In the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics figure skating doubles free skating final, the Chinese duo Sui Wenjing / Han Cong selected the song "Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows", with a score of 155.47, and the final score was 239.88, ranking 1st, adding another gold medal to the Chinese team! The music sounded, and the two danced on the field, and they did a good job of practicing twisting around! Became the only of the 16 pairs on the field today to complete the action! All the way from Pyeongchang, the two experienced the epidemic, injuries, and finally broke through the cocoon today and realized their long-cherished wish for many years.
One is a salty, sweet, beautiful and sassy female warrior, and the other is a good Chinese gentleman who is like a father and a brother and is willing to be a green leaf. Sui Wenjing / Han Cong, China's most outstanding figure skater in active double skating, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, carrying the hope of Chinese figure skating, is the biggest hit in the double skating event.
"The moment you actually stand on the field, it's definitely not simple. Like a female warrior, even if you are attacked by the enemy, you must do your best to fight the opponent. Sui Wenjing, a girl from Harbin, has only a petite body of 150 centimeters, but she is a double skating "Big Devil", a female warrior. This is the story of her and partner Han Cong wading through the "river of sorrow" of injuries and epidemics, ushering in a new era of two-person skating.
Listen to the sound of electric drills scraping bones, "Pig Girl" seconds into steel female warriors
From February 4 to 19, 2022, the Figure Skating Competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held at the Capital Gymnasium. Figure skating is known as ballet on ice, and Goethe once praised figure skating as a "poem of movement". In particular, pair skating is the ace power of Chinese figure skating, reaching its peak at the 2010 Winter Olympics by Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo.
The baton of glory is now in the hands of Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, the current pair of China's first pair skating pair.
Sui Wenjing was born in 1995 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, and is 26 years old. In the 10 years since her debut, she has won 5 national championships, 6 championships in four continents, 2 figure skating world championships... The silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is a classic memory of her and partner Han Cong by many Chinese people.
This is the rhythm of "taking the prize and getting the hand soft". However, Sui Wenjing, a domineering and indestructible "steel female warrior" on the field, said that she has never been a genius and can persist only because she works hard enough.
Figure skating is beautiful and brutal. The time goes back to 2016.
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong became famous at a young age, and both of them had many injuries, especially Sui Wenjing, whose lateral ligaments were broken. In April of that year, she underwent surgery to reduce her ankles.
As she pushed into the operating room, Sui Later recalled that her mind went blank and she was worried that she would not be able to return to the field.
The procedure was unusually painful: the bone was scraped, some cartilage tissue removed, and then the ligaments were attached. At first, hearing the sound of electric drills in her ears, Sui Wenjing was very scared, but slowly, she eased her mood by chatting with doctors and nurses, and even borrowed the doctor's mobile phone to "play".
Cancer "Pig Girl" shows amazing courage and a strong heart. After that, there is a long recovery. In that bleak time, Sui Wenjing moved his legs every day, threw his hands, laughed hard, and laughed hard in the face of the weight gained by nearly 20 pounds, laughing and teasing, "I am almost able to lift Brother Cong."
And Han Cong, as Sui Wenjing's figure skating partner for many years, will visit her every week after the operation. At the same time that Sui Wenjing recovered and was hospitalized, he did not delay training. Originally, the task of training together between the two of them, he temporarily completed alone: she will definitely come back, I can't be left behind.
At the 2016 ice festival, Han Cong pushed Sui Wenjing to slide on the ice, "Angels have wings. Xiao Sui's feet were broken, but she could fly on the ice rink through her wings. She didn't leave the ice rink. ”
At the end of 2016, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong returned to the game. It is also from this season that many people have known Sui Wenjing/Han Cong.
The 2017 Four Continents Championships were their comeback battle. The free skating song "The Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrow", from the program idea to the dance design, is all based on Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's own story. The two who have experienced ups and downs have officially ushered in the peak, and the "onion barrel combination" has skyrocketed.
