On February 17, Chinese athletes Pu Rui and Ran Hongyun ended the women's steeplechase freestyle skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics. As Chinese athletes who appeared in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time, they invariably regarded this competition as a valuable learning opportunity and looked forward to the future.
Ran Hongyun
The day's competition is divided into seedings, quarter-finals, quarter-finals, semi-finals, minor finals and grand finals. The so-called seed race is somewhat similar to the qualifying race of a racing car race. All the contestants set off individually to complete the glide, ranking in time, and deciding on the grouping and seeding position of the final quarter-finals. Among the 25 contestants, the two Chinese girls ranked 24th and 25th respectively, a time difference of more than 10 seconds from Sweden's Sandra Neslund, who took the shortest time. In the quarter-finals, which followed the top two in the group, Pu Rui and Ran Hongyun were both eliminated.
Puri
"I am very happy and honored to participate in the Winter Olympics this time, and I am especially grateful to the national, winter sports centers and provincial leaders for the training and giving me the opportunity to participate in such a high-level competition." Prie said, "There is still a certain gap between our level and the high-level athletes in the world, and we also have a learning attitude to learn from experience." ”
Ran Hongyun, who crossed the border from the martial arts project, was also very excited about his first Olympic Games. "I tried something I hadn't touched before, and I felt happy and stimulated." She said, "Foreign players are faster than us, we learn less, see which of them are better than us, after learning there will be a lot of growth, each competition is an accumulation of experience, I believe we will be better in the future." ”