What the divine fire on Mount Olympus burns is not for one person to defeat another, but for the opportunity to show off to the gods the indomitability of mankind, the limitations of fate can be eternal, and the indomitable challenges cannot be ignored or lacking.
—— Stetson, "My Dream"
Today, the eyes of the whole world are focused on one person. Before I say the name, I would like to introduce his resume, 19 times to break the world record, the first Golden Slam athlete in the history of figure skating, and the youngest athlete to win the Winter Olympics championship twice. He is Yusuke Habu from Sendai, Japan, a great ice rink artist.
He was attracted by all the attention, not only because of his status as the greatest figure skater in active service, but also because he wanted to represent all mankind and launch an attack on the limits of human beings, like the "impossible task" that countless famous people said, that is, Axel's jump around, referred to as 4A. No one in history has ever jumped out of this action in an official competition, only Yu Sheng knotted the strings, obsessed for 4 years, and never gave up.
The final result, as we all know, is that the Feather String did not succeed. In the background music of the famous Japanese river drama theme song "With Heaven and Earth", the first jump of the opening scene was like a 4A attack, and then fell heavily to the ground. Immediately after getting up, he did not even hesitate to make the next move, as if he had already foreseen the outcome, as if such a scene had happened a thousand times.
The consequence of obsessing over 4A is that Yusheng Jiexin's entire set of action techniques is far inferior to his biggest competitor Chen Wei, and he stubbornly does not give up his carefully designed choreographed actions, preferring to retain the most abundant artistic beauty of the show and give up doing a few more jumps to please the referee.
Yu Yu's set of moves ended up with 188.06 points, far less than his best score of 223.20 points. In addition, the short program scored 95.15 points, with a total score of 283.21 points, ranked fourth after Chen Wei, Keyshan Yujin, and Uno Masamo, and did not qualify for the podium.
But for Yu Yusuke, whether he won the championship or not is no longer important to him. Short program mistakes, more than 10 points behind Chen Wei, if you want to impact the champion, it is bound to not be able to jump 4A, but to choose a more stable, more mature other four-way jump, in the technical score and Chen Wei is the same.
By the time he made his 4A attempt a few seconds after the opening, he was already far away from the championship. So Yusei Yusuke didn't care, he said in an interview after winning the championship in Pyeongchang four years ago, "I have achieved everything that can be achieved, only 4A remains". He's taken the Olympic champion, even twice in a row, and the only motivation he has to persevere in the years when he is full of injuries and getting older is 4A. Now, he's jumping, and even if he fails, it doesn't matter anymore.
Axel Jump is the only one of the six jumping techniques of figure skating that takes off forward and has the highest difficulty coefficient. The four-way jump, or 1440 turns, is the physical limit of today's male athletes. Axel's jump around is the limit of the limit, so that the other 5 jumps are basically mastered by top male athletes, and the 4A is still out of reach. Because compared to other jumping techniques, Axel has to turn half a week more, that is, 1620 turns.
Completely relying on the human body's own ability, in less than a second of vacating, completing the four-and-a-half-turn, even imagining it is impossible. Therefore, in the sliding joint scoring system, this action is the most difficult, but it is only 12.5 points, which is only 1 point more than the second most difficult action. In figure skating, this one-point difference can even be negligible. However, the difficulty level of the two is like a natural barrier.
Clear-eyed people know that jumping such an action is thankless. But in the most sacred Olympic hall, there are always people who use their bodies to practice faster, higher, and stronger maxims, bravely challenging the limits of human beings, even if they fall, even if they fail, it will not affect his greatness and the fearless heart that is shown to the world.
To borrow a comment from a netizen, "Habu 4A Apostle, Asthma Conqueror, Ice Chosen Man Knot", go ahead!