During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team finally won 2 gold and 1 silver in the three events of mixed team, women's individual and men's individual. For details, please listen to the report of our reporter Qi Liangbo:
On the evening of February 16, with the perfect performance of the last jump in the final, Qi Guangpu won the gold medal in the freestyle ski men's aerial skills competition with a high score of 129 points, which also drew a perfect end to the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the same venue, just two days before Qi Guangpu won the championship, Xu Mengtao won the women's gold medal in this project. It made up for the team's regret of repeatedly missing the gold medal in three consecutive Winter Olympic Games.
Aerial skills have always been a traditional strength of China's snow sports, and at the just-concluded Beijing Winter Olympics, the team won 2 gold and 1 silver in the mixed team, women's individual and men's individual events.
Behind the momentum of the Beijing Winter Olympics, it is the persistence and hard work of a group of veterans and newcomers, as well as the silent efforts of the coaching team behind them, that China has reached the top of the world in this project. After Qi Guangpu won the championship, Niu Xuesong, a Chinese freestyle skiing physical fitness instructor, said excitedly.
Coach Cow Cedar
Coach Ji Dong introduced that in the team, the foreign head coach from Russia, Dimitri Kavoov, gave great help to the team.
Coach Ji Dong
After finishing all the competitions in aerial skills, Dimitri Kavonov was also very excited: "It feels amazing! When I first received an invitation from the Chinese team, they said let me be the head coach, and I said okay, I'll give it a try. Because before that I was in the United States, Canada, Sweden, etc., I worked for many national teams, almost all over the world. China is a brand new place for me, I love it here and it's a great pleasure to work with the Team in China! It's so exciting to be able to win the Olympics! ”
Head coach: Dimitri Kavonov
Coach Dennis Kapc revealed that Qi Guangpu's three-week backwards flip with a difficulty factor of 5.0 in the last jump plus five weeks of rotation was a plan that had been made before the game. Dennis Kapc said: "We've made plans in advance and I told him that in the race you just have to focus on what you need to do. It's very important, as we usually do in training. ”
Coach Dennis Kapochik
Officially, because of the joint efforts of Chinese and foreign coaching teams, the Chinese Air Skills Team will achieve such excellent results at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Team of aerial skills coaches