On the evening of February 11, Beijing time, the short track speed skating competition of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics continued to be held at the Capital Gymnasium, and the Chinese team has now won two gold medals, while the Italian team and the South Korean team have each won one gold medal. Among the remaining individual events, the men's 500 meters event received the most attention from domestic audiences. In the first shot, the Chinese team Wu Dajing, Sun Long and Ren Ziwei all successfully advanced. Some netizens exclaimed, "This gold medal is stable"! At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing of the Chinese team won the championship by an absolute advantage in the event, and won the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics for the Chinese short track speed skating men's team. The Beijing Winter Olympics will be a battle for Wu Dajing's defense of his title.
If he can score twice, he will be the first to defend the Winter Olympics short track speed skating men's 500m event. In this short track speed skating men's 500m competition, the Chinese team sent Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long to compete, striving to achieve two consecutive Olympic championships. In terms of main opponents, South Korea's Huang Daxian was the runner-up winner of the project at the last Winter Olympics, and Hungary's Liu Shaolin, Liu Shaoang and several Canadian main players will be a threat to the Chinese team. After Ren Ziwei won the gold medal in the men's 1000 meters event, Wu Dajing said in an interview that he also wanted to win the men's 500 meters championship.
He also teased that he could not lose to his good brother Ren Ziwei in the number of Olympic gold medals.
After the start of the 500m preliminary round, each group of runners played at a very high level, and the club record and personal best were constantly broken. Ren Ziwei is in the second group, the biggest opponent in the same group is Canada's Lawn, in the end, Ren Ziwei established the advantage from the start, and with a time of 40.669 seconds, he was the first to hit the line and advanced to the quarterfinals. Sun Long finished in the seventh group, and in the 1500m race, the youngster was pushed to the cusp of the storm due to lack of hard work.
Fighting again in the 500 meters, he withstood the pressure and smoothly entered the next round. The high-profile Wu Dajing appeared in the finale of the eighth group, and due to the limited overall strength of the opponent, he took the lead in crossing the finish line with a huge advantage, taking the first step towards the road to defending the title. Wang Meng also said in the commentary that Wu Dajing is in good shape and has shown good strength in line selection and on-site response. After the successful promotion of the three players of the Chinese team, head coach Jin Shantai said that the men's 500 meters is the only event for the Chinese team to defend the title, and the pressure and motivation coexist.
He also hopes that Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long can step by step and march towards the final. In this Winter Olympics, the men's 500m event is fiercely competitive, with China, South Korea, Hungary and Canada being the main champions. In the previous world cup sub-stations, these teams were equally divided, and when they came to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, who could laugh to the end? Whether It is Wu Dajing's home history to defend his title, or Ren Ziwei winning the championship for the first time, or other players highlighting the siege, let us wait and see!
(Luo Treasurer)