Questions about the Winter Olympics!

After 16 days of fierce competition, all 84 gold medals at the 20th Winter Olympics in Turin have been divided, and a new pattern of the world's snow and ice events has been presented to the world.

From a three-pronged approach to a six-pronged confrontation

Four years ago at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Norway, Germany and the United States reached double-digit gold medals, forming a three-pronged

dynamic trend.

The current Turin Winter Olympics, the first thing that made the connoisseur is the last dominant Norwegian army fiasco. Norway is the world's traditional ice powerhouse, the first 19 Winter Olympics, the country accumulated 96 gold medals, ranking first in the world. The last Winter Olympics, they still with 13 gold proud of the herd. And this year Norway actually only harvested two gold, was squeezed into the 13th place.

The main reason for the Norwegians' loss is that most of the many veterans who were expected to be there are not in shape. Four of the country's gold medals came in biathlon at the Salt Lake City Games. Bj?rn Dahlen won three individual gold medals, plus the relay program, the Winter Olympics biathlon all men's four gold medals to Norway. This year, Bj?rndalen failed miserably, winning only two silvers and one bronze; the Norwegians also failed to win a single gold medal in the event.

Germany and the United States were second and third in the gold medal standings last year. With the Norwegians out of contention, they were a natural choice. Germany, in particular, jumped into the top spot at the Winter Olympics with 11 golds after eight years.

In stark contrast to Norway, Germany's veterans were in top form in Turin, where 29-year-old biathlete Gerres, whose best result at the last Winter Olympics was a 15th-place finish, won his first gold medal and then went on to win two more.

The Germans have maintained their traditional strengths in bobsledding and speed skating, but have also expanded into new areas of gold. This Winter Olympics **** added six individual events, including biathlon men's 15 kilometers, women's 12.5 collective departure kilometers of the two new events of the gold medal, are into the German bag.

The U.S. was able to maintain its status as the oldest trio of Winter Olympics gold medalists with nine, thanks to a number of newcomers coming up through the ranks. Five of the country's gold medals came from young athletes under the age of 23, with two of the winners as young as 19.

Russia, Austria and Sweden are the three legions that have improved significantly at this year's Winter Olympics. Especially Austria and Sweden: Austria's last Winter Olympics with only 3 gold in the tenth place in the medal table; this year they are in the alpine skiing program on the harvest of 4 gold, plus Nordic two, ski jumping and coxless bobsledding competition in the score, gold medals jumped to 9, sitting in the second seat in the medal table. Sweden did not have a gold medal, this time in men's ice hockey, women's curling and cross-country skiing team speed and other collective projects to do enough "articles", and finally squeezed into the top six with seven gold.

Russia ranked fifth in the last Winter Olympics with only five gold medals.

With the outstanding performance of figure skating and cross-country skiing, Russia ranked 4th in the medal table with 8 golds. 7 golds won by Canada, Germany, Austria, the United States, Russia, Canada and Switzerland, although the number of gold medals varies, but the medals are more than 14, with the overall strength of the overall structure of the six strongest in the current Winter Olympics standoff pattern.

Country strength show close trend

Last Winter Olympics, there are 18 countries stained gold medals, 24 countries on the medal list, is the history of the Winter Olympics gold medals, medals, the widest range of a session. Turin Winter Olympics, the medal-winning countries reached 26 countries, more medal countries than ever; although the gold medal-winning 18 countries, but the distribution of gold medals is more balanced.

Four years ago, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Norway, Germany, the United States swept all the gold medals more than 40%. This year in Turin, Germany, Austria and the United States, which ranked among the top three in the medal standings, totaled 29 gold medals, accounting for less than one-third of all gold medals.

The characteristics of the snow and ice projects, decided the Winter Olympics gold medal-winning countries in a short period of time is difficult to have a substantial increase, but from the current Winter Olympics is not difficult to find, those who have become the Winter Olympics "gold club" members of the strength of the country, but the trend is showing more and more close. Salt Lake City Winter Olympics gold medals less than 10 countries have 15, this increased to 17, is another proof.

