated selection methods, in accordance with the principle of fair competition, with the participation of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and the referee team is judged and scored in full accordance with the standards of the rules of the International Skating Federation." Wang Yumin said that in view of the characteristics of the scoring project, in order to further achieve fairness, in 3 stations and 5 games, the members of the referee team of each game have been adjusted to avoid the occurrence of a referee who cuts 5 games from beginning to end, thus forming an inherent impression of athletes, and creating a fair competitive environment for athletes from the perspective of referees.
Zhu Yi
In the women's single skating selection competition, a total of Zhu Yi, Chen Hongyi and Lin Shan 3 players participated in the selection, the strength of the three is similar, in the technical difficulty of mastery is not much difference, from the usual training point of view, Lin Shan's training level is relatively high, in the first few selection matches have also been reflected. In this regard, the technical group gave an evaluation: "The 3 female players all have 3 to 5 kinds of three-week jumps and three-in-three difficulty reserves, Lin Shan's characteristics are high quality of action, large amplitude, but the degree of completion in the game fluctuates greatly." Chen Hongyi's jumping can almost always stand in the game, but there are always different problems in terms of starting blades and weeks. Zhu Yi's jumps are relatively stable, the quality of rotation and footwork completion is very high, and all of them have reached level four after several matches. ”
Lin Shan has been in the lead position after the first few trial matches, but in the last game, due to successive mistakes, she only scored 160 points far from the two competitors, which also surprised everyone. "The referees are selected and judged according to the athletes' on-site performance in strict accordance with the evaluation standards of the International Skating Federation, not according to their usual training level." Wang Yumin said that according to the rules and standards of the International Skating Federation, athletes do not have major mistakes, and the overall score will be high, including gliding ability, action articulation, action performance, music arrangement, and musical understanding; correspondingly, major mistakes such as falling down will not only lose technical points, but also pull down the scores of the five major items. Zhu Yi scored the highest qualifying singles score of 191.34 points in the competition, and Lin Shan's lowest score, all for this reason.
Lin Shan
At the same time, Wang Yumin also said that for each action to add points, deduct points, the rules of the International Skating Federation have clear evaluation standards, we see the athletes falling on the ice clean, perhaps think that there is no mistake, but through the ultra-slow motion playback, whether the athletes have a blade error when taking off, whether there is a lack of weeks when falling on the ice and other details that affect the score are clear at a glance. Chen Hongyi is in these aspects of the impact on the score, "Chen Hongyi's disadvantage is that her jumping difficulty action has problems such as the wrong starting blade, the lack of ice falling weeks, etc., and the technical action drop group is more, so the score cannot go up." In addition, it is relatively not prominent in terms of rotation and musical understanding and expression, so it is always in the second position. Wang Yumin said.
The main responsibility of the technical group is to identify and grade all the technical movements completed on the spot of the athletes during the competition. According to the technical group, Zhu Yi's difficulty configuration on the short program is the three-week jump of the rear inner point ice after the connection of the outer point ice three-week jump (3F+3T), the rear outer three-week knot ring jump (3Lo) and the Axel two-week jump (2A), and the free skating includes the jump difficulty configuration including axel's two-week jump connection after the outer point ice three-week jump (2A+3T), and when the performance is stable, the quality of action completion is very high. There are also excellent performances in the auditions. Due to the early injury, Zhu Yi played in the first selection match, but in the second and third matches held half a month later, Zhu Yi recovered from the injury and improved the difficulty training in training, and the last 4 trial matches played their own level and performed stably. "Especially in the whole program, the use of excellent gliding, high rotation quality, combined with their own performance skills, through the programming and cooperation with the music, the technical action into it, fully show the personal style characteristics."
Chen Hongyi
In the end, Zhu Yi ranked first with 191.34 points in the second game, 177.96 points in the third game, 177.78 points in the fourth game, and 185.52 points in the fifth game, with a total score of 732.60 points, and won the only place in the Women's Single Skating of the Beijing Winter Olympics; Chen Hongyi ranked second with 182.46 points in the first game, 182.61 points in the second game, 172.60 points in the fourth game, and 186.97 points in the fifth game, with a total score of 7.96 points; Lin Shan ranked second with 189.11 points in the first game. The second game was 179.33 points, the third game was 186.88 points, and the fifth game was 161.36 points, ranking third in the overall score of Zhu Yishao with 15.92 points.
In this regard, the technical group said: "According to the points rules of this selection competition, the difference of 8 points between each ranking is not a very large gap, and the scores of the three girls in several games are very tight. All the good, the field fight, the tension is wonderful, the gripping, this is the feeling of all of us. ”
Objectively speaking, the overall level of women's single skating in the mainland is still relatively weak, compared with the world's top level represented by Russian female players, there is still a long way to go in the mainland women's single skating. But at the same time, several female players have a lot of room for improvement in the future. International figure skating experts also watched the performance of Chinese athletes in real time through online means, fully affirmed the progress and breakthroughs of athletes, and also pointed out their respective areas of improvement. Zhu Yi, selected from the selection competition, will represent the spirit and strength level of Chinese figure skating women's single skating and show his best level in the Winter Olympic Games.
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