On February 13, the ninth match day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the men's 500m semifinals of short track speed skating, Wu Dajing of the Chinese team missed 0.016 seconds to advance to the gold medal battle of Group A, and it was a pity that he did not have the opportunity to defend the title. The match sparked a huge controversy with Huang Daxian, who fouled Canada's Dubois during the match while raising his knife towards Wu Dajing and the result was canceled.
In the previous 1/4 final, the other two Chinese players Ren Ziwei and Sun Long were all out, and Ren Ziwei had a slight collision with the opponent during the slide, but the referee did not make a penalty, so that only the defending champion Wu Dajing was left in the 500 meters. Wu Dajing came out in the qualifiers with 40.23 seconds, the first place in the group and the first place for all the players; in the quarterfinals, Wu Dajing advanced to the first place in the group with 40.528 seconds;
At the beginning of the semifinals, Wu Dajing actually had the opportunity to surpass the top two in the promotion area, but Huang Daxian's knife lifting action was very obvious, almost hurting Wu Dajing's face, which also caused Wu Dajing's position to deviate, and his speed was directly affected.
This is not the first foul on Huang Daxian, in the men's 1000m semifinals, although Huang Daxian crossed the finish line in the promotion area, he was cancelled because of the foul, which was controversial at the time.
This time to the 500m semi-finals, Huang Daxian in his own position is not dominant, looking like he is going to miss the Group A final, he fouled the Canadian players, but also had a clear knife lifting action towards Wu Dajing, fouled again. Wang Meng also talked about the Chinese team's actual struggle when explaining, because Huang Daxian had the action of raising a knife and angrily rebuked the South Korean team players for such behavior.
Huang Daxian's foul has also triggered a lot of heated discussions, netizens have said that athletes like Huang Daxian, really a shame of short track speed skating, should be banned for life.
It should be known that Wu Dajing is the defending champion of the short track speed skating men's 500 meters, and 4 years ago in Pyeongchang, Wu Dajing broke records and won gold medals in a row. This time to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the outside world's expectations for Wu Dajing is still very high, especially in the first game for the Chinese team to win the mixed relay championship, won the first gold, and then the men's 1000 meters won the fourth place without the opportunity to receive the podium, everyone is more looking forward to Wu Dajing can achieve the defense of the title in the 500 meters.
Helplessly, this time Wu Dajing did not advance to the final of Group A, was obviously interfered with by Huang Daxian, and did not have the opportunity to defend the men's 500m gold medal, which is a pity.