Yusei lost, but he won again.
The two-time Winter Olympic champion and ice king, who was described by the CCTV commentator as "like a jade, a posture like a pine, a flying phoenix, like a dragon", bowed to the field for a long time, tears spilled on the field, and finally missed the 3 consecutive championships, ranking fourth with a total score of 283.21 points.
After the game, there were media reports that the 4A he challenged was recognized by the International Skating Federation for the first time. However, official news came later, and the official did not confirm. In other words, Yusei once again challenged and failed.
Although the landing was not perfect, the number of aerial circles he completed had never been achieved by a human on ice.
Perhaps for The "lifetime of suspense", from the beginning of the challenge 4A as the ultimate goal on the ice, this imperfect success is destined to be a lifelong regret, perhaps, he can challenge the 4A again, but almost certainly will not be in the Winter Olympics.
Teacher Chen Ying's explanation perfectly interprets the performance of Yusheng's knot. "Defend an undefended city, fight an unwinnable battle, and put all your glory, all your glory, under the wheel of history."
Narrator Huang Jianxiang on Yusheng Knot: A person like Yu Sheng knot is a gift from heaven for a project. What he can't accomplish is the regret of audiences all over the world
Yusei himself said that in a sense, it was precisely because of the two mistakes in the first half of the festival that the story of "Heaven and Earth" was completed in a sense. "Of course, there is a feeling of 'it's still a little bit worse', but I think this may be all I have!"
How lonely it is to be invincible, from the beginning of his youth to fame, the opponent of Yu Sheng's string has always been himself. However, "it is difficult to escape fate in the world", the genius teenager lost to his own fate, but thus lived a more remarkable hero on the ice.
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Everyone is looking forward to the fateful battle of Yusei's strings.
The young face, the top ice strength, and the strong artistic appeal have made Yu yu yu have a super popularity in Japan, China and the world.
According to the 2021 Japan National Poll, Yusuke Yusuke was voted the most beloved athlete with a high vote, which is also the second consecutive year that he has reached the top of this list.
This Time in the Winter Olympics, the Yusheng knotting string people have not yet arrived in the Winter Olympic Village, just the topic of "Is the Yusheng knotting string coming", which has been rushed to the hot search many times.
Since the beginning of the Olympic Games, he and the talented ski girl Gu Ailing have taken turns to appear on the hot search, and it is difficult to score.
Today, fans from all over the world have sent more than 10,000 "love postcards" to Yusheng, and everyone is blessing the same thing -
I wish him the achievement of the "4A" goal in today's final.
There are six types of figure skating, the most difficult of which is called Axel. And Axel's jump around is the legendary 4A, 4A and the surrounding are by no means the same concept.
Although there is little difference in scores in the Olympic arena, 4A is a four-and-a-half jump that rotates 1620 degrees in the air, and is recognized as an epic difficult action in figure skating, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it challenges human limits.
To put it another way, challenging 4A, from the perspective of winning the game, is obviously not cost-effective.
Prior to this, the 27-year-old Yusuke Yusei had won two Olympic titles, broken 19 world records, and was the first person to complete the Outer Knot Ring Around Jump (one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating) in international competitions recognized by ISU, and was recognized as the king of ice all over the world.
But the goal of The Feather String is known all over the world: 4A.
At the All Japan Championships in December 2021, Yusuke Yusuke tried to jump out of the 4A in pre-race training, but he landed on ice with one foot and was not completely successful, and then in the free skating competition, he challenged again, this time with insufficient rotational cycles.
These are not the 4A in Yusheng's mind, and when everyone rationally advises him to win the Olympic triple crown with more conservative tactics, the stubborn ice teenager's answer is: "I will jump out of the real 4A at the Beijing Winter Olympics, not the current level."
After one journey after another, the increasing difficulty has been realized, and finally in front of the 27-year-old YuSheng Yu string, it seems that only the last dream remains: to complete the most perfect Axel around the stage of the top Winter Olympics (4A).
