The Chinese gymnastics team won the first gold Chen Yibing sent blessings to Liu Yang: perfect! The new Ring King lived up to expectations

Source: Global Times

【Global Times comprehensive report】The Tokyo Olympic Games competitive gymnastics men's ring final ended on the 2nd. China's Liu Yang (pictured) won the championship with 15.500 points to help the Chinese gymnastics team win the first gold medal at the Olympic Games, his teammate You Hao won the silver medal with 15.300 points, and Greece's Eleftherios Petruñas won the bronze medal.

Reuters said that Liu Yang's impromptu performance today was perfect, and his move was particularly stable, and finally led teammate You Hao by a slight advantage. It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time that a Chinese male ringer has reached the Olympic podium since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

After the game, Chen Yibing, the gold medalist of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, sent a blessing on the social platform: "Perfect! The new Ring King lives up to expectations! You Hao said that although (the medal) is silver, he is very satisfied with this result, and he lacks experience in the Rio Olympics, and this time he adjusted more successfully.

Born in 1994, Liu Yang competed in the Rio Olympics five years ago, and after two mistakes in the final, he finally won the fourth place in the ring event. Thinking back to the defeat in Rio, Liu Yang said that he was still too young to think about it now, he would be anxious, afraid, and think a lot, and now his mentality is different, and he will focus more on his actions. After regretting farewell to Rio, Liu Yang performed bravely in various competitions: in the final of the 2019 Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, Liu Yang won the championship; in the men's ring event of the 2020 National Gymnastics Championships, Liu Yang was proud with a high score of 15.400.

Liu Yang was excited and tearful when he raised the national flag to celebrate after the game, "Since he was a child, he has been an Olympic champion, he has also practiced for 20 years, he is particularly eager for the champion, and he has also wanted to give up, but in the end he persevered, and also drew a satisfactory end for himself, and the emotions accumulated in his heart were not controlled." For the Chinese gymnastics team, this gold medal is particularly precious. In the first half of the Olympic Games, the Chinese gymnastics team failed to achieve the desired results under the influence of many factors. Previously, the men's team had won only three medals in team bronze, individual all-around silver and free gymnastics bronze. (Ge Qunliang)