Beijing time on February 17 news, The new branch of the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 500 meters champion Gao Tingyu as a guest of CCTV's "Sports Heroes" column, in the interview, Gao Tingyu revealed that before the final to break the Olympic record to win the gold, he has been injured, in fact, he can be faster!
Five days ago, in the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon", the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 500 meters final was staged as scheduled, and Gao Tingyu, one of the standard-bearers of the Chinese Winter Olympics, set off in the seventh group and skated a time of 34.32 seconds, breaking the Olympic record in one fell swoop and finally winning the gold medal.
34.32 seconds, this result is already very good, but when the host of CCTV's "Sports Heroes" asked a question about the results, Gao Tingyu confidently said that he could skate faster, because the day before the final, he was plagued by a small injury, and he could skate to more than 33 seconds.
Gao Tingyu is definitely not blind self-confidence! The 24-year-old Heilongjiang boy has slid into 34 seconds in his career many times, and before, in the 2021-2022 China Cup Speed Skating Elite League, Gao Tingyu broke the national record with a time of 33.83 seconds in the men's 500m final, and this result also ranked third in history! Just 0.11 seconds behind Russia's Kurizhnekov's world record of 33.727 seconds!
Born in December 1997, Gao Tingyu has a long career, and now he is at the peak, winning the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. We can fully expect Gao Tingyu to break the world record in a future event and complete the grand slam of speed skating men's 500 meters.