At this summer's Tokyo Olympic Games, we witnessed the surprises, breakthroughs and brilliance of the Olympic national players, and also recorded the regrets of the famous athletes in the sports world, which became the deepest memory given to us by the Chinese sports world in 2021.
In the summer of 2021, when the Tokyo Olympics were "late" for a year, the passion was staged, and undoubtedly became the biggest label in the world sports world in 2021. The Chinese delegation tied the best results in the history of the overseas Olympic Games with 38 gold medals, demonstrating the strong overall strength and good mental outlook of Chinese sports athletes in the new era. The 16 days of competition in Tokyo witnessed the surprises, breakthroughs and glories of the Olympic national players, and also recorded the regrets of the famous athletes in the sports world, which became the deepest memory given to us by the Chinese sports world in 2021.
Unpredictability is a major feature of competitive sports and a major charm of it. At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team, which won 38 gold medals, naturally did not lack surprises, and these surprises let us remember the victories of a few months ago, but also retain the excitement of the time.
When it comes to the Olympic Games, for many years, the Chinese people have a complex: the first gold. The first gold complex, due to Xu Haifeng in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games a shot broke the Chinese Olympic gold medal of the duck egg record, he won the gold medal is also the first gold medal produced by that Olympic Games, coupled with Chinese has always believed in "opening the door", since then the first gold often becomes the opening of the new Olympic Games, the Chinese people's expectations for the Chinese Olympic Team. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Yang Qian after 00 made the expectations of the Chinese people become a reality again.
Before the competition, Yang Qian, who was in good shape at the time, was regarded as a strong contender for the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle. However, Yang Qian is only one of the players who are expected to win gold before the game, and her main opponents are good players from India, Russia and other countries. There are at least two variables: First, Yang Qian has not yet experienced the experience of the competition. Second, shooting itself is a project with greater serendipity, and Zhao Yinghui, the first gold hit in 2000, finally poured a hot stove is an example. The Tokyo Olympic women's air rifle competition also proved this, with Indonesia's talented girl Valariwan and China's rising star Wang Luyao out early, and Yang Qian reaching the final. After 10 shots in the final, Yang Qian temporarily ranked fifth. A good Yang Qian, at the critical moment, was not alarmed, and each shot patiently maneuvered with the opponent, and as desired, he reached the final decisive battle. The two strong meet the brave to win, and at the critical moment, Yang Qian was more stable than her opponent, so that Shoujin once again fell into the pocket of the Chinese delegation. Three days later, Yang Qian and Yang Haoran shined their stars and won the newly established air rifle mixed team gold medal, and Yang Qian, who won two golds, wrote a new record in Chinese shooting: the first Chinese shooter in history to win two gold medals in a single Olympic Games. 21-year-old Yang Qian, the golden age of shooting has just begun, her birth is undoubtedly the biggest gain of the Chinese shooting team in this Olympic Games, and her future at a young age is unlimited.
Quan Hongchan, who is younger than Yang Qian, is also a highlight of the Tokyo Olympic Games. In the women's 10m platform single jump final, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan won the gold medal with the most exciting women's stage jumping performance in history. Before and after the five rounds of competition, Quan Hongchan had three jumps to win the full score, the total score was as high as 466.2 points, the runner-up Chen Taoxi threw 40.80 points, and the Rio Olympic Games gold medalist director Qian, Quan Hongchan scored nearly 27 points higher, so it is not difficult to measure the gold content of the gold medal of Quan Hongchan. With a near-perfect performance, a small age, and a legendary background that has never participated in an international competition before, Quan Hongchan is simply the best spokesperson for "heroes from ancient times to teenagers". What's even more amazing is that if the Tokyo Olympics had not been postponed a year due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Quan Hongchan would not have been able to participate. Such an excellent and magical she is not hot after the game! Of course, Quan Hongchan who stepped off the podium began to face no small challenge, and in the future Olympic cycle, it was not only a strong opponent who challenged her, but also a development barrier, which is a common difficulty for most Chinese female platform jumpers for many years, which should be a big reason why the decision-making level of the national team has made Chen Ruolin her head coach. It remains to be seen what effect such a top-notch configuration can achieve when the most successful female platform jumper in history coaches the strongest female platform dancer in history.
