February 12, Beijing time, the eighth competition day of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Speed skating continues today, in the quarterfinals of the just-concluded women's team chase, China's Li Qishi, Akhnar Adak and Han Mei trio teamed up, the first round encountered the Japanese team, but unfortunately failed to create a miracle, the upset failed to qualify for the semi-finals, and the next thing to be played is the men's 500 meters competition, the mainland player, one of the flag bearers of the opening ceremony of the Chinese delegation Gao Tingyu will play with teammates Yang Tao, Gao Tingyu has achieved 1 gold and 1 silver in this season's World Cup, This project has the strength to rush gold.
Speed skating 500 meters of competition a total of 30 players participated in 15 groups, each group of two people, with the competition time to judge the results, the collision line in the group will not affect the results, of which Gao Tingyu and Yang Tao were ranked in the 7th and 8th groups, it is worth mentioning that the Chinese delegation last won the speed skating gold medal Zhang Hong, is in the 7th group of 15 groups, I hope that the historical moment will always be similar.
Gao Tingyu was in the same group as a Polish runner, starting from the inner road, the starting response was good, the ice pedaling was fast, the corner acceleration was very ideal, and the sprint perfectly got a score of 34.32 seconds, creating a new Olympic record! This is also the first time that the Chinese delegation has broken the Olympic record at the Beijing Winter Olympics! Yang Tao also started from the outside, his play is also very good, in the outer road acceleration and sprint is also a good performance, and finally got a score of 35.16 seconds is also a very competitive result
Due to Gao Tingyu's achievements, the runners who came out later caused some pressure, and the phenomenon of rushing to run increased significantly, among them, the Korean runners in the tenth group also played very well. The result was only 0.07 seconds slower than Gao Tingyu, and the South Korean famous Kim Joon-ho, who won the Beijing Winter Olympics Test Match, played average, the time of 34.54 seconds did not surpass Gao Tingyu, and the last three groups of strong Japanese players failed to achieve the overtake, with the last group of Gao Tingyu's main opponent, The Canadian star Di Buleyi, ended the competition with the result of seconds, and Gao Tingyu locked the gold medal.
Congratulations to Gao Tingyu for winning the first gold in the history of China's men's speed skating event!!! This is also the fourth gold medal of our Chinese delegation at this Winter Olympics, congratulations to the Chinese speed skating team, the same seventh group, historical heritage!