The men's 1000m short track speed skating final of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was attended by Liu Shaolin, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Li Wenlong and Liu Shaoang. At the beginning of the race, Wu Dajing played a good starting role, he rushed to the front, but Liu Shaoang quickly rushed to the leading position with the help of the inner road. Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong were behind. With 4 laps left in the game, the game needed to be restarted due to the damaged ice surface on the spot and the referee whistled.
The game restarted, Liu Shaolin grabbed the first place, and Ren Ziwei quickly accelerated to the first place. With 4 laps remaining, Liu Shaolin achieved a surpass, followed by Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong. At this time, Wu Dajing and Liu Shaoang had no strength, and they were thrown far away. In the last lap, Ren Ziwei sprinted hard, and Liu Shaolin tried to resist. In the final straight sprint, Liu Shaolin still took the lead in crossing the finish line, but he had a cross-cutting plus hand blocking action, Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong ranked second or third.
In the end, after the referee repeatedly reviewed the video, Liu Shaolin was sentenced for a foul and given a yellow card, and he was sent off. Ren Ziwei won the championship, Li Wenlong won the second place, and Wu Dajing won the fourth place. In this way, Ren Ziwei won the second gold medal of the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics with a time of 1 minute 26.768 seconds, achieving a breakthrough of zero gold medals for the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics in this event.
This is the second Winter Olympic medal won by the Chinese team in the short track speed skating men's 1000 meters event - at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, Jilin famous Li Jiajun won the silver medal with a time of 1:32.43, and he only lost to South Korea's Kim Dong-sung by a gap of 0.05 seconds. Still, he became the first Chinese male athlete to win a winter Olympic medal.
In addition, youngster Li Wenlong won the silver medal in 1 minute 29 seconds 917, and Hungary's Liu Shaoang won the bronze medal in 1 minute 35 seconds 693 seconds. After the short track speed skating men's 1000 meters won the gold, CCTV commentator Yang Yang burst into tears in the live broadcast room: I didn't have such a big pressure when I was an athlete myself. After Ren Ziwei learned that he had won the gold, he looked up to the sky and shouted, holding the national flag around the scene to celebrate!
The Chinese team won the second gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, but this gold medal was not easy to come by. Before the start of the men's 1000m Group A final, the Chinese team was in a good situation, and all three of them entered the final. After the final gunfire, all the players were recalled due to the damage to the ice surface at the scene, and the game resumed. At this time, everyone has consumed a lot of physical strength, the referee's decision is for safety reasons, but this is a huge test for the contestants, because they have to play the final again in the absence of enough rest, and veterans like Wu Dajing have almost withdrawn from the championship competition in advance, fortunately, Ren Ziwei seized the opportunity to finally win the championship, congratulations!