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Why are the main players in American figure skating basically of Chinese descent, but the results of Chinese men's and women's figure skating are average?

Chen Wei won the men’s singles figure skating championship. Throughout the many Winter Olympics that the United States has participated in, Asian skaters have competed in figure skating and achieved excellent results. Why do Asian skaters dominate U.S. figure skating? Fundamentally, there are both cultural reasons, economic reasons, and social reasons for Asians living and developing in the United States.

"Embark on the journey, here I come to Beijing." 21-year-old Zhou Zhifang wrote on his social networking site that he is full of expectations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Similarly, Chen Wei, who won the men's singles championship at the National Figure Skating Championships for the sixth time, also hopes to realize his dream in Beijing.

This is their second Winter Olympics. They first set foot on the Olympic stadium in PyeongChang 4 years ago. At that time, there were 14 athletes in the U.S. figure skating delegation, 7 of whom were Asian faces, namely Chen Wei, Zhou Zhifang, Chen Kaiwen, Madison Chalk, Nagasu Mirai and ice dancers Shibuya brother and sister. The emergence of these Asian players is not an isolated phenomenon, but the result of inheritance from generation to generation. Every player watches the games of the previous generation, is inspired and inspired by them, and then continues to move forward along the path of their idols.

The figure skating team competition consists of four events: men's singles, women's singles, pairs skating and ice dance. Each team consists of 1 female single skater and 1 male single skater who have qualified for individual events. It consists of six members, including skaters, a pair of pairs skaters and a pair of ice dancers. In the competition, each event will compete in the short program first, and the top five skaters can enter the free skate event, and the champion will be finally determined.

At the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Chinese team ranked seventh in the team competition and failed to advance to the second stage. At the Pingchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese team sent Yan Han, Li Xiangning, Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao and Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu to participate in the team competition. In the men's singles and pairs skating competitions, the Chinese team ranked seventh and fifth respectively, with 10 points. In the ice dance event, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu scored 56.98 points, ranking seventh, and scored 4 points for the Chinese team. Li Xiangning scored 58.62 points in the women's singles short program, also ranked seventh, scoring 4 points. In the end, the Chinese team ranked sixth and missed the chance to advance to the second stage.

In order to select the best talents, the Chinese figure skating team launched nearly a month of Winter Olympic trials for men's and women's singles qualifications. Jin Boyang had higher points in the men's singles competition and was significantly ahead of the competition. Opponent Chen Yudong thus obtained a ticket to the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The power of idols, relatively well-to-do families, perseverance and willingness to devote themselves to their children, as well as the strong professional ethics, perseverance, determination and focus of the Asian players themselves, This allows them to emerge in large numbers as elites in this niche project. Although they only account for 5-6% of the total population of the United States, more than 40% of the top American athletes in men's and women's single skating are Asian.

Talents continue to pour into this project, and quantitative changes accumulate to a certain extent, resulting in qualitative changes, and top players appear one after another - these players have given hope to generations of young people, and finally the last 40 years have emerged. The U.S. figure skating team in 2016 is full of East Asian faces. Although it seems that American figure skating is "dominated" by Asians in terms of the number of people, participation and competition results, in fact this is both an active choice and a passive helplessness.