On March 17, the American Ice Association announced that Chen Wei, the winter Olympic figure skating men's singles champion, will withdraw from next week's World Championships due to injury. In this way, this World Championship can be said to be completely unwatchable. Because not only are many Olympic champions absent, but none of the Chinese and Russian athletes are participating. Let me ask you, what is the gold content of such a world championship?
In the previous Figure Skating Men's Singles event at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chen Wei won the championship with a near-perfect performance, which was also his first time to reach the top at the Winter Olympics. However, for the upcoming World Championships, Chen Wei withdrew. The reason he gave was that there were some injuries in the body that needed to be recovered. You know, Chen Wei is the defending champion of the World Championships, and his absence has also made the whole event unwatchable. After all, there have been a number of big names who have announced their abandonment before.
First of all, the "popular king" Yusei Yushin chose to quit due to injury. Subsequently, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong also did not participate, and the entire Chinese figure skating team withdrew collectively, as for the reason, it was not stated.
In fact, in addition to the Chinese team, there is no Russian figure at the World Championships. Of course, we chose not to participate, and Russia was banned. Because of some uncontrollable factors, the entire Russian sport is banned from participating. This also means that everyone can't see the figure of the Russian figure skating three dolls at the World Championships.
As we all know, Russian figure skating has an absolute dominance in the figure skating world. To put it bluntly, Russia cannot participate in the World Championships, that is the loss of the World Championships, not the loss of Russia. Because, without the World Championships of Russian figure skating, the gold content is not much higher. Clear-eyed people know that if Vallieva, Serbakova, and Trusova participate, the other contestants will not even see their taillights, let alone compete for the championship.
But now, all three sets of dolls have not been lucky, which is indeed a pity!
Overall, this figure skating World Championships is really star-studded. Chen Wei, Yu sheng jiexian, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, and Sherbakova, the four Olympic champions, collectively missed the World Championships, plus the Chinese team and the Russian team. It can only be said that such a world championship, do not watch it!