On February 16, Beijing time, the last competition of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, and South Korea's Cui Minjing, the final of the women's 1500 meters Group A, won the championship to defend the title. Compared with Cui Minjing's happiness, the performance of The Chinese player Han Yutong was not good enough, especially when her sudden leading tactics shortly after the start of the game became a major failure, but it played a role in making Cui Minjing a tactical pawn.
Cui Minjing
The Chinese team has 3 players participating in the women's 1500 meters competition, all 3 of them have advanced to the semi-finals, and the young player Zhang Chutong appeared in the first group of the semi-finals after the last group of the 1/4 finals, and played in a short period of time.
In the semi-finals of Group 3, China's Zhang Yuting and Han Yutong competed in the same group, and because there was Korean star Choi Min Jing in the same group, the competition pressure was relatively large.
Zhang Yuting
In the game, we saw Zhang Yuting trying to compete for the lead from the beginning, the first 11 laps have been in the first two or three places to fight the opponent, and Han Yutong has been following behind the big troops. Although it is not the rabbit tactic of the past, it can be seen that Zhang Yuting wants to cover Han Yutong, han Yutong has 10 laps in the first 11 laps to rank second to last, from the 12th lap onwards Han Yutong followed Cui Minjing to continuously add a knife to overtake, and the two ranked in the top two and successfully advanced to the final.
Zhang Yuting, 22, is one of the best women's short track teams at the Olympics, having previously won the mixed team championship and the third place in the women's 3,000m relay.
Han Yutong
Previously, Wang Meng had repeatedly said that the Chinese player who could compete with Kim Buting and Shu erting was Zhang Yuting, but Zhang Yuting became a tactical pawn in the semifinals and was sacrificed in advance.
In the Group A final, Han Yutong was the only Chinese player, and the same competition was Shu Erting, who had already won 2 gold and 1 bronze, Fang Tana, who had won 1 gold and 2 silver, and Cui Minjing, who had just broken the Olympic record in the semifinals and held the world record in this event.
How should Han Yutong play this game?
Han Yutong started well, ranking second after the first three laps, at this time, when others were in order, Han Yutong suddenly accelerated to the first place and once pulled away some distance, but after gradually slowing down and leading 3 laps, he was surpassed by Cui Minjing, so that Cui Minjing led the way to the end of the game.
In contrast, Han Yutong played a tactical role as if he had become Cui Minjing's teammate, Han Yutong fell from second to fourth in the penultimate lap, and the last lap ended the game last under the collective impact of other players, ranking only 7th.
Wang Meng, who did not understand Han Yutong's tactics, including Zhou Yang, the first person in the history of the Winter Olympics to complete the second consecutive 1500-meter championship, also did not understand Han Yutong's sudden slippage. In terms of actual game effect, Han Yutong's premature power led to the last 3 laps of the opponent slipping faster and faster, and he slipped slower and slower and was continuously surpassed.
From the sacrifice of Zhang Yuting in the semi-final to the "fan" tactics of Han Yutong in the final, it has to be said that the tactics of the Chinese short track team in the final battle are somewhat confused. In Li Jianrou's live broadcast, it is believed that Han Yutong actually helped Cui Minjing a lot.