This morning, the beijing Winter Olympics snowboarding women's U-shaped field skill final was held at Genting Ski Park. American Chloe King showed dominance and successfully defended the gold medal.
Three Chinese women will enter the final, compared to Qiu Leng, who advanced in 12th place, Cai Xuetong, the overall champion of women's U-shaped field skills in this season's SnowboardIng World Cup, and Liu Jiayu, the runner-up of the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, are more powerful to attack the gold medal.
Still, Chloe King, the winter olympic gold medalist in the event four years ago, defended her supremacy with a brilliant performance. Her first slide used two difficult 1080 moves plus smooth gliding to conquer the referee, got a high score of 94 points, and directly locked in the gold medal.
Liu Jiayu made mistakes in her first two slides, and although she still did not make it to the top three in the final round, she finally finished the game with a smooth set of moves.
Cai Xuetong performed well, and the whole set of actions of the first slide was decent, scoring 81.25 points. After the first round, Cai Xuetong ranked third.
In the second round, Spain's Castellet, who played before Cai Xuetong, slipped a high score of 90.25 and jumped to second place. Cai Xuetong, who aspires to hit the gold medal, uses his most difficult set of moves, including two 900s and one 1080. Unfortunately, in the case of all the previous moves being successfully completed, Cai Xuetong made a mistake when he landed on the ground, only scoring 64.50 points, and the ranking dropped to the fourth place.
Cai Xuetong's final slide was not flawless, and she almost failed to reach the podium of the women's U-shaped track skills of snowboarding.
Missing out on medals is indeed a stifling, but the fourth place is already Cai Xuetong's best record since he participated in the Winter Olympics four times.
In Vancouver in 2010, Cai Xuetong, who was only 16 years old at the time, took a snowboard to the Winter Olympics for the first time. The 23rd place in the qualifiers, did not qualify for the final, such a Winter Olympic debut did not bring too much waves to Cai Xuetong, after all, it was the first time, after all, he was still young.
Four years later, at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong went one step further and successfully advanced to the final, and finally won the 6th place. Still accumulating strength, her real goal is the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
In the cycle of preparing for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong's performance has improved by leaps and bounds, winning the women's U-shaped track skills gold medal at the World Snowboarding Championships for two consecutive times, and she is the first Chinese athlete to defend the world snowboard championships.
But fate is often not so smooth, and Cai Xuetong encountered one of the biggest setbacks in her career. Perhaps too eager to stand on the podium, or perhaps too nervous, she made a mistake in the final and ended up finishing fifth.
Leave the snow field for the time being, which is the choice of Cai Xuetong after Pyeongchang. But the ordinary student life of Beijing Sport University did not really settle down cai Xuetong's heart that always wanted to take a snowboard to conquer the snowy mountains. The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, how can such an opportunity not be moved.
After her comeback, she won the snowboarding World Cup championship for three consecutive seasons, ranking first in the world, and there is no doubt that Cai Xuetong is also the world's top athlete in her event.
But compared with the previous three times to participate in the Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong is undoubtedly a lot more mature, "Don't give yourself too many expectations, play every day... Four Winter Olympics in a total of 12 years, there is no chance to be nervous anymore... My goal is to play all the actions I want to complete in the Winter Olympics. ”
Of course, Cai Xuetong still has ambitions, "I feel that I still have potential to tap, I have not yet reached my limits, I will continue to explore my limits and tap my own potential." ”
Four years later in Milan, Cai Xuetong hopes that he can appear on the field of the Winter Olympics for the fifth time and break through himself again.