Wu Dajing strives to defend the men's title in 500 meters. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
On February 13, the Beijing Winter Olympics will produce seven gold medals in speed skating, short track speed skating, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and biathlon. In the short track speed skating men's 500m competition, Wu Dajing will go all out to defend his title. The highlight of the snow event is the freestyle ski women's slope obstacle course qualification and the women's aerial skills qualification, "Frog Princess" Gu Ailing transferred to Zhangjiakou Division, and Xu Mengtao, who had previously regretted picking silver in the aerial skill mixing team, will start again from the individual competition.
Short track speed skating
Men's 500 U.S.
19:00-20:14 Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long
On February 13, at the Capital Gymnasium, Wu Dajing will launch a final sprint to defend his title.
In the preliminaries on February 11, Wu Dajing advanced to the quarterfinals with the fastest time of 40.230 seconds, and the other two Chinese players, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long, also highlighted the siege and achieved full promotion.
In the 1/4 final, which was played first on the 13th, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long started in Group 1, Wu Dajing was in Group 2, and with him was the Hungarian famous Liu Shaolin.
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing won the 500m championship, the only gold medal for the Chinese delegation. Four years later, almost everyone is concerned about whether he can defend his title at the Beijing Winter Olympics. As the world record holder in this project, Wu Dajing took a solid step on the road to defending his title with the "fastest result in the whole game" in the preliminaries. In the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and finals, whether he can defeat himself and play at the best level will be the key to Wu Dajing's goal.
"Treasure Girl" Gu Ailing will play in the qualifiers. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
Freestyle skiing
Women's Steeplechase Qualifiers
10:00-12:00 Gu Ailing Yang Shuorui
On February 8, Gu Ailing won the gold medal with the stunning last jump in the freestyle ski women's big jump final, which was also the first gold in the Chinese Snow Women's Winter Olympics.
The big jump is only a sub-event of "Frog Princess", slope obstacle skills are one of her main disciplines, and Gu Ailing's debut in Zhangjiakou is worth looking forward to.
In both rounds of qualifying, Gu Ailing will be the third to appear, followed by two strong competitors, Estonia's "genius girl" Sidaro and the silver medalist of the big jump event, France's Tess Ludd.
In addition, Yang Shuorui, who did not qualify for the final of the big jump due to injury, will once again fight with Gu Ailing, and whether she can play her due level and make up for the regret of the big jump is also concerned.
In the mixed team competition, Xu Mengtao played a bright role. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
Women's Aerial Skills Qualifiers
19:00-20:15 Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Shao Qi
A few days ago, on the same field, the Chinese Air Skills team, which was the favorite to win the championship, unfortunately won the mixed team silver medal, and the scene of Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu, the three "Elders of the Four Dynasties", hugging their heads and crying after the game was moving.
The silver medal in the team competition does not mean the end of the winter Olympic journey of the veterans, who will attack the highest podium in the individual competition. As in the team competition, it is still Xu Mengtao who "takes the lead" among the 3 veterans.
Freestyle skiing aerial skills have always been China's dominant sport, but so far they have only won one Winter Olympic gold medal. Now the individual competition will start, and Xu Mengtao, who completed the world's highest difficulty in the women's competition, Kong Fanyu, the bronze medalist of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and Shao Qi, a post-00s youngster, will join forces for the air skills team to realize the dream of Beijing.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Xiao
Edited by Wang Chunqiu Proofreader Fu Chunyi