介绍:
1. Hello Lulu, so give us a briefing about what happened in Sochi yesterday?
Six gold medals were given out yesterday, with the main focus on figure skating. The gold medal of pairs free skating was awarded to the famous and unbeatable Russian pair Maxim Trankov and Tatiana Volosozhar.
This is the host nation Russia’s second gold medal.
And the gold medal for men’s 1000m speedskating ended up in the pocket of 32-year-old Stefan Groothuis, the result took everybody by surprise even including himself.
His victory handed Netherlands its fourth gold medal from five speed skating events.
Meanwhile, Slovenia’s Tina MAZE and Swiss athlete Domimique Gisin recorded the exact same time of 1 minute 41.57 seconds in the ladies downhill, the first time in the history of the Olympic Games in which two gold medals have been awarded in an alpine skiing event.
So after day five, Germany has jumped to the the top of the medals ranking with 6 golds, and one silver. In the second place is Canada, with 4 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes and Norway has slipped to the third place with 4 golds, 3 silvers and 5 bronzes.
2. How did China do yesterday?
In the event of women’s snowboard halfpipe, Chinese athlete Cai Xuetong ranked 6TH in the final, and Li shuang and Liu Jiayu ranked 8th and 9th respectively.
In the event of pair free skating, figure skating athletes PANG Qing, TONG Jian ranked 4th while Peng Cheng and Zhang Hao ranked 8th.
This is Pang Qing and Tong Jian’s last Olympics as the couple are both 34 years old.
In curling, the Chinese men’s team beat Switzerland and Germany 5-4 and 11-7.
China's men's curling team faced its toughest test so far but maintained its unbeaten start to the competition with a 5-4 win against reigning European champion Switzerland in the morning session, and beat Germany 11-7 in the evening.
It is the first time China's men's team has won four round-robin games in an Olympic Winter Games curling competition.
The women’s team also won yesterday’s game against the United States 7-4.
3. Can you give us a preview of the Games for Monday?
Six gold medals will be contested on Thursday, which also sees the favourites in the men's ice hockey tournament play their opening matches.
China is most hopeful to get a medal in the short track ladies 500m final.
Meanwhile, Biathlete Martin Fourcade seeks his second gold medal of the Games in the men's 20km individual, following his victory on Monday in the 12.5km pursuit.
Gold medals will also be at stake in men's slopestyle skiing, a new Olympic event at these Games, ladies 1000m Speedskating, Cross country women's 10km classic, and the luge team relay, another new event.
The men's figure skating also starts today, with three-times world champion Patrick CHAN renewing his rivalry with Evgeni PLUSHENKO, the 2006 Olympic champion and gold medallist in Sunday's team event, in the short programme.
