On February 18, the final battle of | Gu Ailing, the double skating opened the curtain

2022-02-18 00:30:00

Today's Winter Olympics are full of drama. In the morning, Gu Ailing joined hands with Chinese teammates Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui to compete in the freestyle skiing U-shaped venue; in the afternoon, Ning Zhongyan and Lian Ziwen will prove China's speed in the "ice ribbon"; in the evening, the curtain of pair skating will be opened, and the two Chinese duo Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Jin Yang/Peng Cheng will jointly debut.

The freestyle ski women's U-shaped track skill final starts at 9:30 a.m. Among the 12 finalists are three Chinese players, and the similar-age Gu Ailing, Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui will attack the medals. In yesterday's qualifying round, Gu Ailing easily advanced to the first place with 95.50 points; 19-year-old Zhang Kexin ranked fifth, and at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, she also broke into the final, creating the best record of the Chinese team in the event with ninth place; 18-year-old Li Fanghui played for the first time in the Winter Olympics and ranked seventh in the qualifiers, which she said was not her strongest level and would rush forward in the final.

The final of the men's 1000m of speed skating will start at 16:30 today, and Ning Zhongyan and Lian Ziwen will play hand in hand. This is the third event for Ning Zhongyan, who is a quadrithlon: in the men's team chase, The Chinese team is eighth; in the men's 1500 meters, he is seventh in the playing abnormality. Although the men's 1,000 meters is not Ning Zhongyan's main sport, the 22-year-old Heilongjiang boy still has a certain strength, and in December last year, he won the gold medal in the world cup in Canada.

The final single pair skating of figure skating will begin at 18:30. In the 19 pairs, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong appeared in the 14th and 17th places respectively, and the top 16 combinations could advance to the free skating stage.

In the five events of figure skating (team competition, men's single skating, ice dance, women's single skating, and pair skating), pair skating is the strength of the Chinese team. Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo finally won the first gold medal for China at the Vancouver Winter Olympics after finishing third at the Salt Lake City and Turin Winter Olympics, and at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong lost to the German team and won the silver medal. In this Winter Olympics, the extraordinary "onion barrel" combination has been unveiled in the short program of the team competition, contributing 10 points to the Chinese team with the first place; Peng Cheng/Jin Yang appeared in the team free skating, ranked third, and got 8 points, with the joint efforts of all the members of the figure skating team, the Chinese team achieved the best result in the history of the team competition (fifth place). Now, the competition for the pair skating single event has begun, and the performance of Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang is expected.

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Freestyle Skiing: Women's U-Shaped Track Skills Final