Chapter Thirty-Nine: Finally Seeing the Opponent
Now that Fu Yiqing and Qin Liubei have exposed Shu Ran's identity, she no longer hides it, and generously took a photo with this ice fan.
It didn't take long for me to hear the sound of discussion around me.
Yes, Fu Yiqing's appearance and temperament are impossible to ignore in the middle of the crowd, not to mention that such an outstanding-looking person is still Shu Ran's coach, you may forget it at a glance, but it is difficult to ignore his existence when you see him.
Fortunately, there are not many ice fans who know Shu Ran, and other ice fans are shooting at Shu Ran and others here, and then looking at Fu Yiqing's outstanding face, they thought that they had met a star, and they also took out their mobile phones to shoot at them.
Seeing this situation, Xu Jingyu shook her head and sighed, "Fu Yiqing's face is simply a scourge. ”
Qin Liubei had a skeptical expression on his face, "Am I not as handsome as Fu Yiqing?" Why do they only shoot Lao Fu and not me?"
Xu Jingyu and Shu Ran turned their heads to look at him at the same time, revealing a look of "no help".
In the end, Qin Liubei also chased Xu Jingyu and asked "who is handsome between himself and Fu Yiqing", Xu Jingyu teased him at first, saying that Fu Yiqing is more handsome, who knows that Qin Liubei is serious, his face twisted to the side, and he was angry, and then Xu Jingyu said more comforting words, but he couldn't make Qin Liubei believe it.
Shu Ran looked at the way these two people got along, and thought to herself that Fu Yiqing was really right, and these two people were just like this.
In the next women's singles match, Shu Ran is much more familiar.
She found the list of appearances on the Internet and found that there were many unfamiliar names including the figure skating stars Miyae Mihui, Chen Yuqi, Mia and Chelsea that Shu Ran had encountered, as well as the top five players from the Winter Olympics the year before last, including Ye Xiang Chihara.
The quota for each participating country is closely related to the place won by the competitor at the previous year's World Championships, but even if the result is not good, each country will have a quota place, but in order to participate in the World Championships, she must achieve the minimum technical score of the World Championships.
According to Shu Ran's current results, he naturally reached the minimum threshold for participating in the World Championships, but when he signed up for the World Championships, Shu Ran was not yet qualified, so this time the national team sent Liang Yue.
The game was about to start, and Shu Ran's eyes were just about to leave the list, but she couldn't take her eyes off a name.
"Christina?" she muttered.
Qin Liubei happened to hear it and said in surprise, "Don't you know? Christina also participated in this World Championships, and their country originally had two places, and Christina's technical score just reached the minimum technical score of the World Championships, so she could participate." ”
Shu Ran really doesn't know, doesn't she say that she is at the same level as Christina?
Fu Yiqing answered her question: "You forgot? Last year, you were training all season and didn't compete. ”
Shu Ran's face suddenly realized.
Just listen to him continue, "What's more, the standard for judging your and Christina's strength is the team test at the end of August last year. ”
Shu Ran's mood was just about to calm down, but Qin Liubei added, "Christina is still quite interesting, she won the fourth place in the Grand Prix finals last time." ”
Shu Ran was shocked again.
A strange emotion rose up in her heart, and her originally stretched brows were slightly twisted.
Fu Yiqing: "Watch the game well." ”
Shu Ran nodded, no longer watching the game as an outsider like in the last two games, she unconsciously straightened her back, concentrated, and stared at every figure on the ice rink with a serious expression.
The players who still play first are not strong enough, and all kinds of mistakes occur frequently.
Fu Yiqing always explained to Shu Ran only after the show was finished and the slow-motion replay of the contestants' completion and badness was played on the big screen.
Where others have done well, he hopes that Shu Ran can remember, and when others make mistakes, he also hopes that Shu Ran will remember Bing as a warning.
The result of yesterday's short program was somewhat unexpected, Liang Yue's form was not good, and yesterday's short program ranked 25th, and she did not get the "ticket" for today's free skate.
Even three or four players who were favored by everyone made mistakes one after another, and Zhiyuan Yeka was one of them, and she fell directly to eighth place and was placed in the penultimate group.
In this free skate, there was only one jump error, but the other mistakes did not appear.
The moment the music ended, I heard Fu Yiqing say: "Zhiyuan Yexiang has missed the Winter Olympics medal." ”
Shu Ran: "Why do you say that?"
"Didn't you notice that she didn't have enough physical strength?" he put his gaze on Shu Ran's face back to the big screen, "She's not young anymore, and it looks a little hard to finish a whole show, even if she can stabilize her physical strength at the current level, the other contestants are improving, and it will be difficult for her to maintain stability." ”
Shu Ran felt justified and nodded, but thought of Rowling again, "But didn't you say last time, don't underestimate a player's enthusiasm for medals?"
He patiently explained, "Lack of physical strength and injury limitations, it seems to be similar, but in fact there is a lot of difference. ”
Shu Ran probably understood what Fu Yiqing meant.
Zhiyuan Yexiang is more than enough but not enough, and Rowling is full of energy, but injuries limit her development.
It's like illness can be cured by taking medicine, but aging is incurable.
As the last contestant in the last group, Shu Ran saw her in the crowd at a glance.
The radio broadcast: "The next player to play, Christina, is from France. ”
Every figure skater doesn't look too bad, and Christina has the standard French looks, with thin eyebrows, big eyes, and deep eyes, and waves at the audience with a big smile as soon as she takes the stage.
Shu Ran's seat was right in the front row, and when Christina slid in front of Shu Ran, they were not far away, and Shu Ran could even clearly feel the strong confidence and charm emanating from each other.
A pair of beautiful hands suddenly appeared in front of him, and he quickly made a movement to retract his palms in front of Shu Ran.
Fu Yiqing: "What are you in a daze?"
Shu Ran came back to her senses, "Oh. ”
I only listened to the radio broadcast that Christina's performance was the classic "The Little Prince".
It mainly shows the world of adults through the perspective of children, praising the beauty of innocence and the contempt for money relations, so that philosophy is also full of life.
The music begins to pose, and Christina's expression is smiling, but as the action unfolds and the plot music changes, the clean smile on her face fades, and her expression is always a touch of sadness.
Shu Ran felt that her expression was wrong, and then suddenly remembered that Christina was not in the same learning mode as herself.
Christina's training mode is more technical.
Sure enough, Christina's skills are high.
The start was a 3A, landing smoothly, and then jumping more, plus spins and various footwork, the whole program was full, and there was almost nothing wrong, and at the end of the program, she gave the first clean in the women's singles free skate field today.
There was a wave of applause.
Since Shu Ran's training is more focused on artistic expression, she is naturally not very satisfied with Christina's performance, and her brows are furrowed.
Christina picks up the doll thrown from the audience, slides out of the ice rink, and embraces a serious-looking middle-aged man who only smiles when he pats her on the back.
His expression was too serious, as if he was not satisfied with Christina's performance, his expression was tense, and he looked like a strict devil coach.
Shu Ran had a flash of inspiration and asked Fu Yiqing for confirmation, "He is Quentin ......".
Fu Yiqing didn't listen to her and said "um", her eyes were very dark, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
The big screen played a replay of Christina's program, Fu Yiqing said: "The quality of her jumps is good, and her physical fitness is also very good, although the beauty is insufficient, but so many jumps are added to one program, at least in this arena, only she can do it." ”
Indeed, although the aesthetics are not enough, according to the scoring criteria, her free skate score must be very high.
Whether figure skating is more important in terms of technique or art, there is no international conclusion, which is also the purpose of Fu Yiqing and Quentin's bet.
But what is certain is that a high level of skill will definitely get a high score.
Christina scored 208.64 points overall.
Miae Miyae was in her best form ever, more than five points above Christina, and won the World Championship this season.
Zhiyuan Yexiang followed closely and won the silver medal.
This time, there were too many mistakes by the famous players, and Christina was at the bottom of the World Championships last year, and today she successfully counterattacked and finally won the bronze medal in the World Championships.
Christina was promoted to the senior category last year and is 18 years old this year, one year younger than Shu Ran, but she has already won the bronze medal at the World Championships and has established herself internationally.
After this game, Shu Ran clearly saw the gap between herself and Christina, and Shu Ran dared to say that if she competed here today and played steadily, it would be best to finish in the top ten.
Thinking of herself who has been bragged a little carried away by netizens these days, Shu Ran only feels ridiculous.
While people are constantly working hard, she is still complacent about what is in front of her.
Shu Ran suddenly understood that Fu Yiqing's purpose in taking her to see the World Championships was to let her recognize her strength, only when this gamble was over, she could really stop and look at her previous steps, otherwise every time she turned back, the gap between her strength and other players would widen.
"Coach Fu, I understand. ”
Fu Yiqing only responded lightly, touching the top of her hair, "Shu Ran, you still have a long way to go." ”
Qin Liubei and Xu Jingyu probably saw that Shu Ran was in a low mood, and mistakenly thought that she was ashamed of herself after watching Christina's performance.
Qin Liubei decided to give her some comfort, "As for Christina's show, I can't watch it, it's just a show off, there is no beauty in figure skating at all, after watching the audience's 'wow' and then applauding, there is no memory and no soul, what's the point of a high score?"
Fu Yiqing spoke silently, "The results of the competition only depend on the score, and the Winter Olympics in two years will be the same." ”
Qin Liubei glanced at Fu Yiqing, gritted his teeth and whispered, "You comfort her that she will die?"
Shu Ran still heard this, and she smiled, "You don't have to comfort me." I'm not sad, I'm just thinking about whether I should continue to take cultural classes or train after I go back?"
"Classes, of course. Fu Yiqing replied.
Shu Ran: "Oh. ”
Fu Yiqing: "But there is one thing that Liubei said just now is right. ”
The three of them cast curious glances, and Qin Liubei was also a little moved that his friend didn't carry out the poisonous tongue to the end.
"The reason why art can be immortalized is that the value behind it gives it a soul. He said, "A show without a soul has no memory points." ”
Unable to be remembered, it's just a transitional product of the times.