Gu Ailing in the freestyle ski women's steeplechase qualifiers. Photo by Jiang Yushi, a reporter of this newspaper
Su Yiming in the men's big jumping qualification tournament on snowboarding. Global Times reporter Li Hao photographed
Jung was in the women's big jumping qualifiers for snowboarding. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li He photographed
On the morning of February 14, Genting Ski Park. The first light after the snow, the sun is shining. China's Gu Ailing made her Zhangjiakou debut in the slope obstacle course.
On the same day, the freestyle ski women's steeplechase qualification tournament, which was postponed by one day due to snowfall, ended two rounds of competition. Gu Ailing scored 79.38 points in the second skate, ranking third among 27 participants and successfully advancing to the final.
The top five players in the qualifying round are also in the top five in the INTERNATIONAL Snow Federation rankings, and they are quite strong. In the first round of skating, Gu Ailing, who debuted first, had some flaws in the action in the props area, scoring 57.28 points. According to the rules of the competition, the qualifying round will be ranked by the best round of results, and the top 12 can be finalists. Gu Ailing could only adjust his state in time and continue to focus on doing his own actions.
Entering the second round, Gu Airing set off steadily, the prop area and the jumping area were successfully passed, and a set of actions flowed smoothly. While waiting for the score, she also took out a leek box to eat, and frequently smiled and looked at the camera, it is not difficult to see the satisfaction of her own slip.
In the end, Gu Ailing successfully advanced to the final with a second skate of 79.38 points. Estonian star Kelly Sildaru played steadily in both skates and ranked first to advance. In the final, she will become Gu Ailing's main competitor.
In this Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing played in 3 events at the same time, and has previously won the gold medal in the women's big jump in freestyle skiing. After the slope obstacle course qualifying, she did not give too many interviews and hurried to the U-shaped track skills field for training.
Gu Ailing's teammate Yang Shuorui participated with an injury and eventually ranked twenty-third. She said after the game that representing the Chinese team on the Winter Olympic field was a very valuable experience, seeing the gap between high-level players and gaining experience in the competition, "striving to participate in the next Winter Olympics and get a good result."
On the afternoon of the same day, the snowboard men's big jump qualifier was held in shougang ski jump, and Su Yiming, a player from the Chinese team, ranked fifth with a total score of 155.25 points and successfully advanced to the final.
The Beijing Winter Olympics snowboard slope obstacle course and the big jump event share a seat, and participants must do both. Max Parrott, Mark McMorris and the other 12 players who participated in the slope obstacle course final all came to the big jumping stage to make this qualifier a lot of fun.
The snowboard jump is Su Yiming's specialty, and he fully proved this in the first jump. Su Yiming, the eighth appearance, did not start at the regular starting point, but stood on a small jump platform that was 2 meters higher - this is to get a faster jumping speed, which also means challenging more difficult moves.
In the first round of the competition, Su Yiming showed the internal rotation 1800 degree action, the air lag time was very long, the air action was stretched, the grasping board was completed in one go, and the highest score of 92.50 points was obtained. In the second round of competition, in order to complete the rotation action in different directions, Su Yiming tried to turn 1440 degrees, but unfortunately, when he landed, his hand touched the snow and only got 62.75 points. After two rounds, Su Yiming was in third place.
After ensuring that he advanced to the final, Su Yiming's last jump continued to impact the difficult action of turning 1800 degrees. "The third jump was a good attitude, but there was a mistake when I landed, and I will go back and work with the coach to develop an improvement plan." After all, the final is the highlight, and when the time comes, I will challenge my highest difficulty to get the desired result. Su Yiming said.
In the women's big jumping qualification tournament on snowboarding held on the morning of the same day, The Chinese team's Jung made a mistake in the first round of the competition, scoring only 10.75 points, ranking second from the bottom. After the last two jumps, Jung withstood the pressure and steadily completed the 720-degree outward rotation and the two-week deflection backflip to qualify for the final.
Before Gu Ailing, Yang Shuorui, Su Yiming and Jung, whether it was freestyle ski slope obstacle course skills or snowboard jumps, it was still an "unfamiliar arena" for the Chinese team. Today, three young players have advanced to the finals of their respective events, which has achieved a breakthrough.
People's Daily ( 2022-02-15 09 edition)