Chapter 42 Qualification
Saturday, sunny.
Yuyang Ski Resort in Peking City.
The second round of the Huaxia Volkswagen Vancouver Parallel Slalom has begun.
As soon as Xiao Tian and Huang Kai arrived at the ski resort, they met many friends in the club. Li Xin and Li Jian were naturally there. The two of them and two other male members in the club will participate in the competition.
There were also many cute little girls from the White Bone Demon, and ten of them signed up to participate in the competition.
Xiao Tian introduced Huang Kai to everyone.
This time, Huang Kai was in a good mood and with so many people together, he naturally would not "fight" Li Xin and Li Jian again.
After all, they are all Chinese ski enthusiasts, and the few people soon got together, and they also feel that they wish they had met too late.
Although Li Jian from the first team of Guiding Lights, he sometimes speaks cheaply, but he is indeed very capable of inquiring about news. The nickname "Bao Talking" is not a false message.
Look, I have already inquired about a lot of news before Xiao Tian and Huang Kai have arrived, and I am telling you now.
Due to the time and location of this competition, there are 100 places for men and women, and the result is that both groups are full.
The last race was Valentine's Day. A few days after the Spring Festival, the location was a little far away from the large cities with concentrated populations, so many people did not sign up.
This time, not only were the quota full, but there were also several foreigners participating in the competition.
According to the information Li Jian found out, a total of 6 foreigners participated, two of whom were Americans, two were Australians, one was Maple Leaf Chinese, and one was Swiss.
Among them, Maple Leaf Chinese and two Americans are both international students at Peking University, which I heard from Yin Cairong and Yu Hua.
In the past week, Xiao Tian has arrived at school at around 7 a.m. and can only go home after 9 p.m. He has never even been to the ski resort once, let alone teach Yu Hua and Yin Cairong to ski.
But Yu Hua and Yin Cairong joined the Snow Mountain Flying Eagle Club and wanted to learn skiing, so naturally the organizers of Li Jian and Li Xin were taught them.
Look, Li Jian, Li Xin and Yu Hua and Yin Cairong went to a ski resort with nightclubs in Peking City, and had already skied twice.
The four of them skied together, had dinner and chatted together, and they got to know each other more and more. Their relationship naturally warmed up, and it slowly seemed to be a date for four people, which was a bit like the first and second teams of the guide lights to merge.
Li Xin and Li Jian are both singles, and have always devoted their time and energy to skiing. They are about to go to the third year, and their family introduced many girls to their brothers to go on blind dates, but they didn't like them for various reasons.
Unexpectedly, Yu Hua and Yin Cairong happened to be delivered to the door.
When Yu Hua and Yin Cairong were in high school, their family and school were strictly in charge and had no boyfriend. After going to college, many boys pursued each other, but neither of them accepted it, so they are still single.
Because of Xiao Tian, the four people met. If they really bear fruit in the future, Xiao Tian will be considered an introduction person and will sit at the wedding.
The United States, Turkey, Australia, Maple Leaf Country and Switzerland are all major skiing countries, with high popularity. Europe and North America are also the birthplace of skiing, and their strength is N levels stronger than China.
At the beginning, there was no single parallel giant slalom event in the Winter Olympics. Its predecessor was a personal parallel giant slalom, with only one person competing at each time. By recording the amount of time, the athletes ranked.
Because of the poor viewing, the Olympic Committee changed him to a 1V1 parallel battle, which increased the confrontation of the game and increased the viewing level.
There was a competition of parallel slaloms in veneer before, not a big slalom, and was called a small slalom, but later this event was cancelled.
At the Winter Olympics, there are only two types of racing events for ski boards: parallel conference turnover and obstacle chase.
In 2002, at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the champion of the men's group of the veneer giant slalom was the Swiss. Philip Shawhe. Interestingly, in this final stage, whether in 1/8, 1/4 or the final, they all rely on their opponents to make mistakes and eventually win the championship. They are called a man with mysterious power in the West.
Four years later, in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Sauhe won the championship again, and the runner-up was his brother, Philip Simon. The two brothers occupied two and half districts respectively in the knockout stage until they met in the final. They were the third brothers who won the championship and runner-up in the Winter Olympics.
The two brothers participated in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics one after another, but neither of them entered the top three. They were hesitant about their age and physical relationship. They would not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics again, which made all colleagues in the slewing industry regretted it.
Yu Hua and Yin Cairong specifically introduced to Li Jian that these three international students in their school are skiing experts and have the ability to compete for championships, so that everyone should not take it lightly.
This is the first time Xiao Tian competes with a foreign amateur skier. Xiao Tian is already resting and discovers these white people, but he has not established an intuitive understanding. After all, he has never compared it.
