Source: Xinmin Evening News 2022-02-10 20:55
In the final of the freestyle ski aerial skills mixed team of the new event of the Beijing Winter Olympics tonight, the Chinese team was unfortunately relegated to the second place because of the mistakes made by the players in the second round. The championship was won by the American team.
Historically, before the Beijing Winter Olympics, China won the only gold medal in the snow sports of the Winter Olympics from freestyle skiing - at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Han Xiaopeng made a perfect leap and won the gold medal in men's freestyle skiing aerial skills. At the Beijing Winter Olympics 16 years later, aerial skills are still China's most competitive advantage. As a new event of this Winter Olympic Games, China also has the strength to compete for gold medals in the air skill mixed team.
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In this season's World Cup, the Chinese team won the air skill mixed event in two consecutive competitions. In the lineup of the Chinese team, Xu Mengtao is the most outstanding female player this season, and Qi Guangpu, as the oldest player in the lineup, has rich experience in the competition, and is currently ranked third in the world, which is the "Dinghai God Needle" of the men's team. Another male player is Jia Zongyang, who is also the elder of the Four Dynasties with Qi Guangpu. Since the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang has always aimed for Olympic medals. After finishing 6th in Vancouver, he promoted his record to bronze at the Sochi Winter Olympics. At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang fought hard in the face of medal pressure and finally won the silver medal.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Aerial Skills Mixed Team Competition is directly finalized, with each team consisting of three athletes. In addition to the Chinese team, there are also Canada, the Russian Olympic Committee team, the Swiss team, the United States team and the Belarusian team participating in tonight's competition. The final is divided into two rounds, with three contestants competing in turn, and the top four teams in the first round will advance to the second round. The Chinese team scored 336.89 points in the first round and advanced to the second round final with the first place, and the Russian Olympic Committee and Belarus were eliminated. Among them, Jia Zongyang's first jump backward straight body flipped one week and then the straight body flipped one week plus 720 and then the straight body flipped for a week, scoring 124.78 points.
In the second round of the final, Xu Mengtao scored more than 106 points in his first appearance. However, Jia Zongyang made a mistake in the same action in the second jump, and only scored 96 points, while the American team chose the most difficult move with a difficulty coefficient of 5.000 and scored 135 points, and the Chinese team's temporary total score was widened by the American team by more than 20 points. Although the last player, Qi Guangpu, scored more than 122 points, the Chinese team still failed to catch up with the United States, which won the championship with 338.34 points. The Chinese team won the silver medal with 324.22 points.
Photo by special correspondent Qian Jun (hereinafter the same)
Source: Xinmin Evening News (Special Correspondent Jin Lei)
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Editor: Shen Yuye Tang Mengye