Expect more excitement in the second half

Source:Overseas Network

On July 31, local time, the Tokyo Olympics entered the eighth competition day, and Chinese athletes continued to give excellent performance. Lu Yunxiu and Lu Xiaojun won the women's windsurfing RS:X class and the men's weightlifting 81kg class respectively, raising the number of gold medals won by the Chinese sports delegation to 21 in this year's Olympics.

With the end of the day's competition, the Tokyo Olympics are now halfway through their schedule. Chinese Olympic athletes in this day's performance, like the entire first half of the microcosm: in weightlifting and other traditional strengths of the project to maintain stable play at the same time, but also in the windsurfing and other projects from time to time to bring surprises. As the Tokyo Olympics enter the "second half", Chinese athletes continue to advance.

The traditional dominant position is solid

Early in the morning of July 24, the sports world remembered a girl named Yang Qian. In the Tokyo Olympics women's 10-meter air rifle final, the 21-year-old Chinese player to create the Olympic final record score won the championship, shooting down the Tokyo Olympics "first gold" at the same time, but also for the Chinese sports delegation made the opening of the red.

Shooting is the traditional strength of the Chinese sports delegation, in the past Olympic Games, many times bear the burden of fighting for the "first gold". After Yang Qian became the first champion of the Tokyo Olympics, China's "sharpshooters" in the next game continued to play heroically, Jiang Ranxin, Sheng Lihao and other young players performance is eye-catching, 35-year-old veteran Pang Wei is not willing to lag behind. So far, the Chinese players *** shot down 3 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze.

In the weightlifting competition, the Chinese team players performance is also wonderful. July 31 Lu Xiaojun won the title after the Chinese players in the six levels of weightlifting competitions participated in the 5 gold and 1 silver. "Regardless of the opponent, my goal is to break the record!" On July 28, Shi Zhiyong won the gold medal in the men's 73kg class with a world record-breaking score - while reaping the medals, China's Hercules is also burdened with the challenge of various records. In Tokyo, players such as Hou Zhihui, Li Faibin and Chen Lijun left behind record-breaking achievements.

Like weightlifting and shooting, Chinese players are strong in table tennis and diving. In the current Olympic Games, Chinese athletes have won three gold and one silver in diving, and the table tennis field has also staged a sweep of the championship and second place performance.

Surprises and regrets

On the afternoon of July 31, the good news came from the distant Jiangzhidao Marina. In the women's windsurfing RS:X class race, China's Lu Yunxiu won the gold medal. Just one hour later, Bi K'un in the men's windsurfing RS: X-level competition won a valuable bronze medal, realizing the Chinese men's windsurfing Olympic medal "zero" breakthrough. In some of the past is not the advantage of the project competition, China's Olympic athletes with a breakthrough to bring surprise.

July 28th in Tokyo Sea Forest Aquatic Arena, Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lv Yang, Cui Xiaotong four girls with a significant advantage of the rowing women's quadruple sculls project champion, for China's rowing team back to the 13 years of absence of the gold medal. Zhang Liang and Liu Zhiyu also took third place in the men's double sculls, winning the first Olympic men's medal in the history of the Chinese rowing team.

On July 28, China's women's triple sculls basketball team beat France in the bronze medal game to take third place. Surprises also lie beyond the medals, as the Chinese women's rugby team, making its Olympic debut, dared to fight and finished seventh. "The tenacious and hard-working temperament of the game is the key to the breakthrough of Chinese women's rugby, and in the future we have to improve our strength in all aspects in order to have the strength to fight against the world's top teams." China Rugby Association President Chen Yingwang said.

There were some regrets in the match. Famous players such as Wu Jingyu, Xiao Ruoteng and Dong Dong, had no chance of winning their respective events. "Standing on this field is success, and I have no regrets." As Wu Jingyu said, the effort, then no regrets.

Athletics and diving are full of attractions

On July 31, Zhang Yufei won the silver medal in the men's and women's 4,100-meter medley relay with her teammates***, bringing her own total medal count to four at the Games. On the same day, Su Bingtian advanced to the semifinals of the "Battle of the Flyers" with a score of 10:05.

In the upcoming "second half", the performance of Chinese players is also worth looking forward to.

As a two-time World Championships women's shot put champion, Gong Lijiao's "honorary room" has been missing an Olympic gold medal, and on the morning of August 1, the shot put champion will have her dream come true. 6 August, Liu Hong, Yang Jiayu, and Chee Yangshi will join forces to show the strength of China's athletics in the women's 20km race walk event in Sapporo's Odori Park. kilometer race walk.

Continuing the momentum in weightlifting, diving and table tennis is the goal of the Chinese athletes. After the men's and women's singles finals, Ma Long and other national ball players will be "strong", to realize the team project to defend the title. In the last two levels of the weightlifting event, Wang Zhouyu and Li Wenwen will try to round off the Chinese weightlifting team's trip to Tokyo. At the Tokyo Aquatic Center, Shi Tingmao and her teammates will also make a push for the remaining gold medals.

After beating the mighty Australian women's basketball team on July 30, the Chinese women's basketball team, which advanced to the last eight, will continue its march forward.

People's Daily (August 01, 2021, 07th Edition)