Alpine Skiing Slalom Frova Wins Gold She wrote to the Chinese Embassy to express her joy at participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics

Yesterday, the Beijing Winter Olympics alpine skiing women's slalom competition was again a hit, the brightest star of the US sports delegation, known as the "world alpine skiing women's slalom first person", the 27-year-old Winter Olympic champion, world champion Mikaela Shifflin lost the first round, following the previous women's big slalom first round failed to finish, once again failed to finish, people sighed. Shiflin's strongest opponent, the 25-year-old Slovak star Flova, won the gold medal in the women's slalom in 1:44.98.

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In this competition, the focus of many media attention is the alpine ski queen Shifrin and Shifrin and Flora's two finalists, because in the 2021-2022 season, Flova won the World Cup championship and is in excellent competitive condition.

However, in the first round of the women's slalom held that morning, Shiffrin's competitive state was not good, the same as the previous women's big slalom competition, and failed to finish smoothly, breaking a big upset. At the Mountain News Center in the athletic district, foreign reporters exclaimed in amazement, unable to believe their eyes. No one would have thought, or that no one would have wanted to see, that the game would be like this. This not only disappointed many journalists, but also overshadowed snow fans around the world who liked Shiflin.

Objectively speaking, Shivlin's strength is still quite strong. However, injuries affected her condition, especially at the end of last year, Shifflin was tested positive for covid-19 and lost a very important period of training and playing time, which is probably an important reason why Shifflin failed to finish consecutive matches.

Many people think that the difficulty of the slalom game is lower than the slip, because the length is short, the speed is slightly slower, and there are more turns. In fact, it is difficult to slide down in racing projects and rotate in competitive projects, one is to control yourself in high-speed almost ground-to-ground flight, and the other is to show more exquisite skills in high-speed operation. Take this women's slalom competition as an example, a total of 88 players participated, after the first round, 30 players failed to finish the race, China's Ni Yueming was also among them, the second round of 8 players did not finish, the whole game a total of 38 players did not finish, showing the difficulty of the rotation competition. After the first round, Germany's Deere was first in 52.17 seconds, Switzerland's Gissing was second in 52.20 seconds, Sweden's Hector was third in 52.29 seconds, and China's Kong Fanying was 54th in 1:05.97.

Unlike downhill, super big slalom and big slalom, the slalom line is not long, the flag gates are very close, the athletes' movement range is not so large, and the audience can see the essence of the game with the naked eye. Athletes constantly change their lines in high-speed operation, and the control of this fast pace and turning technology is no small test for the players, and the players must make the best judgment in an instant.

Yesterday afternoon, the second round of the women's turnaround began. A startling scene happened again, when the winning Swedish star Hector slid to the middle stage and did not control the rhythm when he slid through the flag gate, sliding off the track and failing to finish. Switzerland's Ghising and Germany's Dill also failed to skate. Slovakia's Flova, Austria's Linsberg and Switzerland's Haldner finally locked in gold, silver and bronze medals, and their two rounds of total results were 1:44.98, 1:45.06 and 1:45.10, respectively, and the three players embraced each other passionately and shed tears of excitement. China's Kong Fanying finished 47th with a total time of 2:11.95.

In the past two years, Flova has also been injured, but she overcame her injury and came to the Beijing Winter Olympics. In May 2021, Flova changed coaches, which was also a big challenge for her, but the good results since the start of the 2021-2022 season gave Flova enough confidence. Flora said: "I'm so happy to win this gold medal, it's such a wonderful feeling. At the same time, I was sad because my strong opponent Shivlin didn't finish the race and I don't know what happened to her, but it was a really regrettable thing and hopefully she can overcome the difficulties. ”

Another thing that makes a good impression on Flora is that she personally wrote to the Chinese Embassy to speak on behalf of the athletes, saying that she was very happy to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and hoped that athletes from all over the world could enjoy this great sports experience at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

(Original title: Alpine Skiing Slalom Severva Wins Gold She Wrote to the Chinese Embassy to Express Her Joy at Participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics)

Source: Beijing Evening News | Reporters Kong Ning and Guan Xin

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