Chapter 331: Super Biathlon
Sun Shiner won another gold medal, his Winter Olympics gold medal tally reached three, and his achievements have been far behind Edward of the United States. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After a day of rest, Sun Shiner ushered in another alpine skiing competition, the super biathlon.
Alpine skiing is divided into four events, downhill, slalom, giant slalom, and super-G, with downhill and super-G being the speed races, while the slalom and giant slalom are skill events.
The super biathlon just includes these two, super biathlon, as the name suggests, there are two competitions, downhill and slalom, after the two competitions, the results are added up, and the one who takes the least time is the champion.
This event is a test of the athlete's all-round ability, and it is necessary to be good in both downhill and slalom.
Sun Shiner is naturally going to participate in this competition, and many athletes are also looking forward to playing against Sun Shine, after all, the super biathlon is not only about downhill, but also about slalom, who knows what Sun Shine's slalom strength is.
The first game started with a downhill competition, and many famous players appeared in front of them, and everyone came for this gold medal, you must know that not everyone is Sun Shine, and they can easily participate in several competitions, and for many people this is their last competition.
One of the most anxious is Miller from the United States.
Miller is known as a famous player, but in the Winter Olympics, he has not tasted the taste of the championship, counting this Winter Olympics, Miller participated in a total of three Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics he participated in was the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics eight years ago, in this Winter Olympics Miller fledgling, actually won two silver medals.
The ambitious Miller, in the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, Miller was unexpectedly defeated, empty-handed, let alone a gold medal, and even a medal was not earned.
The Winter Olympics are estimated to be his last, and Miller naturally wants to win the coveted gold medal, but unfortunately in the downhill and super-G competitions ahead, Miller only finished fourth and won a bronze medal, far below his hopes.
So today's super biathlon is his last chance.
In the downhill race in the morning, all the stars showed their full strength, and Svendal, who had just won the silver medal in the super-G, skated a time of 1:53.15 to finish second.
Italy's Paris was third, Switzerland's Yanka was fourth, and downhill runner-up Defargo was fifth.
Miller did his best, but there was still a bit of a problem in the race, and in his own words, there were too many small jumps in the run that affected his speed, so he was in eighth place for the time being.
Defending champion, also from the United States, did not play well and finished in 16th place.
In first place for the time being, of course, is Sun Shine from China, who does have too much advantage in the alpine skiing speed event, and many competitors are not his opponents.
However, this is only temporary, after all, the slalom race has not yet begun, and the slightest mistake in the slalom race will cause the ranking to drop.
After a midday break, the super-biathlons resumed with a slalom race that would decide the winner.
The starting order of the race was reversed in the downhill rankings, with Sun Shiner in first place in the downhill, so he was the last to appear, ahead of him was Swindal.
In the morning, many athletes who skated well in the downhill race did not perform well in the slalom race, but those who did not perform well in the downhill race skated well in the slalom.
For example, the defending champion Rigeti only ranked sixteenth in the downhill, and in the slalom competition, Rigetty actually skipped a time of 50.76 seconds, which is the best result in the slalom competition so far, but it is a pity that Rigeti's downhill result is too poor.
Miller finished eighth in the downhill race, but in the slalom he gave it his all and skated to third place and became first overall.
After sliding down, Miller himself waved his fist happily, he felt that his performance today was really good, with this result, there should be no big problem, the next few players, Miller is very confident, others are not worried, the only thing worth worrying about is Swindar and Sun Shine, as long as these two have problems in the slalom, he will definitely get the gold medal.
Sure enough, as Miller thought, Paris and Yanka behind did not play very well, and the overall score did not exceed Miller.
The current favorite to win the championship is Swindal, who is also in great shape in downhill competitions, and many people are optimistic about him.
And it turned out that Swindahl's strength was really good, and when he passed the first timing point, he was already ahead of the others, and it seemed that it was a simple thing to surpass Miller.
Svendal's goal is not to surpass Miller, Miller is not an opponent in his eyes, his target is Sun Shine, although he knows that his current speed is very fast, but Swindar understands that compared with Sun Shine, it is estimated that it is still poor, what he needs is to speed up, speed up again.
The pace became faster, and Svendal quickly crossed the second timing point, and the timing was okay, at least to hold on to the first position for the time being.
But at this moment, an accident happened, Svendal actually passed through a flag gate, the speed was too fast, did not control, and fell out directly, although he was not injured, but it was impossible to continue the game, Svendal could only reluctantly withdraw from the game.
This made Miller very happy, Svendal actually made a mistake in such a good situation, is it God to help him?
Although Swindahl made a mistake and withdrew from the race, there was still one person behind him, that is, Sun Shine, who won the first place in the downhill competition, and no one dared to guarantee that the championship would be Miller's before Sun Shine finished the race.
Miller stood below and couldn't stop praying, of course, not praying that Sun Shine would slow down, because Sun Shine's psychological quality was super good, and at any time, he would not slow down because of fear, so Miller prayed that Sun Shine would slow down, and it was better to pray that Sun Shine would fall to the ground like Svendal.
Of course, from this prayer, it can also be seen how much Miller is afraid of Sun Shine's strength. (To be continued.) )