(Tokyo Olympics) Who is the next "star" of the Chinese team?
China News Agency, Beijing, July 14th, title: Who is the next "star" of the Chinese team?
China News Agency reporter Zhang Su
The list of Chinese sports delegations participating in the Tokyo Olympics was released on the 14th, with 293 athletes participating in the Olympics for the first time, accounting for 67.98% of the total number of athletes.
This figure is slightly lower than 72.84% during the Rio Olympics and higher than 61.61% during the London Olympics.
The previous Olympics have been a stage for newcomers.
Who is the next "star" among these "new Olympic faces" has attracted the attention of the outside world.
Shuangshu aims for the first gold
The Chinese shooting team has been described as a "youth storm" because of the emergence of a large number of new players.
For the Chinese sports delegation, the task of competing for the first gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics falls precisely on the shoulders of the shooting team's two rookies Yang Qian and Wang Luyao.
Yang Qian was born in 2000 and won 4 consecutive 10m air rifle championships in the four rounds of the National Rifle Shooting Team Tokyo Olympic Trials.
Wang Luyao was officially exposed to shooting in 2012. Four years later, she represented China in the Asian Airsoft Championships. While winning individual championships and team championships, she also set new individual and team world youth records.
In the past two Olympics, the first gold of the Chinese delegation came from the shooting team's Olympic rookies that year, namely Zhang Mengxue (Rio Olympics) and Yi Siling (London Olympics).
The swimming world calls for new stars
30 athletes participated in 34 small events. The scale of the Chinese swimming team's participation has been reduced compared with previous Olympic Games, and the gold points have also been reduced.
A group of famous generals were absent due to various reasons, making this list slightly "starred."
Yang Junxuan's recent impressive performance in the women's 100m and 200m freestyle events has been hoped by the outside world.
Since the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, she has continuously set her personal best. Not only did she set a new Asian record, she also set a new world record in the men’s and women’s 4×100m medley relay with her teammates, making the Chinese team a A strong contender for the gold medal in this project.
Wang Jian Jiahe and Li Bingjie, who were also born in 2002, are regarded as "double insurance" for women's long-distance freestyle swimming.
Big ball breakout
Many of the "new Olympic faces" in the big ball event actually came from the World Series lineup.
All 12 Chinese women's volleyball players participating in the Tokyo Olympics participated in the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup.
As far as the Olympic rookies are concerned, freeman Wang Mengjie has performed well in all the world competitions of this Olympic cycle. The main attacker Li Yingying is known as the biggest discovery of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this Olympic cycle.
The inside "Twin Towers" and the centers Han Xu and Li Yueru, who are both over two meters tall, are the key to whether the Chinese women's basketball team can go further in the Tokyo arena.
In fact, the joining of them and a group of potential teenagers has significantly increased the team's situation. In the Tokyo Olympic qualifiers, the Chinese women's basketball team advanced in advance with three wins.
Advantage project take over
In the traditionally advantageous events such as diving, weightlifting, and table tennis, the Chinese team has sent a lineup that combines the old and the new.
The Chinese diving team, known as the "Dream Team", has 10 people participating in all 8 individual competitions. Among them, Chen Yuxi, Quan Hongchan and Wang Zongyuan are all newcomers who have emerged in this Olympic cycle.
"Post-05" young girl Chen Yuxi is the women's 10-meter platform champion at the Gwangju World Championships. This trip will compete in both single and double events. Wang Zongyuan is the 1-meter springboard champion at the Gwangju World Championships and leads the standings in the Olympic trials.
The youngest member of the Chinese weightlifting team is Li Wenwen, who is only 21 years old. Judging from the record of this cycle, she has the absolute strength to make gold.
In the women's 87 kg and above finals of the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, Li Wenwen swept the snatch, clean and jerk and overall results and broke the world records for clean and jerk and overall results.
In the table tennis competition, Fan Zhendong will hit the men's singles and men's team two gold medals as the number one in the men's world.
Young player Sun Yingsha ranked second seed in women's singles, and Chen Meng became the "double insurance" of the Chinese team in this event.
Also worth mentioning is the Chinese female windsurfing athlete Lu Yunxiu.
She has won the Olympic test competition and the World Sailing World Cup Japan competition in Enoshima, Japan. This time, she has returned to the "blessed place" and shouldered the hope of winning the medal.
New items can be expected
The newly added events of the Tokyo Olympics include karate, competitive rock climbing, skateboarding, surfing, etc. A group of Chinese athletes will usher in their Olympic debut.
Competitive rock climbing is a collection of three small events: bouldering, difficulty and speed.
After winning the qualification for the Tokyo Olympics, Pan Yufei, a male player, made up for his shortcomings through closed assault training. The female player Song Yiling is a world-class sprinter and a strong contender for medals.
Yin Xiaoyan and Gong Li qualified for the Women's Karate Olympics.
At present, Yin Xiaoyan is firmly ranked first in the women's 61 kg class of the World Karate Federation, and first in the Olympic standings, and will launch an impact on the gold medal.
There are 4 gold medals for men and women in the skateboarding event. Zhang Xin and Zeng Wenhui will participate in the women's bowl (park competition) and street style competitions respectively.
The two female players who entered the skateboarding national training team through cross-border selection are still preparing for the final sprint before the game.
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