The | ROC at the Winter Olympics has won the title again after 16 years

On the afternoon of February 12, the gu poplar tree stadium in the Zhangjiakou division of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics decided the gold medal in the women's 4×5 km relay of cross-country skiing. The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) won the gold medal in the Winter Olympics event again after a gap of 16 years with a time of 53 minutes and 41 seconds. Germany finished second and Sweden finished third.

A total of 18 teams competed in the women's 4×5 km relay event of cross-country skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the requirements of the competition, each baseball player of the participating team needs to glide 5 kilometers, and the first two athletes use the classical sliding posture and the last two athletes use the freestyle sliding posture. The four baseball players of each participating team are wearing red, green, yellow and blue vests according to the sticks, so that people can see their sticks at a glance. In the handover area, the previous baton must touch the body of the member of the latter baton to complete the baton.

After the match began, the Russian Olympic Committee first baseman Yulia Stupark rushed to the front, and Sweden's first baseman Maya Dalquist once followed Stupark. But as Stupark continued to accelerate, Dalquist and the first baseman of Germany, Finland, Norway and other teams were gradually thrown away by her, thus forming a shock group. Norway and Latvia collided with each other on the first bat, making the impact group more competitive. After 3.5 km, Germany's first baseman, Catherine Sauerbrey, broke away from the shock group and gradually approached Stupak, closing the gap between the two teams to less than 2 seconds when handing over the bat.

After the next two sticks, the German team members are significantly stronger than the Russian Olympic Committee team. But the German team members are not in a hurry to overtake, but for most of the time they glide, closely follow the Russian Olympic Committee players, use the aerodynamic advantage to save physical strength, and then complete the overtaking before handing over the baton. By the time Veronica Stepanova took over the last shot from the Russian Olympic Committee, the Russian Olympic Committee was already a full 5 seconds behind Germany. You know, in this project, a 1-second interval may affect the final medal color. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the winning Swedish team finished 53:02.70, the runner-up Finland was only 0.5 seconds behind, and the third-place Germany team was only 0.9 seconds behind the champion team.

But stepanova, 21, is super strong, surpassing Germany's last bar after gliding 2.5 kilometres and extending her lead over Germany to nearly 19 seconds when she crossed the finish line. 'On the last lap, not very far from the finish line, there were already a lot of coaches shouting and through them I knew we were going to win the title. Stepanova said after the game, "It was a special day. A lot of people think we can win, and always talk about 'you have to win, you have to win', which puts a lot of pressure on us. Well, we do need a good outcome, and I'll do what I can. ”

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Photo by Pan Zhiwang, reporter of the Winter Olympics

Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporters Li Yuanfei, Chen Jiakun, and Deng Fangjia

Edited by Kang Dian

Process Editor Liu Weili