Of course, surprise is not the patent of a talented teenager, as long as the famous players in the battlefield dare to think and fight, they can also achieve a historic breakthrough, and at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Liu Shiying interpreted these two words well with her own performance.
Historically, the Chinese women's javelin has won the world championship twice, and both times the championship has a surprise element. The first was at the 1991 World Championships 30 years ago, when Xu Demei won the gold medal without looking forward to the competition, achieving a major breakthrough in Chinese athletics. The second time she appeared at the Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiying, who was also not optimistic before the game, finally reached the highest podium. It is worth mentioning that Liu Shiying threw the best result of the final of 66.34 meters in the first round, measured in the coordinates of history, this result may not be called the top level, observe the pre-game personal bests of several Chinese and foreign strong players, Poland's Andrei Chick, Germany's Hu Song, China's Lu Huihui are all big hits to win the championship, although Liu Shiying has the status of the runner-up of the World Championships, her absolute strength is not the top three. Of course, the Olympic Games are not compared to the past achievements but the play at that time, 28-year-old Liu Shiying this year her most ideal play happened to appear in the most important arena, but also appeared in the first test shot, her magical performance, more or less disrupted the pre-game deployment of several opponents, so Liu Shiying is getting closer and closer to victory, until she successfully knocked open the door to victory. From this point of view, although Liu Shiying's victory was unexpected, it was "just right" and enough surprise.
Breakthrough is always the main theme in the arena. In that year, Xu Haifeng achieved a breakthrough of zero Gold medals in the Chinese Olympic Games, Liu Xiang became the first yellow race to win the Olympic gold medal at the Tianzhi Straight Road, and the Chinese Legion Gold MedalList at the Beijing Olympic Games was the first to win the bull's ear... Every breakthrough shows the confidence and courage of sports athletes to hit the world's peaks. In the summer of 2021, the national players in the sports arena continued to play the strongest sound of the times in the new round of Olympic competition.
For many years, men's track has been a weakness for Asians, and over the years, a Chinese boy named Su Bingtian has made the Chinese men's sprint no longer lonely, and the Tokyo Olympics have become a highlight.
In recent years, Su Bingtian has continuously improved the fastest speed of the Chinese men's 100 meters, first opening the 10-second mark, then running into the World Championship final, running 9.90 seconds into the norm, and then approaching 9.90 seconds. At the Tokyo Olympics, 32-year-old Su Bingtian once again successfully accelerated, he ran a staggering 9.83 seconds in the men's 100m semifinals, pushing The Asian Speed to a new height while also becoming the first Chinese athlete to run into the Olympic men's 100m final, which is another glory cast for Asian athletics after Liu Xiang's victory in the Athens Olympic Games. In the men's 100-meter battle at the Tokyo Olympics, Su Bingtian, who had passed the best form, finally finished 6th. Although there is still a distance from the medal, for the Chinese men's 100 meters, 9.83 seconds, the Olympic 6th place, which is not at all unimaginable two heights that year, Su Bingtian's performance in the Olympic 100 meters field, the weight and significance are not inferior to any gold medal won by the Chinese team, which is enough to become a major mark in the Chinese sports world.
At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Chinese athletics also achieved another historic breakthrough: Gong Lijiao achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals for China's throwing event.
For many years, Chinese women's throwing has always been the traditional advantage of Chinese athletics, in 1991 Athletics World Championships Huang Zhihong and Xu Demei won the women's shot put and women's javelin championships respectively, and since then the women's throwing national hand has won the world championship, world cup, indoor world championship gold medal in shot put, javelin, discus, chain ball and other sports. However, the podium of the Olympic athletics champion is unattainable for the Chinese women's throwers, and in the past two or three decades, they have repeatedly rushed to the gold without success, leaving one regret after another. Impact, impact, impact, generations of Chinese track and field athletes in the continuous efforts and challenges, finally achieved a historic breakthrough on August 1, 2021, the Tokyo Olympic Games women's shot put final held on the same day, in recent years, gong Lijiao, who has been alone in the world in recent years, finally laughed to the end, she overwhelmed the crowd with a good performance of 20.58 meters, and irreproachably won the dazzling Olympic crown, the veteran will realize the dream of a grand slam in athletics for himself, and create another historic breakthrough in Chinese athletics.
