On August 1, 2024 at 5 p.m., there were 2 updates from the world of sports:
News 1: Paris Olympics: The first women's singles top 4 was born! Chen Meng swept his opponent 11-0, and the national table tennis won a big victory
On August 1, 2024, the table tennis arena of the Paris Olympics will be rekindled, and as the competition progresses, the first singles semi-finals will be born. Chen Meng, the core force of the national table tennis women's team, swept Austria's Polkanova with a clean 4-0 to advance to the next round and wait for the winner between semi-final opponents Miu Hirano and Shin Yubin.
As the absolute main force of national table tennis, Chen Meng is currently ranked fourth in the world, second only to Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, she is not only the defending champion of the Olympic women's singles, but also the second seed player in this competition. Separated from Sun Yingsha in the upper and lower halves, Chen Meng's performance naturally became the focus of attention from the outside world. When analyzing the foreign players in her half, Miu Hirano of the Japan team is undoubtedly the opponent to pay attention to, and although Polkanova is also a first-class foreign player, her winning rate is not optimistic when facing Chen Meng.
In the previous competition, Chen Meng has already shown strong strength, defeating Algeria's Lochlebi, Sweden's Linda, and Netherlands' Illand, and the road to promotion can be described as smooth. In the quarter-finals against Polkanova, although the opponent is considered to be the top level in Europe, it is still difficult to win against an Olympic champion like Chen Meng.
After the start of the game, Chen Meng quickly took the initiative on the court, and took the lead 11-5 in the first game. In the second game, Chen Meng stretched the score to 10-1, and then won 11-3. Polkanova is obviously at a disadvantage in the stalemate, whether it is small ball skills and tactics or overall strength, there is an obvious gap with Chen Meng.
In the third game, Chen Meng continued to chase after the victory, scoring 10 points in a row to get the game point, and then blasted out the first 11-0 of the national table tennis in this tournament, which completely made the opponent feel desperate. In the fourth game, although Polkanova once led 5-2, Chen Meng quickly adjusted her state and seized the opportunity to end the game 11-8. In the end, Chen Meng swept Polkanova with a score of 4-0 and became the first player to advance to the semifinals of singles.
The victory came more easily than expected, after all, there are no easy roles in the quarter-finals. Chen Meng played at the peak level in this game, and the overall performance was quite outstanding. In particular, the clean sheet in the third game showed her strong strength and excellent form. I hope that Chen Meng can continue to maintain this state and bring more good news and glory to the national table tennis.
News 2: At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Chinese team reversed and won the championship, the 10th gold! The gold medal is 2 times United States, throwing off the France Japan
In the men's 50m rifle three-position final at the Paris Olympics, Chinese player Liu Yukun successfully won the gold medal with his excellent skills and stable performance, contributing the 10th gold medal of the Olympic Games to the Chinese delegation and further consolidating China's leading position in the gold medal table.
Since Zhang Changhong won the gold medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions at the last Olympic Games, the Chinese shooting team has maintained a strong competitiveness in this event. In this Olympic Games, Liu Yukun went out as a representative, and he showed extraordinary strength in the preliminaries, advancing to the final with a total score of 594 rings, and breaking the Olympic record in the qualifying round, laying a solid foundation for his outstanding performance in the final.
The rules of the final are quite strict, and the contestants need to go through the test of three shooting positions: kneeling, lying and standing, and there is a elimination mechanism at each stage. Liu Yukun showed his excellent skills and stable mental quality in the final. In the first stage, he scored 154.0 rings in the kneeling position, 157.5 rings in the lying position, and 101.0 rings in the standing position, ranking second with a total score of 412.5 rings, only 0.1 rings behind the first place. After entering the second stage of the knockout round, he continued to maintain a steady performance, and still ranked second in the first two rounds. However, in the third round, he scored an excellent score of 10.2 rings and managed to rise to the first place. He then scored 10.9 rings in the fourth and fifth rounds and 9.9 rings respectively to seal the first place with a total score of 463.9 rings and win the gold medal.
Liu Yukun's victory not only won the fourth gold medal of this Olympic Games for the Chinese shooting team, tying the number of gold medals in the previous session, but also won the 10th gold medal for the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games, making China the first delegation to reach double digits. His outstanding performance undoubtedly added great honor to the Chinese shooting team and the Chinese delegation.
In addition to shooting, the Chinese team also has excellent performances in diving, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting and other advantageous events, and is expected to win at least 15 gold medals. However, United States, as the only delegation with a chance to overtake, performed relatively sluggishly in the first five match days, with only half the number of gold medals won by the Chinese team. Although they have a temporary lead in the total number of medals, it will not be easy to overtake the Chinese team in track and field, as other delegations are also very competitive.
