"Ren Ziwei delayed handing in his homework because of training", which should be one of the hot topics of the Chinese short track team in the past two days. In order not to delay his training and competition, the teacher also kindly "invited" him out of the group. It was the student who was invited out, who was crowned the champion with a time of 1 minute 26.768 in the men's 1000 meters final of the Winter Olympics short track speed skating on the evening of the 7th, and won the second gold medal of this competition.
If you want to say that in the recent year, to be precise, in the past season, who is the most outstanding athlete of the Chinese short track speed skating team, Ren Ziwei, born in 1997, is definitely the best that deserves it, and at the end of last year, when the domestic media summarized the performance of the short track team, it was even more stingy to use words such as "the best performance" and "the best performance" to describe Ren Ziwei's performance, then is the popular student of the short track team really so good? The answer is yes.
Looking back at last season's four short track speed skating World Cup sub-stations, Ren Ziwei's performance was perfect. Not only won two gold medals in the 1000 meters and 1500 meters in four World Cup competitions, a total of three individual events, but also helped the Chinese team win two gold medals in the mixed relay, especially in his main event of 1500 meters, Ren Ziwei won the world cup in Hungary and the Netherlands for two consecutive championships, and finally ranked first in the world rankings of the season, showing his strong strength and great dominance in this project. It should be pointed out in particular that in the final of the Dutch station, Ren Ziwei led the last ten laps until the last one crossed the finish line, which can be described as a ride. In addition, Ren Ziwei ranked third in the world in the 500 meters and seventh in the 1000 meters, which fully shows that he is already an all-round player with strong comprehensive strength.
In fact, as early as 2014, Ren Ziwei, who was only 17 years old at the time, had already emerged in international competitions, and in the World Youth Championships in March of that year, he not only won the championship of the men's 3000 meters relay with his teammates, but also won the third place in the 1500 meters in his personal event. In the following years, Ren Ziwei continued to improve step by step, and in 2015, he won his first World Cup single event in Shanghai (1500 meters). At the 2017 Asian Winter Games, Ren Ziwei won the men's 5,000-meter relay in Sapporo, Japan, and also let his name appear frequently in various media reports. However, it is somewhat regrettable that at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, although he once broke the Olympic record of the men's 500 meters, he finally missed the podium, and in the future short track speed skating World Cup, although he tried his best every time, he was still a little bit worse than the champion of his personal event.
It wasn't until February 2020, nearly five years after he won his first World Cup single-player event, that he used a rare opening long-distance leading tactic in Dresden, Germany, and finally won the championship with this rare "snare" tactic, thus breaking south Korea's long monopoly on the men's 1500m championship. And this is also the beginning of his crazy "gold picking", and then in the following more than a year, he won the championship many times in domestic and international competitions, becoming the hottest person in the state, many people who are familiar with him even have some "worry", so early out of the state is not a good thing for him to prepare for the Winter Olympics, but from the actual situation, Ren Ziwei did not receive any impact, and he who walked on the Olympic field is still the one with the best performance.
2 days ago, the Chinese team was able to win the gold medal of the mixed team relay, Ren Ziwei was indispensable, although after the game, he modestly attributed the credit to the entire team, but everyone knows that the strongest athlete in the Chinese short track team is actually him, and in the final of the men's 1000 meters, Ren Ziwei showed his strength and finally won the championship. In fact, in addition to the identity of the athlete, Ren Ziwei is still studying for graduate school at Beijing Sport University, because of the preparation for the Winter Olympic Games and missed the time to submit papers, Ren Ziwei had to contact the relevant responsible classmates to make up their homework, and the teacher in order not to delay his game, has been kind to Ren Ziwei temporarily invited out of the group chat. And the student who was temporarily invited out of the group did not live up to everyone's expectations in the end.
Text/Beiqing Sports Zhang Kunlong