February 5, Beijing time, the first competition day of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The chinese delegation's most gold-winning project short track speed skating in history officially opened today, in the speed skating competition that ended earlier, mainland athletes Adak and Han Mei did not enter the top ten, did not qualify for the medal, and tonight's short track speed skating will be the highlight for the Chinese audience, today will be the women's 500 meters, men's 1000 meters preliminary round, mixed team relay quarterfinals and finals, of which the mixed team relay project is the most promising project for the Chinese team today.
The first to play in the women's 500 meters of Fan Kexin, she skated out of 43.275 seconds to easily get the first place in the group, and the Russian Olympic Committee Team Sophia joined hands to advance to the next round of competition, and then Zhang Yuting tried to surpass the Italian players before the finish line, but failed to succeed, but also ranked second in the group with 43.230 seconds, and Qu Chunyu was assigned to a group of Japanese and Korean, Dutch players, and finally the second most thrilling promotion of the group, although the preliminary stage also appeared athletes fell, But other famous players also made it to the finale.
In the men's 1000m preliminaries, Ren Ziwei made his first appearance, he chose to lead from the beginning and maintained the lead to the end, the result was 1 minute 23.77 minutes, the 2018 Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing followed closely behind, Wu Dajing's opponents in the same group were stronger, but he still got the first place in the group relatively easily, Li Wenlong made his Winter Olympic debut in the fifth group, Li Wenlong started behind, tried to surpass many times, but unfortunately, he finally ranked third with a very slight disadvantage. Fortunately, according to the rules, Li Wenlong advanced to the third place with the best results in the group.
Overall, the performance of the men's and women's teams today is relatively conservative, putting more emphasis on the mixed 2000m relay event that will produce a gold medal tonight, and it is expected that Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Qu Chunyu and Fan Kexin will be able to win the first gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics!