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 semi-finals, a total of five players from the mainland participated, of which Wu Dajing, Zhang Yuting, Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong successfully advanced to the final, while Qu Chunyu was punished for fouling and did not qualify for the final, and also lost the qualification for the semi-finals of Group B, while in the semi-finals of Group B, the Russian Olympic Committee players, Hungarian players, and Canadian players won the 6th to 8th places respectively.
The women's 500m Group A final begins, with Zhang Yuting, the sole seed of the Chinese women's team, and The defending champion Italy Fontana, the world record holder Canada's Jin Buting, the Netherlands' famous Shultin, and Belgium's Demei competing for the first gold medal in the short track speed skating individual event. At the beginning of the game, Zhang Yuting was not ideal in the fourth lane, and there were many episodes in the opening whistle of this group, Jin Buting was warned to run first, Fontana slid out of the field at the beginning, and the game was forced to reopen for the second time.
The game finally began, Zhang Yuting was in the fourth place in the initial stage, the follow-up attempt was to continuously add knives to try to overtake, but the front players stood firmly on the route, and finally Italy's Fontana successfully won the gold to defend the title, Shultin won the silver medal, Jin Buting won the bronze medal, Zhang Yuting's fourth place regrettably rubbed shoulders with the medal, the men's 1000 meters Group B final did not have Chinese players, and the result of the competition was relatively normal.
Men's Group A final has Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong three Chinese players, the other two Hungarian naturalized players are Liu Shaoang, Liu Shaolin brothers, are also Chinese who grew up in China, the game began, the three members of the Chinese team are in the middle of the three orders, which is actually beneficial to our team combat, Wu Dajing's rising stage is in the second position, Li Wenlong worked hard to help two teammates block the last Liu Shaoang, when the authorities were facing good, the referee blew the game, because Li Wenlong's ice knife was broken, The venue was damaged and the game was forced to reopen.
The game reopened, Ren Ziwei took the lead in grabbing the first position, Li Wenlong was still diligent in implementing tactics, but as the game progressed, Liu Shaoang flipped to the first place, entering the last three laps, Ren Ziwei struggled to catch up, both of them had actions in front of the finish line, the referee after a long period of game video playback, ruled that Liu Shaolin was warned of two fouls by yellow cards, and finally was judged to be invalid, Ren Ziwei successfully won the championship!!!
In addition, Li Wenlong won the silver medal, which was a reward for his willing sacrifice for the team! Hungary's Liu Shaoang won the bronze medal and congratulated the Chinese short track speed skating team!