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She tapped her teammate when she made it around so her teammate would know she made a full lap ahead of them. Genius.

How do you get to olympic level of sports and you just forget someone took an early lead. My head would explode as a coach. Probably one of the dumbest moments in this sport

Even the commentator and the cameraman forgot she is one lap ahead of the others.

I wish I could see the reaction of the other skaters when they realized they lost lol

It looked like China also got silver because the gold medalist's Chinese teammate was the only one to know that the rest of the pack still had another lap to go. While the other skaters stuck out their skates at the finish line, she knew that they actually had one more lap to go.

The commentator and cameraman were also tricked, annoucned the final lap and then forgot it was for Yang and didn't even film or acknowledge the battle for 2nd place. Unfortunately it made this amazing accomplishment lose all the hype.

She's not losing it when she catch them at the back, how often in a race that you're in the lead and you get to watch your opponents back? love it❤❤❤

The smartest move I’ve seen in track. How did they not figure out her plan😮

not in a million years would i have thought going fast would be a winning strategy in a race

This is anime level plot twist 😂

This is a perfectly executed strategy. Usually the early laps of a race like this is slow to conserve energy, but making the other skaters forget they are a lap down is the perfect mind game

I know you're supposed to pace yourself, it they're all just out for a little stroll. She deserves to win with how little effort was put in until the last second.

The strategy actually won them an easy silver and that is the most interesting thing..😅

THIS MOVE WILL BECOME COMMON STRATEGY FROM NOW ON IM OFFICALLY COINING IT "THE YANG JINGRU" "THE JINGRU"

That is brilliant. Can't be mad about that. It's not even a bad strategy, it's being able to understand the rules and knowing no one is reacting. And by then, if everyone reacts normally, it's already too late Simply brilliant.

Dude, the way these two girls tricked others, and she slowed down, everyone thought its finished and slowed down, but only her teammate knew there's one more lap to go and took the advantage when everyone slowed down.

She changed the game literally! 🎉

I was very impressed then I saw it was youth Olympics and was mind blown , so much talent at a young age.

LMAO Even the announcer forgot about first place and focused on the second place skater

Out of taking that early lead, the genius move is the first one being so close to the head of the pursuing pack that when she enters in her last lap, the bell goes on and the others took it for them so they rushed, leaned toward the finish line while the 2nd Chinese teammate just had to maintain full speed to take advantage of their 2 seconds confusion. Really Fantastic.

Team China is so smart. And it's a great team work also

1:14 "M'ahhh.... you all watched me" 😂

they did an extra lap after the missed la as well 😂😂

She was like im going to try something new that will work 👌🏾

She set the pace not sure why everyone was just watching her get a full lap on them instead of following her.

She must have been whistling behind them when she caught up 😂😂

This is why you dont just do as your told. Think for yourself, especially at a professional level. This wasnt even competitive. They kind of played a trick on the sport, almost making a mockery of it. They knew that athletes at this age stick to a script and have little experience going against tradition. Eye opener.

Rule of competion: never underestimate your opponent(except speed skating)

Even the cameraman was confused

that's like Top 10 smoothest moves in the history of the Universe 🤯🤯🤯

I tried this in my pe race for my whole grade and i confused the coaches so bad they made me take an extra lap 😭 cause I was behind everybody else.

what a surprising and brilliant strategy 😂love it! 😁

Even though I knew she won and yet I was still confused who finished first. 😂

Love the fact that when they get the bell for last lap they don’t realise it does not apply to them, then they fight for the line on the wrong lap allowing the other Chinese skater (who knows they still have another lap to do) to easily pick up silver.

She and her teammate were playing chess😂😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

Cameraman made us miss the most interesting part, when they stop racing thinking they have won. Also both chinese are in red and the second chinese player was in the pack (which make them think we caught the initial red shirt that escaped)

The real trick was not just her breaking out and falling into the back. The real trick was because her teammate also was in the back, and when she moved forward, the other skaters likely believed that it was Yang, not the other Chinese skater. It was a flawless setup from both.

It's pretty cool to see 3 or 4 of them all take steps in unison.

My question is - are the coaches not permitted to yell to their skaters? Surely, they figured out what they were doing.

