Sean White
On February 10, the first round of the men's U-shaped field skill final of the Beijing Winter Olympics began to compete. Among the four Japanese contestants, Hirano Kaisuke, the first to play, played the best, scoring 75.50 points, temporarily ranking third after the first round, and Totsuka Yuto also completed the set of moves, but only scored 62.00 points. Hirano Hado, who had high hopes, had a stunning start, but made a mistake before he was about to complete the set of moves, sitting on his hips on the snow slope and ending up scoring only 33.75 points, ranking ninth. In the preliminaries, Ryuga Hirano also made a mistake, scoring only 13.00 points in the first round.
Defending champion Sean White smoothly completed a set of moves, scoring 72.00 points, finishing fourth in the first round.
At the end of the first round, the number one player was Taylor Gold of the United States, who scored 81.75 points, the only skater to score more than 80 points. In second place was Australia's Valentino Guselli, who scored just 0.25 more points in the first round than Hirano.
Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporters Li Yuanfei, Chen Jiakun, Deng Fangjia, and Pan Zhiwang
Edited by Xie Yongli
Process Editor Liu Weili