Original title: When the Chinese team won the gold, Wu Dajing’s family was instantly boiling
On the evening of February 5, the Beijing Winter Olympics won the first gold medal in the short track speed skating event. In the 2000m mixed team relay group A final, the Chinese team consisting of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei won the championship. In Wu Dajing’s hometown of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, family members and friends gathered together to cheer for the Chinese team. At the moment of winning the gold, everyone stood up and cheered to celebrate the Chinese team’s first gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
(Headquarters reporter Wang Haiqiao and Dong Liang)
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“We are very competitive in the relay project. This is also the project we are interested in. We will go all out to make a sample for the Chinese delegation.”
When he made his first appearance at the Capital Gymnasium before the official competition, Wu Dajing, the leader of China’s short track speed skating, left such a remark.
On the evening of February 5th, in the short track speed skating mixed team 2000-meter relay competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team suffered setbacks in the semi-finals and ranked third – but according to the referee’s penalty, the Russian Olympic Committee team in the competition Both teams fouled with the United States, and the Chinese team finally advanced to the final with the second place in the group.
In the final, the Chinese team sent a combination of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Qu Chunyu and Fan Kexin to win the gold medal in 2:37.34!
The Chinese short track speed skating team has always been the “ace of the line” in China’s winter sports. Before this Winter Olympics, 10 of the 13 Winter Olympic gold medals won by the Chinese Winter Olympic Corps were from short track speed skating.
Although the head coach and team lineup have been changed before, and the state of the main players has also fluctuated, the Chinese Short Track Speed Skating Corps still performed quite well in the four World Cup competitions before the Olympics.
In the four World Cup competitions, the Chinese short track team won a total of 7 gold medals, not only becoming one of the few teams that have fully qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics, but also the only team from all countries competing in the 2000-meter mixed team relay event , the team that won a medal at each station.
In the Beijing station and the third station in Hungary, the Chinese mixed relay team won the gold medal; in the Japanese station, the Chinese team won the silver medal; in the final Dutch station, the Chinese mixed relay team won a bronze medal.
In the entire relay team, Ren Ziwei and Fan Kexin are the most stable two, and following Wu Dajing regained his form a little bit, he let the Chinese mixed relay team run in to the best state before the Olympics.
However, as a new addition to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the world’s top short-track speed skating teams are also targeting this medal. In particular, the South Korean short track speed skating team, which holds the world record in this project, sent the “strongest lineup” led by Cui Minjing and Huang Daxian.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Kim Peijun, a reporter from South Korea’s “Dong-A Ilbo”, said that the Korean people are very concerned regarding the mixed team relay, the first event to win a gold medal in the short track competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the competition on the 5th, the Chinese short track speed skating team was in the same group as the South Korean team and the Italian team in the quarter-finals. The Chinese team ranked first in the group and advanced strongly, and the South Korean team only ranked third. Didn’t even make it to the semi-finals…
Now, a gold medal in the mixed relay is a testament to China’s short track speed skating efforts in the past four years, and it has also injected a boost for this “ace of the team” and the entire Chinese Winter Olympics delegation.
In the following competitions, several main players, including Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei, will attack more events and write new stories for China’s short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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