Estonia is a small country on the Baltic coast of Europe with a population of just over 1.4 million. At the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the country's V?rp?ru won the men's 15-kilometer cross-country skiing championship. This is the country's history of the first winter Olympic gold medal. This Winter Olympics, the 34-year-old V?rp?ru repeated 15 kilometers crown success; the country's women's Smeguan also emerged, winning cross-country skiing 10 kilometers and 15 kilometers two gold medals in a row. Estonia thus entered the top 12 of the Winter Olympic medal table for the first time with three gold medals.

Speed skating, or short-track speed skating, world records have been set at every Winter Olympics since the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, USA; the 15th in 1988 and the last in Salt Lake City both saw as many as eight new world records. The Turin Winter Olympics, however, did not break a single world record and had only two Winter Olympics records, something that had not been done in 26 years.

The speed skating program was able to completely rewrite the world record books at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, thanks in large part to the fact that for the first time, it was competing in a fully enclosed stadium, free from outside natural conditions. The reason why the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics is named "world record high yield" ice event, with Salt Lake City's high altitude of 1307 meters is not unrelated. Turin is a low altitude venue, which naturally restricts the production of new records.

Failing to rewrite the world record, the highly motivated world record holders were not able to bring home the title in Turin, as rivals from different countries became more and more advanced, and the competition in each event was fierce. Hedrick of the United States is the men's speed skating 1500 meters world record holder. He lost the event at the Turin Winter Olympics to 24-year-old Fabrice, a little-known Italian college student, and won only the bronze medal.

Germany's Peggy Stein, the Winter Olympics women's speed skating 5,000 meters "three consecutive champions" and the world record holder in the event, Turin Winter Olympics, the 32-year-old "always win" also lost to the Dutch player Hughes.

Asia's multi-line breakthrough vitality

Turin Winter Olympics, Asia's participation, the head of the project, although still relatively limited, but in short-track speed skating, figure skating, freestyle skiing and other fronts full of vitality, the rising momentum is irreversible.

First of all, South Korea's short-track speed skating. They took six gold medals in all eight individual events in the program, the highest ever for a country in Asia at a Winter Olympics. Together with China's Wang Meng's women's 500-meter short-track title, the Asians*** won seven gold medals in short-track speed skating.

The Koreans have also created two "triple champions" in short-track speed skating - Chan Sun-woo and Ahn Hyun-soo. The 17-year-old former won the women's 1,000-meter, 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter relay titles; the 20-year-old latter won the men's 1,000-meter, 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter relay titles. 1000m, 1500m and 5000m relay gold medals on his chest. This Winter Olympics *** three "Triple Crown", South Korea has two, which is also unprecedented in Asia.

Asia's second breakthrough from the men's freestyle skiing air skills. China's 21-year-old Han Xiaopeng overpowered a number of first-class masters in Europe to win the gold medal in the program. It broke the 12-year dominance of European and American men in the sport at the Winter Olympics. This is also a historic breakthrough for China's snow program.

Figure skating is one of the earliest programs established by the Winter Olympics. In the past 19 Winter Olympics, Asia's best result in the event came in the women's singles skating, with only one silver medal - Japan's Midori Ito was runner-up in the event at the 16th Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992.

This year's Winter Olympics in Turin, the biggest favorite to win gold in women's single skating was Russia's Slutskaya. Japan's 24-year-old Shizuka Arakawa played superbly in the competition, ranking only third in the short program, but her free skate was nearly perfect, scoring 125.32 points, "forcing" Slutskaya to make a mistake. As a result, Shizuka Arakawa unexpectedly reached the "back" of the program, becoming the first Asian champion in the history of the Winter Olympics single skating, and even figure skating.

In the past, Asia has Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China have won Winter Olympics gold medals, and the entire Asian Winter Olympics gold medals accumulated 23. In the 18th Winter Olympics held in Nagano in 1998, Asia collected the most gold medals with eight. Turin Winter Olympics, Asia gained gold medals accumulated 9, creating a new "record" of gold medals harvested in a Winter Olympics .

Asia's gold medalists in Turin, a number of newcomers, unlimited strength; Asia's programs are also very distinctive, with a strong impact and continuous development, improve the lineup structure. Moreover, the number of Asian countries and regions participating in the Winter Olympics competition, showing an increasing trend; the participation surface is also getting wider and wider.