This is an extremely painful "butterfly change" before the qualitative leap. But the test of injury did not end.
Pyeongchang, "an irreplaceable period of grinding"
"The price of youth."
In October 2018, in a face-to-face interview with this author, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong recalled the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which had long since faded. However, on February 15 of that year, in Pyeongchang, a group of Chinese journalists were caught off guard by witnessing the tears of the double skating queen.
Before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, injuries had been plagued by the "onion bucket" combination: Sui Wenjing had just undergone a major operation because of fatigue periostitis. "A needle is like a matrix." Worried about the worries of fans, she happily shared the daily life of healing on social platforms. After returning from injury, on the eve of Pyeongchang, her foot was injured again.
Put on painkillers, drag the injured foot on the field, but missed the coveted Olympic gold medal with a difference of 0.43 points - that night, Sui Wenjing, who is usually "royal sister" Fan, was in tears after the game. Tears flowed freely, blurring her delicate match makeup.
When PyeongChang returned, the first thing he did was to treat his injured foot.
"This injury only needs to be healed, and it doesn't need to start from walking, so I have a little bottom in my heart." There is no need to perform surgery in the hospital like last time, which consumes a lot of time. Compared with the more serious injury two years ago, Sui Wenjing even "enjoyed this small vacation."
The hardest part is the psychological barrier. For athletes, every Olympic Games is an irrevocable cycle, Sui Wenjing also admitted in the interview that "there are some losses" and "after all, it is one step away from the championship." ”
During Sui Wenjing's recuperation, fans of "Onion Barrel" compiled a set of early program videos for them: in 2011, the young "Onion Barrel" group competed in the adult group for the first time, while the German duo Ariana Savchenko/Bruno Marceau, who competed in the same field, already held two world championships, and the latter finally surpassed the big hit "Onion Barrel" group at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics for the fifth time in his life, and won the championship after free skating.
This made Sui Wen quietly enlightened: we have also made great progress, and the opponent has won in experience.
Sui Wenjing later said more than once that everything in Pyeongchang had become an "irreplaceable experience and a grind" in her life. “
Crazy iron Han Cong found the "disappeared" abs and tried independent training for the first time
In the Beijing Winter Olympics pair skating competition, male player Han Cong's lifting of the female partner was "relaxed" and "free", which was enjoyed by ice fans.
This is the result of a thousand hammers and tribulations. As everyone knows, with Sui Wenjing's recovery, those days were also the beginning of Han Cong's "search for disappearing abs".
When Sui Wenjing was undergoing rehabilitation treatment at the Sports Hospital, Han Cong often visited. As a result of the synchronized "rest", after Sui Wenjing recovered from his injuries three months later, the duo discovered a tricky thing: both of them became fat.
In that face-to-face interview, Sui Wenjing smiled and revealed that this time the operation "only rose by 10 pounds" and "last time it rose by 20 pounds." But Han Cong stopped doing it, smiled and "scared" back: I am quite difficult.
After several months of rest, the strength was damaged, coupled with the weight gain, the two resumed training, and even some simple double lifting movements were "trembling".
"From fat to thin, the process is really painful. Boys, in particular, have to get their abs back, which are about to disappear. "After that, eat regularly, pick up iron like crazy, and train the devil. Han Cong's abs were gorgeous and beautiful "counterattack" reborn.
In the summer of that year, the two were sent out for training. It was a whole new attempt: no leader, no manager, and from food, lodging, training to translation, both arranged and undertaken independently.
It is even necessary to "make a careful calculation" to live a life: before leaving, it was originally agreed that the money would be half of one person, and each person would manage it. I don't know from what day on, Sui Wenjing became a "bookkeeper": or I will manage it. Brother Cong became a "hand-throwing treasurer": I didn't want to care about this at all.
