"The gap between the three points is not very big. As long as all our actions are successful and our opponents make mistakes, then we still have the strength to win the championship. The final score gap is smaller than we thought. Although the chances of winning the championship in the end are not great, we still have to fight for it in the free skating competition. " Ren said.
"More than three points is not an insurmountable gap, and the loss of points caused by an action mistake in the free skating competition is more than three points." Yao Bin also rekindled confidence in winning the championship.
Immediately after the short program competition, draw lots to decide the order of all the players' free skating. This time, luck finally sided with China. Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao came last among all the players, and it was obviously a good thing to play after Tommy Janina/Maxim Marinin. "If the Russian player in front makes a mistake in the free skating competition, then our chance will come. If we play our level normally in the competition, then the referee will definitely give the athletes who come out later a higher score. " Ren said: a bad draw, a fatal mistake, a perfect game and a good draw. China figure skating completed the leap from Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo era to Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao era overnight. History always becomes complex and vivid when the old and the new are replaced. Maybe Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao will make history again in the free skating competition on 13 night.
When entering the finals, 20 pairs of players participated in the first double free skating competition. In the short program competition held the day before yesterday, three pairs of players from China, Zhang Hao, Pang Qingtongjian and Shen Hongbo, ranked second, fourth and fifth respectively. Two other Russian players, Tothminina/Maxim Marinin and petrova/Alexei Tikhonov, ranked first and third respectively in the short program. So today's gold medal decisive battle in pairs skating is mainly between these five pairs of players.
Among the five pairs of players, the first one is two-time world champion Shen Hongbo of China, who ranks second in the penultimate group. Because Zhao Hongbo suffered a serious heel fracture in training six months ago, today's free skating is also their first official performance this season. Their free-flowing soundtrack chose the romantic and somewhat tragic classic opera Madame Butterfly by the famous Italian opera writer Puccini. A few years ago, Shen Hongbo chose "Madame Butterfly" in a performance, so their understanding and grasp of this song was very easy. Although Zhao Hongbo's training is not systematic because of injury in the past six months, in today's whole program, the two skaters are engaged and cooperate seamlessly, showing the master style! The twist, throw and jump in the last three weeks of the program are all high and valuable. In addition, the design of the rear outer spiral and the front outer spiral is ingenious and difficult (both have reached level 4), which is impressive. The fly in the ointment is that there were two small mistakes in the single jump in the program. Among them, ice was added three weeks after the opening of the program, and ice was added two weeks after the opening. Shen Xue fell off his feet in the second jump. For two and a half weeks in the middle of the program, Zhao Hongbo only danced for one and a half weeks. In addition, the middle part of the single-person synchronous combination rotation is inconsistent, but fortunately, the experienced snow application skillfully makes up for it when changing feet. In the end, their free skating score was 124.59. The total score is 186+438+0. At the end of the penultimate group, it ranked first among all the players. They won a Winter Olympics medal for China! At the same time, it also greatly reduced the pressure of the last group of teammates Pang Qing, Tong Jian and Zhang Hao. Although Shen Hongbo's final achievement is far from their personal best, this achievement is a miracle for Zhao Hongbo, whose foot injury has been seriously recovered for less than ten days!
Russian player petrova/Alexei Tikhonov, who won the world championship in 2000, also played well today. It's just that they were a little nervous at the beginning of the show. The male player has been frozen for three weeks before doing it for two weeks. In the next three weeks, the female players only worked for two weeks. This has seriously affected their technical achievements. Although the remaining procedures were successfully completed, it did not help. Their final score is only 18 1.69.
China's other couple, Pang Qing and Tong Jian, also enjoyed their performance today. The two continued the good state of the short program and interpreted the moving story of the famous musical Phantom of the Theater by the British composer Weber with full emotion. In the whole set of movements, except for a little mistake in single jump, other technical movements were successfully completed, among which two jumps, three turns and two turns were difficult and of high quality, which won warm applause from the audience. Finally, I got the best score in my personal history 123.48. The total score is 186.67. Shen Hongbo is only 0.24 points less than that.
Russian favourite Tommy Janina/Maxim Marinin was eliminated from the bottom of the last group today. They chose Romeo and Juliet played by Hungarian violinist Edwin Marton as the soundtrack. The whole set of movements is done in one go, steady and secure. Finally, I scored 135.84, with a total score of 204.48.
Zhang Hao, a 265,438+0-year-old young player from China who is highly anticipated by the audience, made his final appearance today. As soon as they set foot on the ice, the audience burst into warm applause. Obviously, they all like the most technically difficult young players in the world. As the familiar melody of Descendants of the Dragon sounded, the two began to hit the Olympic peak. However, the accident happened later. When throwing in the back, due to Zhang Hao's low throwing height, Zhang Dan fell on the ice when he didn't spin enough times in the air, which caused Zhang Dan's leg ligament strain. Looking at Zhang Dan's painful expression, the audience's heart was pulled up. Just when people thought that Zhang Dan was going to bid farewell to the competition in advance, the brave Zhang Dan waved to coach Yao Bin and said that he could continue to finish the competition. Within the stipulated countdown, Zhang Hao continued to start the competition with warm applause from the audience. In the subsequent program, the two successfully completed all the movements. Their brave performance not only conquered the audience, but also conquered the referee on the spot. The referee gave a score of 125.38+0, which also set a new record in the history of individual free skating. The total score is 189.73.
In the end, Russia's Totmianina/Maxim Marinin won the championship, which continued the rule of Russia (the former Soviet Union) in pairs skating since the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Belgium, from 65438 to 0964. Zhang Hao won the silver medal, which is also China's best achievement in the history of figure skating in the Olympic Games. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the bronze medal, which is their second Olympic bronze medal. Pang Qing and Tong Jian won the fourth place by a narrow margin of 0.24 points. Petrova/Alexei Tikhonov won the fifth place.