On February 12, Beijing time, in the men’s 500-meter speed skating final of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese player Gao Tingyu won the gold medal. His performance can be said to have broken the Winter Olympics record. South Korean player Cha Min Kui won the silver medal. At the post-race award ceremony, Cha Minkyu showed a disharmonious scene when he took the stage to accept the award. He made an obvious move to wipe the podium before taking the stage. Wang Meng, who was the commentator of the competition, was furious on the spot: "What are you talking about about speed skating? What does it have to do with us if he wants to wipe it? It's one person holding a track, and I'm skating mine." If you slide, we can't touch each other. No one knows why you can't wipe it. What does it have to do with us?" The majority of Chinese netizens commented, "Don't blame the referee, blame your technique" or "Why can't Koreans admit defeat?" Some netizens said: "You think it is a curling competition. If you curl faster, you can skate further."

Why does this move of Korean athletes attract so many people? The huge response from netizens and professionals has a lot to do with the fact that such a scene happened at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics held in South Korea, but the origin and nature of the comparison between the two are completely different.

At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Canadian team athletes who won the bronze medal in the men's short track speed skating 5,000-meter relay also wiped the podium with their hands before stepping onto the podium. The reason for this move was that in the 5000-meter relay event, the Canadian team member was called a foul by the referee for no reason, and therefore won the bronze medal. It was precisely because of the unfair decision of the referee at that time that the Canadian player was very dissatisfied, so on the podium, Four Canadian athletes wore gloves and swept the podium with their hands, mocking the uncleanness of short track speed skating at that time and protesting the penalty issues that occurred in the event. At the same time, shady scenes continued throughout the entire competition of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. It was evaluated by many netizens as the worst Winter Olympics in history. For this reason, the Canadian team's elegant gesture to express their dissatisfaction aroused unanimous praise from everyone.

But this time’s short track speed skating is completely different from what it was four years ago. Speed ??skating is done in pairs, one person per lane, and the rules do not allow jumps, so there is no referee at all. The problem is, if I won the silver medal in skating quickly, I can only blame myself for not being as good as others. If you have to blame your opponent, you can only blame the Korean athlete for skating too fast. There is nothing clever about his actions, and it is a slap in the face of his own country.

Perhaps the public opinion pressure from netizens is too great. South Korean player Cha Min-kyu recently changed his words through the Korean Sports Association and said: "The award ceremony is very important to me. The podium is a precious place. So I want to go up with a more religious attitude. In that sense, I do it out of respect."

Here I want to say, no matter how you do it, how you say it, we do it. Neither the Chinese team nor the Chinese people take it seriously. We are not afraid of shadows. If we truly do our best, we will not be afraid of being talked about and turned upside down by all kinds of conspirators. Let’s express our point of view by borrowing a poet’s famous saying: “Despicableness is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.”