At 9:55 on February 4, the figure skating team competition of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will officially start. The team competition held in the morning will be divided into three unit competitions: men's singles short program, ice dance rhythm dance, and double skating short program. Among them, in the ice dance rhythm dance competition, the combination of Jilin players Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu will debut.
Can the Jilin combination of "training to the death" have a new breakthrough?
The time is back to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which was the first winter Olympic trip of Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu, who were full of confidence but were hit head-on. After the rhythm dance score came out, the two ranked 22nd among the 24 pairs of contestants, and the regret of not being able to enter the free dance made the two people's mood instantly fall to the bottom, and they cried in the background.
The "Beijing Cycle" begins with a trip to Canada, where the duo starts again with the famous ice dance duo Duberell/Lauzon couples.
The incompatibility of the surrounding environment and the long process of error correction when they first arrived abroad were also accompanied by the most frequent disputes between the two since their partnership. Talking about that experience, Wang Shiyue said: "When we first arrived in Canada, the two of us always quarreled, but the foreign teacher told us that no one in the double project was right or wrong, only two people completed the action well and got high scores. ”
The concept of the foreign teacher made the two think, "We no longer dwell on who is wrong, but go to observe other high-level players who train together and learn their solutions after encountering problems." This process has helped us a lot. ”
The sudden outbreak of covid-19 has allowed the two to end their training abroad ahead of schedule, and when they return home, they can only communicate with the coaching team in Canada through the Internet. Due to the time difference, they can only connect with foreign teachers in the morning and night, complete the necessary physical fitness and training during the day, and only sleep five or six hours a day. "No game is the same for everyone, but the bigger problem we face is that the coach is not on the sidelines, we are holding tablets every day to take online lessons. This situation has been almost two years, it is really quite painful, we have no other ideas, is to grit our teeth and insist. Wang Shiyue said.
At the ITU Figure Skating Grand Prix in Italy last November, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu first scored 73.28 points in rhythm dance, which they were not good at before, and then scored 111.31 points in free dance, ranking fourth with a total score of 184.59 points. The total score rose by more than 30 points, allowing the pair to build confidence in the once unpromising combination. Talking about the secret of progress, Liu Xinyu once said a big truth with "northeast characteristics", that is, "practicing in 'death'"!
Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu, who "practiced to the death", look forward to achieving excellent results at the Beijing Winter Olympics, "The team competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics first, the two of us must do our best to strive for one more point, our ranking may advance one place, we will go all out." In each category, we strive to skate out two sets of programs that satisfy ourselves and the audience. ”
Off-site highlights: the terrier of "Princess Hug" is probably difficult to achieve this time!
Outside the arena, there are also many "stems" in the Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu combination. At that time, when the two were interviewed, Wang Shiyue's unintentional words, "The two of us are not together except for sleeping together, other times together", which caused the curiosity of many netizens. In fact, what Wang Shiyue said at that time meant that the two of them usually ate and trained together and were very familiar with each other.
Another "famous terrier" between Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu is the "princess hug" terrier between the famous figure skater Yusheng Knot. Wang Shiyue is the "little fan sister" of the figure skating men's singles world champion and Olympic two gold medal winner Yu Sheng. At the post-match dinner of the 2016 ISU Grand Prix NHK Cup, Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu took a group photo with Yusheng, but they were coaxed by the surrounding people to perform ice dances, so there was Liu Xinyu "Princess Hug" Yusheng knot. The story of this cross-event has since become a stem between the three of them, and at the Finnish World Championships in early 2017, the World Team Championships in April, the Saitama World Championships in March 2019, and the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in February 2020, the "Princess Hugs Covenant" was never absent until it was interrupted by the epidemic.
This time, Yusheng Yushin will also come to Beijing to participate in the Winter Olympics. As for whether the "princess hug covenant" will continue this time, Liu Xinyu joked, "This time? Wear a mask and hug it! As a result, Liu Xinyu was interrupted by Wang Shiyue halfway through his speech: "Considering epidemic prevention, it is best not to hug!" ”
The Beijing Winter Olympics is Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu's second Winter Olympics, and when it comes to expectations for upcoming matches, the two said: "I feel a little pressure, because I want to perform better at the Winter Olympics on my doorstep; but more of a feeling of luck, proud to stand here." ”
China Jilin Net sent a reporter from the Beijing reporting group, Yu YangYueming
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