It was reported on August 1 that the 2024 Paris Olympics entered the fifth day of competition, and the diving event remained strong, and the biggest good news was that Pan Zhanle defeated strong opponents in Europe and the United States to win the championship, while the Chinese women's basketball team lost again and left endless regrets.
In the women's double 10-meter platform competition, the Chinese combination Chen Yuxi/Quan Hongchan played perfectly and won the gold medal with a high score of 359.10 points, helping the Chinese team achieve seven consecutive Olympic championships in this event! The performance of the two was flawless, leaving no chance for their opponents at all, and this was also the 50th gold medal won by the Chinese diving team at the Summer Olympics! It is the seventh gold medal won by the Chinese sports delegation in the Paris Olympics. It can be said that this is the most stable gold medal.
A surprising gold medal came from the 2024 Paris Olympics freestyle BMX women's park race, where China's Deng Yawen performed well and won the eighth gold medal for the Chinese sports delegation at the Paris Olympics. Deng Yawen played in eighth place, her first round was two weeks of dragon tail swing shock and completed 360 degrees of difficult maneuvers in the air in the game, getting a high score of 92.50 points, the second round Deng Yawen performed even better with 92.60 points, giving Roberts of the United States a lot of pressure and finally made frequent mistakes. In the end, Deng Yawen won this precious gold medal for the Chinese delegation. BMX freestyle made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, and the Chinese team failed to qualify for the Games last Olympic cycle, and this is the first time that Chinese athletes have participated in this event.
The most exciting thing is the Chinese swimming Pan Zhanle's freestyle 100m championship, he won the championship with a perfect world record, and the Chinese swimming also achieved a breakthrough of 0 gold medals in this Olympic Games. China's Pan Zhanle swam 46.40 seconds, breaking the world record of 46.80 seconds set at this year's World Swimming Championships in Doha, and Pan Zhanle also became the third men's swimming third Olympic champion after Sun Yang and Wang Shun. This gold medal is also the ninth gold medal won by the Chinese delegation at the Paris Olympics. Being able to defeat many European and American athletes, Pan Zhanle has won respect for Chinese swimming.
On the fifth day, the Chinese women's basketball team was the most disappointing team, losing 59-81 to the Serbia women's basketball team after four quarters, suffering two consecutive defeats. The scores were 17-23, 22-22, 11-17 and 9-19 in the fourth quarter. In this game, the Chinese women's basketball team frequently made inaccurate outside lines, and the interior offense was not effective, except for a good performance in the second quarter, the second half was a disastrous performance, and in the whole game, the Chinese team made 34 three-point shots, only 8 of them; He also shot 8-of-21 from the field, and the incomprehensible low shooting percentage eventually pushed himself to the brink, and the last game had to win and get more small points in hopes of finishing third in the group and the best two third-place finishers.