Before the trip, Tang Huai talked to Li Pingping alone, and this competition is mainly about long experience and preparation for the Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games, which will open on January 9.

The entry threshold for this tournament is 50 FIS points, plus at least one World Cup tournament this season. She has points from the previous Chilean tournament in her hands and has already qualified for the knockout rounds in Cervinia this time.

Similarly, Fang Ruixuan is the only player in the men's team who is now eligible (no injury, under the age of 19, and has major tournament experience), because he was eliminated in the Chilean Championship, he had to go to South Korea and Japan to participate in the FIS points tournament to accumulate points, and he is still missing a World Cup experience, so Gu Qiantong urgently brought him to brush up on experience.

On the first day of the time trial, the two of them performed decently and had completed their mission objectives, and all that remained was to enjoy the race.

The next morning, the men's group 1/8 finals were the first to be unveiled, and 8 groups appeared one after another, with 6 people in each group, and the top 3 advanced.

The first group was an exhibition match by World Champion A. Hemering, with 16th and 17th places closest to him, and the other three were all outside the 30th, including the bottom-to-bottom finish in the final stage.

His younger brother Luca Hemering played in the third game of the 1/8 finals and showed very amazing tactical ability.

The young junior time trial runner ranked fourth in the group with a NO.28 finish, and many people were not optimistic about him, because the fastest player in this group was Spanish rookie Eguivar (No.5).

In addition, Canada's Gronding (No. 12) and the United States' Deebold (No. 21)

Luka opted for a preemptive tactic, falling to the bottom of the grid as soon as he started, and skating unhurriedly, at one point at least five meters behind the rider in front of him.

At the penultimate corner, he actually caught up. It was a very sharp left turn, and three of the four people in front of them were standing with their left foot in front, which caused them to have to make a backward corner, and it was very difficult to balance their buttocks backwards, and some people had to slow down significantly, causing congestion.

Luka leaned forward with his right foot in front of the corner, and he quickly closed the distance to squeeze into the first camp on the outside lane, and took advantage of the fast speed of the corner to pass the two in a row, and finally won the third place by a narrow margin.

This wonderful performance won the cheers and admiration of the audience outside the stadium, and also made Li Changyi remember the characteristics of the penultimate corner. He also has his left foot in front of him, which is a big loss here.

In the fifth game of the 1/8 finals, Li Changyi finally appeared, although he advanced without accident, but encountered two unexpected situations in the game.

First of all, the Italian Somaliva, ranked No.14, broke out with great strength, and got rid of Li Changyi and four other opponents in the starting stage, and won the first place in the group with an absolute advantage.

Secondly, Yoshiki Takahara, who was the third strongest in this group, was upset and was "closed by two American players" Nick (No.30) and Cole (No.35), missing the third place in the group, while Nick, who was only ranked 30th in the time trial, successfully advanced.

This took all the athletes in the room by surprise, and everyone began to revisit the grouping opponents and include nationality in the tactical response.

Fang Ruixuan came out next, and in the 6th game of the 1/8 finals, he was as "stable" as ever, falling behind at the beginning.

God seemed to favor him very much, and this group was really in great shape in the race, and someone broke off the track at the first corner. There were collisions, pulling fouls, etc., and the Austrians, Canadians, and Germans in front fell one after another, and only the American Didorf, who was NO.6 in the time trial, was not affected and crossed the line first.

The slow Fang Ruixuan picked up the second place and got the opportunity to participate in the 1/4 finals in the same group as Li Changyi.

Now that the two Chinese players are out of the game, let's focus directly on the women's team.

The women's group is only divided into 4 groups, so the 1/4 finals are held directly, which is also a group of 6 people, the top 3 advance, the last 3 eliminate, and the top 12 will compete for the chance to compete in the finals.

Li Pingping was assigned to the first group, wearing a black vest because of her results.

Extremely relaxed, she had an impressive performance, with the fastest start in the group, and after the first four wave packs, she went toe-to-toe with the Frenchman in the green vest and blocked Samkova in the red vest.

She was first in the first corner and was well ahead of the second corner.

However, world-class competitions depend on strength after all, and her thin little body quickly pulled back.

Her waist and legs were insufficient, and she couldn't continue to accelerate on the straights, so she was caught up by those behind one after another. also slowed down too fast, causing a player behind to be unable to dodge and fall.

Samkova was able to take the lead from the third corner to the finish line when she crossed the finish line, giving Samkova a strong second finish.

In the end, Li Pingping only finished fifth in the group and was eliminated, and after she slid across the finish line, she gasped for breath with her hands on her knees, obviously exposing her lack of physical fitness. On the other hand, the other opponents, especially Samkova, were not red or breathless, and they were grinning and high-fived and hugged the second and third places.

Gu Qiantong recorded this scene and immediately sent it to Tang Huai to remind him to pay attention.

There were no Chinese athletes in the second group of the women's quarterfinals, and the competition was very flat. The talented girl Therespage obviously had spare energy, following in the first half and exerting her strength in the second half, to advance to the second place in the group.

Wu Ying was unlucky, she was in the middle of the pack in the third group, and she couldn't compete with Moioli at all. Banksys offered her a plan to use her strength advantage to grab a good position at the start and finish third.

But she was too nervous, and her reaction to departure was 0.64 seconds slower.

This disrupted all the plans, and she had to chase desperately in the back, but she didn't want to be hit in the face by the arm waved by the competitor in front of her when she took off in front of an ordinary small jumping platform, and everyone was fine, but she fell off the track.

Like Samkova, Moioli was a distant leader in the group as she was Italian, and cheers erupted from the sidelines.

Wu Ying could only retire lonely with her skis and snowboard, she was not injured, but the bindings in her right foot were broken, and she didn't even have the ability to finish the race.

The Chinese women's team is now only Fan Qingwan, and Banks' tactic for her is to seek stability and suppress the people behind, but not to challenge the two American veterans in front.

Jacobelis and Gulini secured the top two, and Fan Qingwan successfully advanced to the third place.