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In the history of the Winter Olympics, Chinese ice and snow athletes have won a total of 13 Gold Medals in the Winter Olympics, and the only gold medal in snow sports was won by Han Xiaopeng at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. After years of unremitting efforts, China's snow sports have achieved leapfrog development and are reversing the situation of "ice is strong and snow is weak", and as Gu Ailing, Cai Xuetong, Xu Mengtao and other athletes have repeatedly achieved good results in international competitions, people are also full of expectations for the Chinese Snow Army to achieve breakthroughs in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
After successfully completing two difficult maneuvers of 900 degrees in the air, Gu Ailing won the women's division of the World Cup of Freestyle Skiing U-Shaped Tracks world cup at Mammoth Mountain in the United States with a high score of 97.5 points, and the talented girl also won the overall championship of the 2021-2022 season.
Gu Ailing
Chinese freestyle skier
The prize is from all the World Cups combined, so I've won all the U-Pool World Cups this year, so for me, this one is a great way to learn because I'm younger and have less experience in the game.
As the most concerned Chinese athlete at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing has been surprising people. At the beginning of last year, she competed with an injury and achieved U-shaped track skills, slope obstacle course skills, and big jumps in 2 gold and 1 bronze in her first world championship trip. She then missed the freestyle slope obstacle course world cup in Stubai, Austria, due to an injury. It wasn't until December that Gu Ailing started her new season, but when she stepped on the field, she was invincible. Since its season debut in December last year, it has won six titles in 36 days. The International Snow Federation posted on its website that Gu Ailing did nothing but win this season.
In the eyes of the outside world, Gu Ailing's advantages in U-shaped venue skills and slope obstacle skills are obvious, and it is undoubtedly a favorite to win the championship, and the accident and variables of the secondary big jump are even greater. But in the World Cup of the Stimbot Grand Jump in the United States, she became the first female athlete to complete the front flip for two weeks and four weeks of rotation, holding a move that could impact the big jump champion. Gu Ailing is in good shape, and she is not alone, Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui, they formed a strong group in the Chinese freestyle ski U-shaped field project, and are expected to launch a strong impact on the gold, silver and bronze medals of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
All athletes go and enjoy, come on! Anyway, this is also my first time to participate in the Winter Olympics, so I always want to remember to enjoy in the process of the game, don't forget that this is a thing I like to do, is a lot of people do not have the opportunity to experience a thing, so it is a fun thing, do not feel too much pressure.
The freestyle ski aerial skills event once carried the glory of China's snow sports, 16 years ago, China's Han Xiaopeng won the men's aerial skills championship at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and he is also The first male athlete in China to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, which is also the first and only Winter Olympic gold medal in China's snow sports.
Nowadays, freestyle skiing aerial skills have become the traditional advantages of the Chinese team, the Beijing Winter Olympics, led by the veteran Xu Mengtao 7 people to play, the team not only has veteran Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu sitting in the town, but also has Shao Qi, Wang Xindi and other rookies. In the FIS Freestyle SkiIng Aerial Skills Competition in Lucca, Finland, which ended in early December last year, the Chinese team with different combinations won the mixed team gold medal twice, showing a strong advantage. As a new event of this Winter Olympic Games, the mixed team is undoubtedly one of the gold points of the Chinese team. At the same time, there is also a strong competitiveness in individual sports, such as Xu Mengtao, who holds 27 World Cup individual gold medals, but the three Previous Winter Olympics have missed the gold medal, and the best result is the silver medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics. Therefore, this "veteran" is also very eager to realize his gold medal dream at this year's Beijing Winter Olympics. Pyeongchang Winter Olympics women's bronze medalist Kong Fanyu, men's runner-up Jia Zongyang, veteran Qi Guangpu, etc. will also be the gold points of the Chinese Air Skills Team, plus rising star Sun Jiaxu, who will also join hands to launch an attack on the gold medal.
Xu Mengtao
Member of the Chinese Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Team
I hope to show the best performance of my training, reserve and best performance in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and bloom the Beijing Winter Olympic Games with my most perfect movements.
The snowboarding U-shaped track skill team is a world-class snow top soldier, and liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong, two veterans, will usher in their fourth winter Olympic journey. At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, Liu Jiayu won a silver medal, the first medal won by a Chinese athlete on the field of the Olympic women's U-shaped pool of snowboarding. In the Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu will join forces to challenge the limits and launch an attack on the gold medal.
Chinese snow athletes have not only delivered satisfactory answers in the competition for seats in traditional advantageous projects, but also made great progress in snowboarding, and Su Yiming has reached the international first-line level in the big jumping event. At the Snowboard Jump World Cup at the end of 2021, Su Yiming made a splash, winning the championship in the first final, creating the history of China's snowboard big jump project, and currently the snowboard slope obstacle skills are also "seeking a breakthrough".
Although China's ski jump started late, the cycle of the Beijing Winter Olympics has improved rapidly. Since 2018, the ski jumping training team has added a lot of fresh blood through cross-border cross-sports selection, even though the overall competitive level of the team is still far from the world's top athletes, but the Chinese athletes will do their best to show the training results at the Beijing Winter Olympics and strive to play the best level.
On November 27 last year, at the ITB Nordic Intercontinental Cup in Lower Tagil, Russia, China's Zhao Jiawen won the 22nd place in the men's individual standard platform + 10 km cross-country skiing, achieving a breakthrough of zero for the Chinese team to qualify for the first Nordic biathlon in the Winter Olympics in history.
Since May last year, the national cross-country skiing training team has basically maintained that the training team has basically participated in the International Snow Federation points competition once a month, and the results of the phased training are tested through the competition. The Chinese cross-country skiing team has won all 12 sub-event places in cross-country skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, with a total quota of 4 males and 4 female athletes. Meanwhile, the Chinese biathlon team has been working hard for the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the Chinese biathlon team, led by biathlon king Bjør Darren and his wife Domraceva, is looking forward to making a breakthrough in the event.
The Chinese alpine ski team also continues to send good news in this Winter Olympic preparation period, in the Austrian Leitram women's super giant slalom event International Snow Federation points race, Kong Fanying, who has previously qualified for the downhill, slalom, big slalom and all-around 4 sub-events, won the super big slalom Beijing Winter Olympics participation seat, becoming the first female athlete of the national alpine ski team to meet the standard in all 5 individual events. In addition, Zhang Yangming and Xu Mingfu have previously qualified for 5 men's individual events, and the Chinese Alpine Ski Team has achieved full participation in 11 sub-events, including mixed teams.
In 2015, China successively established a national team of bobsleighs, steel frame bobsleighs and bobsleighs, and in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, it first appeared in preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Tianjin steel frame snowmobile player Yan Wengang is not bad, tianjin snowmobile athlete Ding Song also has the ability. Riding the Snow Dragon Circuit, Tianjin athletes will show the world "Chinese speed".