Snowboarding is a young member of the Winter Olympic family, and it was only officially contested at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, snowboarding has 11 sub-events of male and female parallel giant slalom, obstacle chase, U-shaped track skills, slope obstacle course skills, big jumping platform and obstacle chase mixed groups, of which the obstacle chase mixed group is a new small event.
U-shaped venue masters gather
This season's snowboard U-field World Cup has a total of three stops, The Chinese players performed quite well, and finally won 4 women, 3 men and 7 Winter Olympic tickets, of which the women's team achieved full participation, the women's team is Cai Xuetong, Liu Jiayu, Wu Shaotong, Qiu Leng, and the men's team is Wang Ziyang, Gu Ao, Fan Xuebing.
On December 11, 2021, local time, Cai Xuetong was in the game. On the same day, the 2021-2022 FIS Snowboard U-Field World Cup in the United States Tongshan Station came to an end, and Cai Xuetong, who is now the world's second-ranked Chinese star, won the crown with a score of 80.50 points in the women's final. Xinhua News Agency/Midland
This season, Cai Xuetong was in excellent form, winning the World Cup Bronze Mountain Station and the Mammoth Mountain Station Runner-up, and won the overall championship, which is also the third consecutive season that she has won the annual championship of the project. Four years ago at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Liu Jiayu won a silver medal, achieving a "zero breakthrough" in the history of the Winter Olympics for China's snowboarding projects. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the two "elders of the four dynasties" will once again attack the champions.
As the women's U-shaped venue champion in snowboarding at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, American star Chloe King easily won the world cup in just one world cup this season, and she also won the top commercial event Fluxus Tour, which is superior in both the difficulty of the action and the stability. In addition, Japan's Tomita Senna, Mitsuki Ono and Spanish veteran Castellet all have the ability to win gold.
Speaking of the men's U-shaped track skills of snowboarding, we have to mention the American star Sean White. Born in 1986, Sean White is considered one of the greatest athletes in the history of snowboarding, having won three Winter Olympics titles in 2006, 2010 and 2018. At lex at this month's World Cup, Sean White won a bronze medal to qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics, which will also be his fifth Olympic trip.
It is worth noting that japanese male players have obvious advantages in this project. All three World Cup titles this season have been pocketed by Japanese players. Among them, the two-time Winter Olympics runner-up Hirano Bumon won two consecutive championships and won the annual championship, Hirano Ryuka won the Bronze Mountain Station, and the 2021 World Championship champion Totsuka Yudou was also outstanding.
Su Yiming looks forward to creating history again
Like freestyle skiing, snowboarding is also a combined ranking of Winter Olympic points in both slope obstacle courses and big jumping, and players must be both. China eventually won 1 men and 1 woman and 2 Winter Olympic places, the men's team was Su Yiming, and the women's team was Jung.
On December 4, 2021, local time, Su Yiming (center) at the award ceremony. On the same day, in the men's competition of the 2021-2022 Snowboard Jumping World Cup in the United States Templebot, China's Su Yiming won the championship with a total score of 155.25 points. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Li Yang)
Born in 2004, Su Yiming is a star of hope in China's snowboarding industry. In December last year, at the Grand Jump World Cup in the United States, Su Yiming advanced to the final with 93 points in the preliminaries, becoming the first Chinese male player to reach the final of the Snowboard Jump world cup. In the final, Su Yiming won the championship with 155.25 points in two rounds, which was the first World Cup title won by a Chinese player in the snowboard jump, and he also won the World Cup overall championship, which made him "feel like a dream now".
Previously, he successfully completed the ultra-difficult action of the inner rotation 1980-degree grab in training, becoming the first athlete in the world to complete this action, and this challenge was also certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Su Yiming said that he would make unremitting efforts to create more world records, and would keep the good state, achieve better results at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and win glory for the country.
In the women's side, whether American star Jamie Anderson can achieve a three-game championship in slope obstacle course skills is worrying. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, snowboard slope obstacle course became an official event, and Jamie Anderson won the first Winter Olympic gold medal in the event. Four years later, she successfully defended her title in Pyeongchang and became the first female athlete to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympics in snowboarding, in addition to winning a silver medal in the big jump event.
In the parallel giant slalom and obstacle chase events, there is still a big gap between Chinese players and the world's top players. Zang Ruxin and Gong Naiying of the parallel giant slalom women's team both surpassed the Olympic points entry line to win 2 Olympic seats for China, and the men's team BiYe successfully activated 1 host list. In the obstacle course, China only won 1 host place in the women's event, and the 18-year-old Yongqing Ram will represent China.