Axel is struggling to jump around

On February 10, in the men's singles free skating competition of figure skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Japan's Yusheng Yushin fell down while doing Axel's four-way jumping action, and the free skating scored 188.06 points, and the final total score was 283.21 points, ranking fourth.

Axel jumping is a type of figure skating jumping action, first completed in 1882 by Norway's Axel Paulsen. Although Axel's four-week jump is counted as a four-week jump, it takes half a week more to turn, and it actually has to complete four and a half weeks. This requires players to have faster speeds and jump higher. In addition, this action requires the athlete to jump forward when taking off, and the ice knife is easy to slip laterally, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of completion.

Axel's four-way jump is an action that Yusuke Has been working hard for for the past three years, and so far, no athlete has successfully jumped out of the competition, and its difficulty can be imagined. In December 2021, during the pre-match public training of the All Japan Figure Skating Championships, Yusuke Yusuke completed this action in public for the first time, proving that this action that only stayed at the theoretical level can be completed in reality.

In the Winter Olympics, every improvement means a challenge and breakthrough to the limit. Yusuke Yusuke obsessively wants to complete Axel's four-way jump in the Winter Olympics. He has said that with Axel's four-way jump, careers have new meanings and goals.

Author: Ji Fang, a reporter of this newspaper

Source: People's Daily