On the evening of February 12, the Figure Skating Competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be contested in ice dance rhythmic dance. The French ice dance duo Gabriela Papadagis/Guillaume Caesaron, winner of the Four World Championships and runner-up at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, have shown great strength in two Grand Prix races this season, and at the Beijing Winter Olympics they have a great chance of changing the color of their medals to gold.
On February 20, 2018, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics figure skating ice dance competition, the French duo Papadagis (left) / Xi Zelong in the competition. Xinhua News Agency
The World Championship winners of the Russian Olympic Committee team, Victoria Synizina/Nikita Kacharapov, have defeated the Papadagis/Sizeron combination at the 2020 European Championships. The match was the first meeting between the two pairs since that match.
Although the Papadargis/Caesaron duo is a big hit, don't think that the ice dance competition has lost its suspense. At least six pairs have targeted medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu in the team ice dance rhythm dance competition. Nandu reporter Li Zhanjun photographed
Representing China was Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, who finished 22nd in the ice dance rhythm dance at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, stopping the first round. Talking about the goals of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wang Shiyue said: "We first of all do a good job of ourselves, and we also hope to bring Chinese ice dance to a new height through hard work and everyone's help. ”
After four years of hard work, the Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu combination has been "upgraded back". In the previous figure skating group ice dance rhythm dance competition, the Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu combination scored a high of 74.66 points this season. In the subsequent figure skating team ice dance free dance competition, they performed a set of strong Chinese style ice dance version of "only this green", which once again surprised everyone, with 107.18 points in China to get 7 points.
The current world no. 18 duo hopes to make a breakthrough in rhythm dance and advance to the free dance stage.
Nandu reporter Tao Xinlei