This time, the Chinese team only participated in the women's singles.

Therefore, all the Chinese people who watched the game must have come for Shu Ran.

Jiang Wanru also participated, but her performance at the World Championships was not good, let alone the more competitive Olympic qualifying tournament?

The men's singles and ice dance each decided the remaining six quota places for the Winter Olympics two hours later.

The focus is on the women's singles.

There are 33 women's singles players.

Although most of the top players have already qualified for the World Championships and will not be in the qualifying tournament, the competition is still fierce.

There is a rule that the six countries that will eventually qualify for the Winter Olympics must not qualify for the World Championships, so even if the athletes from the countries that have already qualified for the Winter Olympics participate in the qualifiers and finish in the top six, they will not be competitive with other players.

Therefore, there are four main types of participants in this competition:

1. Potential youngsters who have already qualified for the Winter Olympics will be sent by the big figure skating powers who are about to be promoted to the senior category.

2. A former famous player whose status has been replaced by a new player from his country.

3. Some of the famous players who have already obtained tickets to the Winter Olympics.

4. Players who have been brushed down by the World Championships.

Shu Ran glanced at all the contestants in the women's singles, almost all of them were unfamiliar faces, so Fu Yiqing did not ask Qin Liubei to count the data of the players, because there was no data to count at all.

However, the situation is not too bad for Shu Ran.

At least with her points, the group was placed in the last group.

After the draw in the order of appearance in the group, Shu Ran drew No. 32 and played the penultimate appearance of the game.

The players in the same group as Shu Ran are Canada's Chen Xiaolu and Japan's Sachiko Nakayama.

Both men are veterans, but neither of them competed in the last World Championships.

This time he participated in the Olympic qualifying tournament to compete with his own athletes for a place in the Winter Olympics.

The champions, runners-up and runners-up of this year's World Championships are Samantha, Haka Chihara and Nadilova, who represent Russia, Japan and Russia respectively, although the two Canadian players failed to squeeze into the top three, but their combined points did not exceed 13 points, so it means that Russia, Japan and Canada have all won three quotas, and the top ten countries have two other countries.

The Russian women's singles is already full of talent, Samantha and Nadilova are bound to play, so there is only one place left for the women's singles players in their team, and the best way to prove themselves for this place is to prove themselves in actual combat.

In contrast, the Japanese team is more competitive.

Haka Chihara and Mie Miyae and rising star Reina Qiao have also performed well at the World Championships, and Sachiko Nakayama will have to finish in at least the top three to prove that she is capable of shining at the Winter Olympics.

Shu Ran was unusually nervous.

"There's nothing to be nervous about, your injuries are healed, as long as you have confidence in yourself, it's not too difficult for you to get into the Winter Olympics. ”

The sound of the sudden burst into her ears made Shu Ran raise her head.

She looked at Fu Yiqing for a long time, and then the corners of her lips finally hooked up a shallow arc and nodded.

The short program competition has finally begun, and this war without gunpowder is about to break out.

Shu Ran is still doing the final practice backstage, and I don't know how the players who appeared in front of her are performing.

In addition to Shu Ran, the Chinese team also has Wu Huihui.

Wu Huihui drew the fourth place in the second group.

Time passed minute by minute, and Shu Ran listened to music while doing land training.

She put her hands in a circle and practiced jumping in the air again and again on land.

As long as it doesn't hurt!

So don't let her get hurt.

Shu Ran thought so in her heart.

When it was Shu Ran's turn, she could finally watch the real-time rankings on the big screen, but she kept her head down, took deep breaths back and forth with her chest undulating, and pretended to be calm.

It's the first six minutes of the fifth group, the six minutes go by quickly, and soon the fifth group starts playing.

Even though there are many new players in the fifth group, it is still not to be underestimated.

The first contestant is Emily from Australia, and the music for her short program is from the French film "The Forbidden Game", and the opening hook triple jump falls unsteadily, causing the floating leg to be balanced by the ice early, followed by the triple axel after the triple jump, but unfortunately the second jump is not enough, but fortunately, all three spins are rated as level 4, and the following step is rated as level 3.

The next American athlete was Luches, who did well, with an extra 2.08 points for the Axel double jump after the opening, and then the jump swallow spin was set at level 4, the circle follow-up step was set at level 3, the overall glide was smooth, and the speed control and knee control after changing positions were also quite good.

Seeing this, Shu Ran already knew that Luchesi was skilled, but in the second half of the show, Luchesi was more like a hanger, putting three single jumps and one even jump in the second half of the show, and this part of the jump would get 10% extra points.

Luches scored 34.58 technical/31.23 program content and 65.81 in the short program, a 10-point gap behind second-placed Emily.

Shu Ran no longer puts all her attention on others, and tries to correct her mentality.

And just like that, it was the turn of player No. 31 to play.

