Prospect: Who will the "Trick" gold medal fall to?

(Beijing Winter Olympics) Preview: Who will fall for the "Tricks" gold medal?

Beijing, January 30 (China News Service) -- With both musical beauty, posture beauty and strength beauty, figure skating is undoubtedly one of the most interesting projects. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the project will produce 5 gold medals, "pattern" gold medals, who will spend it?

Among these gold medals, the pair skating gold medal has a lot of ties with China. In the last Lunar Year of the Tiger, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the first Winter Olympic figure skating gold medal for China at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Zhao Hongbo, who is now the head coach of the chinese figure skating team in the double group, will lead the team to give it a go in the Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar.

Infographic: Sui Wenjing and Han Cong in the game. Image source: Visual China

The two Chinese duo, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, and Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, qualified for the Figure Skating Doubles At the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the latest pair skating world rankings, they are ranked third and fifth respectively.

At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong lost the gold medal in pair skating by only 0.43 points. This Winter Olympic cycle, they overcame injuries to return to the field. The "Sui-Han combination" is in a better competitive state: after 13 months of separation, only 8 weeks on the ice, it won the silver at the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships; since then, it has "stood on the highest podium of international competitions three times in less than a month".

Facing Beijing, the "Sui-Han Group" re-launched the 2016-2017 song "Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows", which was also the track they used when they reached the podium for the first time at the World Figure Skating Championships in 2017. In the words of Sui Wenjing, the "bridge" has been set up, and the road is ahead.

However, the road to the Olympic gold medal is not a smooth road, and the Russian combination, including world champion Misna/Galyamov, is the "roadblock" on the road to the Chinese team to win gold. At the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships held in the middle of this month, three Russian pairs won the top three in pair skating, among which Mishnah/Gallamov not only won the championship but also refreshed their career bests.

If the double skating gold medal belongs to there will be a "Sino-Russian dialogue", the women's single skating gold medal and watch the Performance of the Russian "Matryoshka Doll". With three scoring records under the current rules, European Champion Camilla Vallieva, Alexandra Trusova, who completed the hook four-way jump for the first time in the International Skating League, and Anna Serbakova, the first world champion to complete the two hook four-way jump, formed a "siege" trend for women's singles medals.

Although it may not be able to break through the blockade of the women's singles gold medal by the Russian "matryoshka doll", some Asian faces are still widely concerned, such as liu meixian, the two-time women's singles champion of the American figure skating championships and Chinese descent, the sixth place in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and Japan's Sakamoto Hanori, and the South Korean player Liu Yong, who is known as the "successor of Kim Yeon-er".

The Chinese team this time sent Zhu Yi, a Chinese figure skating talent introduced through the "Morning Road Project". "Ice Butterfly" Chen Lu won the bronze medal in the women's singles of the Winter Olympics twice in 1994 and 1998, and under her point, Zhu Yi improved rapidly. Debuting at the Olympics, Zhu Yi said that he wanted to turn pressure into motivation and show his best self on ice.

If the women's singles event "Little Flower" first bloomed, the men's singles event is full of stars. Now, Japan's famous Yu yusuke leaves the global ice fans with two suspense: can he achieve three consecutive championships in this event? Can he sacrifice Axel on the field?

In the past year, Yusuke Yushin, who holds two Men's Singles gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Sochi and Pyeongchang, has been plagued by injuries. In contrast, three-time World Championships men's singles champion and American Player Chen Wei is in the limelight. Earlier this year, he won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships for the sixth consecutive time. According to incomplete statistics, he once reached the top of the competition 14 times in a row in this Winter Olympic cycle.

In Pyeongchang, due to serious mistakes in the short program, Chen Wei prematurely lost the Olympic championship qualification and eventually won only fifth place. By the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships, he was ranked third in short program errors, free skating backwaters, completing 5 four-week jumps and winning the championship, showing strong strength and psychological quality. In the face of the second Winter Olympic trip, Chen Wei became more and more diligent. Less than 24 hours after arriving in Beijing with the U.S. team, he was already training at the Capital Gymnasium.

China's Jin Boyang, who finished fourth in men's singles at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, is now sprinting towards the podium. This season, the difficulty of his program has been upgraded, and his state is more and more courageous. These days, Jin Boyang seizes the time to carry out ice training, a red mask, a "Year of the Tiger", pinning his wishes for a game at the doorstep.

In the figure skating arena known for its "beauty", the ice dance derived from ballroom dance is a visual feast. Compared to pair skating, ice dance focuses on steps and performance. The Chinese duo Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu qualified for the competition, and they prepared different styles for rhythmic dance and free dance, and they are looking forward to showing Chinese kung fu in free dance.

After the retirement of two-time Winter Olympic ice dance champion Volto/Moyle, the previous Winter Olympic silver medalist and French duo Papadagis/Siezeron was seen as a favorite to win the title. They see Beijing as a "blessed land." At the 2017 China Cup World Figure Skating Grand Prix, they scored 200.43 points, crossing the "200 point mark" for the first time.

In addition to the above individual events, the figure skating arena will also produce a team gold medal, which will test the overall strength of the team. The figure skating team event was included in the official competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics, and in that year, the hosts received the gold medal as they wished. This time, the Russian Olympic team was the only one to win a full seat in figure skating, and their goal was to make up for the regret of losing to Canada and finishing second in the team event of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

The figure skating competition will start on February 4, which coincides with the lunar new year of "Li Chun". Winter to spring, regardless of success or failure, these "trick" players who have embarked on the field will freeze the "pattern" years on the ice surface and interpret "spring and warm blossoms". (End)