Tonight's freestyle skiing competition, the Chinese team lost the air skill mixed team gold medal, which is a cold one.
Because of the strong overall strength of the Chinese athletes in this event, this new event of the Beijing Winter Olympics is even considered to be specially designed for the Chinese delegation to win gold.
In fact, judging from the strength of the IOC's addition of team events and mixed sports in recent Winter Olympics, the biggest purpose of these measures is to further enhance the influence of winter sports and the viewing of the Winter Olympic Games.
Because, in the 15 sub-events of the Beijing Winter Olympics, in addition to ice hockey, snowmobiles and steel frame snowmobiles, the other 12 sub-events have also set up team events.
Factors such as increasing the enthusiasm of delegations, improving the viewing of competitions, and pursuing the equal status of male and female players have prompted the IOC to continue to add team events in recent Winter Olympic Games, including many mixed men's and women's team events.
Of the 12 sub-events with team events, cross-country ski relays have existed in the early days of the Winter Olympics; the Nordic team events were added at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; and the remaining 10 sub-events with team events have been added in the last three Winter Olympics.
Therefore, the freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team competition, as well as the Chinese delegation's first gold event short track speed skating 2000 meters mixed relay, are not specially established by the International Olympic Committee for Chinese athletes. Team and mixed competitions in various sub-disciplines have become a major trend when the Winter Olympics are newly added.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, figure skating team competitions, biathlon mixed relays and bobsleigh team relays were added; at the 2018 Winter Olympics, for the first time, there were curling mixed doubles, speed skating team chases and alpine skiing mixed teams.
At this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, four new team events have been added at once, in addition to the freestyle ski aerial skills mixed team and short track speed skating 2000 meters mixed relay, there are snowboard obstacle chase mixed team race and ski jump mixed team.
As a very important sub-sport of winter sports, freestyle skiing did not have a team event before the Beijing Winter Olympics; short track speed skating did not have mixed competitions before.
The Chinese delegation did win one gold medal and one silver medal in the four new events, but this was because the Chinese players were already strong enough in these two events. Just like the ski jump mixed group benefited from Slovenia, which is overall strong in this project.
In addition, it is normal for hosts to add their own good sports to the Olympic arena. Taekwondo and karate have both become official events through the hosting of the Summer Olympics in South Korea and Japan.
In 2014, the New Figure Skating Team Event at the Sochi Winter Olympics is also a strong point for host Russia. Russia won the gold medal at that time, and this time in Beijing, the champion was the Russian Olympic team.