(Tokyo Olympics) Preview: The Chinese Legion's gold medals are expected to surpass Rio
China News Service, Beijing, July 15th, title: The Chinese Legion's gold medals are expected to surpass Rio
China News Agency reporter Wang Zumin
The Tokyo Olympics is approaching.
Although the dense shadow of the epidemic has made this Olympic Games full of uncertainty, cracking the suspense of gold medal ownership has always been the unchanging theme of the Olympics.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese delegation won a total of 26 gold medals, a record low for the first five Olympic Games in the century.
For the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese delegation sent the largest scale of overseas competitions, and the coverage of small events was also the most comprehensive overseas competition.
Based on the analysis of the entry list announced by the Chinese delegation on the 14th, the number of gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics by the Chinese Army is expected to surpass the Rio Olympics.
Advantages: the three trump cards seek "extreme", gymnastics shooting desire "shame"
At the Rio Olympics, the Chinese Army won 19 gold medals in diving, table tennis, weightlifting, shooting, badminton and other traditionally advantageous events, accounting for 73% of the total number of gold medals in the Chinese delegation.
For the Tokyo Olympics, superior events are still the backbone of the Chinese Army's gold medal.
Among them, the three ace "Dream Teams" that are close to saturation will pursue the ultimate package, while the gymnastics and shooting of Waterloo in the Rio Olympics hope to "make a comeback."
In the first three Olympic Games, the Chinese table tennis team won four gold medals in table tennis for three consecutive times.
The Tokyo Olympics added table tennis mixed doubles event, "5 gold all-inclusive" is the best choice for this Chinese "dream team".
The Chinese women's weightlifting team, which once staged two "sweeping" feats in Sydney in 2000 and Beijing in 2008, is another "dream team."
For the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's sports team will still participate in 4 events, and the goal is still to win 4 golds.
At the same time, the Chinese weightlifting team also has the ability to compete in the 4 men's events. This time the Chinese men and women are expected to jointly contribute about 5 gold medals.
Also expensive as the "dream team", the Chinese diving team, which won 7 gold medals in the Rio Olympics, has never achieved a win in the Olympics.
The highlight moment that swept all 8 diving gold medals may stay in Tokyo.
The Chinese badminton team won two gold medals in men's singles and men's doubles at the Rio Olympics.
In this Olympic cycle, the gold points of the Chinese badminton team have changed. Mixed doubles, women's singles, and women's doubles are more capable of gold. Among them, the world's number one mixed doubles has the greatest hope for gold.
Shooting is another big gold medalist in the Chinese Olympic Team, winning 22 Olympic gold medals in total.
But at the Rio Olympics, the Chinese shooting team won only 1 gold, the worst result since the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
For the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese gunmen wanted to use the shooting events to adjust to the Dongfeng of the Chinese team, and strive for 2-3 gold medals including the first Olympic gold (women's 10-meter air rifle).
The Chinese gymnastics (including trampoline) accidentally broke in Rio and won no gold.
Today, the Chinese gymnastics team is expected to compete for gold medals in the men’s team, men’s individual all-around, men’s parallel bars and women’s balance beam. The trampoline team has the strength to compete for medals and even gold medals in both men’s and women’s events.
Key major items: track and field swimming must be "guarded", water sports must be "broken"
Track and field, swimming, and water (rowing, kayaking, sailing and windsurfing) are the key events that have attracted much attention in the Olympic venues.
In the Rio Olympics, the Chinese track and field team won 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes, creating the best record in all previous Olympics.
In this Olympic cycle, the Chinese track and field team has overcome the adverse effects of the epidemic and won the most Olympic seats in history, striving to "hold" 2 gold in women's shot put, men's and women's 20-kilometer walking, women's javelin, and women's hammer throw.
Sun Yang missed his trip to Tokyo, and the Chinese swimming team, which lost the only gold point in the Rio Olympics, also hopes to "keep" one gold in Tokyo-women's butterfly rookie Zhang Yufei and men's backstroke world champion Xu Jiayu have high hopes.
As the new stars to be cultivated during the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the performances of the youngsters Wang Jian Jiahe and Li Bingjie in the women's long-distance freestyle are worth looking forward to.
In addition, as the champion of the women's 10km swimming marathon at the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, Xin Xin is also expected to win in this category.
In the previous Olympic Games, water events contributed 5 gold medals to the Chinese delegation (2 sailing boards, 1 rowing, and 2 kayaks), but in Rio, there were zero gold medals.
Therefore, "breaking the Rio no-gold deadlock" has become the Tokyo Olympic goal for water sports.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Yin Jian won the women's windsurfing championship, and achieved the "zero" breakthrough in the Olympic gold medal of sailing windsurfing for the Chinese delegation.
Women's windsurfing is still the main gold medal of the Chinese sailing windsurfing team. In addition, the men's and women's 470 class and women's laser Radial class will strive for medals.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China won a gold medal for rowing and kayaking, setting the best results in the Olympics.
But since then, China has not seen gold medals in rowing and kayaking in two consecutive Olympic Games.
At the 2019 China Rowing Association and Kayak Association Representative Conference, Liu Aijie, chairman of the Chinese Rowing Association and Kayak Association, once stated that the Tokyo Olympics will achieve the goal of achieving a historical breakthrough in the number of gold medals and the number of medals in rowing and kayaking. .
This also means that for the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese rowing kayaks will strive for more than two gold medals.
Other projects: potential excellent projects bloom more and "breakthrough" brings unexpected joy
Women's volleyball, taekwondo, fencing, cycling, judo, boxing, archery, wrestling, tennis and other events have won gold medals in the Olympics and are potential advantages for the Chinese Army.
The women's volleyball team is the only one of China's three major balls to dominate the world and has been highly anticipated in all previous Olympics.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the road to defending the Chinese women's volleyball team is even more difficult, but the "women's volleyball spirit" will always attract more attention.
In the first 5 Olympic Games after entering the new century, the Chinese Taekwondo team won a total of 7 gold medals.
In the Rio Olympics, Chinese Taekwondo not only won 2 gold medals, but Zhao Shuai also achieved a breakthrough in men's Olympic gold medal zero.
For the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese Taekwondo team will compete in the men's 2 and women's 4 levels. Zhao Shuai and Zheng Shuyin, a gold medal couple, will fight for the gold medal. Two Olympic gold medalists and four-dynasty veteran Wu Jingyu will also strive to win the championship again.
At the 2012 London Olympics, the Chinese fencing team won two gold medals for the women's epee team and men's foil individual (thunder), creating the team's best results in the Olympics, but it failed to win a gold in Rio.
"Tokyo sees gold" is the goal of the Chinese fencing team. Its gold medal is still the world's number one women's epee team, men's epee team and women's individual saber, and they also have the ability to compete for medals and even gold medals.
From Barcelona in 1992 to Beijing in 2008, the Chinese women's judo team won 8 gold medals in 5 consecutive Olympic Games.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese judo women vowed to win gold, to make up for the regret of no gold in the previous two Olympics.
At the Rio Olympics, the Chinese combination Gong Jinjie/Zhong Angel won the championship in the women's track cycling women's team race and won the first Olympic gold medal for Chinese bicycles.
Now Angela Chung and his new partner are not only striving to achieve the defending title in the team competition, but also hope to make a difference in the individual competition.
Boxing, archery, tennis, wrestling and other events that once brought glory to the Chinese Army will once again climb to the top in Tokyo.
In the previous Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation has always reaped surprises in different events.
These so-called "breakthrough" projects have important value for China's sports to "open up territory", but they are often unpredictable before the game, and therefore can bring greater surprises.
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