On February 14, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics entered the 10th competition day.
The freestyle skiing event continues today, due to the heavy snow and windy weather in Zhangjiakou area yesterday, the women's aerial skills project, today need to compete for the qualification and final consecutively, which is a big challenge for the participating athletes, in the previously concluded qualifying stage of the competition, the mainland player Xu Mengtao ranked third with a high score of 101.10 in the first round and directly advanced. Kong Fanyu ranked fifth in the second round and also successfully advanced, and young player Shao Qi missed the final.
A total of twelve players competed in the final, with three rounds of competition, with two rounds of higher group scores to judge the rankings, the top six advancing to the final round, and the final jump after clearing the points to decide the winner or loser. Kong Fanyu appeared in the third place, this time she directly chose the difficulty of three weeks on the stage, the aerial posture is very perfect, there are slight flaws when landing, some squats are divided into legs, but 102.71 points is already a very ideal score. Defending champion Belarus' Hannah Hushkova chose a low-difficulty move to stabilize, playing a stable 89.41 points, while main rival Daniel Scott of Australia made a mistake and scored only 72.23 points.
Xu Mengtao started in the penultimate position, directly chose the difficult action of 4.3, in addition to slightly bending the legs, there was almost no flaw, got a high score of 103.89, after this round, the American Caldwell used a set of difficulties lower than Xu Mengtao, the action is not perfect More than a jump to get 103.92 points ranked first, people can not understand, Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu ranked second or third. In the second round of the game, Kong Fanyu continued to challenge the high difficulty, but unfortunately there was a huge mistake, and it was not possible to land smoothly, but there was no injury, and this group of points failed to surpass the first composition as invalid points.
Hannah Hushkova's play is still stable, but the difficulty is still generally stable to advance. Daniel Scott made another mistake and withdrew from the medal race. Caldwell's second jump results are still high and scary, 105.60 points, Xu Mengtao chose to give up in the second jump, after this round, the two Chinese players ranked unchanged and advanced to the final round. In the final jump, the score cleared zero, hannah Khushkova chose a difficult move this time, and completed it steadily again, scoring 107.25 points.
Megan Nick, who came out later, only chose two weeks of stage action, and the score was not competitive enough. Australia's Laura Peel made a huge mistake and withdrew from the medal race. Kong Fanyu's last jump chose the ultimate difficulty, the aerial posture is very good, but unfortunately there was a mistake in landing, only 59.67 points did not win the medal, Xu Mengtao chose the same difficulty, the action was completed almost perfectly, got a high score of 108.61 points, Calville also challenged this difficulty, but she did not resist the pressure, there was a huge mistake, four Winter Olympic trips, Xu Mengtao finally won the championship!!!
Xu Mengtao, who won the gold medal, hugged Caldwell and cried bitterly, she has been waiting for this gold medal for too long, you deserve all the praise today, the persistence of the veteran has written a moving story of perseverance will win!