The performance and achievements of the Turin Winter Olympics proved once again that Asia will be one of the most active gold medal growth points of the Winter Olympics for quite some time to come.

2 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze - although the Turin Winter Olympics China gold medal is the same as the previous year, 11 medals have made history. China's ice and snow army has accumulated 22 medals in the seven previous Winter Olympics it has participated in, with the biggest haul coming at the 19th Winter Games in Salt Lake City, United States, four years ago, when it also collected just eight medals.

Snow on a wide range of participation in the first collection of gold

Ice and snow projects, on the level and performance, China has always been "snow is not as good as ice". Turin Winter Olympics, due to Han Xiaopeng in freestyle skiing men's aerial skills program, "a brilliant", won the gold medal, this imbalance has begun to change.

Freestyle skiing is a breakthrough in China's snow program that has been in the works for a long time. Back in 1998 at the Nagano Winter Olympics, Xu Nannan won the silver medal in the women's aerial skills, changing the embarrassment of China's snow sports Winter Olympics and medals do not match. This time in Turin, China's "four flowers" all among the top twelve aerial skills finals, Li Nina, Xu Nui Nui, Guo Xinxin respectively won the 2nd, 4th and 6th, showing a strong overall advantage.

Men's aerial skills, China's previous best result is only 17th. This Winter Olympics not only have Han Xiaopeng, Qiu Sen at the same time broke into the final, the former also in the qualifying round and the final in the first place, undisputed gold medal back. This is not only the first time that an Asian player has won the freestyle skiing gold medal, but also the first time that Chinese men's snow and ice athletes have dominated the Winter Olympics.

At the last Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, China competed in only 17 events in three snow sports: biathlon, cross-country skiing and freestyle skiing***. Turin Winter Olympics, in addition to the above three big events, Chinese athletes also appeared in alpine skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding field, involved in the snow for the first time increased to six big events; small items jumped to 27.

And, for the first time, the number of Chinese participants in snow sports also exceeded that of ice sports. Snow events accounted for two-thirds of the 84 individual events at the Turin Winter Olympics. China's substantial increase in the scale of participation in snow sports shows the initial intention and gesture to enter the Winter Olympics in a comprehensive manner.

This Turin event and the last Salt Lake City Winter Olympics both participated in the single **** 15. If you compare them, you can see that two-thirds of the events were a little better this year. Of these, the biathlon can be compared with seven individual events, four of which had better results than the previous edition. In the men's 10km individual event, the best place in the past was only 41st. This time, 23-year-old Zhang Chengye in 18th place. women's 10 kilometers individual, the previous best result of Chinese athletes was 44th; this year's 28-year-old Liu Xianying ranked 9th. if China improves the level of shooting, the ranking of the project will also be improved significantly.

The women's 12.5-kilometer collective start is a new single event in this year's biathlon, with Liu Xianying at No. 7 and the top six finishers all from Europe. This is already China's best ranking in the biathlon at this year's Winter Olympics.

Cross-country skiing China's most outstanding performance was 22-year-old Wang Chunli. She placed 18th and 21st in the women's 10-kilometer and 20-kilometer individual events, the best in Chinese history.

Most of the individual events on the ice are looking up

Last Winter Olympics, Yang Yang won two gold medals in women's short-track speed skating, breaking the stalemate of zero gold medals for China in the history of the Winter Olympics. Turin Winter Olympics, China **** sent 34 players to participate in the ice program 3 big items, 22 small items of competition. Although only by Wang Meng harvested a gold medal, but compared to Turin and Salt Lake City two Winter Olympics are participating in the 17 ice events, in addition to 1 ranking is the same, China this year, but there are 10 results better than the previous year.

China's speed skating program failed to achieve the goal of the gold medal, but the overall strength of the improvement can be seen ****. In Turin, China's 15 ice skaters participated in 11 events, and compared with the previous and current *** with all seven events, the results of this year's items have improved to varying degrees.

Women's most noteworthy or 500 meters project, because China's Wang Manli, Ren Hui swept the project second and third. 1992 16th Winter Olympics, Ye Qiaobo had won the women's speed skating 500 meters silver medal. This is the first time that China has won two medals in a single event. Since the 18th Winter Olympics in 1998, the 500 meters speed skating has been changed to the total score of the two skating rankings, increasing the difficulty. Wang Manli's silver medal was also the first 500-meter speed skating medal won by a Chinese athlete since the new rules were introduced.