The second stop is basically the same as the first stop competition set at Chongli Great Wall Ridge. The first day's competition is still a qualifying match. Each person only has one chance to compete. The ranking of 100 people is based on the results. The top 16 are eligible to enter tomorrow's finals.
In the finals, each person will still have a double match, once a red track, once a blue track, and two results will be added together, and the best one is the champion.
Li Jian also found out that the time spent on the skateman's two test skates was 49 seconds 44 and 48 seconds 91 respectively. With this result, everyone has a benchmark in their hearts.
This battle was in Peiping City. Based on the idea of not bothering the two leaders, the test skater the Ski Association was looking for this time was Luo Can of the Peking Ski Team.
Because coach Li Dapao was going to attend the national team for a meeting, he was unable to attend the scene again. Luo Can ordered Li Dapao's important task and focused on observing Xiao Tian's situation to see where his specific strength is, why his grades fluctuate so much, and whether there is room for improvement.
Li Dapao asked him to record the whole process and show it to him after the game.
However, another coach of the Beijing ski team, Coach Liu Lijun of TOEFL, did not come, and he had forgotten the matter of Xiao Tian again.
In fact, Lu Yeren was a gentle person, and Xiao Tian was even more insignificant. The most important thing was that he was ready to tell the head coach of the team that the two students from the sports school were introduced to him by his classmates during the Spring Festival.
The two sports students are naturally much better than Xiao Tian, a senior high school student in an ordinary university who has never practiced sports.
Besides, Liu Lijun also received a lot of benefits from the two students, and that person was doing his business for others.
The competition has officially begun.
Because everyone's registration time was scattered, Li Xin and Li Jian were relatively high, and the two were actually divided into a group competition, Xiao Tian and Huang Kai were behind, but there were two groups of competitions in front and back.
Because there are six foreign athletes, the ski association also specially equipped with English translation.
Xiao Tian is naturally no exception to attracting other Chinese players to pay attention to them.
On the contrary, Huang Kai scoffed at them and didn't look at them at all, as if he had a deep hatred with these foreigners.
However, even amateur athletes in the skiing powers are good at making moves.
The two American players slid into the best results of 50 seconds, 36 and 51 seconds, and temporarily ranked first and second respectively.
The two Australian players who later appeared slid 53.77 and 53.64 respectively, ranking behind the two American players.
Then Li Jian and Li Xin, they appeared, and Li Xin slid for 58 seconds and 26 seconds. Li Jian took more than a minute and ranked 16th and was eliminated.
Obviously, the competition in this stop was much more intense than the previous stop because of the foreign players.
Xiao Tian was calculating that he had time to use this track.
Although I spent most of this time in school every day, I didn’t let go of all the training when I got home every night, exercised, exercised, skied, and used three possession cards. My grades improved slowly, but instead I was a little faster than before.
The help of possession cards is really huge.
That kind of physical experience is more than ten times more effective than words.
Based on Li Xin's results and the time to test the skater, he judged that relying on his own strength, it is conservatively estimated that the time should be around 55 seconds.
This result is listed on the current big report card, except for the four foreign players who have finished the competition, he is ranked fifth.
Next is the match between Xiao Tian and Huang Kai.
As expected, Xiao Tian slipped out of 54 seconds and ranked fifth, which was the real result of Xiao Tian's possession card.
Huang Kai slid 57 seconds and ranked ahead of Li Xin.
When Luo Can saw Xiao Tian’s game results, he really couldn’t make a very specific judgment.
Because the gap between the two results in Xiao Tian’s last final was too big, it took more than 53 seconds at one time and more than 58 seconds at one time. This time, 54 seconds and 99 seconds were exactly between the two results.
But Xiao Tian's achievement is already outstanding among all Chinese players, and at least he has the qualifications worthy of training.
There are few athletes left behind without competition.
Among them is a foreign athlete from Maple Leaf Country and Switzerland.
In the end, the Maple Leaf Country player took 49 seconds and 67 seconds, and came from behind and ranked first.
It can be seen from this that the strength of foreign players is really too strong. These amateur players are all close to that of Chinese professional athletes, which is terrible.
The player from Switzerland made a mistake and only slipped for more than 56 seconds, ranking behind Xiao Tian.
All 100 contestants ended.
Xiao Tian's final score was 6th.
In the end, Huang Kai and Li Xin also successfully entered the finals.
Xiao Tian did not use the possession card. He felt that such a precious thing would not be wasted in the qualifying round. As long as you enter the top 16, you would be fine. You should save the good things for the finals before using them.
In fact, even if Xiao Tian used the possession card, he was not sure to beat the player from Maple Leaf Country.
Chapter completed!