(Beijing Winter Olympics) The first world record of "Ice Ribbon" was born. Van der Poel won the men's 10,000-meter speed skating championship
China News Agency, Beijing, February 11 (Wang Hao) In the men's 10,000-meter speed skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics held on the 11th, Sweden's Van der Poel broke the world record held by himself with a score of 12:30.74. Get the championship.
This is the first world record created by the "Ice Ribbon" at the National Speed Skating Stadium in China, and the sixth Olympic record created here.
The men's speed skating 10,000 meters is called a "marathon" of speed skating, and it is the longest individual event in the speed skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon".
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In this project, the favorite players to win the championship are Dutch player Rust and Sweden player Van der Poel.
The two faced each other in the previous men's 5,000-meter race, and in the end Van der Poel had the last laugh.
In the 10,000-meter race, Rust played in the second group. In the end, he left his opponents in the same group far behind and temporarily ranked first with a time of 12:44.59.
The two groups of players who have played since then failed to surpass Rust's performance until the fifth group, when Van der Poel played.
Van der Poel skated relatively smoothly after the start of the race, and has been on par with the world record speed.
In the last few laps of the game, the audience in the National Speed Skating Stadium began to cheer for him. In the end, Van der Poel crossed the line with a time of 12:30.74.
This result broke the world record held by himself, and was more than 13 seconds faster than the second place Ruster's result, which is an obvious advantage.
Italian player Giotto eventually won the bronze medal.
Van der Poel is the most eye-catching player in the men's long-distance speed skating event in recent years. Born in 1996, he won the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter double championships at the World Championships last year, and also completed an almost impossible task— —Breaking a world record at the Plains Ice Arena.
In the previous Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's 5000 meters competition, van der Poel broke the Olympic record and finally won the championship.
Now, as the winner of two gold medals at the Winter Olympics, he has become a veritable "long distance king" in speed skating.
After the race, Van der Poel said: "Technically I'm not at my best, but I'm in good physical shape. I didn't want to take risks too early, and with five laps left, I felt the world record was within my reach, so I just Start moving towards that goal.”
At the souvenir ceremony after the game, Van der Poel looked very happy, joking with the other two medalists from time to time.
In an interview, he said: "I am very satisfied, the result is much better than I imagined."
The world record created by Van der Poel is the first world record created by the "Ice Ribbon" of the National Speed Skating Stadium in China, and the sixth Winter Olympic record created by the "Ice Ribbon". "True to its name.
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