The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics freestyle ski program has 6 categories, namely aerial skills, snow skills, obstacle chases, U-shaped track skills, slope obstacle course skills and big jumping platforms. Among them, the mixed team of men's and women's big jumping platforms and aerial skills is a new sub-event of this Winter Olympic Games. A total of 13 gold medals will be produced in the freestyle skiing competition, which is also the event with the most gold medals in the snow sports of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Air Skills Chinese team is strong
The Chinese team has developed rapidly in freestyle skiing aerial skills and has achieved a series of good results. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Han Xiaopeng won the men's aerial skills championship, becoming the first male athlete in China to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, which was also China's first Winter Olympic gold medal in snow sports. As of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese team has won a total of 1 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze in freestyle skiing aerial skills.
Affected by the epidemic, the freestyle skiing aerial skills national training team has been away from the international arena for a long time. In the 2021-2022 season, Chinese athletes began to participate in international competitions to compete for tickets to the Winter Olympics, while other teams have previously competed in eight Olympic points races, which is difficult to imagine.
The 10 players who played in the women's team Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Xu Sicun, Xu Nuo, Shao Qi and the men's team Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu, Sun Jiaxu, Yang Longxiao and Wang Xindi faced pressure and played well in the six World Cups held before the Beijing Winter Olympics, and finally won 4 men and 3 women with a total of 7 Winter Olympic places.
On January 12, local time, champion Wang Xindi (middle), runner-up Yang Longxiao (right) and runner-up Sun Jiaxu celebrated at the award ceremony. On the same day, in the men's aerial skills competition of the Freestyle Skiing World Cup held in Park City, USA, the Chinese men's team won the first and second places. Xinhua News Agency/Midland
Among them, Kong Fanyu won the gold in the first leg, and Xu Mengtao won the championship twice, increasing the number of individual World Cup sub-station championships to 27, becoming the first person in the history of the World Cup in the project. In the men's team, Sun Jiaxu and Wang Xindi won one championship each, and the Chinese team won the top three in Park City, USA. In addition, the Chinese team has won the mixed team championship twice, which has an advantage in this new sub-event.
According to the INTERNATIONAL Snow Federation points ranking, Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu and Shao Qi have been confirmed to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Xu Mengtao can be said to be the leader of China's freestyle skiing aerial skills team. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, she finished 6th at the age of 20; at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal for the Chinese delegation; four years ago, Xu Mengtao played poorly and regretted not being able to reach the final round, hating Pyeongchang. The Beijing Winter Olympics will be Xu Mengtao's fourth winter Olympic tour, and standing on the highest podium is also her biggest goal.
U-shaped field Chinese team full participation Gu Ailing is a triathlon
A few days ago, the International Snow Federation confirmed and redistributed the qualifications of each project, and China got a total of 8 tickets for 4 men and 4 women in the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing U-shaped venue project, achieving full participation, which is not easy for Chinese players who only built a team in 2016.
On January 8, local time, China's Gu Ailing won the U-shaped field project at the International Snow Federation Freestyle Skiing World Cup at the Mammoth Mountain Station in the United States, and at the same time won the crystal ball symbolizing the overall championship of the project season with the result of four victories in the U-shaped field project of the World Cup this season. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Li Yang)
According to the points situation, the women's team is Gu Ailing, Zhang Kexin, Li Fanghui and Wu Meng, and the men's team is Mao Bingqiang, Sun Jinbo, Wang Haizhuo and He Binghan. Among them, Gu Ailing, born in 2003, is undoubtedly the biggest favorite to win the championship. This season, she won four World Cups and won the overall championship of the season. Born in 2002, Zhang Kexin is also very strong, she finished 9th at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and this season she broke into the top 8 in all four World Cups and won a bronze medal.
According to the rules, freestyle ski slope obstacle skills and big jumping Winter Olympic points are combined, athletes must be combined, and a total of 30 men and women participate in the Winter Olympics. In the end, China won 2 women's places, which is also the first time that Chinese athletes have qualified for the Winter Olympics in these two events, creating a new history.
In the standings, a total of 5 Chinese female athletes have reached the minimum participation standards of the Winter Olympics, and Gu Ailing has qualified for the Winter Olympics with the victory of the World Cup in the United States Stembot Station. However, compared with U-shaped venue skills, It is not easy for Gu Ailing to win in the two events of slope obstacle course skills and big jumping platforms.
This season, Estonian star Sildaru has performed steadily in the slope sculpting event, winning two World Cup titles, including Mammoth Mountain in the United States with a high score of 93.75 points, and Gu Ailing was runner-up with 91 points in that race. It is believed that in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the two will continue to stage a wonderful duel.
In the big jump event, at the just-concluded 2022 X Games World Extreme Games, the French teenager Tess Ludd, who is now the world number one, performed amazingly, successfully completing the ultra-difficult action of 1620 degree rotation, becoming the first female player in history to complete the action, and won the championship with 94 points. For Gu Ailing, in order to achieve good results on his own sub-event big jump, this strong opponent should not be underestimated, and his own stable performance is the primary condition.
In addition, in the snow skills event, China won a total of 1 male and 1 female for 2 Winter Olympics places, and in the obstacle course, China won 1 women's place. The Beijing Winter Olympic Freestyle Ski Competition will start on February 3 and last until February 19, a total of 14 competition days, let us look forward to more breakthroughs in the snow sports of Chinese athletes!