(Tokyo Paralympic Games) Real gold is not afraid of fire, the Chinese team still wins gold and silver medals in the rematch
China News Service, Tokyo, August 29. The much-watched Tokyo Paralympic Women's 50-meter freestyle S11 final was rematched on the evening of the 29th. The powerful Chinese team once again set a world record and won gold and silver medals.
The women's 50m freestyle S11 (visually impaired) final was originally held on the 27th. Chinese player Ma Jia won the championship in 29.46 seconds and set a world record. Li Guizhi won the silver medal within 0.2 seconds, and another Chinese player Wang Xinyi won the fifth place.
However, the Tokyo Paralympic Organizing Committee notified on the 28th that after the end of the competition, a delegation filed a complaint, believing that contact between the players during the competition had affected the results of the competition. The referee team discussed and decided that the competition should be rematched. The gold and silver medals of the Chinese team have been temporarily cancelled.
There is a clear stipulation in the competition rules of the Paralympic swimming competition: if the visually impaired person inadvertently violates the rules and affects the competition, the referee has the right to sentence some athletes to a rematch; if it is in the final, the referee shall sentence a rematch.
However, the Tokyo Paralympic Games Organizing Committee did not announce specific details when it notified the rematch of the final, and many spectators did not understand the rules of the Paralympic Games, which caused a lot of controversy for the rematch.
In the rematch on the evening of the 29th, the Chinese player "real gold is not afraid of fire" and still won the gold and silver medals-Ma Jia won the championship in 29.20 seconds and broke the world record again. His performance was 0.26 seconds higher than that on the evening of the 27th. , Li Guizhi still won the runner-up, and Wang Xinyi was fifth.
Ma Jia, 23, was born into a peasant family in Hebei Province with congenital visual disabilities.
In 2012, at the age of 14, she started to practice swimming at the age of 14, and a year later she emerged in the National Swimming Championships for the Disabled (under 22).
In the 2015 National Paralympic Games, she won 5 gold medals and 1 silver medal in one fell swoop.
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