(Beijing Winter Olympics) The Chinese team's mixed team of aerial skills won silver and the three veterans hugged tightly after the game
China News Agency, Zhangjiakou, February 10 (Reporter Chen Lin Wang Yu) On the evening of the 10th, the Beijing Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Team Finals kicked off at Genting Ski Park.
The Chinese team, regarded as the favorite to win the championship, finally won a silver medal due to a mistake in the game by player Jia Zongyang.
Team USA and Canada won gold and bronze respectively.
On the evening of February 10, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Team Final was held at Zhangjiakou Yunding Ski Park. The Chinese team won the runner-up.
The picture shows Chinese team players Jia Zongyang (left), Xu Mengtao (middle) and Qi Guangpu (right) celebrating after the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
Freestyle skiing aerial skills, which started early in China's ice and snow sports, is the traditional advantage of the Chinese team, with strong comprehensive strength.
In 2006, the famous Han Xiaopeng won the men's aerial skills championship at the Turin Winter Olympics, which was also the first snow gold medal won by the Chinese Army in the Winter Olympics.
The mixed team of aerial skills is one of the new events of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the two World Cup contests this season, the Chinese team has won all the championships and has a huge lead.
As the favorite to win the event, the goal of the Chinese Aerial Skills Team in this Winter Olympics is to break the 16-year "gold medal shortage" in the Winter Olympics in the mixed team competition.
In the final that day, the Chinese team sent three veterans, Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, and Qi Guangpu, to participate in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time.
In the first round of the final, the three veterans played well and scored 336.89 points together, ranking first to advance to the final, and the US team ranked second with a disadvantage of 6.34 points.
According to the rules, all points in the second round of the final will be cleared, and the teams will return to the same starting line to compete again.
Xu Mengtao, who was the first to play, scored 106.03 points in one go, making a good game for the Chinese team.
In the second jump, Jia Zongyang made a mistake at the moment of landing and only scored 96.02 points.
The American player Christopher Lillis successfully challenged the 5.0 difficulty factor of 5.0 in the second jump, and achieved a high score of 135 points, helping the US team to overtake China in the total score.
Facing a 20-point deficit, Qi Guangpu, who played in the finale, failed to reverse the game even though he won 122.17 points.
In the end, the Chinese team won the runner-up.
After the game, Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang hugged each other tightly and cheered each other on.
However, after Jia Zongyang, who made a mistake in the final, came to the mixed mining area, it was difficult to control his mood.
He choked and said that he was ashamed of the trust of the team and his teammates. He really wanted to dance well and dance perfectly, "but (the result) is really regrettable."
Although he failed to win the first mixed team gold medal in aerial skills at the Winter Olympics, in Xu Mengtao's view, what is more important than the gold medal is that the three people support each other and work hard for each other.
She said: "The three of us together are the Chinese team. If we want to advance, we will advance together, and if we want to retreat, we will retreat together. We can't stop Jia Zongyang from continuing to excel and prevent us from continuing to bloom because of a forward roll (mistake)."
The freestyle skiing women's aerial skills qualifying competition will be held at the Genting Ski Park on the 13th. Xu Mengtao, together with teammates Kong Fanyu and Shao Qi, will attack China's first women's aerial skills gold medal.
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