The 2000-meter mixed relay is a new event established by the International Skating Federation after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and it is also an official event of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the first leg of last year's World Cup in Beijing, the world record of this event was rewritten four times in the first four days. In the end, the Chinese team, composed of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Zhang Yuting, won the championship in 2 minutes 37 seconds 923 seconds.
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China team member
The six players who entered the List of China Short Track Speed Skating Mixed Teams for the Winter Olympics were: Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting.
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Recent performance
The Chinese short track speed skating team is quite competitive in the mixed relay event, winning two championships and one runner-up in the 3 races of the 2021 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, especially in the competition for the Beijing station with a time of 2:37.923 to beat the South Korean team to win the championship, while setting a new world record. According to the schedule and the overall strength of the team, the first gold of the Chinese sports delegation will most likely be born in the short track speed skating relay event.
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Competition groupings
On the evening of February 4, Beijing time, the short track speed skating mixed team relay 1/4 final group has been released, and the Chinese team and the South Korean team are in the first group. The top two in each group and the two fastest third places advance to the semi-finals. The competition will take place on February 5 at 20:23.
1/4 Final Group:
Group 1: China, South Korea, Italy, Poland
Group II: Netherlands, Canada, France, Kazakhstan
Group III: Hungary, Russian Olympic Committee, Japan, United States
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Competitor analysis
This season, with the good results of the four World Cups, the Chinese team also firmly occupied the first place in the world ranking of the project with an absolute advantage of 28,000 points. The Dutch team came in second with 21,277 points, and in third place was Hungary with a score of 19,500. The Chinese team won a total of 2 championships in the project, ranking first in comprehensive strength.
In this event, the main opponents are South Korea, the Netherlands and Russia, which also have the strength to compete for the championship, and the four players of the Chinese team need to wait for the battle.
At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the South Korean team is still an old opponent that the Chinese team cannot despise. The Dutch team's best performer was Dutch women's Schulting, who is the short track speed skater who has ranked in the top four in all three individual events this season.
The Russian team is quite competitive in the mixed 2,000-meter relay, which is a challenge for the Chinese team aiming to win the gold medal in the new event of the Winter Olympics.
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Looking forward to "proofing"
Wu Dajing said before the game: The team is very competitive in the relay project, and it is also a project that we value, and we will go all out to "give the Chinese delegation a sample".
Let's look forward to what kind of wonderful performance the Chinese team will show in tonight's game!
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