Chen Xiaolu chose Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", since she got married and pregnant, her position was replaced by the players of the same team, this year it was not easy to make a comeback, but the World Championships made frequent mistakes, obviously she is in good shape today, and her gestures are full of elegance and shallow sadness.

Shu Ran suddenly realized that Chen Xiaolu also has a high degree of artistic expression.

Sure enough, in the end, Chen Xiaolu ranked third with a technical score of 28.10/program content score of 33.68, and a total short program score of 61.78, which is currently the highest on the field.

It is conceivable that if Chen Xiaolu regains her former technical strength, perhaps Luches's current first place will not be guaranteed.

Broadcast: "The player who plays next is Shu Ran, from China. ”

Hearing this, Shu Ran finally glanced at Fu Yiqing deeply, and the other party's gaze was soft, just like when she broke the short program world record for the first time, gentle and without a trace of seriousness, as if this match was just for her to practice.

The eye contact only lasted for half a second, and Shu Ran had already withdrawn his gaze, and resolutely turned around and skated towards the center of the ice rink.

Broadcast: "Her performance is from the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". ”

When everyone heard this, they knew that Shu Ran did not rehearse the new show in the offseason at all, which was equivalent to telling everyone that she was recovering from an injury during the offseason and could not rehearse the new show.

But when her arms swung to the music, everyone felt that the program had changed.

At the World Championships, due to Shu Ran's injury, the martial arts movements were softened into dance moves, but today's dance moves are not like dance, nor like martial arts, but more like a combination of the two.

The dance moves are enough to show the flexible body of the women's singles player, while Shu Ran's sharp eyes and martial arts movements with hands as swords highlight her cold and chivalrous spirit.

However, the change in this short program is not only the combination of rigidity and softness, but also the choreography of dance steps is much more complicated.

The sword dance movement is accompanied by the rotation of the three large characters and the lower waist, and the successive circular successive steps have been combined with the rotation, and each movement is perfect.

In the amazement of everyone, I saw Shu Ran's Mohawk step posture change, and Bao Bu was ready.

Jump!

Shu Ran raised his arms high, the sword was unsheathed, and the man was on the string.

The triple loop of the hook hand landed smoothly!

The heart that everyone was carrying tightly finally fell to the ground, and the entire ice rink was filled with cheers and applause.

The excitement of the audience was completely aroused, and the applause rang out one after another along with the music.

The enthusiasm of the audience can often affect the players to a certain extent, and Shu Ran feels this way.

The more Shu Ran slipped, the more enjoyable she became.

She constantly rotated, and the number of rotations significantly exceeded the prescribed number of weeks.

She suddenly thought of the first time she saw Fu Yiqing.

At that time, she was giving birth to the idea of quitting the team, and it was he who led her to the skating rink in the mall, and that was the first time she felt the love of the audience, and her blood was boiling.

It was that time that made her firm in her belief in sliding.

Shu Ran gradually got up and changed her rotation in the crouching and spinning, the music became more and more dense, and finally the music stopped and her performance ended.

Shu Ran kept the end of wiping her neck and didn't put down her arms for a long time, her chest continued to rise and fall, panting heavily.

Finally, in the wave of applause, she lowered her arms, the cold and resolute expression on her face was raised, and she smiled brightly.

Shu Ran opened her arms, as if hugging the entire arena.

She bowed to the audience in all directions.

Slid out of the door amid applause, right in front of the man who had given her a steady stream of strength.

Fu Yiqing's expression was warm, she didn't say anything, and opened her arms to give her a hug.

For Shura, the results in the short program are already in place, so she finally has the courage to look at the current rankings.

I only listened to the radio announcing Shu Ran's final score, "Shu Ran's technical score is 34.2/program content score is 34.40, and the final score of the short program is 68.61 points." ”

Temporarily ranked second on the field, the first is still the American Ruches.

This result is not good in Shu Ran's previous competitions, and it is even very low, but for Shu Ran, who has been frightened for more than half a year, this result is like a reassuring pill.

Shu Ran's nose suddenly became a little sour, and she immediately forced back the desire to cry.

excitedly gave Fu Yiqing a big hug, and then looked at the camera, "Thank you!"

The last contestant was Sachiko Nakayama of the Japanese team, who chose Chopin's "Nocturne", and the soothing music gradually calmed the audience who had just been excited by the fast-paced music of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Sachiko Nakayama looks beautiful, this type of song is her strength, both the movement and the expression are very in place, the depth index of the blade of the next step is good, the jump height, the height of the floating leg are very good, the flexibility of the bow turn makes her rotation is set at level four, and the choreographed dance steps are also set at level three.

The first day of the women's singles short program ended with "Nocturne".

In the end, Sachiko Nakayama won the first day of the short program with her good performance style, with American player Luchesi in second place and Shu Ran third on behalf of China.