Sui Wenjing cried out, "Every night I calculate the account until one or two o'clock." Sometimes I listened to Laurie talking, and I was still counting in my head. Han Cong, who is "good at English", is mainly responsible for the work of translation. However, the guidance of world-class choreographer Laurie Nicole is the eccentric Sui Wenjing who bravely undertakes it. It's a combination of tacit understanding.
"The Beijing Winter Olympics are approaching, and from the scientific research guarantee, medical security, and physical fitness team, the strength of the guarantee is more than twice as strong as before." When he returned to China again and returned to Shougang for training, Han Cong called out, too happy.
Storm! Beijing Winter Olympics "belly and back to the enemy must also fight the opponent"
"Everything in Pyeongchang will always be a language in our bodies, a sentence, and then maybe one day on the field, it will suddenly burst out."
In the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, due to various injuries and diseases, the "onion barrel" combination has experienced two long blank periods. But as Sui Wenjing said, "bursting out" is becoming a reality one by one.
In December 2018, at the 2018-19 National Figure Skating Championships in Harbin, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong made a comeback with a newly choreographed short program "No one like you". This is the first appearance of the two in the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, and they have not even had time to give ice fans a complete set of free skating after a serious injury.
The 2019 World Championships were a watershed moment: they missed most of the season due to a foot injury and conquered the referees with a set of life-giving free skating programs. Since then, where the "onion barrel" participated in the world competition, the gold medal has hardly fallen.
At the beginning of 2020, the four continents figure skating championships, after the end of the free skating, they led the audience to cheer for Wuhan. The sound of "Wuhan refuel, China refuel" resounded throughout the Wooden Cave Skating Rink in Seoul, South Korea.
This is the "midterm examination" of the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle. The situation seemed bright. However, the two men who won the Four Continents championship for the sixth time did not wait for the World Championships. Because of the "turmoil" of the epidemic, the 2020 World Championships were cancelled. "Rain in Black Eyes", which was originally intended to be shown once for ice fans, did not appear as scheduled. Han Cong and Sui Wenjing posted versions of their exercises on social media to comfort fans.
"I know that the night will give way to the day, and the rain will be clear." Experience makes the "barrel sister" grow and mature.
In April 2020, Han Cong underwent hip surgery. As with the previous tacit understanding, they each worked hard and waited for the other's return. Because there is no partner, Sui Wenjing can only train alone. Once again in front of the public, it is already the China Cup at the end of 2020. They had basically resumed training, but the coach did not let them compete for safety reasons, but they still followed the team to Chongqing.
On March 26, 2021, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong returned to the World Championships after a year with the familiar "Blues" and "Rain in Black Eyes". The silver medal wasn't their best form, but after a lot of twists and turns, everything was finally back on track.
The 2021-2022 Figure Skating Grand Prix in Canada and Italy made consecutive appearances, with Sui Wenjing/Han Cong winning back-to-back two races. The free-skating track "The Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrow" is newly composed, but in the eyes of 26-year-old Sui Wenjing, this story about the "bridge" has long belonged not only to the two of them, "but also to everyone." ”
"We are in the bubble (closed loop of epidemic prevention and control), but the hearts of the whole world are together. Hopefully we will be more united, which is also a new part of the Olympic motto. Sui Wenjing, 26, showed an unusual pattern.
Facing the Beijing Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong have always believed that as long as they persist, the championship podium will definitely belong to them.
"The moment you actually stand on the field, it's definitely not simple. I want to be like a female warrior, even if I am attacked by the enemy on my stomach and back, I must do my best to fight down my opponent and win glory for the country. "Female warrior," Sui Wenjing said.
In the 4 years of the Pyeongchang cycle, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong have gained, made breakthroughs, and regretted. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, they still face challenges from many competitors: the Russian duo Pavlyuchenko/Hodduck, the American duo Kane/Leduc... And their goal is not only to win the championship, but to skate out of themselves and become the benchmark of pair skating in this era.
Text/Ying Hongxia
Editor/Li Xu Liang Lina
Visual/Wang Ye