China won its first medal of the Beijing 2022
Winter Olympic Games in front of a home crowd at the newly introduced
short track speed skating mixed team relay event after a dramatic
evening on Saturday. Wu Dajing, who took the last leg for Team China, edged Pietro Sighel of Italy by 0.016 seconds. "My
dream has come true," an emotional Wu Dajing told CMG at the Capital
Indoor Stadium. The Chinese short track speed skating athlete had broken
the men's 500 meters world record at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. The
team, consisting of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing,
almost did not make it to the final when they finished third in the
semifinal. Wu Dajing of China leads during the
2,000-meter mixed team relay finals in short track speed skating at the
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, February 5, 2022. But the race was reviewed, with the
referees conferring and reviewing the replays. After the review, the
U.S. team, which had finished second, and the Russian Olympic Committee,
which had come in fourth, were both disqualified for blocking and
obstruction. "We were a bit worked up after the semifinal race, but we stuck together," Wu told media at a news conference. "It
was chaos during the pursuing process. There were a lot of
back-and-forth changing of positions," eight-time world champion of
short track speed skating Kong Xue told CGTN. "The athletes
inside (those waiting their turn to skate) were not supposed to stand in
the way of moving athletes. Team China have been affected by the blocks
during the Games, so the referees penalized these countries after
watching the replays for some time," she explained. The short track events will resume on Monday with the women's 500 meters and the men's 1,000m.
Beijing 2022: China wins its first gold in a new short track speed skating event
Editor:阮梓峰
Source:CGTN
Updated:2022-02-06 16:14:57
Source:CGTN
Updated:2022-02-06 16:14:57
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