In the Beijing Winter Olympics women's U-shaped field skill final at the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 10, three Chinese girls competed but regrettably missed the medal, with two-time World Champion Cai Xuetong ranking fourth with 81.25 points, Liu Jiayu, 30, the last runner-up, ranking 7th with 73.50 points, and another Chinese player, Qiu Leng, ranking 12th with 53.75 points. Korean-American Chloe King from the United States won the event with 94.00 points, Spain veteran Castellet took the silver medal with 90.25 points, and Japan's Tomita Se won the bronze medal with 88.25 points!
The Chinese women's team sent 4 players to participate in the qualification round of U-shaped venue skills, and finally 3 people entered the final field of 12 people, of which 30-year-old veteran Liu Jiayu and 29-year-old Cai Xuetong were the fourth time to play in the Winter Olympics, the two in the past 10 years of the World Cup sub-station, the World Championships, the Extreme Games and other major competitions, but also two experienced veterans, perhaps the home battle at home to bear too much pressure, failed to adjust the mentality, have the strength to win the medal but ultimately failed to transform into a real medal.
The 12 finalists began the first jump scramble in turn according to the order of the 12th to 1st place in the qualifiers, and the Chinese player Qiu Leng, who appeared first, did not have the ability to win the medal, mainly to seek stability, and it was a victory to play smoothly without mistakes, but she did not release herself when she participated in the final for the first time, although there was no major mistake, but the quality of the action completion was not as good as that of the qualifiers, and she was temporarily ranked 10th among the 12 players with 53.75 points.
Liu Jiayu's first jump had a big misstep, and like the qualifiers, although the difficulty was not the highest, there was an inexplicable fall error, and the final score was 11.25 points, which ranked at the bottom of the jump. After the end of the qualifiers, Liu Jiayu talked about the mistake of the first jump, but also communicated with the coach, both of them felt that they could pass the action, but it was not completed, perhaps the action was too simple, anxious to think about the next action ignored the details.
Cai Xuetong, who ranked 10th in the game, won the referee's heart with a set of pleasing and smooth movements, she scored 81.25 points, Cai Xuetong is the most difficult, the most stable in technology and the most impressive in the air among the Chinese players, and Cai Xuetong is temporarily ranked 3rd after the first jump, and is already in the list of medal favorites.
After the start of the second jump, Qiu Leng began to increase the difficulty of the action, but unfortunately there was a serious mistake, and the final score was only 9.50 points, and he fell 1 place in the second jump to rank 11th. The second jump of the last runner-up Liu Jiayu still did not find the old state, and once again ended in failure, scoring 4.75 points, after which the two Chinese players Qiu Leng and Liu Jiayu ranked in the last two places! Cai Xuetong's performance in this jump was also not ideal, only scoring 64.50 points, and the ranking was surpassed by the Japanese athletes in 4th place.
Qiu Leng continued to increase the difficulty in the final jump, but unfortunately fell down heavily while doing the 1080 move, scoring only 18.75 points and ranking last among all the players. Liu Jiayu's jump was relatively stable, and the only jump completed in the three jumps scored 73.50 points, and finally ranked 7th. Cai Xuetong, who aspires to punch the card, completed this jump in 1080 and did not make mistakes, but the score was not high, only 75.00 points, and finally ended in 4th place.
Korean-American Chloe King of the United States won the championship with a score of 94.00 to continue the good form of the qualifiers. For the Winter Olympics 4 years later, Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu said after the game that they would not retire, as well as dreams and goals, Cai Xuetong's four Winter Olympics rank has been improved one after another, and it is worth looking forward to whether the next Winter Olympics will stand on the podium!