Yu Yu has retired, and the figure skating male god in the hearts of countless people has left the beloved competitive figure skating field with various honors he has won.
The 28-year-old Yusheng Yushin has long been an elderly veteran of the figure skating circle, and he is constantly suffering from injuries. Therefore, for his retired fans, they have long been mentally prepared.
But even so, when the parting really comes, there are still many people who can hardly hide their inner shock and reluctance, but more people express their blessings for Yusheng's knot, hoping that his future can be expected.
Proshenko, Fernandez, Lambier, Song Nan, Jin Boyang... As a highly ornamental competitive sport, there is no shortage of male gods on the ice surface of figure skating. However, only Yusheng knot has won the most favoritism, and even the Internet still circulates the saying that "once yusheng mistakenly lives forever".
If excellence is the reason why Yu sheng is loved, then the decision to know that he cannot do it must be the reason why he is favored.
On December 7, 1994, an ordinary family in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, welcomed their second child, and the father, a teacher, named his son "Knot String", first to echo his zodiac sign (Sagittarius) and second, to hope that his life would be as relaxed and smooth as a bowstring.
Many fans believe that Yu yu is born for figure skating, but in fact, his first encounter with figure skating is to enhance his physique. It turned out that Habu was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 2 and was physically weak and often sick.
When he was 4 years old, in order to help his son strengthen his body and relieve asthma, his parents let him follow his sister to an ice rink near his home for the first time. From the moment he trembled and stepped on the ice, this little man had an indissoluble relationship with figure skating.
Little Yu sheng, who has just started skating, does not show much interest and patience in the sport, and every time he skates it is as if he is completing a task. But when he saw his sister galloping on the ice after day after day after day of training, the enthusiasm in his heart was completely ignited. Since then, Yusei's interest in figure skating has grown and he idolized Pruschenko.
Driven by interest, Yusheng knots progress rapidly. In 2004, at the age of ten, he won the Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships Group B championship for his first national competition.
In 2010, Yusuke Yusuke, who was already famous in Japan, participated in the World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Due to excessive nervousness, Yusei had a nosebleed before the game, but this did not affect his performance. In the competition, his short program ranked third, but he reversed it with an impeccable performance in the free skating session, becoming The fourth World Youth Champion in Japan.
The young, famous and spirited Yusheng did not stop briefly in medals, flowers and praise, but set himself a more ambitious goal. Since the age of 12, when he was interviewed by the media, he would add a sentence at the end, "I will represent Japan in the Olympic Games and win the gold medal." ”
Yu Yu knew that in order to achieve this goal, it was necessary to make many times more efforts than ordinary people. The average player practices 20-30 times a day to jump around, he will jump 60 times, even if he can't go to the ice due to injury, he will also practice imagining in his mind against the video.
As we all know, the exercise load of figure skating is particularly large, so he has to often breathe heavily, which is likely to make it difficult for him to breathe when he suffers from asthma, but even so, he has never moved the idea of giving up.
Since he started practicing skating, Yu Yusuke has never left the ice rink near his home. Because he needed to go to school during the day, he trained before and after school. At one time, the owner of the ice rink was deeply impressed by the little boy who usually had a well-behaved "mushroom head" but fell to his death after training, "I always saw him practicing at 6 o'clock in the morning and 12 o'clock at night. ”
When the magnitude 9.0 East Japan Earthquake struck in 2011, Yusei was training on ice, and he recalled that he didn't even have time to take off his skates at that time, so he left the ice rink with his hands and feet. The earthquake not only destroyed Yusei's home, but also cast a shadow over him and his family's hearts. During that time, he once thought about saying goodbye to the ice rink and going to school like other young people around him.
Fortunately, over time, Yusei withdrew from this negative emotion, and he turned to the belief that skating could inspire people to regain their lives, "If I achieve good results in figure skating, everyone will become energetic, and that is what I can do for everyone." 」 This can also explain why Yu Sheng yuxin later challenged those human extreme movements again and again regardless of life and death, he was burning his life to awaken the enthusiasm and longing of the people around him for life.
