Since the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Han Xiaopeng won the gold medal in a shocking leap, and the Chinese Air Skills Team has never tasted a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. On the evening of February 10, the Genting Ski Park in zhangjiakou area of the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off with the newly added mixed team final of freestyle skiing aerial skills. The Chinese team sent Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu to play, and they all participated in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time. In the end, the Chinese team scored 324.22 points, losing to the United States team by 14.12 points and winning the silver medal.
The aerial skills mixed team event is a new event of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and a manifestation of the balanced participation of men and women promoted by the International Olympic Committee.
In the event, each team needs to send three players of different genders to play, and the final is divided into two rounds, with the first four entering the second round. The sum of the three players' results is the total score. It also means that every player's performance in every round cannot be lost.
△ Xu Mengtao
In the first round of the competition, the Chinese team ranked first with 336.89 points, and advanced to the final round with Canada, Switzerland and the United States.
In the final round, every performance of each player is crucial. Previously, Xu Mengtao had said that as a veteran team member, he wanted to play his role in this group. She said: "I was the first in this team to play, so I have to play as well as I can, get good points, so that the teammates who come out later can reduce the pressure on the points." After that, I will also encourage our teammates more and help them overcome psychological pressure. ”
In the first jump, the other players made mistakes one after another, and Xu Mengtao, who appeared last, seized the opportunity to use the difficulty of 4.293. She played with her beautiful aerial posture, and although the landing was slightly flawed, she still jumped 106.04 points, establishing a considerable point advantage in the first round.
Entering the men's player competition, the American Christopher scored a high score of 135 in one fell swoop, which caused a lot of pressure on Jia Zongyang, who appeared later.
When Jia Zongyang challenged the difficult move of 4.425, he made a major mistake when landing, only scoring 96 points, and the total score of the Chinese team fell to the second place, 21.81 points behind the American team.
△ Jia Zongyang
Justin, the third player on the American team, played well, and after the perfect landing, the total score of the American team reached 338.34 points, and the advantage was quite obvious.
Qi Guangpu, who played at the end of the game, has the title of "King of Difficulty" in the Chinese team. In the final jump, he chose a difficult move of 4.525 and scored 122 points, and finally the Chinese team won the second place with a difference of 14.12 points.
△ Qi Guangpu
After the game, Jia Zongyang burst into tears, and "heartache Jia Zongyang" rushed to Weibo's hot search. Many netizens who watched the live broadcast said that the moment he shouted after his mistake, he must be more sorry than anyone else...
Anyone familiar with Jia Zongyang knows that he has a nickname called "Iron Man" because during a training session in 2015, he had a crushing fracture of the tibia of his legs, a ruptured fibula, and a fracture of the medial ankle, and was embedded with 22 steel nails and 2 steel plates.
At that time, Jia Zongyang's parents advised him not to practice, but he returned to the field with his iron will and won a silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Previously, throughout the preparation cycle of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang still maintained a good state.
According to Jia Zongyang's parents, "This (Beijing Winter Olympics) is the last jump of his sports career, I don't want to put too much pressure on the child, I hope he can calm his mind, jump out of the usual training state, strive for a perfect ending, and then go home safely, and the three of them can enjoy the happiness of reunion." ”
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