Short-track speed skating is one of the highest-rated events in any Winter Olympics.
On the evening of February 16, Beijing time, the short track speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics ushered in the competition of the last competition day. In the final of the men's 5,000m relay, Canada won the championship.
In the previous semi-finals, the Chinese team was directly sentenced to the Final of Group A because it was kicked by Canadian athletes.
After the start of the final, the Chinese team always ranked last in the first few laps. Wu Dajing began to exert his strength on the way, and the Chinese team rushed to the third place at one point.
Unfortunately, in the absence of a collision, Sun Long lost his balance and fell to the ground. Between the electric light and flint, the Chinese team has fallen half a circle behind all opponents, and this accident has completely buried the hope of the Chinese team to win the card, or even the gold.
In the end, the Chinese team won the fifth place, ranking last of all the teams participating in the final. And the champion Canada is frantically celebrating this hard-won victory.
According to the process of the competition, the award ceremony will be held on the second day, and the scene will be a short flower ceremony, for each athlete of the first three teams, the cute mascot ice pier.
The Italian team, which finished third, and the South Korean team, which finished second, took the podium in turn. When the champion team was broadcast live, five Canadian athletes were in unison, and after wiping the podium, they climbed on the podium and cheered and celebrated.
Such an action is familiar! Four years ago at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the Canadian team did the same before reaching the podium.
At that time, the outside world's interpretation of this was that the referee was partial to the South Korean team, with the intention of telling everyone that short-track speed skating was not clean. Of course, this is all speculation by the media and netizens, and Canadian athletes have never responded to this.
In this Winter Olympics, the South Korean speed skater who won the gold medal also made the action of wiping the podium, which caused a heated discussion among netizens, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this action caused an uproar.
Afterwards, the South Korean player said that the move was intended to remind everyone to pay attention to Valieva's doping storm. And why did the Canadian team replicate the actions of four years ago? As of now, the Delegation of Canada has not given an answer!