Recently, in the qualification confirmation and redistribution system of the International Snow Federation, China has harvested the quota of athletes participating in the 4th Winter Olympics with freestyle skiing men's U-shaped track skills, coupled with the 7 tickets that have been obtained before 4 women and 3 men, so far, the freestyle skiing U-shaped venue national training team has achieved the goal of full participation.
On January 9, at the end of the four races of the 2021-2022 FIS Freestyle Ski U-Field World Cup, Chinese athletes directly qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics with 4 women and 3 men, with a total of 7 Winter Olympic tickets in hand. Among them, Chinese female athletes won 4 full tickets for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Chinese male athletes won three tickets to the Winter Olympics, one step away from the full quota. Because at that time, He Binghan ranked first in the Winter Olympics alternate qualification list, which meant that once players from other teams withdrew, He Binghan would be a successful candidate to help the team get the fourth Winter Olympic ticket for the men's event.
From January 17 to 20, Beijing time, the International Snow Federation confirmed and redistributed the qualifications of each project. He Binghan was successful in waiting, and China gained the fourth quota of athletes in the freestyle ski men's U-shaped track skills, achieving the goal of 4 men and 4 women.
Zhang Kexin (data map)
The freestyle ski U-shaped venue is the "young face" of the Winter Olympics, a sport that has only joined the Winter Olympic family since the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. China only established a national training team in 2016. Four years ago, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics was China's first participation in the event, when only Zhang Kexin, Wu Meng, Chai Hong, Mao Bingqiang, Kong Xiangrui, 3 women and 2 men competed, and finally only Zhang Kexin entered the final. Four years later, China has made progress on this project, with the number of participants reaching full.
On January 19, the Winter Games Center of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China announced the "Measures for the Selection of Athletes Participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics in the Freestyle Ski U-Shaped Venue Project", in which the basic requirements for participation in the selection are: According to the requirements of the International Olympic Committee and the International Snow Federation, athletes participating in the Winter Olympic Games need to win at least one World Cup or the top 30 of the World Championships between July 1, 2019 and January 16, 2022. And you need to have at least 50 FIS points in the FIS points table published on 17 January 2022. The selection method is that the athletes who have won the Individual World Cup in the 2021-2022 season are directly selected, and the remaining places are selected from the athletes who meet the selection requirements according to the number of national places obtained by China according to the international snow federation points list announced by the International Snow Federation on January 17, 2022.
Gu Ailing won the overall championship of this season's freestyle skiing U-shaped track season
In the 2021-2022 season, the national training team of freestyle skiing U-shaped venues has a total of 4 male players and 5 female players participating in the World Cup, all of whom meet the selection requirements and will select 4 men and 4 women to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the women's side, Gu Ailing won four World Cup championships and directly qualified for the Winter Olympics, and the remaining Zhang Kexin, Li Fanghui and Wu Meng, in the INTERNATIONAL Snow Federation points list released by the FIS on January 17, 2022, ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively in China, and Zhang Ziyi, who ranked 5th, was not selected for the Winter Olympic team.
Only 4 people in the men's side met the selection requirements, so Mao Bingqiang, He Binghan, Sun Jingbo and Wang Haizhuo were all selected for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, China has achieved a new breakthrough in the number of participants in the freestyle ski U-shaped field event, and it is expected that the team led by Gu Ailing can also achieve a new breakthrough in the competition results.