On February 12, China's Gao Tingyu won the gold medal in the men's 500 meters speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics with an Olympic record-breaking result in the "Ice Ribbon". This is the first speed skating gold medal for a Chinese male athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics.
Luo Zhihuan, 81-year-old China's first winter sports world champion and the 1500m champion of the 57th World Men's Speed Skating Championships in 1963, burst into tears. He and his wife, Li Yahui, recorded a video at home to congratulate Gao Tingyu: "Proud of you! Proud of you! ”
It is worth mentioning that February 11, the day before Gao Tingyu won the championship, was the last day of quarantine observation after Luo Zhihuan and Li Yahui returned to Harbin from Beijing to participate in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.
Before the game, Luo Zhihuan was full of confidence in Gao Tingyu. And today, the dream of generations of Chinese speed skaters has finally come true!
59 years ago, at the 57th World Speed Skating Championships held in Nagano, Japan, a figure crossed the finish line and won the men's 1500 meters championship with a good time of 2 minutes 09.20 seconds, and broke the world record, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the winter sports world championship, and breaking the monopoly of European and American athletes on the winter sports gold medal. He is the first world champion of Chinese ice and snow sports, Luo Zhihuan.
In the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay, Luo Zhihuan was the first torchbearer. In 2008, he also carried the Beijing Olympic torch.