2nd Highlights: Hope! Make history again Look! Multiple gold punches
The Paris Olympics will decide 25 gold medals on the 2nd, Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu will attack a new history, and the "temporary pair" is expected to win the first Chinese Olympic gold medal in the tennis mixed doubles event. In other events, the Chinese team has a lot of gold medals, diving, trampoline, badminton, shooting, swimming and other events to hit the gold medal, and the table tennis and badminton teams are also likely to lock a gold medal in advance.
Wang Xinyu/Zhang Zhizhen celebrate after the tennis mixed doubles semifinals on August 1. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Vientiane
This summer's Roland · Garros is a blessed land for Chinese tennis, where the Chinese team has set the best record in the history of women's singles and mixed doubles, and the story is not over. On the 2nd, the "Zhenxin" combination will once again put on the battlefield and attack the mixed doubles championship.
As of the 1st, the shooting team and diving team that have won the most gold medals for the Chinese delegation will rush for gold again. In the women's 50m rifle 3 positions, Zhang Qiongyue, who qualified second in the qualifying round, will face off against a group of high-ranking players, and although the Chinese team has always been strong in this event, the last time they won gold at the Olympics was in Beijing in 2008. The fourth gold medal will be determined in diving, and China's world champions Long Daoyi/Wang Zongyuan will compete for gold in the men's double three-meter springboard event.
The trampoline event will start on the 2nd, and two gold medals for men and women will be determined. The Chinese team has the strength to win gold in these two sub-events. Defending champion Zhu Xueying and Hu Yicheng will compete in the women's competition, and Yan Langyu and Wang Zisai, who are participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, will shoulder the heavy responsibility of competing for the men's championship.
China's Zheng Siwei (front)/Huang Yaqiong in the badminton mixed doubles semifinals on August 1. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Bin
The mixed doubles gold medal will be decided in badminton, with Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong battling Korea's Kim Won-ho/Jung Na Eun. Shi Yuqi, who broke into the men's singles quarterfinals alone, will face Thailand's Kunlavut. In the Men's Doubles semi-finals, Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang will rematch Malaysia's Chia Ding Feng/So Wei Yi, who won in the group stage. In the women's doubles semi-finals, two Chinese players, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan and Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, will play respectively and are expected to lock up the gold medal for the Chinese team in advance.
Also expected to lock the gold medal in advance is the table tennis women's singles, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng are expected to meet in the final. Fan Zhendong, who reversed Tomokazu Zhang in a hard-fought battle on the 1st, will face the host country's Felix · Lebrun in the men's singles semifinals.
On August 1, Fan Zhendong was in the quarterfinals of table tennis men's singles. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Dongzhen
The swimming event will decide 3 gold medals on the 2nd, and the defending champion Wang Shun will compete in the men's 200-meter medley final, and the 30-year-old will compete with a group of "post-00s"; France's Marchand, who has already won three gold medals at the Games, will hit for his fourth gold.
In addition, the Chinese team also has a chance to hit medals in rowing, archery and other events. Men's soccer will play the quarterfinals.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Reporter: Wang Hengzhi, Zhang Zewei
Producer: Song Junyi
Editors: Zhou Zhe, Li Mengting
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