Nandu News Reporter Wang Yayun on the evening of the 10th, the Beijing Winter Olympics Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final was completed, and the Chinese team composed of Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu, the three "four dynasties elders" of the Winter Olympics, lost to the United States team with a total score of 324.22 points and won a silver medal.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency, Zhangjiakou (Hebei), February 10, 2022 (Beijing Winter Olympics) Freestyle Skiing – Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final Xu Mengtao from the Chinese team photographed on February 10. On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final was held in Zhangjiakou Division. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fei Maohua
The Aerial Skills Mixed Team Competition is one of the seven new events of this Winter Olympic Games, with a total of 8 teams participating, each team can select 3 players to participate, and 3 people take turns to compete. The referee scores according to the performance of the athletes in the three links of jumping, air and landing, and the 3 people score points cumulatively, and the first four teams with the highest total score in the first round advance to the second round, and then rank the champion and runner-up according to the results of the second round.
The three participants of the Chinese team are all famous players - among them, Xu Mengtao is the silver medalist of women's aerial skills at the Sochi Winter Olympics, holding 27 World Cup titles (excluding the team), the first person in the Aerial Skills World Cup; Jia Zongyang is the runner-up of men's aerial skills at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; and Qi Guangpu is known as the "world's first person in difficulty". In the World Cup in December last year, the Chinese team won two mixed team gold medals, so it was also one of the most optimistic teams to win the championship before the game.
In the game that night, the Chinese team really began to dominate from the first round of the final, and all three players played steadily, and successfully advanced to the decisive round with the first overall score in the first round. Also promoted were the United States, Canada and Switzerland, and the final battle was between these four teams.
After the final competition began, the first to represent the Chinese team was the female player Xu Mengtao, who chose the backflip three-week action with a difficulty coefficient of 4.295, which is also the most difficult action in the women, Xu Mengtao lived up to expectations and completed her performance well, and scored 106.03 points in one fell swoop, ranking first with an advantage of nearly 20 points ahead of the second American player.
Perhaps seeing Xu Mengtao jump out of the high score, Lilith, the second player of the American team who also wanted to impact the gold medal, temporarily modified the action, directly increased the difficulty coefficient to the height of 5.0, and successfully completed, so that with the 135 points obtained by Lilis this jump, the American team took the opportunity to surpass the Chinese team to temporarily rank first.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency, Zhangjiakou (Hebei), February 10, 2022 (Beijing Winter Olympics) Freestyle Skiing - Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final On February 10, Jia Zongyang from the Chinese team competed. On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final was held in Zhangjiakou Division. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Haofei
The strong performance of the competitor also put the second Chinese player Jia Zongyang under great pressure, and he finally landed on the ground without standing and fell forward when jumping the 4.425 coefficient, which also affected his final score. Xu Mengtao hugged Jia Zongyang, who was upset with himself, for the first time, and constantly comforted him.
In this way, the final answer to the championship battle between the Two Teams of China and the United States is left to the third athlete on both sides to grasp. The U.S. team player Schoenefeld, who made the first appearance, did not have much flaws in the action, and got a score of 114.48. Qi Guangpu, a Chinese player who then appeared, also withstood the pressure and completed his 4.525 coefficient action very well, and the referee gave 122.17 points. However, after the total score was added up, the Chinese team was still slightly lower than the 338.34 points of the American team, and finally regretted to win the silver.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency, Zhangjiakou (Hebei), February 10, 2022 (Beijing Winter Olympics) Freestyle skiing - aerial skills mixed team final Qi Guangpu from the Chinese team photographed on February 10. On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final was held in Zhangjiakou Division. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fei Maohua