Before the first round of the final, Chloe King knocked on the snowboard as always, and "knocking on the wood for good luck" was a necessary ritual before she entered the competition. On February 10, in the women's U-shaped track skill final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, American star Chloe King won the first round and won the championship with 94 points, Spain's veteran Kralt Castellet won the silver medal, and Japan's Tomitase won the bronze medal.
A total of 12 runners participated in the final, each with 3 chances to glide. In the first round, Chloe was relaxed, and the glide was successfully completed with a set of 1080 degrees forefoot forehand blade rotation, 900 degrees reverse foot rotation and 1080 degree reverse foot foreside rotation of all the players. Crossing the finish line, she sat excitedly on the ground, scoring a super-high score of 94.00, eight points higher than second-placed Castellet.
With a best score of 94 points in the first round of the final, American Chloe King successfully defended his title and lifted the "Golden Pier".
In the second round of the final, Castellet took the lead in the race, a set of high-quality forefoot rotation 900 degrees + reverse foot rotation 900 degrees, directly with a high score of 90.25 points to rush to the second place in the standings. Chloe chose a 1260-degree turn of the back foot foreside that the men rarely challenged, but failed to grasp the landing position and made mistakes. Back in the end zone, Chloe hugs her friend Gu Ailing, who has come to cheer her on. In the third round of gliding, Chloe slammed into her 1080-degree move at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, making another mistake. But that didn't prevent her from winning the championship with her first round of skating.
In the mixed interview area after the game, Chloe bluntly said "it's crazy" because she successfully defended the title at the age of 22, saying: "Today was fantastic for me, excitement and nervousness coexist, I am only 21 years old and will continue to impact in the future." Thank you to all those who supported me, thank you guys! My family sent me a lot of messages and it was a pity that they couldn't come here with me, but I could feel their love from afar. ”
Born in 2000, Chloe began to snowboard at the age of 4, began to participate in alpine skiing in the United States at the age of 6, and then traveled to Switzerland and the United States for snowboard training, accompanied by her father. Chloe's father, a Korean who went to the United States in the 1980s to study, once said: "My father gave up a lot to help me chase my dreams." At the age of 13, Chloe was selected for the U.S. snowboard team and won a bronze medal at the FIS Snowboarding U-Field World Cup in 2014. However, due to age restrictions, Chloe was unable to participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
In 2018, Chloe was able to participate in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics when she was not yet 18 years old. In the third round of the competition, Chloe made a 1080-degree outward turn and a 1080-degree inside turn, which was almost the limit of the women's U-shaped field skill event, and finally won the gold medal undisputedly. After winning the Winter Olympics, Chloe was nicknamed the "Big Devil" of the veneer U pool. That same year, Chloe won espy's 2018 Best Female Athlete, Best Female Extreme Athlete award, and Best Female Olympian.
Gu Ailing and Su Yiming (first from right) appear at the snowboard women's U-shaped track skills final. As a good friend of Chloe King, Gu Ailing cheered for her the whole time.
This season, Chloe suffered an injury and only started playing in the second half of the season. However, in the World Cup Laax station in January this year, she still won the women's U-shaped field skill championship without suspense, and let the outside world see her outstanding competitive status before the Winter Olympics.
"I'm hungry, do you have a snack?"
After the mixed interview, Chloe King soon appeared at the press conference. At the press conference, Chloe said very cutely, "I'm really sorry, I'm hungry now, don't you know there are snacks here?" Causing a burst of laughter at the scene, media reporters and staff began to dig out their pockets to prepare for "feeding". However, Chloe quickly remembered that she shouldn't take off her mask, so she had to put the snack aside. You know, after the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Chloe said to the camera, "I want to eat ice cream." Four years later, although she is four years older, it seems that she still likes to eat snacks.
Chloe said: "Defending the Winter Olympic champion, I feel too unreal. In the past four years, I have worked very hard, and some people may say that the final is nothing more than three slides on the field, but what they don't know is how much effort I put into my team, my family, etc. behind the scenes. Regarding the future, I haven't thought about it yet, after all, the training and competition intensity during this time is very large, and I hope to have a good rest first. At the same time, I want to talk about the venue of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, which is very beautiful and will stimulate me to impact more difficult moves. Also, all the staff, volunteers etc here were very kind and helped me a lot, I want to thank them. ”
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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporters Li Yuanfei, Chen Jiakun, Deng Fangjia, and Li Ge
Edited by: Kandian
Process Editor Tai Shaofeng