Group China delivered their best-ever Winter Olympics efficiency at the final Winter Video games in Beijing with 9 golds, 4 silvers and two bronzes, and have despatched 124 athletes to Milano Cortina to attempt to emulate that feat.
Among the many Chinese representatives are a number of veterans who will make their fifth Olympic look. 4 of those are skiers, and foremost amongst them is Xu Mengtao, probably the most profitable lady in freestyle aerials historical past, with the very best variety of world championships and World Cup golds.
Xu will compete within the girls’s aerials and the blended crew aerials, with the finals scheduled for February 18 and 21, respectively.
Xu’s Olympic journey started in Vancouver in 2010, when she completed sixth at the age of 19. She took silver in Sochi 4 years later, then fell quick in Pyeongchang 2018 after a crash within the finals, however remained decided to proceed.
Xu famously mentioned at the time: “If I can not win the gold, I’ll retire.”
Competing on dwelling snow in Beijing, Xu made historical past with 108.61 factors – a record-breaking efficiency that secured China’s first Olympic gold in girls’s aerials.
