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After winning the short track speed skating men's 2000m mixed relay at the Beijing Winter Olympics and two gold medals in the men's 1000m, the popularity of 24-year-old Chinese Ren Ziwei soared, and people are also looking forward to his subsequent performance at the Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, in the men's 1500m race on the evening of February 9, Ren Ziwei lost his best game and failed to reach the final due to being found guilty. Although Ren Ziwei failed to become the first Chinese men's short track Winter Olympic "Treble Champion", his performance so far has been satisfactory enough. I believe that this defeat will not affect people's confidence in him, let alone Ren Ziwei's confidence in himself, and then he will continue to attack the gold medal target.
As the representative of the Chinese short track speed skating team "Mesozoic Generation", Ren Ziwei has won two gold medals at the Winter Olympics, and he plans to attack the third gold in the 1500 meters competition. Ren Ziwei has been in good shape this season, particularly in the 1500m event. At the end of last year, he won consecutive World Cups in Hungary and the Netherlands, ranking first in the standings. In the quarter-finals, Ren Ziwei easily advanced to the semi-finals with the first place in the group, and with the other two players of the Chinese team, the 21-year-old rookie Sun Long and the 17-year-old Zhang Tianyi, failing to qualify, Ren Ziwei also became the only Chinese player to reach the semifinals.
In the semi-finals, Ren Ziwei was divided into the third group, along with South Korea's Park Chang-yeon, who ranked third in the World Cup, Italy's Comvertola, who won the World Cup in Japan this season, Hungary's Liu Shaoang, and Canada's veteran Hamelin. According to the rules, the top two in each group and the third place with the best results advance to the final, which shows how fierce the competition is.
In the semifinals, Ren Ziwei started in the fifth lane and slid in the middle position after starting. In the second half of the race, Ren Ziwei slid to the "First Group" and alternately led the skates with Liu Shaoang. In the final three laps, South Korea's Park Jang-woo surpassed Ren Ziwei from the inner path. In the end, Liu Shaoang took the lead in hitting the line, followed by Park Jang-hyun and Ren Ziwei. However, after video review, the referee ruled that Ren Ziwei had an arm block foul in the straight, and his performance was canceled, and Ren Ziwei was ultimately unable to break into the men's 1500m final, which he was best at.
In an interview after the game, Ren Ziwei made an interpretation of his loss, "I lost in a relatively tight, slippery unnatural, uncomfortable, details are not done well, there are indeed low-level mistakes, collisions with opponents, these are all mistakes that should not be made." Today I had a lot of ideas, and I was thinking about how the final should be played in the semifinals, so I ignored some details. Compared with the light armament of the previous two competitions, this game is still a bit heavy with ideological baggage. ”
Previously, in preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Ren Ziwei had set the goal of attacking the five Olympic gold medals in the men's short track speed skating 500 meters, 1000 meters, 1500 meters, men's 5000 meters relay and men's 2000 meters mixed relay. At this Winter Olympics, as the only full-time model worker of the Chinese team, Ren Ziwei will also compete in the men's 500 meters, in addition to partnering with Wu Dajing and Li Wenlong to impact the gold medal in the men's 5000 meters relay. For the subsequent matches, ren Ziwei can now face it with a smile, "This game ended early, I will now go back and start to summarize and adjust well." ”
Although Ren Ziwei's stop in the semi-finals in his strongest event was unexpected, on the positive side, this setback made him unload his heavy burden, summing up the experience of this game and learning lessons, Ren Ziwei can completely meet the next game in a better state. As a communist party member, Ren Ziwei was always unstoppable and unstoppable on the field, and people gave him the nickname "labor model". On July 1, 2021, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was solemnly held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and Ren Ziwei's blood boiled at the scene. After the conference, he quietly made a promise - to go all out to let the five-star red flag fly high on the field of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and let the "March of the Volunteer Army" be played loudly in the Capital Gymnasium. Today, Ren Ziwei has fulfilled his promises at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but he clearly has higher pursuits. Judging from Ren Ziwei's strength, if he can put aside distractions and rush with one heart like the previous two competitions, there will definitely be a chance to continue to win gold.
Ren Ziwei, come on!