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In the men's singles free skating competition of figure skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics at noon today, the two-time Winter Olympic champion Yu Yusheng, who has attracted much attention, failed to challenge the 4A action that successfully created history, and he was not lucky for the third Winter Olympic gold medal of his career. However, he conquered all the audiences in another way.
The full name of the 4A action is "Axel jumping around", which is the first time that the 4A action has been written into the planned action table of the Olympic Games. It is one of the six jumping moves of figure skating and the most difficult.
Although 4A is counted as a four-way jump, but in fact, it takes half a week to jump, and it actually has to turn four and a half 1620 degrees, compared with 3A, its highest point is 17 centimeters higher, and the freezing point is 1.1 meters farther, in order to achieve this effect, the skating speed of the players should be increased by 10%. Moreover, since the 4A jump is the only one that jumps forward and backwards to fall on the ice, the center of gravity of the player is on the outer blade of the ice knife when preparing to enter the turn, and the ice knife is easy to slide laterally, so so far, no figure skater has been able to successfully jump out of the 4A in the competition.
Even the ordinary four-way jump is already very difficult, and even the Yusheng knot can only succeed once 50 times when it first starts practicing. The difficulty of 4A is much higher. It is equivalent to turning 4 and a half times in one second on the way to the long jump of 6 meters, rotating 1620 degrees in the air. This difficulty is equivalent to a 100-meter sprint running in 9.5 seconds, equivalent to a marathon running for 2 hours, equivalent to the Goldbach conjecture on ice.
Before this Winter Olympics, Yusei Yusho was the undisputed figure skating men's first person. Before the competition, he has two options: one is to use ordinary difficulty moves, pursue perfect completion and stable results, so that he has a fairly good chance of winning the unprecedented Winter Olympics triple crown; the other is to try another thing that is also unprecedented - challenging 4A.
Although ice fans are still arguing, Yu Yusuke actually made a choice very early: to challenge 4A. This also means that he has put the championship in a secondary position in order to pursue a breakthrough in another dimension - the reason is that the base score of the 4A is not much higher, but the difficulty is doubled, and the turnover rate is higher. This is also the reason why other masters have never chosen this action in the game. Chen Wei, the champion of today's competition, publicly stated that this action is not within his ability.
Yusei has been working on this move for more than three years, and in order to practice 4A, he was also injured this season when his ice knife was inserted into the ice and injured his right foot. His first action jump in the feb. 8 short show game is likely to be related to this injury.
For this action, Yu yushin paid more than just injury. He has rarely trained in other moves in recent years, focusing on 4A, and in previous public practices, we have seen him getting closer and closer to this goal. On December 23 last year, he fell off the ice for the first time through this action, achieving a historic breakthrough.
However, his goal is to be the perfect 4A. Yusheng Yuki often uses "a lifetime of suspense" to describe himself, that is, to work hard all his life and use all his strength. He put it this way: "Along the way in my life, every time I made up my mind to challenge something, I didn't stick to the end. Although there have been times when challenges have failed and I have been depressed and reflecting, my feet can still move, my body is fine, and I am in an environment where I can skate, so I want to do my best to challenge. ”
Habu's biggest rival has always been himself. The first Winter Olympics he participated in was the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, when he fell twice in the free skating competition, originally thought that he had missed the gold medal, but he did not expect to win the championship, and the Canadian Chinese player Chen Weiqun also made many mistakes, and finally Yusheng Yuxian won his first gold medal. Although he won the championship, he always felt that his performance was not good enough, so he continued to practice hard, and even when he passed in front of various mirrors such as mirrors and windows, he trained in his mind to imagine how he should jump and how to do movements.
If you don't forget it, there will be an echo. Four years later, at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, he became the first player in 66 years to win the men's singles skate with a perfect performance, when he was only 23 years old.
Single skating is a very special sport, it is not only a competition with the opponent, but also a competition with oneself; it requires the perfection of the action, in one go, and has a constantly updated difficulty ceiling, attracting people to pursue; it requires both strong physical and psychological qualities, and also puts forward high requirements for the aesthetics of music and clothing. In order to perfectly match his own action choreography, Yu Yu is deeply involved in the selection and production of background music and costumes.
In today's game, Yusheng knotted the string or failed, but as CCTV commentator Chen Ying said: "Defend an unguarded city, fight a battle that cannot be won, Providence is difficult to guess after all, and success or failure should also be laughed at!" What the divine fire on Mount Olympus burned was not for the sake of one man defeating another, but for the opportunity to show off the indomitability of mankind to the gods. ”
The soundtrack "Heaven and Earth" ends, and Yu yusei stares up at the dome after the game, and then waits alone for his score. There was no uneasiness on his face, no regrets, no pain, but a calm and self-confidence. This calm and self-confidence is not about victory, but only about having exerted all your strength.
In my opinion, this final is actually two finals. One was for all the other players, and one was his own. In a sense, Yusei knots are playing against themselves in another dimension of difficulty and even another dimension.
It is said that the name of Yusheng Knot is good and poetic, in fact, the harmonic stem of a name can better summarize his career - "the boundary of the rest of his life", as long as his career continues, his "rest of his life" has been looking for the boundaries to break through.
After witnessing the great "failure" of Yusheng Yuxing, which is destined to go down in history, I would like to talk about a Chinese player. 17-year-old Su Yiming won the silver medal in the snowboard slope obstacle course a few days ago, which was already a good achievement to create history, when many people complained for him after the game, thinking that the referee scored unfairly, but he was light and light, and did not care.
Unexpectedly, news came from the front this morning that the referee of this final admitted in an interview that he had scored high on the Canadian players, and in the referee's replay angle, he did not see the mistake of the players grabbing the board, but when they realized the mistake, the scores had been submitted.
I have to say that Su Yiming is really too angry. And he is not "blind generosity", because he can only know how his actions are doing, he knows that the score given to him by the referee is reasonable, so there is no argument, and he went to receive the silver medal very peacefully after the game, saying that he did not pay special attention to the score after the game.
Now everyone feels more sorry for him, it is indeed a pity, after all, if he could appeal at that time, it was entirely possible to win back this gold medal, which is also the reasonable right of the players and the team. Even now, I hope that the Chinese delegation will be able to appeal as much as possible within the framework of the rules, especially if the Chief Magistrate has made a clear statement acknowledging the error.
But it's one thing to fight for legitimate rights, it's quite another to see how individuals face defeat. If you only say that Su Yiming's own post-match reaction, in fact, it does not reflect another kind of strength. I remember once a reporter asked him if the sport was particularly exciting for him. His answer surprised everyone, he said that in his eyes, the sport is actually a particularly quiet sport, and his heart is particularly quiet when he skis. At that time, I felt that he had spirituality, and at such an age, he could realize Zen in such a fierce movement.
Interestingly, just as Su Yiming has the opportunity to be re-sentenced to become a champion, there is now unconfirmed news that although Yusheng Yusheng's 4A challenge today is not stable, it is still possible to be recognized by the International Skating Federation as the first human to complete the 4A challenge in an official competition. However, it is more likely that the ISU only determined that he jumped out of the 4A, rather than completed the 4A.
In any case, of course we are happy to see it happen. Whatever the end result, they have conquered our hearts.
Neither Yu Sheng nor Su Yiming won the championship, but almost no one would think they had failed. The character and state of mind they show in their respective competitions, both persistent and enterprising to pursue the limit, but at the same time exuding a kind of calm and zen, it is a very remarkable thing to be able to combine these two seemingly opposite temperaments. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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Editor-in-charge | Zhao Liangchen