Text | Yu Jie'er, author | Li, editor | Yiqing
On Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 9:30 Beijing time, the men's figure skating free skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics officially began.
At the entrance of the Beijing Capital Gymnasium, there are still many fans of Yusheng Knotted String crouching outside the venue because of the difficulty of obtaining a ticket, but only a kilometer away from the screen silently cheering for him.
Fan Zhu Chen is from Lanzhou, and she began to like Yusheng knots in February 2018. In the winter of that year, she was exposed to figure skating for the first time, and for the first time, she went to South Korea with her friends to watch a figure skating competition. That same winter, Yu Sheng's song "SEIMI" won the men's singles championship at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and also became the first successful winter Olympics men's singles player in 66 years.
Source: Sina Weibo @ Yusheng Knot String InfoStation
"After that game, I fell completely in love with Yu Yusuke. Although he didn't buy tickets for the Winter Olympics, he still wanted to come to Beijing, even if it was to see the venue where he played. Zhu Chen said that Yusheng Yuxian, who could have retired at the peak of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, once again participated in the Beijing Winter Olympics for the cause of figure skating that he loved in his heart, but also to support his fans.
Unfortunately, the Yusheng knot string in the Beijing Capital Gymnasium did not control the center of gravity and fell on the field in an instant after completing the 4A action of the jump. The #Yusheng knot string impact triple crown # entry was replaced by #Yusheng knot string fall# after the game, and quickly soared to the first place in the Weibo hot search list, and both terms have also become a hot topic.
At 13:20 Beijing time, the men's figure skating free skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended. Yusei Yushin finally scored a total of 283.21 points, ranking fourth, and missed the medal.
Feather's knotted string impact Olympic triple crown failed.
Zhu Chen said, "Yusheng Yuxian set himself the goal of completing the 4A in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and whether he can win three consecutive championships is no longer his obsession and our fans." ”
After winning two Olympic gold medals in Sochi and Pyeongchang, Yusei gave up calculating points and medals, and instead spent four years stubbornly completing a human extreme difficulty move. Although he was fourth, he still earned the respect of his fans.
Popularity is at its peak, and word of mouth is reversed
On February 8, 2022, on the same day that the genius girl Gu Ai Lingba list was hotly searched, another highly anticipated figure skater Yu Yu made his Winter Olympic debut.
As early as the list of athletes participating in the Winter Olympics was not yet announced, whether Yu yu yu would participate in the Winter Olympics had already been discussed. Before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yusheng Yuxian did not attend the opening ceremony with the Japanese delegation, causing some Yusheng fans to worry about whether he would still participate.
It was not until February 6, 2022, when the topic of #Yusheng Knots Arriving in Beijing appeared in the video of Yusheng Knots at the Beijing airport, and fans were relieved to confirm that Yu Yusei would definitely participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
On February 8, 2022, at the men's figure skating short program competition, Yu yu appeared in the 21st place. Although the first jump was a mistake in the gap, Yu Yu still performed well in the following competition, and finally advanced to the free skate with 95.15 points and eighth place.
Accompanied by Saint-San's 1863 violin concerto "Introduction and Whirling Capriccio", the narrator introduced to the audience, "Yusei Yusuke chose this music to express his state of mind in the past two years, although it was difficult to train alone in Japan, but still forge ahead. ”
On the field, after yusheng completed the last closing action, he returned to the first wrong starting point and bent down to touch the ice. After the game, he sat alone in the waiting seat, waiting alone for the final results of the competition.
After the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating short program competition, Yu Sheng responded to the mistake of the first jump during the competition.
He told reporters at the scene, "When taking off, there was a small pit on the line, which should have been left by the players in front of him when they were sliding." I don't know what I did to be hated by ice today, it seems that I can't do one good deed a day, I have to do ten good deeds a day. ”
This response of Yusheng Yuxin became the fuse of his reputation in the hearts of netizens.
People who like this statement think it is very cute, and have never seen a figure skater talk to "ice" as a friend.
The pit on the ice surface led to his mistake, but he said that it was ice that hated him, and the slightly childish words quickly landed on Weibo's hot search. #Yusheng Yushin said today was hated by ice #Entry data reached 300 million.
But others interpreted it as if he was accusing Beijing of a problem with the ice. Netizens who are familiar with the Japanese context help Yu yuxin explain that this sentence is just Yusheng yuxin stating the process of the day's competition, telling the audience that the reason for the mistake is not sophistry and throwing the pot.
Yusheng knotted the string and became the center of the storm in the field of public opinion. In entertainment groups such as Douban Elephant Paradise, Douban Goose Group, Douban Antique Grocery Stalls, the discussion posts about Yusheng Knotting String brushed the home page of the screen, as many as hundreds.
