Today will be the day with the most gold medals of all the competition days of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with a total of 10 gold medals born.
Among them, the Chinese delegation will launch a gold medal in the two events of freestyle skiing women's big jump and speed skating men's 1500 meters.
"Popularity King" Gu Ailing competed in the freestyle ski women's big jump final at 10:00 a.m. She qualified for fifth place in yesterday's qualifying round, with a big misstep in the second jump. However, Gu Ailing's ace action, the two-week flip body 1440 degrees, has not yet appeared, and should stay in today's final.
Judging from the situation in yesterday's qualifiers, five or six top masters, including Gu Ailing, have the opportunity to fight for this gold medal, depending on who plays better on the spot. And like Gu Ailing, several other top-winning favourites hid their best skills in the qualifiers. Therefore, this final is destined to be particularly exciting and intense.
In the men's 1500m race, Ning Zhongyan shouldered the responsibility of winning the first men's speed skating gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics for China. In the 2021-22 season, Ning Zhongyan won 3 gold and 2 silver in the four speed skating World Cups, 1500 meters in Norway, and runners-up in the Polish and American Salt Lake City.
In other gold medals such as alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh and so on, Chinese athletes mainly focus on participation.
In terms of foreign players, there is also a "popularity king" who will stage his debut at the Winter Olympics, that is, figure skating Japanese famous Yu Yusuke. Yu Yusuke, whose once mysterious whereabouts was once mysterious, finally appeared in pre-match public training yesterday, and this morning he will play in the men's single skating short program competition.
According to the list of appearances, Yu yusei was ranked 21st. However, this time period coincides with Gu Ailing's competition for the gold medal, and I don't know how the audience will choose.
And Jin Boyang, a Chinese player who performed well in the figure skating team competition, was the fifth person to appear in the short program.
Draft: Qu Junyan