Challenges that exceeded the limits again and again caused great damage to Yusheng's body, and injuries were already commonplace for him, and in an interview with reporters, he once said: "I have no ligaments to break." Yun's expression was light and breezy, as if he were talking about a very ordinary thing.
Many Chinese audiences began to familiarize themselves with yusheng's knots, through the "Blood Phantom" game.
In 2014, the World Figure Skating China Grand Prix shanghai station warm-up session, . His whole body flew out directly when he was hit by the high speed, and his head, abdomen, thighs, and foot joints were injured to varying degrees, and the blood oozing from the forehead wound instantly stained the entire face. Because of the pain, Yu Sheng shivered and curled up on the ice for a long time and could not get up. When everyone, including the coach, thought he was going to quit the game, he got back on the ice after a brief treatment of his wounds.
In the next 4 minutes and 30 seconds of the performance, Yu Sheng took off 8 times, 5 of which fell heavily on the ice and fell into the hearts of countless audiences. After finishing the performance, he was helped out of the ice rink, and the whole person collapsed on the coach almost powerlessly. In that game, he finished second with a total of 237.55 points.
How much does Yu yukon love figure skating? He once had four words to describe it—a lifetime of suspense.
After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yugen Yui has won all the awards that a figure skater can win. At this time, he found a new challenge for himself - 4A.
How hard is this action? Simply put, completing this action is almost equivalent to running into 9.50 seconds in 100 meters. According to the interpretation of professionals, the impact of figure skaters after completing the 4A jump is about 8 times the weight of the athletes themselves. According to official data, Yu yusheng's weight is 57kg, which means that every time he completes a 4A jump, his legs have to withstand about 456 kilograms of impact, which is equivalent to crashing into a car.
In order to practice the 4A well, Yusheng Yushin almost held the belief that he must die, "Every time my body fell heavily on the ice, as if it was a death jump, I was training with myself that I was not sure which time I would fall out of the concussion, and then die." “
At this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, Yusheng Yuxian failed to win the championship, such a result is unexpected, but it is also reasonable. Because he said in an interview earlier: "Rather than winning a gold medal, my goal is to complete a perfect 4A swing." ”
Unsurprisingly, after the start of the game, Yu Yusei challenged the 4A twice, but a serious foot injury made him unable to land steadily, and finally both times ended in failure. After the score came out, he only finished fourth.
If he can be a little more conservative and change the 4A to the ordinary four-way jump, he can at least get a medal if he can't defend his title. But he is a feather string, and his love of figure skating and the pursuit of the extreme make him prefer to gamble on the Olympic triple crown to challenge a nearly impossible move. The gold medal cannot measure his value, and the significance of his standing on this ice rink has long surpassed that of the champion itself.
For Yusheng's dedication to 4A, China's Jin Boyang is full of respect, "He wants to break through 4 and a half weeks, which is a spirit that no one dares to break through, and it is also a sportsmanship and Olympic spirit." ”
CCTV commentator Chen Ying said in his comment on Yusheng's bidding match: "Providence is difficult to participate in after all, if it is a pity to climb to the top, and the history of Qing qing has been added with Jun, success or failure should also be laughed at." Just 24 words, but it deeply touched the nerves of every audience who liked yusheng knots.
There's a popular question on a platform – when did you start falling in love with Yu Yusuke? Each of the following answers is tear-jerking:
When he bowed deeply to the spectators every time and thanked them for coming to see him play, I fell in love with this polite big boy.
When he decided to play despite his serious injuries, trembling and making 8 jumps but falling 5 times, I fell in love with this brave and persistent warrior.
When I saw him wipe his face and ice knife with the same towel, I fell in love with this cute grapefruit with no trim and big grin.
When I knew he was almost thirty years old and still couldn't live without Winnie the Pooh, I fell in love with this childlike ice god.
When he carefully helped the Chinese players straighten the national flag, I fell in love with this warm and loving Japanese friend.
"I will make a comparison with the past me, and I will continue to work hard in the future." Although Yusei Yushin has publicly announced that he will no longer participate in competitive competitions, he will not disappear from our sight, and he will not bid farewell to his beloved ice rink, and his figure skating legend and his obsession with 4A will continue.
Goodbye, Habu knotted.
Hello, Habuyuki!