CCTV News:Embrace the ice and snow together and look forward to the future together. The pace of the Winter Olympics is getting closer and closer. Competition venues hold test matches to test their operational capabilities, while athletes actively prepare for the competition instead of training. In the competitions of steel-frame snowmobiles, sledding and skiing, China’s ice and snow athletes have made continuous breakthroughs, which makes us look forward to their performance in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
New expectations! Su Yiming won the first snowboarding world championship.
17-year-old Su Yiming created the history of snowboarding in China. Su Yiming not only became the first China player to enter the final of the snowboarding platform World Cup in Stimbot, USA, but also won the championship with a score of 155.25 in the final, making a new history. From the first place in the preliminaries to the first place in the finals, we can expect Su Yiming to surprise us at the Beijing Olympic Games.
New surprise! Gu Ailing collected three gold medals in the World Cup.
We were also surprised by Gu Ailing. In the freestyle skiing World Cup platform competition in Stembot, USA, Gu Ailing, who came back from injury, made her debut in the final of the season in the early morning of 5th Beijing time, and finally won the championship with 184.25 points. Since then, she has collected three gold medals in the World Cup, including U-pool, platform and slope obstacle skill.
Make history! Geng Wenqiang, a steel snowmobile, won the world championship.
A few days ago, Geng Wenqiang won the men’s singles competition in Innsbruck, Austria, with a time of 1 minute 46.04 seconds. This is the first world champion of China’s steel-framed snowmobile men’s event, and Geng Wenqiang created the history of China’s steel-framed snowmobile event. Before that, Geng Wenqiang participated in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and he was also the first China athlete to stand on the steel snowmobile Olympic Games. It took less than four years for Geng Wenqiang to stand on the Olympic Games for the first time and become a world champion today. This makes us look forward to his trip to Beijing Winter Olympics.
Create great achievements! China sled team won the ninth place in the team relay race.
In the team relay race of "Meet Beijing" sleigh World Cup, four players of China team, Hu Huilan, Fan Duoyao, Huang Yebo and Peng Junyue, won the ninth place for the first time. The team relay competition consists of three events: women’s single sled, men’s single sled and double sled. In the competition, three events are carried out in sequence. In the end, after all the projects were completed, China took a total time of 3 minutes, 14 seconds and 521, and finished ninth, creating the best performance of China.
New breakthrough! Liu Jiayu finished standing for two weeks.
A few days ago, Liu Jiayu, a U-shaped snowboarder from China, also achieved a new breakthrough in training. She finished standing for two weeks, becoming the third person in the world and the first person in China who successfully stood for two weeks in the women’s U-shaped field. Liu Jiayu also shared this joy on personal social media. She wrote: "Make everything impossible possible, as long as you believe in yourself!"
Record! Xu Mengtao became the first person in history at the 27th World Cup.
Also welcoming the breakthrough is Xu Mengtao. On the 3rd Beijing time, the freestyle skiing World Cup in Lucca, Finland, held the second women’s individual aerial skill competition. Xu Mengtao, a player from China, took a chance and chose the action with difficulty as high as 4.028. Before leaving, Xu Mengtao kept shouting to cheer himself up. Taking off, tumbling and landing, Xu Mengtao completed the whole set of movements brilliantly, and she won the championship with a high score of 99.49. This is also the 26th World Cup champion that Xu Mengtao won, making her the first person in the history of the World Cup. After making history, she and her teammates won the gold medal of the mixed team at the station, expanding the record to 27 championships!