Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei attacked with all his might, and the short track speed skating team attacked the first gold of the Chinese delegation tonight

At 7 p.m. on February 5, the short track speed skating event will usher in the first competition day of the Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the official information released before the competition, in the three events played tonight, Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and Li Wenlong will participate in the men's 1000m preliminaries; the women's 500m preliminaries will be Qu Chunyu, Zhang Yuting and Fan Kexin. In the mixed relay quarterfinals, China and South Korea, Italy and Poland were in one group. According to the schedule, the mixed relay event will decide the gold medal tonight, which is likely to be the first gold of the Chinese delegation in this Winter Olympics.

In the semi-finals of the 2000m mixed relay of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Beijing on October 21 last year, the Chinese team composed of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu set a new world record in 2:37.747. Recently, the Chinese team has accumulated 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the 2000-meter mixed relay of 4 sub-stations of the World Cup. With the good results of the four World Cups, the Chinese team firmly occupied the first place in the world ranking of the project with an absolute advantage of 28,000 points, the Netherlands team ranked second with 21277 points, and the third place was the Hungarian team with a score of 19,500 points. From the point of view of points, the Chinese team has the strength to win gold in the Winter Olympics event.

Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporters Li Li Wang Xiaoxiao Liu Shuang Li Songlin

Edited by Meng Ziwei

Process Editor Liu Weili