In the China Figure Skating Grand Prix, the long ice dance competition officially started at 9:30.

The two groups of players from China performed pretty well in the short program, both ranking in the top six.

But in the long dance competition, some minor mistakes occurred. Wang Qian and Gan Hua still lost points on their old habits, while the newly promoted Gu Kong combination performed very well.

In the end, the Ganwang combination won the fifth place, and the Gu Kong combination won the fourth place.

This result made Liang Shuai quite satisfied, and he murmured: "It seems that foreign training is indeed useful, so should we hire a foreign ice dance coach?"

Head coach Cheng Tian held the tea cup and took a sip: "There will be an adaptation period when changing coaches."

"That's right." Liang Shuai touched his chin and thought about the possibility of changing coaches, but coach Wang Kui's words inspired him again.

The old coach patted his thigh and said with a smile: "I think it would be good for an ice dance school with two coaches."

"Yes, you can directly poach people." Liang Shuai suddenly realized and patted Wang Kui: "Ginger is still hotter when he is old."

Lao Jiang smiled and said nothing, pointing to the ice rink: "Let's continue watching the game."

Next is the men's singles free skate competition.

The men's singles free skating competition has always been extremely fierce, with quadruple jumps starting very early.

There is a popular saying in the men's singles figure skating circle, "If you are a man, jump quadruple jumps." This shows that quadruple jumps have become crazy in men's singles.

The era of quadruple jumps started at the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998, and then quadruple jumps began to roll until the Salt Lake cycle reached its peak.

But later, Vancouver's cycle sliding jump technology declined, and there were very few athletes who could do quad jumps. The Winter Olympics champion at that time did not know how to do quad jumps, but he defeated his opponents who could do quad jumps and won the gold medal.

It was not until the Sochi cycle that the men's singles quadruple jump continued to develop, and then it entered the era of drum washing machines.

Put a quadruple jump in the short program, put two or three quadruple jumps in the free skate, and some people are trying to put in more quadruple jumps.

But this is easy to make mistakes, and it consumes a lot of physical energy, let alone completing the program.

Just like Yao Xin can put up to three quadruple jumps in his free skate, and these three quadruple jumps are all in the first half, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes.

However, Tu Xin's physical strength was not a problem. He included two quadruple jumps in the free skate, including one in the second half, which tested one's physical strength.

Liang Shuai looked at the contestants and asked: "How many quadruples does Tu Xin have now?"

Cheng Tian thought for a while and said: "Four hooks, four points on the outside, and four knots on the inside."

"He knows how to hook four?" Liang Shuai asked, a little surprised.

"I'm not practicing with Su Fu, but the stability of his hook four is very poor, less than half of Su Fu's." Cheng Tian looked at the children on the field and said.

Originally, the stability of the hook four was not enough, and after the hook four was downgraded, there was no need to risk the free skate.

There are two groups of players in the men's singles, each group has six people, and the game goes relatively quickly.

When the first group of contestants finished the competition, Xu Fan's score was temporarily ranked first, and he knew that this score would soon be surpassed.

The free skate is ranked based on the ranking of the short program, and the further you go, the better the results will be.

However, sometimes this rule is broken, after all, competitive games are always full of unknowns.

Tu Xin chose "The Nutcracker" for his free skate. The overall music was relatively lively and in line with his current image.

One of the seven jumps fell on the ice and was unstable, but there were no major problems with other technical moves. The score instantly soared to first place.

Yao Xin was the last one to appear. His technical movements were not much different from Tu Xin's, but his performance was obviously much higher than that of Tu Xin.

Even ice fans sighed:

[I thought Yao Hanhan’s performance was speechless when he was first promoted to the group, but I didn’t expect that little Xingxing would also do his part.]

[It’s not that Little Xingxing’s limbs are stiff, it’s just that he has a problem with his ability to express emotions, and he can’t feel invested.]

[Maybe it needs to be a little bigger, the little star is still a little weaker.]

After the men's singles free skate, Yao Xin won the COC championship again, while Tu Xin finished third and Xu Fan finished sixth.

In Huang Tian's view, Tu Xin was able to finish third in the first match after being promoted to the group, which is already pretty good.

Moreover, two red flags can be raised at the men's singles awards ceremony, which is the greatest encouragement to everyone.

However, Tu Xin was a little disappointed. He always felt that his results were not very good, especially after getting the small score sheet.

The 4t jump is marked with an exclamation mark, which means it is blurred with the blade.

Tu Xin's blade jump is not bad, but there are some minor flaws in the ice jump. The blade cannot be used to achieve deep blades like Su Fu, and most of them are shallow blades.

