On the trip, I'm going to Beijing. Zhou Zhifang, 2/kloc-0 years old, wrote on his social networking site that he was full of expectations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Similarly, Nathan Chen, who won the men's singles championship in the National Figure Skating Championships for the sixth time, also hopes to realize his dream in Beijing.
This is their second time to participate in the Winter Olympics. Four years ago, they first set foot on the Pyeongchang Olympic Games. At that time, there were 14 athletes in the American flower skating delegation, 7 of whom were Asian faces, namely,, Chen, Madison Chuck, and ice dancer Shibuya and his brother and sister. The emergence of these Asian athletes is not an isolated phenomenon, but the result of generation after generation. Every player watched the game of the previous generation, was inspired and inspired by them, and then moved on along the idol road.
The flower skating team competition consists of four events: men's singles, women's singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Each team consists of 1 female single skater, 1 male single skater, 1 pair skater and 1 pair skater. In the competition, a short program competition is held in each event, and the top five players can enter the free skating event and finally decide the champion.
At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, China only ranked seventh in the team competition and failed to advance to the second stage. In PyeongChang Winter Olympics, China sent,, Yu Xiaoyu/and Wang/Liu Xinyu to participate in the team competition. In men's singles and pairs skating, China ranked seventh and fifth respectively, with a score of 10. In the ice dance event, Wang/Liu Xinyu ranked seventh with 56.98 points, and scored 4 points for China. Li Xiangning scored 58.62 points in the short program of women's singles, ranking seventh with 4 points. In the end, China ranked sixth and missed the second stage.
In order to select the best talents, the Chinese figure skating team launched the winter Olympic trials for men's singles and women's singles qualifications for nearly one month. Jin Boyang scored high in the men's singles competition, significantly ahead of competitor Chen Yudong, thus winning the ticket for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The strength of idols, relatively well-off families, indomitable quality, the spirit of being willing to contribute to children, and the super professional ethics, perseverance, determination and concentration of Asian athletes themselves have made them emerge in large numbers in this minority project. Although it only accounts for 5-6% of the total population of the United States, more than 40% of the top athletes in the men's and women's single skating events in the United States are Asian.
With the continuous influx of talents into this project, the quantitative change has accumulated to a certain extent, and top players have appeared one after another-these players have given hope to generations of young people, and finally the phenomenon that the American flower skating team is all East Asian faces in the last 40 years has appeared. Although it seems that American flower skating is "dominated" by Asians in terms of number of people, participation and competition results, in fact it is both an active choice and a passive helplessness.