(Beijing Winter Olympics) Event Preview: Double flag bearers perform Chinese speed Chinese men's curling strives for two consecutive victories
China News Service, Beijing, February 11 (Reporter Wang Zumin) Speed skating and steel sled are the kings of speed in ice and snow sports, respectively.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics on the 12th, Gao Tingyu and Zhao Dan, the flag-bearers of the Chinese delegation's opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, will perform Chinese speed in these two venues respectively.
Speed skating: Gao Tingyu looks forward to another breakthrough
On the 12th, the "Ice Ribbon" of the National Speed Skating Stadium will hold the men's 500-meter speed skating final. The Chinese speed skating team, which has never harvested anything so far in this Winter Olympics, is expected to hit the medal in this event.
At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, 20-year-old Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal in the men's 500m final, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals in the men's speed skating Winter Olympics for China.
In this Olympic cycle, Gao Tingyu's strength has been further improved, and he has become one of the world's top speed skating short-distance players, and won the World Cup championship this season.
After becoming the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation at this Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu once said that the identity of the flag bearer makes him full of strength and has the responsibility to show his best side on the field.
It is worth looking forward to whether Gao Tingyu's "best side" can achieve another breakthrough in Chinese men's speed skating and bring a medal of another color.
The "Ice Ribbon" on that day will also be the quarter-finals of the women's team pursuit competition.
The Chinese team ranked fifth in the event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and was on the podium in this season's World Cup.
The Chinese team, which is striving for medals this time, must advance to the semi-finals if they want to achieve their goals.
Steel frame snowmobile: Zhao Dan strives for medals
In the steel frame snowmobile arena, Zhao Dan, another flag bearer of the Chinese delegation, will appear again.
In the first two rounds of the women's steel frame snowmobile on the 11th, 19-year-old Zhao Dan performed well and temporarily ranked fourth, while another Chinese player Li Yuxi ranked tenth.
On February 11, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics women's bobsleigh competition was held at the National Snowmobile Center.
The picture shows Chinese player Zhao Dan in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter He Penglei
This is the first time that a Chinese women's bobsleigh skater has participated in the Winter Olympics. In this event where speed and danger coexist, Zhao Dan hopes to raise the Chinese team's starting point for the Winter Olympics in this event with a medal.
In 2018, Zhao Dan, the head coach of the long jump and triple jump, was selected in the cross-border selection of the China Steel Frame Snow Team, becoming the team's youngest player.
Just two years later, she represented the Chinese team in the Winter Youth Olympic Games and finished 7th.
This season, she won the Intercontinental Cup in Innsbruck.
In this Winter Olympics, for the first time, Chinese cross-country skiers participated in all 12 events. Among them, the women's 4×5 km relay is considered to be the most likely to achieve a breakthrough.
In the 2020 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Finland Station, the Chinese team led by Chi Chunxue and Li Xin won the eighth place in the women's 4x5km relay competition, creating the best result in the history of the Chinese cross-country skiing team in the World Cup relay competition.
On the 12th, Chi Chunxue and Li Xin will lead young players to attack higher goals.
Men's curling strives for two-game winning streak, women's curling fears four-game losing streak
Figure skating will compete on ice dance rhythm dance. The Chinese group Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu will strive to create good results at home.
At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics four years ago, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu ranked 22nd in the rhythmic dance and failed to qualify for the free dance competition.
In this Olympic cycle, the performance of the Chinese pair has been greatly improved, ranking fifth in the ice dance rhythm dance competition in the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating team competition.
On February 11, the US team players in the game.
On the same day, the Chinese team lost 4:8 to the US team in the women's round-robin curling competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics held at the "Ice Cube" of the Beijing National Swimming Center.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
The curling arena continues with a round robin.
The Chinese men's team, which has 1 win and 2 losses in the first three rounds, will strive for two consecutive victories against the Italian team; the Chinese women's team, which has suffered three consecutive losses, will face the world champion Sweden on the 12th. Seeking the first win of the Winter Olympics.
After losing 0:8 to the U.S. team in their first show at the Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's ice hockey team will face another rival, the PyeongChang Winter Olympics runner-up Germany, on the 12th. Opportunity to gain experience.
On the ice hockey arena that day, there will also be two quarter-finals of women's ice hockey. The Russian Olympic Committee team and the Swiss team, the Japanese team and the Finland team will compete for the last two semi-final tickets of the women's ice hockey.
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