Huang Tian once again highlighted the issue of using a blade in Tu Xin's schedule, and decided to take a good look at the child's various minor problems.

By the way, he also wanted Tu Xin to take a drama class to learn how to express her emotions instead of holding them in her heart and suffocating them to death.

Huang Tian looked at the small score sheet of Su Fu's short program again and highlighted the small marks that appeared in it.

There are no big problems, but there are still a lot of small ones, and we also need to pay attention to the attributes of the referees in the competition team.

Sometimes the problem is not the players' fault, but other people's subjective biases.

Before the game started in the afternoon, Yang Jie asked Su Fu if she wanted to go backstage in advance to prepare.

Su Fu asked curiously: "Why?"

Yang Jie: "Isn't it troublesome for you to do makeup and hair every time? Go backstage early to do it."

She still remembered Su Fu's "The Drunken Concubine" last season, the complicated Peking Opera style, which required stickers and paintings, and a bunch of emerald headdresses that needed to be prepared in advance.

Even if the free skating makeup this time was not as complicated as last time, she felt that it would take at least more than an hour.

"It's okay, the look isn't that complicated this time." Su Fu said as she sorted out her things.

"But I saw your Costen was so simple, I thought you would focus on your hair." Yang Jie said curiously.

"It will have a little styling, but it won't be too exaggerated." Su Fu smiled and replied.

The women's singles competition was still ranked behind the pairs skating. It was not until 1:30 in the afternoon that the women's singles players went backstage one after another to start their preparations.

Sufu first skipped rope in the warm-up area for ten minutes, then changed into Costen and started the final preparations.

Assistant coach Ye Lan has already been Sufu's official makeup artist. She learned a lot from the chief makeup artist of the brand endorsed by Sufu when she was still performing on the ice, and she started messing around with Sufu like a god.

She also asked Yang Jie and Li Wenxia to put on makeup, which made several other coaches joke: "If you want the head coach to give you a salary increase, you have to do the work of several people."

"Don't just talk but don't do anything. If someone keeps his word, my salary will have already been increased!" Ye Lan also said with a smile.

Recently, some young players have joined the national team, and she has several athletes from the youth group, so her workload has increased a lot.

A salary increase is essential, and what she wants more is to become a formal coach, not an assistant coach.

Since taking Su Fu with Huang Tian, ​​Ye Lan has learned a lot of knowledge and training methods.

There are several large boxes of Su Fu's training notes alone, not to mention the various training videos, analysis videos and data modeling that fill up the computer hard drive.

Oh, by the way, there is another reason why Su Fu studied mathematics. She wanted to use mathematical modeling to apply to figure skating.

The modeling Sufu wants is not the kind of modeling where sensors are imported into computers, but data extracted from different competitions and trainings, and calculated based on constants and variables, so as to reduce the number of players suffering from injuries and reduce the number of people who come after them.

Take detours and ultimately achieve the goal of scientific training.

Ye Lan didn't quite understand what Su Fu meant by these words, but she felt that the various information Su Fu left behind was very useful.

To put it bluntly, she can lead a strengthened platoon based on these information alone!

Su Fu's thick black hair was all pulled up and braided from both sides of her head to the back of her head, and then tied into a bun with light blue hair accessories.

There are also two necklaces on the exposed white swan neck, and earrings of the same style are also hung on the earlobes.

While putting earrings on Su Fu, Ye Lan said, "You can get your ears pierced. Then you won't need the clip-on style."

Su Fu looked at her ears and responded.

After the pairs skating competition ended, the women's singles first group competition officially began.

The results of the pair were pretty good, with both first and second place players from China.

Liang Shuai did the math. With two medals for men's singles and two medals for pairs, plus the women's singles competition that is about to start later, at least six red flags will be raised above the venue today.

It's not in vain that he gathered all the award ceremonies together just for this moment.

However, he hopes to achieve such results at the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics the year after next.

With four events plus a team competition, being able to get seven to eight medals back will be the best gift for everyone.

The sixth practice of the second group of women's singles started. When the players wearing national team sports uniforms appeared on the ice rink, the cheers from the audience were the loudest.

There were red flags all over the stands, like being in a sea of ​​red.

When Sophie's name appeared on the radio, the screams in the stands reached deafening levels.

"Ahhh!"

"Soph! Soph!"

“Sususususu—fufufufufufufu!”

Because Souf was the last one to appear, she still didn't take off her sports coat. Ice fans still couldn't see the new Costen in the free skate in advance.

However, they discovered from the exposed hem of Costen's skirt under Sovereign's coat that it was a blue Costen.

[The color of Little Furong’s Costen is sky blue? It feels very similar to the color of the dress she wore during the previous interview.]
To be continued...