Wang Shiyue (right) / Liu Xinyu in the game. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
A song called "Trouble", a tribute to Elvis Presley.
In the beijing winter olympics figure skating team competition ice dance rhythm dance on February 4, Chinese ice dance group Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu set a new season best with 74.66 points, helping the Chinese team to rank third after the first day of short programs. Affected by the epidemic, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu has hardly gone out to participate in the past two years, and now they are very happy to return to the Olympic arena, and the Winter Olympic Village has also recommended Chinese food such as spicy hot and roast duck to foreign friends.
In an interview, Wang Shiyue said that she hopes that through hard work, she can also open up a better path for future generations like Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo.
High-fived with coach teammates after sliding out of the season best
At 74.66 points, when the first big screen hit this score, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu excitedly high-fived the coach and teammates, which was their highest score of the season.
Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu's short program ranked 5th out of 10 pairs of contestants. Wang Shiyue admitted that this set of rhythm dance basically played the recent training level, "Our performance paragraphs and technical completion are very good. Our goal is to go all out to win more points for the Chinese team and move forward in the rankings. ”
This season's rhythmic dance, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu's song is Elvis Presley's "Trouble". Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu said that the more slippery the game, the happier, in addition to telling the story with the music, it is more of the joy of the two people from the heart.
"The two of us miss this feeling of competition, since we both returned to China in 2020, we rarely appeared in international competitions in the past two years, and basically have been taking online classes." Liu Xinyu said that it was not until he lived in the Winter Olympic Village a few days ago and finally met foreign teachers and a group of foreign good friends that he felt that he had returned.
Before the epidemic, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu trained and competed outside for a long time, and had to participate in 9 races at the most in a year. After the epidemic, the two have been training in domestic competitions until this season, when they set foot in international competitions and participated in the Grand Prix in Italy.
"In fact, if we don't look at the scores, we are both very satisfied with the performance of this show." Wang Shiyue said bluntly that in the past two seasons, they have not gone out to compete, and both of them have somewhat blurred their positioning. In the past two years, Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu have been encouraging each other, and the two have set goals before the game, as long as they can play at a normal level, they are very happy.
Just stepping on the ice rink, Liu Xinyu still had some small tension in his heart. After that, the nervousness was replaced by excitement and joy, "We missed the feeling of this game so much, especially after all the opponents came, it would motivate us even more." ”
Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu in the game. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Be a good host to introduce food to foreign friends
Compared with Pyeongchang 4 years ago, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the second time, have calmed down a lot. "Last time, we had never seen the world at all." Wang Shiyue said with a smile that after 4 years of tempering, the two have improved and matured from technology, psychology to thinking.
As the best ice dance group in China so far, Wang Shiyue said that they have always had a goal, that is, they hope to bring ice dance to a new height in China through their efforts, "I hope that one day we can also be like Teacher Shen (Shen Xue) and Teacher Zhao (Zhao Hongbo) to open up a better path for future generations." ”
For the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu's two sets of program selection and costumes were specially designed, "Today's rhythm dance is based on Elvis Presley as the musical background, and the costumes are very close to rock. Free dance that set, we skate Chinese style music, the costume is also more focused on Chinese characteristics. "During the training two days ago, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu's free-dancing Chinese landscape painting costume was sought after as soon as it appeared." I am Aoyama and she is green water. Liu Xinyu said that he hopes to convey traditional Chinese culture with clothing and music.
Wang Shiyue said frankly that there is a feeling that a dream has come true when she can stand on the Olympic stage at her doorstep, "We hope to be able to play the full level, just like the design concept of our set of clothes, reflecting a feeling of a great river and mountain." ”
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the good friends who had trained in Canada with Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu also came, and the two specially bought a lot of Olympic souvenirs with Chinese characteristics to give to them, "We are very happy and proud to host the Olympic Games in China, and we welcome these good friends like the host." ”
Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, who live in the Winter Olympic Village and are the hosts, also undertake the task of introducing Chinese cuisine to good friends abroad. "The Winter Olympic Village restaurant has shabu-shabu, like spicy and hot ones, they haven't eaten it, and they don't know how to order it or how to eat it." In addition to spicy and hot, Wang Shiyue said that the roast duck and dumplings in the Winter Olympic village are particularly popular.
Sun Haiguang, chief reporter of the Beijing News
Edited by Han Shuangming Proofreader Li Ming