This morning (10th), the final of the women's snowboard U-shaped field was held at the Genting Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou Division, and among the 12 athletes, there were 3 chinese teams, 3 Japanese teams, 2 Canadian teams, and 1 each from Germany, the United States, Switzerland and Spain. Judging from the number of athletes participating in the final, the Chinese team belongs to the first echelon and has the advantage of the team, which is our specialty.
But in the end, the top three were American athlete Chloe King, Spanish athlete Castellet and Japan's Tomitase, the Chinese team's most promising and powerful medal-winning Cai Xuetong, although once ranked third after the first round, but Canadian athlete Castellet played a super level in the second round, scoring more than 90 points, squeezing Cai Xuetong out of the top three.
Judging from the process of this fierce competition, although the Chinese team has the advantage of the number of teams, the state of the top is not sharp, which is the main reason for the final failure to win the medal.
Judging from the on-the-spot performances of the first three athletes, the championship-winning American player Chloe King was superior, and the gold medal status was established in the first round, and although the last two rounds failed, this was related to the higher difficulty of continuous impact in the case of the gold medal. As olympic champion of this event four years ago, Chloe King, who is only 21 years old this year, will also be our main opponent in the next few Winter Olympics.
The runner-up Castellet is actually inseparable from Cai Xuetong's overall strength, but the second round has a super level of play, in the athlete circle, this is called the "nerve knife", this knife cut 90.25 points, which is also today (10th) two good results of more than 90 points, thus jumping to second place and winning the silver medal.
In fact, the real rival of the Chinese team in this project is the Japanese team, they also have three players in the final today, in addition to Tomita Se won the bronze medal, her sister Tomita Ryuki won the fifth place, Ono Mitsuki ranked ninth, the overall performance and team strength are better than us.
Each participant in the U-shaped field has three chances, and the three players of the Chinese team have lost 4 times in 9 slides and only succeeded 5 times. Among them, Liu Jiayu, a veteran who won the silver medal in the last session, failed twice before the 3 slides; Qiu Leng successfully completed the action for the first time, but the score was only 53.75 points, which was the lowest score of the 12 players, so she decided to launch an impact on the higher difficulty, but this exposed the gap in the stability of her movements, and the last two failed.
Cai Xuetong, who is only 28 years old, has successfully slid three times, and had great hope of hitting the medal, but unfortunately this hope was disturbed by the "nerve jump" of Spain's Castellet.