On February 12, the Beijing Winter Olympics will feature six gold medals, including a snowboard slalom chase mixed team, a women's 4x5 km relay for cross-country skiing (traditional/free technology), a biathlon men's 10 km sprint, a ski jump for men's individual jumps, and a steel-framed snowmobile women's singles.
At 16:53, the "Ice Ribbon" will compete in the men's 500 meters of speed skating and decide the gold medal, and Gao Tingyu, one of the flag bearers of the opening ceremony of the Chinese delegation, will play.
On February 19, 2018, Gao Tingyu won the third place in the men's 500 meters of speed skating at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Xinhua News Agency
Four years ago, Gao Tingyu participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, and accidentally fell on the ice rink during training 1 hour before the game, which caused some psychological pressure on him to compete later; then when the Japanese runners in the same group rushed to run at the first start of the race, Gao Tingyu's rhythm was disrupted. Despite two "small surprises", Gao Tingyu still defeated a number of speed skaters including the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics runner-up Jan Smithens, the third runner-up Luo Mulder and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics champion Mou Taivan, and won the bronze medal.
This is the "breakthrough of zero" for Chinese men's speed skating medals in the Winter Olympics. Previously, the best result of the Chinese men's speed skating Winter Olympics was Liu Hongbo's fourth place at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics.
Coming to the Beijing Olympic cycle, Gao Tingyu has made obvious progress, and he has won 1 gold and 1 silver in this year's World Cup, including a new field record and his best on the plains in the first match against Poland.
However, the 500 meters is the event on the speed skating field that is most affected by accidental factors. Last year's World Championships champion, Canada's Laurent Dibreuil, 25-year-old Japan's Ritsuya Shinhama and 21-year-old Russia's Olympic team's Alem Arefiev will be Gao Tingyu's main opponents in the Beijing Winter Olympics to reach the podium or even gold medal.
Nandu reporter Tao Xinlei