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Wen | Fu Zhenghao
Sports big business reporter
34.32 seconds, this is just the kung fu of ordinary people, but it is enough for hundreds of millions of Chinese people to officially recognize Gao Tingyu, who is only 24 years old, and speed skating, the world's oldest ice sport.
On February 12, China's Gao Tingyu not only won the beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 500 meters championship, but also set a new Olympic record with his 34.32 seconds, and he was also the first speed skating Olympic men's champion in mainland history. Although Gao Tingyu had won the bronze medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics before, thus becoming the first male athlete in China to win a speed skating medal, and at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, Gao Tingyu and Zhao Dan, a female athlete on a steel frame snowmobile, served as the "double flag bearer" of the Chinese sports delegation, many people are still unfamiliar with the name Gao Tingyu. As for the speed skating sport he is engaged in, it is far less popular and well-known in China than short track speed skating. So much so that after Gao Tingyu won the gold, there are still many people who can't understand the difference between speed skating and short track speed skating.
Now, with Gao Tingyu's victory, speed skating, the world's mainstream ice sport and the advantages that the mainland once proud of, is expected to usher in a new development pattern in the mainland. As for Gao Tingyu, a supernova who is full of "Duan Zi hand" temperament and is highly sought after by the media because of the continuous golden sentences of Northeast China, he will undoubtedly be the best leader leading China's speed skating to a revival.
The time difference between entering the Olympic Games is 68 years! How much is known about the difference between speed skating and short track speed skating
Although speed skating and short track speed skating are two different events on ice at the Winter Olympics, due to the similarity of names and quite affiliation, ordinary people often confuse the two.
In the mainland, speed skating is far less well-known than short track speed skating, because short track speed skating is the most powerful gold medal player in the mainland winter event, but in the world, speed skating is far more influential than short track speed skating, and the two have a big difference in status at the Level of the Winter Olympics. Sports big business previously in the "Winter Olympics short track speed skating why can always trigger the public opinion between China and South Korea?" The article has briefly mentioned the difference between the rules and status of short track speed skating and speed skating, and it is against the background of the sport of speed skating that the controversy of short track speed skating is always particularly prominent.
Speed skating is the oldest and most widely developed sport in skating. As early as 1763, the United Kingdom and other Nordic countries have begun to hold related competitions, in 1892 when the International Skating Union (ISU) was established, speed skating is the main sport promoted by ISU, the first Winter Olympics in 1924, speed skating is the official competition, for many years known as "ice track and field", athletics is the mother of sports, speed skating is the ancestor of ice sports.
As for short-track speed skating, although it originated in Canada in the 1880s, it is very different from speed skating due to the rules. The dispute over the rules of speed skating and short track speed skating epitomizes the typical differences between European and American sports philosophies, so that short track speed skating has been slow to gain recognition from isu for the first hundred years of its birth. It was not until 1975 that the ISU established the Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee, which was accepted as a sport officially recognized by the ISU, and then promoted it to become a winter Olympic performance event in 1988 and an official competition event in 1992.
In short, speed skating is the oldest sport in the Winter Olympics and the most popular ice sport promoted by ISU. Short-track speed skating not only entered the Olympic Games 68 years later than speed skating, but its rules have been repeatedly criticized, and almost every Winter Olympics will have chaotic scenes and thus cause controversy. Since being accepted by ISU in 1975, isu presidents have worked hard to further improve the short track speed skating rules.
Although speed skating and short track speed skating are ice racing sports, they are also under the management of the International Skating Union (ISU), many countries will also speed skating and short track speed skating unified as speed skating team, and even athletes in the two sports will occasionally cross the transition, such as the mainland has promoted the Chinese speed skating team and the Chinese short track speed skating team to carry out a combination of attempts, some athletes take into account the short track speed skating and speed skating 2 sports training, but from the rule point of view, these are two completely different sports, both from the field, The rules governing the enforcement of ice knives to referees are very different.
