On February 7, Beijing time, the women's 500-meter short track speed skating event at the Winter Olympics will decide the gold medal. Considering that the three female players of the Chinese team, Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting and Qu Chunyu, all easily advanced to the rematch, it is expected to hit the medal or even the gold medal. As many viewers expected, I hope that the Chinese short track speed skating women's team can use the advantages of home combat to "recover the lost ground" and reproduce the glory of the dream team!
This is no exaggeration. Looking back at the past of the Chinese team in the Past Winter Olympics, the short track speed skating event is definitely our most outstanding performance and best performance. In particular, in the women's 500m event of short track speed skating, the Chinese team has won four consecutive championships: Yang Yang at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Wang Meng at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and Vancouver 2010, and Li Jianrou at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. It is no exaggeration to say that these three women will form a cross-era Team of Chinese Dreams.
However, with the retirement of these famous players, the Chinese team encountered a break in the short track speed skating women's 500 meters event. At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, I could only watch South Korea's Choi Min-jin win the championship. Now that four years have passed, the Chinese short track speed skating women's team is still struggling to regain its dominance over the project.
The most illustrative of this is this season's World Cup competition, in which the Chinese short track speed skating women's team only had Fan Kexin advance to the final of the 500 meters and finally won the bronze medal. Even considering the emotional bonus of the home battle to the players, I am afraid it will be difficult to win the championship. After all, they do not have the absolute strength to compete for the championship, and the opponents are very strong. In addition to the defending champion and South Korea's Choi Min-jing, world record holder Kim Butting of Canada and the Netherlands' Suzanne Shultin, who has just set an Olympic record, are all not to be underestimated.
Because of this, the pragmatic goal of the Chinese team should be to strive for the top three. Referring to the performance of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting and Qu Chunyu in the past year, there is a great opportunity to do this. In particular, Fan Kexin, a veteran who played in the Winter Olympics for the third time, has done this in the previous World Cup sub-stations, and I believe that she is expected to shoulder the heavy responsibility of competing for medals. Of course, Zhang Yuting and Qu Chunyu, two young players, also have the level of competing for the top three, so I look forward to our three golden flowers being able to successfully enter the final and strive for the best results!