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On the fourth day of the Chinese New Year on February 4, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will kick off, and whether the Chinese legion, as the host, can achieve a medal breakthrough on the stage of the Winter Olympics is also a matter of concern to the Chinese people. Among the Chinese legions, the speed skating team is undoubtedly the most interesting team, after all, the team has Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin, and the new generation of Ning Zhongyan, Gao Tingyu and others, and they all have the ability to impact medals and even gold medals.
Since participating in the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in the United States in 1980, by the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese legion has won a total of 13 gold medals, 28 silver medals and 21 bronze medals on the Winter Olympic stage, with a total of 62 medals. Among these brilliant achievements, in addition to the two gold medals won by Han Xiaopeng in the freestyle ski aerial skills event at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the two gold medals won by Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo in the figure skating pair skating event at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the other 11 gold medals came from the speed skating event. Speed skating is divided into two major events: speed skating, commonly known as avenue speed skating and short track speed skating. 10 of the 11 speed skating gold medals of the Chinese Legion are from the short track speed skating event, along with the production of these gold medals, Olympic champions such as Dayang Yang, Wang Meng, Zhou Yang, Li Jianrou, Wu Dajing have also become idols in the minds of generations of Chinese audiences, and now the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is in front of them, as the successor of the championship glory, Wu Dajing is undoubtedly the most weighty Winter Olympic gold medal contender in the minds of Chinese audiences, in addition to Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and other powerful players.
Four years ago, the picture of Wu Dajing winning the championship in Pyeongchang is still vividly remembered, from the men's 500m group stage to the semi-finals to the final, 3 Olympic records, 2 world records, Wu Dajing grew into the flagship figure of the Chinese short track speed skating team with this battle. And he helped the Chinese male athlete win the short track speed skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics for the first time, which also gave the Chinese team more confidence to break the wrist with the world's strongest opponents. Despite the impact of the epidemic and other factors, Wu Dajing's competitive status has fluctuated for a while, especially in his dominant project of 500 meters, and it is somewhat surprising that he has repeatedly broken the dust and sand. However, after entering 2021, Wu Dajing gradually returned to everyone's attention, as the "comeback battle" of the national short track speed skating championships and championships, Wu Dajing debuted in the national competition after the epidemic, and the state gradually recovered. As the pace of the Beijing Winter Olympics is getting closer and closer, Wu Dajing's competitive state is getting better and better. In the men's 500m final of the ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, held in November last year, Wu Dajing won the gold medal with a time of 39.878 seconds, which is only 0.37 seconds away from the world record of 39.505 seconds he held, and it is clear that Wu Dajing must show his skills on the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Wu Dajing
Chinese short track speed skater
As a veteran athlete, of course, I hope that with the young players, we will prepare well, and then I am confident that we will achieve better results this year.
The state of the short track flag player Wu Dajing is worth looking forward to, and ren Ziwei, another male player of the Chinese short track speed skating team, has also shown a surprising upward momentum with age, and he and Wu Dajing have formed a double insurance for Chinese short track speed skating. In the 2021 National Short Track Speed Skating Championships and Championships, when Wu Dajing and other famous players were struggling to find the state of the competition, Ren Ziwei had begun to exert his strength, the championship 500 meters champion, the championship 1000 meters champion, Ren Ziwei's sudden rise in a sense also brought competitive pressure to Wu Dajing.
Ren Ziwei
Because of this epidemic, I have been in a closed state, and I feel that my heart is sometimes particularly depressed. That feeling has been in a state of insomnia for a while, and then slowly adjusted, I think now the challenge is more, physical and psychological challenges, but have persevered.
From the championship and championship in early 2021, Ren Ziwei's state can be described as unstoppable, especially in the new season of the short track speed skating World Cup unveiled in October, Ren Ziwei has become the absolute highlight of the Chinese legion, Japan, won the 1000 meter gold medal, Hungary and the Netherlands station both won the 1500 meter championship, no wonder in the preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Ren Ziwei set the goal of attacking five Olympic gold medals.
Before the World Cup I took three gold medals, single one, and then I thought it was OK. It's within the expected range, I have five competitions, and then I think five competitions, I have the strength to hit the gold medal, so I think it's still, try to fight 100% hard.
