The freestyle ski aerial skills event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has come to an end, with the Chinese team winning the championship in the men's singles and women's singles events, and a silver medal in the mixed men's and women's team events. Qi Guangpu won the Olympic gold medal for the Chinese men's team again after 16 years, and Xu Mengtao made up for the regret of "ski princess" Li Nina and won the first gold in the history of the project for the women's team. In this Winter Olympics, the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team has super strength, in the World Cup competition before the Winter Olympics, they won gold and silver in various major competitions, and rushed to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games as the first place in the comprehensive ranking.
Not surprisingly, the three veterans of the team, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu and Xu Mengtao, will usher in their own curtain performances at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and everyone hopes that they can realize their dreams. The first competition for the mixed team event was originally the most certain gold medal point for the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team. Before the Winter Olympics, the Chinese team composed of Qi Guangpu, Jia Zongyang and Xu Mengtao was undefeated, winning all the championships in several competitions in which they participated. With dazzling results, a luxurious squad and experienced veterans, this mixed team gold medal is almost all thought will go to the hosts.
In the qualifiers, the three players of the Chinese team played steadily and advanced as the first place, but in the second round of the final, Jia Zongyang made a mistake due to landing mistakes, which directly led to the Chinese team being surpassed by the American team at the last moment, and the gold medal that was about to arrive was snatched away by the opponent. After the game, Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu hugged each other to encourage and comfort each other, although they always smiled at the award ceremony, but in the depths of their hearts, their unwillingness and pain, who can understand it? This is the fourth time that Qi Guangpu, Jia Zongyang and Xu Mengtao have participated in the Olympic Games, and they have worked hard for nearly 20 years just to be able to raise the national flag and play the national anthem at the Olympic stadium.
But in the mixed team competition, the heavens closed their door of hope again. In the single-player competition, the difficulty of several veterans to win the championship has suddenly increased compared with the team competition, and the United States team, the Russian Olympic Committee, and the Swiss team are all popular for the championship. Whether Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang can win the gold, even the Chinese team's freestyle ski instructors cannot give a positive answer. In the end, Xu Mengtao rode the dust in the women's singles event and won the first Olympic gold medal of her career. This gold medal, she waited for 20 years. Qi Guangpu jumped in the men's singles competition, completed the difficulty coefficient of 5.0 under heavy pressure, and successfully defeated 5 strong opponents to win the championship.
The result of two gold and one silver also allowed the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team to create the best record in Olympic history. While everyone cheered for Qi Guangpu and Xu Mengtao to break through the cocoon and become butterflies, they also deeply regretted the defeat of veteran Jia Zongyang. What is touching is that in the final, when he saw his teammate Qi Guangpu stage a perfect jump, Jia Zongyang warmly applauded him on the sidelines. In an interview after the game, Jia Zongyang also said that he was really very happy and proud of the entire freestyle skiing aerial skills team. Even if it is not you who wins the championship in the end, there is no problem, as long as it is China! This deeply emotional sentence is destined to become the eternity of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
(Luo Treasurer)