The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ushered in the final competition for freestyle skiing men's aerial skills! In the end, China's "Difficulty King" 31-year-old veteran Qi Guangpu reproduced the 5.0 difficulty to win the championship at home with 129.00 points! Achieved a breakthrough of zero medals in the Winter Olympics, achieved the Miracle of grand slam in the World Championships, World Cup and Olympic Games, and won the seventh gold of the Winter Olympic Games for the Chinese delegation!
As the top seed, Russian Olympian Maxim Broff, was upset in the qualifiers, the hopes of the two "four dynasties elders" from China, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang, who eventually won the gold, were also greatly increased, and they also entered the final as the first and second places in the qualification rounds respectively! However, Jia Zongyang's mistake in the second jump of the promotion round made his best score of only 123.45 and finally ranked seventh among the 12 players and did not qualify for the final round.
"Difficulty King" Qi Guangpu relied on a score of 125.22 in the promotion round to advance to the final in the fourth place, but the players in the promotion round frequently played "big moves" to make him feel full of pressure, and Ilya Brov from Russia and Austria jumped to the first round of the final with a difficulty of 5.0 action with a difficulty of 5.0.
In the final final, all six contestants used a difficulty factor of 5.0 in the final, comparing who is more stable! And the "difficulty king" Qi Guangpu appeared in the third place, and finally landed steadily! Take off, aerial maneuvers, and landing with a score of 7.0! Won the championship with an absolute advantage of 129.00 points!!!
Qi Guangpu, who was originally the favorite to win the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics project four years ago, made a mistake in the second round of the final, and like Xu Mengtao, he could not come up with his highest difficulty, and he ended his Winter Olympic journey! However, this time, he and Xu Mengtao completed the dream of changing the color of the medal and won the gold medal! Since Han Xiaopeng won the first winter Olympic gold medal in The Chinese Snow Sports at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the Chinese Winter Olympic Team has once again stood on the highest podium in this event after 16 years!
From the fledgling of the Vancouver Winter Olympics to the 14th Sochi Winter Olympics, one step away from the podium and fourth, until the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 18 encountered "Waterloo", after a brief withdrawal from the national team with a desire to return to the national team! Qi Guangpu, the uncrowned king of the Winter Olympics, "Qi Laoye", has finally completed the breakthrough for the gold medal!
As for Jia Zongyang, in the previously ended freestyle skiing aerial skill mixed group, Jia Zongyang's mistake in the second round of the final made the whole team miss the opportunity to impact the gold medal, after the game, the veteran once choked, for this not so perfect silver medal, the same as the Winter Olympics "Four Dynasties Elders" he is very remorseful, but Xu Mengtao and Qi Guangpu "a forward roll can not deny us" Comfort and the encouragement of the people of the whole country, enough to let the veteran know that the "Iron Man" who has experienced 22 steel nails and 2 steel plates can have the courage to stand on the starting point , is already a success!
Jia Zongyang! We'll walk with you!