In 0.016 seconds, the Chinese team narrowly won the championship. On the evening of February 5, the short track speed skating mixed team relay began, and the Chinese team won the first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics. "I'm excited again!" In an interview after the game, Wu Dajing, who had already won two golds, two silvers and one bronze in the Olympic Games, choked up several times and bluntly said, "It's good that I haven't given up." And such excitement is really a long time away for Wu Dajing.
At PyeongChang 2018, Wu Dajing's performance was perfect, making him the first Chinese male athlete to win a gold medal in short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics. But after that, due to the recurrence of his back injury, Wu Dajing's state plummeted.
In the 2021 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup sub-race, Wu Dajing performed mediocrely in three consecutive World Cup races, and finally won the 500m championship in the last stop, and even began to be able to keep up with training normally until September 2021. But Wu Dajing faced the doubts, frankly saying that "our goal is the Olympic Games" and "looking forward to the best self returning to the arena."
Persist when you're in a good state, and even more so when you're down. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, we saw that Wu Dajing did it, and he finally found his form. This is the stubbornness of persevering through adversity and never giving up.
From Sochi's debut in 2014, to winning gold in Pyeongchang in 2018, and then to playing at home in Beijing in 2022, Wu Dajing has high hopes. When the last stick crossed the line by a slight margin, Wu Dajing's clenched fist shout, it was Yi Chu and even more released, and I am afraid that I could not experience it.
Looking back, every step of Wu Dajing's walk towards the Olympic arena was very difficult. Some people say that his efforts to skate are more dazzling than his talent.
Wu Dajing, who began practicing short track speed skating at the age of 10, joined the Jiangsu provincial team in 2007, and the team was disbanded two years later, and he joined the Jilin provincial team.
In November 2010, Wu Dajing, who was lucky enough to be selected for the national team, could only serve as a sparring partner for the women's team.
When no one is optimistic about yourself, you must not give up on yourself. From a "chaser" to a "king of sprints", from a sparring partner to an Olympic champion, Wu Dajing has proved himself again and again with hard work and achievements.
Next, in the field full of variables, facing more strong opponents in the men's 500m event, I expect Wu Dajing to relax his mentality, give it a go, and surpass himself again and reach the top. And this is the essence of the modern Olympic spirit.
Wu Dajing, come on! The "blade warriors" of the Chinese short track speed skating team, come on!