(Beijing Winter Olympics) Event Preview: Gu Ailing Big JumpIng Rush gold China's speed skating is expected to break through again
Beijing, February 7 (China News Service) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics will produce 10 gold medals on the 8th, and the Chinese team will hit the gold medal in the freestyle skiing and speed skating arena. The figure skating men's singles competition led by Yu Yu will become another highlight of the day's event.
Gu Ailing. Image source: Visual China
Freestyle skiing women's big jump: Gu Ailing competes for the first gold in the snow of the Chinese team
After the under-18-year-old Su Yiming won a silver medal for the Chinese snowboard team, another 18-year-old Chinese teenager, Gu Ailing, will compete for the Chinese delegation's first snow gold medal at the Winter Olympics at the women's big jumping stage of freestyle skiing on the 8th.
Gu Ailing will participate in the freestyle ski jump, slope obstacle course and U-shaped track competition this time, and the big jump is relatively her weakness. At last year's World Championships, she won 2 gold and 1 bronze, and that bronze medal came from the big jump.
In the big jump qualifying tournament held on the 7th, Gu Ailing ranked fifth to advance to the final. But she said after the match that the goal of the qualifiers was simply to secure a promotion. In the final, she hopes to bring a wonderful performance with more difficult moves.
For this Winter Olympics to be a 3-event, Gu Ailing believes that this will make her more relaxed, because "there are three opportunities for me to realize (win) my wish."
Speed Skating Men's 1500m: China's speed is expected to bring a breakthrough again
"Ice Ribbon" will play the men's 1500m final of speed skating on the 8th, and Ning Zhongyan, Lian Ziwen and Wang Haotian will play together.
Ning Zhongyan, 22, has surprised China's speed skating in this Olympic cycle. At the end of 2019, just after turning 20, he won the men's 1500 meters championship in the speed skating World Cup and broke the field record, which was also the first time that a Chinese male athlete won the championship in the World Cup.
This season, Ning Zhongyan participated in the 1500 meters of the World Cup three times, winning 1 gold and 2 silver, becoming one of the favorites to win the Beijing Winter Olympics.
National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon". China News Service reporter He Penglei photographed
At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, four years ago, Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal in the men's 500 meters, making a historic olympic medal for Chinese men's speed skating. On the evening of the 8th, the "ice ribbon" is expected to witness another breakthrough of the Chinese speed skating men's team.
On the same day, there will also be a curling mixed doubles gold medal, and the Chinese combination of Ling Zhi / Fan Suyuan has ended the Winter Olympic tour early because of the high and low in the round robin competition, missing the top four.
The snowboarding arena will feature women's and men's parallel giant slalom qualifications and finals, with Chinese players Zang Ruxin and Bi Ye striving for good results.
Figure skating men's singles short program: Yusheng knot string Beijing Winter Olympics debut Jin Boyang looks forward to leaving no regrets
One of the most popular stars of this Winter Olympics, Japanese figure skater Yu Yusei has begun to make his Beijing Winter Olympic debut in the figure skating men's single skating short program.
A total of 30 players participated in the men's singles short program competition on the 8th, including the Japanese team led by Yu Sheng, the American team led by three-time World Champion Chen Wei, and the figure skating team Russia, all of which had 3 players, and the 24-year-old Jin Boyang participated in the men's singles team of the Chinese figure skating team.
On February 7, Japanese figure skater Yu Yusuke conducted pre-competition training at the Figure Skating Training Gym for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The picture shows Yusheng knot string in training. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
Yu Yusuke, who missed the team competition, appeared at the Capital Gymnasium Training Hall on the 7th for his first training at the competition, saying that he "felt good". Earlier in an interview with the media, Yu yu said that in this Winter Olympics, he will strive for three consecutive championships.
China's Jin Boyang finished fourth at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, making a breakthrough for Chinese men's figure skating. In the team competition of this competition, Jin Boyang performed well in the men's singles short program, and the free skating won the highest score of the individual season, which also greatly enhanced his confidence. He said he would enjoy the game without regrets.
The figure skating men's singles of this Winter Olympics will produce a gold medal after the end of free skating on the 10th, and the top 24 players in the short program will advance to free skating. (End)