On February 14, 2022, the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing ended the competition for women's aerial skills, and China's Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu competed in the final, and finally Xu Mengtao made a breakthrough, and finally withstood the pressure in the last jump, and finally won the gold medal, Kong Fanyu won the sixth place.
In the previous team competition, the Chinese team sent the strongest lineup to play, and finally won a silver medal, lost to the United States team, and then there were two single events, both with the strength to impact the gold medal, Xu Mengtao had won the World Cup 27 times, won the silver medal of the Winter Olympics, the 31-year-old veteran will participate in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, and the 28-year-old Kong Fanyu should not be underestimated, and the two are ranked high in the qualifications.
Kong Fanyu is the bronze medalist of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics project, her competition experience is very rich, the final will be divided into two stages, the first stage of two opportunities, the top six players to advance, others have been eliminated, Kong Fanyu made the third appearance, played perfectly to get 102.71 points, Xu Mengtao made the 10th appearance, resisted the pressure to get 103.89 points, locked the qualification.
Xu Mengtao's difficulty is higher than that of the American star Caldwell, but the referee believes that her completion quality is worse, Caldwell ranks first with an advantage of 0.03 points, the second jump Hole Fan Yu tries to be more difficult, the result is a mistake only to get 62.24 points, Xu Mengtao did not start, because only take the best results, the result has little impact, the key is the next result, related to the gold medal ownership.
Australian star Laura. Peele's last appearance, she also scored a good score of 100.02 points, and the six players who advanced to the final were Caldwell, Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu and Laura. Peel, Megan. Nick, Hannah. Hushkova, the final champion in the United States, Caldwell, Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Laura. Peel fought each other, with Caldwell leading the team to win gold in the mixed doubles group.
In the second stage of the final, six players decided the winner or loser through the last jump, only three players could get on the podium, the competition came to this point, it all depends on the psychological quality of the individual, everyone is relatively close, will try high difficulty, to impact the champion, to see who can grasp this opportunity, for Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu, what can be done is to go all out to break through themselves.
The first Belarusian Player Hushkova performed perfectly, directly jumping out of the good result of 107.95 points, putting a lot of pressure on other players, she is the defending champion of this project, before she was almost eliminated, did not expect that the key moment was more stable, the third Australian star Laura Peel again made a mistake, only scored 78.56 points.
Kong Fanyu made his fourth appearance, fell to the ground, and ranked at the bottom with 59.67 points, Xu Mengtao made the fifth appearance, jumped out of the pressure and jumped 108.61 points, surpassing Hushkova to rise to the first place, and finally won the gold medal, which was the fifth gold of the Chinese team in this Winter Olympics.