At the Turin Winter Olympics, Yang Yang appeared as the flag bearer of the Chinese regiment.
At the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer, volleyball star Zhu Ting became China's first female flag bearer for the opening ceremony since the Summer Olympic Games, which also became one of the greatest glories of Zhu Ting's sports career. However, if the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics are put together, Zhu Ting is difficult to become the "first person", because as early as the opening ceremony of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the standard-bearer who led the Chinese team to enter was a female player, and this standard-bearer was Yang Yang, who was enough to be recorded in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics.
Although it made its "Winter Olympic debut" as early as the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, it was not until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville (France) that the Chinese delegation broke the record of the Chinese Winter Olympic team 'Winning Medals at the Winter Olympics' "Winter Olympic Medals" by Ye Qiaobo (speed skating) and Li Yan (short track speed skating) – the experiences of these two legendary players are later described. The first gold medal of the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation will wait until the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Chinese delegation sent 66 athletes (21 male players and 45 female athletes) historically, that is, at this Winter Olympics, Yang Yang wrote a legend that belonged to her personal and even the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation. After the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville became an official event, the short track speed skating event was "upgraded" again at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and the number of gold medals rose from the previous six to 8 this year. What is even more surprising is that the short-track speed skating event of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics has also become a successful "ice-breaking" project of the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation.
In the women's 500m short track speed skating competition of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Yang Yang, who won the silver medal in the women's 3000m relay at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, broke the Winter Olympic record with a time of 44.118 seconds in the semifinals, and in the final final, Yang Yang successfully defeated the world record holder at the time, Radanova from Bulgaria, achieving his first gold in the Winter Olympics, and also helping the Chinese Winter Olympic team to get a historic gold.
Yang Yang is an iconic Chinese short track speed skater.
This "storm" belonging to Yang Yang is not over, after helping the Chinese women's relay team win the silver medal in the women's 3000 meters relay, Yang Yang narrowly defeated South Korea's Gao Jijun in the women's 1000 meters final and won another gold medal. It is under the leadership of Yang Yang that the Chinese short track speed skating team became the biggest winner of the short track speed skating event at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics with a score of 2 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze, in addition to the 3 medals related to Yang Yang, the other 4 medals were from Li Jiajun, the Chinese men's relay team, Wang Chunlu and Yang Yang.
In the history of the Chinese delegation to participate in the Summer Olympic Games, the glory of the flag bearer once belonged to the men's basketball players for a long time, and the flag bearers of the Winter Olympics were covered by male athletes in speed skating and figure skating, and at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Yang Yang created the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics, the flag bearer of the Chinese team was the figure skater Zhang Min.
As Yang Yang shines in Salt Lake City, the standard-bearer of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics will have no suspense, Yang Yang has become the first female flag bearer since the Chinese delegation participated in the Olympic Games, and what is even more exciting is that Yang Yang, who was 26 years old and 183 days old when he won his second Winter Olympic gold medal at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, did not become a supporting role for young people in Turin because "Fanghua is dead".
In the final of the women's 1000 meters, Yang Yang won the bronze medal after the Famous South Korean Chen Shanyou and the Chinese star Wang Mao, and the only regret is that in the final of the women's 3000 meters relay, the Chinese relay team led by Yang Yang and Wang Mao was finally cancelled due to fouls.
Although there are some regrets, Yang Yang, who won a total of 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at the Winter Olympics, has been one of the most successful and legendary players in the Chinese Winter Olympic team. Counting Yang Yang's brilliant achievements, in addition to her winning the first gold (second gold) for the Chinese Winter Olympic team, she became the first female standard-bearer in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games, which obviously made her achievements more dazzling.