Wang Si, a member of the Douban 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics team, told Yu Jie'er, "There have always been a lot of discussion posts in the Winter Olympics group, and everyone did not initially have any hostility to Yusheng knots. Many people also know about the Winter Olympic figure skating event because of Yu yusuke. ”
Some netizens' rebellion against Yusheng's string began with his interview speech after his mistakes and frequent hot searches.
Yusheng has many fans in China, which is rarely seen among foreign players. Just a simple #Yusheng knot string arrived in Beijing, and there were 350 million reads, even exceeding the #250 million reads of #What is Gu Ailing Spirit. Yusheng's fan information blog @ Yusheng's InnStation has 2.13 million fans on Weibo, and the number of fans even exceeds that of some small actors.
Sports blogger Zhou Yan told Yu Jing'er, "It is a fact that the popularity of Yusheng's knot is much higher than that of other athletes. I posted a figure skating video about Yusheng knot string on Weibo, which can basically pass a thousand turns, which is still without rubbing any hot spots. He has a large number of fans in China, which is not currently available to other Winter Olympic athletes. ”
The KPI of sports bloggers is to transfer the praise traffic, and publishing The Weibo related to yusheng knots can get higher reposses, so they will publish and reprint more microblogs about yusheng knots. And because fans and sports bloggers have published Microblogs related to Yusheng knots, the popularity of Yusheng knots on Weibo has risen. This is a series of complementary operations.
The heat brought by the feathered string to the figure skating rose higher and higher amid the sound of discussion and praise.
Figure skater, the lonely king
For the voices of opposition and insults, Yu Sheng's choice of response is to block.
At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Yusei yukson lost the company of Coach Osser and came to Beijing alone to participate in what may be the last Olympic Games in his life.
"This piece of music ripples with two emotions, both hot and wild sadness, and lonely and melancholy sadness, which is the music he chose himself." The narrator said after another perfect jump in The Feather That the broken loneliness in his body became the most distinctive label in the eyes of the audience.
Habu's loneliness stems from his self-restraint. Yusei yushin does not have any external social software accounts, and he once said in a post-match interview: "No social software will make me feel lonely." But if you don't isolate the outside world' voices, it will affect your mental and physical state, and I can't do it well. ”
National idols, figure skaters, genius masters, big devils... A series of descriptions painted the knot of feathers that are now presented to the world audience.
People who don't like Habu knot criticize him for being flirtatious and fragile; people who love Habu knotted knot know the purity of his spiritual world and draw the unique strength of athletes from him.
Liu Orange is now a college student, and in the summer of 2021, she became a fan of Yu Yusuke.
On July 23, 2021, the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games kicked off, netizens commented badly about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Liu Orange read the comments of netizens and saw some people say that Yusheng knot string in the opening ceremony slide a circle is better than this.
So she became interested in Yusheng knots, and the first Yusheng knotted string video that she searched for at station B was the 2013 Fukuoka Men's Singles Skating Grand Prix finals in Japan, Liu Orange said, "He gave me a good feeling, the whole person is very smooth, just like the CCTV commentator said, it is really like a surprise, like a dragon, like a fairy." ”
"Bellman's rotation has a huge damage to the body. Whenever I sit at my desk holding a bitter professional book and can't study quietly, I think of the beautiful Bellman spin of Yusheng's strings, and then force myself to study. ”
Liu Orange's original intention of signing up for the Beijing Winter Olympics volunteers was precisely to meet a yusheng knot.
Although she was not assigned to the figure skating arena in the end, she said, "I always remember a sentence from Yu Yusuke, hard work will lie, but effort will not be in vain." Although I didn't see Habu Yuki on this volunteer trip, and my wish was only half realized, I don't think this volunteer trip was anything at all fruitful. She said half-jokingly, at least achieving the freedom of the ice pier.
Yu Yusuke can get the support of many Chinese fans, but also because of his attitude towards China. On February 7, 2022, Yu Yu was caught off the field by a sports reporter, and when the reporter asked him how he felt about Beijing, he smiled and said, "I feel good." When he left, he also used his Chinese to thank reporters who cared about him.
When a sports reporter asked Yu Shengyu who you think can make a 4A move besides yourself, he did not shy away from saying that he thought China's Jin Boyang could.
"Yusheng Yuxian has repeatedly expressed his good feelings for Chinese players, and he rarely has negative news to be exposed, so the domestic sports circle has a good evaluation of him." Sports blogger Zhou Yan said.
The friendly attitude made chinese fans support him, and the spirit of challenging the limit won him tears and applause from the audience.
