Highlights of the Winter Olympics| Kong Fanying: Try to slide to a higher position

Achieved the best result in the women's slalom of alpine skiing in China in the past five Winter Olympic Games

Kong Fanying: Try to slide closer to the front

On February 9, Kong Fanying was in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Chenlin

On February 9, the Beijing Winter Olympics Alpine Skiing Women's Slalom Competition ended at the National Alpine Ski Center. China's Kong Fanying successfully finished the race, finishing 47th with a total time of 2:11.95, achieving his best personal record at the Winter Olympics. Another Chinese player, Ni Yueming, failed to finish the race due to a mistake in the first round of skating.

Unlike the downhill, super big slalom and big slalom races, the slalom races have short lines and close flag doors, but the difficulty of the races is also not small. Players must not only consider the speed, but also how to control the rhythm of the line and the flag gate, which is not a small test for turning technology and race psychology.

The women's slalom competition is played in two rounds. At the end of the first round of skating, Kong Fanying, who appeared in 80th place, temporarily ranked 54th in 1:05.97. In the second round of sliding, Kong Fanying successfully completed the race in 1:05.98 and ranked 47th with a total of 2:11.95 in two rounds. "I feel like I've done my best to compare, and I have no regrets." Kong Fanying said after the game.

In 2018, Kong Fanying competed in the women's slalom and big slalom events at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. In the slalom match, due to the impact of consecutive fouls by previous players, Kong Fanying was also convicted of fouls shortly after he set off and failed to finish the game. Standing on the stage of the Women's Slalom Competition of the Winter Olympics again 4 years later, Kong Fanying's first thought was to finish, "This session is a local competition, I thought that I must slide down on the Chinese track, and the names of Chinese team members must appear on the seconds page (report table). ”

It is understood that Chinese athletes have participated in the women's slalom competition of the 7 Winter Olympic Games, and the best result is wang Guizhen's 18th place at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. In the women's swing competition of the four Winter Olympic Games before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team only finished and achieved the 50th place at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, so Kong Fanying's 47th place in this competition became the best result of the Chinese team in the last five Winter Olympic Games.

"Through the competition, I saw the physical and technical gap with the top players." In Kong Fanying's view, the gap is not out of reach, "I will take this number of seconds (results) as the driving force to move forward, pay a hundred times harder to catch up, and strive to slide to a higher position." ”

A total of 88 players participated in the competition, and 50 players completed the competition. Slovakia's Vrkhova played well, winning gold in 1:44.98, Austria's Linsbergh won silver in 1:45.06 and Switzerland's Haldner won bronze in 1:45.10. (Hebei Daily reporter Zhang Jing)