February 11th is a training day, and the last competition of snowboard slalom will be held on the morning of February 12th.

Staff at Genting Snow Park maintained the track overnight for athletes from all over the world to practice for their final mixed team event.

In Fan Qingwan's absence, Tang Huai could only adjust the combination and let Li Changyi and Wu Ying partner in the competition.

Gao Entropy gave up the opportunity to participate without complaint, after all, he knew that his competitive strength was a little worse than Li Changyi.

Wu Ying finally got her wish and fought side by side with Li Changyi, probably because she was under too much psychological pressure, she was not as happy as she imagined.

Tang Huai didn't instill chicken soup for the soul into her and Li Changyi, but just joked that he had to give the two of them a name: "Take one word in each of your names, let's call it Changying." Today, the long tassel is in hand, when will the dragon be bound? ”

Li Changyi raised his arms and swung his fist: "Okay, we are the Changying combination, and we will definitely win the game tomorrow!" ”

The mixed team event is the first time it has been held at the Winter Olympics, but it has already been preceded by World Championships and World Cups.

The rules of the competition are very simple, and the time trial system is used directly to determine the finalists.

All teams are divided into groups by lottery, and teams in the same group start at the same time in the time trial. The top 4 teams in the time trial were shortlisted for the finals.

In the end, the teams ranked 1-4 will be determined through the finals, and the rest of the teams will be ranked according to the results of the time trial stage.

In essence, this competition is a relay between the men's and women's groups, and Tang Huai comprehensively considered the technical characteristics of Li Changyi and Wu Ying, and believed that this was the most promising gold medal for the Chinese team.

Li Changyi's current strength can be regarded as the top three in the world, and although Wu Ying is slightly worse than Fan Qingwan, her outstanding performance in the previous women's competition has not lost to any world champion.

As long as the two play steadily, they will inevitably be able to achieve the effect of 1+1 greater than 2.

On the other hand, the gold medal in the 2019 World Championships was won by the Americans, but they were the host at the time, and the track advantage was obvious.

Three years have passed, and the "old" Jacobelis and Didoff are no longer as brave as they once were.

Among the strongest men and women today, Austria's Hemerin and Czech Samkova lack a strong partner, and only Italy's Somaliva and Moioli, and France's Waltier and Therespage, can compete with China.

In fact, the game on the morning of February 12 was far more difficult and complicated than Tang Huai predicted.

Because this gold medal is also the last hope of the American team.

Banksy secretly used the rules to break the rules again, and the athletes he controlled were all tasked with holding down the strongest teams in the same group, no matter which group they were assigned to in the draw. Only by slowing everyone down will we be able to ensure that the U.S. team qualifies for the finals and wins the gold medal more easily.

Therefore, athletes such as Gronding, Bolton, and Krikilow interfered with the strong men and women in the same group.

Waltier suffered from this, as the two-time Olympic champion was distracted by Bolton, and Theresper, who was in the relay with him, struggled to overtake Australia's Brockhoff and failed to qualify for the final.

Krichlow even tackled Hemerlin's female partner, directly causing the Austrian team to abandon the game.

Gronding was in the same group as Viscinting, and through constant blocking and encroachment, Wishingin was forced to finish smoothly, which directly caused Wishingin's partner Belinghery to start half a second late.

Although the Italians of Wiscinting and Bellingheri topped their group, they did not finish well and lost to the American duo of Didoff and Jacobelis in the overall standings.

In the short half-hour preliminaries, there were successive accidents, and the Chinese Changying combination was almost blocked out of the final.

At that time, Li Changyi had Berg in the same group, and this kid had a suspicious appearance in the men's competition, pit Zhang Zhiwang and knocked over Edgivar.

Tang Huai remembered Berg's nickname of "Champion Killer", and told Li Changyi to be careful not to be blocked and miss the qualification for promotion like in the previous game.

Li Changyi scratched the tip of his nose: "I won't make the same mistake." ”

After the game started, Berg really set his eyes on Li Changyi and tried to stop him from speeding up.

Seeing that Li Changyi was about to throw away the distance with the help of the extreme blade technique of the corner, Berg finally had no choice but to make a tackle.

Unexpectedly, Li Changyi reacted very quickly, and when he made an infringement move, he made a change of direction with the help of the smooth half-wall slope of the curve, and after the skis suddenly rushed up the slope, Li Changyi did a backflip.

It was a technical move in a halfpipe, and Li Changyi made it very difficult for Li Changyi to perform at high speeds, and most importantly, he deliberately swept the edge of the ski to Berg's helmet.

Berg had lost his balance when he saw the edge of his blade-like skis sweeping his nose and snow goggles, his face turned pale with fright, his eyes closed tightly, and he had to resign himself to fate.

Fortunately, Li Changyi retracted his strength and angle, and only scared him, and he didn't really want to create a bloodshed, so this person kept his big nose.

After falling back on the track, Li Changyi immediately tried his best to race against time, trying to recover the lost time in front of him.

Tang Huai pinched the timer and sweated nervously: "It's not good, it's nearly 1 second slower than Somaliva......"

"Bang", at the moment when Li Changyi crossed the finish line, the track door in front of Wu Ying at the starting point opened, and the girl rushed out reflexively, she stood on the high platform and witnessed everything that happened on the track, and knew that Li Changyi had delayed a little time.

She didn't have a trace of distractions and baggage in her mind, she only knew that in order to regain time, in order to let Li Changyi get on the podium, she had to accelerate and accelerate again!

Fortunately, Li Changyi won the advantage of taking the lead for Wu Ying, she started more than 1 second earlier than other female athletes, and she was immersed in her own rhythm without interference, and actually found the wonderful state in the Keketuohai skills competition, and skated the track without mistakes throughout the whole process, and got a score of more than 1 minute and 21 seconds.

This result was faster than many of the top male athletes, and in the end, her super-level performance made up for Li Changyi's lost time and gave the Chinese team a chance to the final.

According to the judges' timing rankings, Italy's Somaliva and Moioli ranked first in the preliminaries, followed by China's Changying combination.

Australia's Bolton Wanderers got a glimpse of compatriot Brockhoff and also secured a third ticket to the final.

As for the final qualification, it still fell into the hands of the American team that Didoff partnered with Jacobelis.

After a short break, the final gold medal in the snowboard cross at the Beijing Winter Olympics will be decided.