(Tokyo Olympics) Tournament Preview: The Diving Dream Team Debuts The Chinese Double Flag Bearers At The Same Time
China News Service, Tokyo, July 24 (Reporter Wang Zumin) On the second day of the full-scale Tokyo Olympics (25th), 18 gold medals are waiting to be divided. The Chinese Legion is expected to win in diving, weightlifting, shooting, taekwondo and other venues.
On the same day, Zhu Ting and Zhao Shuai, the double standard bearers of the Chinese delegation, will both make their appearances.
The former will participate in the first match of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this Olympics, and the latter will compete for the gold medal in the Taekwondo arena.
On July 23, the opening ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympic Games was held at the New National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
The picture shows the Chinese sports delegation entering the stadium, with women's volleyball Olympic champion Zhu Ting (front left) and Taekwondo Olympic champion Zhao Shuai serving as standard bearers.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
The Tokyo Olympic diving competition kicked off on the 25th, and the first to decide was the women's double three-meter springboard gold medal.
Since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Chinese diving team has won 40 gold medals in 9 consecutive Olympic Games.
But unfortunately, this big gold medalist has not yet been able to win the Olympic Games.
Shi Tingmao (left), Wang Han (right).
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
During the trip to Tokyo, Chinese diving wanted to make up for this shortcoming.
In the first women's double springboard event, the Chinese team has achieved four consecutive Olympic championships.
This time the Rio Olympics 3-meter springboard single and double double gold winner Shi Tingmao and world champion Wang Han will play together, and the gold medal will not fall behind.
Data map: Chinese player Wang Shun in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
The swimming pool on the same day will also have four swimming gold medals in men’s 400m medley, 400m freestyle and women’s 400m medley, and 4×100 freestyle relay. The Chinese team will compete in men’s 400m medley (Wang Shun) and women’s 4× Strive for medals in the 100-meter freestyle relay event.
On July 22, local time, the opening of the Tokyo Olympics was imminent. Chinese athletes were training to adapt to the venue at the Tokyo Aquatic Center.
The picture shows Chinese player Zhang Yufei preparing for training on the sidelines.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
The Chinese teenager Zhang Yufei, who is expected to win gold, will participate in the semifinals of the women's 100m butterfly on that day.
The weightlifting arena will produce two gold medals in the men's 61 kg class and 67 kg class. Chinese players Li Fabin and Chen Lijun will attack separately and have hopes of winning gold at both levels.
In the 2019 World Championships, Li Fabin won three gold medals in the 61kg class snatch, clean and jerk and total score, and broke the two world records of total score and snatch.
His biggest opponent in this Olympics is Indonesian veteran Irawan.
Data map: At the Rio Olympics, Chen Lijun was in physical condition, failed two attempts, and then announced his abstention.
Photo by China News Network reporter Tomita
Chen Lijun, who became the favorite to win gold at the Rio Olympics, retired because of leg cramps.
After five years of "dormancy", the 28-year-old veteran made a comeback.
With the title of the two championships in 2018 and 2019, he has a more obvious advantage in the 67 kg class. This time you need to be wary of the "sneak attack" of Colombian and Uzbekistan players.
Taekwondo will produce two gold medals in the men's 68 kg class and women's 57 kg class.
After the Rio Olympics for the Chinese team to achieve a breakthrough in the men's taekwondo Olympic gold medal, Zhao Shuai, the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation of the Tokyo Olympics, will set foot on the Olympic arena for the second time.
In Rio five years ago, Zhao Shuai unexpectedly won the men's 58 kg championship and became the biggest dark horse of the Chinese Army.
This time in Tokyo, the dark horse has become a white horse, and he has also been upgraded to the 68 kg class.
The lack of strength and continuity after the promotion will make him face greater challenges in this Olympics. His main opponent is South Korean star Kim Dae-hoon.
Zhou Lijun, 22, is a rising star in this Olympic cycle and won the Grand Prix in 2019.
In the women's 57 kg competition she participated in, the biggest favorites were the London and Rio Olympic double champions, and the British star Judd Jones.
After winning the first Olympic gold and a bronze medal on the first day of the competition, the Chinese gunner continued to aim for medals in both the men's 10-meter air rifle and the women's 10-meter air pistol.
Data map: Yang Haoran.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
Yang Haoran, who became famous at the 2013 Tianjin National Games, will bring his young player Sheng Lihao, who is just as immature as him, to play with the men's 10-meter air rifle.
After returning from the Rio Olympics without success, Yang Haoran performed well in this Olympic cycle and broke the 26-year world record in 2018.
Sheng Lihao, who is under the age of 17, has emerged in this Olympic cycle and ranked second in the total points of 10m air rifle in the Olympic qualification trials.
This time he and Yang Haoran will attack the project medal together.
In the women's 10-meter air pistol arena, there will also be a "post-00".
In the 2018 World Shooting Championships, 21-year-old Jiang Ranxin and teammates Lin Yuemei and Yao Yushi won the women's 10-meter air pistol team championship for the Chinese team.
This time she will play again with Lin Yuemei and fight for medals in the individual competition.
Archery will produce the women's team gold medal.
In the women's archery arena where Koreans dominate the world, the Chinese team composed of Wu Jiaxin, Long Xiaoqing and Yang Xiaolei will strive for medals.
Table tennis mixed doubles will be played in the quarter-finals and semi-finals on the 25th.
In the quarter-finals, the Chinese combination Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen will face the Romanian players. If they win, they will face the winner between the Hong Kong combination of China and the French combination in the semi-finals.
The Chinese Taipei group and the Japanese group are in the lower half. In the quarter-finals, the Chinese Taipei group will face the South Korean group, and the Japanese group's opponent is the German group.
The Chinese women's volleyball team led by Zhu Ting, another flag bearer of the Chinese delegation, will make its debut in the Tokyo Olympics.
However, as the first opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team, 7 members of the Turkish team are currently in isolation because they are close contacts of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia.
In the event on the 25th, it is interesting to see whether the Turkish team can participate or how it will participate.
The men’s basketball game also kicked off. Four contests will be held on the 25th. Among them, the world's hegemony, the United States, will face the seventh-ranked French team.
In the group round-robin on July 24, the Chinese men's team lost to the Serbian team at 13:22.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
In the three-person basketball arena, the Chinese men's and women's teams will have two games. The men's basketball team will face Latvia and the Netherlands respectively, and the women's basketball team will be opposed to the Italian team and the French team.
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