U-Shaped Venue Skills World Cup: Season Return Debut Cai Xuetong won the 13th World Cup crown

On December 11, local time, the first leg of the new season of the Snowboard U-Shaped Venue World Cup ended in Copper Mountain, usa, and Cai Xuetong, who missed last season's international events due to the epidemic, won the championship with 80.50 points, perfectly completing the "return" debut. Another Chinese player, Wu Shaotong, who reached the final, made mistakes in three slides and finished eighth. Pyeongchang Winter Olympic runner-up Liu Jiayu stopped qualifying and finished in 9th place.

Before the game, the official prospect of the International Snow Federation was already looking forward to the performance of Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu returning to the international arena. In the absence of Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Chloe King and his teammate Mastro in the season opener, Cai Xuetong, who has always had good results in the International Snow League, has been pinned on high hopes. However, Cai Xuetong, who advanced as the first in the preliminary round, still encountered a "shock" in the final. Compared with the bad weather in the final of the U-shaped venue of the previous day's freestyle skiing, the weather in Copper Mountain turned sunny on Saturday, but the state of the skaters who participated in the final was in stark contrast to the good weather - the 18 skaters in the men's and women's groups could not do three slides without mistakes.

Tsai scored 70.75 points on her first skid in the final, second in the game, behind Japan's Tomita Seta. In the second skate, Cai Xuetong only scored 36.25 points because she fell down when completing the action, which also means that if she wants to make her ranking further, she can only take out a better state in the third taxi. On the last glide, Cai Xuetong successfully completed the difficult actions such as turning 900 degrees of The Weeddle grab board and then turning the inside of the 540 degree Weeddle grab board and the 900 degrees of reverse foot turning at the end, and became the only player in the whole field to break through the 80-point mark and "counterattack" to win the championship.

After the game, Cai Xuetong's self-evaluation of the final process was somewhat difficult, and she revealed that she also had some discomfort in her shoulders after the second slide fall, but fortunately it was not a big problem, and she also successfully completed the third slide. After a full season of absence, being able to return to the field and make a difference is also very important for her at this stage. "The Chinese team has been training last year, so I'm really excited to be back on the field." Cai Xuetong said in an interview with the International Snow Federation, "Now I am also coming step by step, hoping to have a good performance in every game and meet the Winter Olympics with confidence." ”

After winning the Tongshan Station, Cai Xuetong's total number of World Cup champions also came to 13. The record number of World Cup wins in snowboarding is held by American Tricia Burns, who has a total of 15 titles under his name, and Cai Xuetong is also getting closer to this goal. In the 38 World Cup events in which Cai Xuetong has participated, she has stood on the podium a total of 28 times, and she still holds a record for the number of times she has appeared on stage.

(Source: Sports Weekly)