It was the leap of fate he had given himself.
He's coming.
Dressed in a blue and white sequin embroidered top with gold, the action in the final of the Feather String is still like a dragon.
And the song he chose is still "Heaven and Earth", Yusheng Yuxin's first difficulty action jumped 4A, he completed the air rotation, but the landing was unstable, falling to the ground.
The defeat of the 4A action had an impact on Yusheng's game status for a while, and In the jumping action that followed, Yusheng rarely fell again.
Perhaps at that moment, Yusei was swept away by a huge regret in his heart: he knew that he would not have the next chance in his life. This was his final chapter at the Winter Olympics.
But the hero becomes a hero because he can fall, but he will still stand up and fight to the end.
Then Yu Sheng quickly adjusted his state, gliding, spinning, jumping, and finished the game in the applause of the audience.
At the end of the game, Yu sheng's hands were raised and slowly fell, with some relief in the action, but the tears moistened his eyes.
He stroked the ice and bowed to the audience for a long time.
In the end, his short program "Introduction and Whirling Capriccio" scored 95.15 points, and the free skating "Heaven and Earth" scored 188.06 points, missing the Olympic triple crown.
"A lifetime of suspense"
I don't know if the mind of Yu Yu yu in the moment of completing the final sprint on the ice has ever floated in his childhood self, the boy with asthma.
In December 1994, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, in a city in northeastern Honshu Island that was familiar to China because of Lu Xun's abandonment of medical practice, mathematics teacher Hidetoshi Yusei welcomed his youngest son.
He named his son "Habu Knot String" in the hope that his younger son would "be as calm and full of fighting spirit as the bow string tied to the bow."
At the age of 2, the youngest son was diagnosed with asthma.
It just so happened that there was a "figure skating" boom in Sendai that year, and in order to exercise and overcome asthma, Yusei Yushin began to learn to skate at the age of 4.
By the time he was 8 years old, with the encouragement of his parents, he and a group of friends participated in a figure skating training class.
Because of asthma, Habu's physical strength is significantly worse than that of children of the same age.
In order not to drag his feet, the feathered string, which was still a small one, could only "stupid birds fly first", and if other players practiced 20-30 times a day to jump around, he had to jump 60 times.
In an interview at the age of 11, Yu Yu, who had the same hairstyle as idol Pushchenko (a legendary Russian player known as the "Emperor on Ice"), faced the camera and said his goal with a slight shyness: "My goal is to win the Olympic gold medal." ”
Many people say that Yu Yu has turned his life into a hot-blooded manga.
For this statement, even Yusheng himself could not help but laugh at himself: "Even the protagonist in the manga, this script is too much written (referring to too many twists and turns). ”
At the age of 17, at a critical time in preparation for the Sochi Winter Olympics, sudden earthquakes and tsunamis destroyed most of the buildings in Yusei's hometown, including the skating rink where he had been practicing since he was a child.
With tears in his eyes, Yusei asked his mentor Duzhuo, "I'm tired, can I continue my figure skating career?" ”
However, in the next 5 months, YuSheng Yuxian participated in a total of up to 60 charity performances, and in the dilemma of not having a training ice rink, he "rubbed" the performance to the training ground.
In the face of thousands of audiences who need to be soothed, Yusei also began to think about what he could convey on the ice rink until he stepped on the stage of the Sochi Winter Olympics and became the youngest figure skating men's singles Olympic champion in 66 years.
Years of high-intensity training and competition have brought about a variety of injuries and diseases, and the way to cope with yusheng is also very simple: either to endure or to relieve pain.
In 2012, Yusuke Yusuke, who was preparing for the World Championships, accidentally sprained his ankle and had to inject himself with painkillers before playing in order to successfully complete the game.
After that, the moving moment was frozen in the 2014 China Cup Figure Skating Grand Prix.
Yusheng Yuxian accidentally collided with Chinese player Yan Han during the field adaptation training, and the two fell to the ground in pain at the same time.
Yu Sheng's neck was cut by an ice knife, blood flowed, and his forehead and temples were also hit, and he lay on the ice for a long time.
People around him advised him to "give up the competition", and the doctor did not recommend that he return to the field. His coach told him that "now is not the time to be a hero", and Yusuke Yusuke replied to him in Japanese: "It has nothing to do with those, I want to go to the finals, I have to play." ”
After the emergency treatment, Yusheng knotted a bandage on his head and a hemostatic tape on his chin, ran to Yan Han and said to him, "I'm really sorry."
Then leave a sentence, "Big husband, die ぬまで (big husband, I will slip even to death). "Play, play.
After returning to the arena, he was out of breath after just trying to jump, and the coach next to him advised him to give up, but Yusei finally insisted on finishing the game.
He took off eight times, fell down 5 times, and when the full set of actions was completed, he could not leave the field alone, and finally left the field with the support of the coach, but finally won the second place in the game with flexible tactics.
The overalls yusheng wore for that game have since "withdrawn from the jianghu", and his set of free skating "Theater Phantom" has also been given a very appropriate name by fans - The Phantom of blood.
Yusei once used "a lifetime of suspense" to describe his attitude towards figure skating.
In Japanese, "lifetime of suspense" means: try your whole life and do one thing with all your strength.
By the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the 23-year-old Yusei yushin did not use the classic opera or movie tracks that were commonly used in the past and were more contagious, but chose the theme song of the Japanese movie "Yin and Yang Division" "SEIMEI", and Yusei Yushin felt that he was similar to Abe Haruaki in "Yin and Yang Division".
He specifically visited the protagonist of the movie, Nomura Mansai, to learn how to perform with him to be more infectious, and also put the actions taught to him by the other party in the later game.
He also participated in the design of his own ice costumes, incorporating Qingming's signature hunting elements into it, recording his breathing into the song, re-editing and choreographing the music, and when he danced on the field, the whole world seemed to be attracted to this gentle and powerful big boy.
The CCTV female host in the studio used the most beautiful words at that moment -
"The face is like jade, the posture is like pine, the flying is like a surprise, and the dragon is like a dragon", "Fortunate to know the peach blossom noodles, from then on, there will be more warm spring".
Yusei became the first player to win the men's single skating championship in figure skating in 66 years of the Winter Olympics.
But reaching the top also means that a new choice is coming, when his contemporaries have retired and injuries continue to hit, Yu yu has found the ultimate dream of his sports career - to complete the 4A.
He once told the media that the ultimate mission is to complete the 4A: "If the road to the 4A will inevitably go through the baptism of the Winter Olympics, then I will go all out to seize all opportunities." ”
4A has transcended the win-loss itself and is closer to a contest between the feathered knot and the self.
Sometimes, he didn't even practice any other movements at the training ground, just just lasted more than two hours for 4A training, but almost always ended in a fall.
The cyclic 4A exercises made Yusheng feel the "horror of death". It is said that practicing 4A, the impact of a fall is equivalent to hitting a school bus, and each time his body falls heavily on the ice.
It is actually difficult for ordinary people to personally understand how boring and cruel the training of competitive sports is. And the daily boredom and the cruelty of the peak challenge, how arduous is the test of human nature.
However, the beauty of sports also lies in the condensation of the light of human self-challenge.
In the process of practicing 4A, Yusei Yushin once said, "Every time my body fell heavily on the ice, as if it were a death jump, I was training with my own mental preparation that I was not sure which time I would fall out of the concussion and then die." ”
4A is a spell in Yusei's heart, but his really great work is himself.
Lone hero
The feathered knots under the arena are actually funny masters.
He is a grade 10 scholar of "Escape Is Shameful but Useful". The iconic "love dance" in the play, he danced more cutely than Niigaki Yui.
Went to the historical comedy "Your Highness, give some interest" cameo, he combed a most test of the face of the moon head.