The most intuitive difference between the two is that the length of the two venues is different, and the circumference of the ice track for speed skating is 400 meters. Short-track speed skating is much shorter, with 111.12 meters per lap. The speed skating ice track is connected by two straight lines and two 180-degree arcs, divided into two lanes, inner and outer, with a width of 5 meters. The inner circle radius of the inner ice channel is 25 meters, and the inner circle radius of the outer ice channel is 30 meters. The oval ice track of short track speed skating is not less than 7 meters wide in the straight, 8 meters in the radius of the curve, and 28.85 meters in the straight. Therefore, the mainland is accustomed to calling speed skating an avenue speed skating to distinguish it from short track speed skating. It is precisely because the competition venue requirements are different, so short track speed skating and speed skating, whether it is training or competition, are often not in the same venue. For example, at the Beijing Winter Olympics, short track speed skating was in the Capital Gymnasium, while speed skating was in the "ice ribbon".
The core difference between the two rule philosophies is that speed skating is the purest ice racing sport, the track is wide but only two players are arranged to duel each time, there can be no physical contact between the players, and the competition between them is absolute speed, and it is clear who wins and who loses. However, the short track speed skating track is narrow but there are at least four players in each round, and the players often have frequent physical contact and even fierce collisions and bloodsheds in order to get stuck in the track, which also makes short track speed skating often need to rely on the referee to decide the winner or loser, resulting in controversy. The ISU is also bitter about the controversy over short-track speed skating, refining its rules every few years. (Extended reading: "Why does the winter Olympic short track speed skating always trigger public opinion between China and South Korea?") 》）
Speed skating in China: The champions have been supported by the focus and have been reduced to short track speed skating foils from 1998
Since participating in the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980, continental ice and snow sports have long formed a pattern of "ice strong and snow weak". Among them, "ice strength" is mainly strong in the short track speed skating project, short track speed skating is known as the "master of kings" in China's winter sports, before the Beijing Winter Olympics, China won a total of 13 winter Olympic gold medals, of which short track speed skating contributed 10 pieces, Yang Yang, Wang Meng, Zhou Yang, Wu Dajing and other short track speed skating celebrities The good name spread throughout the world. However, when it comes to speed skating, many people are confused, not only do not know the unique status of this project in ice sports, what is the difference between this project and short track speed skating, but also do not know what the glorious history of short track speed skating in mainland China is.
Once upon a time, speed skating was the only Olympic sport in the first three decades of the mainland's founding that produced a world champion. In 1963, Gao Tingyu's Heilongjiang Yichun predecessor Luo Zhihuan won the gold medal in the 500 meters at the World Speed Skating Championships in Japan, and he was also the first speed skating world champion in Asia. The importance and gold content of this honor was self-evident in those years.
You know, in the 30 years from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the return of the mainland to the international Olympic family in 1979, the mainland has always left a wrong impression on the international community that "table tennis is the only sport that the mainland is good at", and table tennis was only a non-Olympic sport in those years. Therefore, Luo Zhihuan was the only non-table tennis world champion in the 30 years before the founding of The People's Republic of China, and the only world champion in China's Olympic sports in those 30 years, and his personal historical status and speed skating status in Chinese sports can be seen. However, since then, there have been too few exchanges between the mainland and the world, and it has suffered a well-known decade of chaos, and the speed skating has been buried in both material selection and technical advantages.
After the mainland returned to the Olympic family in the 1980s, Lake Placid was the first Winter Olympics participated in by the mainland, after opening its eyes to the world, it was found that the gap between the ice and snow sports on the mainland and the world was too big, from 1980 to 2002, the mainland could not achieve a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Winter Olympics for 20 years, and even in the first three Winter Olympics, the mainland even had a medal on the side, and each time it came out empty-handed (Note: Li Yan won the gold medal in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics short track speed skating performance project, not counted in the official report card), which stimulated the national sports commission at the time, especially the gap in the snow project was jaw-dropping. In this case, the National Sports Commission is determined to find several ice projects that are not much different from the world's top level as a breakthrough in the competition for gold and silver, and tilt the selection of materials and training resources to these key projects.
