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Two Chinese athletes made a historic breakthrough in the Snowboard Men's Big Air and Snowboard Slopestyle, the General Administration of Sport of China announced on Friday. 

Yang Wenlong, a Chinese athlete training in Switzerland, completed a cab triple 1980. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Su Yiming completed a Backslide 1980 Indy Crailwhile training in Austria.

They are the first athletes in the world to complete such difficult moves, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

"I will continue to work hard and take every day's training seriously… I will show my best at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in three months and win glory for my country," Su wrote on his Sina Weibo account.