On the evening of February 16, at the Genting Ski Park in Zhangjiakou, Chinese team player Qi Guangpu sacrificed his highest difficulty of 5.0 to win the championship with 129.0 points, which was also the seventh gold medal won by the Chinese delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and another Chinese team player, Jia Zongyang, won the 7th place. After Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu, who is also the "elder of the Four Dynasties", also fulfilled his dream of winning the Winter Olympic gold medal in Beijing. In 2006, Han Xiaopeng won the championship in this project, winning the first winter Olympic gold medal in China's snow sports, and 16 years later, Qi Guangpu won the gold again, continuing the glory of China's ice and snow in this traditional advantage project.
In the freestyle skiing aerial skills project of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team achieved full participation, among which three veterans who participated in the Winter Olympics for four times, Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu, attracted much attention, and the three veterans who have fought for many years on the international field and won countless honors all have a common dream, that is, to fulfill their winter Olympic gold medal dream at the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the first mixed team competition, Jia Zongyang made a slight mistake, and the Chinese team won a silver medal; after the women's individual competition, Xu Mengtao successfully won gold with the world's highest difficulty action; in the men's individual competition, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang shouldered the task of rushing gold, and they also knew that this master-gathered competition was destined not to be easy.
In the first jump, Switzerland's Werner jumped 126.24 points, ranking first. Lilis of the United States, who scored 135 points in the mixed team competition, ranked second, while China's Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang were third and fifth, respectively. In the second jump, Jia Zongyang made a mistake when he landed, scoring 88.69 points, and in the end, he ranked seventh, regrettably missing the final round. Qi Guangpu ranked fourth with 125.22 points in the first round and advanced to the final. In the final, Qi Guangpu came up with a difficulty coefficient of up to 5.0 points of "Skyline Action", which is a back Double Full-Full-Full-Double Full with a rotation of 1800 degrees (Back Double Full-Full-Double Full) for three weeks, the players have to turn 8 times in less than 3 seconds, Qi Guangpu from the start, jump, aerial posture and then to the steady landing, the whole set of actions in one go, got a high score of 129.00 points. With this impeccable jump, Qi Guangpu overpowered the crowd and won the gold medal in the men's aerial skills event of freestyle skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Qi Guangpu, who is a combination of Olympic champion, world champion and World Cup champion, also completed his "Grand Slam" in this project.
After the game, Qi Guangpu wore a national flag and celebrated passionately, when talking about his final action of difficulty 5.0, Qi Guangpu said: "It must be used, it must be fought, because I know that many players in the world have mastered this action, so I only have to fight." I have only done this action five times this year, and I have done it twice in today's training, in fact, I am also fighting. Qi Guangpu spelled out this gold medal, and looking at his performance at the Winter Olympics, it can be found that Qi Guangpu won gold in Genting by accident. In this Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu completed a total of 6 jumps in the mixed team competition and individual events, and all the jumps were successful, and he deserved to be the "dinghai god needle" of the Chinese team.
"Mature and stable in the game, life is a joke." This is Qi Guangpu's positioning of himself. And Qi Guangpu's fans call him "Qi Laoye", in this regard, Qi Guangpu said, "I once said before a competition, 'I am OK, I have the final say', everyone feels more domineering, they call me Grandpa." ”
Qi Guangpu was born on October 20, 1990 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, and he first practiced trampolines. In 2000, the 10-year-old Qi Guangpu was selected to the Changchun Freestyle SkiIng Aerial Skills Team, and in 2009, the 19-year-old Qi Guangpu began to emerge on the international stage, but when he participated in the competition in Moscow, Qi Guangpu had a concussion, he deeply realized the danger of his project, but his original intention did not change, he still had to challenge the limit in the air. After several years of tempering, Qi Guangpu began to become a regular guest of the freestyle ski world cup sub-station champion. At the 2013 World Championships, Qi Guangpu won the championship with a difficulty factor of 5.0, and since then, he has become the "world's first person in difficulty" in freestyle skiing aerial skills.
Despite reaching the top podium at the World Cup and World Championships, Qi Guangpu's journey to the Winter Olympics was full of ups and downs. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, when the fledgling Qi Guangpu ranked seventh, he also witnessed the defeat of his brother Han Xiaopeng, who won gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, when qi Guangpu, who was only 20 years old, secretly resolved to win the gold medal back; at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu ranked fourth with a slight disadvantage, just one step away from the podium; in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu encountered Waterloo, and he was seventh again, which made him retreat. Not long after the end of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu announced his retirement from the national team, and he planned to return to campus to continue his studies, while also adjusting his mood and state. Then, just a year later, Qi Guangpu returned to the national team with a desire for gold medals in the Winter Olympics, and together with his old teammates Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang, he completed the preparations for this Winter Olympic cycle. On the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu has grown from a potential young general to a "four-dynasty elder", he is more mature and stable than ever, and finally, Qi Guangpu picked gold in Genting and realized his dream of winning the Winter Olympics with 20 years of unremitting struggle.
Of course, we can't forget Jia Zongyang, who is also the "Elder of the Four Dynasties", who was implanted with 2 steel plates and 22 steel nails due to serious injuries, known as "Iron Man", and the steel nail that was not taken out of his calf is the perfect interpretation of his steel will. Beijing Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang tried his best, after the mistake of the mixed team competition, he shed tears of self-blame, a single event, Jia Zongyang, who failed to enter the final, has been paying attention to the performance of teammate Qi Guangpu, when Qi Guangpu decided to win the championship, Jia Zongyang raised his hands high, and clapped for Qi Guangpu with tears in his eyes, this scene touched everyone on the scene. Seeing this scene, Qi Guangpu was also very moved, "Whoever wins the championship for the two of us, the other person will sincerely wish him." Although my good brother did not stand on the highest podium today, this gold medal was won by our Chinese team. ”
Looking back, aerial skills is one of the earliest projects in China's ice and snow sports, this project has given birth to China's first ski world champion Guo Dandan, China's first Winter Olympics snow sports gold medalist Han Xiaopeng, and at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang won 2 gold and 1 silver for the Chinese delegation, the veterans continue to write brilliant stories that are wonderful enough, however, they did not take this Winter Olympics as the end, but planned to challenge 2026!