(Beijing Winter Olympics) Event Preview: China Snow Danathlon Gold Figure Skating Men's Singles "Immortal Fight"
Beijing, February 9 (China News Service) -- In the 8-gold battle at the Winter Olympics on the 10th, the Chinese team is expected to win some victories in snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Figure skating men's singles free skating "fairy fight", as well as women's curling to open the curtain and men's ice hockey in full swing, bring more highlights to the day's event.
The Elders of the Four Dynasties attacked the snow on the two items of gold
The snowboarding track will feature the women's U-shaped track skills final. In the qualifiers on the 9th, the two "four dynasties elders" of the Chinese team, Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu, ranked third and seventh, and another Chinese player, Qiu Leng, also "pressed the line" as the twelfth place to advance to the final. Defending champion and American star Chloe King still showed great strength, ranking first in the qualifiers.
On February 9, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Snowboarding Women's U-Shaped Track Skills Qualification Tournament was held at The Genting Ski Park in Zhangjiakou, and China's Cai Xuetong ranked third and advanced to the final. The picture shows Cai Xuetong in the competition. Photo by Zhai Yujia, a reporter from China News Service
Cai Xuetong, who won the World Cup for the seventh time this season, and Liu Jiayu, the previous silver medalist, are strong contenders for the gold medal in the event. After the qualification round, Liu Jiayu made it clear that he would "amplify the move" in the final. Ms. Cai said she admired Chloe King, but that it didn't prevent her from challenging her and defeating her.
On the day's snowboarding field, there will also be a gold medal in the men's steeplechase, which the Chinese team did not qualify for.
The freestyle skiing arena will feature a mixed team final of aerial skills. Freestyle skiing aerial skills are the traditional advantages of Chinese snow sports, and the only Winter Olympic gold medal in China's snow sports so far was created in Turin in 2006 by Han Xiaopeng, a male freestyle skiing aerial skill player. The mixed team competition is a new event in this Winter Olympic Games, and the overall strong Chinese team is the biggest favorite to win the championship.
This season, the Chinese team has won consecutive championships in the World Cup sub-stage of the project. The Chinese team, led by Xu Mengtao, a 26-time World Cup gold medalist and also the "elder of the four dynasties" of the Winter Olympics, is expected to renew the leading edge with the winter Olympic gold medal in freestyle skiing aerial skills after a gap of 16 years.
Figure skating men's singles "Fairy Fight" steel frame snowmobile impact medal
The figure skating field will play the men's singles final on the 10th, and 24 players will decide the suspenseful gold medal after free skating.
On the 8th, the men's singles short program competition has shown a trend of "fairy fight", the world championship champion and American star Chen Wei ranked first with 113.97 points, and broke the world record for the score of the men's singles short program, and the Japanese players Yuma Jiyama and Masamo Uno scored more than 100 points.
On February 8, the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating men's single short skating program competition was held at the Capital Gymnasium, and Japan's Yu Yu yu was ranked 21st and scored 95.15 points, which was his "debut" at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Photo by Cui Nan, a reporter from China News Service
Two-time Winter Olympic gold medalist and the most watched Japanese celebrity Yu yutsumi scored 95.15 in the short program and temporarily ranked eighth, it is extremely difficult to complete the counterattack through free skating and achieve the goal of three consecutive championships. But the popular star, known as the "artist of the arena", is still worth looking forward to.
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, 20-year-old Jin Boyang finished fourth in the men's singles, making a historic breakthrough for Chinese men's figure skating. Today's Jin Boyang is more mature, but the competition for figure skating men's singles is also more intense, and the short program ranks 11th with 90.98 points in the Chinese figure skating male singles, what kind of results will be brought at the doorstep, it is also worth looking forward to.
The men's steel frame snowmobile will compete in the first two rounds on the 10th, and China's Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng will join forces.
The steel frame snowmobile is one of the fastest-improving events for the Chinese team in this Olympic cycle, and the team formed after the successful bid for the 2015 Beijing Winter Olympics has been won by Geng Wenqiang in the men's singles championship at this season's World Cup.
Although Geng Wenqiang lost the Olympic list this time, Yan Wengang and Yin Zhengjun are not bad, and in the official training in recent days, the results are in the forefront, and it is expected that the Chinese team will compete for medals in the project.
Chinese women's curling team one-day double match The men's ice hockey team played the United States for the first time
The women's curling competition kicked off on the 10th, with the Chinese team playing a double match on the first day of the round robin, facing Denmark and Switzerland respectively.
Founded in 2003, the Chinese women's curling team won the historic World Championships in 2009 and the bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
In recent years, due to the shortage of reserve talents, china's women's curling performance has declined. But in this Olympic cycle, the Chinese women's team began to recover, and in the group stage of the 2019 World Championships, the Swedish team, the champion of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, defeated the world hegemon for the first time in nearly 10 years.
In the second round of the men's curling competition, the Chinese team will face the Russian Olympic Committee.
The men's hockey battle group round is in full swing, and China will make its Winter Olympic debut in the battle against the world's fourth-ranked Team Usa.
The Chinese men's ice hockey team, currently ranked 32nd in the world, has stepped onto the Winter Olympic games for the first time, and the overall strength is obviously different from the world's strongest teams. But in the training a few days ago, the Chinese ice hockey team members said that the Chinese team was ready to meet the challenge. (End)