22-year-old Gong Li won the bronze medal

Last night, in the semifinals of the women's 61 kg or more karate at the Tokyo Olympic Games, 22-year-old Chinese teenager Gong Li lost 2:7 to Azerbaijan's Irina Zaretska, missing the final, but still adding another bronze medal to the Chinese sports delegation. After the game, Gong Li said: "I want to win this game too much, and I didn't play it, only played almost 60% of the strength level." ”

In 2016, karate became a new sport for the Tokyo Olympics. Meanwhile, Gong Li is practicing taekwondo in Fuzhou City. The coach of the North Sports University who was selected in Fuzhou City looked at this girl with solid legs and flexible body. Then she was selected for the national team with the coach of the North Sports University, and when she arrived, she found that she had joined not taekwondo, but karate that she had never practiced before, and for the first time she witnessed a karate battle, and for a moment she felt particularly cool. In 2018, Gong Li, who participated in the international competition for the first time, won the championship in the women's 68 kg final of the World Karate Federation K1A Series Shanghai, with a 4-0 victory over Egypt's Abdul Aziz. On the field, her elbow joints were misplaced, but the newcomer still won the championship, bringing a lot of surprises to the coach and teammates. In the following competitions, Gong Li successively stepped on the podium and showed good strength. In the last Olympic points race held in May this year, Gong Li won 10:0 before the final match time, winning the championship and qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games. In a year and a half, Gong Li quickly grew from an unknown newcomer with no Olympic points to the core member of the Chinese karate team. Last night, she lived up to the expectations of the Chinese karate coach and stood on the podium of the Tokyo Olympics.

Source: Tianjin Daily