On the evening of February 7, in the mixed team ski jumping competition held by zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Center "Xue Ruyi", the Slovenian team was highly skilled, winning the championship of this new Winter Olympic event with a total score of 1001.5 points.
The ski-jumping mixed team is one of the seven new events of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the competition is held on the standard platform, each team sends 2 men, 2 women and 4 players to perform two rounds of jumping, and the final ranking of the team is determined by the total results of all the players.
A total of 10 teams competed in this event, namely China, Canada, the Czech Republic, Poland, Japan, Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Austria and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). Multiple teams are close in strength and fiercely competitive.
The Slovenian team sent two players who had just won the first and third place in the women's standard stage event, and their two male players also made it into the top ten in the individual event. Among the four players, there are both veterans who have participated in the Winter Olympics four times and young players of the "post-00s", which is undoubtedly the hottest gold medal candidate.
The Slovenian team, which had a 49-point advantage at the end of the first round, played steadily, and all four players successfully completed the final round without mistakes, scoring 495.1 points in the final round, still the highest in the game. The total score in the two rounds reached 1001.5 points, and Slovenia won the championship. ROC and Canada finished second and third respectively.
The four players sent by the Chinese team are Dong Bing, Peng Qingyue, Song Qiwu and Zhao Jiawen, of which Zhao Jiawen is a Nordic biathlete athlete who also ski jumps, which is also Zhao Jiawen's debut at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Several Chinese players unanimously said that from a technical and tactical point of view, there is no difference between team and individual competitions, and they all focus on their own technical performance. Teammates will have more communication between them in the team competition, encouraging each other. Dong Bing said: "Competing with high-level players, I recognize my shortcomings and deficiencies, which gives me the direction of my efforts." ”
Photo by Pan Zhiwang, reporter of the Winter Olympics
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