On February 12, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics entered the eighth day of competition.
In the men's 500-meter speed skating competition that ended today, mainland athlete Gao Tingyu broke the Olympic record with a time of 34.32 seconds, winning the first men's gold medal in the history of Chinese speed skating, and this is also the fourth gold medal of the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics, four gold medals created the best start record of the first eight days of the Chinese Winter Olympics, and it is only one step away from our single Winter Olympics record of the most gold medals, 5 gold medals.
Can go to such a result, home combat is indeed a big advantage, after all, in the home game, the athlete's mentality and competition momentum are completely different, in addition, our progress in the logistics of athletes can not be ignored, to the steel frame snowmobile as an example, such a need for technology and venue facilities to help the project, we just established a team in 2015, and now has hit the world's top level, the only opponent is only the steel frame snow car long-term overlord Germany team, which is very rare.
Of course, the main credit is still our athletes, their hard training and hard work on the field in their daily lives have contributed so much honor to our enough, and from the perspective of the schedule, we broke the hardware record is already ten to nine stable, in the later competition, the talented girl Gu Ailing has two major gold-winning events of U-shaped field and slope obstacle skills, short track speed skating, Wu Dajing strives to defend the title of the men's 500 meters has not yet been carried out to the final decisive stage, freestyle skiing aerial skills project, veteran Xu Mengtao Jia Zongyang still has the opportunity to realize his dream in his personal projects.
What needs to be explained more is that the home battle actually did not let us get the care of the referee, Su Yiming's biased score of the referee on the spot, Ren Ziwei's men's 1500 meters was judged to be invalid, which is enough to show that we do not have a home whistle here, the preciousness of the new athlete medal, of course, the later game even if we did not break the hardware record, we must also pay tribute to our players, this piece of ice and snow above the home, you are all heroes!