Tonight, the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle ski women's aerial skills final ended at Genting Ski Park, with Chinese Xu Mengtao, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, winning the gold medal and another Chinese athlete Kong Fanyu finishing sixth.
Xu Mengtao in the game. Image from Xinhua News Agency
The finals are divided into three rounds, with the first two rounds of the competition taking the best jump of the contestants to rank, and the top six enter the decider round. In the first round of the competition, two Chinese players played well, among which Xu Mengtao completed the highest difficulty action of the woman with a backward churning three-turn body of 1080 degrees with high quality, scoring 103.89 points. Kong Fanyu also chose the three-week platform action, played well, scored 102.71 points, and the score of the first round of the two has ensured that they can enter the decisive round. Subsequently, Xu Mengtao chose to give up the second jump in order to save his physical strength, and Kong Fanyu made a mistake in trying the difficulty of 4.293. After two rounds, Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu ranked second and third respectively to advance to the finals.
Xu Mengtao's fourth Winter Olympics have finally come true. Image from Xinhua News Agency
In the finals, each person has only one chance to try to jump, which is not only a test of the strength of the athletes, but also a competition of psychological quality. Kong Fanyu, who took the lead in the debut, made a mistake and regrettably lost the medal. Xu Meng, who appeared in the fifth place, once again chose the difficult action of 4.293, except for the slight leg flexion in the third week, the whole set of actions from departure to landing showed a high degree of completion, and obtained a high score of 108.61. With the mistakes made by the American players when they landed, Xu Mengtao realized her dream of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and after winning the championship, she wore a national flag, and she was excited and left with moving tears.
Xu Mengtao, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, has previously won the World Championship, the World Cup championship, and the runner-up of the Winter Olympics, and in the previous team competition, Xu Mengtao once again regretted rubbing shoulders with the gold medal, for her, this Winter Olympic gold medal is undoubtedly the best reward for her sixteen years of perseverance. This precious gold medal is the fifth gold medal won by the Chinese delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics and the second gold medal won by the Chinese Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Team after Han Xiaopeng won the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Source: Ji Yun
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Organizer: Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau
Producer: Guo Lijun
Editing proofreading: LuLu