The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating women's 1000m competition kicked off. What is surprising is that as the former overlord, the Chinese team was all out of the quarter-finals, and Han Yutong, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Chutong all failed to reach the semifinals. This poor result made many netizens call "unbelievable", and some people said that even if they could not win the gold medal, the Chinese team would not be without a single person to enter the semifinals. Wang Meng, who served as a commentator, was also shocked and helpless about the performance of the three players. From the former Olympic champions to the elimination of all the quarter-finals at home, the Chinese short track speed skating women's team really needs to work hard!
In this Winter Olympics, the competitiveness of the Chinese women's team in several individual events is relatively limited, since Wang Meng, the traditional advantage of the 500 meters Olympic gold medal, has been gradually separated from the Chinese team. In the previous women's 500m final, Fan Kexin, who had high hopes, once again drank and hated in the Olympic arena and had no chance to stand on the podium. In the end, Italian veteran Fangtana successfully defended her title in the project. From the perspective of strength, the Chinese team has the strength to compete for medals in the women's 1000 meters event, and the South Korean team's Choi Min-jing and the Netherlands' Shultin double sister-in-law are also two major favorites to win the championship.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea's Shin Seok-hee and Choi Min-jing fell in the final, and Shultin won the Olympic gold medal in the event for the first time. The strongest of the Chinese women's team in the long distance event is Zhou Yang and Wang Meng, the former won the women's 1500 meters event twice, and the latter won the gold medal in the women's 1000 meters at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, Han Yutong, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yutong were the most eye-catching players in the Chinese team, and Han Yutong won the championship in the World Cup sub-station.
Judging from the progress of the 1,000-meter quarterfinals, the state of the three players of the Chinese team is very sluggish. Han Yutong and Qu Chunyu were in the same group, and the same group also had Olympic record holder Shu Erting, due to poor strength and poor coordination, both players of the Chinese team were eliminated. Dutch star Schultin skated a time of 1:26.514 in the race, setting a new world record for the event. Zhang Chutong, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, also failed to play the role of a dark horse and was also blocked from the semifinals.
The results of the three runners all missing the semifinals of the women's 1000 meters have triggered heated discussions among many netizens. Some people believe that the Chinese women's team began to decline off a cliff in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic cycle, and after the retirement of Wang Meng, Zhou Yang and Liu Qiuhong, the women's team directly fell from the world's first-class to the second-rate, but the old rival South Korean team was talented and frequently won the championship. At the same time, the Dutch team, the Canadian team and the Italian team have risen strongly, and even led the Chinese team in the individual event. After the women's 1500 meters and 3000 meters relay, it is expected that the Chinese women's team can get out of the haze and return to the top of the world.
(Luo Treasurer)