On February 15, 2022, the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing men's aerial skills ended the qualification competition, the Chinese team sent Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu, Sun Jiaxu, Wang Xindi four players to play, 30-year-old veteran Jia Zongyang once again impacted the championship, the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, he was the runner-up winner of this project, and finally the two advanced to the final, Sun Jiaxu and Wang Xindi did not have satisfactory results and were eliminated.
Freestyle skiing aerial skills are the dominant projects of the Chinese team, Xu Mengtao defeated the defending champion Hushkova in the women's aerial skills to win gold, creating a new history, while winning a silver medal in the mixed team, the men's aerial skills are also rushing gold points, getting full participation seats, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu, Sun Jiaxu, Wang Xindi joined hands to play, Jia Zongyang two Winter Olympics were on the podium.
Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu have won the world championship many times, the competition experience is very rich, in the last Winter Olympics Jia Zongyang won the silver medal, Qi Guangpu ranked fourth, creating his best results in the Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang is now almost a Winter Olympic gold medal, similar to the situation of Xu Mengtao before, 16 years ago Han Xiaopeng won the gold medal in this project, and the overall strength has shown an upward trend in recent years.
The qualifiers are divided into two stages, first of all, each player has an opportunity, the top six people in the results advance to the final, and the last remaining players have another contest, or the top six people to advance, these 12 players compete for the top three, there is a certain degree of chance, in fact, the rules of aerial skills, especially test the psychological quality of athletes, especially the ability to resist pressure at key moments.
In the first round, Sun Jiaxu was the first Chinese player to appear, he challenged the difficult results and made mistakes, scoring 85.40 points, followed by Qi Guangpu, who performed perfectly and scored 127.88 points, Jia Zongyang's play was equally stable, scoring 125.67 points, Wang Xindi scored 114.60 points, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang ranked in the top two and directly advanced to the final, Sun Jiaxu and Wang Xindi continued to participate in the qualifiers.
In the second round, Sun Jiaxu played at a normal level, scoring 110.86 points, but there were too many players with strength, and in the end he could only be eliminated, Wang Xindi slid to the eighth place, only the top six could advance to the final, just look at the results of the last jump, the result Wang Xindi failed to withstand the pressure, there was a major mistake, scored 98.19 points, and finally Wang Xindi was 8th, Sun Jiaxu was 12th and did not qualify.
The final will be played tomorrow night, the performance of Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu is worth looking forward to, when the two veterans will go all out to strive for another good result, but also let us continue to pay attention to cheer for chinese players, I hope they can seize this opportunity and make new breakthroughs.