London Olympic gold medal, Rio Olympics silver medal, Tokyo Olympic gold medal, this is the 37-year-old weightlifting legend Lu Xiaojun three times to participate in the Olympic Games handed over the report card. Obviously, this is an infinitely close to perfect answer sheet, and what is even more admirable is that Lu Xiaojun also became the first player in the history of Chinese weightlifting to reach the podium in three Olympic Games. Lü Xiaojun debuted late, but since he set foot in the international arena, he will win gold medals every time he competes in the World Championships, and he will win gold and silver every time he attends the Olympic Games, and his stable competitive state and long duration of competitive strength make people respect for life. The success of the Tokyo Olympic Games is another successful copy of Lu Xiaojun's glorious achievements in his many years of sports career, and the veteran's profound heritage and outstanding performance have made him a legend and a banner in the international weightlifting industry, and can be called the image ambassador of positive energy in the Chinese sports world.
This year's trip to Tokyo marks Wang Shun's third Olympic appearance, when the 27-year-old released a big satellite on the ground to win the gold medal in the men's 200-meter individual medley. In recent years, Wang Shun has been a world-class medley swimmer, but not many people before the competition were optimistic about his gold medal, especially in the absence of Sun Yang at the Tokyo Olympics, and few people have illusions about the men's swimming national hand winning the gold. Under this prospect, Wang Shun took the lead in hitting the wall in the Olympic battlefield, which was very powerful! In fact, Wang Shun's victory at the East Olympic Games is not only of this significance, he is the second Chinese male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal in history, and he is also the first Chinese male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal outside the middle and long distance freestyle events. Wang Shun's success has broadened the gold medal of Chinese men's swimming and increased the courage of the Chinese swimming world to challenge the world's powers. Wang Shun, including the successful examples of Ning Zetao and Xu Jiayu winning the World Championships men's short distance freestyle and men's short distance backstroke show that only by daring to do and dare to think can you succeed. Wang Shun's success makes us believe that there will be more Wang Shun-style breakthroughs in Chinese men's swimming.
Since the beginning of the new century, China's Olympic team has been ranked in the top three of the Olympic gold medal list. To be able to rank among the first group for a long time on the Olympic stage where the heroes gather, there must be its secret, the outside world will be table tennis, diving, weightlifting, badminton, shooting, gymnastics as the six strengths of the Chinese Olympic Team. Of course, there are stronger middle players, according to the gold winning rate and overall stability of recent Olympic Games, table tennis, diving, weightlifting weighed the three major gold medal rich mines of the Chinese legion, the Tokyo Olympic War, the Chinese Olympic team can return to the position of the gold medal list, and the three rich mines of the 18 gold medals of table tennis jump are the greatest.
Great national table tennis, every era has a great representative figure, Ma Long is the chief representative of today's national table tennis.
Before going to the Tokyo Olympics, Ma Long had won 24 gold medals in three competitions and shared the national table tennis gold king award with Wang Nan. With 24 gold medals, including three gold medals in the Men's Singles at the Olympic Games and the World Championships, Malone's table tennis career can be described as a remarkable achievement. At the Tokyo Olympics, the dragon of table tennis once again showed his strength and self-confidence, the 33-year-old once again won the Olympic men's team after a gap of 5 years, two gold medals in singles, while creating the first consecutive men's singles gold medal in the history of Olympic table tennis, he also became the first double-lap Grand Slam winner in the history of men's table tennis. The Olympic Games won 2 more gold medals, bringing Malone's number of world champions to a staggering 26, and enjoying the national table tennis gold king award alone. For Ma Long, the Tokyo Olympics should not be his curtain call, not long ago the famous player publicly said that he has the opportunity to compete for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, can the dragon of ping-pong create a magical record of participating in the Olympic Games four times?
