On February 10, 2022, Beijing time, in the winter Olympics skiing aerial skills mixed team final, the Chinese team lost the gold medal with 324.22 points, and won the silver medal after the 338.34 points of the United States team. Where is the main difference of 14.12 points? It was an unexpected big mistake by the famous general Jia Zongyang.
With the Russian team eliminated, the United States and China were the strongest contenders for the title of the project in the final. In the competition, the female players jump the first jump and the two male players complete the last two jumps!
The Chinese team scored a high score of 106.03 in the first jump, while the American team only scored 88.86 points in the first jump, 17.17 points less than the Chinese team. When everyone hoped that the second jump China team would pull away or maintain the score advantage again, Jia Zongyang made a mistake.
The male player of the second jump U.S. team made a desperate bet and perfectly completed the 5.0 difficult action, scoring a high score of 135.0. The total score for the first two jumps is 223.86. This put a lot of pressure on Jia Zongyang, who was close behind.
Under pressure, even Jia Zongyang, who has participated in the 4th Winter Olympics, still made mistakes. This time he chose the difficulty of 4.425, only need to play smoothly, the Chinese team will tightly bite the American team or overtake, but just after landing, due to the body too forward leaning, he is a toe, almost directly fell to the ground.
Fortunately, he has a strong balance control ability, simply follow the trend to do a forward flip, and then he is firm on his feet and avoids a disaster.
After completing the action and sliding downhill, Jia Zongyang couldn't help but let out a scream of "ah, ah, ah,......" (below), which could be clearly heard across the screen.
After standing firmly, he then covered his face with his head held high in pain (below).
This scene is heartbreaking and heartbreaking! An athlete's unremitting efforts in the past 4 years, but what he did not expect to wait for was an extremely important mistake, no wonder Jia Zongyang also issued a tragic cry of self-blame.
For Jia Zongyang's mistake, the narrator said that Jia Zongyang was very sorry and glad that he did not fall, "fortunately, he still has a certain ability to save himself." Seeing this scene, Xu Mengtao, who was standing on the sidelines, quickly stepped forward to comfort Jia Zongyang (pictured below), or this could somewhat soothe the 31-year-old veteran's painful heart.
Jia Zongyang only scored 96.02 points in this jump, which is nearly 39 points less than the second jump of the American team. Even if the first two jumps are combined, the total score is only 202.05 points, which is 21.81 points less than the United States team. Both sides have one last jump left, and it is too difficult for the Chinese team to catch up or rebound.
In the final jump, the United States scored a high score of 114.48. If the Chinese team wants to win the championship, it must jump out of the high score of 136.30 or more. The last jump of the Chinese team was Qi Guangpu, whose action difficulty coefficient was the same as Jia Zongyang's, and as a result, he withstood the pressure and finally jumped a high score of 122.17.
In the end, the Chinese team was relegated to the second place, and the American team won the championship. After the game, the three Chinese players generously congratulated the American players.
That's competitive sports! Jia Zongyang won the silver and bronze medals at the Winter Olympics, but he lacked this gold medal, but he had bad luck and eventually missed the championship. I hope that Jia Zongyang will not be discouraged and will not blame himself too much. Come on!