On February 14, the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's aerial skills final began, with China's Kong Fanyu and Xu Mengtao, kong Fanyu, the bronze medalist of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and Xu Mengtao, the silver medalist of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. The format of the final is that each athlete jumps twice in the first round, and the ranking is based on one of the best results, and the top six advance to the second round of the final. In the second round of the final, only one jump was made to determine the gold, silver and bronze medals.
First jump of the first round of the final:
Kong Fanyu, who appeared in the third place, had a difficulty coefficient of 4.028, flipped back for three weeks, turned the body in the last two weeks, had enough height in the air, stretched his movements, landed very steadily, scored 102.71 points, and had great hopes of advancing to the second round of the final;
In the 10th appearance, Xu Mengtao's action is BF-F-F of the three-week platform, and the super difficulty action of the three-week platform, with a difficulty coefficient of 4.293. Xu Mengtao used the top difficulty to land very steadily, scoring a high score of 103.89.
After the end, Xu Mengtao shouted, and she used the difficulty of a ceiling to show her domineering side and hit the gold medal.
Xu Mengtao is 31 years old, and she is also one of the few "four dynasties elders" in the Chinese team, and her best result in the previous Winter Olympics was a silver medal. In 2021, veteran Xu Mengtao set a record with 26 World Cup race champions, becoming the first person in world cup history, even if she is already a veteran, Xu Mengtao's state is still very good, and her three-week stage difficulty is the world's top. Before the Start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao said that the anterior ligaments of both legs were broken, but he still forced himself to recover, forcing himself to suffer more, just to stand on the field of the Winter Olympics.
After coming to the Beijing Winter Olympics this time, Xu Mengtao has already won the silver medal in the freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed group. In the single freestyle ski women's aerial skill, Xu Mengtao scored a good score of 101.10 points in the first round of the qualifiers, and performed strongly.
Now that she has come to the final, Xu Mengtao has performed well, and she is also looking forward to her next performance, striving to impact the gold medal and realize her dream.