Tonight (16th) Beijing time, the freestyle ski men's aerial skills final was held at Genting Ski Park, and Two veterans of China, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang, competed together. Jia Zongyang made a mistake and failed to advance to the finals, and Qi Guangpu, who was fighting alone, jumped out of the high score of 129 and won the 7th gold medal of the Winter Olympics for the Chinese team!
The freestyle ski aerial skills competition is always full of uncertainties and accidents, when teammate Jia Zongyang was out of the first round of the final, facing the strong pinch of Russian, Swedish and American players, Qi Guangpu withstood the pressure and fought for the Gold Medal for the Chinese team that had been waiting for 16 years! This is also the second gold medal of the Chinese freestyle men's skiing aerial skills team, and this hard-won gold medal has been too long for the 31-year-old Qi Guangpu and the men's skiing aerial skills team!
On the evening of February 16, the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing men's aerial skills final ended at Genting Ski Park. Two "Four Dynasties" veterans Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang fought side by side in the final, and in the end, qi Guangpu, the "Elder of the Four Dynasties", won the championship in the second round, with the world's most difficult action, with impeccable play, Jia Zongyang, who made a mistake, stopped the first round of the final, but his years of perseverance still won the applause of the scene.
The final is divided into two rounds, a total of 12 players participate, the first round of each athlete jumped twice, taking one of the best results, the top six results advanced to the second round of the final. In the second round, only one jump is made to decide the winner.
In the first round of the final, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang, the top two in the qualifying round, were scheduled to play at the end, and both chose the difficulty factor of 4.425 bFdFF (backwards flip three-turn 1440 degrees) action. In the first jump, Jia Zongyang played well, with excellent aerial rotation and landing stability, he scored 123.45 points in the referee, temporarily ranking fifth. Qi Guangpu, who came on the scene next, also completed the difficulty of the action well, with a high score of 125.22, temporarily ranking third.
In the key second jump, Jia Zongyang made a mistake when challenging the bdFFF difficulty action, and fell heavily on the snow with his back on the ground, and finally Jia Zongyang ranked seventh to stop the first round, which also shattered the possibility of all the color medals of this veteran. Although Qi Guangpu failed to refresh the results in the second jump, he still advanced to the decisive round with the first jump. It is worth noting that the Russian player Ilya Brov completed the world's highest difficulty bdFFdF (backward churning three-turn 1800 degrees), obtaining a full-time high of 129.50 points, and Swiss young Werner completed the bdFFF (backward churning three-turn 1440 degrees) action with high quality, ranking second with 126.24 points. Lillis, an American who successfully challenged the 5.0 difficulty in last week's mixed team competition, scored 125.67 points, ranking third. The intensity of the competition can be seen, and the suspense is left until the final decisive jump.
In the final jump of the second round, Qi Guangpu directly challenged the bdFFdF (backward flip three-turn body 1800 degrees) action with a difficulty coefficient of up to 5.0, whether it was the height of the air or the posture in the air, his performance was impeccable, and he got a high score of 129, temporarily ranking first! In the waiting division, Qi Guangpu could not hide his excitement and covered his face and cried. But the results of the game have not yet been settled, and then, the American Lilis, who is expected to stir up trouble, made a mistake in challenging the 5.0 difficulty and scored only 103 points. Ilya Broff, who had already completed a bdFFdF move with a difficulty factor of 5.0 in the first round, could only reduce the difficulty in the last round, and he scored 114.93 points in the end. This also means that Qi Guangpu has completely locked this gold medal!
Behind this long-awaited gold medal is the long-term struggle and unimaginable hardships and efforts of generations of Chinese air skill team players. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Han Xiaopeng won the final of the aerial skills event, creating a new history for Chinese male athletes in snow sports. However, the joy and glory of the first gold did not continue to the winter Olympics after this, and for the pursuit of the second gold, the Chinese men's aerial skills team experienced more ups and downs. After Han Xiaopeng, countless descendants wanted to continue his glory in Turin.
This gold medal Qi Guangpu is also looking forward to four Winter Olympics. At the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu started his Winter Olympic career; in Sochi, he finished fourth; in Pyeongchang, he finished seventh in the wrong play. After four years of dormancy, Qi Guangpu returned again, and qi Guangpu, who played perfectly in the final and was known for his high technical difficulty, finally used the difficulty to fight for this precious gold medal!
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