In the women's 3000m relay final of short track speed skating, the Dutch team led by Schultin won the gold medal and broke the Olympic record; the Chinese team won the bronze medal. Photo courtesy of Xinhua News Agency
The Netherlands, which is known as the "kingdom of speed skating", has also begun to rise in short track speed skating. How strong is the Dutch short track speed skating women's team? The answer is the constantly being broken world records and Olympic records. In the women's 3000m relay final for short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the evening of February 13, the Dutch team led by Suzanne Shulting won the gold medal in 4:03.409, which also broke the Olympic record, the sixth Olympic record born at the Beijing Winter Olympics At the Capital Gymnasium.
This is the sixth gold medal won by the Dutch team at this Winter Olympics. So far, the Dutch team has won gold medals from short track speed skating and speed skating. Among them, there are two gold medals in short track speed skating and four gold medals in speed skating.
From the very beginning of the game, the Dutch team directly took the lead position. Since then, they have firmly grasped the rhythm of the game. Throughout the race, they almost always remained in the first place. In the final baton, it was Schultin's turn, and she showed absolute dominance, leaving everyone behind and leading the Dutch team to break the Olympic record and win the gold medal with a time of 4:03.409.
This is not Schulting's first gold medal at the Winter Olympics. In the women's 1000 meters, she had already won the gold medal. Moreover, in the quarterfinals, she skated a time of 1:26.514, breaking the world record previously held by South Korea's Shin Seok-hee for 10 years.
For a long time, short-track speed skaters have been divided into "long-distance advantage players" and "short-distance advantage players", and the emergence of Shultin has broken people's traditional cognition. From 500 meters, 1000 meters to 1500 meters, this fierce Dutch actress has a strong competitiveness. At the Winter Olympics, she has already won silver in the short track speed skating women's 500 meters, gold in the 1000 meters and 3000 meters relays, and will also attack the gold medal in the women's 1500 meters.
The girls of the Chinese team won a bronze medal with a time of 4:03.863. The teams that reached the final were China, the Netherlands, Canada and South Korea. The Chinese team, composed of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Zhang Chutong and Zhang Yuting, set off on the second track.
Before the game began, cheers rang out from the crowd. After the gunshots, the first baton was Fan Kexin, after the departure she was in second place, and the strongest Dutch team was in first place. After three laps, the Chinese team fell to third place, and Qu Chunyu overtook the South Korean team to rise to second place. Since then, the Chinese team has played very smoothly and has always stabilized its second position. It was Qu Chunyu again, and when there were still 9 laps left, it rushed to the first position. But then, the Dutch team completed the counter-overtaking.
The game entered the last 4 laps, and the physical fitness of the Chinese team declined, falling to the last place. In the last lap, Fan Kexin tried to catch up, and in the end, the Chinese girls won the bronze medal with a time of 4:03.863.
Photo by Liu Ping, reporter of the Winter Olympics
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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporters Li Li, Liu Shuang, Li Songlin
Editor: Han Ye
Process Editor Tai Shaofeng