Yanqing, 7 Feb (Xinhua) -- On 7 February, the Women's Alpine Skiing Event at the Beijing Winter Olympics produced the first gold medal. Sweden's Sarah Hector won the women's grand slalom. China's Kong Fanying and Ni Yue ranked 40th and 44th respectively. Kong Fanying's ranking is China's best performance since the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
The women's grand slalom is two rounds, and the shortest of the two rounds combined wins; the person who fails to finish the first round does not enter the second round. Hector finished first in the first round and finished eighth in the second round, but still won the title with a total time of 1:55.69. Pyeongchang Winter Olympics runner-up in the event, Italy's Federica Brignone won the silver medal and world champion Lara Gut-Behrami won the bronze medal.
On February 7, China's Kong Fanying was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Chenlin
"I don't know how to describe my emotions, I experienced so much in this day!" Hector said after the game. At the last Winter Olympics, she was only tenth in this event.
Due to the low ranking in the International Snow Federation points, the Chinese players are in the lower order of appearance in both rounds. When they started the second round, the snow had been blown by the snowboards of the previous players, and the snow conditions were not as good as they had been at the beginning of the game. Kong Fanying said after the game that he had survived the finish line "with one breath".
"I'm about to smoke!" I'm exhausted! Kong Fanying said, "There is no energy before the end, because there are too many ice edges on it, and you must step on it with 100% or even 200% strength." Finally, with a belief, we must reach the end! ”
Ni Yueming, who is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, was asked how she felt about competing in front of her home for the first Winter Olympics, she said: "Of course, it is not the same, this is stepping on their own land, we are the hosts, we must work hard to skate out of the training level, show the style of alpine skiers." ”
On February 7, China's Ni Yueming was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Chenlin
The best ranking in the event in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics was 38th in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. None of the three subsequent Winter Olympics have finished in the top 50.
On the same day, defending champion Mikaela Shifflin of the United States fell in the first round and was out of the cold early. Of the 82 contestants who competed that day, 33 did not finish the race.