On November 20, 2016, last night, the last pair skating free skating competition in the first body ended, Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao won the double skating championship with 203.76 points, Peng Cheng / Jin Yang won the second place with 197.96 points, the Canadian combination of Ilyuscherkina / Moskovice won the third place with 191.54 points, Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei ranked fourth with 182.02 points, and the Chinese combination won the grand prix China double skating championship and second place, while occupying 3 positions in the top 4. The restructured Beijing player Yu Xiaoyu and Zhang Hao won the runner-up of the Canadian station and the first place in the Chinese race, taking the lead in advancing to the finals. No wonder Zhao Hongbo, coach of the national double skating team, said that the bold risk of re-dismantling the pair was worth it, because the effect of the change was good and was recognized by international referees.
Zhao Hongbo said that the bold risk of re-dismantling the pair is worth it, because the effect of the change is good
This year, the Beijing Winter Sports Management Center was officially established, and Yu Xiaoyu and his former partner Jin Yang became Beijing players and belonged to the Beijing Century Star Skating Club. Yu Xiaoyu is an authentic Beijing girl, she was just 20 years old this year, she was born in Beijing, she grew up in beijing Century Star Skating Club to learn skating, grew up with Yu Xiaoyu's technology by leaps and bounds, and her body is getting better and better, she was called into the national team by the coach, she is a young champion who came out of the folk, and she is also one of the few Beijing girls who played figure skating and suddenly played into the national team.
Yu Xiaoyu and his partner Jin Yang won the gold medal in figure skating in pair skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, and won the 2014 World Youth Championships and the 2015 World Youth Championships. After entering the senior group, the two of them also won the third place in the Grand Prix China, the second place in the Japan station and the fifth place in the finals, as well as the third place in the four continents. Zhang Hao, 32, is a veteran from Harbin who has created good results with Zhang Dan and later partnered with young player Peng Cheng. In the Xiaoyu/Jin Yang combination, Yu Xiaoyu is more prominent, Zhang Hao/Peng Cheng combination, Zhang Hao is more prominent, in order to join forces, the national team made a decision to dismantle and reorganize, which is a decision made at great risk and pressure, and the opinions of all parties are not unified.
Yu Xiaoyu and partner Zhang Hao
As the competition progressed, Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao won the second place in the Grand Prix Canada at the beginning of the new season, and then won the Chinese championship last night. However, the process of dismantling the pair still puts them under tremendous pressure. Zhang Hao quipped: "I don't even dare to go to Weibo, for fear of affecting my emotions." Yu Xiaoyu, the female companion next to her, added: "At that time, everyone was taking care of themselves, and they didn't care to share their worries and worries for others, only I 'Uncle Hao'... Oh, Brother Hao, always talk to me and inspire me. This "Uncle Hao" made everyone laugh.
Yu Xiaoyu said: "Because I have known Zhang Hao since I was about 9 years old, at that time he asked me to call him uncle, because I was not an athlete of the times, it became a habit." Now that I'm older, I'll change to Brother Hao, but sometimes I naturally call it 'Uncle Hao'. At the same time, Yu Xiaoyu frankly said: "Our new combination has made a lot of progress, and the two sets of programs have reached a very high level of proficiency, but to say tacit understanding, when we two unintentionally do not know what action to do, it is always not worthy of a piece, so the psychological tacit understanding in this regard will be deepened." After changing partners, I pursued more than a happy skating and skating out of the full program that made me most satisfied, and the ranking was only one aspect. She said secretly, "I guess 'Uncle Hao' is more stressed than me." Indeed, last night "Uncle Hao" fell down at the beginning of the free skating competition, and he himself said that there was pressure, and there was also a reason for the decline in the physical fitness of the old players.
The demolition of the restructuring is inherently controversial internally, which also means that coach Zhao Hongbo is also under tremendous pressure. Zhao Hongbo said: "In fact, there is a gap between them and the world's top combinations after reorganization, but we see a lot of room for improvement, now the new program training is less than 6 months, it is a rush, in the future we also have the finals, The Asian Winter Games, the World Championships and the Winter Olympics qualifications, we are going all out in a limited time, constantly pursuing details and improving quality." Demolition and reorganization is the strategic deployment of the national team, for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, is a great determination, I am also facing pressure, so far many people in the industry also hold opposition. I want to prove with facts that this change is right or wrong, I am confident in their future, and our goal is to return to the top three in the world. ”
Source: Beijing Evening News, Beiwan New Vision Network reporter Kong Ning photography Liu Ping