Beijing time on February 3 The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Figure Skating Team Competition will be unveiled at 9:55 a.m. tomorrow, and the teams have also rushed 12 hours before the start of the competition to submit the first men's singles, doubles and ice dance short programs to participate in the list: the Chinese team went all out and sent Jin Boyang, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu to meet the battle.
Pre-Match Information:
As the most reflective of the overall strength of a country, since Sochi joined the Olympic family in 2014, Russia and Canada have won the first two championships.
A total of 10 teams with four athletes and points in all four categories were shortlisted for the team lineup: Canada, China, czech republic, Georgia, Russia, Italy, Japan, Russian Olympic Committee team, Ukraine, the United States.
Wang Shiyue /Liu Xinyu
Each team is required to designate one of the participating athletes as the captain before the competition, and the captain is required to submit a list of participants in the short program 12 hours before the start of the event: four short programs will be held in 3 days. Tomorrow (No. 4) will first play men's singles, doubles and ice dance, so today the three lists will be released first; the 6th will be a women's singles short program, so the women's singles list is number 5. There was no competition on the 5th day, leaving the team to finalize the women's singles short program and the estimated free skating list according to the ranking points of the three short programs that had been carried out. After the completion of the No. 6 women's singles short program, the team that obtains the free skating qualification needs the captain to submit the entire free skating list to the referee within 10 minutes of the final contestant score of the women's singles short program.
The advancing team is allowed to change the contestants in 2 of these events - that is, the short program dispatcher A, and the free skating team is replaced by B. After the end of the women's singles short program for 1 hour, there will be a two-person free skating competition; the next day, the remaining three free skating competitions will be held, and the top three will be determined according to the points.
Jin Boyang
Allowing project substitutions also involves the physical distribution of the first individual contestant after the end of the group, and the suspense that 4-6 teams may be close to the promotion after the end of the first day of the short program, plus a free skate will be carried out after a slight adjustment after the end of the short program, even if countries will make plans in advance, there are still some uncontrollable contingencies that disrupt the plan, so the team competition platoon deployment ability can be described as a battle of wits.
Gold medal battle: Russia and Austria, the United States
The reason why the strength of the two teams is obviously superior can be seen from the team lineup: the Russian-Austrian team is the only team with 12 seats in four events in this Olympic Games; the United States has only 2 seats in addition to the double, and the other three are full, followed by a total of 11 seats.
Chen Wei
From the perspective of taking the lead in three short programs, the Russian and Austrian teams that have sent the strongest lineup, doubles and ice dance ice dance occupy an absolute advantage, which can fully make up for the lead caused by the United States sending Chen Wei in the ideal play situation in the men's singles project, as long as the first day of the short program can determine the leading edge, no matter who the women's singles short program sends, the great probability can ensure that the women's singles first. In this way, it can be said that the Russian and Austrian teams have once again won the top ten after eight years.
Medal favourites: Japan, Canada
Compared with the first group, Japan and Canada both won 8 seats: the Japanese men's/women's singles were full, but the doubles and ice dances were only a pair of contestants; Canada was full of ice dance, the men's singles two/ice dance teams, and the women's singles only had the unknown Shuzasi alone.
Masama Uno
Considering that after the team medal is decided, the men's singles short program competition will be launched the next day, in order to ensure the physical fitness of the contestants, the Japanese short program is to send Out Masama Uno, and the free skating is likely to be replaced by Yuma Key mountain.
Messing, the first canadian men's singles player, was very unfortunate, he was tested positive for the new crown before leaving for Beijing, and has been determined not to be able to participate in the team competition. Without his help, the Canadian men's singles can only be played by Sadowski alone in 2 events, and he is already at a disadvantage in the medal competition with Japan.
Japan's men's and women's singles have won, and the doubles Ritsura Miura / Ryuichi Kihara have improved by leaps and bounds in the last two seasons, and they also have the possibility of pressure. Canada has only one ice dance lead, and it can be said that the situation of winning the medal is not good.
Third echelon: China, Italy
Italy has two men's singles and two pairs each, and the Chinese team has Sui Wenjing/Han Cong and Peng Cheng/Jin Yang in addition to the doubles, and the other three are all alone.
Sui Wenjing/Han Cong
Considering that after the short program, only the top five teams in the points can qualify for the free skating, and the Chinese team in Pyeongchang is just the accurate card position of Italy and Japan, just the sixth out of the short program points. In order to be able to fight for good results at home, the short program will send Sui Wenjing / Han Cong, who will play with Mishenna / Gallyamov in advance, which pair can take the lead in this encounter is crucial to the impression of the individual referee.
Fourth Group: Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Ukraine
Unlike the first six teams in each of the two sets of programs, there is some room for flickering, and the four teams in the fourth group have only one person / pair to participate, so that they have no theoretical choice: according to the shortlisting situation, the four teams are likely to be unable to advance to the free skating, without considering the problem of platoon deployment; secondly, even if there is a team with the high overall strength, one of the above four countries is lucky to advance, and they have no additional players to replace.
In particular, German double male partner Segert and Ukrainian male singles player Shmuratko were tested positive for the new crown after arriving in Beijing and are currently being treated in an isolation hotel. After confirming that they could not participate in the team competition, they all withdrew from the competition. As a result, there are only nine pairs/players in both the doubles and men's singles.
Beijing Winter Olympics Figure Skating Team Schedule:
February 4:
09:55 Men's Singles Short Program
11:35 Ice Rhythm Dance
13:15 Short program for two
February 6:
09:30 Women's singles short show
11:50 Men's Singles Free Skating
February 7:
09:15 Double Free Skating
10:30 Ice Dance Free Dance
11:35 Women's Singles Free Skating
(Tang Xuemi)