Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 10 (reporter Wang Jingyu) after winning the double skating competition in the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in 2019 on the 9th local time in the United States, the silver medal winner of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese group Sui Wenjing/Han Cong expressed eight words of speech to win the championship: nervous, excited, happy and lucky!
In the previous short program competition, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, who was called “onion barrel combination” by ice fans, ranked second. In the free skating competition on the 9th, Sui Wenjing made a mistake in the single jump, and there were small flaws in the joint rotation of two people, but the finishing quality of throwing jump, lifting and other movements was relatively high. In the end, they scored 136.92 points in free skating, with a total score of 211.11 points. They defeated Canadian star Moore-Towers/Marinaro with a weak advantage of 0.06 points and won the championship of the four continents for the fifth time.
Sui Wenjing said: “This is the sixth time we have participated in the competition on four continents, the fifth time we have won the championship in this competition, and the third time we have returned to the stadium from injury. This time the mood is particularly different, very nervous, excited, happy and lucky.”
Han Cong, Sui Wenjing and the four continents have deep fate. In 2012, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong won the championship in the four continents for the first time, and the total score of their career exceeded the 200-point mark for the first time. In 2014, after losing the qualification for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the gold medals in the Four Continents let them regain their confidence. In 2017, the first race Sui Wenjing returned after ankle surgery was the Four Continents competition of that year, where they refreshed the highest score in the history of the combination at that time and won the gold in the subsequent world championships.
Han Cong said frankly that they were not familiar with the current program and their bodies had not recovered to their best state. He said: “We have won the gold medal. From injury to participating in this competition, the recovery time is short and the ability has not been well recovered. We still need more training.”
The 2019 World Figure Skating Championships will be held in Japan from March 18-24. Sui Wenjing said: “There is still one month before the World Championships. We will make the best adjustments and solve the problems in this competition in a targeted manner. We hope that the world championships will perform better. At the same time, we hope that all Chinese athletes will get better and better and achieve good results.”
Another pair of Chinese combination Peng Cheng/Jin Yang won the bronze medal. The two said that they could have played better in this competition, but there were still some problems in the process. After returning home, they will continue to carry out targeted training, hoping to have a better performance in the world championships.