On February 12, the two flag bearers Gao Tingyu and Zhao Dan, the two flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the Chinese delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, both played for their country, and their identity as flag bearers made them more full of strength and confidence. First in the evening speed skating 500 meters competition, Gao Tingyu won the championship with a record-breaking performance; in the evening, Zhao Dan entered the final fourth round of competition in the women's steel frame snowmobile event, and finally won the 9th place, for her first time to compete in the Winter Olympics, standing on the field "not falling behind" is not a small breakthrough.
Unlock the first gold of the Winter Olympics to break the "Standard-Bearer Curse"
In the men's 500m final of speed skating, 15 groups of players competed, and two teams appeared in groups. Gao Tingyu was placed in group 7, and from the beginning of the race he was in excellent shape, leading all the way, taking the lead and taking the lead, and finally breaking the Olympic record of 34.32 seconds.
The 500 meters is the shortest distance in the speed skating event, and from this point of view, the men's 500 meters of speed skating at the Winter Olympics is comparable to the men's 100 meters trapeze battle of the Summer Olympics. Four years ago at the Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu was the bronze medalist in this project, but his time was 34.65 seconds, and after another four years of hard work, Gao Tingyu's performance improved by 0.33 seconds, which was evident in the sweat and effort. After the game, Gao Tingyu wore a national flag and ran around the field in the "ice ribbon" to celebrate.
The gold medal is also the first gold in the history of the Chinese Men's Speed Skating Winter Olympics. After the game, he said he would dedicate the gold medal to the motherland. Gao Tingyu also "unlocked" a new achievement in passing - since the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation has participated in 22 summer and winter Olympic Games, and Gao Tingyu is the first standard-bearer to win a gold medal in that competition. For breaking the so-called "flag bearer curse", Gao Tingyu said that there is no magic spell, "the upper field slip is finished." ”
Chinese women will play and both reach the final round
Zhao Dan pushed the cart to run and accelerate, prone to the car board, with the body as the body, like a bullet firing towards the finish line, whistling through the track... Here's footage from tonight's women's steel-frame bobsleigh race. If it were not for the fixed shooting of many high-speed lenses off the field, the naked eye would certainly not be able to track it, almost to the point of "blur", which is the most exciting "snow F1".
According to the rules of the Women's Steel Frame Snowmobile of the Winter Olympics, the competition is divided into four rounds, and after the first three rounds of competition, the athletes with the top 20 results enter the fourth round of competition, and all four rounds of results are added together to determine the final ranking of the participants. In the first two rounds, Zhao Dan and Li Yuxi made their debut in the women's steel frame snowmobile event at the Winter Olympics, which has created history, and after the two-wheeled sliding, Zhao Dan and Li Yuxi temporarily ranked 4th and 10th.
Tonight in the third round, Zhao Dan made his fourth appearance, but this time, Zhao Dan performed somewhat poorly, the route and speed of several corners were not ideal, the single round was 1 minute 02.53, and the total time was 3 minutes 07 seconds 19, which made her ranking slide to ninth. Subsequently, another Chinese player, Li Yuxi, ran 1:02.39 and a total of 3:07.65, ranking 12th, and both runners ranked in the top 20 to enter the fourth round.
In the final round of the fourth round, Li Yuxi finished with a total time of 1:02.94, with a total time of 4:10.59, and finally ranked 14th. Then zhao Dan, who came in 12th place, had a better performance than in the third round, running a time of 1 minute 02.33 seconds, and the total score of the four rounds was fixed at 4 minutes 09.52 seconds, ranking 9th.
Talent is visible to the naked eye The future is worth looking forward to
In 2016, the China Steel Frame Snow Team was established, with reference to international experience and domestic reality, the first batch of domestic steel frame snowmobile team members are "cross-border cross-sports", most of them are track and field athletes. In October 2018, Zhao Dan, a 16-year-old girl who was still practicing track and field triple jumping at Hohhot Experimental Middle School, entered the national steel frame snow team through cross-border cross-item selection, and the good track and field foundation allowed Zhao Dan to have excellent explosive power, which is a necessary physical quality for the starting stage of the steel frame snowmobile.
Zhao Dan now enjoys the feeling of sliding at high speed, but few people know that when she first came into contact with the sport, she was also afraid. Recalling the first time he experienced the steel frame snowmobile project, Zhao Dan remembered vividly: "At the beginning, I didn't know what the steel frame snowmobile was, and when I first went to the ice, I felt that my body was on a board, and the whole person was lying on it, and it would be dangerous to go down from so high to low." In the face of dangerous and unknown new projects, Zhao Dan admitted that he must be a little scared, but every time he slides to the finish line, he will feel very comfortable.
After a period of hard training, zhao Dan began to emerge in international competitions more than a year later, she won the seventh place in the women's individual event at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and this year won the steel frame snowmobile intercontinental cup Innsbruck. In fact, for Zhao Dan, cross-discipline not only began a completely different sport, but also opened up a new world for her.
Zhao Dan is not yet 20 years old, standing on the Winter Olympic field is a breakthrough, she started from scratch, in less than four years to show excellent strength, the future is worth looking forward to attention. The day before, also on this field, China's male player Yan Wengang won a valuable bronze medal, which was China's first Winter Olympic medal in the steel frame snowmobile event. For the Chinese steel frame snow team, although it started late, but 6 years of efforts and efforts, has completed the medal "zero breakthrough", in them also see the hope of competing for gold, whether it is Yan Wengang or Zhao Dan, another breakthrough may not be far away.
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Zhang Shiqiu
Photo: Xinhua News Agency