After leaping from the jump platform and landing on the ground, the first-placed Kobayashi, who was ranked first in the first round, knew that he would lose the gold medal. Instead of cheering, he calmly slid toward the finish area. On the evening of February 12, the Men's Individual Big Jumping Competition for Ski Jumping at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, with Japanese athlete Lingyou Kobayashi, who had just won gold on the individual standard platform a few days ago, the Silver Medal, the Norwegian teenager Marius Lindwijk, and the German geiger.
In this competition, Kobayashi Lingyou, who won the first gold medal for the Japanese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics, was full of confidence, and if he could successfully win the gold, he would become the fourth double champion in the history of the Winter Olympics to win the ski jumping individual standard platform and the big jumping platform. In the first round, Kobayashi was good enough to jump out of the round's best 140.5 meters and score 147.0 points, ranking first to reach the final round. In the reverse order of the final round, Kobayashi Lingyou was the last to appear, and Lindwick, who performed well in the first round, made the second-to-last appearance.
In the final round, Lindwick jumped 140.0 meters away against a large downwind and scored a staggering 151.3 points. After the jump Lindvik has been waiting in the end zone, waiting for the next final jump of Kobayashi Lingyou. However, Kobayashi failed to play at the highest level in the second jump, jumping only 138.0 meters with a score of 145.8 points in the case of a small tailwind. As soon as he landed, Kobayashi Lingyou already knew the results, and Lindvik was already celebrating madly.
After the game, whether in the mixed zone or at the press conference, Kobayashi mentioned twice that he was defeated by his opponents, saying: "When I was in the departure zone, I already heard the cheers from the field, and I think he must have achieved very good results, which may have had a little impact on me." Overall, I played well today, but Lindvik danced better and I lost today and lost the gold medal. ”
All four of the kobayashi brothers and sisters are engaged in ski jumping, and his brother Junjiro Kobayashi also participated in the final and won the 24th place. Kobayashi's father was a physical education teacher who brought several children into contact with skiing at a very young age. When Kobayashi Lingyou was in high school, he studied under Noriaki Kasai (a Japanese ski jumping legend who participated in the Winter Olympics 8 times and won two silver and one bronze), and officially started his career as a professional ski jumper. After his debut, Kobayashi Lingyou's results were very low, and at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, he won the 7th place in the individual standard platform and the 10th place in the individual big jump platform, with mediocre results. Until the outbreak of the 2018-2019 season, it won 13 World Cup championships in a single season. In the season before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Kobayashi lingyou won the second place in the total points of the FIS World Cup, and he was seen as the most promising athlete of the Japanese team to win gold.
Sure enough, he successfully won gold in the personal standard platform competition and opened the gold medal account of the Beijing Winter Olympics for the Japanese team. Although he passed the gold medal in the personal big jumping competition, he was born in 1996 and is now only 26 years old, and his future is full of hope.