On February 16, Beijing time, at the final of the freestyle skiing aerial skills project of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team sent good news, and Qi Guangpu won the gold, which was also the seventh gold medal of the Chinese delegation in the Winter Olympics.
The final was played in two rounds, and the 12 players in the first round each had two opportunities to do the action, and the top 6 were ranked in the first jump with the highest score, and the top 6 entered the second round of the final. Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang, the top two in the qualifying round, appeared in the last two places, the first jump Qi Guangpu did a good job, got a high score of 125.22, after this round he ranked 3rd, Jia Zongyang also jumped 123.45, after this jump he ranked 5th.
However, in the second round, two players surpassed Jia Zongyang, of which the American player scored 123.53 in the second jump, only 0.08 points higher than Jia Zongyang. Jia Zongyang ranked 7th after two rounds and regrettably missed the final. In the final final, Qi Guangpu appeared in the 3rd place, he withstood the pressure, and completed the action with a difficulty coefficient of 5.0 well, scoring 129.00 points, and finally won the championship!
Qi Guangpu made a wish on his 31st birthday: he won gold in the Winter Olympics at the age of 31, and he did it! At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, 19-year-old Qi Guangpu's first Olympic trip, seventh place was "a breakthrough in the world, but also a spur". In the following three years, the increasingly mature Qi Guangpu successively won the World Cup sub-station championship, the World Cup championship and the World Championship champion.
At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he was one step away from the podium and finished fourth, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang was one step away from the grand final and ranked seventh. In the air skill mixed team of this Winter Olympic Games, Qi Guangpu, Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang were recognized by the outside world as the favorites to win the championship before the game, and finally regrettably lost to the United States team to be the runner-up.
In the personal project, he and Jia Zongyang, who are also the "elders of the Four Dynasties", launched an attack on the gold medal. Qi Guangpu, who won gold today, lacked olympic gold medals on the grand slam map of his career, and another veteran Jia Zongyang had 20 steel nails in his legs in order to continue his career. The stories of these veterans' struggles all confirm an old saying: no one can succeed casually, salute!