In the snowboard men's U-shaped track skill qualification competition, four players from the Chinese team, Gu Ao, Fan Xuebing, Wang Ziyang and Gao Hongbo, competed in the project, but regrettably failed to advance to the next round.
In this event, Sean White from the United States, Bumon Hirano from Japan and Scotty James from Australia are the favourites to win the title. In today's preliminary round, Hirano played steadily, scoring 87.25 points in the first round and 93.25 points in the second round to directly qualify for the final. Scotty James also scored a high score of 91.25 in the preliminaries, compared to the first two players, Sean White advanced with a thrilling 86.25 points in the second round after a mistake in the first jump.
It is foreseeable that in the final, the competition for the championship will basically be carried out among Japan, Australia and the United States, especially the four players of the Japanese team have all advanced to the final, and a group advantage has been formed in this project. In addition to Hirano Bumon, who won the first place in the preliminaries, Yuto Totsuka, the double champion of the World Championships and the Winter Extreme Games last season, and Therayoshi Hirano, who won one championship and one runner-up in the World Cup this season, are very competitive.
The contest between Shaun White, the "triple crown" of the U-shaped venue of the Winter Olympics, and the two-time runner-up winner of Sochi and Pyeongchang, Hirano Bumeng, is worth paying attention to, but according to the comprehensive performance of the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, the 35-year-old Sean White has no advantage in difficulty and completion of the action, but for a project like snowboarding, everything can happen in the final.
![Sean White's action improvement is still in fourth place, and Australia's Scotty James is the first[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)