Overlook the Winter Olympics
Gu Ailing's match was cancelled today
Heavy snow at today's competition venue Workers Daily reporter Liu Bing photographed
On February 13, the Zhangjiakou division of the Beijing Winter Olympics ushered in snowfall. According to the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee Competition Schedule Change Committee, the freestyle ski slope obstacle course women's qualification tournament will be postponed by one day to the 14th. China's Gu Ailing and Yang Shuorui will compete in the event.
The women's singles snowmobile ends with the first two wheels of the slide
On the morning of February 13, the women's single snowmobile of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended the first two rounds of sliding, and the first-time Chinese players Huai Mingming and Ying Qing, with a time of 2 minutes 10.90 seconds and 2 minutes 11 seconds 15 seconds respectively, temporarily ranked 5th and 8th among the 20 participants. The women's single bobsleigh has a total of 4 rounds of skating, and the 3rd and 4th rounds of the race will be held on the morning of the 14th, and the final ranking will be generated after 4 rounds.
The Chinese men's curling team missed a three-game winning streak
On February 13, the Chinese team players competed in the game
In the men's curling round robin tournament of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the morning of the 13th, the Chinese team lost 6-7 to the British team, missing three consecutive wins. After this battle, the Chinese team won 2 and lost 3, temporarily ranking eighth in the group. In the previous four matches, the Chinese men's curling team first lost to Sweden and the Russian Olympic Committee, and then defeated Denmark and Italy. The Chinese team will face the United States team on the evening of the 13th.
China's women's steel frame snowmobile has made a breakthrough
Zhao Dan in the game
On the evening of the 12th, in the women's steel frame snowmobile competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's Zhao Dan finished 9th with a time of 4 minutes 09.52 seconds. Although the Chinese women's steel frame snowmobile athletes failed to stand on the podium, Zhao Dan has achieved a breakthrough in the first Winter Olympics, and the 9th place is also the best result of the Chinese team in the women's steel frame snowmobile event at the Winter Olympics.
Sound of the Winter Olympics
Bach: "If I stay for three more days I will grow ten pounds"
On February 11, IOC President Thomas Bach inspected the overall operation of the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village and had lunch at the athletes' restaurant. Chairman Bach had lunch with more than 200 athletes from various countries and regions at the athletes' main restaurant, tasted the roast duck rolls personally rolled for him by Yang Chen, the head chef of the Athletes' Restaurant of the Yanqing Village Service Guarantee Team, and gave high praise to the roast duck and various Chinese and Western dishes. "If I stay in your village for three days, I will grow another ten pounds, and the food here is so delicious."
Han Yu: "The quality of the performance on the field is related to the mentality"
Han Yu, the captain of the Chinese team, communicated with his teammates during the game
In the fifth round of the Beijing Winter Olympic Women's Curling Round Robin tournament on the evening of the 12th, the Chinese women's curling team defeated the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Sweden 9-6 and won the first victory. The current record is 1 win and 3 losses, tied for eighth with Denmark. Captain Han Yu said after the game that the players were actively adjusting their state, teamwork and the feeling of playing. "Most of us did well in this game today, leaving the pressure on the opponents. There will not be much difference in technology, and the quality of playing on the field is directly related to the mentality. ”
Gao Tingyu: "It's done"
Gao Tingyu at the medal presentation ceremony
On February 12, the beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 500 meters final was held in the national speed skating hall "ice ribbon", China's Gao Tingyu broke the Olympic record with a time of 34.32 seconds and won the championship, winning China's first speed skating gold medal in this Olympic Games. This is also the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics that Chinese male athletes have stood on the highest podium in speed skating. After the game, Gao Tingyu, with a distinctly Northeastern accent, said humorously: "The game at the doorstep of the family is finished." ”
Gathering for the Winter Olympics
Winter Olympic gold medal "what is the taste"? Bite the gold medal they tell you
On February 8, Gu Ailing, a Chinese athlete who had previously won the gold medal in the women's freestyle ski jump at the Beijing Winter Olympics, received his first Olympic gold medal at the award ceremony. With the national flag raised and the national anthem played, Gu Ailing shed tears of excitement. Subsequently, Gu Ailing, who calmed down, showed her trademark smile and playfully bit the gold medal to celebrate.
