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South Korea's strength in short-track speed skating is indeed strong. In the men's 1500m short track speed skating final of the Beijing Winter Olympics last night, South Korea's Huang Daxian pushed Canada's Dubois and Russia's Yelistratov to take the lead in crossing the line with undisputed results, winning the first gold medal for South Korea in this Winter Olympics.
After the game, Huang Daxian admitted for the first time in an interview with reporters that he had previously been eliminated for fouls in the men's 1000 meters semifinals, and it was indeed that he did not skate clean enough in the competition, and he was punished for self-inflicted.
Short-track speed skating has always been the place of right and wrong of the Winter Olympics, blocking, cutting, pulling and other foul actions emerge in an endless stream, although these fouls are one of the contents of the game, but also the charm of short track speed skating, but the phenomenon of misjudgment and even unfair punishment does exist, so controversy and anti-epidemic are inevitable.
The previous mixed 2000m relay and men's 1000m short track speed skating finals had a controversial scene, especially in the men's 1000m competition, Huang Daxian was yellow carded by the referee in the semifinals for illegally oversteping foul contact, and was disqualified from the competition.
It was as if the honeycomb had been stabbed at once, and public opinion in South Korea was agitated, believing that the domestic players had suffered unfair penalties. The South Korean delegation was extremely dissatisfied with the penalty, jumping up and down, and the Korean Sports Association protested and appealed, and even threatened to boycott the game.
In this context, the men's 1500m race has been particularly concerned by the outside world. It is worth mentioning that China's three athletes did not qualify for the final final, especially Ren Ziwei, who has the highest demand for winning the championship, he has two golds in his hand, but in the semi-finals he was disqualified for blocking fouls, regrettably missed the final, and did not qualify for the three golden kings.
For this sentence, Ren Ziwei was convinced and did not complain a bit. He called his foul a low-level mistake. When analyzing the reasons for the mistakes, he thought he was carrying a heavy burden and thinking too much during the game, so he ignored some details. He said he had realized what mistake he had made and would not make the same mistake again in later games.
To be sure, the men's 1500m race was indeed the cleanest race since the start of the short track speed skating race. Hwang Dae-hyun demonstrated the strong strength of South Korea's short track speed skating during the competition, the winning process was clean and indisputable, and while proving himself, he also broke the "gold medal drought" for the South Korean delegation so far. Congratulations.
Ren Ziwei was willing to be punished without complaint, and the Chinese short track speed skating team calmly accepted such a result. One Hwang Dae-hyun was punished, but it made the whole of South Korea jump up and down, and threatened to boycott the game. Now, Huang Daxian's voice after winning the championship is undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face of the Korean Sports Association.