Chongli, Hebei, February 10 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics snowboard women's U-shaped track skills finals ended at the Genting Ski Park in Zhangjiakou on the morning of the 10th, with American Chloe Jin defending his title with a score of 94.00 points in the first skate, and China's Cai Xuetong ranked fourth, refreshing his best position in the Winter Olympics.
Chloe King of the United States competes on Feb. 10. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu
The Chinese team in the snowboarding U-shaped venue skill project of the Winter Olympics achieved full participation, with four men and four women participating, of which the two women's "four dynasties elders" Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu joined hands with Qiu Leng to advance to the final, and Wu Shaotong stopped the qualification competition. The finals were played in reverse order of qualifying, with three slides to get the best result.
Qiu Leng, who took the lead in the first round of skating, scored 53.75 points, facing the camera with her hands to heart, the palm of her hand also wrote "Lao Wu cheers", cheering for Wu Shaotong, who missed the final, liu Jiayu, the runner-up of Pyeongchang who won the first medal for The Winter Olympics for China in 2018, made a sixth appearance, and made a mistake in the first slide like the qualifiers. Cai Xuetong, who ranked third in the qualifiers, then came on, and she scored 81.25 points with two 900 moves after the game the day before, who said that the final was going to be "difficult".
Defending champion Chloe King finished the race in the first round with a set of 1080-to-900-to-540 and 1080 difficult moves, and the referee also gave a high score of 94.00 points. Tomita Se, who scored 86.00 points, was second and Cai Xuetong was third.
In the second round, Qiu Leng and Liu Jiayu made mistakes successively, Tomita Seta refreshed his own results with 88.25 points, Spain veteran Castellet scored the highest 90.25 points in the round with two 900 connections, and Cai Xuetong, who was squeezed to fourth place, also took out his first 1080 action but completed it slightly flawed, scoring 64.50 points.
On February 10, China's Cai Xuetong was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Zhuang
In the last round, Cai Xuetong continued to stage the 1080 action, but landed on the snow and finally finished with 75.00 points, failing to achieve overtaking. In the end, Chloe King, Castellet and Tomita Se won the first, second and third places respectively. Cai Xuetong, Liu Jiayu and Qiu Leng ranked fourth, eighth and 12th respectively. Kim, who has long since run out of rank pressure, tried to challenge 1260 in the game but failed to fully succeed.
"It hurts to fall." Chloe King spoke of her movements, sparking a burst of laughter, "But well worth it, one thousand percent worth it, that's what drives me forward, I wish I had landed smoothly, but not." I did it once when I was practicing, and the effect was not bad, so I'll try it another day. ”
Pyeongchang's fifth place is Cai Xuetong's previous best record in the Winter Olympics, and this time it is one more place, but it is still one step away from the podium. Asked about his future plans, Cai Xuetong said: "Later, I hope that everyone will pay more attention to this project, and then hope to see through the competition that I can still be on the field, if I have the ability to constantly challenge my limits, or will explore my potential, I will continue." ”
Source: Xinhua News Agency