Fortunately, isu's reform of speed skating and short track speed skating at that time gave the National Sports Commission an opportunity to catch up. Short-track speed skating, which first became an official Olympic sport at the Winter Olympics in 1992, is a new starting point for all countries, and the sport is very particular about the skill of the track slots, and it seems that it is naturally more suitable for agile East Asians.
As for speed skating, in the past, it has always been held in the outdoor ice rink, which is greatly affected by temperature and wind, and the players are miserable when competing, and the competition is often temporarily stopped because the meteorological conditions are not suitable for the competition. As a result, ISU began to push for a change in its rules, which was held indoors. In 1987, ISU hosted the first Speed Skating Indoor All-Around Championships, which marked the beginning of the transformation of speed skating into an indoor sport. The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville were the last time the Winter Olympics speed skating competition was held outdoors. With the speed skating held indoors, whether it is the competition rules, skating technology or the setting of the ice knife, it must be adjusted, which also makes the National Sports Commission determined to include speed skating into the key research projects.
It is with the National Sports Commission to speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating and other projects as the winter Olympics to win medals and even gold medals in the key cultivation projects, so in the 90s of the last century, the mainland appeared a number of ice stars, and constantly won world championships and Winter Olympic medals, and even almost won the winter Olympic gold medal several times.
For example, at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, speed skater Ye Qiaobo won a silver medal in the women's 500-meter speed skating competition, which was China's first medal at the Winter Olympics, followed by a silver medal in the 500-meter speed skating. Short track speed skater Li Yan also won a silver medal, and figure skater Chen Lu won the sixth place in women's single skating, which also made the world start to pay attention to the rise of Chinese figure skating. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Ye Qiaobo moved hundreds of millions of people with injuries, and finally regretted that he only won the bronze medal. Speed skating star Liu Hongbo ranked fourth, and the speed skating powers represented by the Netherlands and Italy praised him. Short track speed skater Zhang Yanmei won a silver medal, while Chen Lu won a bronze medal in figure skating women's singles.
As you can see, it was the National Sports Commission at that time that took short-track speed skating, speed skating, figure skating and other ice projects as breakthroughs in key projects for gold and silver and tilted their resources, so the development situation of these ice projects in the mainland developed well in the 1990s. At that time, Ye Qiaobo was not only the star of speed skating, but also the number one signature figure of China's ice and snow sports, but unfortunately, because of injuries, she passed by the Winter Olympic gold medal several times.
In contrast, perhaps short track speed skating is really more suitable for the physique of Asians, and soon short track speed skating has become the top priority supported by the National Sports Commission with its talents and better results, and finally achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in 2002. Speed skating also has to give way to short-track speed skating at the level of material selection and other levels, and the best ice seedlings in Heilongjiang and Jilin are preferentially transported to short-track speed skating, and then speed skating is considered, while 1998 is the official division between short-track speed skating and speed skating.
1998 Nagano Winter Olympics is China's first participation in the Winter Olympics in East Asia since its participation, the National Sports Commission is full of ambition, hoping to achieve a breakthrough of zero gold medals in this Winter Olympics with geographical advantages, under the internal comparison, speed skating with Ye Qiaobo's retreat and it is difficult to have a chance of winning, on the contrary, short track speed skating is full of talents, women have Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Wang Chunlu, Sun Dandan, men have Li Jiajun, Feng Kai, An Yulong, Yuan Ye, these newly rising whether it is individual projects or collective projects have the strength to impact the gold medal, As a result, although short track speed skating failed to get gold medals, it won 5 silver medals and 1 bronze medal, and all the Chinese short track speed skaters who participated in the competition stood on the podium, which further strengthened the determination of the National Sports Commission to fully support short track speed skating and win the winter Olympic gold medal as soon as possible.
Finally, at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Dayang Yang won two gold medals in a row, and short-track speed skating opened the glory of China's ice and snow "king's division". In contrast, speed skating is more and more limited in the selection of materials, compared with the previous Ye Qiaobo, Liu Hongbo and other famous players, speed skating in the early 21st century but fell into a long period of trough, the selection of materials is mainly supported by Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces. Until the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong won the speed skating 1000 meters championship, which not only achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in Chinese speed skating at the Winter Olympics, but also the first gold medal for Asian athletes in the women's speed skating 1000 meters event, which greatly boosted the morale of Chinese speed skaters.
