(Beijing Winter Olympics) Short track speed skating heroes compete for hegemony, who will dominate the future?
China News Agency, Beijing, February 17th: The short track speed skating group is competing for hegemony, who will be the world in the future?
China News Agency reporter Xing Chong
The short track speed skating event of the Beijing Winter Olympics has come to an end, and the 9 gold medals have each belonged.
Different from the confrontation between China and South Korea in the early years, the short-track speed skating field has now shown a trend of competition for hegemony, especially in this Winter Olympics.
In the short track speed skating mixed team relay final that ended on the evening of February 5, the Chinese team consisting of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu took the lead in crossing the finish line, winning the first place for the Chinese sports delegation in this Winter Olympics. gold medals.
The picture shows Wu Dajing crossing the line.
——This is the most even distribution of gold medals in recent Winter Olympics: South Korea topped the list with 2 golds, 3 silvers, China and the Netherlands tied for second with 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze, and the other 3 The gold medals belonged to the Italian team, the Canadian team and the Hungarian team. A total of 8 national teams have medals in their accounts.
——This is also the most competitive Winter Olympics in recent years.
In any single final, the scene of being far ahead and easily winning the championship almost no longer exists. Intense fights and last-minute lore are staged in turns, and even the winner can't be decided until the moment of sprint.
Penalties are endless, success or failure is only a tiny margin, and the intense tension of the competition reflects that the players are on a par.
In fact, since the beginning of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics cycle, European and American forces have gradually risen in the field of short track speed skating.
The Netherlands, Italy, Canada, and Hungary in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics each received one gold, occupying half of the country.
Their overall strength has been further improved during the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle.
Now the Dutch have managed to consolidate their advantage on ice in addition to speed skating.
The star athlete Schultin with outstanding personal ability broke the women's 1000m world record and won the championship in one fell swoop, thus successfully defending his title.
In addition, she also won a silver medal in the 500m, a bronze medal in the 1500m, and led the Netherlands to win the 3000m relay championship.
It can be said that the four medals of the Netherlands team are inseparable from her hard work.
On February 11, the women's 1000m short track speed skating final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Capital Gymnasium.
Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands won the championship.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
The Italian team also has the legendary Fontana in charge.
Although she is a 31-year-old veteran, she is still "the sword is not old". This time she won the women's 500m champion, and also won two silver medals in the women's 1500m and mixed team relay.
At present, Fontana has won 11 Olympic medals, becoming the athlete with the most Winter Olympic medals in the history of short track speed skating.
Compared with the Netherlands and Italy, which are known for their strength in the women's team, the Hungarian team is led by brothers Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang.
They led the team to win the men's relay gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
In this Winter Olympics, Liu Shaoang was even better, winning the men's 500m gold medal and 1000m bronze medal. The two brothers also led the team to win the mixed relay bronze medal.
On December 7, in the men's 500-meter final of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup Shanghai Station, Chinese star Wu Dajing collided with Hungarian Liu Shaolin while sprinting at the last corner, and won the silver medal. Hungarian Liu Shaolin won the championship.
The picture shows Hungarian Liu Shaolin winning the men's 500m short track speed skating final.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei
Although the South Korean team's two gold medals are long overdue, they are enough to demonstrate the strength of the veteran short track speed skating power in the middle and long distances of men and women.
In the 1,500-meter race that tests speed and endurance, Huang Daxian and Cui Minjing won the championship respectively.
Choi Minjing also won silver medals in the 1,000m and women's relay. The South Korean team also won a silver medal in the men's 5,000m relay, becoming the biggest winner of the event.
The Canadian team also has its own leading figures in the men's and women's events. Hamelin, the veteran of the Five Dynasties, made a perfect curtain call with the relay gold medal. In addition to helping the team win gold in the relay, Du Bois also won bronze and silver medals in the 500m and 1500m.
Female athlete Kim Butin is the 500-meter world record holder. She created a lot of threats for her opponents at the Winter Olympics. Although she only won the bronze medal in the end, her strength should not be underestimated.
Before the competition, the Chinese team was considered "strong in men and weak in women". In the end, the men's team won the 1,000-meter championship and runner-up, and the women's team won the relay bronze medal and jointly won the mixed relay championship.
It is a pity that the men's team missed the relay medal, and the women's team failed to win any single event.
Overall, veterans Wu Dajing and Fan Kexin are still key figures in the team. Although the young players made mistakes, they also gained experience in high-intensity competitions.
On the evening of February 7, in the women's 500-meter short-track speed skating quarter-finals at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin, who played in the first group, was brought down and fell off the track during the competition, and was eventually eliminated.
The picture shows Fan Kexin (middle) in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
The emergence of the situation of competition for hegemony is inseparable from the international development of short track speed skating.
For example, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team hired Jin Shantai and An Xianzhu as coaches, which brought a new concept in technology. The rapid growth of Hungarian short track speed skating is inseparable from the Chinese coach Zhang Jing. In addition, players from different European countries often train together. Improve the level of mutual learning.
It is conceivable that the competition for short track speed skating will be more intense in the future. Who can dominate the "Warring States Disputes"?
See you in the next Winter Olympics cycle.
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