Beijing time on January 26, more than a week before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Beijing Winter Olympics will open on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, with 109 gold medals produced in 19 competition days. During the Spring Festival, what are the highlights of the Beijing Winter Olympics? Let’s look together.
The short track speed skating mixed team relay first appeared in the Olympic Games this year. The Chinese team sent a strong lineup of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Zhang Yuting. In the first stop of the World Cup this season in Beijing, the four won the final with 2:37.923. In the subsequent World Cup competitions in Japan, Hungary and the Netherlands, the Chinese team won three medals, silver, gold and bronze respectively.
Fan Kexin, who fell out in the semi-finals of the main 500m in Sochi and was fouled twice in the 500m in Pyeongchang and the women’s relay, this Beijing Winter Olympics is basically her last chance to reach the top podium. , I hope that the four of them can achieve good results in the mixed team relay race and realize their gold medal dream.
Compared with freestyle skiing, the development of snowboarding in China is weak, and the best result in the Winter Olympics is Liu Jiayu’s second place in the U-shaped field skills of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. In the 07/08 season, Liu Jiayu won the World Cup for the first time. In 2018, she finally stood on the podium for the third time she participated in the Winter Olympics. This Winter Olympics will be her fourth. Cai Xuetong is also a veteran of the fourth Winter Olympics. She performed well in the 21/22 World Cup, winning one gold and one silver.
In addition to veterans, new faces are also worth looking forward to. Su Yiming, who was born in 2004, once played the role of the “ski master” Xiaoshuanzi, a “ski master” that the guerrillas couldn’t catch up with in the movie “Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom”, and participated in many film and television works. After his successful bid for the Olympics in Beijing, he decided to become a professional skier. In recent years, he has also achieved good results on the field. He was selected for the national training team in 2018. This season, he won the championship in the World Cup in the U.S. Steamboat Station, becoming the first China to win the World Cup in this event. male player. Can they bring another breakthrough in snowboarding?
Gu Ailing hits her first Olympic gold
February 7th 9:30 Freestyle Skiing Women’s Big Jump Qualifying Tournament
February 8, 10:00 Freestyle Skiing Women’s Grand Jump Final
February 13th 10:00 Freestyle Skiing Women’s Slope Obstacle Skills Qualification
February 13th 9:30 Freestyle Skiing Women’s Slope Skills Final
February 17th 9:30 Freestyle Skiing Women’s U-shaped Field Skills Qualifying Tournament
February 18th 9:30 Freestyle Skiing Women’s U-shaped Field Skills Final
Starting from February 7th, Gu Ailing will compete in three freestyle skiing competitions in a row. In addition to his initial advantage in slope obstacle skills, Gu Ailing also completed the air flip in the big platform competition at the U.S. Steamboat Station of the World Cup last year. The 1440-degree action won the championship, and at the Mammoth Mountain Station, he picked up the crystal ball representing the U-shaped venue season championship.
Undoubtedly, she has the strength to hit the gold medal in every event, but it is not easy to get any gold medal. The strength of Gu Ailing’s opponent should not be underestimated. Just recently, French athlete Tess Lettix successfully challenged the 1620-degree more difficult movement of the air flip body in the X Games Winter Extreme Skills Competition and won the championship. Estonia’s Kelly Hildaru is only 1 year older than Gu Ailing. When Gu Ailing won the runner-up in the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, the 2021 Dew Tour, and the 2022 World Cup Mammoth Hills Slope Obstacle Skills, the champions were all Captured by Hildauru. Surrounded by strong enemies and the great uncertainty of freestyle skiing, let us look forward to Gu Ailing’s performance in these three competitions.
Yuzuru Hanyu wins three consecutive Winter Olympics
February 8th 09:15 Figure skating men’s single skating short program
February 10, 09:30 Figure skating men’s single skating free skating
Since Yuzuru Hanyu won the Olympic Games in Sochi, he has become an undisputed superstar on the ice rink. He holds many unique world records. He will challenge for three consecutive Winter Olympics in Beijing. Challenging Axel’s quadruple jump is Hanyu’s persistent goal at this stage. He completed this action during training at the end of last year, but unfortunately did not complete it in the official arena of the All-Day Championship.
In the Beijing Winter Olympics this time, Yuzuru Hanyu also faced a strong opponent like Chen Wei of the United States who performed well this season. Can Yuzuru Hanyu complete the perfect Axel quadruple jump in Beijing, and can he achieve three consecutive championships? let us wait and see.
Speed skating twins look forward to shining
February 8th 18:30 Speed Skating Men’s 1500m
February 12th 16:00 Speed Skating Men’s 500m
February 18th 16:30 Speed Skating Men’s 1000m
Gao Tingyu, born in 1997, and Ning Zhongyan, born in 1999, are the main points of interest in the speed skating event of the Chinese team in this Olympic Games. At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, 20-year-old Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal in the 500-meter event, becoming the first Chinese man to win a medal in the speed skating event at the Winter Olympics. In the 21/22 season, the two performed well: Gao Tingyu won the gold and silver medals in the 500 meters in the World Cup Poland and Canada; Ning Zhongyan won the silver medal in the 1500 meters in the World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA, and Canada won the men’s 1000 meters. gold medal. Looking forward to their good performance in the Olympic Games.
