In the just-concluded freestyle skiing aerial skill mixed team final, Jia Zongyang, the second appearance of the Chinese team, made an unexpected mistake, and the Chinese team regretted losing to the United States and winning the silver medal.
On February 10, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team final came to an end, China's three Winter Olympics "four dynasties elders" Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu joined hands to play, and finally played a more stable American team to win the gold medal, Jia Zongyang made a mistake in the second round of the final, the Chinese team regretted to win the silver medal, Canada won the bronze medal.
The 31-year-old Xu Mengtao is already competing in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, winning the silver medal in Sochi in 2014 and missing the medal four years ago in Pyeongchang, but Xu Mengtao still decided to stick to the Beijing Winter Olympics. Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu also chose to stick to the Beijing Winter Olympics, both of which were also playing for the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, and Jia Zongyang won the silver medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
In the first round of the final, in the first jump, the main rival of the Chinese team, the United States, sent Ashley Caldwell to play, she came up with a super difficulty of 4.293, the difficulty score of this action is the same as Xu Mengtao, and she also successfully completed, only in the third week, there was a knee bend, with 104.31 points ranked first. Then Xu Mengtao played, as one of the few players in the women's arena today who can stably complete the three-week platform action, Xu Mengtao also jumped out of the action with a difficulty of 4.293, but he also appeared to bend his knees with Caldwell, and when he landed, he appeared to touch the snow with his hand, and finally got 94.01, ranking second.
In the second jump, Switzerland's Werner successfully completed the super difficulty action with a difficulty score of 5.000, scoring a high score of 128.00, helping the Swiss team rise to second place. The second jump of the Chinese team sent veteran Jia Zongyang to play, and Jia Zongyang perfectly jumped out of the backward flip three-turn body with a difficulty of 4.425 1440 degrees, and scored 124.78 points, helping the Chinese team to reach the top of the list in one fell swoop. Qi Guangpu, who scored 118.10 points in the third jump, ranked first with a total score of 336.89 points, and advanced to the second round with Switzerland, the United States and Canada.
In the second round of the final, the first jump Swiss team and canada team both made different degrees of mistakes and basically withdrew from the gold medal competition. The U.S. Team's Caldwell made a slight mistake and scored 88.86 points. And Xu Mengtao directly used the world's highest difficulty of 4.293, and got 106.03 points in one fell swoop! This high score also opened up the gap with the American team in one fell swoop.
In the second jump, in order to recover the point difference, the American team Lilis temporarily changed the difficulty of jumping 5.000 and successfully completed to get 135.00 points. Jia Zongyang made a mistake under great pressure, only scored 96.02 points, and after the second jump, the Chinese team ranked second with 202.05 points behind the United States team with 223.86 points.
In the third jump, the American team Schönefeld used a difficulty of 4.525 and completed the move almost perfectly, scoring 114.48 points. Qi Guangpu also chose the difficulty of 4.525, although he scored 122.17 points higher than Schoenfeld, but the Chinese team scored a total of 324.22 points, after the American team with 338.34 points, regrettably won the silver, the United States team won the gold medal, and Canada won the bronze medal.
Wen | Cao Junhui
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