The first crown of the new year! Gu Ailing won the U-shaped venue World Cup again

【Global Times special reporter Xu Yunfeng】The first crown of the new year! On the 2nd, Gu Ailing won the championship with 92.80 points in the second round of the Freestyle Ski U-Field World Cup in Calgary, and her teammates Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui ranked 5th and 7th respectively. This is Gu Ailing's back-to-back double crown in Calgary and the first World Series champion of 2022 in Chinese sports.

After the competition, Gu Ailing became the triple crown of the three women's U-field World Cups this season, and continued to lead the World Cup U-shaped venue single standings and skill events (including U-shaped venues, slope obstacles, big jumps) overall standings. Reuters said the first round was disappointing, but Gu Ailing quickly recovered, winning the U-field World Cup for the second time in three days, and she remained unbeaten in three U-field World Cups so far this season.

Also coming to Calgary is China's Su Yiming, who finished 6th with 79.05 points at the Snowboard Slope Obstacle Course World Cup that ended on the 2nd. "China's youngsters Zhang Kexin and Su Yiming are impressive, and Gu Ailing once again reached the top podium of the World Cup," said Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, who expanded the lead in the overall World Cup rankings and "had a good little Slam moment.".

This season, Gu Ailing has fought in the three lines of U-shaped fields, slope obstacles and big jumps, and reaching the podium has become her "standard". In addition to winning the U-Shaped Venue World Cup three times, Gu Ailing also won the Grand Jump World Cup for the first time in the United States' Steamboat in November last year.

In addition, at the US Dew Tour last December, Gu Ailing won the U-shaped field championship and the slope obstacle course runner-up. According to the South China Morning Post, Gu Ailing continued the record of winning consecutive victories in the main freestyle skiing event since winning the double gold medal in the U-shaped field and slope obstacle course of the World Championships in February last year. British media "Arena Insider" said that Gu Ailing, who has the hope of playing the Beijing Winter Olympics in the "full attendance" of the triathlon, "looks in good shape" before the Winter Olympics.

It is reported that Gu Ailing's next stop will be to the American Mammoth Mountain, and the U-shaped track and slope obstacle course World Cup will start this weekend. She previously missed the Slope Obstacle Course World Cup in Stubai, Austria, due to injury, and will strive to unlock the project's first World Cup title of the season.