(Beijing Winter Olympics) "King of Snowmobiles" successfully defended the men's double snowmobile German Army to take the top three

  China News Service, Beijing, February 16 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) The men's double snowmobile competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended on the evening of the 15th. The legendary German star Francesco Friedrich, known as the "King of Snowmobiles", led the team. Thorsten Magis took the lead all the way and successfully defended his title with a good score of 3:56.89 in four rounds.

  The other two pairs of German pairs, Johannes Lochner/Florian Bauer, Christoph Hafer/Mathias Zimmer, won the runner-up and third place respectively, and the powerful German Legion swept the Gold, Silver and Bronze for the project.

In this Winter Olympics, the German delegation has won 7 gold medals on the "Snow Dragon" track, which shows its dominance in the snowmobile sledding event.

  Before the race, Friedrich was the favorite to win the snowmobile event.

At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, he won 2 gold medals in the men's doubles and men's quadruple events. This trip to Beijing is aimed at defending the title.

Since the 2018-2019 season, the German has ranked first in the men's double and four-person snowmobiles for four consecutive seasons.

  In the first two rounds held on the 14th, he cooperated tacitly with the brakeman Magis, making all opponents feel the absolute strength of the "King of Snowmobiles".

In the third round on the evening of the 15th, Friedrich's combination showed a real high level. There was almost no friction in the whole process, and the track record set by them 24 hours ago was set again with a score of 58.99 seconds.

In the fourth round, the Friedrich combination, who was the last to start, maintained the lead all the way with a nearly perfect cornering route, winning the championship with a total score of 3:56.89 in the four rounds.

  "We have always hoped to be the only team that slipped into 59 seconds." After the race, Friedrich said that the third round of 58.99 made them very excited, which also left more room for the team to win the championship. .

  The Chinese team Sun Kaizhi/Wu Qingze ranked 14th with a time of 4:00.29 in the four rounds, creating the best result in the history of Chinese athletes in this event at the Winter Olympics.

After the game, the two gave 7 points to their performance, and said that the men's four-person snowmobile competition may have a better performance in the follow-up.

Another Chinese pair, Li Chunjian/Liu Wei, unfortunately stopped in the third round.

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