The | record of the Winter Olympics is broken, and the orange storm sweeps through the ice ribbon

On the evening of February 8, the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 1500 meters final was held in the national speed skating hall "ice ribbon", the Dutch athletes broke out again, the famous Kroll and Pingchang Winter Olympics gold medalist Ness has broken the Olympic record twice and won the championship and runner-up, and finally the latter successfully defended his teammates with a time of 1 minute 43.21 seconds, South Korea's Kim Min-seok won the bronze medal, and China's Ning Zhongyan ranked 7th.

The men's 1500m is fiercely competitive, with Americans Mandia, Ning Zhongyan and Kim Min-seok all winning the Angie World Cup this season, and Nes and Kroll have extremely strong absolute strength despite their average World Cup performance. The match culminated after pouring ice in midfield, with Group 10 Croaire maintaining an excellent rhythm in the face of the first shot restarted by his opponent's rush, and finally broke the Olympic record of 1:43.95 set by American Derek Parra at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, allowing the Ice Ribbon to set a new Olympic record for the fourth consecutive matchday.

However, Kroll's record lasted only a few minutes, with Nes and Kim Min-seok coming together in Group 11, both of whom were fiercely competitive from the start and both showed excellent competitive form, and finally Nes took the lead in the line, 1 minute 43.21, and the Olympic record was again improved by 0.34 seconds.

In the men's 1500m of speed skating, Dutch Ness and South Korea's Kim Min-seok set off in the same group and competed fiercely, and finally won the first and third places.

The consecutive Olympic record-breaking performances of Kroll and Ness put the last few groups of players under great competitive pressure, and Mandia, who played in group 13, skated only 1 minute 45.26 seconds. In group 14, Ning Zhongyan appeared in the cheers of the live audience, he could keep up with the pace at the starting and the first 400 meters, but the second half was significantly slower, and finally slid out of 1 minute 45.28 seconds, ranking 7th. The other two Chinese players, Wang Haotian and Lian Ziwen, ranked 20th and 27th respectively.

After Ness won the gold, he not only completed the feat of defending his title, but also allowed the Netherlands to win 3 of the first 4 speed skating gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics. "It's all really unbelievable! It's my dream to win another Winter Olympic gold medal, but this time I'm really not as confident as I was 4 years ago. After the game, Ness's excitement overflowed into words, he said that the European Skating Championships a month before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics gave him some confidence, "In the past 4 years, I have won several World Cup titles and two World Championships, but it was the European Championships that made me regain my confidence, and I beat Kroll in that game, which was very difficult. ”

Kroll, who won the silver medal, wasn't too upset, saying: "It was a great day for us, my teammates and I broke Olympic records in a row. I think the silver medal is good, of course it's a pity that I didn't win the gold medal, but I did my best and created my best result of the season, but Ness performed better, I just lost to him. "Kroll, who is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, has another 1,000 meters to compete, compared to the 1,500 meters, he is more competitive in the 1,000 meters event, "This silver medal makes me very confident, my dream is to win the Olympic gold medal, let's wait and see!" ”

Photo by Deng Wei, reporter of the Winter Olympics

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