With the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics less than two months away, athletes are also preparing for the sprint. Since the beginning of winter, the World Cup sub-stations of various projects of the International Snow Federation have been launched one after another, and chinese athletes have reported successes frequently, which has also made people see the hope of a breakthrough in China's snow sports at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Late on the night of December 11, Beijing time, the 2021/22 FIS Freestyle SkiIng Aerial Skills World Cup in Ruka, Finland ended, and the Chinese team composed of Xu Mengtao, Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu won the mixed team gold medal, and all three of them scored more than 100 points, and the final total score was 354.87 points, which was also the second time that the Chinese Air Skills team reached the top of the project after a week after winning the championship on December 4. The mixed team competition of aerial skills is a new event of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the balance of strength of male and female athletes will be a major advantage for the Chinese team to strive for the gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in this event.
A few hours after the Chinese air skills team won the world cup in Finland's Ruka station, in the early morning of December 12, Beijing time, the Chinese snow project came from the Tongshan station in the United States to win the good news. China's Cai Xuetong, now ranked second in the world, won the championship with 80.50 points in the women's final of the snowboard U-track. Cai Xuetong has won the FIS Snowboard U-Track World Cup overall points championship six times, and is the female player who has won the largest number of World Cup championships in the history of the project. It can be said that in this project, the Chinese team with the world's top athletes is also very promising to compete for the gold medal.
Also in the United States, the day before Cai Xuetong stood on the highest podium at Tongshan Station, Gu Ailing won the championship in the freestyle ski U-shaped track competition, defending his leading position in the project. A week ago, the star player just won the freestyle ski jumping event at the World Cup In Stimbot station in the United States, and completed a super difficult two-week flip of 1440 degrees, becoming the first woman in the world to complete the action, making history. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing had the strength to strike gold medals in three small events: freestyle skiing U-shaped tracks, slope obstacle courses and big jumps.
On the men's side, Chinese athletes also have the hope of winning gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the early morning of December 5, Beijing time, the same day that Gu Ailing won the big jump competition on his debut of the season, 17-year-old Chinese teenager Su Yiming made a splash at the World Cup In the United States Stimbot Station, with a total score of 155.25 points, he was also the first world champion of Chinese athletes in the snowboard big jump event, and he was also the only player in the race who took out 1800 degrees of difficult movements in the three jumps.
Winning six gold medals in four world cups in just one week shows that the Chinese team is expected to break the pattern of ice and snow sports at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Since 2002, when Yang Yang achieved zero winter Olympic gold medals for China in Salt Lake City, the Chinese delegation has won a total of 13 Winter Olympic gold medals so far, of which 12 gold medals come from the three ice events of short track speed skating, speed skating and figure skating, and the only gold medal in snow sports came from Han Xiaopeng's amazing jump in the men's freestyle skiing aerial skills event at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.
From the perspective of the classification of skiing, European and American athletes, especially European players, occupy an absolute advantage in the four traditional major events of cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic biathlon and alpine skiing, and china's current strategy of ice and snow is to strive to achieve breakthroughs in the two emerging sports of freestyle skiing and snowboarding. It can be seen that Chinese athletes currently have multiple gold rush points in this small event with high technical requirements in these two major events, and looking forward to the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, they are also expected to achieve a historic breakthrough in the Snow Sports of the Chinese team.