The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are in full swing, and the sixth day of competition has come to an end. This past competition day, the Chinese athletes performed well in several events, which was exciting. Five of these events have already won medals, with a total of 2 golds and 3 bronzes. The number of medals of the Chinese delegation also came to 11 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze, ranking first. It is followed by United States, France, Australia and Japan. Among them, United States won 3 golds and 2 silvers in a row, and counterattacked from 5th to 2nd overnight!
The first gold medal appeared in the shooting men's 50m rifle three positions, and China's Liu Yukun won the gold in a thrilling way. There were a total of 45 shots in the whole game, and Liu Yukun was still behind in the total score before the last 3 shots. 432.6 rings, 0.3 rings behind Ukraine's Sergey, but the last 3 shots completed the reversal, of which the 44th shot Liu Yukun hit 10.9 full rings, laying the foundation for victory. Although Liu Yukun hit 9.9 rings in the last shot, it was enough to win the gold medal!
The second gold medal came from the women's 20km race walk in track and field, with three athletes from the Chinese delegation participating, but the top favorite to win the championship was Yang Jiayu. At the Tokyo Olympics, Yang Jiayu withdrew from the gold medal competition due to a red card, and finally realized his dream at the Paris Olympics. After the start of the race, Yang Jiayu was in the first group for the first 5 kilometers, and then began to lead the race. In the end, he won the gold medal with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 54 seconds, 25 seconds ahead of the second place, and the advantage was huge.
In an interview after the game, Yang Jiayu sighed: "I have been waiting for this gold medal for 8 years, mainly to show my self-confidence. I walked at my own pace from start to finish until I finally won this gold medal. ”
In addition to these 2 gold medals, another exciting news for the Chinese people is that Zheng Qinwen has entered the Olympic tennis women's singles final! This would certainly not have been anticipated by many before the match, as Zheng Qinwen faced world No. 1 Swiatek of Poland. Zheng Qinwen had many difficulties on the way to the promotion, and experienced a three-hour fierce battle for two consecutive days, while Swiatek won easily 2-0 in the first three rounds, and the opponent abandoned the first game in the fourth round.
With both strength and physical strength, Swiatek's promotion is a high probability. But Zheng Qinwen played hard work and tenacity, and showed a hot state, winning 6-2 in the first set; In the second set, he played all the way to a 5-5 draw, Zheng Qinwen won the 6th game, and finally won another game 7-5, and advanced to the final with a big score of 2-0, creating the best result in the history of Chinese tennis in the Olympic Games! Although a medal has been secured, Zheng Qinwen's goal is definitely to win gold. Her opponent will be between Schmidlova and Vekic and we expect Zheng to do it again.
In other events, there is also good news from Chinese players. In the table tennis women's singles 1/4 finals, Sun Yingsha defeated Zheng Yijing 4-0 to advance to the top 4, so far all 2 women's singles players in national table tennis have advanced to the top 4. And the most thrilling thing to watch is the men's singles 1/4 finals, Fan Zhendong vs. Tomokazu Zhangmoto. As soon as he came up, Zhang Ben started to fight, and the momentum was very fierce, and he won 2 games in a row, leading 2-0; In the predicament, Fan Zhendong won 2 games in a row, but lost 4-11 in the 5th game.
In a desperate situation, Fan Zhendong broke out and won 11-7 in the 6th game, dragging the game into a tiebreaker! The deciding game was also stale, Fan Zhendong took the lead, was tied again, and then equalized, until it was 7-7! In the end, Fan Zhendong withstood the pressure and scored continuously, completed an epic reversal with 11-7, and advanced to the top 4. This game quickly became a hot search after the game, because it was so thrilling and exciting, it will definitely go down in the history of the Olympics!
In the mixed doubles semi-finals, China's Wang Xinyu/Zhang Zhizhen defeated Scholes/Kurhoff 2-1 to advance to the final. This is the first time that the Chinese tennis team has participated in the Olympic mixed doubles main draw and reached the final, creating history! In the "pool battle" in the early morning, Zhang Yufei played ill and won the bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly, and Yang Junxuan, Li Bingjie, Ge Chutong and Liu Yaxin won the bronze medal in the women's 4× 200-meter freestyle relay event. In addition, Ma Zhenzhao won the bronze medal in the women's 78kg judo event.
On the 7th day of competition, the Chinese delegation had the strength to win gold in shooting, diving and badminton mixed doubles, and we look forward to more exciting news from the Olympic athletes.