At the Beijing Paralympics and Alpine Skiing venues, the official practice on the second day of downhill skiing was held, and there were a series of athletes who could not ski until the end of the two days on a difficult course.
At the National Alpine Ski Center in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing, official downhill skiing practice continued for one day.
On the first day of the first day, 14 people, including Taiki Morii, who had won two silver medals in the past due to downhill, and more than 40% of the participating players, abstained from the race.
Six men and women abstained in the sitting and sliding class for two days, but all the Japanese teams slipped to the end, and among them, Takeshi Suzuki, a bronze medalist of this event in the Sochi tournament, has a coefficient according to the degree of disability. I finished at 1'22.65, which was the 4th time in the whole.
Akira Kano, who has won the gold medal in this event of the Sochi tournament, is the 9th overall at 1: 27.27, and Morii is also the 10th overall at 1: 28.66 on the 2nd. was.
The downhill course of this tournament is mortar-shaped and narrow, so the Japanese team considers it to be "a fairly difficult course compared to previous tournaments."
Downhill is scheduled for the final official practice on the 3rd, and the competition will be held on the 5th, the day after the opening ceremony.
Difficult course for leading overseas players
Regarding the downhill skiing course of alpine skiing, there were a series of voices pointing out the high degree of difficulty from leading overseas athletes.
In the men's sitting and sliding class, Pyeongchang Super Combined gold medalist Jeron Kampshua of the Netherlands fell in the middle of the course on the first day of the official practice on the 1st and abstained, but the 2nd was the top time. Marked.
Kampsure said, "It's a lot harder than the Pyeongchang tournament course. The snow tends to be compressed and hard, and it's very fast. It's packed with various elements and I really like it."
Norwegian Jesper Pedersen, who was the second fastest time in the official practice on the 2nd in the men's sitting and sliding class, said, "It's definitely one of the difficult courses. It's narrow and the nets on both sides are narrow. There are some parts that are approaching, and some corners are ice-burned. It is difficult to slide properly, but I am confident in my own slip, so I can't wait for the race day. "