On February 19, Beijing time, after the end of the short track speed skating competition of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, foreign media counted the foul list according to the official final confirmation of the results book, which aroused strong concern among netizens.
The highest number of fouls awarded at the Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating venue were Russia and Italy, both of which had five foul records each. It was followed by three teams from the United States, Canada and South Korea, which were convicted of four fouls. It is worth mentioning that the South Korean team was sentenced to a large number of fouls in the first two match days, and the reason for the significant decrease in fouls in the later period was that they almost no longer "exploited the loophole" to surpass from the inner lane, and the second was that the last few match days were the middle and long distance events they were better at. In addition, hungary and the Netherlands, two strong European teams, both committed three fouls, mostly on male players, and each received a yellow card.
The Chinese team, which played at home, had two fouls, Qu Chunyu in the women's 500m semifinals and Ren Ziwei who was awarded a penalty in the men's 1500m semifinals. Ren Ziwei was also very upset about his foul in the 1500m semi-final after the game, believing that it was too much pressure to make his mentality anxious. In general, because of the foul penalties that occurred in the first two match days, the athletes of each team chose a more cautious tactic in the later competitions, especially in the overtaking link, and the players with strong ability basically no longer surpassed from the inner lane, but pulled to the outer lane to rely on speed to "eat raw". This also made the later short track speed skating competition much cleaner, and thanks to the high-definition cameras set up on the spot, some fouls that might have been overlooked in the past could not be hidden.