On February 9, Beijing time, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics snowboarding women's U-shaped venue skills competition launched a fierce competition, in this battle for the final tickets, the Chinese team's Cai Xuetong, Liu Jiayu and Qiu Leng played well and successfully advanced to the final. It is worth mentioning that world champion Cai Xuetong scored a high score of 83.25 points in the first round of competition, ranking third to advance to the final. This is her fourth Winter Olympics, and although the strength of American athletes is in its own right, Cai Xuetong believes in her own strength. In the final, Cai Xuetong will work with Liu Jiayu to win the medal for women's U-shaped track skills in snowboarding.
In this Winter Olympic Games, the competitiveness of the Chinese Winter Olympic Team in snow sports has improved significantly compared with previous sessions. After Gu Ailing won the Olympic championship of the freestyle ski jump, China's snow sports ushered in a new breakthrough in history. This championship also gave great encouragement to other athletes. In addition to Gu Ailing, Xu Mengtao, a freestyle skiing aerial skill, and Liu Jiayu, a snowboard woman's U-shaped track skill, all have the strength to impact the gold medal.
Snowboarding women's U-shaped track skills are the traditional strength of the Chinese Winter Olympics, and Liu Jiayu won a valuable silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Four years later, the meritorious veteran said in an interview that the Beijing Winter Olympics will be his last Olympic trip, and he hopes to change the silver medal to a different color through hard work. The Chinese team has a clear group advantage in the snowboard women's U-shaped track skills, and the main forces such as Liu Jiayu, Cai Xuetong, Wu Shaotong and Qiu Leng are all the top level in the world.
In particular, Liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong, before the World Cup, as long as they participated, they never fell out of the top three. In this snowboarding women's U-shaped track skill competition, in addition to several members of the Chinese team, Chloe Kim, the champion of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the United States team, received the most attention. In the first round of the competition, the players all showed eighteen martial arts, Cai Xuetong of the Chinese team played steadily, with a set of high-quality moves to get 83.25 points second, Qiu Leng ranked 11th with 63.5 points, Liu Jiayu and Wu Shaotong both made mistakes and did not enter the top twelve.
In the second round, Liu Jiayu quickly adjusted his state, steadily completed the whole set of actions, and finally scored 72.25 points, after ensuring that he entered the final, Liu Jiayu also deliberately made a funny and cute expression on the camera. Qiu Leng scored 66 points in the second round and reached the final in the final. Wu Shaotong performed average, falling down during the competition and missing out on the top 12. In the upcoming snowboard women's U-shaped track skills final, Chloe Kim of the United States is the biggest favorite to win the championship, Cai Xuetong and Japan's Mitsuki Ono will stage a direct dialogue, and Liu Jiayu is expected to compete for a medal.
(Luo Treasurer)