The Freestyle Ski women's steeplechase qualification tournament, which was postponed due to heavy snowfall, kicked off today with Winter Olympic champion Gu Ailing and youngster Yang Shuorui representing the Chinese team in the sunshine, and after two rounds, Gu Ailing successfully qualified and will hit her second winter Olympic gold medal tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. Young player Yang Shuorui ended the trip to the Winter Olympics, but impressed with his tenacious spirit.
Previously, the two had joined hands in the freestyle ski jumping event, in the qualifiers, Yang Shuorui accidentally fell, injured at the corner of the left eye, after a simple treatment of the wound, she insisted on completing the competition with an injury, scored 96.00 points, ranked twentieth, and missed the final. After the game, Gu Ailing, who successfully advanced to the final, gave Yang Shuorui a tight hug, and the two continued to represent the Chinese team on the slope obstacle course.
Different from the big jump platform, the slope obstacle course has a complex terrain, with a number of routes for athletes to choose, the track includes slope, iron barrel, iron rod, jumping platform, etc., not only to test the players to challenge the difficult "big move", but also to test the smoothness of the action connection and the creativity of action choreography.
Gu Ailing has won gold medals at the 2021 World Championships in the women's steeplechase event, and won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in the World Cup in the three seasons of the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, and she is currently ranked third in the world in this event. For Gu Ailing, the biggest opponent is another freestyle skier "genius girl", Estonian Kelly Sildaru, who lost to Sildaru in two slope obstacle course skills competitions this season, and only finished two runners-up. In addition, in the final of the 2020 Youth Winter Olympics event, Sildarru also pushed Gu Ailing to win the gold medal.
Like Gu Ailing, Sildaruru also participated in three individual events of the Winter Olympics. But she didn't make it to the final because of a mistake in the big jump event, and the U-shaped track skills were Gu Ailing's strongest sport, so Sildaru focused all his energy on the slope obstacle course skills he was best at.
In today's competition, Sildarru did contribute to a more stable performance, and she was at the forefront in the face of consecutive mistakes by multiple players. This brought a great challenge to Gu Ailing, in the first round of qualifying, the first appearance of Gu Ailing also could not avoid mistakes, she appeared in the third set of hardcore props "hand-to-hand" situation, only 57.28 points, ranking temporarily in 11th place, hovering on the edge of promotion. In the second round, Gu Ailing, who was super stable in her mentality, reversed her wonderful performance to get 79.38 points to lock in the promotion quota, and she was in a good mood waiting for the results, and ate at the camera.
Although there was a "dangerous situation", Gu Ailing finally entered tomorrow's final. Coincidentally, according to the adjusted schedule, Gu Ailing's competition date coincided with the snowboarder Su Yiming successfully "collided", if Su Yiming can successfully qualify in the snowboarding men's big jumping competition at noon today, tomorrow the two strongest 00 will jointly launch an impact on their highest goals.
China Youth Daily (ID: zqbcyol Reporter: Liang Xuan Photo: Li Zhengfeng Finishing: Chen Yanshan)
Source: China Youth Daily