In tonight's Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating men's 500m competition, Wu Dajing, the winner of the project at the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, lost his defense.
In the second group of the men's 500m quarterfinals, Wu Dajing played in the first round. From the beginning, Wu Dajing grabbed the first place, and did not give the opponent behind him any chance in the whole slide, with a time of 40.528 seconds, the first to cross the finish line. Both Ren Ziwei and Sun Long were eliminated in the quarter-finals, leaving Wu Dajing alone in the later matches.
In the semi-finals that followed, Wu Dajing set off in the second group and the third lane. In the final sprint stage, Wu Dajing was interfered with by other runners, and finally crossed the finish line for the third time and missed the Group A final.
The road to defending the title is often more difficult than the road to gold rushing. In this Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, the impact of injuries and illnesses, Wu Dajing's state fluctuated. In the first three World Cup races, he failed to win gold in the men's 500 meters, and did not win a gold medal in the men's 500 meters until the last stop in the Netherlands.
Born in 1994, Wu Dajing is 27 years old this year and is the big brother of the short track speed skating team. Years of hard training have left him injured. When participating in a show, Wu Dajing, who has been training in skates for many years, said: "I have a pair of very ugly feet. After seeing his feet full of scars, calluses and bone deformation, many netizens sighed, "This is simply a pair of feet of a 50-year-old." ”
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