Halfway through the Beijing Winter Olympics, competition in various venues has become white-hot. Today, the two flag bearers of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony, Gao Tingyu and Zhao Dan, will appear on the field to fight for China to achieve a "zero breakthrough" in the history of the Winter Olympic Games in their own projects.
Speed skater Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal in the men's 500 meters at the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and is the first Chinese male athlete to reach the speed skating podium at the Winter Olympics.
This season, Gao Tingyu is in good shape, first breaking his own national record in the China Cup Speed Skating Elite League, just 0.22 seconds away from the world record; then winning his first World Cup title in the 500 meters of the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Poland and creating a new venue record; in the last leg of this season's Speed Skating World Cup, Gao Tingyu also won the runner-up result.
This afternoon, Gao Tingyu competed in the men's 500m to attack China's men's first gold in the speed skating event at the Winter Olympics.
After Yan Wengang won the first medal for the winter Olympics steel frame snowmobile for China last night, Zhao Dan is also expected to become the first Chinese female athlete to win a medal in the project. In the first two rounds of the women's steel frame snowmobile that has ended, Zhao Dan ranked fourth, and tonight will be the last two rounds of competition.
Four other snow girls are also looking forward to winning the first medal for the Chinese delegation in the Winter Olympics in cross-country skiing. The Chinese women's relay team of Chi Chunxue, Li Xin, Ma Qinghua and Bayani Garin competed in the women's 4×5 km relay in cross-country skiing.
The Chinese men's hockey team ushered in their second group game, they lost 0:8 to the United States in the first round, and today they face the relatively low-ranked German team in the three opponents of this group.
Draft: Qu Junyan