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ice and snow|gu ailing won the first championship of the season despite injury, and became the first in history with 15 world cup champions

2024-09-09

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on september 9, the 2024-2025 fis freestyle skiing world cup u-shaped track competition ended in cardrona, new zealand. chinese athletes gu ailing and zhang kexin won the first and second place. gu ailing played with a shoulder injury and finally won the first championship of the season with 96.00 points. this is gu ailing's 15th world cup championship. she broke the fis record and ranked first in the history of male and female athletes.

in the 2023 season, gu ailing injured her shoulder during training at an austrian ski resort, but she still played with the injury. in the end, she won four championships this season, bringing her career world cup championship number to 14. after that, gu ailing did not undergo surgery, but chose conservative treatment for her shoulder injury. according to gu ailing's family, her shoulder injury has not healed, and gu ailing started training and competition mode in the new season with a shoulder guard.

the fis freestyle skiing world cup u-shaped field competition kicked off the 2024-2025 season in cardrona, new zealand, but the local weather at the ski resort has been bad in recent days. after gu ailing and zhang kexin passed the preliminaries, the final was postponed for one day due to bad weather. however, on the day of the final, there was still wind and snow at the scene. the snowfall caused very low visibility at the stadium, and gu ailing encountered gusts during her three rounds, and continuous wind could be heard at the scene. faced with poor weather conditions, gu ailing still chose to play with difficult moves, winning the highest score of the game in a row, locking the championship in advance before the third round, and finally won the first world cup championship of the new season with 96.00 points. her teammate zhang kexin won the runner-up of this world cup.