In the early morning of the 14th, Beijing time, in the 2021 Freestyle Skiing World Championships Women's Slope Obstacle Skills Final, the injured Chinese player Gu Ailing won the championship with 84.23 points and won another world championship gold medal.
This is her first World Championship gold medal in the women's slope obstacle skills project, and in this event, she has created a zero breakthrough in the world championship gold medal for China's ice and snow.
Less than a day ago, she just won the women's U-shaped field competition with a high score of 93 points, which is also the first gold of the Chinese Army in this event.
After winning twice within 24 hours, she became the first freestyle skier in China to win two gold medals in a World Championship.
With this performance, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration also released a happy announcement for the second time within 24 hours to congratulate Gu Ailing.
After taking the lead in winning gold in the women's U-shaped field, Gu Ailing naturally became better at her best slope obstacle skills.
In the first round of the game, she got a high score of 84.23 points and ranked first, and finally won the gold medal with this performance.
Although this is not Gu Ailing's personal first World Championship gold medal, she is even more excited than winning the previous championship.
In the final round of the final, Gu Ailing was the last to play. Before her, all the players had completed the game, and no one had a higher score than her in the first round. Gu Ailing also secured the gold medal in advance.
So before starting, the Chinese girl was already celebrating the victory.
In January 2020, Gu Ailing won two gold medals in the Youth Winter Olympics; in February, she won two championships in the FIS World Cup; a month ago, she reached the top twice in the World Extreme Games, plus this World Championship Achieving double gold, in the past year or so, it seems that "winning gold and becoming a double" has become her "standard."
This time it was the same, but this time it was also different.
Different from previous competition habits, Gu Ailing, who played in the World Championships for the first time, gave up using snow poles in the competition. This is not a new technical adjustment, but because of her broken hand, she could not use snow in the competition according to the previous competition habits. battle.
This makes her trip to the World Championships even more challenging.
Perhaps because of this, after winning gold in the women’s U-shaped venue, Gu Ailing was also quite excited: “I actually struggled a bit during the preliminaries and training, especially when I was only ranked seventh in the preliminaries, which gave me confidence. I was a little shaken, but I found the feeling in today’s final. It’s amazing. I’m very excited to be able to compete in this situation and show the world my strength. Even if I am injured and cannot hold a cane, I can still skate very well.
This may be the first time she publicly revealed the impact of injuries on her.
Prior to this, from "I feel good now" when the injury was announced, to "I'm okay" in an interview shortly before the game, Gu Ailing's tone was not heavy.
But in fact, her injury was not minor.
"People in the hospital said that you have to put a plaster." Afterwards, Gu Ailing put the plaster for a month, then removed it shortly before the start of the World Championships, and set foot on the snow track wearing protective gear.
Today, she has two gold medals in hand, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win two gold medals in a world championship.
And then she will also participate in the big platform competition, she has the opportunity to do more, she naturally expects to do more.
Even after winning the gold this time, Gu Ailing expressed regret that he could not make a higher level of difficulty: "In the second round, I originally wanted to challenge a higher level of difficulty. In the last round, I also wanted to continue to challenge, but there was no way. , The wind is too big."
Nevertheless, in terms of the achievements so far, among all Chinese freestyle skiers, she has surpassed Han Xiaopeng, Cheng Shuang and Xu Mengtao and tied with Qi Guangpu, holding two gold medals in the World Championships.
Now ranked ahead of her, only Li Nina's record of three gold medals in the World Championships.
Li Nina has achieved three consecutive World Championships
Compared to Li Nina's three gold medals in the three World Championships, if Gu Ailing could tie the record in one game, it would be more shocking.
But from another perspective, Li Nina's three consecutive championships from 2005 to 2009 showed her long-term dominance in this project.
This may be the direction that young Gu Ailing needs to work hard in the future.
The important prerequisite for this is to maintain health.
From the very beginning of entering people's field of vision, Gu Ailing has been accompanied by words such as "history" and "record".
At only 17 years old, she has the opportunity to continue to chase the records left by her predecessors in the remaining years, and is destined to continue to create a new history of her own.
I look forward to Gu Ailing's ability to continue to write history in the next games, and I also hope that the Chinese girl can stay healthy and stay away from injuries in the next sports career!
(Reporter Lee Hyuk)