Return to the international arena The Air Skills World Cup China team showed good form

The second world cup of the 2021/2022 freestyle skiing aerial skills ended last week, and the new season had two consecutive World Cups held in Luka, Finland, after a full season absence, the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills national training team returned to the field and showed a good state, with a total of 4 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze in the two races, especially in the mixed team competition of the new project of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

In the women's competition, from the first to the second stop, Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu and Shao Qi all took the podium, and Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu won the championship in the first race. Among them, Xu Mengtao, a veteran born in 1990, performed the most stably, winning 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in two consecutive individual competitions, and the number of individual World Cup champions reached 26, becoming the player who won the most in the World Cup in the air skill world cup in history. At the same time, in the windy weather of the second stop, when the other players chose the two-week platform, Xu Mengtao still completed the three-week platform action.

In the men's competition, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu will gradually improve their status from 1 silver medal in the first station to 1 silver and 1 bronze in the second station. In the first two matches of the World Cup, only Jia Zongyang won 1 silver medal, and Qi Guangpu made consecutive mistakes and failed to enter the final. After a week of adjustment, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu in the second stop were more accustomed to the rhythm of the game. Especially in the first men's match, the two have a high success rate, which has an impact on the Russian star Maxim Bloff, although it failed to defeat the opponent in the end, but also made the opponent feel pressure.

Mixed team competitions are undoubtedly the biggest attraction of this season's Aerial Skills World Cup. As a new event of the Beijing Winter Olympics, it represents the overall strength of a team. In two consecutive World Cups, the Chinese team laughed to the end. In the first mixed team competition, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu adjusted their poor state in the individual competition in time, and together with Xu Mengtao, they won the championship with a total score of 343.24 points, and the second place Russian Ski Association team scored 326.48 points. In the second mixed team match, the Chinese team made fine-tuning the lineup, and Sun Jiaxu, a young player born in 1999, replaced the veteran Jia Zongyang and played with Xu Mengtao and Qi Guangpu. The "old and new" played steadily in both the qualifiers and the finals, leading second-placed U.S. team by 39.21 points with 354.87 points, which also surpassed the previous race's winning score. The two consecutive World Cup team matches have reached the top, indicating that the Chinese team has shown a certain group advantage in the aerial skills event.

Judging from the first two World Cups of the new season, the women's event shows a more open competitive pattern, and Chinese players occupy certain advantages, but they need better on-the-spot play. The men's event is Maxim Bloff's "one-horse" situation, other players are constantly attacking him, and Chinese players are also improving their status through competition. The mixed team event is the dominant project of the Chinese team, and the coaching team can check the status of the team members through the World Cup, find the best candidate configuration, and achieve a breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Olympics.