Have you paid attention to the recent Winter Olympics? In today's figure skating men's singles short program competition, the famous adults were once again shocked by the charm of figure skating.
Figure skating, known as "ballet on ice", is not only a sport, but also an art. And Hanyu is a great spokesperson for technology and beauty in the world of figure skating.
Over the past few years, Hanyu has almost redefined the men's singles skating, rewriting the world record 12 times and holding three world records in the short program, the free skate, and the total score.
In the field of figure skating, the name "Hanyu Yuzuru" has an epoch-making significance. But at the same time, he clearly goes beyond figure skating itself.
Some people describe him as the "Prince of Ice". On the ice, he is king, stormy, and warrior. His performances can enchant the audience.
The man who can skate in the world, this man who touches the world with femininity and beauty, is the most magical existence left by heaven for figure skating.
He is also the most beloved foreign athlete Chinese today.
The men's singles short program competition in figure skating, which ended today, is Hanyu's debut at the 2022 Winter Olympics. As soon as he appeared, he attracted the attention of the world. Since yesterday, his name has been on the hot search list.
TV commentary: "He is like a diamond-encrusted sword, even if he is hidden in a bookcase of gold silk nan, he cannot block his dazzling light, and wherever he goes, he is the focus of everyone." ”
Outside the field, he is an ordinary Hanyu Yuzuru.
In 1994, Hanyu was born into an ordinary family in Sendai, a foreign country. Dad was the director of instruction at a local middle school, and Mom was at home full-time to take care of him and his sister.
When he was 2 years old, he suffered from asthma, and his family initially wanted him to follow his sister to learn to skate, because her mother felt that the ice rink was the least dust-absorbing sports field.
In the process of studying, the coach found that Hanyu's physical fitness and flexibility are very good, and he has a kind of strength that he can't be afraid of falling, so he wants him to practice well.
Every day after school, I had to do boring 45 minutes to 1 hour of individual training, so Hanyu practiced all the way to elementary school.
When I was in the fourth grade, I participated in the national competition for the first time and won the championship.
At the age of 11, he had the goal of winning the Olympic Championship.
It was 2002, the Salt Lake Winter Olympics. In the men's singles skating arena, the "emperor on ice" Plushenko was performing a difficult performance, and the audience was boiling.
At this time, the young Hanyu Yuzuru was greatly shocked by his superb technique and flowing movements.
From that moment on, the foreign athlete became his idol: "I want to be an athlete like Plushenko!" ”
While children his age were frolicking, he had already made his mark in figure skating competitions across the country. He was thrilled by the sensation of the audience.
In the 2009 ice performance, Hanyu met his idol - Plushenko for the first time. The legend in figure skating history ushered in the four-week jump era and never won a silver medal or less since the age of 18.
Plushenko touched his head and said: "If you can bring me down, you will usher in your time." ”
For this belief, he was willing to gamble his life.
One four-week jump, two four-week jumps... He constantly pushes his physical limits and opens up new breakthroughs for figure skating.
There are six types of jumps in figure skating, from easy to difficult:
Toeloop (T); Take off when gliding backwards.
Posterior inner junction ring jump (Salchow, abbreviated S); Take off when gliding backwards.
Loop (Lo); Take off when gliding backwards.
Flip (F); Take off when gliding backwards.
Lutz (Lz); Take off when gliding backwards.
Axel (abbreviated as A), which starts when sliding forward.
Hanyu went from a total score of 300 points to 300 points to become the bottom line for athletes to stand on the podium; From being able to jump only two simple four-week jumps in men's singles to jumping all types of four-week jumps except 4A, it took him only two years.
But few people know how much hardship he put into behind his back.
4A, this is the most difficult move in figure skating, and it is also the technical threshold for participating in the Olympic Games.
You know, when jumping around, humans need to defy the survival instinct. In the air, the rotation speed of the body reaches 400 revolutions per minute, and the body must always be controlled, and the wheel speed of a car driving to 100 km / h is only 800 revolutions per minute...
In order to jump out of the perfect quad jump, Hanyu once smashed everything he had learned for several years and started all over again.
At the age of 17, in order to practice the four-week jump, he went to Canada, but the coach Oser implemented the "no jump" principle on him, allowing him to start from the most basic sliding practice.
When I first participated in the competition, I often missed jumps late in the performance due to lack of physical strength.
He began to train in hell, running the ice for an hour a day, running until he was out of breath and the coach was still saying "get moving."
As the difficulty increases, Hanyu needs to complete a thousand-degree rotation in less than a second, and when landing, he has to withstand a force equivalent to five times his body, and the impact is extremely strong.
He already had asthma and was physically limited and could hardly withstand high-intensity exercises. However, if others practice 20 or 30 times a day, he must practice 60 times before he stops.
In order to prepare for the Olympics, he even majored in skating - the science of human intelligence. Because of this major, it can help him analyze from the perspective of data, in the jump, how to use force scientifically, so that the body can achieve the best state.
In daily training, he practiced furiously, even if he practiced until he vomited. "If you can't do it, you can do it until you can; If you can do it, you will do it perfectly; If you do it perfectly, you can do it no matter how many times you can be perfect. ”
In 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck abroad. It is also a major stumbling block on the road to Hanyu's king.
His hometown of Sendai was the hardest hit area, and that year, Hanyu was 16 years old. The family took refuge in the gymnasium, only unable to get four square meters of space, no gas, no electricity, and the two could only eat one rice ball.
The ice rink was not spared. Losing his training venue, he participated in a large number of commercial performances as training, and in five months, he traveled all over the country and participated in nearly 60 commercial performances.
We went all out for each performance and donated the proceeds from the performance to the disaster area. During this period, he also rehearsed the program for the following year's competition.
He eventually won the bronze medal at the World Championships. Many disaster victims in their hometown burst into tears when they heard this, and this weak teenager brought them energy with his indomitable strength.
At the 2014 Figure Skating China Cup, Hanyu and China's Yan Han collided during the pre-competition warm-up.
Under the high-speed impact, Hanyu flew out, fell heavily on the ice, his body was so painful that he couldn't breathe, blood flowed down his head and neck, he lay on the ice, convulsing in pain, and was unconscious for two minutes.
The medical staff rushed to the scene, Hanyu slowly regained consciousness, struggled to stand up on his own, just made a simple bandage, with a bandage wrapped around his head, Hanyu stood on the ice again, and roared on his back: "Jump!" ”
The slow and graceful dance is like a swimming dragon.
Starting with jumping around, he fell to the ground and quickly got up.
Jumping around again, falling heavily, splashing ice on the ground.
Three weeks of jumping, falling, throwing a long distance on the ice,
The sharp pain made him a little sluggish, but he stood up anyway,
I can't even stand the explanation: "I hope he doesn't force himself." "Eight jumps, five falls, and crying music, enduring the sharp pain in my body, sliding, spinning, like walking on the tip of a knife.
Knowing that he will fall, knowing that the injury will worsen, knowing that he is exhausted, but as long as he stands on the ice, he will continue, merge with the music, and wait for the last moment to come.
At the end of the song, he did not forget to greet the crowd who shouted and cheered: "I am fine, thank you." ”
After doing all this, he realized that his limp legs could barely stand, and he was thrown out of the arena.
In the end, Hanyu won the second place, and when he heard this, he covered his face and wept.
TV anchor Chen Ying once said affectionately: "Everything he has acquired, he deserves to have." He deserves all the goodness, all the glory of this world. ”
Failure, he has experienced many, many times.
When he transitioned from the junior to the adult category at the age of 16, he was hit many times, but he only finished sixth with all his strength, saying, "I will really be disappointed in my heart!" ”
But because of his love, he knew he could grow from it.
"Now more and more people pay attention to me, I am carrying more and more expectations, carrying more and more and more responsibilities, what I say and do, many times it is not my business alone."
With three months left before the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, he had a high fever, and while jumping around, he broke his right foot again, and inflammation of his Achilles ankle bone caused him to be unable to ice for two months, and everyone thought he probably would not participate in the Winter Olympics.
However, he came anyway. In order to perform at his best, Hanyu appeared on the field with his feet closed, took painkillers, and appeared in the arena.
For him, standing on the field, as long as he can get up, he will never say give up. Because this is something that he is trying so hard to hold onto.
As Onmyoji's music sounded, he got up, slid, jumped, and spun.
Smooth as poetry, imposing as a sword, the ancient beauty of the Orient is beautifully interpreted.
"It's been skiing for so many years, and the body still remembers it."
"In these eleven jumps, I gambled my decades of figure skating life." At the end of the song, after a long absence, in the face of the applause that broke out from the audience, he silently said: "I'm back." ”
Once again, he stood at the top of the Olympic Games, becoming the only athlete to win consecutive Olympic titles in 66 years.
Plushenko also cheered him on: "Maybe I used to be his idol, but now, Hanyu is my idol." He is a genius! ”
From 2014 to 2022, Hanyu has gone through a long eight years for 4A, and 4A has long become an obsession in his heart.
He also mentioned that he overcame the fear of death in order to practice 4A, "To be honest, no one has ever succeeded in 4A, no one knows how to succeed, and sometimes I think that there may be no one who can succeed, I jump blindly, blindly pursue, I don't know when I can succeed, so every time I jump, every time I fall, when I fall on the ice, I sometimes think, when I may be so concussed, and then die like this." ”
But as long as he walked to the ice rink, he was still the tenacious teenager who raised his head and shouted "jump" and hung his life for figure skating.
Why is he worthy of so many people, regardless of country, age, gender, to appreciate him and like him?
Maybe as one netizen said: "Compared to him, I never seem to really do my best in anything." The life I had to live was like a fake in front of him, and I trembled with shame. And thanks to him, I have seen something more real and precious than the so-called miracle in the living body - that is, the original intention to follow through to the end and never give up. ”