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On February 12, the Beijing Winter Olympics ushered in the eighth competition day, and China's Gao Tingyu won the men's 500m speed skating championship! Men's Hockey China vs Germany 2:3 defeat!
What other memorable "moments" are there on and off the field? What are the "key words" and "sounds" that belong to this day? What kind of Winter Olympic observations will Yang Yang, chairman of the Athletes' Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, bring to the Covenant of Poplar?
The breakthrough behind the Gold Medal of Gao Tingyu
In the men's 500m final of the beijing Winter Olympics speed skating on the evening of February 12, China's Gao Tingyu broke the Olympic record and won the gold medal with a time of 34.32 seconds.
Bai Yansong: I think many families had a very happy dinner today, because Gao Tingyu used this gold medal to give each family a "big dish". Today's gold medal completed two important breakthroughs.
(1) This is the first time in China's history that a male athlete has won a gold medal in speed skating at the Winter Olympics, and even the female athletes are only two pieces. The previous one was Zhang Hong's gold medal in the women's 1000m of speed skating eight years ago. Therefore, today's breakthrough is worth a lot, and Gao Tingyu has become a "double standard-bearer", he is the standard-bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the Winter Olympics, and will also become the absolute leading standard-bearer in this project.
(2) The second breakthrough. Gao Tingyu is the first flag bearer to win a gold medal since China participated in the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympic Games, which was rare in the past, because in many Summer Olympic Games, our flag bearers are men's basketball players, and it is very difficult for the men's basketball team to win the gold medal, so Gao Tingyu completely broke the so-called "curse" that the flag bearer is difficult to win the card this time, and directly won the gold medal. In addition, speed skating is a sport that all sports fans in China are particularly eager to make a breakthrough in winter sports, and there are a total of 14 gold medals in speed skating at the Winter Olympics, which is the most gold medals in all sports, so everyone remembers that the Dutch team of speed skating is very strong. If we can slowly complete a breakthrough from short to long, the number of gold medals and medals in our Winter Olympics in the future is very worth looking forward to. Another point is that there are very few factors such as referee accidents on the field of speed skating, and the fight is hard power, so this is also an important feature.
Yang Yang: A breakthrough after generations of inheritance
Yang Yang, Chairman of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games: I am particularly honored to witness Gao Tingyu's breakthrough at the final of the men's 500 meters of speed skating. In fact, speed skating is the most senior sport in our history of winter sports. From 1980, when we first sent a delegation to the Winter Olympics, speed skating was an important sport for us. Teacher Zhao Weichang, the first torchbearer to run into the bird's nest at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics two days ago, won the 31st place in the men's 500 meters of speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. So it should be from 1980 that everyone began to dream of one day achieving a breakthrough of zero in the gold medal of speed skating. In 2014, the female athlete Zhang Hong took the lead in breaking through, but in terms of men, in fact, we have always had a tradition in the short distance, for example, from Luo Zhihuan to Song Chen, and Liu Hongbo have won the world championship, Liu Hongbo has won the fourth place in the Olympic Games, so today to Gao Tingyu, the bronze medal of the last Winter Olympics, in this session, he finally achieved the breakthrough of the men's 500-meter short distance. When I think about the history of these generations, I feel that it is really not easy, so I especially congratulate Gao Tingyu on being able to achieve such a breakthrough today.
Ice Ribbon's ice is record-breaking ice
Bai Yansong: The ice ribbon is constantly breaking records every competition day, and when everyone mentioned the Winter Olympics in the past, they thought that breaking the record would be the unique expectation of the highland venue, and the more the plateau, the easier it is to break the record, but this time the "ice ribbon" changed this. Because the altitude of Beijing is not high, but the field is still constantly breaking the Olympic record, especially the world record, today Gao Tingyu also broke the Olympic record, so the National Speed Skating Hall is a venue worth talking about in the future. The Ice Ribbon is also the only new ice competition venue in China in preparation for the Winter Olympics.
The Chinese men's ice hockey team lost
On the afternoon of the 12th, the Chinese men's ice hockey team welcomed the second opponent in the group stage, the silver medalist Germany team of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. In the end, the Chinese team lost 2:3 to Germany, and competed with the strong European powerhouse Germany, although they lost the game, but the boys played the momentum, and pulled two goals in a row in the case of 0:3 behind. The first goal scored by Fu Shuai created the history of the first goal of the Chinese men's ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics.
Bai Yansong: What I personally pay most attention to is that we must dare to lose, and have the ability to fight for the least loss, after all, this is the first time in the history of the Chinese ice hockey team to board the Winter Olympic Games, this road can be said to be very difficult. For example, Ye Jinguang, the captain of the Chinese ice hockey team, once posted a microblog, which made me almost shed tears. He said, "Let the world remember that we came." "If there's a Chinese athlete who stands on the top stage in hockey 20 years later and people ask him why he practices hockey, he'll answer in 2022, I watched the Chinese team play." That is the success of our generation. "These words are both frank and tearful, and then the blood boils, this is the mission of this generation of hockey players, and they came, leaving a stark mark, and everyone's expectation is to score a goal, they scored not only in today's game against Germany, but also scored two, and lost this game by such a narrow margin of 2:3. This should actually be greatly praised. I want to say, don't because this Winter Olympics is held in Beijing, our previous investment is very, very good, the next one is not held here, but also continue to invest, maybe through the competition we can hardly get to qualify for the Winter Olympics, but if we insist on it, there will be good results.
The Beijing Winter Olympics became the highest-rated Winter Olympics to date
Bai Yansong: As of February 10, the Beijing Winter Olympics have set a new record for the winter Olympics viewership, with 515 million people watching the games in the mainland and Macau by February 10, and more than 100 million viewers in the United States watching the Beijing Winter Olympics through their own broadcast networks. More importantly, many athletes have wonderful and happy performances, so as to trigger everyone's happiness.