On February 13, Beijing time, the men's 500 meters of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics continued, with China's Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long competing. In the first group, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long were the 3rd and 4th, and in the second group, Wu Dajing won the first promotion. In the end, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long did not qualify for the semi-finals, and Wu Dajing had to fight alone to defend his title.
Wu Dajing is the defending champion of the 500 meters, in the preliminary round, Wu Dajing has the best results, Ren Ziwei also won the first place in the group, Sun Long was sentenced to the next round, he was fouled by his opponents in the competition. In the quarter-finals, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long were divided into the first group, the first two in the group stage were directly promoted, the two third places with the best results were promoted, Wu Dajing was divided into the second group, and the three Chinese players had to go all out.
After the start of the first group of matches, Ren Ziwei only ranked third, Sun Long was fourth, and after the game, Ren Ziwei had to try to catch up, but unfortunately, he still failed to complete the surpass, but ranked third in the group, failed to directly qualify for promotion, sun Long was the fourth. In the end, the referee did not have any penalties, Ren Ziwei was only the 3rd in the group, and whether he could advance to the next game depended on the next game.
In the second group of competitions, Wu Dajing is the first, he opened to seize the advantageous position, has been leading, in the game, Wu Dajing still played very stable, and finally Wu Dajing easily won the first place in the group and entered the semifinals. Liu Shaolin only won the 4th place in the group and did not qualify in advance. The group's 3rd result (40.694 seconds) was better than Ren Ziwei's (40.714 seconds), and Ren Ziwei's difficulty in qualifying was increasing.
In the third group, Huang Daxian won the 2nd place to advance, and the 3rd result of this group was 40.643, which was better than Ren Ziwei, so Ren Ziwei did not qualify for the semi-finals and failed to get the 3rd place with better results. In the semi-finals, Wu Dajing will face the situation of fighting alone, come on.