The Air Skills World Cup Chinese men's team won the podium and will participate in the Winter Olympics in full

Source: Sports Weekly

In the early morning of January 13, Beijing time, in the 2021-22 freestyle skiing aerial skills World Cup held in Lugu, the United States, the Chinese men's team played very well to win the first and second places, Wang Xindi won the first single championship of the season with a high score of 122.63, Yang Longxiao won the second place with a score of 112.67 points, and Sun Jiaxu won the third place with 83.50 points. In the women's competition, Pyeongchang Winter Olympic bronze medalist Kong Fanyu won the second place with 84.58 points, and the famous Xu Mengtao made a mistake in the game and failed to reach the final.

This tournament is the last World Cup before the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the two rounds of finals, Wang Xindi performed strongly. Among them, in the second round of the competition, he chose the bdFFF action with a difficulty factor of 4.525, the air score was 5.8, the action score was 13.3, and the landing score was 8.0, and he won 122.62 points to directly lock in the championship with the stable and rapid play of the action. Born in 2002, Yang Longxiao performed equally well, scoring 112.67 points in the same move and winning the silver medal. Sun Jiaxu, who won the first individual World Cup of the season in the last stop in Canada, used the bdFFdF action with a difficulty value of 5.0, but they all made mistakes when landing, scoring 83.50 points and finishing third. It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time that Chinese players have won the top three in this season's World Cup.

In the women's side, China's Kong Fanyu used a bLFF action with a difficulty factor of 4.028 in the final, but the landing was very thrilling. In the end, he scored 84.58 points and ranked second. Australia's Laura Peel chose the bFFF action with a difficulty factor of 4.293, and the whole process was excellent in both aerial posture and landing, achieving 118.05 points.

Less than a month before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the competitive state of the Chinese Air Skills Team has been improving. After six World Cup competitions, the Chinese Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills National Training Team currently has 5 men and 3 women shortlisted for the Beijing Winter Olympics in real time. Among them, the women's team Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu and Shao Qi have qualified for the Winter Olympics in real time. In the men's group, with the outstanding performance of the last World Cup before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's team ranked among the top 25 olympic points and won the full quota of the Winter Olympics.

Since the maximum number of participants in the Winter Olympics of each team participating in the freestyle ski aerial skills project is 4 men and 4 women, the current real-time ranking of the Winter Olympic standings on the official website of the International Snow Federation, Sun Jiaxu is 13th, Jia Zongyang is 15th, Yang Longxiao is 17th, Qi Guangpu is 20th, Wang Xindi is 22nd, of which Wang Xindi and Yang Longxiao have greatly improved their Olympic rankings in this competition, and Wang Xindi has greatly improved his previous Olympic ranking of 30 places to 22nd, so choosing who to participate has become a kind of " The Troubles of Happiness".

Judging from the world cup in the first six leg of the season, the men's event Russian star Maxim "took the lead", and Chinese players still need to play more stable on-the-spot under more difficult moves and strive to achieve a breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Looking at the recent Winter Olympics, although the Chinese air skills men's team has entered the top three several times, it is always regrettable to miss the gold medal. In Pyeongchang, Jia Zongyang replaced the bronze medal in Sochi with silver, and this time in front of the home, in addition to Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu, rising stars Sun Jiaxu, Yang Longxiao and others also added a possibility to the dream of impacting the gold medal. Veterans who still lack gold medals in their personal honor books, as well as rookies eager to prove themselves, also give us reason to expect the men's team to perform at the Beijing Winter Olympics.