June 30 is the deadline for the track and field events at the Paris Olympics, so the 2024 National Athletics Championships and National Athletics Grand Prix Finals in Rizhao, Shandong Province, last week will be the last chance for some Chinese athletes to compete for Olympic tickets. In the women's heptathlon event on June 30, star Zheng Nina won the gold medal, but her Olympic ranking did not enter the top 24 in the world and she missed the Paris Olympics.
Nina Zheng was born in Canada on November 12, 1998. In April 2018, she won the second place in the women's heptathlon with 6,133 points at the Commonwealth Games, and in the same year, she chose to become a naturalized Chinese.
In 2021, Zheng Ninali officially qualified to represent Chinese track and field in international competitions. At the Tokyo Olympics, she won the tenth place in the women's heptathlon with 6,318 points, creating the best result of a Chinese athlete in the Olympic Games.
At the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, Zheng Nina won the gold medal.
At the Paris Olympics, Zheng Nina Li also had high hopes. Recently, she became the "athlete celebrity ambassador" of a watch brand together with swimming Olympic champion Zhang Yufei and badminton world champion Li Shifeng.
However, it is a pity that before the national track and field championships, Zheng Ninali's Olympic points ranking was squeezed out of the top 24 in the world, and in Rizhao, she needs to fight against the water.
On June 30, the National Track and Field Championships ended, and although Zheng Ninali won the heptathlon championship with 5,946 points, her Olympic points ranking still did not enter the top 24 in the world. In the final 800m, she fell midway through the event and finished ninth out of 16 runners.
At noon on July 1, Zheng Nina Li announced that she would not participate in the Paris Olympics, sorry to disappoint everyone, and she also raised some questions about the competition venue in Rizhao.
She revealed that she was preparing for the event when she stepped on the long jump springboard and skidd, and she had a knee problem, which made it difficult to compete in the future. When I got to the 800m event, I suddenly felt my knees locked, so I fell.
Zheng Nina Li posted the springboard that caused her knee injury
"I think there's something wrong with the quality of this long jump board. I believe that the wood was cut straight through, which should never have happened. Especially at major tournaments. Not to mention the qualification for the Olympics, the point is that it is too dangerous for us athletes. I haven't had my knee checked systematically, but I'm lucky because I don't think the injury is too serious. In the end, the planks were not replaced, but only painted with white paint, hoping that these mistakes would never happen again. Zheng Nina Li said.
The following is the full text of Zheng Ninali's post:
(Michau Sports)