On February 12, in the men's 500m final of speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's Gao Tingyu and Yang Tao competed, with Gao Tingyu in group 7 and Yang Tao in group 8. In the end, Gao Tingyu won the gold medal with a time of 34.32 seconds, breaking the Olympic record and creating the best result of the Chinese men's speed skating event in the Winter Olympics, which is also the fourth gold medal of the Chinese team in this Winter Olympics, congratulations.
Format: Speed skating commonly known as the avenue, single lap 400 meters, the road is very wide, two people for a group to start together, than the final result to determine the ranking, speed skating men's 500 meters final a total of 30 players to play, divided into 15 groups.
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Group 7, Gao Tingyu in the inner road, Polish Darmian Jourek in the outer road, Gao Tingyu first in the inner corner, when entering the straight, has far surpassed the Polish player, and finally Gao Tingyu's performance is 34.32 seconds, the new Olympic record was born, congratulations.
Gao Tingyu is the flag bearer of the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics, and at the opening ceremony, Gao Tingyu and Zhao Dan served as the flag bearers, which is a great moment of honor, and the expectations of the outside world for Gao Tingyu are still very high. The 24-year-old Gao Tingyu is also very strong in this project, because he won the gold medal in the World Cup sub-station, so Gao Tingyu did not need to participate in the Winter Olympics trials to directly enter the Beijing Winter Olympics entry list.
4 years ago in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu won the speed skating 500 meters bronze medal, which is the first Olympic medal in the history of China's men's speed skating project, but it is clear that Gao Tingyu is still dissatisfied with such results, because he fell during the warm-up training, so the final result was a bit reduced, so this time on the field of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu also hopes to make up for the shortcomings of 4 years ago.
In this way, the "flag bearer curse" was broken, and last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, the flag bearer was Zhu Ting, the leader of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and Zhao Shuai of taekwondo, both of whom were defending champions, and both missed the gold medal. This time to the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu, who only signed up for this one event, broke this spell and won the gold medal.
Finally, congratulations to Gao Tingyu, who won the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, made up for the regrets of 4 years ago, as the standard-bearer of the Chinese team at the opening ceremony, proved his strength, congratulations.