Halfpipe set to close out Beijing 2022 freeski competition

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Freestyle skiing competition at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games is set to wrap-up over the coming days, with halfpipe competition being the final freeski events to take place here in Genting Snow Park.
Qualifications went down on Thursday, 17 February, in the Genting Snow Park halfpipe that has widely been described as the best ever built, first by first the snowboarders who competed at the venue earlier week, and now by the freeskiers who are set for women’s finals on Friday and men’s finals on Saturday.
For both the women and the men the 12 athletes set to compete in finals over the coming two days are by and large the ones who were expected to be there and battling for medals.
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On the women’s side of things it is once again going to be all eyes on China’s Eileen Gu, as the 18-year-old lead qualifications with ease as she looks to become the first athlete to win medals in three different freestyle skiing events at the same Olympics.
Already the Beijing 2022 big air gold medallist and slopestyle silver medallist, Gu is set to drop in on what is her strongest event when women’s halfpipe finals take centre stage on Friday, as she heads into Beijing 2022 competition as the reigning World Champion and crystal globe winner, having made history by sweeping the top of the podium in World Cup halfpipe competition in 2021/22, winning four out of four.
Gu is arguably the most talented all-around competitive freeskier in the world today, and her profile in China – already white-hot before the Games – has hit a temperature usually reserved for celestial bodies such as the sun. A halfpipe victory to close out Beijing 2022 for the Gu isn’t a necessity to confirm her stardom by any means – but it is almost expected of her, and anything less than a top-3 would come as a massive disappointment.
If she does, indeed, take the Beijing 2022 halfpipe victory – or any other podium result – she’ll cement herself in one fell swoop as one of the greatest of all time, achieving a feet that no other freestyle skier has accomplished in 30 years of the discipline’s inclusion on the Olympic programme.
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