China’s short path is poor in hard power.
From the competitive level, the Chinese short track speed skating team was defeated in the first world war of Sofia.
This is not the first time that the Chinese team has no gold in the world championship. Last year, the record in Montreal was 1 silver and 3 bronze. Looking back, the gold-free Chinese team in the last world championship was still far away in 2007.
In the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing won the championship 500 meters, which made the Chinese people feel excited. At the beginning of the season, at the Salt Lake City station of the World Cup, Wu Dajing rewritten the 500-meter world record three times a year, which also gave the outside world great hope for his world championship.
However, the men’s 500 m Final rarely fired 4 shots in Sofia, and the third shot Wu Dajing also had a physical collision with South Korean player Huang Daxian, which directly affected the champion trend.
This is a controversial collision.
Yang Zhanyu, the leader of the Chinese team, said that Huang Daxian brought down Wu Dajing when he changed lines inside and outside, and there should be a penalty here. The International slide Federation said that when the collision occurred, Huang Daxian had already led Wu Dajing half of his body position, and there was no problem in judging the rematch.
“I just want to say, can you make the short track speed skating site clean.” This is what Wu Dajing said after the 500 m race. I believe many ice fans have heard it. Therefore, they pointed the finger at Huang Daxian, pointed at the Korean short track team, and even pointed at the International Skating Federation……
However, there was another sentence after Wu Dajing. It was estimated that many ice fans did not hear it. “The game is over. In fact, how to compete, and how to feel wrong is over. As I said before, the iron still needs to be hard on his own, so that he can’t keep up with you, really.”
The men’s 5000-meter relay ended last night. The Chinese team rose to the first place in the last five laps. However, there were mistakes in the last two handover sticks and once again watched the Koreans finish the sprint in front of them.
In the short-term world, the South Korean team is known for its “little tricks”, but their overall strength and detail handling make us unable to accept it.
Where are we? The difference is hard strength.
After the game, head coach Li Zhi talked about two details when he summarized the 5000-meter relay: The first is that Ren Ziwei and Xu Hongzhi didn’t make the handover stick well, and Xu Hongzhi didn’t get up quickly; the second is that when Xu Hongzhi handed over the stick with Wu Dajing, the sliding position was too close to the outside, and he didn’t pay attention to the line. Wu Dajing basically didn’t borrow his strength when he started. It is these seemingly small details that determine the outcome of the whole game.
Back to the 500 m final of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing always kept a distance of 4 to 5 positions with the two South Korean players behind him, and did not give the other party a chance of physical contact at all. What is this called? This is called hard power! In the arena, if you have the hard power, you are naturally not afraid of outsourcing.
This year is the first year of the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, and the positioning of the Chinese short track team is “adjustment year”. The purpose of adjusting the year is to recuperate, exercise new people, and find problems. A season is over, and the Chinese team should have gained something at these points.
In the arena, it is not only to win gold medals that can be called harvest, but also regret and deficiency. There are still three years before the Beijing Winter Olympics. I will make a careful summary and start from the details. I believe this Chinese winter ace teacher will bring more surprises to everyone in the future.
□ Sun Haiguang, sports commentator of Beijing News