On February 12, 2022, Beijing time, in the men's 500-meter final of the speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu, a young player from the Chinese team, skated a super Olympic record of 34.32 seconds, and successfully won the championship of this project, so that in this Winter Olympics, the number of gold medals of the Chinese delegation rose to four! It is worth mentioning that so far in this Winter Olympics, the number of gold medals won by the Chinese delegation has been equal to the sum of the gold medals of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (3 gold medals at the Sochi Winter Olympics and 1 gold medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics)!
Since its inception in 1992, the Chinese delegation has competed in nine Winter Olympics, with the best results being the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where it won 5 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals. At present, the Beijing Winter Olympics are only halfway through, especially after Gao Tingyu won the gold, the Chinese delegation has already won 4 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze, and after that, many athletes including Gu Ailing have the opportunity to win the championship, and the Chinese delegation is likely to set a new high in the number of medals in the local Winter Olympics.
It is worth mentioning that many of the medals won so far are very young athletes, such as 17-year-old Su Yiming, who won a silver medal in the men's slope steeplechase at the Beijing Winter Olympics (the on-duty referee personally admitted to giving a high score to champion Parot). 18-year-old Gu Ailing completed a big reversal in the Beijing Winter Olympic Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jumping Competition, and finally won his first Winter Olympic gold medal, the most important thing is that the big jump is not the project that Gu Ailing is best at, and then he will participate in the two competitions of freestyle ski slope obstacles and U-shaped pool, and there is a chance to compete for olympic gold medals!
In addition, Gao Tingyu, who broke the record in the short track speed skating men's 500m final, is only 24 years old, he has changed from the bronze medalist of the last Winter Olympics to the gold medalist, using 4 years to make progress, after breaking the Olympic record, he also announced that Gao Tingyu will become the hegemon of this project! We are very competitive at the Summer Olympics and have been at the top of the list of medals in recent editions. In contrast, the best performance in the Winter Olympics was the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, when we were only eighth in the number of gold medals, and the remaining medals were in the 10th place. Now with Gu Ailing and Su Yiming, there are strength and young athletes, which also add hope to the future of the Chinese Winter Olympic Team, and perhaps set off a storm of youth from this moment!
I hope that in the future competitions, the Winter Olympic athletes can continue to cheer!