The first jump directly "jumped" into the final!
In this afternoon's freestyle skiing women's aerial skills qualifier, Xu Mengtao, China's leader in this event, was difficult and scored high in the first round, leading to tonight's final.
A few days ago, Xu Mengtao had just won the silver medal with his teammates in the air skill mixing group. Failing to stand on the highest podium made Xu Mengtao hold back a momentum to rush to the gold medal in today's personal event.
This is Xu Mengtao's fourth time participating in the Winter Olympics, after her best result in individual events was runner-up in Sochi in 2014. Therefore, this is likely to be the last opportunity of Xu Mengtao's Winter Olympic career to attack the gold medal.
Due to weather factors, the qualifying round for women's aerial skills has been postponed from yesterday to today, which has also made the qualification and final finals concentrated in one day, which is a severe test for the participants. Therefore, Xu Mengtao's goal is to be in the top six in the first round of qualification and directly lock in a final place.
Without any reservations, Xu Mengtao's first jump chose a difficult three-week platform action in order to make a jump. As a result, it was also fulfilled, with a high score of 101.10, with the third place in the first round of qualification, and advanced to the final early.
After seeing his score, Xu Mengtao shouted at the camera with great excitement: "See you in the final!" ”
Another Chinese player, Kong Fanyu, won the final place in the second round through two rounds of qualification competition, with a fourth place in the second round.
The final of the freestyle ski women's aerial skills will be held at 7 o'clock tonight, and the contestants will decide the final gold medal through the best of the two rounds.