Since it is still in the ice and snow season, after the Beijing Winter Olympics, there will be no special large-scale events for the time being.
Soon, the first single world championship after the End of the Winter Olympics, the Figure Skating World Championships, will be staged, and it will also be the first high-profile single world championship in the world after Russia and Belarus were completely banned.
Unfortunately, the ISU quickly followed up two days ago, responding to the IOC's proposal to ban all Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from participating in the competition.
Figure skating is less Russian, and it is not an exaggeration to say that half of the excitement is lost. On March 2, Beijing time, the official website of the International Skating Federation announced the list of participants in the 2022 Figure Skating World Championships, netizens found that there was no Chinese athlete, and the Chinese team gave up the World Championships!
At the just-concluded Beijing Winter Olympics, the Russian Olympic team won the team championship, the champion of the men's singles was Chen Wei of the United States, the gold medal of the women's singles belonged to the Russian thousand gold Sherbakova, the gold medal of the ice dance was the French combination Papadaggis / Xi Zelong, and the champion of the pair skating was Sui Wenjing / Han Cong of the mainland.
In other words, half of the four individual champions produced by the Beijing Winter Olympics will be absent from the World Championships, and both in terms of the excitement of the competition and the degree of viewing, the Figure Skating World Championships are greatly discounted compared with the figure skating competitions of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
From another point of view, Russia's ban and the absence of the Chinese team objectively give the Japanese team and the United States a lot of opportunities, especially in the women's single skating, the Beijing Winter Olympics can break the top three patterns of sanwa, it is the Japanese player Sakamoto Hanori, the United States women's singles strength is also quite strong.
In the pairs skating event, the top four places at the Beijing Winter Olympics were won by China and Russia, and the fifth place was won by the American duo Nereem/Fraser.
Perhaps, the use of the four words of dim starlight to describe the upcoming figure skating world championships is quite appropriate, I don't know if the ratings of the game will also be greatly reduced?