From the starting point to the finish line, the distance of 500 meters, less than 1 minute of competition, in the Field of the Winter Olympic Games, the project is undoubtedly the most exciting and suspenseful event.
Yang Yang's gold medal story in 2002 has long become a good story of the Chinese short track speed skating team, and it is the emergence of this good story that opened China's absolute rule in the women's short track speed skating 500 meters event.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Yang Yang made his debut as the standard-bearer of the Chinese delegation, and the short track speed skating team continued to stand on the front line of the competition for gold and silver. However, the protagonist on the track this time is not Yang Yang, but a 22-year-old green onion girl from Heilongjiang. In 2004, the supernova, who had already won several 500-meter short track speed skating world championships, made his first appearance on the Winter Olympic stage without any stage fright. She successfully reached the final in her dominant event, facing the strong challenge of Radanova, she beat her opponent's top spot with a time of 44.345 seconds, helping China to achieve the defense of the project.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, when the women's short track speed skating 500 meters has entered the "Mao Era", Wang Mao, who has the aura of a king on his head, can be said to have no opponents. From the preliminary round to the final, Wang Meng's strength was vividly displayed, and in the final, she even slid through the finish line with a light breeze, easily defending the title of the project with a time of 43.048 seconds, and also helped China complete the three consecutive Winter Olympic championships in this project. After the game, the picture of Wang Meng kneeling on the ice track to thank li Yan, the benefactor on the sidelines, has also become an eternal classic in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics.
Four years later, before the Sochi Winter Olympics, Wang Meng, who was 30 years old at the time, suffered a fracture and serious injury during training, and the gold medal in the women's short track speed skating 500 meters event also fell to other team members. At this time, Li Jianrou, who has become a late bloomer, stepped forward, and this Jilin woman will finally usher in the first opportunity to participate in the Winter Olympics at the age of 28, and what she needs to do is to continue the light of her predecessors in the 500-meter event.
It was a dramatic game, with Lee Kin-rou, who started from the outside, falling to the end of the team, but the surprise soon appeared. The first lap was not over, the three players of the first group suddenly collided when turning, and the three of them lost their balance and slid out of the track one after another, at this time Li Jianrou instantly seized the opportunity to take over the position of the leader, and maintained the lead all the way to the end! Four consecutive championships! Li Jianrou has allowed the supremacy of China's women's short track speed skating 500 meters to continue.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the Chinese short track speed skating team encountered Waterloo in the women's 500m event, and no one successfully stood on the track of the final, and at this time, the glory of the gold medal fell on the men's event. Wu Dajing, who regrettably won the silver medal in Sochi four years ago, stood on the winter Olympic field again with his best form and successfully broke into the final of the men's 500-meter event, this time he did not let the gold medal slip away again, facing the South Korean athletes chasing and blocking, Wu Dajing rode through the finish line on a ride, and with a time of 39.584 seconds, he once again refreshed his recent world record and Olympic record, becoming the first short-track speed skating man in Chinese history to win gold.
At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track speed skating team is ready to go, at the doorstep, whether they can continue the glory, let's wait and see!