At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team won two gold and one silver, creating the best result in the previous Winter Olympics. Among them, Qi Guangpu's gold medal in the men's individual event was the 7th gold medal of the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics. The "patriarch of the four dynasties" of the Winter Olympics finally achieved a grand slam of his career with a gold medal. Listen to the reporter Yu Bochuan's report:
In the snowy night of the Zhangjiakou Division, Qi Guangpu jumped up and jumped on the podium and was awarded the gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games for which he had worked hard for four times.
The time was set back to the previous night's freestyle ski men's aerial skills final, where Qi Guangpu challenged the 5.0 difficulty move in the final round. When he completed this move and landed steadily, the scene of Genting Ski Park erupted into a warm cheer. With this move, he scored 129 points and won the 7th gold of the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics.
After the game, Qi Guangpu said that the success rate of this 5.0 action this season is not high, but when it comes to the stage of the Winter Olympic final, the last jump must be spelled: "In fact, this season I did not practice 5.0 much, because at the beginning my state was not very good, in the World Cup abroad more or less made mistakes, as I slowly found the state in the game, after returning to my own doorstep, this state came." In that case, I know a lot of people in the final will challenge 5.0, and I don't care how they do, I have to do it. Because 5.0 is a pity for so many of my Winter Olympics. I have succeeded many times in the World Cup and the World Championships, but I have no chance to succeed in the Winter Olympics. No matter what the situation, I will jump 5.0 without hesitation. ”
This is Qi Guangpu's fourth winter Olympic tour, and the best result before it was fourth place. This time, he finally stood on the podium of his personal event, and it was a heavy gold medal: "After 16 years of fighting for this championship, I think these four Olympic Games are not easy." It may also be because of the regrets of previous Olympic Games that forced me to go all out on my doorstep this time and had to give it a go. When I stood at the starting point, I thought about how to do this action well and stand still, in fact, standing firmly is the most important. ”
Looking back at Qi Guangpu's four Winter Olympics trip: Vancouver in 2010, when he ranked seventh; four years later in Sochi, he and his teammate Jia Zongyang had become gold-winning favourites, but the mistakes in the final landing made Qi Guangpu only finish fourth; another four years, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, another seventh. After this, Qi Guangpu briefly withdrew from the national team, but soon returned to the snow field because of the desire and love in his heart, and continued to fight for honor. Finally in Beijing, at the Genting Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou, he fulfilled his dream of a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. It also became a career Grand Slam that combined world champion, World Cup champion and Winter Olympic champion.
Stepping off the podium, he said, the gold medal weighed heavily: "This gold medal is worth the wait of our Air Skills team for so many years, especially to be able to realize this historic moment on our own doorstep." ”
During the process of raising the national flag and playing the national anthem, the 31-year-old veteran was full of tears, and his eyes gazed deeply at the rising five-star red flag: "Originally, my emotions were well controlled, but when the national flag was raised, when I heard the national anthem, I couldn't control the tears." Especially when I started singing the national anthem, the pride of being a Chinese was immense. ”
Qi Guangpu has a daughter who is about to turn 3 years old, and he rarely reunites with her daughter after years of preparing for training outside the home. He said that when he returned home, he would tell his daughter the story behind the gold medal, and he believed that she would slowly understand the meaning of it: "I not only want to tell her the story of this gold medal, but also tell her the meaning of this gold medal and the story behind the gold medal." It is not actually my personal story, but the story of the entire Chinese aerial skill pair, the Chinese Iceman generations. ”
The Chinese Aerial Skills team previously won gold medals at the Winter Olympics, dating back to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In the context of this Year's Winter Olympics, this team won two golds and one silver, of which both men's and women's individual events stood on the highest podium. Qi Guangpu hopes that this is the beginning of the rise of the Chinese air skill team: "I believe that in the future we will win more and more gold medals." ”