Hohhot, Xinhua News Agency, February 16 (Reporter He Shuchen, Jiao Ziqi, Zhang Wuyue) On the 16th, the preliminaries of the "14th Winter" snowboard halfpipe open group were competitive. In the women's competition in which 16 players participated, celebrities Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu advanced to the finals as the top two in the preliminaries.
The preliminaries are divided into two rounds, and the top eight will be ranked with the best results, and the top eight will advance to the finals. In the women's competition, the veterans of the Heilongjiang team, Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu, performed steadily, and showed a brilliant performance in the first round, scoring more than 80 points. In addition to them, the Heilongjiang team is strong, and two players advanced to the finals. In addition, the Sichuan team Wu Shaotong and Qiu Leng, as well as the Shanxi team Zhou Yizhu and the Anhui team Jia Lulu also advanced.
I've been in good form lately and I'll try something different in the final. Cai Xuetong said. A four-time Olympian, she has been in red-hot form over the past year. In March 2023, Cai Xuetong won the gold medal at the World Championships again after six years.
The oldest player in the women's category was born in 1992 and the youngest was born in 2013, with an age difference of more than 20 years. The average age of the six Shanxi athletes participating in the preliminaries is 11 years old, with 12-year-old Zhou Yizhu receiving a lot of attention as a supernova in this event.
It's a pleasure to participate in the competition and hope to continue to enjoy the competition in the final. Zhou Yizhu said. Participating in the National Winter Games for the first time, she withstood the pressure in the second round after making mistakes in the first round and successfully advanced in the second round. Zhou Yizhu was able to perform 900-degree rotations at the age of nine, and at the age of 11 he won second place in the snowboard halfpipe at the Winter Whitewater Tour, in which many Olympic medalists participated. Talking about the goal of participating in the National Winter Games, Zhou Yizhu said that he hopes to stand on the podium and use the medal as a Spring Festival gift for the elders in the family.
In the men's competition, the veterans are steady, and the youngsters are eye-catching. Beijing's Zhang Yiwei scored 88 in the first roundWith a high score of 75, he finally advanced to the final as the second place in the preliminaries. Standing on the field of the National Winter Games again after 12 years, the 31-year-old veteran sighed very emotionally: "Many of the competitors now are 'post-00s', and the future is terrifying." Zhang Yiwei said that he was very happy and nervous to be able to participate with young people, and hoped to have a better performance in the final.
20-year-old Wang Ziyang ranked first in the preliminaries. On the field, he was confident and easily completed the scheduled technical moves. Off the field, he didn't take off his skis after finishing the race, so he ran to care about his friend's results. Knowing that Jiang Yuchen, a player from the Inner Mongolia team, entered the finals, Wang Ziyang gave a hug as soon as possible, and the two agreed to perform better in the finals. (ENDS).