The final of the Mixed Team Relay in the short track speed skating event of the Winter Olympics was contested by Chinese, Hungarian, Canadian and Italian teams. As a result, with strong strength and stable play, the Chinese team pushed italy to win the first place, and successfully won the first gold of The Beijing Winter Olympics. With this gold medal, Wu Dajing also became the first male athlete in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics to win more than 1 gold medal.
In the previous quarter-finals, the Chinese team was divided into the first group, and the opponents in the same group were Italy, South Korea and Poland. As a result, the Chinese team showed great strength from the beginning, the leading position was almost unshaked, and finally advanced to the semifinals with a time of 2 minutes 37.535 seconds in the group. As the strongest opponent of the Chinese team in this project, the world record holder South Korea made a low-level mistake in the handover of the baton in the competition, once fell off the track, and finally slipped to the third place, missing the semi-finals.
In the semi-finals that followed, the Chinese team was placed in Group 2, along with Hungary, the United States and ROC (Russian Olympic Organizing Committee). At the beginning of the game, the Hungarian team took the lead, and the Chinese team has been relatively passive until the fourth stick Wu Dajing took over. But since then, the United States and ROC have been sentenced due to blocking fouls on the baton, and although the lead ended the game, they were still judged. China and Hungary were lucky enough to advance to the final. It is worth mentioning that in the semifinals, the Chinese team made a substitution on the first stick, and Zhang Yuting replaced Fan Kexin. In the semifinals, the Chinese team's result was 2:50.71.
In the final match, the Chinese team was placed in the fourth place in Group A, this time the Chinese team re-sent the combination of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing. At the beginning of the game, Fan Kexin suppressed Hungary's third position, and after handing over to Qu Chunyu and Ren Ziwei, the Chinese team continued to overtake, and then handed over the first place to Wu Dajing.
Handing over the baton again, Fan Kexin suddenly accelerated, and Canada accidentally fell. After Ren Ziwei took over the baton, the Chinese team was far ahead, once opening up the gap of seven laps. The last stick, Wu Dajing sprinted, taking the lead in crossing the finish line. From being in an unfavorable fourth lane position at the beginning, to finally continuing to overtake with efforts and consolidating the advantage to the final game, the Chinese team showed an overwhelming advantage in winning gold.
Importantly, the Chinese team ended the game perfectly with a score of 0 mistakes in the final and successfully won the first gold medal of the Chinese Winter Olympics.
For the Chinese team, this gold grab can be said to be a combination of heaven (New Year festival), geographical advantages (host), people and (all Chinese people are looking forward to the first gold) in one, coupled with the strength of ranking first in the world, as well as the mentality of conscience, perfect technical and tactical play, the Chinese team can be said to be the desired gold. The final result shows that the Chinese team is 2 minutes 37 seconds 348 seconds. Congratulations to the Chinese team.