Yan Wengang, | of the Winter Olympics: Give yourself 8 points

At noon on February 10, the men's steel frame bobsleigh event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ended in the first two rounds of competition at the National Bobsleigh Center "Snow Tour Dragon", and China's Yan Wengang ranked third with a total of 2:01.08 in two rounds, retaining the hope of impacting the medal. Germany's Christopher Grotecher is temporarily in first place, and another Chinese player, Yin Zheng, is seventh. On the evening of the 11th, the men's steel frame snowmobile will decide the gold medal.

A total of 25 players from the men's steel frame snowmobile participated, and the Chinese team sent two players, Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng, to participate. China's top star Geng Wenqiang, who previously won the IBSF International Bobsleigh Federation World Cup sub-station championship, failed to pass last month's intra-team Winter Olympic selection competition and missed the Beijing Winter Olympics.

In the trial skates in the past few days, two Chinese participants Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng performed well, especially Yan Wengang won the first, second, third and fourth times in 6 trial skates, and two other mistakes failed to finish the race. On February 10, yan Wengang was in good shape in the first round of the main race, temporarily finishing third in 1 minute 0.43 seconds. His teammate Yin Zheng slid out of 1:00.74 to finish seventh. It is worth mentioning that Yin Zheng's starting reaction time is 4.6 seconds, which is the fastest of all the players. Germany's Grote Hull finished first with 1:00.00.

After a short break, Yan Wengang continued to maintain a steady state in the second round of coasting, he completed the departure with a reaction time of 4.74 seconds, and the subsequent corners were also handled more smoothly, and finally finished in 1 minute 0.65 seconds, with a total of 2 minutes 01 seconds 08 seconds in the two rounds, ranking third. Yin Zheng slid out 1:00.71 in the second round, and the total time in the two rounds was 2:01.45, ranking seventh.

World champion and German star Grote Hull is at his best, temporarily topping the list with a total of 2:03 in two rounds, and his teammate Axel Juncker in second place.

After the 10th game, Yan Wengang told reporters that he made a mistake in the first round of skating, but made timely adjustments in the second round, and for the performance of the first two skates, he gave himself 8 points. Looking forward to the two-wheeled slide on February 11, yan Wengang said, "If I can achieve results like today, I am more satisfied, but I still hope to play better." ”

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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Wang Yang

Edited by Kang Dian

Process Editor Liu Weili