From scratch to world-class steel frame snowmobile
February 10th 09:30 Men’s bobsleigh first/second round
20:20 on February 11th Men’s bobsleigh third/fourth round
China’s steel frame snow team was established in October 2015, and China was almost blank on this dangerous project before the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the past six years, China’s steel frame snowmobiles can be said to develop rapidly.
Since it is from scratch, most of the players of the steel frame snowmobiles come from other sports. In the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Chinese athletes participated for the first time, and Geng Wenqiang, who was in the long jump, won the 13th place. In this Winter Olympics, Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng will compete in the men’s bobsleigh event. Looking forward to more breakthroughs by Chinese players in this project!
Can the “Veteran of the Four Dynasties” realize his dream?
February 10th 19:00 Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Group
February 13th 19:00 Freestyle Skiing Women’s Aerial Skills Qualification
February 13th 19:00 Freestyle Skiing Women’s Aerial Skills Final
Freestyle skiing aerial skills are the traditional advantages of the Chinese team. In the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, Xu Nannan won the runner-up, and in the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, Han Xiaopeng won the first gold medal in China’s snow sports. From the first time she participated in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 and won the sixth, to the silver medal in Sochi in 2014, to the regrettable mistake in Pyeongchang in 2018, this year is already the fourth Winter Olympics Xu Mengtao participated in. She achieved excellent results in the FIS World Cup in the 21/22 season, winning titles in Luka, Finland and Le Reis, Canada.
In addition to women’s aerial skills, Xu Mengtao will also participate in mixed team competitions with her teammates. This is also a new event for this Winter Olympics. The Chinese team with strong overall strength has a great advantage in this category. Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu, Jia Zongyang won the championship at the World Cup Finland Luka Station. Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang are also veterans who have participated in three Winter Olympics. Looking forward to the Chinese freestyle skiing aerial skills team can achieve good results.
Wu Dajing strives to defend 500m champion
19:00 on February 13th Men’s 500m Short Track Speed Skating
From the first time he participated in the Winter Olympics in Sochi and lost to Victor An and won the silver medal in the 500-meter event, to the 500-meter year-end championship in the 2016/17 season, Pyeongchang experienced the twists and turns of the semi-final rematch, withstood Pressure to win gold, breaking the world record three times a year and opening the “Wu Dajing era” of short track speed skating 500 meters, Wu Dajing can be said to have unshakable absolute dominance in the 500-meter event.
Although Wu Dajing’s state has fluctuated slightly this season and his dominance has declined, he still has a strong competitive strength. In the four World Cup competitions, Wu Dajing won the gold medal in the last stop in the Netherlands, and also slipped out of the world‘s best time of 39 seconds 878 this season. I hope he can continue the state of this World Cup and achieve another success in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Who is the figure skating women’s singles gold medal winner?
February 15th 18:00 Figure skating women’s single skating short program
February 17th 18:00 Figure skating women’s single skating free skating
In recent years, figure skating fans have always been amazed at the increasing difficulty of Russian women’s singles’ technical moves, and sighed with emotion “what happened to the Russian women’s singles”. In this Olympics, Russia sent Kamila Valieva, Alexandra Trusova, and Anna Shcherbakova to participate in the women’s singles competition, each with different levels of difficulty. Sandra Trusova completed the quadruple jump for the first time at the age of 14, bringing the figure skating women’s singles into the “quadruple era”. She also successfully made four quadruple jumps in international competitions; she broke the world record this season. Kamila Valieva is regarded as the biggest favourite to win the Olympics. No matter who wins the final championship, the women’s figure skating arena will be a visual feast of technology and beauty.
Sui and Han combination pair skating hits gold again
February 18th 18:30 Figure skating pair skating short program
February 19th 19:00 Figure skating pair skating free skating
The pair skating combination of Sui Wenjing/Han Cong is the most powerful player in Chinese figure skating to hit medals and gold medals at this Winter Olympics. In Pyeongchang 2018, they lost to their opponents by 0.43 points and won the silver medal. Playing in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with injuries will further deteriorate Sui Wenjing’s injury. The two also missed the 18/19 season after the Winter Olympics until they returned to win the World Figure Skating Championships in March 2019.
The Sui-Korean combination, who left regrets in Pyeongchang, performed well in this Olympic cycle. In the 20/21 season, the World Championships won the runner-up, and the two Grand Prix events participated in the 21/22 season were both champions. Unfortunately, due to the postponement of the Grand Prix finals, the two missed the opportunity to compete with their main competitors before the Winter Olympics. Taiwan competition, and looking forward to their performance in the Beijing Winter Olympics.Return to Sohu, see more