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Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022


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First medal on the first day at the Winter Olympic Games, not something that usually happens to us, to say the least. :d

 

:CHN was very lucky in this event, pretty much every team that could have beaten them was one way or another taken out today. 

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I'd say on paper :CHN had the second best team (after :NED ) so their win isn't that surprising, I'm mostly just surprised that  :ITA got this close (that last leg by Sighel was incredible).

 

Really happy for Fan Kexin and Ren Ziwei in particular, and of course it's nice that Wu Dajing will get (at least) one gold medal from his home games.

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18 minutes ago, NearPup said:

I'd say on paper :CHN had the second best team (after :NED ) so their win isn't that surprising, I'm mostly just surprised that  :ITA got this close (that last leg by Sighel was incredible).

 

Really happy for Fan Kexin and Ren Ziwei in particular, and of course it's nice that Wu Dajing will get (at least) one gold medal from his home games.

I am quite happy Fan Kexin too and she cried after the match for the long waited gold medal. She was substituted on the semi-final after surpassed by two persons on the quater-final and she was back on final because Zhang Yuting is too weak (part of the reason of the chaos). So happy she had a good career ending.

 

As for Wu Dajing, his status is way too unpredictable.

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Mixed Team Relay 2000m
Final Results

 

:CHN  China 
Qu Chunyu
Fan Kexin
Zhang Yuting
Wu Dajing
Ren Ziwei
2:37.348
 
:ITA  Italy 
Arianna Fontana
Martina Valcepina
Arianna Valcepina
Pietro Sighel
Yuri Confortola
Andrea Cassinelli
2:37.364

 

:HUN  Hungary
Petra Jaszapati
Zsofia Konya
Liu Shaoang
Liu Shaolin Sandor
John-Henry Krueger
2:40.900

 

Full Final Result HERE

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Google translate from Polish press:

 

 

Sport.pl


 "It's inhumane."  Shocking backstage of Natalia Maliszewska's exclusion

 - Only after Natalia Maliszewska was at the rink, we received a message that her test was positive - says Marcin Nowak from the Polish Olympic mission for the Beijing 2022 Games. Our short track star was released from isolation on Saturday night, but not on Saturday  she was allowed to start in the qualifying round of 500 meters, her crowning distance.

 


 Only a few days passed from January 30 to February 5, but Natalia Maliszewska must be terribly tired these days.  After a positive covid test, our greatest hope for a medal at these Olympics was isolation.  On February 2, Maliszewska had a negative test and there was hope that she would return to the Olympic Village on February 3.  None of this, on February 3, Natalia's test was considered positive (apparently it was at the border), and on February 4 - after positive - it became clear that she would miss her 500-meter start.

 It was clear until the night.  It was 1 o'clock in Beijing when we received unofficial information that Maliszewska would come out of isolation!  At 3 o'clock the Polish Olympic Committee confirmed that Natalia is already in the Olympic village and is getting ready to start in the 500-meter qualifying round.  These started at 12 o'clock our time (it was 7pm in Beijing).  Without Maliszewska.  Why?

 

 "Natalia Maliszewska experiences a life drama"

 We give the floor to Marcin Nowak, who is in Beijing in the Polish Olympic mission.

 - Natalia came to the Olympic Village at night.  In the morning, she underwent the normal daily testing routine like everyone else.  Later she went to the ice rink because there were no results and no results means everything is fine.  Only when Natalia was at the rink, we received a message that her test was positive.  It was inhuman - Nowak says in an interview with Sport.pl.

 - From the medical point of view, it is of course the most important thing to care for her health.  But from the human and sports point of view, Natalia experiences a life drama - emphasizes Nowak.

 

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