On February 14, 2022, the Winter Olympics ended the freestyle skiing women's aerial skills qualification competition, China's Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu advanced to the final, Shao Qi was eliminated, 31-year-old veteran Xu Mengtao participated in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, holding two silver medals, and then she will go all out to fight and strive to break through herself in tonight's final, and the last bronze medalist Kong Fanyu is also worthy of attention.
Freestyle skiing aerial skills have always been the dominant project of the Chinese team, many times won the world championship, this time in the mixed team is expected to become the final winner, did not expect to lose to the United States team to win the silver medal, followed by a single competition, women's aerial skills three Chinese players Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Shao Qi participated, of which Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu were involved in the previous team competition.
Every Winter Olympics, there is always an opponent's extraordinary play, or their own mistakes, the Chinese team has no problem getting medals, Xu Mengtao is the runner-up winner eight years ago, Kong Fanyu won the bronze medal in the last session, the competition experience is very rich, Shao Qi is a rising star, standing out in internal competition, and obtaining the qualification to participate in the Winter Olympics, but there is a big gap between Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu.
The qualifiers are divided into two stages, the first round of the top six players to advance to the final, Xu Mengtao the second appearance, play well to get 101.10 points, ranked third to advance to the final, the first two are the United States Caldwell and Australia's Peel, Kong Fanyu 83.78 points, Shao Qi 77.49 points, both did not advance, at this stage, the top six must have at least 90 points or more.
Other players entered the second round of qualifying, all have a chance, take the best result, the top six players advanced, Kong Fanyu made the seventh appearance, jumped out of the 81.99 points, the performance was worse than before, the result Kong Fanyu with the results of the first round, ranked fourth in the second stage to advance to the final, Shao Qi made a mistake, only scored 54.90 points, and was finally eliminated.
It is worth mentioning that Xu Mengtao is a well-known player in aerial skills, who has won the World Cup 27 times, created a number of records, and is currently close to a Winter Olympic gold medal, when whether she can realize her dream will become the focus of everyone's attention, and the suspense still exists.
In fact, in the air skills of this project, many players are prone to extraordinary play, the initiative to try high difficulty success examples are not in the minority, for Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu, the next thing to do is to believe in themselves, go all out to fight, strive to do the best, the game comes to now, everyone has no reservations, the real highlight will be staged tonight, stay tuned.