On the evening of February 7, Beijing time, the women's 500m quarterfinals of short track speed skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics have ended, and Fan Kexin of the Chinese team once again missed the gold medal competition. In the race, she was knocked off the track by Canadian athletes, and all three Olympic Games lost the gold medal in the women's 500 meters event, which made many netizens lament her ups and downs. Commentator Dayang Yang said: This is the most stable time in the three Olympic Games to watch Xiao Fan skate 500 meters, anyway, pay tribute to Xiao Fan. Previously, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu and teammates Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei together won a valuable gold medal in the short track speed skating of the Winter Olympics in the mixed 2000-meter relay final of the mixed men's and women's games, which was also the first Olympic gold medal in Fan Kexin's career.
The Beijing Winter Olympics will be Fan Kexin's last Olympic trip, and the previous Winter Olympics in Sochi and Pingchang, even if she is the favorite to win the women's 500-meter event, but the two Olympic Games have returned home. This time at home, Fan Kexin once bluntly said in front of the camera that "there is no regret". As we all know, the short track speed skating women's 500 meters event has always been the traditional advantage of the Chinese team. At the 2022 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Dayang Yang rode the dust in the final and won the olympic first gold for the Chinese team in the project.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Wang Meng won two consecutive championships in the women's 500m event and opened an eight-year streak. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, dark horse Li Jianrou won the championship dramatically in the final, helping the team to successfully defend the title again. At the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin was considered the favorite to win the women's 500 event, but he was carelessly lost in the semifinals and failed to reach the final. Fan Kexin is the leader of China's short track speed skating women's 500m event after Wang Mao.
However, unlike Wang Mao, Fan Kexin's achievements in international competitions are not directly proportional to his own strength and external expectations. During the Sochi Winter Olympic Cycle, Fan Kexin, who turned out to be the successor of Wang Mao, under the leadership of Wang Meng, Zhou Yang, Liu Qiuhong and others, Fan Kexin's growth rate was amazing. With the fading of several master sisters, Fan Kexin also entered the trough of his career. Fan Kexin, who has won countless gold in the entire Sochi Olympic cycle, "dropped the chain" in the most critical Winter Olympic games, which is a great disappointment. Four years later in Pyeongchang, Fan Kexin became the first sister of the women's team.
But it once again missed the gold medal in the main 500 meters, which also brought the Chinese women's team to an abrupt end to its 12-year domination of the event at the Olympic Games. From shining in 2013 to twilight in 2022, in the past ten years, Fan Kexin has had many opportunities to prove himself, but he has not seized them. Fortunately, the mixed 2000-meter relay final of this Winter Olympics made up for Fan Kexin's regrets. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, although Fan Kexin once again passed the gold medal in the women's 500 meters event, the veteran's persistence over the years deserves everyone's applause. In the next four years, will she still be present in the Winter Olympics?
(Luo Treasurer)