On February 15, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics came to the 15th day of competition.
The speed skating event continues today, this afternoon will produce two gold medals for team chase, in the previous quarter-finals, the Chinese women's team ranked fifth without the opportunity to qualify, will compete with the sixth-place Norwegian team for a group C final to compete for a sixth place, while the men's team will be eighth in the quarterfinals, and will compete with the seventh-place Italian team for a seventh place in the group D final.
The team chase each group final will be judged by the collision line of the last player of the two teams in the same group, the other groups of the game is not affected by the relationship between the winner and loser, the women's C group final is carried out first, the Chinese team did not make adjustments to the lineup, still Akhnar Adak, Han Mei and Li Qi when the team played, the Chinese team took the way of hand-in-hand, led by the veteran Han Mei, led by the Norwegian team for a long time, the second half did not choose to replace the slip, the Chinese team directly widened the gap to more than three seconds, In the end, he finished fifth with 2:58.33, and Norway slipped after hitting the line to finish sixth.
The fifth place of the women's team and the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics results are the same, but compared with their own quarter-finals, the performance increased by about two seconds, the men's team by Lian Ziwen, Xu Fu and Wang Haotian played, the starting stage of the Chinese team opened up nearly a second of advantage, and the women's team also chose the way to move forward, in the middle of the game, Lian Ziwen replaced Wang Haotian to lead the skating, to the second half of the Chinese team's physical strength has declined, was overtaken by Italy, and finally won the eighth place, the result is 3 minutes 53 seconds 57, more than 9 seconds slower than Italy.
Group chase project is not the mainland's traditional advantage project, in fact, in the women's speed skating project we are already in a stage of new and old alternating, the new generation still needs more time to grow, and the men's team is in an upward momentum, I believe that in the past two or three Winter Olympics, they will maintain a good competitiveness, but whether it is a women's team that needs patience or a male team that has matured, we hope that everyone can continue to pay attention to China's speed skating projects and cheer for them!