(Beijing Winter Olympics) Short track speed skating men's 500m Hungarian team Liu Shaoang won the championship and Wu Dajing missed the defending title
China News Service, Beijing, February 13 (Reporter Xing Chong Zhang Su) The men's 500-meter short track speed skating final at the Beijing Winter Olympics was held on the 13th. Hungarian Liu Shaoang won the championship with 40.338 seconds.
The champion of the last Winter Olympics, Chinese star Wu Dajing, ranked third in the group in the semi-finals and missed the group A final. He slipped 41 seconds and 157 in the group B final and ranked first.
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.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
The competition for this event at the Winter Olympics is quite fierce.
In the preliminaries, three Chinese players, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and Sun Long, all advanced, but in the first quarter finals on the 13th, except for Wu Dajing, who successfully advanced to the first place in the group, the other two Chinese players failed to break through.
In the semi-finals, Wu Dajing was divided into the "death group", with Hungarian star Liu Shaoang and South Korean player Huang Daxian in the same group, and the level of competition was "comparable to the final".
In the semi-finals, Wu Dajing was in the third lane. After the gunshots, some players rushed to run. Wu Dajing re-started and grabbed the third place. Although he accelerated with all his strength in the second half, he still failed to surpass the previous players, and finally finished 478th in 40 seconds. Ranked third in the group and failed to enter the group A finals.
The picture shows Chinese player Wu Dajing (left) and Canadian player Steven DuBois (right) after the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
In the Group B final, Wu Dajing maintained the lead the whole way after starting, and finally crossed the line first in 41 seconds and 157.
In the Group A final later on, Liu Shaoang quickly grabbed the leading position after starting, and did not give his opponent any chance during the whole process, and crossed the finish line first in 40 seconds and 338.
The Russian Olympic Committee team Konstantin and Canada's DuBois won the silver and bronze medals respectively.
The current world record and Olympic record holder for this project is still Wu Dajing.
He slid 39.584 to win the championship at the last PyeongChang Winter Olympics, setting an Olympic record.
The picture shows Chinese player Wu Dajing after the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
Wu Dajing said after the game that it was a pity that he failed to advance to the Group A final.
"In the Winter Olympics held in my own country, I still want to achieve better results." He said that he did not expect that both teammates were eliminated in the quarter-finals, and there were some changes in mentality. It's a pity to slip out.
Next, Wu Dajing will lead his team to participate in the men's 5000m relay final.
He said that he would treat every game as the last one, and that he would go all out with his teammates in the final final.
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