On February 7, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics came to the third day of competition.
The short track speed skating event continues tonight and will produce gold medals in the women's 500 meters and men's 1000 meters, in the just-concluded quarterfinals, a total of six players from the mainland participated, of which Wu Dajing, Zhang Yuting, Qu Chunyu, Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong successfully advanced to the semifinals, while Fan Kexin fell out of the field in the competition and missed the semifinals, and the next thing to be done is the competition for the semi-finals of the two events.
Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting were both ranked in the second group of the women's 500 meters, the starting track of the two was not ideal, they were in a backward position at the beginning, the first Shu Erting maintained a large lead, and at the last moment Zhang Yuting used a slight advantage of two thousandths to cross the border, and Qu Chunyu was punished for fouls and did not qualify for the final, in the semi-finals where only the top two in the group could advance to the final, such a result was actually acceptable.
At the beginning of the men's 1000m semifinals, Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong were ranked in the first group at the same time, the two Chinese players maintained the lead in the first half, but the South Korean players achieved a rebound in the second half, and Li Wenlong was willing to maintain the third position in order to protect Ren Ziwei's promotion position, and more dramatically, the first Korean player was punished after the game, and the two Chinese players all advanced to the final.
Wu Dajing in this group of a total of 6 players, the track is more crowded, coupled with Wu Dajing's starting track is not ideal, for a long time in a backward position, and finally struggled to catch up to the third place position, after the referee video playback, Wu Dajing's ranking was raised to the second place, then the three Chinese players will be in the men's 1000 meters final at the same time.