Recently, the Chinese shooting team announced the preliminary list of participants in the Paris Olympics, and it is regrettable that Yang Qian, the two-time gold medalist of the Tokyo Olympics, is not on this list. It also means the 23-year-old Olympic champion will miss Paris 2024. It is worth mentioning that Yang Qian is the second Chinese Olympic champion who cannot compete in Paris, and the first is the famous swimmer Sun Yang.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Yang Qian, who was only 21 years old, won the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle shooting event with a score of 251.8 rings, and it was also the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the Tokyo Olympics. Subsequently, Yang Qian and Yang Haoran won the gold medal in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team shooting, becoming the first athlete in the history of the Chinese shooting team to win two gold medals at the same Olympic Games.
And Yang Qian also became popular with her excellent grades and beautiful appearance, as well as her status as a student of Tsinghua University. has become a well-known "Tsinghua Goddess", and was selected into the list of candidates for the "Most Beautiful College Student" in 2021 announced by the Ministry of Education.
However, after missing the World Shooting Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games one after another, Yang Qian once again missed many international events such as the Paris Olympics. The reasons are: on the one hand, Yang Qian's competitive state has declined significantly, and on the other hand, the Chinese shooting team has produced many talents, and the young players have grown rapidly.
It is worth mentioning that Yang Qian is not the first Olympic champion athlete to miss the Paris Olympics. Previously, Sun Yang was banned from the competition because of the doping incident, so he was unable to participate in the selection matters and time stipulated in the "Selection Measures" by the Swimming Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China.
In this way, Sun Yang and Yang Qian, the two Olympic champions, will not be able to participate in the Paris Olympics, which is still a bit regrettable!
However, both of them also have new careers and goals. Sun Yang is about to be promoted to become a father, and perhaps he will focus more on cultivating the next generation in the future. And Yang Qian has also broken out of the other world, and now she shares her life and beautiful photos on social media and has become an Internet celebrity.