Idol baggage? What is idol baggage?
At the Pyeongchang Olympics, another Japanese figure skater was interviewed by reporters in the media channel, and Yusei Yushin, who happened to be passing by, was lying on the ground and sneaking past the camera in order not to affect his teammates.
But once on the ice stage, he is a challenger of fate.
In his eyes, "the limit does not exist, constantly breaking through their own limits, breaking through and breaking through." ”
In the view of CCTV commentator Chen Ying, the reason why Yusheng knot is so popular is "precisely because he has an inspiring power in him."
Habu's right foot was injured, but he felt, "The right foot is my weakness, it has become my strength." It is precisely because of weaknesses that we can find the direction of becoming stronger. It's not that there's a saying that genius and stupidity are two-sided, I think weak and strong are also twins. If you can find the weakness well and convert it into strength, it will become a strong point. ”
A few years ago, there was a boy with the same asthma who liked figure skating after watching Yusheng's ice performance.
So Yusheng Yuxian deliberately performed the repertoire of that year for him again, but the choreographed actions were slightly different-
The three-week jump was kept because the boy said it was his favorite move at the time.
The new Four Jump was added to encourage him to keep learning the harder moves like himself.
He said, don't think about how others don't have asthma, just think of your own illness as a common difficulty in skating.
If the story of the former Feather String is a romantic ice boy who constantly breaks records, then as he approaches the finale of his sports career step by step,
It seems that a tragic nature similar to that of the ancient Greek heroes is increasingly bursting out, and this "sadness" is not sadness, but a great tragedy, which is the loftiness and magnificence of the ancient Greek heroes.
The white colt crosses the gap, the mountain shape is still the same, and countless people have exchanged for the years, which is the reconciliation with fate.
However, the story of the ancient Greek heroes is to fight against fate to the end.
Yusei himself said, "No one has ever succeeded in 4A, no one knows how to succeed, and sometimes I think that maybe no one can succeed."
In the face of injuries and illnesses, in the face of many voices that believe that they can seek stability, Yusheng has never wavered, not so much as it belongs to Yusheng's heroism, but rather, it is the fate he chose for himself.
He was one of the few figure skaters to score his own soundtrack.
He studied human information science at Waseda University, taking notes while thinking about the formula for the effect of flower sliding to improve stress.
"That's the way he works hard, that's where his true genius comes in," says Nanami Abe, former coach of Yusei Yusuke.
When he was young, Yusei Yusuke longed to stand on the top of the world, "I always imagined that one day I would be able to stand on the top of the world. But I don't know when I'll reach the top, or maybe for the rest of my life, until the end of my figure skating career, and I won't reach the top. ”
Today, his opponents are his own. In the end, he and his leap of fate fulfill each other.
As witnesses, we can say with our hearts: this teenager who is plagued by injuries and illnesses and does not realize his dreams perfectly in the end is still a hero.
The ending of the hot blood history of the japanese male protagonist is not necessarily a victory.
It's about sticking to the end.
Isn't the charm of sports the desire to break the limit, the perfect ice 4A may become the eternal pursuit of every figure skater, but some things do not have to be realized to be meaningful.
If there is one moment that is more touching than the official recognition of the 4A, it is that in the short program competition, the feathered knot who stepped on the pit mistake and finally won the eighth place, but immediately after his own game, he returned to the ice pit to manually repair the ice surface.
In my eyes, this is one of the most moving moments on the field of this Winter Olympics.
In the future, Yusheng will definitely continue to challenge the 4A, and I believe that he will eventually be able to complete the perfect landing in his mind, but the result is no longer important.
It's like jumping out of the season's highest score (179.45 points in free skating, 90.98 points in the short program Jimbo Yang, and 270.43 points in total).
As Jin Boyang commented, "Challenging the spirit that everyone dares not break through is actually the spirit of sportsmanship, which is also the Olympic spirit." ”