The Winter Olympics | cross-country skiing men's 4×10 km relay ROC won the championship to show absolute superiority

On the afternoon of February 13, the Russian Olympic Committee team won the gold medal in the men's 4×10 km relay of cross-country skiing with a time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 50 seconds 7 minutes. In addition, Norway finished second and France finished third. The Chinese team, consisting of Shang Jincai, Liu Rongsheng, Wang Qiang and Chen Degen, was eventually trapped and failed to complete the race. In this Winter Olympic Games, ROC has an absolute advantage in cross-country skiing, and has won 3 gold, 3 silver and one bronze.

The men's 4×10 km relay is one of the oldest events in cross-country skiing. Since 1936, it has been an official event of the Winter Olympics and is the only relay event among the three cross-country skiing events. Despite the long distances, the Winter Olympics have been fiercely competitive in history, especially at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. At the time, italy, which won the final title, finished with a time of 1 hour 41 minutes and 15 seconds, while Norway, which finished second, was only 0.40 seconds behind Italy. The best place for the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics was 15th, and it came from two Winter Olympic Games: at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, the Chinese team composed of Zhu Dianfa, Lin Guanghao, Li Xiaoming and Song Shi finished 15th with a time of 2 hours 16 minutes and 52 seconds 40 seconds; at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the Chinese team composed of Xia Wan, Li Geliang, Zhang Chengye and Zhang Qing once again won the 15th place in the project with a time of 1 hour, 50 minutes and 40 seconds.

A total of 15 teams competed in the men's 4×10 km relay event at the Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the competition requirements, each baseball player of each team is required to glide 10 kilometers, with the first two athletes using a classical gliding posture and the last two athletes using a freestyle gliding posture. The four baseball players in each team are wearing red, green, yellow and blue vests according to the sticks, which makes people know their sticks at a glance. In the handover area, the previous baton must touch the body of the member of the latter baton to complete the handover.

In this match, the members of the Russian Olympic Committee team took the lead from the beginning of the game, and each stick continued to consolidate the lead, and finally won the championship with an advantage of 1:07.2 ahead of the second-place Norwegian team. China's Shang Jincai finished his 10 km slide in 12th place, and then Liu Rongsheng and Wang Qiang both finished in 14th place. But shortly after Wang Qiang handed the bat to Chen Degen, the last athlete to appear on the Chinese team, the fourth baseman of the Russian Olympic Committee team, who had already completed the handover of the baton, slipped through the baton handover area, and the Chinese team was in danger of being trapped to end the game early. Although Chen Degen tried his best and completed the overtaking of the Slovenian team, he was finally trapped by the Russian Olympic Committee team and ended the game early. "Today's weather is heavy snow, which will have a certain impact on the two sticks in the traditional gliding posture, but it will not have much impact on our free posture." After the game, Wang Qiang, an athlete who skated the third base for the Chinese team, said that his overall gliding feeling was not very ideal, because the future sliding was faster, the physical fitness of the back course decreased, and there was some speed reduction. "Our track is high in altitude and the lactic acid builds up quickly, which tests the adaptability of athletes. I'm not very happy with my play today, although I have been fighting, but I still can't buy more time for my teammates to create the best conditions for him to finish the game. ”

Photo by Pan Zhiwang, reporter of the Winter Olympics

Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporters Li Yuanfei, Chen Jiakun, and Deng Fangjia

Edited by Han Ye

Process Editor Liu Weili