In 2014, Yu Yusheng fell to the ground due to a collision with other players in the world figure skating grand prix in Shanghai. Lying on the ice, Yu Sheng's legs curled up, and the gushing blood from his forehead flowed down his chin.
"Although it has been a long time, I still have tears of pain when I make up the gears." Zhu Chen said that at that time, the coach supported Yusheng Yuxian and asked him not to play again, but Yusheng Yuxian still decided not to treat it for a while and continue to play. "The coach told him that the body is more important than being a hero."
But Yusei yelled at the coach, "Slip! ”
When Yu Yushin, who should have been honorably retired after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, was asked why he chose to continue to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, he replied that I wanted to complete a 4A, which is what my audience expected of me, they felt that I could finish, and I had to stick to it for them.
Source: Little Red Book @ efforts will not be in vain
In the end, Yusheng Yuxian took the audience's expectations of him and stepped onto the field of the Beijing Winter Olympics. After the first 4A jump was completed, he fell on the ice. In an interview after the game, Yusei Yushin said, "But in a sense, it is precisely because of the two mistakes in the first half that the story of "Heaven and Earth" can be more complete. ”
Habu knotted strings, the lone brave in the figure skating arena, has tried his best. Treating the result with such indifference is not also a kind of king's style.
4A landing, but also a win
The full name of 4A is "Axel Jump Around". Yu Sheng's 4A challenge at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, he said in a post-match interview, "This is the closest I can get to the 4A. ”
In February 2014, Yusei yusho had already won the gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics, and in February 2018, he won the gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Being able to challenge 4A at the Winter Olympics may be more gratifying for Yusheng Than winning the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Sports blogger Zhou Yan said, "At the Pyeongchang Olympics, everyone is already optimistic about Chen Wei defeating Yusheng Torso. But Chen Wei's own mentality was not good, and he made mistakes one after another. This time in the Beijing Winter Olympics, as long as he does not make mistakes, the gold medal must be his. This is understandable why neither Yusei Noriko nor his fans aim to win the championship, but rather to complete the 4A. ”
On February 9, 2022, some netizens updated two training photos of Yusheng knot string test jump 4A failed to kneel on Twitter. Yu Sheng knot on the picture is on his knees, his expression painful. Yusei also revealed in an interview on February 10, 2022, that he was injured while training on Wednesday.
In the Twitter comment, a formula graphically expresses the impact of figure skating training on the human body: suppose that a player who weighs 57kg will receive 5 times the impact of each landing, and the impact force of 17 tons will be endured after practicing 60 times a day. 17 tons = 1 Boeing 747 aircraft landing at a speed of 240 kilometers per hour, the weight of each wheel at the moment of landing.
No athlete can go off without an injury, it's a profession that requires dedication. When Yusheng was preparing for the match at the Beijing Capital Stadium, he also carried ice packs with him to ice the injured joints. Only by working hard to this extent can he say with a clear conscience, "I tried my best." ”
Yu Sheng's first action after playing in the men's singles free skating competition was to challenge 4A, and Zhu Chen in front of the screen was as excited, nervous, anticipated and vaguely uneasy as all the spectators who cared about this event.
When Yusheng Yusheng finished his action and fell, Zhu Chen's first thought was, "Regret is certain, all ice powder hopes that he can win three consecutive championships and shine more, but compared to this, I think ice powder should hope that his body is safe and sound, he has suffered a lot of injuries now, I hope he will recover well, retire safely, and live the life he wants, he is really too tired and tired for more than twenty years." ”
The landing of the 4A of the Yusheng knot may not be perfect, @Sina Sports also posted a blog after the game that the Yusheng knot string 4A was not recognized by the International Skating Federation. But @Sina Sports also commented on this, "Yusheng knot is interpreting the beauty of art. "His artistic expressiveness supported him to score 283.21 points.
Feather's figure skating has surpassed the competition. His triumphant posture, a "madman of art" personality who does not do it for honor, but only to complete an action, has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of the audience.
Gu Ailing's final jump on the freestyle ski women's big jump at the Beijing Winter Olympics chose the 1620, which had never been tried on snow, and successfully challenged his limits. The same is true of Yu Yu's 4A obsession. Ice and snow and challenges are the eternal original intention of Winter Olympic athletes, and their opponents are only themselves.
"Athletes are able to brave the difficulties and do their best to challenge themselves, which is one of the reasons why my team members and I love to watch the Winter Olympics." Wang Si concluded.
Yu Yusuke, who finished fourth, may have gained more than in the previous "championship" moments.
(In the text, Zhu Chen, Liu Orange, Wang Si, and Zhou Yan are pseudonyms.) ）