Liu Shaolin was convicted of foul and controversial! Fans on both sides quarreled, and Wang Meng stood up for Ren Ziwei. In the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating men's 1000m Group A final, although Hungary's Liu Shaolin skated 1:26.74, but because he had a foul, he was cancelled by the referee, and finally Ren Ziwei won the championship in 1:26.78, Li Wenlong won the second place in 1 minute 29.93, and another Hungarian player Liu Shaoang won the bronze medal.
The performance of the three Chinese players in the semi-finals was outstanding, Ren Ziwei, Liu Wenlong and Wu Dajing successively qualified for the final. There are 5 players in the final, namely Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Li Wenlong, Liu Shaolin, and Liu Shaoang. After the start of the final, these five players launched a fierce competition, when the game entered the last few laps, there was an unexpected situation on the field, the referee directly stopped the game, after a while the game restarted, after the gunshot, Ren Ziwei rushed to the first place, and then Wu Dajing also rushed up, but Liu Shaolin soon overtook Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei came to the first place, when there were still two laps left in the game, Wu Dajing had been completely thrown away, Liu Shaolin and Ren Ziwei launched the final contest, The two also had a very fierce confrontation before the finish line, and then Liu Shaolin took the lead in crossing the finish line, followed by Ren Ziwei.
When everyone thought that Liu Shaolin had won the championship, but there was a reversal, the referee, after watching the video replay, determined that Liu Shaolin had a foul and the results were invalid, so Ren Ziwei won the gold medal. When the results of this competition came out, The Great Yang Yang, who was the commentator, was already in tears, and she first congratulated Ren Ziwei on winning the championship, but soon felt sorry and regret for Liu Shaolin's loss of the championship, and also stressed how difficult it was for Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang to be two brothers. What is even more unexpected is that Ren Ziwei and Liu Shaolin's fans also quarreled on social media, some people thought that Liu Shaolin should be the champion, but immediately someone responded to Liu Shaolin's foul, and the fans on both sides quarreled.
Wang Meng explained why Liu Shaolin will be canceled results, this Winter Olympics is very strict, after each game, the referee will watch the video, as long as there are players who have fouls will be canceled results, but also added yellow card and red card rules, 2 yellow cards will become red cards, the results achieved will be invalid, Liu Shaolin is because of two yellows to one red to be judged foul. Wang Meng's statement also shows that she believes that there is no problem with Ren Ziwei winning the championship, and Liu Shaolin's loss of the crown is indeed a foul.