After four World Cup points matches and three selection matches within the team, the short track speed skating team's lineup for the Beijing Winter Olympics has been released. A few days ago, with the opening of the media information system of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track speed skating team also announced the final list of 10 participants, and the team led by Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei will continue to win glory for the country with the old and the new.
The short track speed skating Winter Olympic squad list is exactly the same as the results after the selection, the male players are Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Li Wenlong, Zhang Tianyi, and the women's team is composed of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Zhang Yuting, Zhang Chutong and Han Yutong. Among the 10 players, Wu Dajing and Fan Kexin began to compete in the Winter Olympics since the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, while Ren Ziwei, Qu Chunyu and Han Yutong participated in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Wu Dajing in the World Cup competition. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei have performed well in this season's World Cup, with Wu Dajing winning the men's 500m gold medal in the Netherlands, while Ren Ziwei won three individual gold medals including the 1000m and 1500m. The above two events, as well as the men's 5,000m relay and the mixed 2,000m relay, will be the parts of the Chinese team that have the strength to compete for. Both Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei will be put on the battlefield in these projects to lay the foundation for the Chinese team to achieve good results.
Five young players will start their inaugural Winter Olympics in Beijing, with Zhang Tianyi, born in 2004, and Zhang Chutong, born in 2003, the youngest players in the men's and women's teams. Male players Sun Long and Li Wenlong are also "post-00" players. Several youngsters have made appearances in the 2021-2022 World Cup and have performed well. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the young players will add strength to the team with the trend of "newborn calves".
Previously, the short track speed skating team was training and preparing for the battle in Beijing Shougang Park, and the picture shows Ren Ziwei in training. Photo/Wei Zheng
The Chinese Winter Olympic delegation participated for the first time in Lake Placid in 1980, and it was not until the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics that it achieved a breakthrough of "zero" gold medals, and Yang Yang won the gold medal in the short track speed skating women's 500 meters and 1000 meters, and the short track speed skating event has become the traditional strength of ice and snow sports on the mainland. In the following Winter Olympics, China's short track speed skating has gold medals in the account, and Wang Meng has won a total of 4 gold medals in the two Winter Olympics in Turin and Vancouver, becoming the player with the largest number of gold medals in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics. Zhou Yang achieved the success of the women's 1500 meters at the Vancouver and Sochi Winter Olympics. Wu Dajing won the gold medal in the men's 500 meters with a world record-breaking performance at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, becoming the first winter Olympic gold medalist for a men's short track speed skater. Generations of short track speed skaters have written a song of struggle with their youth.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's short track speed skating will encounter unprecedented difficulties, the old rival South Korea recently announced the winter Olympic list, Huang Daxian and Cui Minjing led the army, the threat is menacing. In this week, the rapid rise of European forces such as the Netherlands and Hungary cannot be ignored. Coupled with the traditional strong team Canada and so on, China's short track speed skating must be dominated by me, continuing the good performance of the previous sessions.
"Rush for the motherland!" Wu Dajing and his teammates came to Tiananmen Square to watch the flag-raising ceremony before the Winter Olympics and took the lead in taking the oath. "It was very exciting to watch the flag being raised before the expedition. As an athlete with clearer goals and more confidence, I will go all out to the Beijing Winter Olympics to strive for good results and complete my dreams. Wu Dajing said.