In the individual event, the men's 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters ren ziwei and Wu Dajing and other national team teammates will launch the most powerful impact on the gold medal, while in the men's 5000 meters relay and mixed 2000 meters relay events, Chinese audiences will also see the figure of Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing, in this project, Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing and others have cooperated to achieve the second place in the World Cup in Japan. In the mixed relay event, the team composed of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Fan Kexin and Zhang Yuting is the strongest combination of this project, and the successive championships in the World Cup japan and Hungary also indicate that on the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team will be the most powerful contender for this gold medal.
Compared with the male players of the short track team, it is difficult for the female short track players of the Winter Olympics to achieve a breakthrough. Due to the lack of grain in the previous short track World Cup single event, the mixed relay event has become the final breakthrough for female players. And it is worth noting that as a new event of the Winter Olympics, the short track speed skating mixed men's and women's 2000 meters final will be held on February 5, which means that this project has taken on the heavy responsibility of winning the opening for the Chinese legion.
In terms of women's events, group pursuit will be the focus of the Chinese team, led by Han Mei and Li Qishi, which won the third place in the World Cup in Canada last month, and this lineup also includes tianjin player Ahenar. As a first-time Olympics player, Ahnal is making a final effort with his teammates to win a Winter Olympic medal.
Richie time
Chinese speed skater
Summer training should be relatively successful, but I think it should still need to be tested step by step by the competition, of course, the Olympic Games held in front of their own homes, to be able to get on the podium, which must be everyone's biggest wish.
Similar to short track speed skating, the Avenue Speed Skating Team has also achieved more outstanding results among male athletes in the past two years. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong's sudden appearance gave Chinese audiences new expectations for speed skating, and after the defeat of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, this expectation now falls on the young player Ning Zhongyan. Born in Heilongjiang in 1999, Ning Zhongyan, who is only 22 years old this year, is not only a rising star of the Chinese speed skating team, but also the absolute core, entering the national team in 2018, in just 3 years, Ning Zhongyan ushered in his own explosive period. After the START OFO Speed Skating World Cup in November 2021, Ning Zhongyan's state was even hotter. In Stavanger, Norway, he won two gold medals in the individual 1500 meters and the men's team race, and in Canada he won the 1000 meters, and in terms of recent results and status, Ning Zhongyan will be the biggest expectation of Chinese speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics. From a technical point of view, in addition to the advantages of excellent young physical fitness, Ning Zhongyan's bending technology is also very good, and after hard work in 2021, Ning Zhongyan's ability in the first two laps has made great progress. Combined with his already excellent ability to go back, at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Ning Zhongyan definitely had the strength to stand on the podium and even win the highest honor of the championship.
Ning Zhongyan
I think it's very satisfying, everything is very good, because it is also my personal best, overall it is still a very complete competition.
Newcomer Ning Zhongyan's performance is dazzling, Gao Tingyu is the old and strong representative of the speed skating men's team, in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu won the 500m bronze medal, and this is also the first medal of the speed skating men's team in the history of the Winter Olympics. After two years, Gao Tingyu returned to the international arena in the first leg of the speed skating World Cup in Poland this season, and won the gold medal in the 500 meters in one fell swoop, which also made Gao Tingyu's performance at the Winter Olympics highly anticipated. However, because the 500-meter event is one of the most affected by accidental factors in the speed skating competition, and Gao Tingyu's state has had many ups and downs in the following World Cup matches, compared with the young player Ning Zhongyan, Although Gao Tingyu has the opportunity to impact medals and gold medals, it is also an indisputable fact that he lacks absolute strength.
Gao Tingyu
The state is general, the gliding is still relatively smooth, that is, there are several mistakes in the starting, resulting in no speed, but the back end will chase back some, or need a lot of running-in, and the feeling of the ice surface.
Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now step forward from the beginning, once created countless brilliant for the Chinese Winter Olympic Team speed skating team will be reloaded on the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, another four years of hard work, coupled with the time and place, I believe that these proud sons of heaven can celebrate this grand birthday with the most outstanding performance.