"Why would you want to jump around a jump that's too dangerous for women's singles players?"
"Boys can jump around, why can't girls?" I believe girls can too, and I want to be the first. ”
At the age of 14, Alexandra Vyacheslavna Trusova became the first athlete to complete the figure skating women's singles four-week jump for the first time, single-handedly bringing the overall figure skating women's singles players into the four-week jump era. On February 17, she became the first woman to successfully complete five four-way jumps in the Beijing Winter Olympics Figure Skating Women's Singles Free Skating, winning the silver medal from the fourth counterattack. At this Winter Olympics, only the men's singles champion Chen Wei jumped 5 four-week jumps in a program. At this moment, the girl nicknamed "Sasha" by Chinese fans should be called: "Sassima".
Trusova was born on June 23, 2004 in a small town next to Moscow, Russia, where a sports-loving father wanted his daughter to play sports from an early age.
Trusova's father was very good at wrestling and judo, but he knew nothing about skating, and even so, in the summer when Trusova was 4 years old, she received a special gift, a pair of skates given to her by her father, because it could not be used in the summer, but the little Trusova cherished it.
In the winter, the father still pushed his daughter to learn to skate on the ice, and then Trusova began to practice with the coach. Trusova, who began to practice figure skating, worked very hard and seriously, and she grew up on the field at a young age, and began to participate in the youth group competition from an early age, and won many honors.
As a result, 11-year-old Trusova left her hometown for more professional figure skating training in Moscow for training. A year later, the hard-working Trusova was caught up in the hands of the well-known figure skating coach Aitley Tutezer, who brought out players who broke the world more than a dozen times, and won the most gold medals in the world championships.
Under the leadership of the coach, Trusova's progress has been very fast, and the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in March 2018 made Trussova famous, successfully completing the rear inner ring four-way jump and the rear outer point ice four-way jump in the women's singles free skating event, becoming the first player to complete two four-week jumps in the official competition, easily winning the championship.
At the same time, it set two world records in the youth group of free skating and total score. Trusova scored 92.35 points in this free skating event, which not only broke the record of women's single free skating, but also exceeded 90 points for the first time in history, and at the same time, the high score of 92.35 also exceeded the score of the same men's champion.
"Four-way jump" is a very difficult action in figure skating, the men's singles has broken through the four-week jump more than a decade ago, and Trusova can complete it at the age of 14, because this action is very challenging physical and technical, and it is not friendly to female athletes.
The young Trusova insisted that men and women were equal in front of the action, and said in an interview: "Boys can do it and jump around, girls can do the same, and I want to be the first." ”
Since then, the figure skating women's singles players who have stopped jumping for three weeks have begun to "be forced into the inner volume" - practicing four-week jumping, and Trusova has continuously surpassed herself, becoming the first female player in history to make three four-week jumps in international competitions, becoming the first female player in history to successfully make four four-week jumps in international competitions.
In 2020, Trusova's good form did not last long, and in the competition of the Russian Championship and the European Championship, Trusova was pinned on high hopes, but she fell in two four-week jumps and missed the gold medal.
Some media claim that it is because there are too many excellent players in the team, and the coach can't take care of it, which leads to Trusova's poor state of the game.
In May 2021, Trusova officially left Coach Tuti Lisze to go to coach Yevgeny Pluschenko of the "Emperor of The Jump Around", and this coach is not worse than The last coach of Trusova, as a former figure skater, Proshenko's record is also very amazing, under the coach's hands, Trusova is very valued, and her state is much better than before.
At the 2021 World Championships, Trusova said she didn't care if she could get on the podium, she just wanted to reach the goal of 5 four-week jumps. And in the end, she proved with strength at the Olympics that she did it.
For her future, Trusova said when she was 10 years old: "My dream is to become an Olympic champion, for me, it is very important to be the first place, except for the first place, it is a failure." Since I was a child, I have dreamed of participating in two Olympic Games. ”
Upstream journalist Tang Hao