What's the most fascinating thing about competitive sports? Maybe it's because of its uncertainty.
As long as you don't give up, you never know how the next act will be written. Even the Russian figure skating arena, which has always been the most popular "unexpected script", has recently staged a legendary "Return of the Queen" drama.
The protagonist is her, the 24-year-old "senior" women's singles player, Elizaveta Tuktamyshev.
Elizaveta Tuktamyshev, ice fans have called her ET, because and Cai Mingjie was "connected" when she was young, and Chinese ice fans even gave ET the nickname of "Cai Mingjie". At this year's Russian Cup series and final finals, ET finished perfectly with double 3A and advanced 33 jumps, and finally won itself a ticket to the 2021 Figure Skating World Championships. It's been 6 years since ET won the women's singles gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in 2015!
We now often lament that the Russian ice goddess is a "genius girl", and ET, saying that she is the ancestor of the Russian ice "genius girl", is not an exaggeration. Born in December 1996, ET became famous at a young age. From the youth group, he has "made great achievements". Silver medal at the 2011 World Youth Championships, 2012 Wintergreen Women's Singles Champion...
After the adult group, he won the 2013 All-Russian Championship, the 2014 Grand Prix Finals, the 2015 European Championship, the 2015 World Championship... All this seems to be similar to the "fighting girls" on the Russian ice world now staged a similar road to the championship. But looking at ET's resume, you will find that something seems to be missing.
Yes, there are no Olympics.
If ET's figure skating life is a curve, then it is very tortuous that her sports state or competitive "luck" is always a little bit worse when she is "at the door". Simply put, this girl seems to be "a little unlucky." Before every Olympic Games, she would almost always have many problems such as developmental clearance, injuries, and state sinking. And the two Winter Olympics were not eligible.
But to this day, looking back, the most admirable thing is that in such a situation. She has persevered until now!
She overcame developmental, technical, age barriers, and most importantly, she faced generations of Russian girls who were dominating the world women's singles arena.
On the Russian figure skating women's singles ice rink, where newcomers are emerging and almost everyone has to jump around, ET has slowly become the oldest one. The girls on the field were any one seven or eight years younger than her, or ten years younger. And the scale of scoring is also quietly tilting towards these new generations.
Even after the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, ET status returned to bursting, but in the selection of the 2019 World Championships, it was still because of a small mistake, and finally let the Russian Ice Association block her on the P score, excluding her from the World Championship list, she did not give up. At that time, ET personally selected such an ice fan-made meme and posted on his social media account: But I'm a fighter and will return!
The domineering ET, which announced that he was coming back, did indeed come back. At the age of 24, like all the players, she faced the epidemic, isolation, and irregular training, and in December 2020, she was found to be positive for the new crown virus.
But in this way, she not only stabilized her double 3A configuration, but also jumped out of the 4T in training! This can't help but make people think that as long as they have dreams and move forward steadily, no matter how old they are, they are the "golden age", no matter how difficult, they can still return to the ice rink!
"I'm hungry for the World Championships and I've been working towards it all season! I haven't played at the World Championships in a long time! I will excite myself and enjoy the game! After learning that after six years, he finally qualified for the World Championships, ET issued such an exclamation to reporters.
Now, compared with six years ago, she is more mature, charming, courageous and tenacious. Maybe she is no longer as delicate as she was when she was young, but this mature general's wind is more attractive! This script of the queen's return, we also hope that ET can write us a wonderful finale at the World Championships at the end of the month.
Oh, maybe not the finale yet, and the Olympics!