What are the highlights of freestyle skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics? Read it all!

As a derivative of alpine skiing, freestyle skiing is known as the "extreme sport" in ice and snow sports, and players need to show a variety of gorgeous and exciting actions such as jumping, flip, and turning, which is extremely difficult to complete and very ornamental. Freestyle skiing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will compete in 13 events, including two new events – the men's and women's freestyle ski jumps and the freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team event. From February 3rd to February 19th, Genting Ski Park and Shougang Ski Jumping Platform will welcome the snow ballet show of extreme "dancers".

Star player

Mikael Kingsbury

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Canadian Mikaire Kingsbury won the men's snow skills championship and is one of the most successful snow skits of all time. Kingsbury set a number of records, and the number of men's snow skills World Cup championships and world cup wins in the world cup are the highest in history. He is also the male athlete with the highest number of medals won in the history of the Freestyle Ski World Championships (all men's events are included). In addition, Kingsbury is the defending World Cup champion of Snow Skills and Double Snow Skills.

Perrin La Fonte

As the women's snow skills champion at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Perrin La fonte was also the winner of the Crystal Ball Trophy (awarded to the highest ranking person in the season standings for individual and overall results) of the freestyle skiing season, and won the gold medal in women's snow skills at the 2021 World Championships.

Kathy Sharp

Canadian Kathy Sharp, winner of U-shaped venue skills at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, has won Super U-Shaped Venue Skills medals (silver in 2021, bronze in 2020 and 2019) at the World Extreme Games for the past three years. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Sharp may face challenges from China's "super rookie" Gu Ailing. At the 2021 World Championships, Gu Ailing won gold medals in U-shaped track skills and slope obstacle course skills.

David Wise

Two-time Winter Olympic gold medalist (2014 and 2018) American David Wise is a superstar in the men's U-shaped track skills event. At the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, he will face challenges from team mate U.S. team mate and two-time World Champion Alan Brunck, as well as 2018 Winter Olympics bronze medalist and 2021 World Champion New Zealand's Nico Portius.

What to watch in the game

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, freestyle skiing debuted as a showcase event, and in 1992 the project was officially included in the official olympic competition. Since then, freestyle skiing has added obstacle course chases, U-shaped course skills and slope obstacle course skills. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will add men's and women's freestyle ski jumping and freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team competitions.

The Aerial Skills, U-Shapes, Slope Obstacle Courses and Snow Skills all require a referee's score. A panel of judges scores the athletes based on the difficulty and degree of completion of each slide. In the Big Jump competition, participants earn points through the height and distance of the jump. Unlike other freestyle skiing events, the freestyle steeplechase is a time trial rather than a scoreboard, with the first runner to reach the finish line winning.

In the winter Olympics freestyle skiing, Canada and the United States dominated the position, with each country winning 25 medals. Among them, in the number of gold medals, Canada leads with 12, and the United States has 9. The freestyle skier who won the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympics was Norwegian athlete Kary Terra, who held a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

Schedule

For more information, stay tuned to the Winter Olympics.

Client The Winter Olympics

Edited by Han Ye

Process Editor Wu Yue