February 15, Beijing time, the 11th match day of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Alpine skiing continues today, and the upcoming women's downhill event is attended by mainland Chinese player Kong Fanying, who is also the only Asian to participate in this event. It is worth mentioning that this is already the fourth competition envy of Kong Fanying, in the previous competition, she and Xu Mingfu, Zhang Mingyang two young players in the alpine skiing project for the Chinese delegation to create a lot of historical zero breakthroughs, for the women's downhill project, do not have to expect Kong Fanying to achieve how brilliant results, can successfully complete the race is already very worth celebrating.
Unlike the men's alpine skiing, where 70 or 80 people compete, the women's alpine skiing event has only 36 participants, and the competitiveness is not particularly fierce. The reason is also very simple, the downhill project is not like the big slalom, there are fewer flag gates to pass, the athletes have less buffer in speed, and they need to accelerate the sprint to get results, so the downhill project is the most difficult and the highest risk factor in the alpine ski sub-event, and the number of participants is relatively easy to understand.
Women's downhilling project only one round of competition will determine the final medal ownership, before Kong Fanying appeared, the French player Serudi made a mistake and crashed into the protective net, the scream of tearing the heart and lungs was very heart-wrenching, fortunately, the medical staff quickly arrived to take her away from the venue, the initial diagnosis was knee joint injury, I hope she is injured and recovers as soon as possible! Kong Fanying was the last of the 36 players to perform well and smoothly, achieving a time of 1:44.53, ranking 31st.
Many friends who have watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games will find that many delegations that only send one or two athletes, most of their athletes are participating in alpine skiing projects, it is natural to feel that this is a very easy to "make up numbers", the threshold is very low, but in fact, the technical requirements and difficulty of alpine skiing are very high, but the training threshold and equipment threshold, the quota limit is relatively low compared to most of the projects in the Winter Olympics, so Kong Fanying can get this result is already very good, congratulations to her!