Since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, speed skating has also regained certain support and guarantees in terms of material selection, and Heilongjiang and Jilin have also rekindled the enthusiasm for talent training in speed skating, officially in this context, Gao Tingyu and Ning Zhongyan have risen rapidly in the speed skating "Heilongjiang Twin Stars". Now, with Gao Tingyu's victory, he has become China's first men's speed skating winter olympic champion, and finally realized the long-cherished wish of several generations of Chinese speed skaters. Under his leadership, speed skating, the world's mainstream ice sport, is expected to usher in a new development pattern in the mainland.
Dan Zi Gao Tingyu: Break the flag bearer's spell and change the color of the medal as desired
In the speed skating event, the men's 500 meters is one of the most competitive individual events, comparable to the 100-meter trapeze battle in athletics, where the masters are judged between the minutes and seconds, and the players must have strong aerobic ability and amazing explosive power. In the speed skating project, the mainland has always had the problems of "strong women and weak men", "short strength and long weakness" and "stronger future than backward course". Before Gao Tingyu appeared, the mainland's best result in the Winter Olympics was Liu Hongbo's fourth place at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Gao Tingyu, born on December 15, 1997 in Yichun, Heilongjiang, has many outdoor skating rinks and a certain tradition of speed skating, and the aforementioned Luo Zhihuan is a Yichun person. Gao Tingyu began to skate at the age of 8, and like many children in the northeast, his childhood was often spent on the outdoor ice rink, often sneaking away from school and not coming home, leaving his mother anxious to run to school to find him. Although his parents did not have any sports background, Gao Tingyu soon showed a good athletic talent, so the family supported Xiao Gao Tingyu's skating dream by running a restaurant. Gao Tingyu said in interviews many times: "When I was a child, the soles of my feet grew fast, and the skating equipment had to be changed every three to five minutes, although the price was not cheap, but my parents would buy me the best every time." ”
Gao Tingyu entered the Heilongjiang provincial team at the age of 14 and met for the first time Liu Guangbin, the coach of the provincial team in Heilongjiang and his most respected mentor now. Because gao Tingyu developed late, Liu Guangbin was not even willing to accept Gao Tingyu as an apprentice at first, "in two years you will come again", but then Gao Tingyu impressed Liu Guangbin with his amazing explosive power, and the master and apprentice joined hands and met in the clouds. At the age of 19, Gao Tingyu won the speed skating men's 500 meters championship at the 13th National Winter Games in 2016 and entered the national team in the same year. In the second year of the national team, at the Sapporo Asian Winter Games, Gao Tingyu had an amazing performance, winning the men's 500m speed skating gold medal and breaking the Asian record with a time of 34.69 seconds. Gao Tingyu quickly attracted the attention of the industry, and Zhang Hong has repeatedly told the media that Gao Tingyu is a very potential athlete and the most promising person to support the Chinese speed skating short distance beam.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal with a time of 34.65 seconds, achieving a "breakthrough of zero" for the men's Winter Olympics medals for Chinese speed skating. At the time of the award, Gao Tingyu mischievously compared a "three" with his hand, and afterwards he used typical Northeast dialect to say that it was a pity that the "color" of this medal was not right, and directly laughed at the reporters, so the media wished that he could change a "color" at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and now Gao Tingyu changed the "color" as he wished.
Although Gao Tingyu is as fast as lightning in the speed skating competition, he is a complete chronic child and team pistachio in life. Teammates all teased him: "If Gao Tingyu is the second slowest among speed skaters in the world, no one dares to say that he is the first." Gao Tingyu himself said that if he started training at 12:30, he often did not arrive until 12:29. In addition to training, he does not play games like others and does not go out to play, his biggest hobby is to sleep, at least 12 hours of sleep every day, and even 17 hours a day at most, known as the "emperor" of the speed skating team.
