Source: Sports Weekly
After three weeks of Christmas and New Year's off-season, the Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills World Cup resumed on January 5 in Quebec, Canada. There is no mixed team competition in this competition, and the Players of the Chinese team have their own wins in individual events. Xu Mengtao and Sun Jiaxu won the women's and men's championships respectively, in addition to Kong Fanyu also won the third place in the women's group, and Yang Longxiao won the second place in the men's group.
Xu Mengtao, who won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the Finnish Ruka competition in December, wore a yellow neck shirt to the final of the Canadian station. In the two rounds of the competition, Xu Mengtao still challenged two different three-week platform actions. In the second round of the competition to determine the championship, Xu Mengtao still completed the bLFF with a difficulty score of 4.028 (straight backflip three-turn 720 degrees), and scored a high score of 103.92 points. Xu Mengtao is also the only player in Canada to use this action, and also the only female player who scored more than 100 points in a single jump. So far this season, xu Mengtao has occasionally used two-week platform movements in the qualifiers, and has been challenging the three-week platform action in the final, and her actions when she won the second competition at Ruka Station were also extremely difficult bLFF. In an offseason interview, Xu Mengtao revealed that she hoped to find more problems through the World Cup competition, and the ultimate goal was to successfully complete the difficult action, rather than to reduce the difficulty in order to succeed. From the slight ups and downs in the four games and three weeks of the Ruka station, to the score of the Canadian station to break the hundred and win the championship, Xu Mengtao is indeed steadily moving towards his goal.
After reaching the top podium in Canada, Xu Mengtao's number of Individual World Cup titles has reached 27, and she continues to rewrite the record for the number of World Cup wins by freestyle skiers she holds. At the key node of the 30-day countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao also admitted that "it is of great significance". Xu Mengtao, who has won medals in four of her five World Cup matches this season, is also seen by the FIS as the biggest favourite to win the Beijing Winter Olympics. Xu Mengtao's teammate Kong Fanyu won a medal after the first week of the Luka station, and she is also the "second person" who maintains the difficulty of the two-week stage. However, in terms of competing for the Winter Olympics, at present, the Chinese women's team only has Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu and Shao Qi entering the top 30 places in the points, and Xu Promise and Xu Sicun are still far from the 30-place standard line, in the case of only one stop left in the World Cup, if the Chinese women's team wants to achieve the Winter Olympics 4 people full quota can be described as a challenge.
In the men's competition, the Russian star Maxim Bloff, who has been thriving in the past two seasons, was absent from this station, so the championship battle was even more suspenseful. Sun Jiaxu, a youngster who performed well in the team stage in the second week of Ruka Station, won the world cup championship with bdFFF (backflip three-turn 1440 degrees, first week plus turn) with a difficulty score of 4.525 points, and teammate Yang Longxiao scored the same points as Switzerland's Ji jia, but won the second place with a higher completion score. In addition, the Chinese team also had qi Guangpu and Wang Xindi, two players, who also entered the second round of the final, and won the fourth and fifth places respectively.
For the current Chinese men's team, and even other players in the international arena, it is like an "impossible task" to win in the same competition as Broff, but the performance of the two young players Sun Jiaxu and Yang Longxiao in this competition can still give us more hope. When jia zongyang and Qi Guangpu were in a slightly ups and downs in the injury and illness of the two veterans, the Chinese men's team still had a rising star to take on the heavy responsibility and climb the podium of the World Cup level event, which not only meant that we had more space in the lineup layout of the mixed team competition, but also the probability of hitting a single medal at home was also improved. In the current Winter Olympic qualification standings, the Chinese men's team also ensured that 4 people are within the standard line.
A week later, the Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills World Cup will usher in the last race before the Winter Olympics in Deer Valley, the United States, Xu Mengtao, who currently maintains the "yellow coat", is expected to continue to lead the World Cup standings before the Winter Olympics, and it is worth looking forward to whether the new veterans of the Chinese men's team can have another surprise performance.