Feather Knot: True strength is not to win as the only criterion

The impression of Yu Yusuke begins with saitama's performance "Spring, Come" at the Saitama World Championships in March 2019, and the most touching memory is that he kissed the ice with faith and piety. The ethereal Coaster, coupled with his interpretation from the soul, brings spring to the human world like an elf, and he is more like a gift of spring to the human world. It was the first time I had felt the beauty of crossing borders and blurring gender in an area I didn't understand.

Later, I learned about his short program and free skating at this World Championships, and was impressed by the free skating "Origins". As CCTV commentator Chen Ying said, Yusheng jiexin is the king, behind every king is an abyss, and every expedition is the momentum of "not breaking the Loulan and never returning". So he has the pain of "losing as much as dying."

At the 2021 Figure Skating World Championships, which ended on March 27, Yu yuzu's short program and free skating finished third, becoming the player with the most medals in the World Championships. Yu Sheng's short program selection gave up his own piano song and chose a more bright song. He said that the COVID-19 pandemic has made some people feel so hard, and he wants to create as positive topics as possible. The near-perfect performance put him in first place after the short show. The free skating song "With Heaven and Earth", due to mistakes in the case of asthma attacks, free skating ranked fourth, and the overall score was third to win the bronze medal. After the game, I guess yusheng would probably say something like "losing is as bad as dying" in front of the media.

Everyone needs to go through an unknown ordeal to go from good to better, just like behind every smile there is a gritted insistence. 2019-2021 is also the transformation of Yusheng's string from stronger to stronger, he is a proud and like to win people, this World Championship he sonorously and powerfully showed his strength, but also lightly faced the result of not winning the championship. There will be a champion in every match, and there is only one yusheng yusuke, which is the only one in the world. Suddenly, I remembered a sentence: when the heart is strong enough, winning is no longer the only criterion.

In this post-match interview, Yu yu yu answered the questions transparently and open-mindedly, did not explain too much about the mistakes, emphasized that the physical condition was no problem, and did not mention anything about asthma attacks. Thinking that there are no particularly big mistakes in this World Championship, judging from the scores, you may feel that you have not completed the perfect jump. But I think that this performance is beyond the score, proving that what I trained is not wrong. He emphasized that he did not need to compare with his past achievements now, because he was always in a state of improvement and did not feel that he had reached the limit.

Now Yu yu is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, the first "super grand slam" in the history of figure skating, the first most valuable player of the International Skating Federation, and he has many awards that athletes cannot get in their lifetime. The 26-year-old is no longer young for a figure skater, and he did not choose to retire with a dazzling halo, but challenged the next unprecedented difficulty , the 4A. Yu Sheng said that he was ready to train for 4A in the off-season, and if he couldn't jump out of 4A, he would have regrets in his life. Through such an answer, the hope of seeing Yusheng knot at the Beijing Winter Olympics was even greater.

Habu's strength is by no means limited to figure skating, and in September 2020 he graduated from the Communication Education Program at waseda University's Faculty of Humanities and Sciences. While achieving good results in a busy competitive career, it is not easy to squeeze out time to learn, Yu sheng said: The days of research have exercised his ability to analyze and argue problems from multiple angles, and this inspiration will not only play a role in figure skating, but also on his future life path.

Tough and restrained, brave and gentle. It is the most appropriate description of Yu Yusuke, who hopes that through each appearance, people will feel the will to fight to the end and the strong belief of human beings. Finally, there is a passage that Habu said at the All-Day Championship last year: "In the dark world, in the dark tunnel, I think that one day there will be light shining in." I want people to feel this through my performances, through my words. ”

The strong give themselves hope, the stronger give hope to others, and the feathered string is the latter.