Chapter Eighty-Nine: How Willing!
Japan and the United States, who finished in the top three of the short program, have already qualified for the World Championships and will no longer be competitive with other athletes, which in a sense means that Shu Ran is the most likely to qualify for the Winter Olympics at the moment.
All ice fans believe that Shu Ran can be one of those sixth.
In the free skating on the second day, Shu Ran was still in the last group, and this time the draw was 31, and the sixth group was the first to appear.
Perhaps because most of the competitors were too young to be able to perform at their full strength on the first day, more than half of the athletes performed much better in today's free skate than in yesterday's short program.
The rankings have changed quite a bit, and the scores are chasing very closely.
Shu Ran was calm.
As long as the performance is completed, her task is complete, and everything after that is left to fate.
After the fifth group performed, more than a dozen ice boys skated to all corners of the rink to pick up the dolls thrown by the audience.
Of the three competitors in Group 6, the United States and Japan, represented by Luches and Sachiko Nakayama, have already secured a place for the Winter Olympics, and even if they lose the qualifying tournament this time and finish first and second place, the final six places will be postponed.
This means that the first five spots in the women's singles have been decided.
Australia, Norway, the Czech Republic, Brazil, and Austria will be the last place to be decided between China and Georgia, and Shuran's ranking has become the key.
The three players in Group 6 stood at the entrance, ready to enter the field and warm up six minutes before the start of the race.
Shu Ran took off the skate cover and was about to step on the ice, when her wrist was held.
She looked back in surprise.
Fu Yiqing's tone was gentle, "Do you remember what I told you three days ago?"
Shu Ran changed her mind and nodded.
He rubbed her shoulder, a warm smile on his lips, "Go ahead." β
The first six minutes of the warm-up are mainly to make the competitors feel as much as possible, and the competitors will deepen their sense of balance and familiarity with the venue during these six minutes.
The gliding speed is just right, Shu Ran is also ready, as the gliding speed slows down slightly, the right rear outer edge is ready to jump, the right knife tooth points to the ice, and then retracts in time, not really jumping in the air, just to find a balance point.
Just now, because I didn't fall because I received it in time, my balance was a little unstable.
This is not good news.
So after practicing spins and steps, Shu Ran returned to jumping exercises.
This time it's a triple hook.
The left rear edge jumped, her eyes instantly became sharp, she held her expression, and jumped hard.
Shu Ran was still not ready to do a real jumping move, she immediately retracted, but her left foot fell early, and Shu Ran instinctively used her right foot to balance the point, but unexpectedly she still fell.
Fu Yiqing, who was outside the court, suddenly looked very tight, and his upper body moved forward slightly under the drive of his subconscious.
Qin Liubei also became worried.
Fortunately, Shu Ran sat on the ice for a second, then got up and continued to warm up and skate.
Qin Liubei breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a relaxed tone, "You almost didn't scare me to death." β
He hadn't heard Fu Yiqing's answer for a long time, he glanced at him sideways, but found that Fu Yiqing's brows were furrowed, and his eyebrows were full of worry and panic.
"It's okay, old man. β
Fu Yiqing took the time to glance at Qin Liubei, but his eyes were so complicated that it was indescribable.
Qin Liubei smiled helplessly, and said softly, "You just care about it, don't you think Shu Ran is good?"
Fu Yiqing let out a soft "um", his expression was dark, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
After six minutes, Lucheth and Sachiko Nakayama skated out of the ice, leaving only Shura on the ice.
The broadcast began to introduce: "Shu Ran...... The program is from Bach's "Aria on the G String"
Shu Ran slid to the middle of the ice, finished the movement, and waited for the music to play.
The unattainable music with a unique sense of unruliness poured into every corner of the ice rink, and the beautiful movements danced with the notes.
Shu Ran is patient.
In the warm-up six minutes before the game just now, the fall she fell didn't seem to be serious, and she thought so at the time, after all, it is common for a fall to hurt for a while, but obviously things are not as simple as she imagined.
A dull ache began in the right foot.
She couldn't help but start to worry about jumping for a while.
After 0.001 seconds, Shu Ran realized that this was the game, and it was her last chance.
Perhaps Bach was in such a mood when he played this piece, only he knew that he was being strong, but his pride would not allow him to show his timidity.
She wants to show her best side in the camera and present the most wonderful performance to the audience!
Shu Ran was ruthless, gritted her teeth, and continued to choreograph dance steps.
Jump hard.
It's a little unstable, but fortunately, the number of weeks is enough, and this jump shouldn't deduct points.
Shu Ran arranged most of the jumps in the second half of the show, with two single jumps, one consecutive jump, and one sandwich jump, including her signature Axel triple jump.
There are only two single jumps in the first half.
But the pain in her right foot gradually became clear, and Shu Ran didn't feel cold sweat.
She has to take care of the expressiveness of the show, but also has to take the time to consider her own situation.
Under such a pinch, another triple loop loop.
When the right rear outer blade fell on the ice, it finally completely affected the old injury.
Shu Ran frowned a little uncontrollably, his feet slipped, and the whole person fell to the ground fiercely.
There was an uproar on the field.
Qin Liubei had no smile on his face, his pupils were constricted, and he saw Fu Yiqing making a gesture to enter through the entrance.
In a moment, Shu Ran had already gotten up again.
She didn't have a trace of panic, but the obvious sweat on her forehead was particularly eye-catching.
Shu Ran was already sure that her foot injury had recurred, but she couldn't stop to rest, at least for more than three minutes.
Three minutes became extraordinarily slow in this instant.
Shu Ran's tear ducts were surging with pain, and she tried her best to hold back her tears and immerse herself in the music.
But the more it hurts, the more you can't enjoy the performance.
She is not reconciled!
Once she loses this competition, she will never have the opportunity to participate in the Winter Olympics as she grows older.
So even if she can't participate in the Winter Olympics next year, she will definitely get the qualification she deserves for the Winter Olympics if she loses this time.
In a daze, a voice sounded in my head.
"This competition is just to give you an account of the past 14 years of training. β
The portrait in front of me gradually became clearer.
It's Fu Yiqing, this is the reply he gave her three days ago.
It's been a fourteen-year-long road, three years ago, she couldn't even see a little hope, and finally saw the finish line today, how could she just fall in front of the finish line?
Even if you climb, you have to climb to the end!
Shu Ran turned her body, danced her arms, and followed the music, she raised her right leg vertically above her head, and skated on the ice with one leg.
Footwork is unpredictable.
Every movement was enough to make her cry, but she kept doing the next action as if she was nothing.
At the end of the first half, 10% points can be added to all actions in the second half of the show.
Shu Ran broke free of the reins.
The first Axel triple jump, she fell.
But she quickly made up a triple axel.
This time the ice was unstable, but luckily it was balanced.
However, that fall just now is not the end, but the beginning.
She fell down again and again, and the audience couldn't bear it, but it was different from the mood of watching Shu Ran's performance in the past.
If Shu Ran's fall at the World Championships last time couldn't make the audience feel a sense of beauty, then her fall today just blends this music, or her show is more expressive.
Every time she fell, she immediately got up and threw herself into the show.
The look on her face was always one of Bach's pride, love and attachment to the ice rink.
That's right, it's attachment.
Everyone faintly felt her resolute feelings, but they couldn't tell what the specific emotion was.
Towards the end of the four-and-a-half-minute minute, Shu Ran gradually got up and changed her spin in the crouch spin, then did a Bellman spin, and then slid to the center of the ice, splashing a layer of ice flowers with her knife teeth, and she immediately spun and squatted in the ice flowers to hug herself tightly.
The free skate is finally over.
The ice rink was unexpectedly silent, so it was quiet for half a second, and I don't know who applauded first.
The tide starts in the east and spreads in all directions.
It was definitely a great show.
Even if ordinary people can understand the difficulties of athletes, they can't empathize, but at this moment, their emotions finally resonate.
She's not just acting, she's playing out her own figure skating career.
Shu Ran raised her head from her arm, the smile she showed because of the performance instantly faded without a trace, she looked away from the camera, and tears kept pouring down.
All the audience was moved.
There was an earth-shattering sound on the field, and a name was shouted in their mouths - Shu Ran.
At this moment, Shu Ran finally understood why Rowling was performing desperately.
Thinking of the tears after Rowling's performance at that time, Shu Ran could only empathize.
Perhaps this is the result that awaits the athletes, who know that they may be disabled in the future, but they still strive to move forward.
Shu Ran didn't skate on the third day because she returned home immediately after a recurrence of her old injury.
And her performance in the defeat match moved the audience, moved the judges, and made the professional players cry.
In this free skate, Shu Ran's artistic expression can be regarded as breaking the women's singles world record in a way, but since there is no Olympic record for individual events, this can only be understood by insiders.
Although the artistic expression of this field was close to the full score, due to Shu Ran's frequent falls, the technical expression of this field was almost ranked in the last few places, so the total score of the free skate was still not high.
But with the advantage of the previous day's short program, Shu Ran's total score ranked 7th out of 33 competitors.
However, since the top two could not qualify for the Olympic quota again, Shu Ran successfully secured an Olympic quota place for her country's women's singles by finishing fifth in the qualifying round.
In those days, Shu Ran's free-skating video was reposted more than 30,000 times, and the number of views reached 100 million.
But everyone who watched the video was sincerely moved to tears.
Weibo even swiped out the topic of #distressed Shuran#.
At the same time, there was news that Shu Ran was seriously injured.
Whether it's true or not, no one knows.
Some netizens also posted that Shu Ran's performance in the qualifying tournament has regressed significantly, and it is obvious that the injury has not healed, if he can only finish seventh in the qualifying tournament, then what will be the first in the Winter Olympics in five months?
So netizens were divided into two factions:
The first team is conservative.
They are worried about the women's singles event at the Winter Olympics next February, believing that since Shu Ran's injury has not healed, the national team should give up this only spot to other women's singles players.
The other team is the Buddhist sect:
They believe that the best result of the national team in women's singles is only in the free skate, so Shu Ran will definitely be able to help the national captain face as long as she participates.
Unexpectedly, the self-congratulatory votes of netizens blew up the deity.
@θθice: "There is no effort to do it, only to give it your all." β