All of them just don't know how to react to this, didn't want to break the pattern, and in the end completely forgot that they 1 lap behind. Even the commentator confuse in the last lap. Its crazy! This will definitely revolutionize the strategy in speed skating. The current common strategy only works when all the competitor do the same thing 😂😂

Excellent performance congratulations 👌

Even the commentator was laughing at her in the beginning and totally forgot that she is a lap ahead of others 😂😂😂

She the only one in a race, everyone else is there to figure skate

Its not strategy. It's a competition so everybody should move as fast as they could. Even After moving so fast and lead 1 lap, she still able to keep up with others pace with ease. So, she just too fast and since she realize no one try to chase her or follow her pace, what she did after that was just skating savely to finish.

I feel bad for the athlete who thought she had the bronze medal

Yess yang! She's amazing!

The best show ever!

funny how they sprint to be first on the line one lap to go 😅

It doesnt seem like the main thing in the strategy is that everyone forgets that she lapped them, its that literally noone does anything to prevent her from lapping them

go yang 💛💛💛

That is awesome. The tall girl in the front just knew she had it. Uno!!!

This can never be repeated. Wow!

she is fast

It sure doesn’t look like something that is out of the realm of possibility. Yet all other teams forgot that the Chinese skater was already one lap ahead. Nice move.

Love it!

Epickie!!! I całkowita pompa z tiltu jaki zrobiła cała reszta.

Super interesting!!

How legends are made!!!

Can't wait for the next season! Wow

Very nice 😊👍

Luar biasa👍👍👍

I’ve never seen a race for second place

Im both entertained and whelmed.

Is the best😊❤

ice speed skating from now on will be very interesting to watch. can't wait to see the next time they race again. We will see more athletes doing the same strategy. Can't wait to watch next one.

Amazing 😮 👏👏👏

Amazing 🎉🎉🎉❤ yang❤

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Amazing, honestly

Hard to understand what exactly was happening since I don't know much about Ice Skating. So what Yingru did was she quickly completed a lap ahead of everyone and tapped her teammate who was behind to let her know (I'm thinking the reason she was also behind was that others don't quickly catch what's going on) then her teammate surged towards the leading pack. So then at the end the bell rang the moment Yingru passed the starting line for her last lap, but then everybody INCLUDING the spectators, commentator thought this was everybody's final lap as they cheered, and so everyone began to sprint towards the finish line and when they got to there they slowed down thinking it was over but Yingru's teammate knew it was wasn't and was the only one who didn't slow down which gave her the edge and she ended up comfortably winning second.

Excellent strategy 💯

Amazing. You saw what I did and did nothing! She deserved the win!

This is the perfect visual representation of the saying: the first will be the last and the last will be first.

The bell lap was for Yang Jingru alone, and some of the other skaters thought it was for them! hahahaha

Whoa! The Chinese Short Track Track Skater is fast.

Changing the meta of ice skate

Inteligentes !!! Muy inteligentes 👏🏼

The best ever!!

When she flew by them all they were like. I guess it's a race for second place.

Well done, beautiful strategy….🎉

Genius!!!!

Genial... Estratégia e trabalho em equipe. A cabeça dos demais técnicos 👉 🤯

Smartess move ever

Nobody will ever let this happen again.

First time to watch a skating race, I can't believe this is not a strategy since beginning of time, basic strategy, not just common in this type of race.

That was a crazy smart move wow

Clever mind gaming! Create a game when everyone already in the same level, ggwp 👏👏

wow. did they think she would disqualify herself? how did no one else go after her?

Smart

WTH? Such a legendary move and the commentary was so flat. Can’t believe this. I would have screamed loud for the strategy.

This was a well designed strategy and my hat is off to Team China. From the very begining this play took off. Watch both of the Chinese skaters closely and you will see their movements are entirely based off the pack behavior. Including when the team mate made her subtle atteck to throw off the rest of the pack skaters. How they forgot what happened early on is beyond me. Why no other skater attempted to attack when yang did i can't explain either. I won't even guess. What i will say is that as they approached 4 laps to go and the team mate (i cant recall her name, i think lin) is primed and ready to finish the foly and continue to skate out that final lap. It's up to the other skaters to continue the attack and as we witnessed,the foly worked and China rose to the top. It's a simple and great play.

next level strat

Getting first but also getting an easy silver too since the other Chinese skater knew there was another lap. Well played.

A pro mental and physical.

She ate

its suprise me she didnt broke world record for this

How does this not break the sport completely??

I don't know if the commentator got confused too or he just failed to comment on how all the other skaters except her teammate thought it was actually over

Now everyone will be alert of such strategies but you will always have the risk of someone speeding up the pace at the beginning, so yeah it takes just one person to try to get one lap ahead to make everyone sprint the entire race lol, she definitely changed the sport