China's best performance in men's speed skating was in the 500-meter event, where 21-year-old Yu Fengtong placed 5th, the best performance by a Chinese man since Liu Hongbo finished 4th in the event at the 17th Winter Olympics in 1994.

Figure skating three programs, Turin Winter Olympics China's most eye-catching performance is the pairs skating. At the last Winter Olympics, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the bronze medal. It was both the best performance in the history of China in that individual event and one of the best performances in the history of Chinese figure skating at the Winter Olympics.

This Winter Olympics, China sent Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, Pang Qing/Tong Jian*** three pairs of players in the pairs skating competition, the results of the second to fourth place in turn. This is not rare in the history of the Winter Olympics.

Short track speed skating has always been the focus of China's gold, this time the number of gold medals, medals failed to exceed the last Winter Olympics, eight entries in five of the ranking of the previous year fell, only the men's 1,000 meters, women's 1,500 meters better than the previous results.

Champions are getting older as newcomers emerge

Compared with the Summer Olympics, the winners of the Winter Olympics are relatively old. However, China's Torino gold medalists, Wang Meng and Han Xiaopeng, are only 20 and 22 years old respectively, making them early achievers.

Wang Meng, although it is the first time to participate in the Winter Olympics, but has been "long time in the field", in the past two years in the short-track speed skating women's 500-meter program almost invincible. This Winter Olympics and won the 500-meter championship, 1000-meter runner-up, 1500-meter third place, is the only one of the Chinese army won three medals.

At the last Winter Olympics, Han ranked just 24th out of 30 in the men's freestyle skiing aerials, and has never won a gold medal in a world competition. This year's Winter Olympics, he from qualifying to the final "black to the end", and finally won the gold, showing a rare psychological quality beyond his age. This is the most valuable thing for a high-level player.

Not only is the champion, this Winter Olympics, China's other players to bring back the medals are mostly very young. Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao are taking part in the Winter Olympics for the second time and are just 20 and 21 years old respectively. They won the pair skating runner-up, is already Asian players in the program a breakthrough. Turin Winter Olympics, the program **** 20 pairs of players, Zhang Dan, Zhang Hao is the top nine in the youngest pair, the future is unlimited.

Li Nina was the favorite to win the women's freestyle skiing aerials before the event. Unfortunately, she lost out to Switzerland's 29-year-old Rouault, who won a silver medal. Still, at just 23, she has a long road ahead of her.

And then there is Ren Hui, the women's speed skating 500-meter bronze medalist, who stands at 1 meter 80 and is in very good condition. Last year, the World University Winter Games had won the 1000-meter speed skating championship. At this year's Winter Olympics, the 22-year-old could have gotten a good result had she not made a mistake in the 1000-meter race.

Additionally, there are a number of young Chinese athletes who have been trained in Turin and are showing promising prospects. The first jump in the final was ranked first, and the second jump was the winner as long as it stood firm, but it was a pity that there was a mistake when she landed on the ground, and the result was ranked No. 6. She is only 22 years old, and the difficulty of the movement has already reached the world's No. 1, and in the future, if the stability of the efforts, she can completely impact the world championships gold medal.

China participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time in the women's snowboarding U groove competition, two participants for the 17-year-old Pan Lei, less than 15-year-old Sun Zhifeng. They finished 28th and 31st in the qualifying rounds, failing to squeeze into the final, but still showing a high starting point.

Snowboarding is a young program that entered the Winter Olympics in 1998. China has been carrying out this program for a very short time, and it's not easy for two people to get a "ticket" to the Winter Olympics. Pan Lei was the runner-up in the World University Winter Games last year. Sun Zhifeng, the youngest participant in the Turin Winter Olympics, used to practice martial arts. At present, the difficulty of her movements has caught up with that of the world's top athletes.

The U-trot event is well suited to Chinese athletes, who are known for their dexterity. Over time, the program has every chance of becoming a new gold medal-winning spot for China at the Winter Olympics