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Source: Global Times

On the evening of the 11th, a number of highly interesting short track speed skating competitions at the Beijing Winter Olympics were held at the Capital Gymnasium. In the preliminaries for the men's 500 meters, Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and Sun Long advanced to the quarterfinals, and Wu Dajing began his journey to defend his title in the 500 meters event of the Winter Olympics. In the semifinals of the men's 5000m relay, although there were some unexpected situations, the Chinese team also advanced to the final. The short track speed skating women's 1000m final was also held that night, and 3 Chinese women worked hard to finally fail to get the ticket for the final, and the Dutch star Shultin won the championship.

Beijing Winter Olympics Short Track Speed Skating Men's 500m Preliminary Round: Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long all successfully advanced. Image source Visual China

In the men's 500m preliminaries, China's Ren Ziwei, Sun Long and defending champion Wu Dajing all successfully advanced to the next round, and the final of the project will be held on the 13th. The Global Times reporter noticed at the scene that Ren Ziwei, who had previously missed the men's 1000m final due to fouls, received strong support from the audience, he maintained his lead from the beginning, did not give the opponent the opportunity to surpass, accompanied by the cheers of the whole field to cross the finish line first. Sun Long, who played in group 7, advanced to the next round despite suffering a foul.

As the world record and Olympic record holder in the men's 500 meters, Wu Dajing, who appeared in the last group, made the audience boil as soon as he appeared. Although he was almost overtaken by his opponents several times, he still held the first place and successfully advanced to the next round. It is worth mentioning that with Wu Dajing in the same group is Also Hong Kong's Zhu Dingwen, who eventually won the third place in the group and did not qualify.

The course of the short track speed skating men's 5,000m relay semi-final held that night can be said to be full of ups and downs. In the competition, the Chinese team led by Wu Dajing and the Canadian team alternately led, the Chinese team players were tripped by the Canadian team players with 10 laps left, but they did not give up, and the other player immediately stepped forward to high-five the fallen players, and when the Chinese players crossed the finish line, there was a long applause at the scene. However, through video replay, the referee believed that the Chinese player had obvious contact with the Canadian player's ice knife and was affected by the other party before falling off the track, so he decided that the Chinese team directly advanced to the final. The Global Times reporter noticed at the scene that when the live big screen played the replay, the audience had been staring at the screen and constantly discussing the scene before the Chinese team fell, and after the Chinese team was judged to enter the final, many spectators cheered and applauded loudly.

The Chinese team won the second place in the men's 5000m relay and the third place in the Sochi Winter Olympics at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, with the ability to impact the medals in the project, and the final of the project will be held on the 16th.

In the women's 1000m 1/4 final, China's Han Yutong and Zhang Yuting appeared in the first group, the Dutch star Shu Erting in the same group set a new world record, the audience and other delegation players watching the game gave applause in time, although the Chinese players tried their best to catch up, but still were pulled away by the record-breaking Shu Erting, the two won the 4th and 5th places, and did not qualify for the next round. Zhang Chutong in the third group was in a backward position at the beginning, although she always tried to keep up with the big troops, but she never had the opportunity to surpass the many players in front of her, and won the 4th place in the group. As a result, no Chinese players advanced to the semi-finals of the project.

Although they failed to qualify, the three Chinese "post-90s" young players bring hope. Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting participated in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and Han Yutong made her Olympic debut. After the individual event of short track speed skating, they will also participate in the women's 3000m relay on the 13th, trying to win a medal.

In the women's 1000m final of the night, South Korea's Choi Min-jing tried to overtake in the last two laps, the situation was very tense, and then Italy's Fantana accidentally fell off the track and was also sentenced to a foul, Shultin was the first to rush the line, the silver medal-winning Choi Min-jing shed tears on the sidelines, and the Belgian player won the bronze medal.

When the Global Times reporter arrived at the venue 2 hours in advance, he found that there were Korean TV staff on the sidelines recording videos to warm up for the night's game.