Jia Zongyang
Xu Mengtao
At 19:00 on February 10, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Aerial Skills Mixed Team Competition will kick off at the Genting Ski Park in Zhangjiakou, with Sochi Winter Olympics Women's Aerial Skills Silver Medalist and Anshan Famous Xu Mengtao, and Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Men's Aerial Skills Runner-up and Fushun Famous Jia Zongyang joining his teammates to attack the gold medal. Prior to the Winter Olympics, the only gold medal won by the Chinese team in the snow sports of the Winter Olympics came from freestyle skiing aerial skills, and Han Xiaopeng won the gold medal in men's freestyle skiing aerial skills at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, this project is the most competitive traditional advantage of the Chinese team.
At this Winter Olympics, the air skills project has added a mixed team competition, each team can select three players to participate, and the overall strength of the Chinese team's male and female team members is balanced, becoming one of the favorites to win the championship in the project. This season, several veterans, including Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang, are in excellent form, winning the freestyle skiing aerial skill mixed team championship in two consecutive World Cup races.
Xu Mengtao has won 27 World Cup individual gold medals, this Winter Olympics is Xu Mengtao's fourth winter Olympic journey, looking forward to the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao once said: "I want to play hard from the accumulation, ability, competitive performance, show the best Xu Mengtao." This is my fourth Winter Olympics, and I hope to show the best and put my most perfect moves at the Beijing Winter Olympics. "In recent Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang has been promoted every time, and after winning the sixth place at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang finally won a valuable bronze medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics. At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang changed the color of the medal to silver, and he was only 0.46 points away from the gold medal. Throughout the preparation cycle for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang still maintained a good state.
There are 8 teams participating in the freestyle ski aerial skills mixed team event, the regulation is 1 male and 1 female, and the other person is not limited to gender, but because the difficulty level of male players in this project is significantly higher than that of female players, most teams will send 2 male and 1 female player configuration. The score of the team competition is based on the addition of the scores of the three players and is divided into two rounds, with 8 teams in the first round all playing, and the top 4 advancing to the second round. The second round of the competition clears the results of the first round, and the teams that enter the second round of the final will appear in reverse order according to the ranking of the first round of the competition, and the final ranking will be determined.
Shenyang Evening News and Shen Bao all-media reporter Li Qingshi photojournalist Wang Jiang
Source: Shenyang Evening News