"Winter Olympic Events"
With 21 days to go until the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, today's "Winter Olympics Event", we will focus on the Chinese freestyle ski women's aerial skills team, which is regarded as the "dream team" of China's snow sports.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
The Chinese freestyle ski women's aerial skills team has always been regarded as the "dream team" of China's snow sports, and has emerged famous players such as Guo Dandan, Xu Yuanyuan, Li Nina, Xu Mengtao and so on. Although the girls have not yet fulfilled their wish to reach the highest podium of the Winter Olympics, in the Olympic arena, they are like "light chasers", always moving towards the goal of champions.
Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills were remembered by the world at the Winter Olympics, no doubt in Nagano, Japan in 1998. Three Chinese players advanced to the women's aerial skills final, and in the case of Ji Xiaoou's retirement due to injury before the game and Guo Dandan's mistake in the last jump, Xu Yuanyuan, who was only 19 years old at the time, won a valuable silver medal by dragging his arm that had been broken a month ago, and endured the injury, which was also the first medal of the Chinese delegation in the snow event at the Winter Olympics.
Until now, Wang Shi'an, the first international referee of freestyle skiing aerial skills and a professor at Shenyang Sports Institute, recalls that the Winter Olympics are still deeply remembered. He summed up the common memories of that stage by all freestyle skiing aerial and skill coaches and athletes with "Rather for jade crushing than for waquan".
According to Professor Wang Shi'an's narration, for aerial skill athletes, in the process of flipping in the air, as long as the heavens and the earth are connected together, it is basically equivalent to losing the direction and reference objects, and the only thing waiting for them is mistakes and injuries. At that Winter Olympics, Guo Dandan of Shenyang Sports Institute had problems in the last jump. From a height of more than 10 meters, Guo Dandan fell to the snow with a snowboard. At the moment of landing, Guo Dandan's body folded and rolled down the snow slope. She also knew that if she took off her shoes to treat the wound at this time, once her feet were congested, it would be difficult to wear them again.
Although the leader suggested that Guo Dandan retire, she cried and hoped to persevere. The women's final of the event was postponed by an unprecedented 15 minutes in the history of the Winter Olympics, which was the extra rest time that the technical representatives set aside for Guo Dandan. Unfortunately, Guo Dandan's feet could not even walk normally.
The 19-year-old Xu Yuanyuan also came to the team with an injury, carrying an arm that had been fractured a month before the game and enduring severe pain. By then she had forgotten the pain and replaced it with a call to duty. The second set of actions is a straight body flip one turn 360, followed by a straight body flip one turn body 720. The air movements were clean and clean, the landing session was perfectly successful, and Xu Yuanyuan scored 99.40 points.
The silver medal of Xu Yuanyuan was the first medal of The Chinese Snow Sports at the Winter Olympics, and the silver medal hanging from Xu Yuanyuan's neck opened the era of China's freestyle skiing aerial skills at the Winter Olympics.