Chapter 127: The Final Battle

Shu Ran came in first place with a short program score of 81.74.

However, Soskova, who appeared later, was extremely explosive, using quadruple jumps one after another, and immediately pulled the short program score to 83 points, just breaking the short program world record set by Shu Ran three months ago, and the first in the short program.

The performance of Japanese teenager Sayaka can only be described by the word "stable", but it is a little too stable, and the difficulty of the show is not enough, and it fell to seventh place.

Kristina was in pretty good form today, second in the short program.

Evelyn was third, and Shura was fourth.

However, because the gap in the short program score is not large, Shu Ran still has a chance.

But this result made netizens unwilling for Shu Ran, and everyone could see that Shu Ran was pinned down by a foot injury.

Everyone agreed that if Shu Ran did not have a recurrence of the old injury, then the result of the women's singles event was beyond doubt.

But if you really count it that way, how many of them have been plagued by injuries and missed out on medals?

This is Schrödinger's cat.

Six skaters were eliminated in the short program, and the remaining 24 skaters were divided into four groups, with Efitinia successfully squeezing Sayaka into the final group.

In the lottery after the end, Shu Ran looked at the lottery number, and immediately reluctantly handed over the number to the announcer.

The other party: "Shu Ran, No. 24." ”

Tomorrow is the women's singles free skating competition, which happens to be the 24th of the solar calendar.

So, this is a hint from heaven to her, a sign that tomorrow must belong to 24?

On the way back, Fu Yiqing suddenly said: "To be precise, you should be 24 years old this year." ”

Shu Ran was stunned on the spot and looked at him blankly, "So...... 24 Victory?"

Fu Yiqing pursed a light smile on his lips and stretched out his hand at her, as if he wanted to givemefive, and Shu Ran really raised his hand and slapped his palm.

Fu Yiqing was slightly stunned, and touched her head with a smile, "Well, the victory belongs to 24, and the hint is already obvious." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Before the alarm clock went off, Shu Ran opened her eyes.

Today is the 24th, the last battle.

After tossing and turning for a long time, I heard a knock on the door of the room.

"Shuran?"

Shu Ran groaned for half a second, and responded, "Huh?"

Fu Yiqing outside the door said, "Since you're up, practice jumping for a while." ”

Shu Ran straightened up with a carp.

Ideals are always plump, in fact, the two-month suspension of training has reduced Shu Ran's jump success rate by a certain percentage.

So even though Shu Ran had already made up her mind to jump with an S in the free skate, she wasn't too sure she would succeed.

is about to play in a few hours, but this point is still seizing the time to practice jumping, Shu Ran suddenly has a temporary sense of nervousness.

The more intense you are, the faster time passes.

"Shuran, it's okay. Fu Yiqing said.

Shu Ran stopped training, skated off the ice, and only listened to Fu Yiqing, "Are you ready?"

Shu Ran took a deep breath and nodded vigorously.

Even if she still wasn't too sure she would be able to pull off the S-jump, she had to be there now.

The players in the first three groups were competing, Shu Ran grabbed the last straw and continued to practice jumping with the help of Fu Yiqing and others.

Finally, the final moment came.

Warming up six minutes before the game, Shu Ran decided to take the last chance to practice jumping.

She slowed down quietly, and with the help of the rotation of her arms and body, her body spiraled and fell to the ground.

Just listen to the audience's "ah".

Shu Ran fell.

She hurriedly got up and continued to warm up, looking calm on the surface, but panicked in her heart.

Slipping out of the exit, Fu Yiqing put his hand on her shoulder, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Don't worry. ”

Shu Ran nodded.

As the first player in this group, Evelyn naturally paid the most attention to her opening quadruple jump, and saw her petite body jump hard and land smoothly on the ice.

Her free skate selection is from the movie "007", and the familiar music makes the audience unconsciously clap their hands in unison.

She and teammate Soskova are the same age and are on the same team, so naturally they are often compared.

Soskova is a power player, while Evelyn is an elegant player, in fact, Evelyn's technical strength is lower than Soskova's, but she has a big advantage.

She was consistent and rarely made mistakes in the race, but today, she had a jump that saved her weeks and landed on the ice early.

At the end of the performance, Evelyn's free skate score plus the short program combined gave her combined score of 217.37 points.

The next contestant on the stage is Christina, the pink performance costume makes her soft and delicate, her performance is "Sleeping Beauty", with an innocent smile on her face, all the beautiful words in the world can be used on her.

Similarly, the opening jump was successful, but it was two simple jumps that fell down, and although there was a follow-up catch, it didn't help, and she finished second with a combined score of 209.14.

Dressed in a black performance suit, Soskova's brutal and decisive performance makes it hard to imagine that she is only 16 years old this year.

The quadruple jump caused her body to spin in the air, and the moment she landed, she fell hard.

The crowd exclaimed, and Soskova quickly got up and continued the performance.

The second half of the jump is so dense that it's dizzying, with hardly a second of rest time to jump one after another.

So even if Soskova's opening jump failed, the extra jump in the second half was able to make up for it, and Soskova easily topped the overall score with 235.21 points.

Efitinha has had a good season, but today he made a lot of mistakes.

Shu Ran guessed that it should be Soskova's results that were too good and gave Efitinha too much psychological pressure.

Nadilova has been busy recovering from injuries this season, and last season due to the emergence of two junior sisters, she was overshadowed by the shine of the world championship.

Her performance is derived from the musical Madame Butterfly.

This show is just like "The Phantom of the Opera", a world classic, so there are people skating every season.

The lilac dress adds a melancholy touch to Nadilova.

Although there is no quadruple jump buff blessing, Shu Ran feels that Nadilova has improved and is very infectious.

Human emotions are connected, but what is not understood is understanding.

This is also the reason why every season there are contestants who choose world classics as the performance repertoire, no matter what, the original work itself has a certain audience base, so it is easier to express emotions, but it lacks novelty.

It's someone else's life that is performed, it's the same soul.

Watching Nadilova's performance, Shu Ran believes that Nadilova's free skating score can surpass that of her sister Soskova.

Sure enough, I saw Nadilova's results on the big screen.

78.15 in the short program, 157.31 in the free skate, and 233.46 in the overall score.

As expected, despite Nadilova's good free skating performance and a narrow victory over her sister Soskova, in yesterday's short program, Soskova was about five points ahead of her.

At present, only Shu Ran has not played on the court, which means that if Shu Ran fails to surpass Soskova, the world champion of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be Soskova.

Three consecutive champions are all of the same nationality.

The situation is quite bad.

All the audience turned their eyes to the girl who was not shocked on the field, and a red performance costume outlined her so that people couldn't take their eyes off it, obviously wearing heavy makeup, but there was a light smile on her lips.

There are only two words in the hearts of the audience: bewitching and dignified.

Two contradictory words can only be presented at the same time in her.

Only Shu Ran can tie up the hearts of all audiences, even if the language is different and the appearance is different, but the emotions are the same.

Everyone knows how difficult it is for Shu Ran to get to where he is today.

But how difficult it is, only she herself understands.

At first, she participated in the competition just to give herself an explanation, but at this point, the title of champion has been associated with too many people.

At this moment, those who had helped Shu Ran resurfaced.

Friends, family, and Fu Yiqing, who has been with her for eight years.

Shu Ran stood in the middle of the rink, looking up and sweeping in every direction of the audience.

Samantha clenched her fists, her eyes were firm and swearing, and she said two words silently, come on.

Rowling was also in the audience, and Shu Ran even heard her shouting in that familiar voice, "Trust yourself!"

Off the court, Christina and Quentin, who had finished the game, smiled at her at the same time.

and Fu Yiqing......

Broadcast: "Shu Ran, from China. ”

The moment I close my eyes, my complicated thoughts are sorted out from time to time.

China, these two words are deeply imprinted in Shu Ran's heart, and she begins to dance with her thoughts.

Music plays.

In the first half of the music, when the compact cello sound of "Free Tango" sounded, Shu Ran instantly turned into a tango girl, and her sharp and dangerous expression clearly separated her from the gentle and lovely Shu Ran, the wind swept her cheeks and blew her red skirt.

A Yang Yan slid past the referee's seat, her eyes hooked, her smile fluttering, her eyes demagogic with the music, her figure gradually moving away from the referee's seat, but her thrilling eyes had taken away the soul of the target.

A tango girl who can seduce people must not only have plenty of charm, but also have a certain amount of courage.

The footwork changes, the big word slides in at the same time, the eyes are sharp, the body is in the air, spinning, and the 3A falls perfectly on the ice.

The audience was completely emotionally driven and gave applause and accompaniment on the spot.

One consecutive consecutive jumps succeeded.

Qin Liubei couldn't help but clench his fists and cheered, "Yes!"

Fu Yiqing held the fence in his hand, the smile on his face gradually thickened, and his eyes were pleased.

In the next second, he saw the person on the ice falling, and the smile in his eyes was instantly frozen.

Everyone saw her pale face clearly, and their hearts tensed.

However, Shu Ran immediately got up and continued to perform, her pale face was even more shocking, and she once again became a messenger of hell, luring people into hell and into heaven.

Shu Ran was full of firepower, jumping one after another as if he had been wound up.

The first jump of the sandwich beat, 3S successfully landed on the ice, followed by another 1Lo transfer to 2T, and the real-time execution score was as high as 2.15 points.

She jumps tirelessly, and her footwork is dazzling.

If Soskova's jumps are intensive, then Shu Ran has always been the one who is impressively good at footwork.

The music stopped, Shu Ran finished the last posing action, and the audience spontaneously came forward, and the applause did not end.

Shu Ran maintained the last tilt of her head and did not move for nearly a second.

After a closer look, everyone realized that her eyes were full of tears.

Probably knowing that she couldn't hold back the sourness in her heart, she finally lowered her head, tears swept her face, but she smiled and bowed to everyone.

In the thunderous applause, Shu Ran lay down and kissed the ice under her feet, a place she loved and hated.