(Beijing Winter Olympics) Comprehensive news: Wu Dajing missed the defense of Chinese women's curling to welcome two consecutive victories
China News Agency, Beijing, February 13 (Reporter Wang Zumin) The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will start the second half of the competition on the 13th. The Chinese short track speed skating team won the bronze medal in the women's 3000-meter relay, making the Chinese delegation in this Winter Olympics. The number of medals at the meeting increased to 9 (4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze).
But unfortunately, this Chinese ice and snow sports ace division failed to defend the men's 500 meters.
On February 13, the short track speed skating men's 500-meter semi-final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Capital Gymnasium.
The picture shows Chinese player Wu Dajing after the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, four years ago, Wu Dajing won the men's 500-meter short-track speed skating final, winning the only gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics.
Therefore, the defending title of the Chinese short track speed skating team led by Wu Dajing was also listed as the focus of this Winter Olympics early on.
In fact, both Wu Dajing and the Chinese team had a perfect start in this event.
In the preliminaries on the 11th, three Chinese players, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long, all advanced, and Wu Dajing ranked first among all participating athletes.
But by the start of the game on the 13th, the situation changed abruptly.
In the first quarter-finals, Ren Ziwei, the double champion of the current Winter Olympics, and the "post-00" teenager Sun Long, who were in the same group, were eliminated at the same time. Wu Dajing, the only remaining fruit of the Chinese team, then stopped in the semifinals.
In the end, Hungarian Liu Shaoang won the championship.
The women's 3000m relay final was also held at the short track speed skating venue that night.
The Chinese team, consisting of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Zhang Chutong and Qu Chunyu, won a bronze medal, the world record holder Netherlands won the gold medal by breaking the Olympic record, and the South Korean team, the double champion of the previous two Winter Olympics, won the silver medal.
So far, the Chinese short track speed skating team has won 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze and 4 medals in this Winter Olympics, and still surpassed the Netherlands (2 gold and 1 silver) to top the gold medal list in this event.
In the speed skating arena that day, the Chinese team performed mediocre.
In the women's 500m final, Jin Jingzhu and Tian Ruining ranked 12th and 14th respectively, and American star Erin Jackson won the championship with 37.04 seconds; in the men's team chase quarter-finals, the Chinese team was among the 8 participating teams. Bottom of the middle grades.
Norway, the United States, the Russian Olympic Committee and the Netherlands advanced to the semifinals.
On February 13, Chinese team players Wang Rui, Zhang Lijun, Han Yu, and Dong Ziqi (from left to right) were on the field.
On the same day, the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 6-5 in the women's round-robin curling competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics held at the "Ice Cube" of the Beijing National Swimming Center.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
On the 13th, there was an unexpected joy at the women's single snowmobile race.
After the first two rounds of the project, two Chinese players Huai Mingming and Ying Qing temporarily ranked fifth and eighth.
In the last two rounds on the 14th, we will strive to achieve better results.
The women's single sled is a newly added event at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Competitors will ski four times in the two-day schedule, and the one with the shortest total four-wheel skating time wins.
China only established a national snowmobile team in 2015, and it is not easy to achieve such achievements in the Olympic arena where there are many strong players.
The Chinese women's curling team also brought surprises again. After an upset victory over the defending champion Sweden on the 12th, on the 13th, they defeated the last Winter Olympics runner-up South Korea 6-5. After the defeat, a high-quality two-game winning streak was achieved.
The Chinese men's curling team, which had won the winning streak two days ago, failed to continue their good luck. On the 13th, they lost to the British team and the American team by 6:7 and 6:8 respectively, and suffered a one-day double defeat.
Snow fell in the Zhangjiakou competition area of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the 13th.
Due to the weather, both the freestyle skiing women's slope obstacle skills and the "four dynasties veteran" Xu Mengtao's freestyle skiing women's aerial skills were postponed to the 14th due to the weather.
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