The last foul out, this time did not qualify for the final, Wu Dajing 500 meters gold medal is out of reach?

On the afternoon of October 30, the second leg of the 2021 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup continued in Nagoya, Japan. In the men's 500m competition, Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing missed the final of the event again after stopping the quarter-finals of the Beijing leg. In the end, China's Ren Ziwei finished second with a time of 41.207 seconds, and South Korea's Huang Daxian won the championship in 40.805 seconds.

As the captain, Wu Dajing has fouled the men's 1000m and 500m in the previous Beijing races, missed the medal, and has also been questioned. In this Japan competition, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Yu Songnan competed in the men's 500 meters. In the quarter-finals, Yu Songnan appeared in the first group and was ruled out for fouls. Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei were in the second group, Wu Dajing failed to take the lead in the starting stage, although he rose to the second place by cooperating with his teammates, he did not keep the inner road in the sliding, was overtaken, and finally ranked third in the group with a time of 41.364 seconds and was eliminated from the final.

In the final, Ren Ziwei became the only Chinese player to qualify. He was left behind after he set out, and as a Kazakh runner accidentally slid off the track, Ren Ziwei rose to third place and eventually crossed the finish line. After the video penalty afterwards, the Canadian players fouled and cancelled the results, Ren Ziwei won the runner-up time of 41.207 seconds, and South Korea's Huang Daxian won the championship in 40.805 seconds.

In the women's 500m competition, the Chinese team Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting all advanced in the first two rounds. In the final, Fan Kexin grabbed the third position in the outermost road, followed by Poland's Maliszevaska and Italy's veteran Fang Tana, although several attempts to overtake but failed, and Fontana also overtook to the first place in the second half. In the end, Fan Kexin won the bronze medal with a time of 43.865 seconds, and FangTana won the bronze medal in 43.593 seconds.

Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng