ice and snow champion

Chapter 114 Decisive Battle Free Skate

After the first two jumps, Zheng Fan secretly heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. He finally finished well, and his technical score should not be low.

After completing a set of sequential steps and a set of swallow-style spins, Zheng Fan started his third jump—Axel triple axel, or 3A for short.

This jump was just learned by Zheng Fan in the Crystal Palace, and it was also the jump he practiced for the shortest time and with the least confidence, because the success rate of this jump was not too high.

Just as Zheng Fan was worried, he made a small mistake in his 3A. He took off from the left front outside edge, spun in the air for three and a half weeks, and then landed. The number of weeks was enough, but Zheng Fan didn't have a good balance when he landed. I staggered a bit.

Although some action completion points will be deducted for this small mistake, it certainly won't be too much.

Zheng Fan forced himself to forget about this small mistake and continued with his short program.

Fortunately, the show came to an end, and Zheng Fan finally completed the whole short program with a jump and joint rotation.

Although there are some small mistakes, the overall situation is still quite good. At least Zheng Fan is very satisfied with his performance today.

After waving and bowing to all around, Zheng Fan slid down to the field.

Hua Guo's coach has been waiting here for a long time, and it can be seen that he is very excited.

Because Zheng Fan's short program performance is quite good, if the free skating can also reach this level, then it will be firmly in the top ten.

Huaguo not only produced another good figure skating seed, but this good seed is very likely to win the Huaguo team a place in the Winter Olympics.

Zheng Fan slid to the sidelines, hugged the team leader, then walked to the side, and hugged Sister Mian who was standing by.

Sister Mian was also very happy, because Zheng Fan's performance exceeded her expectations, and it exceeded too much. Zheng Fan's short program this time can be said to be the best time Sister Mian has seen Zheng Fan complete. I have never experienced it in training on weekdays.

Sister Mian patted Zheng Fan on the back, and said with relief, "You've performed very well, my child. It's beyond my imagination, and probably everyone's expectations of you!"

Afterwards, Zheng Fan waved his hand to Qianjin and other little Russians in the stands. After Qianjin saw it, the cheering flag with "Come on, Zheng Fan" waved even more joyfully.

The camera on the big screen followed Zheng Fan all the time, recording every moment of Zheng Fan, including the scene of Zheng Fan waving to several Russian girls.

Qian Jin didn't pay attention at first, and was pushed by Sasha next to her, only to find her own image appeared on the big screen.

Qian Jin smiled shyly, stopped waving the small flag, and then unfolded the small flag on her chest, not forgetting to show her heart to the camera.

Compassionate movements are indeed standard for Russians.

The referees did not keep Zheng Fan and the audience waiting too long, and the scoring results were quickly announced on the big screen.

96.25 points!
In terms of score composition, Zheng Fan scored only 39.51 points for the program content, but a full 56.74 points for technical actions.

If it is possible to use emotional music, Zheng Fan thinks that the content score of the program should be higher. If the "empathy" effect is full, it should not be a big problem to increase the score by four to five points.

But it is undeniable that this is definitely a high score, currently ranked No.1 in the men's singles short program.

The men's singles competition has just started, and there is a high score in the short program, which will definitely cause a certain amount of psychological pressure on the next contestants.

After coming to the court, Tiantian was full of praise for Zheng Fan: "You idiot, you have made great progress. It seems that you are secretly practicing quadruple jumps. When are you going to perform a 4A on stage?"

"About winter!" Zheng Fan laughed, then sneaked into the stands, and sat with Qian Jin to watch the game.

The little Russians naturally admired again, who doesn't love the "male god" who can dance around.

But Zheng Fan himself knows best that the high score in this competition should be due to his impromptu performance. Today's performance is absolutely extraordinary.

Afterwards, no matter whether it was a player from Great Russia or Tiantian from the Huaguo team, Zheng Fan gave the warmest applause.

Needless to say about Tiantian, the applause of good buddies must be enthusiastic.

As for the applause for the big Russian players, it was because the Qianjin, Shasha and others beside him were applauding, Zheng Fan was too embarrassed to stand by and watch, and the friendship between the people of China and Russia is as solid as a rock, so there is nothing wrong with giving some applause as encouragement.

It's a pity that the performance of the two Russian men's singles players was average, with a bit of mistakes, and they didn't get too high scores.

On the other hand, Tiantian basically made no mistakes in the short program and scored 98.64 points. After all the men's singles competitions were over, he ranked fourth, only after Yuzu, Masama Uno, and Chen Weiqun.

Zheng Fan won No.7 in the short program, which is also a pretty good result.

That night was the pair skating free skating competition, and the next day was the ice dance short program and the women's singles free skating competition. Zheng Fan did not go to watch the competition, but actively prepared for the free skating competition, because the team leader gave Zheng Fan a temporary overweight , Increased requirements, must keep the top ten rankings.

Seeing the team leader who came back from watching the competition kept smiling from ear to ear, Zheng Fan asked out of curiosity and found out that Huaguo performed well in this pair skating free skating competition. "Golden Bridge Over the River" let the two use the language of figure skating to tell the story of their return to the competition after going through honing in the past year, and won the gold medal in pair skating with a total score of 232.06 points.

Xiaoyu and Zhang Hao, another pair of Huaguo players who participated for the first time, also won No.5 with a good performance.

In the women's figure skating competition, Li Xiangning, who participated in the World Championships for the first time in the Huaguo team, finally ranked 14th. Li Zijun insisted on participating in the competition despite a cold and finally ranked 21st.

It's no wonder that the team leader is so happy. This result is already very good for the Huaguo team.

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April 4st is the fourth and last day of the World Figure Skating Championships in Finland. Today is the men's singles and ice dance free skating competitions.

After today's competition is over, tomorrow there will only be performance skating.

Therefore, today's game is very important for men's singles players.

The free skating score is generally twice that of the short program, which means that if athletes do not perform well in the short program but perform well in the free skating, they can also have a counterattack.

The top 24 skaters in the short program advance to the free skating competition, and the order of appearances is in reverse order of the short program scores, so Zheng Fan was ranked last in the penultimate group.

The level of the previous contestants, whether in terms of technical difficulty or performance content, could not be compared with the last group of contestants. Their scores ranged from 127 to 176 points, but they never exceeded the threshold of 180 points until Zheng Fan came on stage. .

(End of this chapter)