The short track speed skating event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ushered in the penultimate gold medal today, and finally in the women's 3000m relay final, the Chinese team composed of Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting and Zhang Chutong won the third place with a time of 4 minutes 03.863 seconds, adding another medal to the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation!
Although it eventually missed the gold medal, for the Chinese girls who have not been on the podium of the project for two Winter Olympics, this bronze medal is also of great significance! Without controversial penalties such as the last Winter Olympics, Chinese girls will no longer have to take back the flag that is ready to celebrate!
PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics finished third
In tonight's game, the Chinese team competed with the Dutch, Canadian and South Korean teams! After the start, the first half of the Chinese team was very stable, and the Chinese team briefly surpassed to the first place when there were 8 laps left, but in the final stage, Canada and South Korea began to exert their strength, and the Chinese team caught up in the last lap, and finally finished the third place and won the bronze medal. The Netherlands broke the Olympic record again in 4:03.409 to win the title.
Although 10 of the 13 gold medals won by the Chinese sports delegation before the Beijing Winter Olympics came from short track speed skating, in the women's 3,000-meter relay and even in the team event, the Chinese team only won one gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, while for the women's team girls it was an 18-year-late gold medal, and the dramatic victory also witnessed the bitterness of their first five winter Olympics.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Chinese short track women's team won the championship
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, the short track speed skating men's and women's relay was listed as an official competition, the Chinese team was played in the 3000-meter relay by Li Yan, Zhang Yanmei, Wang Xiulan and Zheng Chunyang, although the strength of the four was outstanding in the semifinals, but because Zhang Yanmei fell in the leading situation, the Chinese team did not qualify for the final; the subsequent Lillehammer, the Chinese women's team that entered the final hindered the American team behind them because of the handover of the baton, and the silver medal that was originally in hand was finally cancelled...
Subsequently, the Chinese short track speed skating women's team ushered in Yang Yang, Sun Dandan, Wang Chunlu and Yang Yang into the "four golden flowers" period, but the mistake of handing over the baton was like a nightmare wrapped around the Chinese team, and the Chinese short track speed skating women's team in the relay race for two consecutive Winter Olympics was relegated to the second place because of the last-minute handover baton mistake, and returned home with hatred.
China's short track speed skating "four golden flowers" (from left)
Xiao Yangyang, Da Yangyang, Sun Dandan, Wang Chunlu
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the Chinese team not only had Yang Yang but also a strong new signing Wang Meng, but in the last corner of the last lap of the race, Wang Meng, who was sprinting with all his strength, collided with the Canadian runners, but in the end, the third crossover of the finish line was cancelled because of fouls...
2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
After finally winning the championship in 10 years, the Chinese short track speed skating women's team is eager to win the Winter Olympics again, but whether it is Sochi in 14 years or Pyeongchang in the last year, the referee's penalty has made us miss the gold medal, especially in 18 years, when the Chinese girls have taken out the national flag to prepare for celebration, and the foul that made the chinese team head coach Li Yan at the time incomprehensible has become a pain in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people!
And today, when we stand on the podium! Winning this clean bronze medal is already a success!