On the evening of February 14, the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle ski women's aerial skills decided the gold medal, the Chinese Winter Olympics "four dynasties elders" Xu Mengtao in the finals, with a set of difficult perfect moves, a hammer to catch up, with 108.61 points to win the championship, for China to win the gold medal. You know, Xu Mengtao's women's aerial skills champion, but the Chinese snow sports, especially the moment that women have been waiting for for many years, since the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics began to set up this project, after 28 years of waiting, the Chinese women finally achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Winter Olympics.
Compared with ice sports, China's short track speed skating, figure skating, speed skating and other projects have a good strength, but also a large number of talents and famous players have emerged, and have made certain breakthroughs in the Winter Olympics, becoming the most contributed to the Winter Olympic gold medal projects. Snow sports have always been a shortcoming of China's winter sports, until the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Han Xiaopeng achieved a historic breakthrough in men's aerial skills, winning the first gold medal in snow sports for China. In fact, when Han Xiaopeng stood on the top of the world, the Chinese air skills team was already a world powerhouse, frequently achieving good results in world competitions, but the woman was on the verge of breaking the spell of the gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
Since 1994, China has sent its team to compete in the women's aerial skills event, and at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, Xu won the silver medal, achieving a breakthrough for China to zero medals in the project. In 2006, Han Xiaopeng took the lead in achieving a breakthrough, "upsetting" in the men's event, winning the gold medal, breaking the monopoly of Europe and the United States in the project. In addition, Li Nina also won a silver medal that year. Four years later, at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Li Nina once again won the silver medal, while Guo Xinxin won the bronze medal, and the women once again missed the gold medal. At the 2014 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the second time, won the silver medal, zhang Xin won the silver medal in 2018, and Kong Fanyu won the bronze medal. For four consecutive Winter Olympics, Chinese women have gained four consecutive Asian games, and the mood in this is quite complicated and uncomfortable.
In addition, in the World Series outside the Winter Olympics, Chinese women's aerial skills have won various championships softly, and the name of "champion division" has not gone away, so the expectations of the outside world for them are quite high. From 1994 until the Beijing Winter Olympics, the women's event was hard to find. Originally expected to be able to take the lead in achieving a breakthrough in the new mixed team competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but because of Jia Zongyang's mistake, he lost gold at the last moment and won the silver medal again.
Finally, in the women's final, Xu Mengtao did not want to let the opportunity be lost, the first two jumps of the final, she locked the qualifying quota with the first jump, the second jump directly and strategically gave up, and fought for the final with all her might, and finally the penultimate appearance of her, under the pressure of Kong Fanyu's mistakes, perfectly jumped and locked the first position. With the last jump of the American player landing mistake, Xu Mengtao celebrated madly, which shows that the emotions that have been suppressed in her heart for a long time have finally been released, and China is the champion! At this moment, the Chinese women's aerial skills have been waiting for 28 years, and finally the dream has come true!