Fierce competition in 14 small events and 12 competition days - as an important foundation of winter sports, the beijing Winter Olympics speed skating competition in the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon" left unforgettable moments for the world. At the same time, the process and results of this competition also reflect the current world competition pattern of speed skating. The "kingdom of speed skating" the Netherlands still single-handedly won the most 6 gold medals. However, compared with four years ago, the distribution of gold medals and medals is more even, and the number of delegations that have won gold medals has changed from 5 to 7, and the number of delegations that have won medals has increased from 11 to 12.
Pattern:
There are leaders on long distances
The men's 5000m, 10000m and women's 3000m and 5000m are the long distance events for the men's and women's speed skating at the Winter Olympics, respectively. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the competition in these 4 events was also the most "lacking suspense".
Van der Poul won two gold medals in the men's long distance. Beijing Daily client reporter Deng Wei photographed
In the men's long distance, Sweden's Nils van der Poul, who has a Dutch grandfather, is thriving. He remained unbeaten in the 5,000m and 10,000m races this season in the World Cup. In the "Ice Ribbon", Van der Poul's 5,000m gold medal win was a bit thrilling, and dutch star Patrick Rust gave the Swedes a certain amount of pressure with excellent performance, but the absolute strength advantage, van der Puer still won the gold with a negligible advantage of 0.47 seconds in the long distance event. In the 10,000m race, Van der Poule's advantage was quite obvious, nearly 14 seconds ahead of Rust, while breaking the world record. Van der Poul not only helped the Swedish speed skating team win all two gold medals in the Winter Olympics, but also the male speed skater who won the most Winter Olympic gold medals in the "Ice Ribbon".
Shaoten won two women's long distance titles. Beijing Daily client reporter Deng Wei photographed
The attribution of the two Olympic gold medals in the women's long distance event is also expected, with 29-year-old Dutch star Irena Shaoteng participating in the long distance races of the three World Cup sub-stations of the season before the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and all of them won the championship. She has a clear advantage in both long distance races of "Ice Ribbon" and has set consecutive Olympic records. In addition, Shaoten also won the gold medal for the collective departure, which is the speed skater who won the most gold medals at the Winter Olympics. With legend Irene West, who holds six Olympic gold medals, about to retire, Shaoten became the new leader of the Dutch speed skating team.
The Dutch players showed their ability to adjust
Compared with the "lack of suspense" in the long distance, the two middle-distance events of this Winter Olympic Games are considered to be "out of the cold".
In terms of men's events, the 1500 meters is undoubtedly the biggest "accident", after the World Cup has won the gold performance of the United States' Joey Mandia, China's "golden boy" Ning Zhongyan, South Korea's famous Kim Min-seok all played generally, only Kim Min-seok won the bronze medal. Two Dutch players who had been in average form this season, Ness and Kroll, won the gold and silver and set new Olympic records.
Ness won the gold medal in the men's 1500m. Beijing Daily client reporter Deng Wei photographed
The women's 1500m race broke out even bigger "unpopular", and the 36-year-old veteran West, whose main goal was to "contribute to the team chase" before the game, suddenly broke out, defeated the season-unbeaten Takagi Mifan with an Olympic record-breaking performance, and won his sixth Winter Olympic gold medal in the face of unfavorable circumstances. In fact, Miho Takagi had the chance to reverse in the final moments, but she briefly lost her balance in the last corner and regretted losing the only and most important game of the season.
West won the gold medal in the women's 1500m and ended his career with six Winter Olympic gold medals. Beijing Daily client reporter Deng Wei photographed
Coincidentally, the two gold medals in the middle distance were all won by the Dutch players who were not the hottest players before the competition, which showed on the one hand that they had excellent ability to adjust their form throughout the season, and on the other hand, that the competition in the event was motivated, and none of the players had the same dominance as the long distance Van der Pur and Howten.
Another gold medal from the Dutch came from Kroll's men's 1,000m, which was the most "reasonable" compared to the previous two mid-distance events – Kroll ranked first in the overall World Cup table in this event and the only Dutch player to top the world cup sub-table of the season.
Asian players are looking for a breakthrough point
Compared with European and American athletes, the total number of gold medals and medals of Asian athletes in this Winter Olympics has declined compared with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (gold medals 4 to 1, medals 14 to 10).
Miho Takagi won the gold medal in the women's 1000m. Beijing Daily client reporter Deng Wei photographed
Four years ago, the Japanese speed skating team emerged and won 3 gold medals, second only to the Netherlands in the speed skating gold medal list. At this Winter Olympics, only Miho Takagi won a gold medal in the women's 1000 meters. In fact, before the game, the Japanese team was considered to have the hope of impacting the championships of the women's 1500 meters and the women's team chasing two events, but the former was even more unfortunate because Takagi Mifan lost to West, and the latter was even more unfortunate, they fell in the last corner of the lead, regrettably "gave" the gold medal to the Canadian team.
The South Korean team, which won a total of 7 medals at home at the last Winter Olympics, including 1 gold medal, also fell into a slump, only winning 2 silver and 2 bronze medals for a total of 4 medals.
From the perspective of the project, Asian athletes still have a certain advantage in the short distance. Especially in the men's 500m competition, Gao Tingyu, Che Minkui and Mori Shigehang, three runners from China, South Korea and Japan, won the top three. In addition, the outstanding performance of the Japanese team in the last two Winter Olympics and the world championships in recent years also proves that in the team pursuit of this coordinated project, Asian players also have a great opportunity to challenge the speed skating powers of Europe and the United States.
Grades:
Fastest ice birth ten Winter Olympics record one world record
"Fastest Ice" is definitely the highlight of the speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, in the "Ice Ribbon", 10 of the 12 events with Winter Olympic records have been refreshed, of which the men's 10,000 meters also gave birth to a new world record. So far, the Beijing Winter Olympics have tied the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and have become the winter Olympic Games with the most speed skating Olympic games recorded in history.
A list of 10 newly born Winter Olympic records
1. February 5 Women's 3000m Final Netherlands Irenni Shaoten 3:56.93
2. February 6 Men's 5000m Final Sweden's Nils van der Poul 6:08.84
3. February 7 Women's 1500m Final Netherlands' Irene West 1:53.28
4. February 8 Men's 1500m Final Netherlands Kyle Ness 1:43.21
5. February 10 Women's 5000m Final Netherlands Irenay Shaoten 6:43.51
6. February 11 Men's 10,000m Final Sweden's Nils van der Poul 12:30.74 (also set a world record)
7. February 12 Men's 500m Final China's Gao Tingyu 34.32 seconds
8. February 15 Men's Team Pursuit Semifinals Russia Olympic Team 3:36.62
9. February 15 Women's Team Pursuit Final Canada 2:53.44
10. February 17 Women's 1000m Final Japan's Miho Takagi 1:13.19