Chinese players Wei Yongli, Huang Guifen, Ge Manqi and Liang Xiaojing (from left to right) celebrated the victory. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Beijing News (Special Tokyo reporter Xu Bangyin) On August 5, at the New National Stadium in Tokyo, the Chinese women's relay team composed of Liang Xiaojing, Ge Manqi, Huang Guifen and Wei Yongli created the first surprise, and the four girls ran 42.82 seconds and entered the women's 4×100m relay final with a total score of 8th place.
This is the second time that the Chinese women's relay team has reached the Olympic relay final after 21 years after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. At the same time, Liang Xiaojing, Ge Manqi and Wei Yongli also made up for the regret of being squeezed out of the final by the United States team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Knowing that they had successfully reached the relay final on the evening of August 6, the four girls were very excited, and everyone jumped and hugged together to celebrate the hard-won breakthrough. After coming to the mixed interview area, everyone's emotions are still very high, and you said that although the performance of this game was flawed, everyone handled it perfectly.
The girls hugged each other excitedly when they learned that they had advanced to the final. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Liang Xiaojing, who ran the first baton, said, "This is undoubtedly our best team of the season, this season we ran past 42.82 seconds, when the last baton was Li Yuting, this time it was replaced by the eldest sister (Wei Yongli), which is the best result of the season for us and the eldest sister." "After advancing to the final in 8th place, everyone has completed the goal," the final did not panic, running our own. ”
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese women's relay team originally ran 42.70 seconds and advanced to the final with 8th place. As a result, a scene of controversy appeared, and the American team, which made a mistake in the preliminary round, appealed successfully, and after re-running alone, squeezed the Chinese team out of the women's 4×100m relay final.
Liang Xiaojing, Ge Manqi and Wei Yongli were all witnesses of that game, and they finally made up for their regrets after 5 years. Wei Yongli said, "We made a comeback and fulfilled our wish [of reaching the final]. It wasn't our fault that time, we tried hard, but we didn't get the results we wanted, which is a pity. Now we have made up for the regrets and hope that we did not let everyone wait too long. ”
The Beijing News sent a special Tokyo reporter Xu Bangyin to edit Xiao Wanli