22-year-old Chinese rising star and 49-year-old "speed skating legend" field "baton"

In the women's 3000m final of speed skating, 22-year-old Ahanal Adak and 49-year-old speed skating legend Claudia Pechtstein (right) set off in the same group. Courtesy of Visual China

Beijing, February 5 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Guo Jian) In his last Winter Olympics, he not only ranked first from the bottom, but also was broken by others to break his Olympic record.

But the person involved, Claudia Pechtstein, was as calm as if he were looking at another person, and even a little elated: "It's normal that my Olympic record will be surpassed sooner or later." ”

When the Dutch star Irena s hauteten broke Pechstein's record, the latter was talking to various reporters in the mixed interview area, and just when a reporter talked about whether her Olympic record was "too long", Pehistein quickly signaled to the reporter who blocked the monitor next to him to "let Jean": "Don't say it's so early, the game is not over." Before the words could be heard, Shaoten crossed the finish line and broke the Peshstein Winter Olympic record with a time of 3:56.93, winning the gold medal in the women's 3,000m speed skating at the Winter Olympics, and the final ranking was determined, pechtstein's "bad" time of 4:17.16 made her rank first in the bottom of all 20 players.

But this does not affect Peshstein's good mood because he feels extremely proud and proud. An hour ago, Pechtstein was smiling and sliding across the finish line, after which she raised her arms to the north end of the stand as if to return to the moment of great attention 20 years ago - the north stand is almost empty except for a few volunteers, but on her winter Olympic finish line, she only needs to greet herself, after all, the day after the beijing Winter Olympics, she will spend her 50th birthday, this Beijing Winter Olympics, the 8th Winter Olympics she experienced, let her feel the meaning of beyond the competition.

"I came to Beijing to compete and come here to celebrate my participation in the 8th Olympic Games." Peschstein said: "I made history, the worst competition was the pinnacle of my career, today is more important than all my medals combined. ”

This afternoon's speed skating women's 3000m final was announced 24 hours in advance according to the custom, and the "peak moment" began with this signing form: the oldest speed skater of the Winter Olympics, 49-year-old Pehistein, was in the first group of outer roads, and the 22-year-old Akhnar Adak, the youngest "flower of hope" of the Chinese speed skating women's team, was born in Xinjiang and registered in Tianjin.

Pehistein did her best to save enough points for the Beijing Winter Olympics and raise the ranking to the point where she could compete, and the 3 minutes 57.70 seconds she created at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics has been on the ice for 20 years, and if it were not for a drug ban lawsuit that made her miss the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, she would have set an unprecedented and most likely unprecedented Winter Olympic record for the Winter Olympics - the "speed skating legend" holds 5 Winter Olympic gold medals and 3 Winter Olympic silver medals, which is enough to make people look up to.

On the first day after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Akhnar Adak, 22, and Claudia Pehistein, 49, met unexpectedly in the first Olympic match of the "Ice Ribbon" Olympic Games, which is dedicated to creating the "fastest ice in the world", in the first group of the women's 3000m final: these two generations, small fledgling, old powerless, "the future belongs to her" and "once belonged to her" in the Olympic arena collision without any barriers.

"I believe her grades will get better and better every year, and the young people now have the best conditions." Peschstein said: "I (today) is really slow, but I laughed, I am the only woman in the world to participate in the 8 Winter Olympics, the result of the competition is not important, yesterday a reporter asked me if the first time I participated in the Winter Olympics was 20 years ago, I corrected that it has been 30 years, although I still have to prevent the new crown epidemic, but this Beijing Winter Olympics makes me very proud." ”