Beijing time on February 14, 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, freestyle skiing women's aerial skills final, Chinese veteran Xu Mengtao played, the last round of winning and losing action, Xu Mengtao perfect play, the specific action is BF-F-F, difficulty coefficient 4.293, Xu Mengtao perfect landing, scored 108.61 points, in the end, Xu Mengtao successfully won the gold, this is Xu Mengtao's first personal Winter Olympic gold medal in his career, the first time in his 16-year national team career to win this honor.
When the outcome of the game was finalized, Xu Mengtao lost her voice and cried, covered her face and kept crying, very excited, and kept shouting "I won at the door of our house!!!!!!!! "I am the first" Obviously, Xu Mengtao is very excited about her being able to win the championship. This is Xu Mengtao's second medal at the Winter Olympics, after Xu Mengtao won a silver medal in the team event. In addition, this is also the 28th world champion of Xu Mengtao's long career, the veteran, with an Olympic gold medal to make his career more sublimated.
In 2010, Xu Mengtao participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, when she was 20 years old, her career was still very long, and she would not be afraid to fall down. But this is 12 years, 12 years later, in Beijing at the doorstep, Xu Mengtao realized the dream of winning the Olympic Championship.
Xu Mengtao all the way is not easy, because the family environment is not very good, Xu Mengtao from childhood into the skiing of this sport, has been very sensible, childhood, never bought toys, and even Xu Mengtao's adolescent coach revealed that Xu Mengtao was sick when he was a child and did not go to the hospital, eating the medicine he prepared, and later found that the drugs were expired, but Xu Mengtao was not willing to throw it away. Chen Hongbin, a former competitive coach at Shenyang Sports College, said: "Once she had a cold and fever, I said let her go to the hospital, she knew that it costs money to go to the hospital, and she said 'I have medicine and I have medicine'. When I finished, I took the medicine and looked at it, and it was all expired. ”
In addition, Xu Mengtao said in a personal interview that he never bought toys when he was a child: "Our family used to live in a 36-square-meter house, and I never asked my parents for a toy when I was growing up. My life, after the Olympics, is the starting point. I still have a lot of things to do that I haven't done. ”
Fortunately, now Xu Mengtao's dream has finally come true, 4 years old contact professional sports, practice gymnastics, 12 years old to achieve the National Games 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze good results, in August of the same year to turn the track to practice freestyle skiing, and then at the age of 16, Xu Mengtao became a national champion, quickly became a shining star in the field of skiing. At that time, Xu Mengtao could hardly imagine that he was so difficult on the road of chasing the Olympic champion, and it took him 16 years to achieve gold.
After winning this Olympic gold medal, Xu Mengtao's career was completely completely complete, sliding out of the world's first difficult action, breaking the world record, the athlete with the most medals in the world championships, a total of 28 world championships, and twice won the women's freestyle skiing annual championship. Coupled with today's Olympic gold medals, the accumulation of honors in this pen is enough to highlight Xu Mengtao's excellence, she has been a historical athlete in the world women's freestyle skiing sport, and when she leaves this arena in the future, she is a legend!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)