Gu Ailing in today's freestyle ski U-pool qualifiers, the two jumps are very successful, ranking the first qualifier to reach the final, so can Gu Ailing successfully win this gold medal? Who are Gu Ailing's main opponents in the final?
All major opponents advance
The first opponent is Canada's Kathy Sharp, a 33-year-old veteran who is definitely not to be overlooked, she was the winner of the last PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and her record for the championship is 95.80 points, which is quite high, higher than Gu Ailing's 95.50 in the first qualifier.
While Ailing didn't do her best, Kathy Sharp certainly didn't do her best either. Moreover, Kathy Sharp has two advantages, she only participates in one U-shaped pool competition, physical advantage, and her difficulty has an advantage, she can do 1260 turns, plus 1080 and 900.
Kathy Sharp's 1260 turn is her ace move, and no female athlete other than her can do it.
It is foreseeable that once Kathy Sharp successfully completes this move in the final, she will be the biggest threat to Gu Ailing. Of course, high returns have high risks, and too high difficulty also means a high error rate.
Compared with him, Gu Ailing can do 1080 turns and 900 turns, and Gu Ailing's advantages are high lifting height, more grasping methods, and comfortable connection series.
Of course, Kathy Sharp is not without disadvantages, and being older is a disadvantage. In addition, Kathy Sharp was injured in August last year, missed many games, the state may not be the best, in the final she may not dare to go to 1260 this action, so Gu Ailing does not have to be afraid of her, after all, Gu Ailing once got a super high score of 97.50 points.
Remember what Gu Ailing said in an interview with the media before the Olympic Games began, "I am not afraid of him!" "Huh?
Gu Ailing said that she is the second opponent, Estonia's Hildaru, this little beauty who is only one year older than Gu Ailing will be Gu Ailing's lifelong opponent, she is the bronze medalist in the slope obstacle course skills of this Olympic Games, she defeated Gu Ailing twice in two World Cup competitions this season to win the championship, but Gu Ailing also defeated Hildaru twice on her strong U-shaped pool.
Hildaru, like Gu Ailing, also signed up for the three events at the Olympic Games, but her form did not seem to be the best, and she failed to reach the final by mistake in the big jump competition, and lost to Gu Ailing in her strongest sport, slope obstacle course skills, and only won the bronze medal.
The U-shaped pool is not Hildaru's main item, so Gu Ailing does not have to worry about Hildaru.
The third opponent is Canada's Rachel Kack, who was runner-up at the World Championships and won last year's World Cup tournament in Aspen (when Gu Ailing retired due to injury), when her three-jump scores were 93.00, 93.00 and 93.25, respectively, and played very steadily, and is currently ranked third in the world.
The fourth opponent is Britain's Zoe Atkin, a bronze medalist at the World Championships, who is currently ranked second in the world, behind Gu Ailing.
The girl, who looks like Chinese, is also of mixed race, her father is British, her mother is Malaysian, and like Gu Ailing, she was born and raised in the United States.
Zoe Atkin is probably the Brit's best hope of breaking the medal zero.
It can be said that these four players will be the main opponents of gu ailing's U-pool competition, especially Canadian veteran Kathy Sharp.
In addition, there is the American Britta Signey, the United States player Faulhaber, also have the strength to reach the podium.
In all the competitions that Gu Ailing participated in last year, all of them competed with these opponents for the championship, but without exception, Gu Ailing won.
In the previous game, Gu Ailing had eaten the leek box between the games, so what else do you want to eat this time? Gu Ailing said that he had eaten a brown sugar cake with sesame seeds two days ago, and wanted to eat it in the final, but if he couldn't find it, he could only find other foods to replace.
Gu Ailing's grandmother has flown to Beijing, will be on the spot to watch Gu Ailing's game, this 86-year-old grandmother has a particularly great influence on Gu Ailing, since Gu Ailing was born, she specially went to the United States to take Gu Ailing, education Gu Ailing said that Chinese, eat Chinese food, tell Chinese stories to Gu Ailing, in the summer, Grandma also took Gu Ailing back to China to live for two months, so that Gu Ailing can learn Chinese culture.
Gu Ailing once said that the most admired women are grandma and mother, because they are "brave, confident and powerful", Gu Ailing's desire to win the game comes from grandma, even in the kindergarten running competition, grandma hopes she can take the first place.
I believe that Grandma's self-help will bring greater strength to Gu Ailing to impact the gold medal!
Grandma came, hurry to find the granddaughter's favorite brown sugar sesame cake to bring ah!
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