(Beijing Winter Olympics) Comprehensive news: Gu Ailing won the championship, China won the eighth gold in double skating, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong temporarily ranked first
China News Service, Beijing, February 18 (Reporter Wang Zumin) Chinese teenager Gu Ailing lived up to the expectations of the outside world and won the championship on the 18th, winning the eighth gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics.
Figure skating pair skating, which has attracted much attention, began a short program competition. Chinese golden partners Sui Wenjing/Han Cong temporarily ranked first with a world record-breaking score.
In that day's freestyle skiing women's U-shaped field skills final, Gu Ailing explained the highest level of strength: fighting against herself.
In the game, she continued her perfect performance in the qualifying round. She scored a game-high score of 93.25 in the first round, and set a new score of 95.25 in the second round, and won the championship.
Because she could not find the absolute strength of her opponent, the game was dubbed "Gu Ailing defeated Gu Ailing" by netizens.
This is the 18-year-old's second gold medal and third medal at the Winter Olympics, making her the first athlete to win medals in three different freestyle skiing events at the Winter Olympics.
The other two Chinese teenagers Li Fanghui and Zhang Kexin finished fifth and seventh respectively, showing the strong overall strength of the Chinese team in this project.
In the men's 1000m speed skating final on the same day, Chinese player Ning Zhongyan again missed the medal and won the fifth place, another Chinese player Lian Ziwen ranked 19th.
Ning Zhongyan, 22, is China's speed skating team's biggest takeaway this Olympic cycle.
But in the previous men's 1500m final, he was considered to have the hope of rushing to gold and finished seventh.
The two wars failed to achieve the expected goals. He set his sights on four years later, thinking that the entire Chinese speed skating team, including him, will have a better performance in the next Winter Olympics.
With the conclusion of the men's 1000-meter competition, all 12 speed skating events that set world records/Olympic records have ended (the collective starting of the competition on the 19th did not set a record), of which 13 people (teams) set Olympic records for 10 events, 1 He has set a world record, and the "Ice Ribbon" and "Fastest Ice" of the National Speed Skating Hall are well-deserved.
The figure skating pair skating between two pairs of Chinese pairs kicked off on the evening of the 18th.
In the first short program competition, the runner-up of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the Chinese team Sui Wenjing/Han Cong ranked first with a score of 84.41. Program world record.
Even more gratifying is that another Chinese pair, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, ranked fifth.
At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics four years ago, the young pair missed the free skating due to their poor performance in the short program.
The 3 pairs of Russians ranked 2nd-4th respectively.
Five Chinese and Russian pairs took the top five in the short program, which is also a portrayal of the figure skating pair skating pattern of this Winter Olympics: China and Russia compete for hegemony.
On the 19th, the figure skating pair skating at the Winter Olympics will produce a gold medal after the free skating.
Biathlon held the men's 15-kilometer collective starting final on the 18th. Norwegian star Johannes Tinnes Bohe won the championship again and became the 4 gold kings at this Winter Olympics (2 individual events, 1 men's relay). , 1 mixed relay).
In the men's curling bronze medal match, the veteran Canadian team won the bronze medal with an 8-5 victory over the defending champion United States.
The men's curling final will be held on the 19th, with the last runner-up Sweden facing the British team.
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