The short track speed skating men's 5000m relay race has ended for many days, Canada has won the championship, South Korea runner-up, Italy third place, but about a moment at the award ceremony of this race, it has become a hot topic of Discussion among Chinese netizens, that is, the champion Canada actually wiped the podium together before landing on the podium.
What does this mean? Is this a copy of the bad behavior of Korean athletes? Previously, at the speed skating 500 meters award ceremony, the runner-up player Che Minkui made such an act of wiping the podium before taking the stage to receive the award, suspected of being dissatisfied with the Chinese player winning the gold medal.
Che Minkui's behavior caused dissatisfaction among the majority of netizens, and after the game, Che Minkui said in an interview that he was protesting against the doping scandal of the Russian-Austrian team Vallieva. And Gao Tingyu made it clear in an interview recently that if there were not many people at that time, he really wanted to kick the car and kick a few feet.
Che Minkui's explanation is a bit far-fetched, so when the Canadian player copied the Korean player's act of wiping the podium, many netizens also expressed puzzlement, after all, this is the champion winner, what do you mean by wiping the podium? Recently, the reporter of Beijing Sports Radio also exclusively interviewed One of the Canadian members, Hameling, who said: "There is no special meaning in wiping the podium!"
Hameling told reporters, "It's just a cleanup, it's just cleaning up the podium to welcome the medals, for me this is my sixth Winter Olympic medal, we hope the podium is particularly clean and spotless." So we can stand on a beautiful podium. ”
This also proves one point: the nature of the Canadian players wiping the podium and the Korean players wiping the podium is still different. After the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Hamelin said that he wanted to wipe the podium for his fifth Olympic medal, when short track speed skating, Canada did, it seems that they still have this tradition, but it is a little disgusting.