(Beijing Winter Olympics) Gao Tingyu dream "ice ribbon"
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- When interviewed by reporters in the mixed mining area, the mobile phones and voice recorders placed in front of Gao Tingyu became a hill, and everyone wanted to know how he felt after winning the gold medal. This hill is like a figurative of the pressure of the game.
Time turned back a few tens of minutes ago, before the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 500m race began at the "Ice Ribbon" (National Speed Skating Hall), no one could be sure who would win the championship. Although Gao Tingyu has performed well this season, the victory or defeat of the short distance event is only between millimeters and is full of uncertainty.
The match was undoubtedly a close-profile event, with the text press gallery almost full an hour before the opening, and the photojournalists scrambled for territory with their peers in order to find the right angle.
The picture shows Gao Tingyu in the game. Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jun
In the seventh group, Gao Tingyu appeared, and the audience gave him the biggest cheer of all the competitions of the day. After the starting gun sounded, the cheers covered the sound of the ice blades stepping on the ice, and Gao Tingyu's start was excellent.
In such a state, it is completely impossible to see that he strained his leg in the previous day's training, and he almost did not sleep because of too much pressure.
The 500-meter race ended in more than 30 seconds, and at the moment he crossed the line, the atmosphere reached a climax, and some people in the press seat could not help but shout. Gao Tingyu took off his hat, and while looking up at the results, he quickly pulled open the zipper on his chest, and the whole person was no longer in a tense state, but his expression was still very serious.
34.32 seconds, which is a record-breaking result, but it is not certain that the champion will be won. Gao Tingyu sat on the sidelines, gradually calming his breathing, waiting for the other players to appear.
He said after the game that he had finished skating and that the pressure on the players behind him was even greater. In fact, the audience pressure on the scene is also very large.
There are also 8 groups of players behind Gao Tingyu, and whenever a player approaches Gao Tingyu in stages, the audience can clearly hear the noisy sound between the audience, and after determining that their final result did not exceed Gao Tingyu, the audience will cheer.
The picture shows Gao Tingyu at the award ceremony. Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jun
This "sweet torture" was repeated as many as 8 times, but fortunately they also got sweet results.
After determining the victory, Gao Tingyu ran in the arena holding high the national flag, and a loud roar from the sky contained too much emotion, and at this moment when the dream was finally realized, Gao Tingyu laughed and laughed and cried.
In the mixed mining area after the game, the number of Chinese journalists reached its peak since the beginning of the game. For epidemic prevention reasons, they could not approach the contestants, but the volunteers placed the recording equipment on the table in front of the contestants.
There were too many cell phones and voice recorders, stacked on the table for several layers, and the volunteers joked that it was as if the exam teacher used to receive the mobile phone.
Gao Tingyu completely relaxed, holding the "golden pier" he had just received at the souvenir awarding ceremony, with a distinct northeast accent, and answered the questions thrown by the reporters briefly and humorously. He said: "The game at the doorstep is finished." (End)