"Ho" you said: Chinese veneer, love can withstand the long years

On February 10, Liu Jiayu (29 years old), Cai Xuetong (28 years old), the "four dynasties elders" of the Winter Olympics, and Qiu Leng (24 years old) appeared in the women's U-shaped field skills final of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the end, Cai Xuetong won the fourth place, just one step away from the podium; Liu Jiayu and Qiu Leng ranked 8th and 12th respectively. Defending champion and American star Chloe King won the gold medal with his outstanding performance in the first jump.

At the Winter Olympics at the doorstep, the Chinese team won the full quota of 4 women and 4 men in the project for the first time. In yesterday's qualifying round, China's Jinhua Wu Shaotong was unfortunately out, and the other three players - Cai Xuetong (3rd), Liu Jiayu (7th) and Qiu Leng (12th) successfully advanced to the final.

This is the fourth Winter Olympic tour of Liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong, who also grew up with Chinese snowboarding.

In 2003, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport officially approved a project to carry out snowboarding. In the same year, the 11-year-old "Kung Fu Jiayu", who was practicing martial arts, entered the vision of the snowboarding enlightenment coach, and the one-year-old Cai Xuetong was attracted by the amateur sports school coach when he was rollerblading in the park. The trajectory of their lives was rewritten.

It is most appropriate to use "going hand in hand" to describe the two snowboarding "double sisters" on the mainland. In January 2009, Liu Jiayu won the World Snowboard Championships in South Korea. Two months later, Cai Xuetong, who competed in the World Youth Championships, also stood on the highest podium, and their gold medals achieved a historic breakthrough in Chinese snowboarding.

In 2010, Liu Jiayu, who suffered from a serious shoulder injury, played for the first time in the Winter Olympics and won the fourth place in Vancouver, which was already the best record of Chinese snowboarding in the Winter Olympics at that time; at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, she won the silver medal, which was the first medal won by Chinese snowboarding in the Winter Olympics!

Last November, Liu Jiayu, who was training in Austria, successfully unlocked the D-crippler (two-week flip of the forehand blade), becoming the first snowboarder in China and the third in the world to complete the action! The bigger surprise happened at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4. As a representative of the athletes, Liu Jiayu solemnly swore an oath together with cross-country skier Wang Qiang. It is worth mentioning that she is also a member of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee.

Since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong has been playing alongside Liu Jiayu, and the best result was fifth at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Approaching the Beijing Winter Olympics, her state is gradually getting better. After the End of the World Cup in Lex, Switzerland, in January this year, Cai Xuetong won the overall title of the Women's U-Shaped Venue of the Snowboard world cup this season with a total score of 216 points, which is also her seventh time to win the award.

In the final, the camera captured the figure of Gu Ailing, the champion of the freestyle ski women's big jump a few days ago, and she was fully focused on cheering for the Chinese team.

Due to the mistakes of the first two rounds of actions, Liu Jiayu, who forced herself to a desperate situation, did not use the "killer skill" in the last round, but the whole set of actions was successfully completed, and she landed smoothly with 73.50 points, ranking eighth.

Cai Xuetong repeatedly challenged the 1080 difficulty action, the second round was unstable due to the landing, the whole person slid down the groove wall; in the third round, due to the lack of action connectivity, she was not powered enough when she turned. With 81.25 points in the first round of action, she ended her fourth Winter Olympics with a fourth-place finish.

After the game, Cai Xuetong tearfully spilled in the mixed interview area, she choked up and said: "The process is very happy, but the result..." She was sad that she could not slide out of the action she wanted to slide out, "There are some regrets, did not make the reverse foot 900." Asked about her next goal, she hopes to continue to push the limits and exert her maximum potential to promote the development of snowboarding in China.

After the game, Liu Jiayu wrote on Weibo: "It is not sad that it is fake, but I love skiing, and I will accompany snowboarding until I grow old." ”

Liu Jiayu, who has undergone three major shoulder surgeries, also had the idea of retiring: "(After the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics) let go of all the baggage and found the fun of skiing." I knew that I wanted to continue because I loved it. Participating in the Winter Olympics on my doorstep is what motivates me to continue for four years. ”

Although the results did not meet expectations, she admitted that in the four years of preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, she learned a lot of new actions and used them in the competition, which is progress and breakthrough: "It is true that she has participated in the fourth session, but the fifth session will continue", "Life is to sum up experience from failure and become more successful in the future." (Laughs) Yes, come to Japan, fight again next time! ”

This time, Cai Xuetong raised the fifth place four years ago to the fourth place; Qiu Leng raised the 16th place at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to the 12th place... Keeping love and progress is the spiritual core of Chinese snowboarding that they want to share.

Source: CCTV Sports