To ask the short track speed skating men's 5000m relay what is most afraid of? I am afraid of wrestling, as long as I fall, I can't talk about anything.
Why does it have to talk about wrestling when it comes to relay matches? The main reason is that the men's relay race is the longest distance, the short track speed skating lap circumference is 111.12 meters, 5000 meters means to skate 45 laps. There are 5 teams participating in the final, each team has 4 athletes, in the 45 laps of these 20 players are either on the field, or ready to relay in the field, at this time in the process of handing over the baton, 10 team members will be crowded in a very small space in a short period of time, it is easy to collide or make mistakes. And as soon as there is such a mistake as falling, there is nothing to talk about.
Such a situation is not uncommon in men's relay competitions, and in the winter Olympic finals, such a phenomenon is even more difficult to avoid.
Tonight's men's 5,000m relay was relatively smooth. There was only one fall in the game, but unfortunately it happened to the Chinese team.
On lap 31, China's Sun Long fell down after losing his balance just out of the corner and entering the straight. Looking back at this process, I did not see obvious physical contact between the team members, the main reason is probably that Sun Long's ice knife lost its balance after bumping on the ice. As for why he stumbled, a common reason that may exist is that because there are too many players on the field, the ice surface has been scraped out of the ice by the athlete's ice knife, and Sun Long's ice knife happened to meet, so he lost his balance and fell to the ground after playing a toe, although the teammates behind reacted quickly and rushed forward to pick up the stick, but in the equally matched final, the team that appeared in such a scene had no hope of winning a good result.
Today's men's 5,000-meter relay, the Chinese men's team's luck is not good, the starting draw to the outermost road, that is, the fifth lane, from the start of the last place. Although the 5,000-meter relay does not care about the starting point as much as the men's 500 meters, it is not easy for the Chinese men's team to surpass each of the top four opponents. South Korea, the Russian Olympic Committee, Canada, Italy and China have maintained this order for 27 laps.
The first change occurred on lap 28, with Wu Dajing overtaking Italy to finish fourth, Canada grabbing the top spot, and South Korea falling in second place. Two laps later, the Chinese team used the straights to overtake the Russian Olympic Committee team and came to third place. But on lap 31, on the straight after just out of the lap, Sun Long fell to the ground after a toe, which was the second change in this game, when the Canadian team and the South Korean team that slid in front of the team reacted very quickly, took the opportunity to accelerate, and threw off the Russian Olympic team and the Italian team behind them, forming a pattern of double male competition, and finally the stronger Canadian team took the lead in hitting the line with a clear advantage, the South Korean team won the silver medal, and the Italian team won the bronze medal. The Chinese men's team, which had hoped to stand on the podium, could only accept the fifth place result.