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China is "mighty"! Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and Sun Long joined forces to advance to the men's 500m 1/4 final of short track speed skating

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China is "mighty"! Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and Sun Long joined forces to advance to the men's 500m 1/4 final of short track speed skating

Peninsula all-media reporter Pan Lichao

On the evening of February 11, the Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating events held a number of preliminary and final, three Chinese players Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing, Sun Long jointly advanced to the men's 500 meters 1/4 final, the Netherlands' Shu Erting won the women's 1000 meters gold medal, but unfortunately the three Chinese players were eliminated in the first round.

The 500m Chinese three will be promoted

In the men's 500m preliminaries for short track speed skating, China's Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and Sun Long played hand in hand. Ren Ziwei, who has already won two gold medals at the Winter Olympics, is in the second group, and he ranks first in the group with a time of 40.669 seconds, easily advancing to the quarter-finals. Sun Long was in the seventh group, he was fouled by his opponent in the race and squeezed out of the track, and after the referee video review, he was sentenced to directly advance to the quarterfinals. Defending champion Wu Dajing was in the eighth group, and he finished first in the group with a time of 40.230 seconds, directly advancing to the quarterfinals. It is worth mentioning that Wu Dajing's performance is also the highest among all the players in the preliminary round.

The men's 500 meters is a key short track speed skating project, and Wu Dajing is the defending champion of this project and the holder of the world record, and is still the favorite to win gold at the Winter Olympics. Ren Ziwei shined in this Winter Olympics, has won two gold medals including mixed team and 1000 meters individual, and now he has attracted enough attention to go out again, and if he can win the third gold, he will definitely achieve another legend.

South Korea's Huang Daxian also easily qualified, he is still one of the strongest opponents of the Chinese team in the later matches, plus two Hungarian players Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang brothers, the men's 500 meters short track speed skating 1/4 final, semi-final, final will be very "good-looking" on the evening of February 13.

Three women will be eliminated in the first round

The rules for the women's 1000m 1/4 finals of short track speed skating are that the top 2 in each group and the 2 fastest 3rd place qualify for the semi-finals. China's Han Yutong and Qu Chunyu were in the first group, Qu Chunyu ranked fourth with a score of 1:28.355, and Han Yutong ranked fifth with a score of 1:31.65, and none of them qualified for the promotion. Another Chinese player, Zhang Chutong, was in the third group, and she skated a time of 1:29.76, ranking 4th in the group and missing the promotion. Holland's Shultin played bravely that night, first skating a time of 1:26.514 in the quarter-finals, setting a new world record, and beating South Korea's Choi Min-jin to win the championship in the final.

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