Comprehensive news: Wu Dajing did not have the opportunity to defend the title The Chinese women's curling has won two consecutive victories

(Beijing Winter Olympics) Comprehensive news: Wu Dajing has no chance to defend the title The Chinese women's curling has won two consecutive victories

Beijing, February 13 (China News Service) -- The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics began the second half of the competition on the 13th, and the Chinese short track speed skating team won the bronze medal in the women's 3,000-meter relay, which increased the number of medals of the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics to 9 (4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze). Unfortunately, the ace of China's ice and snow sports failed to defend the men's 500m event.

At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, four years ago, Wu Dajing won the men's 500m final in short track speed skating, winning the only gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics. Therefore, the defending battle of the Chinese short track speed skating team led by Wu Dajing in this project has long been listed as the focus event of this Winter Olympic Games.

In fact, both Wu Dajing and the Chinese team had a perfect start in the tournament. In the preliminary round on the 11th, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long all advanced to the competition, and Wu Dajing's results ranked first among all the participating athletes.

But by the start of the game on the 13th, the situation suddenly changed. In the first quarter-final, the double champion Ren Ziwei and the "post-00s" youngster Sun Long, who were in the same group, were out at the same time, and Wu Dajing, the only remaining fruit of the Chinese team, then stopped in the semifinals. In the end, Hungary's Liu Shaoang won the championship.

The short track speed skating race that night also featured the women's 3,000m relay final. The Chinese team, consisting of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Zhang Chutong and Qu Chunyu, won a bronze medal, the world record holder Netherlands won the gold medal with an Olympic record-breaking result, and the previous two Winter Olympics double-champion South Korea won the silver medal.

So far, the Chinese short track speed skating team has won 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze and 4 medals at the Winter Olympics, still surpassing the Netherlands team (2 gold and 1 silver) to the top of the gold medal list of the project.

In the speed skating arena of the day, the Chinese team performed mediocrely. In the women's 500m final, Kim Kyung-joo and Tian Ruining were 12th and 14th respectively, with American star Erin Jackson winning the championship in 37.04 seconds; in the men's team chase quarterfinals, the Chinese team finished bottom among the eight participating teams. Norway, the United States, the Russian Olympic Committee and the Netherlands advanced to the semi-finals.

On February 13, China's Wang Rui, Zhang Lijun, Han Yu and Dong Ziqi (from left to right) were on the field. On the same day, in the Women's Curling Round Robin Competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics held at the Beijing National Aquatics Center "Ice Cube", the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 6-5. Photo by Cui Nan, a reporter from China News Service

On the 13th, there was a surprise at the women's single snowmobile race. After the first two rounds of the event, two Chinese players, Huai Mingming and Ying Qing, temporarily ranked fifth and eighth. In the last two rounds of the 14th, we will strive to achieve another good result.

The women's single snowmobile is a new event in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the runners will make four slides in the two-day course, with the shortest of the four-wheeled skating time winning. China only established a snowmobile national team after 2015, and it is not easy to achieve such results in the Olympic arena full of strong players.

The Chinese women's curling team also brought surprises again, following the upset victory over defending champion Sweden on the 12th, and then defeated the runner-up of the last Winter Olympics south Korea 6:5 on the 13th, after suffering an embarrassing three-game losing streak in the first three rounds of the round robin, achieving a high-quality two consecutive wins.

The Chinese men's curling team, which had won consecutive victories on the previous two days, failed to continue its good luck, losing 6:7 and 6:8 to the United Kingdom and the United States on the 13th, suffering a one-day double defeat.

Snow fell in the Zhangjiakou area of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the 13th. Due to weather conditions, the freestyle ski women's slope obstacle course skills participated by Chinese star Gu Ailing and the freestyle ski women's aerial skills of "Four Dynasties Elder" Xu Mengtao were postponed to the 14th. (End)