On February 13, Beijing time, the men's 500m semifinals of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing, a Chinese athlete and defending champion, competed. Unfortunately, Wu Dajing did not make it to the final.
In the previous quarter-finals, Wu Dajing advanced to the semifinals first. The other two Chinese players, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long, did not make it to the next round, so Wu Dajing also became China's only seedling in this project.
At the Sochi Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing won the runner-up in the short track speed skating men's 500 meters. In the men's 500m final of short track speed skating at the 2017 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing broke the world record and won the championship, winning the first gold medal for China at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
In the semi-finals of the 500 meters of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing started in the second group, and the same group included Liu Shaoang, Huang Daxian and Du Bois, which can be called the group of death.
The first shot of the race, Huang Daxian snatched a run foul, and then the race restarted. As soon as he came up, Wu Dajing was only in third place. In the last lap, Hwang Dae-hyun and Dubois collided, and in the end, Hwang Dae-hyun missed the final due to fouls, and at the moment he was out, the South Korean coaching staff was quite final.
Wu Dajing only had 40.478 seconds and did not qualify for the final. It is worth mentioning that when the South Korean Winter Olympic champion Hwang Daehyun collided with his opponent, there was a knife-raising action, and Wu Dajing behind him also affected the sprint in order to avoid Huang Daxian. Wang Meng said, "This action is too dangerous. ”