The Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating event decided the women's 5000m gold medal, 29-year-old Dutch veteran Shaoten won the championship with a time of 6 minutes 43.51 seconds, she also won the women's 3000 meters gold medal before, the two finals broke the Winter Olympic record, successfully crowned double. After the game, Shaoten thanked China for hosting such a good Winter Olympics, and she thought the venues in Beijing were also great.
Speed skating and short track speed skating are particularly exciting Winter Olympic events, which require high ice quality, and because of this, some athletes with unsatisfactory results have targeted ice quality, such as South Korean female standard-flag bearer Kim Ya-lang.
Kim Ya-lang, who played in the short track speed skating women's 3000m relay, played average, and if it were not for Choi Min-jing's last-minute victory over her opponent, South Korea would not have qualified for the Group A final.
After the game, Jin Yalang said that the ice quality of the venue was not good, which once again triggered heated discussions. Many netizens said that this is just An excuse for Jin Yalang's poor performance.
In the previous women's 1000m preliminaries, Jin Yalang was out early, and in the subsequent relay race, Jin Yalang appeared again, but her performance was still not ideal, and if it were not for the opponent's excellent performance, she would have suffered more criticism. Apparently, Jin Yalang was dragging his feet.
What is puzzling is that Jin Yalang did not summarize and reflect on his own problems, but questioned the quality of the ice surface. In fact, there are two aspects to refute Kim Ya-lang, one is that another South Korean player, Hwang Dae-hyun, won the championship, and the South Korean player also broke the Winter Olympic record in the preliminaries.
Second, the speed skating arena uses the same ice-making technology, and several individual events that have been completed have all broken the Winter Olympic record, and most athletes are full of praise for the Winter Olympic venues.
Dutch veteran Shaoten has broken the speed skating women's 3000 meters and 5000 meters of the Winter Olympic records, all of which have been dusted for a long time, and successfully crowned the double, if the ice quality is not good, can she play so well? We are not saying that the quality of the ice surface helps Shaoten break records, but that the quality of the ice surface allows Schoten to have no worries and is to play to full strength.
So, Shaoten thanked China after the game, thanked the Beijing Winter Olympics, the preparation environment was fantastic, and the venue was too good. In fact, it is a sentence: competitive sports rely on strength, do not make excuses if the performance is not good, Jin Yalang should learn from Huang Daxian, and after winning the championship, people admit that they have indeed committed fouls before.