On February 9, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics came to the fifth day of competition.
The short track speed skating event continues tonight, in the already concluded competition, the women's 1000m preliminary round of the mainland three participating players Han Yutong, Zhang Chutong and Qu Chunyu all advanced, the women's 3000m relay, composed of Zhang Yuting, Han Yutong, Zhang Chutong, Qu Chunyu and Fan Kexin composed of the Chinese team successfully advanced to the final, the final will compete with Canada, the Netherlands and South Korea for medals. In the men's 1500m, Sun Long and Zhang Tianyi were eliminated in the quarter-finals, Ren Ziwei was found guilty of foul in the semi-finals, and no Chinese players participated in the men's 1500m final.
Due to the situation in the men's 1500m semi-finals, the original track was very crowded, in the final, Hungary's Liu Shaoang Liu Shaolin brothers and three Korean players are the favorite to compete for gold, but the final of the seven people, coupled with the referee's decision to advance and the third place in the group with the best results, became a ten-person competition, which made this group of finals become a huge variable, it is difficult to avoid physical contact and referee intervention. However, from the emotional point of view of Chinese audiences, it is not very good to see Koreans achieve too good results.
At the beginning of the race, the starting race was smoother than expected, and although there was physical contact during the race, no one slid out of the track, just like the long-distance track and field competition, there was gradually a group differentiation, and finally the South Korean team's Hwang Dae-hyun won the first gold medal of the South Korean delegation, simon of the Russian Olympic Committee team second, and the Canadian player won the bronze medal.
Through the defeat of this men's 1500m competition, I believe that the Chinese short track speed skating team can sum up the lessons learned, as Wang Meng said in the game commentary, with the overall level of the current Winter Olympic participants, no player has the courage to adopt a conservative strategy, at the last moment, Sun Long's problem is so, and Ren Ziwei is also a foul that occurred when trying to surpass in the second half, and this decision-making mistake should not appear again.