The Winter Olympics entered the competition on February 9, and in the short track speed skating men's 1500 meters competition, Ren Ziwei from China won the semi-finals, but was finally sentenced to a foul and the results were invalidated. The Chinese team also missed the fourth gold medal of this Winter Olympics in advance, and Ren Ziwei's personal gold medals also stayed at 2.
Ren Ziwei previously defeated The Hungarian Chinese Liu Shaolin in the final of the short track speed skating 1000 meters, and also created his foul to win a gold medal. In the final of the mixed group relay, Ren Ziwei won the gold medal with Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin and Wu Dajing, but just when everyone was expecting Ren Ziwei to win the third gold and let the five-star red flag rise high again, Ren Ziwei folded the 1500-meter field, and it was still in the form of being judged foul, which was unacceptable to the Chinese audience.
In the previous 1500 meters preliminary round, Ren Ziwei played in group 6, and he got a good time of 2 minutes 15.08 seconds, ranking second in the group and successfully advancing. However, the other two players, Sun Long and Zhang Tianyi, failed to break into the semi-finals, which put a lot of pressure on Ren Ziwei, which meant that he had to fight alone in the semi-finals, while Liu Shaolin from Hungary skated a time of 2:09.213 in the preliminaries, breaking the Olympic record for the project, which also gave Ren Ziwei a bad hint.
Sure enough, in the semi-finals after this, Ren Ziwei's play went wrong, he came out of the third group, the previous slide was very smooth, he also raised his hands when he crossed the finish line, as if to show the referee that he did not have any problems and did not have physical contact with anyone. But unfortunately, after the game, the referee chose to watch the TV back, and from the slow motion, it can be seen that Ren Ziwei's left hand was placed on the right leg of the Italian player during a turn, which also caused the Italian player to be significantly blocked from sliding, and it was precisely because of the foul here that the referee finally determined that Ren Ziwei's results were invalid.
However, many netizens have said that this slow motion is obviously the Italian player also has a hand pushing and shoving action, but the Italian player has not been sentenced to foul, which is somewhat unexpected. However, the explanation given by the referee is that Ren Ziwei took the initiative to violate the body cylinder of the Italian player, and after being pushed, the Italian player pushed Ren Ziwei, which is a defensive action, so the main fault lies in Ren Ziwei. It is worth mentioning that Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang, two Hungarian players who have played against Ren Ziwei before, successfully advanced to the final, which is also a successful revenge for Ren Ziwei, but in the final, Huang Daxian from the South Korean team won the championship, which is also their first gold medal in short track speed skating in the Winter Olympics.
It can be said that Ren Ziwei's foul is still debatable, and it is also very regrettable that he was canceled. However, it is heartwarming that netizens are still very satisfied with Ren Ziwei's play, and many people have sent blessings to Ren Ziwei, thinking that his performance in this Winter Olympics has been perfect enough, and he has tried his best, and the result is not the most important words that emerge endlessly, which is also to let Ren Ziwei get comfort. At this point, the number of gold medals of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics is still stuck at 3, temporarily ranking 4th in the gold medal list.