At the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's snowboarding project achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Winter Olympics, and a number of powerful athletes such as Su Yiming and Jung came to the fore. In addition, the Chinese team also made its historical debut in 6 Winter Olympic snowboard events, and the number of participating events was greatly increased. At the same time as such good news, we must also see the folding of the women's U-shaped pool, which has always been the dominant event in continental snowboarding, which also reminds us that we still have a long way to go.
Su Yiming
New people are emerging
Because of Su Yiming's presence, Chinese snowboarding won the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics. Snowboarding is relatively young, and it was only in 1998 that some of the minor events in snowboarding became official events of the Winter Olympics. But it has developed rapidly, and although it is more difficult to get started than freestyle skiing, it is very popular with young people because of its cool way of playing.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, Su Yiming, a young snowboarder who grew up in the domestic ski circle and enjoyed an international reputation, emerged. He began to enter the domestic snow circle under the leadership of his parents who loved skiing, because of his talent and his father Su Qun spared no effort to shoot children's ski videos, director Xu Ke found him, so that Su Yiming participated in "Wise Tiger Mountain". Since then, he has also participated in some film and television works, but because of his talent, extreme love of skiing and desire to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming officially joined the Chinese national training team for snowboarding in 2018, becoming a professional skier, and began to participate in professional events of the International Snow Federation from 2019.
Su Yiming in the game
This season before the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming participated in two big jump world cups, of which the Swiss Scheer station only won the 41st place, and the second station in the United States Steamboat station won the championship, creating history. In terms of the World Cup of Slope Obstacle Courses, he participated in four races this season and finished third once, with the other three being 6th, 7th and 10th. Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, no one could have imagined that Su Yiming could achieve such an outstanding result of 1 gold and 1 silver.
In addition to Su Yiming, Yang Wenlong, who failed to participate in the Winter Olympics, was actually equally outstanding. He completed the "inner turn flip 1980 degrees" super difficult action on October 27 last year, becoming the first snowboarder in the world to complete this action, and Su Yiming, who trained with Yang Wenlong in Austria a day later, also attacked the success of the action. At the International Snow Federation Open in slope obstacle skills in January this year, Yang Wenlong also won the championship, but unfortunately, there is only one male Winter Olympic quota in China, and Yang Wenlong, born in 1999, did not participate in the Winter Olympics.
Another snowboarder who made a breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Olympics is Jung, who was born in 2002 and finished fifth in the big jump event, and she is a future young snowboard athlete with the strength to impact the podium of the Winter Olympics.
Jung in the game
Expand the participation area
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese snowboard team participated in 9 of the 11 sub-events, of which the men's parallel giant slalom, men's slope obstacle skills, men's big jump, women's slope obstacle course skills, women's big jump, women's obstacle chase a total of 6 small events are the first appearances in the history of the Winter Olympics. Among them, there are not only "preferential items" to activate the host quota, but also the Winter Olympic quota obtained by virtue of its own strength.
In the parallel giant slalom event, a total of 3 male athletes in China met the participation standards of the Beijing Winter Olympics, but there was only 1 place in the competition, and the top ranking Biye got this valuable place. In the men's big jump and slope obstacle courses, Su Yiming and Yang Wenlong were extremely powerful, and in the end they could only endure the pain of choosing 1 out of 2. In the women's big jump and slope obstacle courses, 5 Chinese athletes met the participation standards of the Winter Olympics, and jung, who was ranked high, finally won this place. In the women's obstacle course, 3 Chinese athletes met the participation criteria, and the original top ranking of Yang Qing Ram won the place, but before the Winter Olympics, Yang Qing Ram regrettably injured, and 17-year-old Feng He got this place.
Feng He in the game
It can be seen that although there is only one winter Olympic quota in many sports, in fact, almost every quota has multiple Chinese athletes competing. Although the results in some sports are not yet competitive, the expansion of the participation area and the increase in the number of athletes are the foundation, and it is possible to expect a breakthrough in the results of the next Winter Olympics.
We cannot ignore the advantages of the project folding
The development of China's specialized snowboarding project began in 2003, when the main focus was on the snowboard U pool project, Liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong were the first batch of snowboard U pool athletes to enter the local team and national team at that time.
Cai Xuetong in the game
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Liu Jiayu won the silver medal and became the first athlete in China to stand on the podium of the Winter Olympics on snowboarding. But at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Liu Jiayu only finished 8th, and Cai Xuetong won 4th, missing the podium. In fact, this season before the Beijing Winter Olympics, Cai Xuetong won the World Cup championship of the FIS Snowboard U Pool Project, and won the seventh crystal ball that symbolized the overall championship of the season, becoming the first person in history. In the end, she failed to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, and Cai Xuetong was also very disappointed after the game.
Liu Jiayu in the game
Although the veteran's perseverance in the four Winter Olympics is touching, the side reflects that young athletes have not been able to stand up. The other two young Chinese athletes, Wu Shaotong and Qiu Leng, who competed in the event, failed to advance to the final and the latter finished 12th in the final. In such a development pattern, the warning role is self-evident.