Original title: Zhao Hongbo: The Chinese figure skating team completed the first step of the sprint stage
The 2021-2022 Asian Figure Skating Open, one of the "Meet in Beijing" series of winter sports events, ended at the Capital Gymnasium on the evening of the 15th, and Zhao Hongbo, head coach of the Chinese figure skating team, said that this competition is the first step in the sprint stage of the whole team's Winter Olympics preparation, and it is also a very important step.
Women's Singles Champion: Mai Mihara
Men's Singles Champion: Key Mountain Yumasa
The "onion bucket combination" becomes the only gold punching point
Although the overall level of the Asian Figure Skating Championships is limited, it can still objectively reflect the pattern of ice ballet in the world today. In the ice dance free dance competition, China's Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu won the championship with a total score of 186.58 points, and the Chinese team Chen Hong/Sun Zhuoming won the second place with a total score of 160.83 points. Liu Xinyu said after the game: "Due to the epidemic, we have lost a lot of international competition opportunities in the past year and a half, and this is the first game of the season, which is quite satisfactory overall. ”
In the women's singles field, due to the absence of European and American masters, Japanese players have the upper hand. Japan's Mai Mihara performed well in the free skating competition, with a total score of 203.58 points to win the women's singles championship, the same from Japan's Sakamoto Hanaori won the second place with a total score of 202.28 points, China's Zhu Yi ranked seventh with 147.38 points, which is the best result of the Chinese women's singles players, but she and the runner-up Sakamoto Hanaori also have a difference of 54.9 points, which shows the strength gap. In the men's singles competition, Japan's 18-year-old Yujin Kenyama won the championship with a total score of 277.78 points, 17-year-old Jun Sato won the second place with a total score of 256.16 points, and 24-year-old China's Jin Boyang won the third place with a total score of 224.09 points. Even compared with young offspring, Jin Boyang, who is not young, has no advantage, which shows that it is extremely difficult for the Chinese men's singles to make a breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year.
Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, known as the "onion barrel combination" by ice fans, won the double skating championship with a total score of 223.48 points with the outstanding performance of free skating, and the other Chinese team Peng Cheng/Jin Yang won the second place with a total score of 196.68 points.
The goal is to raise the national flag and play the national anthem
This competition is the "Winter Olympics Mock Exam" held in the new first body, from the performance of the competition, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong are among the world's top figure skaters, but they really want to achieve the goal of winning the Winter Olympics next year, and they are still facing fierce competition. In the short program competition, the two performed "Mission Impossible 2", ranking first in the double skating short program with a score of 79.27. In the free skating competition, they used the 2016-2017 season "Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows", but made many changes to the artistic elements and technical aspects of the original work. After the game, Sui Wenjing said: "In the game, the two of us played ok and reached the normal level of usual training, but we still reduced some difficulty on the spot. Since this is the first time this year to participate, it is a bit too exciting, the physical fitness is a bit insufficient, and it is not playing at the best level. ”
Han Cong said after the game: "Participating in the Beijing Winter Olympic venues this time, I feel that everything is very familiar, which makes us feel very stable inside and is conducive to playing our level." However, compared with the past, the current head has been renovated and become very gorgeous, which makes us really feel that the country has worked hard to host the Winter Olympics. ”
Now that we have entered the winter season, and it is also the final sprint stage before the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year, the goal of participation is naturally an unavoidable topic, to which Sui Wenjing said: "Our goal is to raise the national flag and play the national anthem. At present, this critical stage of preparation should closely cooperate with the coaching team, promote the preparation plan step by step, improve the strength of the above difficulties in the technical links, and constantly polish the stability of the whole set of actions. We want to show our best selves in every game and hope that more ice fans are proud of us. ”
Han Cong said: "In the Winter Olympics to impact the gold medal, we must make more fuss about the difficulty, and it is the focus of the current preparation to divide the technical difficulty. In the face of the problem of relieving the pressure of the Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing believes: "The pressure of the competition is definitely indispensable, fortunately, we have a strong support team behind us, and all aspects have been supported, which makes us look more confident in the face of any pressure." ”
Complete the first step of sprint preparation
Whether it is Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, or Peng Cheng and Jin Yang, the two Chinese combinations performed well in the Asian Figure Skating Open pair skating free skating competition held last night, which also made the head coach of the Chinese figure skating team Zhao Hongbo more confident, saying that the competition completed the first step in the preparation stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics sprint stage.
Zhao Hongbo, who is an excellent athlete, has a big advantage that he can experience and discover any small psychological changes in athletes. Even if the first body did not arrange spectators to enter the test match of the Winter Olympics, as the first international competition of the season, the emotions and psychology of the participating athletes will still have some fluctuations. From the perspective of the game process, Zhao Hongbo believes that Sui Wenjing and Han Cong have played a normal training level, but the two still seem to be a little nervous emotionally, their bodies are not relaxed enough, and they are also a little weaker in terms of sliding speed, and these small differences can only be tested through the competition to test the current real competitive state and the results of the previous training.
In the face of the pressure of preparing for the Winter Olympics, Zhao Hongbo, who has experienced countless winds and rains before, has seen it very openly. He said: "Usually, as long as athletes practice freely, it is the best way for them to relieve stress." In fact, the pressure of athletes is nothing more than not reaching their own goals, so if the training goes smoothly, the practice is very solid, and the body is not affected by injuries, then they will feel solid. ”
Each pair of Chinese teams began to brew their own musical repertoire for the Beijing Winter Olympics last year, and Zhao Hongbo introduced the coaching team to select the best from the massive music, and finally determined "Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows" for Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, which is a song they used, but there are new changes in many links. The reason why this track was chosen is because it is very suitable for their struggle, by integrating their skating story into the track, to better stimulate the true feelings of the two. As for the short program "Mission Impossible 2", the aura is very sufficient, and this style is their own choice. Another group, Peng Cheng and Jin Yang, chose the theme song of "Night Feast".
On the issue of injuries, Zhao Hongbo revealed that he had a good control. Some of the old injured athletes have completed the operation ahead of time and will not be affected by the injury. As a new year's winter event, it has only just started, and there are still many international competitions waiting for the Chinese team. Zhao Hongbo said that with the gradual development of the competition, the Chinese figure skating team will continue to find problems and solve problems in a targeted manner through the combination of competition and training, and strive to adjust the athletes to the best state before the Beijing Winter Olympics, so that they can show their best self at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Reporter Kong Ning li li
Photo by reporter Liu Ping
【Source: People's Online】
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