In every period of the Chinese diving team, there will always be one or two aces to make this heroic team shine. At the Tokyo Olympics, 29-year-old Shi Tingmao played the role of the new trump card of the Chinese diving team.
From the blockbuster of the 2011 Shanghai World Championships, to the dominance of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and then to the two gold medals won by the Tokyo Olympic Games this year, Shi Tingmao tasted various tastes after the ten-year journey, she stubbornly overcame various difficulties, and won countless honors along the way, becoming another springboard empress from China after Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia. Like her predecessors, Shi Tingmao inherited the strength, experience, stability and self-confidence of the above predecessors, even in the face of strong opponents in the Olympic Competition, she can always accurately complete a flip and turn at a height of 3 meters, complete a water pressure splash action, the superior ability makes her and the Olympic Games, World Championships and even the World Cup in previous years, once again won the women's 3 meters springboard single jump, double jump two gold medals, for the Chinese diving team in the world championships to set up a new monument. The Tokyo Olympics may be the ultimate battle of Stingmao's sports career, but the magical "Diving Dream Team" has no end, and Steimmao's successor will soon emerge on the field.
There is a force called Chinese weightlifting. It is no exaggeration to say that in recent years, Chinese weightlifting is the strongest force in the International Lifting Federation, and Shi Zhiyong is recognized as the strongest hercules in China, as long as he is on the field, the opponent can only have the idea of competing for the second place, because he can always break the record and win the gold medal. Shi Zhiyong is worthy of the name of "Wisdom and Courage Double Complete".
At the Tokyo Olympics, Shi Zhiyong won the gold medal in the men's weightlifting 73 kg by setting a world record for the overall results, and his achievements were 18 kg more than the runners-up, and the advantage was jaw-dropping. It is worth mentioning that at that time, the second shi zhiyong of the deadlift lifted a weight of 192 kilograms, but unfortunately was judged to be a failure by the referee. In this context, Shi Zhiyong still increased the third weight to a flat world record of 198 kilograms, and successfully conquered, he won the Olympic championship at the same time as creating a world record for total results, becoming the second Chinese men's Hercules to win the Olympic championship after Zhan Xugang. It is necessary to point out that the two World Championships in which Shi Zhiyong participated in the Tokyo cycle also expressed his extraordinary strength in the form of winning the championship + breaking records. Shi Zhiyong, good look!
There are not only surprises and breakthroughs in the arena, but also regrets and declines, while the Chinese team in the Tokyo Olympic Games ushered in one victory after another, individual events suffered a landslide, and some advantageous projects failed to achieve better results, leaving different regrets.
On the regret, no team or team member of the Tokyo Olympic Games can surpass the Chinese women's volleyball team, from the pre-tournament gold favorite to the group stage was eliminated, the Trip to Tokyo of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team is indeed regrettable. It is a fact that the Chinese women's volleyball team is a banner of the Chinese sports world; the women's volleyball team is only a potential advantage project of the Chinese sports world, which is also a fact. The Chinese women's volleyball team has participated in the Olympic Games for the past 9 times, not only the joy of winning three gold medals and three silver and bronze, but also the regret of missing the top four three times. Three times did not qualify for the top four, the worst is the top 8. Obviously, the 9th place won by the Chinese women's volleyball team at the Tokyo Olympic Games has fallen to the lowest point in the history of Olympic participation.
To be fair, the Chinese women's volleyball team's trip to Tokyo this year encountered Waterloo, there are objective factors and subjective reasons. The objective factor is that the main group is unfavorable, and the overall strength of the B group where the Chinese women's volleyball team is located is significantly stronger than the A group where Brazil, Serbia, South Korea, Japan and other teams are located. The subjective reason is mainly that Zhu Ting's hand injury affects her competitive state, which is the main reason why the Chinese women's volleyball team lost three consecutive opponents turkey, the United States and Russia in the first three games of the group stage, of which the first two games were 0-3 wins, which led to the last two games although 3-0 Lianke Italy and Argentina, still to no avail.
