Winter Olympics | Yusei Yu String Complete 4A is my mission

Knowing that he can't do it, he is the best feather.

On February 10, the men's single skating free skating competition of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, as the majestic and heavy music of "Heaven and Earth" fell, Yusheng Yuxin stretched out his hands and raised his hands to the sky, at this moment, he seemed to release all of himself, this moment, he completed the challenge to himself.

The opening challenge was the epic difficulty of Axel's Four Jump (4A), and although he fell down when he fell on the ice, on the final post-match referee score list, Habu's knotted movement was identified as 4A. This is also the first time that the 4A action has appeared on the referee's scoring table of the Winter Olympic Games. He did, and he proved that the 4A action existed in reality.

From the talented teenager who was recognized as "born for figure skating" as soon as he appeared on the figure skating field, to the defending Olympic champion and the figure skating "Devil King" who achieved the Olympic Games, World Championships and Grand Prix Grand Slams, everyone saw that the figure skating road of Yusheng knotted strings was successfully like hanging. But in fact, the hardships behind it may not be known to others.

In 1994, Yusei Washi was born in Sendai, a small city in Japan, and his father named him "Knot String", hoping that his life would be as relaxed as a bow string. At the age of 2, Habu was diagnosed with asthma, weak and often ill. In order to exercise and overcome asthma, when he was 4 years old, he and his sister came to the Sendai Ice Rink near his home to skate, and were discovered by the enlightenment coach Masumi Yamada, who admired him: "I have never seen such a talented child, and I have never seen such a child who is not afraid of ice. ”

Since then, falling down and getting up on the ice again and again has become the daily life of Yu Yu, and has also become a true portrayal of him on the field.

Talented and diligent, Yu Yu soon made a name for himself on the ice rink. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, 19-year-old Yu Yu won the championship in one fell swoop, becoming the first Asian to win the Olympic championship in men's singles skating. Four years later, at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yusei yushin successfully defended his title, becoming the first and youngest winter Olympic men's singles defender in the past 66 years.

Having achieved the highest honor on the figure skating field and passed the golden age of figure skaters, many people think that after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yusei Yusuke can "retire from success", but he did not, and he always had a dream of jumping around and half in his heart.

After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yusei Yushin targeted 4A, and he has been working hard for nearly three years. After three years of injury and illness, the coach was not around, and Yusei Hades had to practice alone at the Sendai Ice Rink where he was a child. In the past three years, he has experienced countless "darkest moments". After winning the sixth crown in the all-day championship, Yu Yushin once shared his feelings: "Honestly, no one has ever succeeded in the 4A, no one knows how to succeed, and sometimes I think that no one may be able to succeed, I jump down, I don't know when I can succeed, I fall on the ice more often, I sometimes think, I may be so concussive, and then die. ”

As the most difficult of the 6 jumping actions of the figure skating men's singles, 4A requires 1620 degrees of rotation in the air, which is half a week more than the other four-week jumping action, and "squeezing" more turns in the limited lag time, which is an extreme challenge to technology and body, and no figure skater has successfully jumped out of the 4A in the official competition before. Thin body, light posture, high jump, and stable landing on the ground, the feather knot string is considered by many media to be the athletes who are most likely to complete this action in the competition. He once said in an interview: "If everyone thinks that only I can do this, then it may be my mission to complete it!" ”

This sense of mission prompted him to challenge again and again, and when everyone felt that he should seek stability for the sake of the game, Yu Yusuke took risks again and again for the 4A. This spirit of self-challenge and self-sacrifice, which knows that it cannot be done, belongs to the heroism of Yu Sheng.

Standing on the field of the Winter Olympics for the third time, Yu Yusei lived up to expectations and challenged the 4A. Crossing barriers, challenging limits, whether the action is successful or not, Yu yu has become the best version of himself, and has made history for figure skating. After today's game, Yu Sheng yuxin leaned over to the ice and said "thank you", I don't know if this thank you represents a goodbye or a request to start again. But in any case, I am grateful that there are feather knots in this era, and thank you for the elegant and moving feather knots.

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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporters Li Li, Zhao Xiaosong, Liu Shuang

Edited by Kang Dian

Process Editor Liu Weili