Flag bearer and Olympic favourite manages score of 78.56China’s Xu Mengtao the only competitor to land difficult trickGold medal hope Laura Peel could only watch in envy as Xu Mengtao became Olympic aerials champion, landing a jump that the
Australian has conquered many times in the last 12 months.
Xu became the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic women’s aerials title with a brilliant jump of 108.61 points in the Super Six medal round while Peel had to settle for fifth after failing to stick her landing.