After the finals of the Figure Skating Grand Prix, “Bing Dundun” transformed into “Dragon Dundun” – Sports – China Engineering Network

Original title: After the Grand Prix Figure Skating Finals, “Bing Dundun” transformed into “Long Dundun”

China News Service, Beijing, December 10 (Reporter Xing Rui) Recently, the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot “Bing Dundun” has a new skin. At the 2023 Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals Awards Ceremony on the evening of the 9th, each winner received a special New Year’s Edition of “Bing Dundun” for the Year of the Dragon – “Long Dundun”. Wearing a red robe, a cloud shoulder, a red ribbon around her waist, and cloud-toe shoes, “Dundun” with a new skin was cute and naive, which also added a different scene to the exciting competition that night.

Men’s singles award ceremony.Photo by China News Service reporter Xing Rui

On the same day, after many days of competition, all the competitions in the adult and youth groups came to an end. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time the Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals has returned to Beijing after 13 years. Unfortunately, after the previous six competitions, no Chinese player got a ticket to the finals. In contrast, Japanese players became the winners of this competition.

In the women’s singles, Japanese player Kaori Sakamoto won the gold medal with a total score of 225.70. Although she made a small mistake in the free skate, she performed perfectly in the second half of the game with triple jumps from the inside and outside, triple triple jumps from the back and outside, and Axel’s double triple jump, and finally won with a huge lead. The first gold medal in the finals of his career. ?

Women’s singles post-match press conference.Photo by China News Service reporter Xing Rui

Belgian player Hendricks won the runner-up, and another Japanese teenager Harina Yoshida won a bronze medal. 18-year-old Yoshida Hina won the women’s singles championship at the China Figure Skating Grand Prix last month. After the short program in the finals, Yoshida Hina was only ranked 4th. But with her outstanding performance in the free skate, she finally stood on the podium with a score of 203.16.

In the men’s singles arena where experts gather, Japanese players performed equally well. Uno Shoma and Kagiyama Yuma performed well and won a silver and bronze medal respectively. American player Marinen scored a high score of 314.66 with six extremely difficult quadruple jumps. While being crowned the men’s singles champion, he also set a new personal best score this season.

In the ice dance event, European and American teams still maintain their dominance. The American team Jock/Bates, the Italian team Giniade/Fabri and the Canadian team Gilles/Poirier won gold, silver and bronze medals in the adult ice dance. In the adult pair skating competition that ended on the evening of the 8th, the German pair Kurosawa/Woroden won the championship with a score of 206.43 points. The Italian pair Conte/Machi and the Canadian pair Strato Dudik/Deschamps scored 206.43 points. Won second place and third place.

In addition to missing the podium in ice dance and pairs skating, the Japanese team won a total of 4 medals in the adult competition. In the youth group competition, Japanese players also won 3 medals, which also shows the overall thickness of Japan’s reserve talent in figure skating.

Photo provided by the competition organizing committee.

Among them, Shimada Mao and Uezono Renana won the youth women’s singles championship and third runner-up respectively. Nakata Rishi successfully completed the Axel triple jump and the back-to-back quadruple jump in the free skate competition, with a total of Won the youth men’s singles championship with 227.77 points.

Entering the Milan Winter Olympics cycle, the results of the Chinese figure skating team are not satisfactory. With Sui Wenjing/Han Cong out of the game, the Chinese team lost its advantage in pairs skating. Although the re-formed team Peng Cheng and Wang Lei are experienced, they still need more time to adjust.

The current situation in singles skating is equally worrying. The young player An Xiangyi, who has been given high hopes, has just been promoted to the adult group this season, but her current competitive state is not yet at its best. Jin Boyang participated in two Grand Prix races this season, finishing eighth and seventh in France and the Cup of China respectively. At the just-concluded Golden Rotary Cup, he won the first gold medal for Chinese figure skating in the international arena this season.

The once impressive results have become a thing of the past. Under the attack of the old European and American teams and the Japanese team, the Chinese figure skating team, which has not yet broken through the bottleneck, is in urgent need of transformation. This requires young skaters to calm down and polish their skills, and it also requires more understanding from the outside world. , support and encouragement, wait for the fruits to mature and fall, and the clouds will bloom and the moon will come.