What is the experience of difficult spinning jumps, wonderful steps, surround sound, gorgeous and dazzling performance costumes? As one of the oldest winter events, figure skating is undoubtedly the darling of the Winter Olympics. How "ancient" is the sport? Before the birth of the Winter Olympics, figure skating had already appeared at the London Olympic Games in 1908; with the addition of ice dance and mixed team sports, the genealogy of the "figure skating family" gradually stabilized.
As a scoring category, the total score of athletes consists of short programs and free programs, which have different durations and different requirements for prescribed technical movements. In each set of programs, the contestants will receive two points, technical points and performance points, the former is judged according to the technical difficulty of the performance, and the latter is a comprehensive embodiment of artistic performance and emotional expression.
Competition time: throughout the Winter Olympics Wonderful and dazzling
February 4 Team Competition - Men's Singles Short Program, Doubles Short Program, Ice Dance Rhythm Dance 09:55-14:55
February 6 Team Competition - Women's Singles Short Program, Men's Singles Free Skating 09:30-12:40
February 7 Team Competition - Doubles Free Skating, Women's Singles Free Skating, Ice Dance Free Dance 09:15-12:40
February 8 Men's Singles Short Program 09:15-13:30
February 10 Men's Singles Free Skating 09:15-13:40
February 12 Ice Dance Rhythm Dance 19:00-22:40
February 14 Ice Dance Free Dance 09:15-12:50
February 15 Women's Singles Short Program 18:00-22:25
February 17 Women's Singles Free Skating 18:00-22:10
February 18 Double Skating Short Program 18:30-21:45
February 19 Pair Skating Free Skating 19:0-22:10
February 20 performance slide 12:00-14:30
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At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Chen Lu won the bronze medal for the Chinese team in the women's singles event, kicking off the great progress of China's figure skating event. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the first gold medal in China's pair skating; at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong lost to the Russian team with a difference of 0.42 points to win the silver; Jin Boyang finally created the history of men's single skating with a total score of fourth, and the outstanding results in the two events also made the audience look forward to the next competition.
Facing a new test, the Chinese figure skating team won two seats in the pair skating event, and one seat in the remaining minor events. Men's singles player Jin Boyang and pair skating duo Sui Wenjing/Han Cong "restarted" the performance tracks "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Golden Bridge on the Shore of Sorrowful Lake" in the previous season, respectively, to carry out "new arrangements of old songs" and elaborate technical actions and performance articulations.
The rhythmic dance repertoire of ice dance group Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu is excerpted from "Kung Fu Panda", and the duo added many traditional martial arts elements to the performance; the other pair of pair skating duo Peng Cheng/Jin Yang's free skating performance repertoire is derived from the Chinese movie "Night Feast", "Chinese symbols" can be seen everywhere. After the polishing of the international choreography team and the test of multiple events, the possibility of the Chinese legion creating surprises on the field is not small.
Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu finished fourth in Italy at this season's Grand Prix. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Mengni
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As the "medal bearer" of Chinese figure skating, the Sui Wenjing/Han Cong combination will also be unyielding in Beijing and will launch an impact on the highest podium. In this season's figure skating Grand Prix, the duo have won the championship twice and are currently in third place in the ISU rankings, with the first two being won by the Russian duo. The pair skating competition will kick off on February 18, and the "Sino-Russian dispute" will be the main theme of this event.
At this season's Figure Skating Grand Prix in Italy, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the title with the song "Golden Bridge". Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Mengni
In the men's singles event, despite the impact of many young players such as the world championship triple crown and american Nathan Chan, the defending Olympic champion Yu Yusuke's competitive strength remains undiminished. At the All-Day Figure Skating Championships, he first set a new isabial high score record for this season in a short show, followed by a "never-before" Axel jump in free skating. Although the jump was not entirely successful, it still meant that a new figure skating history had been created by him. If Yusheng can fully display the surrounding area of Axel in Beijing, the "fairy fight" on the men's singles field will be even more exciting.
Yu Yu is performing this season's short program "Introduction and Whirling Caprice". Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xiaoyu
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Figure skating was originally originally just an exercise in ice skills, but the style changed after it was introduced to the UK. As the British set up the first skating clubs and built a number of artificial ice rinks, the sport quickly became popular in Europe. Perhaps different from what everyone thinks, the sport was not a niche from the beginning, and the "traffic superstars" such as the King of England, the Queen of France, Napoleon III and the German writer Goethe at that time have always been ice skating enthusiasts.
Early figure skating. The image is taken from the official IOC video
Before the Birth of the Winter Olympics, the concentrated competition of winter sports was generally carried out at the Summer Olympic Games. Subject to the overall development level of the modern Olympic Games, the "ratings" of many sports of the Summer Olympic Games at that time were extremely dismal, but the addition of the earliest batch of winter sports such as figure skating and ice hockey turned the situation around. It was because of the discovery that these programs were popular with the audience, and the IOC also accelerated the pace of the Winter Games.