Beijing Winter Olympics February 12 highlights: The "standard-bearer" of the Chinese delegation hit a new record

Qingdao Daily/ Guanhai News, February 11 On February 12, the Beijing Winter Olympics will produce six gold medals in 12 sub-events. It is worth mentioning that Gao Tingyu and Zhao Dan, as the flag bearers of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony, will fight together on the same day, and they are both looking forward to achieving a "historical breakthrough".

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Gao Tingyu, one of the "Twin Stars" of Chinese speed skating, won the bronze medal in the men's 500 meters at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, achieving a "breakthrough of zero" for the men's medal in China's speed skating event. In the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, he still showed considerable strength after re-playing in the World Cup this season, especially in the first 100 meters of speed is recognized as the world's first. Fighting on the ground, Gao Tingyu certainly hopes to turn the bronze medal from four years ago into a gold medal.

Zhao Dan, born in 2002, was selected for the China Steel Frame Bobsleigh National Team in October 2018 and is the youngest athlete in the team. In the women's race of the Steel Frame Bobsleigh Intercontinental Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, held on December 3, 2021, Zhao Dan won the championship with a time of 1:48.25. At the recently concluded 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics steel frame snowmobile national team selection competition, Zhao Dan successfully obtained the winter Olympic ticket with the first overall score. In the first two rounds, Zhao Dan was temporarily ranked fourth and Li Yuxi was tenth, looking forward to their performance in the third and fourth rounds, creating the best result of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics.

The speed skating women's team chased the quarter-finals will also be contested, as the "younger" event in the speed skating arena of the Winter Olympics, the Chinese women's team won the fifth place in the first competition at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago. In this season's World Cup in the United States, the Chinese team composed of Han Mei, Li Qishi and Ahanal Adak won the third place and reached the podium for the first time. Whether they can have a good performance in the Winter Olympic Games is worth looking forward to. (Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News reporter Promised Zhang Zhimeng)

(Author: Promise Zhang Zhimeng Promise Zhang Zhimeng)