Chongli, Hebei, 7 Feb (Xinhua) -- On 7 February, Chinese teenager Su Yiming won the silver medal in men's slope steeplechase at the Winter Olympics, creating history. He completed two 1800-degree turns during the race and was the only player in the game to complete a five-turn turn. Such a high level of performance did not win the gold medal, which caused some controversy online. In this regard, xinhua reporters consulted the official competition rules manual of the International Snow Federation and interviewed relevant industry insiders to try to interpret.
The Beijing Winter Olympics snowboarding men's slope obstacle course has 3 prop areas and 3 jumping areas, a total of 6 "segments". From the order of sliding, the prop area is in the first 3 segments, and the jumping area is in the last 3 segments.
On February 7, China's Su Yiming was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Zhuang
According to the Fidesz International Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing Competition Rules, this competition adopts the form of a "segmented score" ruling. Article 3403.3 of the document stipulates that if the World Cup, World Championships and Winter Olympics use the "segmented scoring" adjudication mode, a minimum of 9 scoring referees are required; the referee is divided into two groups: the action referee and the overall referee, giving each segment score and the overall impression score, and the stage division is added by the scores of the three props area and the three jumping areas, and the overall impression score is calculated based on the average of the total scores of all the overall referees. The score consists of a stage score (60%) and an overall score (40%).
According to the real-time scoring bulletin system on the official website of the International Snow Federation during the game, there are 6 referees responsible for scoring 6 props/jumping areas, one person is responsible for one area, and 3 referees score overall. Among them, the Canadian referee, who was questioned by netizens, was responsible for playing the third prop area, that is, the score of the gun barrel.
In the second jump that decided on the title, Max Parrote scored 90.96, 2.26 points higher than Su Yiming. Specifically looking at the referee scores in each area, Su Yiming jumped 1800 moves on the third platform and scored 9.65 points. Controversial Canadian referee Carter Smith was responsible for scoring the third prop zone, where Su Yiming scored 7.45 points and Parrott scored 9.05 points.
In fact, not only in the third props area, in the second props area Parot scored about 9 points, while Su Yiming was about 7 points, and the score in this area was a British referee.
Zhang Jiahao, who is also an athlete in the project, introduced that Parot did 810 on The Cab 270 (reverse foot out of 270 degrees and then under 810 degrees), Xiaoming did Bs miller flip 540 (inner turn flip plus turn 540), the difficulty and use of props are not as good as the other party.
On February 7, China's Su Yiming was in the competition. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Chang took the photo
For the performance of the two in the competition, Zhang Jiahao feels that Su Yiming's jumping platform area is more difficult and better, while Max is the prop area with higher difficulty and better.
He believes that in terms of overall movement fluency, both people are very good and both are very well done. But there must always be a champion in the game, which depends on the judge to judge and deliberate. "In fact, the third and fourth places are basically similar in completion, but the specific ranking depends on the referee."
For some netizens to ask: "Why is there two Canadian players and two Canadian referees in the competition?" Zhang Jiahao's answer is that there is no referee avoidance principle in snowboarding competitions, which may also be because each referee needs to be scored by division.
Although he missed the gold medal, Su Yiming's silver medal also made history. This is the first snow sports medal of the Chinese sports delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the first medal in the men's event of the Winter Olympics in China's snowboarding.
Source @Xinhuanet
Edited by Xie Yongli
Process Editor Liu Weili