Ice is strong and snow is weak. This has always been an unavoidable reality in Chinese ice and snow sports. However, with the emergence of Gu Ailing, many records of Chinese snow sports have been refreshed and many blanks have been filled. Entering 2022, Gu Ailing is also very likely to create new history at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
“Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing reports”, this is a sentence posted by Gu Ailing on personal social media on June 8, 2019. Originally Chinese-American, she announced that she had converted to Chinese nationality. According to the official website of the International Ski Federation, as early as June 2019, Gu Ailing’s registered nationality has changed from the United States to China.
In January 2020, in the women’s freestyle skiing U-shaped field final of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, Gu Ailing won the championship with the highest score of 93.00 in the second round; only 3 days later, she was in the freestyle skiing once more. In the women’s ski jumping final, she won the championship with a 1.25-point advantage over the second place, becoming the Winter Youth Olympic Double Gold King.
In February 2020, in the 2019-20 season freestyle skiing U-shaped field World Cup Calgary station, Gu Ailing won the U-shaped field championship with 94.00 points. Two days later, she won the slope obstacle skills competition once more. With this gold medal, Gu Ailing created the history of the FIS World Cup – winning two gold medals in one World Cup.
X Games is the top palace of the world’s extreme sports. If it can win the championship in this event, its glory will not be inferior to the Winter Olympics.
At the X Games Aspen Station in 2021, Gu Ailing signed up to participate in three individual events of freestyle skiing, namely slope obstacle skills, U-shaped field skills and big jumping platform. In the first freestyle ski jumping competition, she won the third place with 73 points. Coupled with the subsequent super U-shaped field competition championship, Gu Ailing won one gold and one bronze in her X Games debut, which is perfect. Next, Gu Ailing will also take part in the slope obstacle skill competition, which is what Gu Ailing is best at. In other words, the surprise she brought this time is likely to be more than one gold and one bronze.
After the honor is added, Gu Ailing’s next goal is to hit the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Gu Ailing has also been looking forward to representing the Chinese team and debuting in Beijing in 2022. Gu Ailing said: “I am very proud to represent China in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in three years’ time…Beijing, here I come!”
Entering 2021, Gu Ailing’s almost bursting state has repeatedly made headlines in major media.
At the World Championships in March, Gu Ailing became the first Chinese freestyle skier to win two gold medals at one World Championship, and she also created the history of FIS by becoming the first freestyle skier in the same world championship. Skateboarder with two gold medals. Among them, the champion of the women’s U-shaped pool final is China’s first world championship in this project. Gu Ailing also directly qualified for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the 2021-2022 Freestyle Ski Jumping World Cup in Steamboat, USA, Gu Ailing successfully unlocked the extremely difficult 1440-degree double-air flip, becoming the first woman in the world to use the Freeski Double cork 1440 in an official competition—— Athletes who do two weeks of front flips and 1440 twists.
Six days later, at the U-shaped World Cup in Freestyle Skiing, Gu Ailing won the championship with a score of 90.50.
On the Mountain Dew Tour, a commercial event held in Copper Mountain, Gu Ailing once once more demonstrated the ability to fight continuously. Collect all gold, silver and bronze medals within 24 hours, among which, only 3 hours following winning the championship in the freestyle skiing U-shaped course, he participated in the slope obstacle skill competition and won the runner-up. With just over a month left until the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the freestyle skiing U-shaped venue skills ushered in the New Year’s World Cup competition at the Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada. Chinese star Gu Ailing won the U-shaped field skills championship with a score of 96.80, which is also her fourth championship in one month.
There is no doubt that Gu Ailing has already started the medal harvesting mode. In the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing’s “three golds” plan does not seem to be out of reach.
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