The 24th Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing on February 4, 2022.

The Sports Department of Chinanews.com launched a series of columns "Hundred Questions about Winter Olympics", aimed at popularizing Winter Olympic knowledge, answering hot questions, sharing interesting stories about ice and snow, and helping everyone have a better watching experience during the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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  Short track speed skating women's 500 meters is the small event that the Chinese delegation won the most gold medals in the Winter Olympics.

In the competition of this project, Chinese players have created many historical moments.

  In the women's 500m short track speed skating final of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Chinese athlete Yang Yang lived up to expectations and took the lead to cross the finish line and won the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics for the Chinese team.

Since then, the women's 500m short track speed skating has become the gold medal event of the Chinese team and has repeatedly achieved brilliant results in the Winter Olympics.

On February 16, 2002, Salt Lake City, USA, the short track speed skating women's 500m final of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Yang Yang won the championship.

To achieve the "zero breakthrough" of the gold medal in the Winter Olympics for the Chinese delegation.

Image source: Visual China

  At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, Wang Meng won the gold medal in the women's 500m short track speed skating competition.

It was also after this Winter Olympics that Wang Meng officially took over the banner of the Chinese short track speed skating team from Yang Yang. The Chinese short track speed skating event performed very strongly in the following Winter Olympics cycle.

  Four years later, at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Wang Meng defended his title in the women’s 500m event. In the finals, despite the fact that his opponent fell over and ran away in the finals, Wang Meng withstood the pressure and gained an absolute advantage. The collar slipped to the end.

  This makes her the first athlete to defend the title in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics.

In this competition, Wang Meng alone won three gold medals and also created the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics.

On the evening of February 15, 2006, Turin time, Wang Meng won the gold medal in the women’s 500-meter short track speed skating competition at the Palavela Stadium in Turin.

This is the first gold medal won by the Chinese sports delegation at the Turin Winter Olympics.

The picture shows her holding the national flag flying around the stadium to celebrate.

Photo by Wu Zhonglin issued by China News Service

  At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Li Jianrou achieved four consecutive Winter Olympic championships for the Chinese team in the women's 500m short track speed skating event.

Her championship experience is more "legendary." Before the game, Li Jianrou was not the most promising player, but the top favorite of the Chinese team, Fan Kexin, accidentally fell in the semifinals. Veteran Liu Qiuhong failed to make it to the final, and she became the final. Here is the only seedling of the Chinese team.

  In the final, Li Jianrou was originally ranked last after firing the gun, but the previous player collided and fell, and in the end Li Jianrou miraculously won the championship.

  The Chinese team won four gold medals in the women's 500-meter short track speed skating event. This is the result of the joint efforts of several generations of Chinese short track speed skaters.

I hope they can bring good news again at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

(Wang Hao)