Short track speed skating 1500 meters, South Korea won the first gold

[Global Times reporter Zhang Zhen] The short track speed skating competition on the 9th was full of drama. In the men's short track speed skating 1500m 1/4 final, China's Sun Long and Zhang Tianyi performed poorly, and only Ren Ziwei reached the semifinals. The Global Times reporter noticed at the scene that although it was only a semi-final, the coaches of each team had taken out the volume that would only appear in the final, and the sound once overshadowed the host. In the semi-finals, Ren Ziwei, who played in group 3, was found guilty of fouling and missed the final of Group A.

Due to two fouls in the third group of the semifinals, three were awarded to the Final of Group A, which brought up to 10 players in the Final of Group A. In the final, no one was convicted of a foul, and the players were in awe of the strict penalties. In the end, South Korea's Hwang Dae-hyun won the championship, the first gold medal won by the South Korean delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Korean cheering group at the scene fell into madness, and the Korean coach's throat was almost broken.

In the women's 1000m preliminary round of short track speed skating, only the first two rounds of the event twice broke the Olympic record of the event, and China's Han Yutong, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Chutong all advanced to the next round. In the semi-finals of the women's 3000m relay, the Chinese team composed of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Han Yutong and Qu Chunyu advanced to the final.

In order to watch the speed skating competition, the Global Times reporter arrived at the Capital Gymnasium 3 hours in advance, when the staff was converting the figure skating venue into a short-track speed skating venue, and the whole journey took less than 1 hour. They replaced the protective devices around the venue with "heavy versions" to prevent players from falling out of the arena and being injured. This was followed by a number of black hard mats to set up more camera positions in the venue to shoot the whole process of the contestants gliding at full angle.