On December 31, Beijing time, just over a month before the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the freestyle skiing U-shaped venue skills and snowboard slope obstacle skills competition ushered in the New Year’s Eve World Cup at the Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada . In the first qualifying game, Chinese star Gu Ailing took first place with 95.60 points. In addition, Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui of the Chinese team also entered the finals.
A total of 27 athletes participated in the freestyle skiing U-shaped course skills of the Canada Station. Among them, the Chinese team is led by Gu Ailing, while Zhang Kexin, Wu Meng, Li Fanghui and Zhang Ziyi also played. Estonian star Kelly Sildaru did not participate in the competition.
The preliminaries are divided into two rounds, with the best round result as the final result.
In the first round, Gu Ailing’s performance was not perfect. Only one of the five referees scored 90 points. In the end, the Chinese star scored only 88.40 points. She ranked third behind the American Hannah Fulhaber and the Chinese player Zhang Kexin.
In the second round, Gu Ailing continued to hit the high difficulty, this time she completed all the moves perfectly. In the end, all five referees scored more than 95 points, and Gu Ailing easily secured the first place in the preliminaries with 95.60 points, and she was also the only player in the preliminaries to score more than 95 points.
US player Hannah Fulhaber ranked second with 92.80 points in the first round, and Chinese player Zhang Kexin performed equally well. She jumped out of a good score of 90.40 points in the first round, and has basically locked a place for promotion in advance. In the second round, she continued to play steadily, all scoring more than 90 points, and finally ranked third with 91.60 points.
Another Chinese player, Li Fanghui, scored 82.00 points in the first round and went a step further in the second round, securing seventh place with 84.40 points and advancing to the finals in a thrilling manner. A total of 8 players participated in the finals, of which 3 of the Chinese team were shortlisted. As for Wu Meng and Zhang Ziyi, their two jumps were unsatisfactory, and they didn’t make it in the end.
In the men’s division, American Lyman Corell secured the first place in the preliminaries with 94.60 points, Canada’s Brendan McKay, who played at home, ranked second with 91.60 points, and American Alex Ferreira. It is ranked third. Chinese male players Wang Haizhuo and He Binghan played in this station. Unfortunately, He Binghan scored 48.60 points, while Wang Haizhuo only had 35.00 points.
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