Because of the importance of sleep quality, Gao Tingyu must bring a piece of luggage wherever he goes is a latex pillow, a small flower pillow that is carried everywhere, which is said to help him treat insomnia and fall pillows. As a speed skater, sharpening an ice knife is one of Gao Tingyu's usual daily relaxation activities. "I have to put on music when sharpening the ice knife, which is a very decompressing way. Generally listen to songs, listen to Jay Chou's songs. ”
Gao Tingyu has a particularly good personality and is deeply loved by the whole team. After winning the bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu also joked with his master sister Zhang Hong in public. When he saw Zhang Hong interviewed by reporters, he deliberately squatted down, his face rushing against the wall, his back to Zhang Hong, pretending not to see Zhang Hong. Zhang Hong also cooperated with the ground to stop him and joked: "Congratulations, Xiao Gao, don't hug one!" Gao Tingyu immediately returned with his own funny effect of the Northeast dialect: "Don't say hug, I want to kiss you!" The reporters in the audience immediately laughed again. It is worth mentioning that after winning the gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong came to the scene again to congratulate and send hugs.
As a master sister, Zhang Hong's evaluation of Gao Tingyu is that don't look at Gao Tingyu's surface hip-hop, careless, but in fact, he has super self-control that ordinary people do not have. "He sets goals for himself, often watches game videos, studies techniques, and his good mentality also allows himself not to have too much pressure, which determines that he rarely makes mistakes in the game and can slide out of his best level." "Gao Tingyu is a very good child, never surfing the Internet, never playing video games, and spending the night on massages, technical analysis, and looking back at the technical actions of his idols. Just such a small child, there is such a concentration, or very promising. ”
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong said to the media very affirmatively that Gao Tingyu's future is unlimited, and the Beijing Winter Olympics four years later is the stage for him to truly show his strength: "His strength is obvious to all, as he grows older, his strength will also increase, and the future is unlimited." You'll see it in four years. ”
The Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics selected Gao Tingyu as the flag bearer of the delegation, and many people expressed surprise, after all, gold medalists such as Wu Dajing, who was short-track speed skater, would be better in popularity and achievements. However, Ni Huizhong, secretary general of the Chinese sports delegation, said that the selection of flag bearers is a comprehensive consideration, and the selection of young people as flag bearers is because they have the potential to break through. Sure enough, Gao Tingyu successfully broke through the history of zero gold medals in the Chinese men's speed skating Winter Olympics.
Because the results of the flag bearers of the Chinese sports delegation at the Winter Olympics have not been as good as expected, everyone says that the standard-bearers of the Winter Olympics have a spell, and the gold-winning hot people have politely rejected the flag-bearer honor. Gao Tingyu didn't care about the spell at all, he was just worried that being a flag bearer would not be good, and he would not be able to give everyone a good start. In an interview, Gao Tingyu's demonic Northeast dialect once again teased the media: "The first time I was the flag bearer of the opening ceremony, I didn't know how to open (this head), I don't know if I can give everyone a good start." Nervous, it seems to be more nervous than I am in the game. The first time I did this... I haven't been to the Nest yet, and I don't know what the process is. ”
Nowadays, Gao Tingyu not only completed the task of being a good leader of the flag bearer, the Chinese sports delegation achieved a good start in this Winter Olympic Games, the first half of the results are gratifying, the current Chinese athletes have achieved 4 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze excellent results, and he himself has also broken the spell that the flag bearer's performance is not as expected, and won the gold with a new Olympic record.
Overall, Gao Tingyu is only 24 years old now, far from reaching the peak of his competitive state, and with the gradual maturity of him and Ning Zhongyan and others, it is expected to drive speed skating to usher in a new development opportunity. More importantly, with the holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics, 346 million people in China have participated in ice and snow sports, and by the end of 2020, there are 2,062 ice and snow schools in the country, and the selection of materials for future speed skating will be further expanded. At that time, speed skating, an international mainstream ice sport, is expected to achieve the glory of short-track speed skating in the mainland.
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