Original title: 1000 meters competition three women will all fold (introduction)
Chinese women's short track speed skating team encounters "difficult times" (theme)
Workers Daily-China Gong Net reporter Liu Bing
Ren Ziwei (front) in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yuwei
Ren Ziwei (left) relays with Li Wenlong who fell. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Ning
Zhang Chutong (right) in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang
In the women's 1000m short track speed skating event held tonight, the three players of the Chinese team Qu Chunyu, Han Yutong and Zhang Chutong all folded the quarterfinals and missed the semifinals. In the end, the winner of the project was won by The Netherlands' Schultin.
Although the Chinese team successfully won the gold medal in the mixed team event, the short track speed skating schedule is more than halfway through, and the women's team still has no medals. How to stabilize the next women's 3000 meters relay and women's 1500 meters to achieve good results has attracted widespread attention.
In the grouping of the quarter-finals, Qu Chunyu and Han Yutong were in the same group as Dutch star Shultin. Previously, Schultin had just won the gold medal in the women's 500m in short track speed skating.
In the quarter-finals, Schultin broke the Olympic record and the world record with a time of 1:26.514. Another Dutch player, Bel Seb, and the United States, Stoddard, also played well, both within 1 minute and 28 seconds. Qu Chunyu and Han Yutong ranked fourth and fifth in the group respectively and were eliminated miserably.
The 18-year-old Zhang Chutong and the Italian star Fang Tana were divided into the same group, and in the end, Zhang Chutong ranked fourth in the group and did not qualify.
For the difficulty of this gold medal competition, everyone had expected it before the game, but it was still surprising that none of the Chinese players advanced to the semi-finals, which also showed that the Chinese short track speed skating women's team suffered a "difficult time".
After the game, Qu Chunyu told reporters that he hesitated when starting the race, and the opportunity to grab the position was also delayed. "It is a great pity that we did not qualify for the semi-finals today. Despite all the efforts, there is still a gap in strength. ”
The Performance of the Chinese Women's Team is not good, in fact, it has been seen since before the Winter Olympics. In this season's short track speed skating World Cup series, the Chinese team in the women's 1000 meters event, no one in the four races advanced to the final of Group A.
Of the three players participating tonight, Qu Chunyu, who is the highest-ranked player in the World Cup, is 15th and the only player among the three to qualify for the World Cup Group B final this season.
Short-track speed skating has always been the dominant sport of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics, and for most of the time, the women's team has performed better than the men's team, and the gold medal won by China's short track speed skating in the Winter Olympics has come from the women's team. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track speed skating team competed in full attendance. However, compared with the men's team led by Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei, today's women's team obviously lacks "locomotive".
Also in the men's 500m preliminary round of short track speed skating held this evening, three Chinese players Ren Ziwei, Sun Long and Wu Dajing successfully advanced to the quarterfinals; Wu Dajing skated the fastest time in the group of 40.230 seconds. In the men's 5000m relay semifinals that followed, the Chinese team also successfully advanced to the final.
From the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team has lost medals in the women's 1000 meters and 500 meters events consecutively, which also shows that the Chinese short track speed skating women's team has no advantage in this traditional strength. Re-polishing the tip of the knife for the "ice sharp knife" is undoubtedly the top priority of the Chinese women's team in the future.
(China Industry Network Beijing, February 11)