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Chloe King defended the Olympic gold medal in the veneer U pool and Cai Xuetong finished fourth

Source: Sports Weekly

On the morning of February 10, the final of the women's U-shaped track skills of snowboarding at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was held. 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics gold medalist, American star Chloe Jin successfully defended the title, China's Cai Xuetong won the fourth place, unfortunately missed the medal.

Chloe King defended the Olympic gold medal in the veneer U pool and Cai Xuetong finished fourth

In this final, Gu Ailing, Zhang Hong and Bach all came to the scene to watch the game. China's Qiu Leng was the first to appear, and there was a mistake in the action, scoring 53.75 points. After completing the game, Qiu Leng showed the camera the "Lao Wu, come on!" written in the palm of his hand. "Cheers for teammate Wu Shaotong, who failed to advance to the final.

Liu Jiayu, a veteran of the Four Dynasties of the Winter Olympics and the runner-up of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics project, jumped out of the first action of the reverse foot in the way of the front blade of the back foot, but made a mistake when the second jump reversed the 720 degrees of the front foot, regrettably ending the first round and only scoring 11.25 points.

When it was the turn of the third Chinese player and two-time World Champion Cai Xuetong to play, she jumped out of the 900 degrees outside and then 900 degrees inside, and then 900 degrees outside the reverse foot, and got a score of 81.25.

Chloe King defended the Olympic gold medal in the veneer U pool and Cai Xuetong finished fourth

The last American star Chloe King, who is also the defending champion of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, successfully scored 94.00 with a high score of 94.00 with a super difficult one positive and one negative 1080 degrees, it is worth mentioning that Chloe King's two 1080 degrees are placed in the end of the whole set of actions to complete, which highlights the strong dominance of Chloe King in this project. After the first round, Cai Xuetong was in third place, behind Chloe Kim and Tomita Setna.

In the second round, Qiu Leng and Liu Jiayu both made mistakes, while Spain's Castellet played well, scoring a high score of 90.25 and jumping to second place.

When it was Cai Xuetong's turn to play, she jumped out of the front foot to turn 900 degrees and then turned 540 degrees inside, and successfully completed the difficult action of turning 1080 degrees, but she made a mistake in the subsequent 900 degree landing of the reverse foot, and it was a pity that she only scored 64.50 points. Chloe King also made mistakes in the second round, scoring only 27.00 points, but still took first place with a high score in the first round.

Chloe King defended the Olympic gold medal in the veneer U pool and Cai Xuetong finished fourth

In the third round of the game, Qiu Leng made a mistake again after jumping out of the difficult action of 1080, and regrettably ended the game. Liu Jiayu chose a slightly lower difficulty, and finally successfully completed the game, scoring 73.50 points, ranking seventh. When Cai Xuetong came out, he jumped out of the 900 degree turn and then turned 540 degrees inside to turn 1080 outside the foot, but made a mistake in the next 720 action, and only scored 75.00 points. American star Chloe King, although he also made mistakes in the third round, still successfully defended the gold medal in women's U-shaped track skills for snowboarding with a super high score in the first jump. Spain's Castellet won the silver medal and Japan's Tomita Kana won the bronze medal. Cai Xuetong won the fourth place, unfortunately missing the medal. Liu Jiayu and Qiu Leng ranked 7th and 12th respectively.

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