In the early morning of December 12, Beijing time, the Firth International Snow Federation Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills World Cup lucca station in Finland came to an end. Xu Mengtao, who failed to win the championship in the individual event, partnered Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu in the mixed team competition to win the championship with 354.87 points. This is the Chinese team's two consecutive World Cup summits. In the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese Ice and Snow Army will add another gold point.
In the past two weeks, the International Snow Federation has held two consecutive freestyle skiing aerial skills World Cups in Lucca, Finland, and Xu Mengtao won her 27th World Cup in the first race, becoming the king of the number of champions in the project. Later, in the second week of the competition, Xu Mengtao won a bronze medal in the individual event with a steady performance.
Compared with individual events, the Chinese Air Skills Team is more powerful in the mixed team, a new Olympic event. In the last race, the Chinese team won the championship. In the second leg, the Chinese team changed the lineup, replacing Jia Zongyang with Sun Jiaxu, and once again launched an attack on the championship. Xu Mengtao, Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu played steadily in the preliminary round, jumping out of 338.30 points to rank first. In the final, the Chinese team lineup remained unchanged, Xu Mengtao scored 100.29 points, Sun Jiaxu scored 127.88 points, Qi Guangpu scored 126.70 points, and the total score of the Chinese team was 354.87 points, reaching the top for two consecutive stops. The U.S. team finished second with 315.66 points.
Judging from the results of the two Air Skills World Cups at the beginning of the new season, the Chinese team faces challenges from strong teams such as Russia, the United States, Belarus and Australia in individual events. In the new Olympic sports mixed team competition, the Chinese team is more balanced than the strength of male and female players, and there are more high-level players who can play, so they have certain advantages. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, as long as the Chinese team plays normally, it is very promising to win the gold medal in the air skill mixed team event.
A few hours after the Chinese Aerial Skills team team won the championship, the first snowboard world cup of the new season in the United States, the women's U-shaped venue final, was reported again, and China's Cai Xuetong relied on the excellent performance in the third round to reverse Japan's Fukuda Senna with 80.50 points to win the first world cup of the new season. In the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong will impact the medals and even gold medals of the Winter Olympics for the fourth time.
After missing the last snow season due to the epidemic, Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu led the Chinese snowboard team to compete in the World Cup this season and actively prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the Tongshan Station competition, Cai Xuetong played well in the qualifiers, ranking first in the group, and entered the final with teammate Wu Shaotong. Liu Jiayu was only one missing promotion.
In the first round of the final, Cai Xuetong completed a decent job, ranking second with 70.75 points. In the second round, Cai Xuetong made a mistake and scored only 36.25 points. In the third round, Cai Xuetong completed the action with high quality and jumped to the first place with 80.50 points. In the end, Cai Xuetong won the championship with an outstanding performance in the third round to reverse Japan's Fukuda Senna with 80.50 points.
The 29-year-old Cai Xuetong is already the elder of the three dynasties of the Winter Olympics, and at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong, who was only 17 years old, stood on the Olympic field for the first time. Since then, due to injuries and on-the-spot play problems, Cai Xuetong lost medals at the Sochi Winter Olympics and the Pingchang Winter Olympics. Teammate Liu Jiayu won a silver medal at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. At the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong will once again attack the Olympic medals and even gold medals.
Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng