Chinese team air skill mixed group silver, member Qi Guangpu: Please continue to support us!

[Global Times reporter Zhang Zhen, Sun Longfei, Li Jiayin] Add another silver! In the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team final held on the evening of the 10th, the Chinese team composed of xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu won the silver medal with a total score of 324.22, which was the sixth medal of the Chinese delegation in the Winter Olympics. The United States won the championship and the Canadian team won the bronze medal.

The freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team competition is one of the seven new events of this Winter Olympics, and it is also the only mixed-race event in the freestyle skiing event. According to the rules, each team consists of 3 players, including at least 1 female player, each of whom completes a jump per round, and the score of 3 people adds up to the team's total score. In the World Cup series at the end of last year, the Chinese team composed of Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu won the project twice. As the advantage project of the Chinese team, the gold medal battle on the evening of the 10th also attracted a lot of people's attention: when the Global Times reporter entered the venue one hour in advance, the 9 grandstands in the stadium were already full of 4 blocks. After the game began, with each flip of the contestants in the air, the audience and reporters would exclaim.

In the first round of the night, three Chinese players ranked first with 336.89 points. However, because the score did not bring into the second round, the Chinese team, the United States team, the Canadian team and the Swiss team returned to the same running line. In the final round, Xu Mengtao, who took the lead in the Chinese team, jumped a high score of 106.03, which was the highest score among all the women's players that night. The Global Times reporter saw at the scene that Xu Mengtao hugged excitedly with the 3 female players on the field after finishing the jump. Unfortunately, Jia Zongyang, who appeared in the second place, made a mistake when he landed, and the Chinese team was overtaken by the American team, and the ownership of the championship and runner-up was determined.

"Xu Mengtao's excellent performance put the Chinese team in the lead, but Jia Zongyang's mistakes made them pass the gold medal." Reuters said so. After the game, Jia Zongyang wept with regret, Xu Mengtao came forward to hug for the first time, and Qi Guangpu also sent comfort and encouragement to his teammates. Qi Guangpu said, "We still have a game next, please continue to support us!" ”

"This small mistake will not affect our preparations for the next battle." Xu Mengtao said that she and her teammates will carefully summarize and prepare for the air skills women's and men's individual competitions that will begin on February 13 and 15.