On the evening of February 4, Beijing time, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be held. On February 5, the first official competition day will be entered, and the Chinese sports delegation will also usher in the first gold rush point - short track speed skating mixed 2000 meters relay, and China will send Wu Dajing, Fan Kexin and other six people to participate.
The short track speed skating mixed 2000m relay is a new event for the Winter Olympics, with 2 men and 2 women per game. The Chinese team has strong strength in this project, and has won gold and silver many times in the short track World Cup sub-station competition. This project is expected to make a good start for the Chinese sports delegation!
On the 5th, the short track speed skating mixed team relay set up a quarter-final, semi-final, and final. According to the official website of the competition, the Chinese short track team sent Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting to the competition.
In the quarterfinals of the Mixed 2000m Relay at the Winter Olympics, China was in Group A, along with South Korea, Italy and Poland. The world record for the project was 2:35.951 skated by South Korea at the World Cup in Beijing on October 24 last year.
The mixed 2000m relay quarterfinals will be held at 20:23 on February 5, with the semi-finals at 20:53 and the final at 21:26. Please pay attention to the live broadcast and cheer for the Chinese team!
Earlier, Wu Dajing said that for the mixed relay competition, the whole team is very confident. "We have to go all out to play well and give a sample to the next teammates, including the Chinese delegation!" Wu Dajing said.
In addition, the women's 500m preliminaries and the men's 1000m preliminaries will be held on February 5. In the women's 500m preliminaries, the Chinese team sent Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting and Qu Chunyu to participate, and Zhang Yuting was in the same group as the defending champion of the Winter Olympics and Italian veteran FangTana.
In the men's 1000m preliminaries, China sent Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and Li Wenlong to compete. Lee Moon-yong is in the same group as South Korean star Hwang Dae-hyun and Dutch star Kneigert.