As the music of "The Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows" ends the last beat, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong hugs tightly together. This time, they finally exchanged the silver medal for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics for a gold medal.
This night, they also used their most perfect performance to build a bridge in everyone's heart.
15 years old partner
2022 is the 15th year of Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's partnership.
From the young fame of the World Youth Championships, to the emotional embrace of Jinqiao, from the regret of Pyeongchang and the champion, to the victory at the Beijing Winter Olympics. In this pair, there are too many meanings and too many rebirths.
In her first year of practicing pair skating, Sui Wenjing had just turned 12 years old. She always likes to stay in the middle of the night to practice at the ice rink, often practicing for more than 9 hours. Recalling that time, Sui Wenjing said seriously: "The physical conditions of the two of us are not among the best in the world, nor are they very suitable for skating, many people also say so, after all, we are not tall, the height difference is not large, but we can get to this day must have paid more than ordinary people's efforts." ”
In September 2009, Sui Wenjing/ Han Cong won the national figure skating championship like a dark horse. Five years ago, at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, they won their first world title of their careers. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the "Onion Barrel Combination" scored a season-high 82.39 points in the short program, ranking first, and is recognized as a favorite to win the championship. But in the free slide, Sui Wenjing made two small mistakes. In the end, the German combination of Safshenko/Masot counterattacked to win the championship, only 0.43 points more than the "onion barrel" combination.
This is the closest and farthest to the gold medal. And people later learned that it was the 23-year-old Chinese girl who was once again injured. After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing was diagnosed with a fatigue fracture of her right foot.
Just as countless voices of regret came from all directions, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong's world was quiet. Sui Wenjing once wrote on social media: "When you are undistracted and complete your ideals, the whole world will help you." For the next four years, the world must be mine! "
Build bridges between each other
The gold medal that I didn't get, I want to get it back at the door of my home, which is the biggest wish of the two people. And the song carrying such a wish is "The Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows".
Choosing this song again, there is actually such a story.
Han Cong has a romantic interpretation of this: "In 2017, we used this show, when Sui Wenjing had surgery, and I had to wait for her to return to the ice rink and give her support and strength like a bridge." And when I did the operation, Sui Wenjing became my bridge again. ”
At that time, "Golden Bridge" told the story of Han Cong as Sui Wenjing's "bridge". In 2016, Sui Wenjing underwent surgery on the ligaments of both feet. In Sui Wenjing's one-month bed rest and two months of land rehabilitation, Han Cong immersed himself in training, practiced the plan of the male companion and then trained the girl, and also "borrowed a female companion to practice lifting".
Four years later, "Golden Bridge" added a new story line, this time Sui Wenjing became a "bridge". In April 2020, Han Cong underwent hip surgery, and Sui Wenjing followed the team to Sanya for training. In order not to make the movement strange, just like Han Cong once borrowed a female companion to practice lifting, Sui Wenjing asked male players for pair skating training. This experience of their own efforts was written into the new "Golden Bridge", and the female voice was added to the music accordingly.
"The bridge is already up, so let's go forward." With this belief, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong stood on the field of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Hope to bring strength to everyone
Figure skating team competition pair skating short program, Sui Wenjing / Han Congzhong scored 82.83 points, creating a new season's best record, ranking first; double skating short program, 84.41 points, set another season's best, ranked first; free skating 155.47 points, continue to be the first; the total score of 239.88 points, or the first. In this way, with a series of firsts, Sui Wenjing / Han Cong won the championship of figure skating and pair skating at the Winter Olympics with undisputed results.
At this moment, the "onion bucket combination" hugged tightly together, and Sui Wenjing also left tears of excitement.
And at this moment, they also fully presented what they wanted to express through such a perfect performance. Before the Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing once said: "At such a moment, there may be many people who are far away and cannot see each other, and I hope that through our program, we can bring you the power of the 'bridge', so that everyone can feel the beauty of the sport of figure skating, but also feel the support we give to everyone." Just like the new 'more unity' added in the Olympic slogan, we hope that through our program, we can build a bridge between the audience and with everyone, and everyone has a strength in their hearts, more united, to fight difficulties together. ”
From building a bridge in each other's hearts to building a bridge in everyone's heart, the onion barrel combination uses its own life perception to explain what is called not to give up and what is called the Olympic spirit.
Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporters Li Li, Wang Xiaoxiao, Liu Shuang, Liu Ping, Deng Wei
Edited by Zeng Jiajia
Process Editor Wu Yue