(Beijing Winter Olympics) Event Preview: Gu Ailing Su Yiming Appears Again China Ice Dance strives for the best results in the Winter Olympics
Beijing, February 13 (China News Service) -- Due to weather reasons, the freestyle ski women's slope obstacle course and women's aerial skills qualification tournaments scheduled for the 13th have been postponed to the 14th, allowing the two super stars of the Chinese legion, Gu Ailing, Su Yiming, and Xu Mengtao, the "elders of the Four Dynasties," to start their second battle for gold at the Winter Olympics on the same day.
These three famous athletes have all won medals in this Winter Olympic Games and have contributed 1 gold and 2 silver to the Chinese delegation.
Data chart: On February 8, in the final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics freestyle ski women's big jump held at the Beijing Shougang Ski Jump, China's Gu Ailing won the championship. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
Gu Ailing, who has already won the gold medal in the women's freestyle ski jump, will compete in the slope obstacle course. At last year's Freestyle Skiing World Championships, Gu Ailing won the gold medal in women's steeplechase, and this season she has rarely lost in the event. Su Yiming, silver medalist in men's slope steeplechase, will compete in the snowboard jump. This season, the 17-year-old won the first gold medal in the World Cup for the Chinese team, and his ability in this event is recognized as surpassing his silver medal.
Therefore, for these two supernovae who aspire to win the championship, the two qualifying matches on the 14th should be the foreshadowing for them to enter the final.
Data chart: On February 7, in the final of the men's slope steeplechase at the Beijing Winter Olympics, 17-year-old Chinese teenager Su Yiming won the silver medal to create history and won the first snowboarding medal in the history of the Chinese sports delegation in the Winter Olympics. Photo by China News Service reporter Tomita
After winning the silver medal in snowboard slope obstacle course, Su Yiming once said that he would choose more difficult moves in the big jumping competition to achieve high scores. Su Yiming's words are also the biggest attraction of these two qualifiers - two brave and fearless young players who constantly challenge themselves, what kind of difficulty will be used to train for the final.
In the freestyle ski women's big jump qualifier, Yang Shuorui, who injured his eye during training, failed to enter the final, and this time the 18-year-old Yang Shuorui will also participate in the freestyle ski women's slope obstacle course competition. Jung, a 19-year-old who missed the final of the women's slope steeplechase skills of snowboarding, will once again participate in the competition of the women's big jump in snowboarding, and whether these two youngsters can reach the final is also a big attraction.
Data chart: On February 10, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team final was held in Zhangjiakou Division. The picture shows Xu Mengtao, a player from the Chinese team, during the match. Photo by China News Service reporter Tomita
In the freestyle ski women's aerial skills qualification, the Chinese team has a group advantage, with Sochi Winter Olympic runner-up Xu Mengtao, Pyeongchang Winter Olympic bronze medalist Kong Fanyu and "post-00" youngster Shao Qi will join forces. Among them, Xu Mengtao, who won the silver medal in the air skill mixed team on behalf of the Chinese team, participated in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time and became the creator of the new record for women's aerial skills with 26 World Cup sub-stations this season, which is the favorite to win the title. Whether the three Chinese players can all advance to the final is the suspense and highlight of this qualification match.
Data chart: China's Wang Shiyue (left) / Liu Xinyu in the competition on February 12. On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Ice Dance Rhythm Dance Competition was held at the Capital Gymnasium. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
The figure skating arena will produce a gold medal after the ice dance free dance competition on the 14th. At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu finished 22nd after the rhythm dance and did not have the opportunity to enter the free dance stage. But in the rhythm dance competition of this Winter Olympics, this Chinese group ranked 12th to advance.
Liu Xinyu recently said that refreshing the best results in the history of China's ice dance is their motivation and expectation. The best record of the Chinese ice dance program at the Winter Olympics was 18th place at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
The women's single snowmobile will compete in the final two rounds, and China's Huai Mingming and Ying Qing will strive to create a good result. In the first two rounds of the competition on the 13th, Huai Mingming and Ying Qing ranked fifth and eighth respectively.
The women's single snowmobile is a new event in this Winter Olympics, and each participant is required to make a four-wheeled slab of the two-day course, and the one with the least total time will win the championship.
After successive victories over sweden and South Korea, the champions and runners-up of the last Winter Olympics, the Chinese women's curling team will face Japan on the 14th and strive for three consecutive wins.
Women's ice hockey will play in the semi-finals, with Canada and Switzerland, the United States and Finland vying for two final spots. (End)