As the new core role of the Chinese short track speed skating team, Ren Ziwei did not perform well in the men's 1500 meters semifinals of short track speed skating and did not qualify, while Huang Daxian, a brother of the South Korean short track speed skating team, successfully advanced to the final, and in front of Liu Shaolin, Liu Shaoang and other masters, he maintained the lead to the end and became the final champion. This also excited Hwang Daehyun and the entire Korean short track speed skating team. So much so that some ice fans can't help but sigh that the Korean short track speed skating team finally found a chance to win the gold medal cleanly after successive defeats and various fouls. As far as Ren Ziwei is concerned, after Huang Daxian won the championship and did not qualify for the final, he admitted that he did not perform well and made some mistakes in the game.
From Ren Ziwei's statement, we can also feel that this is an athlete who can win and lose. Of course, while congratulating our opponents on their good results, we also need to analyze and summarize why Ren Ziwei won gold in the mixed team and the 1000 meters event in front of him, but in the 1500 meters event, which ranked first in his World Cup, he did not even have the opportunity to enter the top 10? In various competitions before, Ren Ziwei, who has been very good in the 1500-meter event, why did he have poor results in his main event and have such a big gap with his opponents?
In fact, there are three reasons for this, and the first reason is that you want to win the championship in advance and want to win or lose. Sometimes on the field, all you need is a normal heart. A heart that only thinks about how to do technical actions and how to win the game, rather than trying to win the championship and results in the process of the game. However, such an unexpected situation is also a good thing for Ren Ziwei, because he will let him know that everything may happen before the game is over. What is needed is focus and concentration, not thinking about the championship and the result in advance. Of course, Huang Daxian can win the championship, in addition to his personal strength, but also because the front Korean team has not performed well, which instead allows him to have a sense of normalcy in the 1500 meters competition, make enough difficult preparations, and also find a very focused state, which in turn promotes the play of his personal ability and eventually wins the championship. Similarly, Canadian athlete Steven Dubois, who eventually finished second, also ushered in a low-key outbreak. Things are like this has been in the process of development and change, among these world masters, it is difficult to say who is necessarily better than whom, or it depends on the state of presence and play.
Second, from the short track speed skating and the road speed skating in recent days, there have been similar problems, that is, Chinese athletes have high world rankings or World Cup points, but when they really stand on the Olympic field, their results are average. For example, Ning Zhongyan, who is a man who skates 1 kilometer, and Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, and Zhang Tianyi, who are short-track speed skaters. In particular, Ren Ziwei, because he won two gold medals in front of him, coupled with the first place in the 1500-meter event, misled him to a certain extent. In fact, from the perspective of absolute results, Ren Ziwei was still in the 5th place in the 1500-meter event, so when he had too high expectations for himself, and at the same time, he was overly excited on the field of competition, but he was unexpectedly out, and even failed to slide into the final.
Third, as Far as Ren Ziwei is concerned, the strength is still there, but it is not up to the degree of absolute leadership that Wu Dajing had in the men's 500-meter event four years ago. And in a hurry, Ren Ziwei also had a foul. This also shows that in addition to ideological and spiritual problems, Ren Ziwei also needs to do some more detailed treatment in terms of technology and tactics to prevent the occurrence of cancellation of achievements due to penalties. There are still relay races waiting for him to play a key role. We also hope that Ren Ziwei can work hard to the end and continue to strive for good results.