On February 16, Beijing time, the gold medal will be decided in the men's 5,000 meters of short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics, when Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and other Chinese short track speed skating team players will join hands. Considering that the two major champions, the Netherlands and Hungary, did not qualify for the Group A final, the Chinese team's gold rush hopes have increased significantly. Once this is the case, Ren Ziwei, who has 5 matches in 11 days, will win the third gold medal in this Winter Olympics, thus equaling the gold medal won by the predecessor Wang Mao's Chinese athletes in a single Winter Olympics.
Looking back at Ren Ziwei's previous four Winter Olympic games, it is quite a bit of a tiger's tail. In the first short track speed skating mixed relay event, Ren Ziwei, who worked hard, won the first gold medal of this Winter Olympics for the Chinese team. Just two days later, he won the gold medal in the men's 1000m event. Considering that Ren Ziwei will play in five events at this Winter Olympics and all have the strength to attack the gold medal, the media and the audience have high hopes for him.
Who would have thought that Ren Ziwei actually stopped in the semifinals in the 1500m event because of fouls. You must know that this is his main sport, and this season he has won the World Cup in Hungary and the Netherlands, and the points are also high among all the participants. The result of the game, which did not even make it to the final, surprised everyone.
In the subsequent 500-meter event, Ren Ziwei's performance was even worse: he stopped in the quarterfinals and simply did not even reach the semi-finals. From winning two consecutive gold medals to missing the final twice in a row, Ren Ziwei's performance of opening high and walking low made the audience look "on fire". As many people have said, it is still waiting to see him help the Chinese team break the record of winning a single Winter Olympics. After all, short track speed skating is the big gold medalist of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics, and Ren Ziwei is the core of the team's gold rush.
Fortunately, Ren Ziwei still has a 5,000-meter relay left to fight. However, the thrilling scene in the semifinals startled many viewers: Li Wenlong fell after colliding with other players when he slid to lap 11. For most viewers who do not know much about the rules, the most intuitive feeling is that the Chinese team will not be able to qualify for the Group A final because of the damage to the performance of this fall. Because of this, when the Chinese team was judged to enter the final of Group A, many people felt that this was "a blessing in disguise if it is difficult not to die".
Not to mention, thanks to this semi-final farce, the two top favourites, the Netherlands and Hungary, were squeezed into the final of Group B. Looking at the 5 participating teams in Group A, the Chinese team led by Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing has the greatest hope of winning the championship. Once this is the case, Ren Ziwei, who has 5 matches in 11 days, will win the third gold medal of this Winter Olympics, equaling the record held by his predecessor Wang Meng. For him, who drove high and walked low, it was a satisfactory end to the Beijing Winter Olympics.