At the award ceremony of sports events, including the Olympic Games, the winners "bit the gold medal" seems to have become a kind of conventional "standard action". So, how did this tradition come about? Why should athletes bite their gold medals?
On February 8, Gu Ailing "bit the gold medal" at the medal awarding ceremony
Some media "research": the first appearance of the "biting gold medal" action is dating back to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. At that time, an American athlete who won a gold medal, when faced with the photographer's request to "do a special action", put the gold medal in his hand in his mouth out of amusement and took a bite. Since then, this movement has gradually changed from being imitated by individual athletes to becoming a common movement on the podium today.
David Voleksinsky, president of the International Association of Olympic Historians, once explained this phenomenon. In his opinion, athletes biting gold medals is mostly a photographer's request: "This is a photographer's obsessive action, they think this action is more interesting, I don't think this is the athlete's own idea." 」 ”
Indeed, athletes winning gold medals in world-class sporting events is a supreme honor for both individuals and countries, and has attracted the attention of the whole world. In order to take impressive photos, photographers naturally want to take the gold medal and the championship in the same picture.
However, if you only let the athletes hold the gold medal, it seems a bit monotonous, just hanging the gold medal around the neck and not very conspicuous. Later, the photographer found that when the Olympic champions bit the gold medal, the corners of their mouths would involuntarily rise, naturally showing a happy look, and the faces and medals of the athletes would be noticed by the audience at the same time.
So, when the Olympic champions win, the photographers will aim at the Olympic athletes and constantly ask for the gold medal, and then they will take satisfactory photos. Over time, this action has become the standard photographic action of Olympic athletes.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, China's Long Qingquan "bit the gold medal" after winning the championship
Biting a gold medal with a tooth may have a factor for taking pictures, but some disagreers argue that today's champion biting a gold medal is more of an emotion, a reaction to the desire for a gold medal after trying to achieve a goal. Farley, an American psychology professor, explains, "Bite marks are as unique as our fingerprints. Leaving a bite mark on a medal is like engraving oneself on it, thus establishing some kind of emotional connection with one's own achievements. ”
German bobsledge athlete David Mailer very much agrees with the emotion of biting the gold medal. Although he did not win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, but only won a silver medal, he was also very happy about this result, admitting in an interview with the media that he used his teeth to bite the silver medal more than once, "After the award, he bit at least 20 times, which has nothing to do with taking pictures, because this is his own achievement." Interestingly, when he won the fourth World Championship, he directly crushed his teeth because he bit the gold medal too hard, "I didn't feel pain, I just felt that my teeth were broken, and then I quickly closed my mouth so that people couldn't see that the teeth were gone." ”
In 2008, Nadal won the men's singles final at the Beijing Olympics
Of course, the most common speculation among ordinary people about the reason for the action of "biting the gold medal" may be that the champions are testing the color of the gold medal. It is said that in ancient times, there was a lack of testing equipment, in order to test the authenticity of gold coins, people often used their teeth to bite, because gold is a soft metal, and biting with teeth will leave traces.
However, the gold medal of the modern Games, especially the Olympic Games, is not made of pure gold, but more of the alloy, that is, 93% is silver, 6% is copper, only 1% is gold, and there is no trace after the tooth bite, so this speculation is untenable.
It is worth mentioning that the Olympic gold medals were originally made of pure gold, such as the Olympic gold medals of 1904, 1908 and 1912. It is reasonable to say that people at that time had a deeper concept of gold coins, but from the images and the memories of athletes, no one bit the gold medal at the Olympic Games at that time, which also confirmed that the gold medal was not to detect the color of gold.
Interestingly, during the 2012 London Olympic Games, the Olympic Organizing Committee advised athletes not to bite the gold medal hard, because the gilded ingredient only accounts for 1.5% of the total weight, and if you take a bite, you may lose hundreds of pieces.
During last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee also reminded medallists through social media that medallists are not edible and athletes do not need to bite medals. This reminder is not for the sake of preventing and controlling the new crown epidemic, but is related to the materials used to make medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games. It is reported that the Tokyo Olympic medals are made from recycled materials for electronic equipment donated by the Japanese public.
Author: Workers Daily client Workers Daily reporter Li Yuanhao Liang Fan
Source: Workers Daily