Make your debut tomorrow! The first battle of the big jumping platform Gu Ailing faces fierce competition

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Jiantong, Ma Kai, Gao Meng, and Dong Yixing

From February 7 to 9, in Beijing's Shougang Park, the freestyle ski jump will make its debut in the history of the Winter Olympics.

As a new event added to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the visual effect of this "young" sport can be called "exploding". Since becoming an INTERNATIONAL SNOW FEDERATION World Championship and World Cup event, it has attracted the attention of ski enthusiasts around the world. What are the highlights of this winter Olympics? Can Gu Ailing successfully win the first gold of her three small events?

Although this project is the first time to enter the Winter Olympic family, the related international events are already very hot. Judging from the World Cup and world extreme games in recent snow seasons, its action difficulty and ornamentation have been continuously improved. Many athletes admit that the competition in this Winter Olympics will be very fierce.

Judging from the INTERNATIONAL Snow Federation point rankings and past achievements, athletes from Europe and the United States have obvious advantages. Chinese female athletes Gu Ailing, Yang Shuorui and male athlete He Jinbo will participate in the competition, of which Gu Ailing has the strength to compete with the world's top athletes.

Matilde Grimau, a young Swiss star who is currently no. 1 in the FIS's latest standings, is highly competitive. During the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, she had a high winning percentage at the World Cup and the World Extreme Games. She was also the first female freestyle ski jumper to complete a two-turn 1440-degree flip forward flip.

"I can realise that I may not be the only one to complete the 1440-degree movement at the Beijing Winter Olympics, there is good healthy competition in the freestyle ski women's big jump." Gremer said, "My goal at the Beijing Winter Olympics is to win another medal, any color. ”

In the World Cup competition at The Steamboat Station in the United States, Gu Ailing won the championship with a forward-sliding forward flip two-turn 1440-degree action. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, we will expect to see these two players make the most difficult move in the world at present.

Gu Ailing, who participated in three small events at the Winter Olympics, was previously considered to be relatively weak in the big jump, but her performance before the Winter Olympics in this snow season proved that she had the strength to impact three gold medals. However, how to adjust the mentality under the huge attention and reasonably allocate energy to take into account the three small items will be the biggest test facing the "talented girl" who participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time.

In addition, french world champion Tess Ludder, born in 2001, has prepared technical moves that are still "confidential" for the Beijing Winter Olympics this time; the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics steeplechase champion and Estonian star Kelly Sildaru has recently trained well; and sarah Hovlin, the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics slope obstacle course champion, is also very competitive in the big jump event.

In the men's event, the recent World Extreme Games champion Alexander Hall was a big hit on the podium this time. He once made a two-turn flip 2160 degrees that amazed everyone and was evaluated as a "technical action from the future".

Born in 2004, Austrian athlete Marje Schwanzell is currently ranked no. 1 in the world by the FIS, won the big jump event at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, and is also recognized as an athlete who represents the "ceiling" of difficulty.

Burke Rudder, from Norway, won the 2019 "Boiling Snow" championship on the Shougang big jump. Coming to the "blessed land" again, he seemed very excited. After the training on the 4th, he said: "I want a gold medal, I like gold very much. ”

Born in 2005, China's He Jinbo completed a two-turn 1,800-degree inverted flip in an Austrian training exercise, becoming the first male athlete in China to complete this difficult move.

It is worth mentioning that the big jumping platform project is not simply a sport that pursues technical difficulties, and the height, stability, and personality and style of the contestants are also within the scope of the judges' scoring. The contestants' impromptu performance and the contingency of the game itself make the result "foggy". The three jumps are two bests, and it is difficult to decide whether the winner or loser will be determined until the last jump, which also adds to the charm and attractiveness of this competition.

(Xinhuanet)