Of course, the biggest problem of the Chinese women's volleyball team's defeat in the East Olympics is still in itself, the latest Olympic cycle only excavated Li Yingying, a rookie with the level of the main force, compared with zhu Ting, Yuan Xinyue, Zhang Changning, Gong Xiangyu and many other main forces emerging in the previous Olympic Games, there is a significant gap in quantity and quality. The limited number of new stars, coupled with the excessive dependence on Zhu Ting, led to the Chinese women's volleyball team in the first battle to meet the stick of the head, the second battle of the strong and strong American team has no choice, and the first battle with the Russian team could have fought hard, helpless luck did not favor the Chinese women's volleyball team to lead to victory and defeat. The first three games have put the Chinese women's volleyball team in a very passive position, and although the last two rounds have won, they have no help.
Perhaps the fans of the Chinese women's volleyball team can find a lot of reasons: if Zhu Ting is not injured, if she is divided into group A, she will inevitably qualify, if she seizes the opportunity in a battle with the Russian team... But competitive sports have no ifs, only facts. For the Chinese women's volleyball team, the experience of the Tokyo Olympics is full of regrets, but it is also a valuable asset.
Unfortunately, there are also table tennis teams and weightlifting teams, even if these two dream teams have achieved magical results again, but at this time they are only one step away from perfection.
For the first time, the Tokyo Olympics have included table tennis mixed doubles as a competition event, and the host is well known for this move. To be fair, in recent years, Japanese table tennis players have risen rapidly, creating a great threat to national table tennis, but there is still a gap between strength, experience and Chinese players. Representing the national table tennis in the mixed doubles competition is Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen, which is a fantastic mixed doubles combination in recent years, which has won the World Championships and many international competitions, and created a record of 38 wins and 1 loss before the Olympic Games. As expected before the match, the final was played between Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen and the host players Mizutani Hayabusa/Ito Mishimasa, and the Xinwen combination was burdened with the good situation of winning the first two sets, and finally lost 3-4. The other 4 small events, two team national table tennis double gold, two singles both won gold and silver, 4 gold and 3 silver total results are only a small step away from the full score, mixed doubles lost gold medals, indeed some regrets.
The 8 Olympic weightlifters won 7 gold and 1 silver, which is the performance created by the Chinese weightlifting team in the Tokyo Olympic Games, which is the best performance in the history of the Chinese weightlifting team, which is a rare masterpiece in the history of world weightlifting. Of course, there is also a hint of regret in the joy of winning the victory, because Liao Qiuyun lost to the Philippines' Díaz with 6 all the successes, and was the runner-up in the women's 55 kg category with a narrow gap of 1 kg. Liao Qiuyun's defeat has caused many opinions from all sides, and the vast majority of opinions from the outside world are that the coach's tactical conservatism has led to defeat, on the grounds that Liao Qiuyun's world championship victory is significantly higher than the Olympic championship performance, and the weightlifting team's opinion is that Liao Qiuyun played the level at that time. We can't talk about heroes with gold medals, Liao Qiuyun won a silver medal is also very valuable, but in the case of all six effective, he lost to his opponent 1 kg, and the tactics are indeed debatable. If the Chinese weightlifting team can cut every detail in the future preparations, it is expected to create greater glory.
In the final days of the Tokyo Olympics, the American Legion gradually narrowed the gold medal gap with the Chinese team. At that time, the Chinese delegation held several gold points in athletics, table tennis, diving, boxing, karate, wrestling and other sports, and as a result, no one won the gold medal in the fighting category, and the Tokyo Olympics failed to repeat the scene in which the national players overpowered the crowd in the Beijing Olympics. We do not talk about heroes with gold medals, but the overall situation of fighting sports in recent years is an indisputable fact, judo, wrestling has not seen gold medals for three consecutive years, women's boxing has not been able to break through the window paper of the Olympic champion, the Chinese Olympic Games to achieve greater breakthroughs in the overseas Olympic Games, the need for the recovery of various sports in the fighting category, the rise!
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