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The World Cup Aerials 2014/15 & egrave; began today at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as "Nest 'bird', where in the past have carried out the opening ceremonies and the closed position and the track and field events of the Summer Olympics in Beijing 2008. This stage is & egrave; divided into an individual race both men and women on Saturday 20 and a team competition on Sunday 21. This team competition & egrave; was the first in the history of the World Cup Aerials. & nbsp;
Tuesday 23 December 2014 8 minutes reading time
Regarding the 'individual appointment on Saturday 20, the Chinese were superior than their opponents by placing five athletes among the twelve finalists in both the male and in the female, with the' home athlete Qi Guangpu who had the better competition between men and Mengtao Xu that mimicked compatriot going to win among women. & nbsp;
In the women's twenty-four Xu & egrave; back to victory putting behind last season's World Cup where he was able to get on the podium only twice, picking up two third places. The 'last Vittora dell''atleta Chinese c''era been in the race that the' world champion had graduated nell''ultima World Championships held in Voss, Norway, in March 2013, allowing her to conclude in the best way a 2012/13 season almost perfect, in which he also won a crystal ball scoring five first places and a third place in the races that season of the World Cup. His jump in the final & egrave; was the best of his day and & egrave; worth the 95.88 that allowed her to win the race.
Behind it & egrave; ranked the twenty-four Australian Danielle Scott, winner of the qualifying with 92.35. For her this & egrave; was his second career podium in the World Cup after his second place in Lake Placid in the stage of 15 January, in his last appearance before this weekend up in the world circuit. The 'Australian athlete, although he had never been on the podium in World Cup before 2014, he won the bronze medal at the recent World Championships in Norway. & Nbsp;
The step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; was conquered by the nineteen US Kiley McKinnon, bronze at Junior World Chiesa in Valmalenco in 2012, to his first career podium in the World Cup. & nbsp;
In the men the twenty-four Qi clearly won their final after winning also the qualifiers. The reigning world champion, as well as winner of the crystal ball in the 2010/11 season, has signed a score of 125.34, clearly separating his pursuers.
Behind dell''inarrivabile Chinese, in second place is & egrave; ranked the twenty-two Russian Pavel Krotov with 116.29 points, that & egrave; cos & Igrave; on the podium of a World Cup race in nearly three years after winning the Canadian stop of Mont Gabriel January 15, 2012.
Third place & egrave; instead been obtained by another Russian, Ilya Burov twenty-three, the first podium of his career in the World Cup, with a score of 114.48.
The day after the individual race & egrave; was the turn of the first team competition in the history of the World Cup Aerials. In this competition could participate in teams of three athletes, not necessarily of the same nationality & agrave ;, which had to have at least one athlete of either sex. & Nbsp;
In the afternoon they played the qualifiers, which had a dual function: to decide the six teams entitled to the final number of points scored by three athletes from each team, and use & nbsp; the score obtained by each athlete to determine the individual ranking male and Women's day, which gave the same points for the World Cup than any other individual competition. & nbsp;
At the end of qualifying, in the women athletes arrive on the podium were the same three of the individual race of the day before, with China's Xu who won again and the 'inversion second or third place from the day before with that McKinnon & egrave ; Scott finished second and third. In the men, however, Qi Guangpu did twice after the success of the previous day ahead of his compatriot Zhou Hang twenty-fifth in the first race of the day and the third podium in World Cup races, and nineteen US Mac Bohonnon, the tenth previous day and the second podium of the World Cup in his career.
As for the team competition itself, the US team, composed of McKinnon, Bohonnon and Michael Rossi, won the qualifiers ahead nell''ordine China 1, China 2, Russia, Belarus and the first mixed team Russia-China . & nbsp;
The final one, from which emerged the three teams that have had the chance & agrave; to play the final, final call two, & egrave; was marked by several errors, including data Bohonnon and his unfortunate compatriot Rossi who lost skiing during the 'landing strip, which undermined the US a chance & agrave; to play for the podium. & nbsp;
The final two have cos & Igrave; China had access 1, composed of Xu, Qi and the Sochi 2014 Olympic bronze medalist Jia Zongyang, Belarus 1, formed by Húskova, Osipau and Gustik, and Russia, which included Korsunova, Burov and Krotov. & nbsp;
The final saw jump terminated with perfect landings or nearly perfect, with the Chinese that in the end they managed to win over the Russians with a score of 324.69 to & nbsp; 322.59. Third Belarusians. & Nbsp;
The next round of the World Cup Aerials sar & agrave; Saturday, January 3 in Calgary, Canada. & nbsp;
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