On August 5, Beijing time, the 2024 Paris Olympics will be held. In the men's 25m rapid fire pistol final, two Chinese players, Li Yuehong and Wang Xinjie, represented the Chinese shooting team in the competition. Li Yuehong, a 34-year-old veteran, is on the Olympic calendar for the third time, and as a world record holder, he has only won two Olympic bronze medals and has yet to win a gold medal.
However, in today's competition, Li Yuehong finally won the most complete gold medal as he wished. After several rounds of competition, Li Yuehong had a three-point lead before the start of the final round. He showed the characteristics of a veteran with a big heart in the final round, and in this round he directly scored a perfect score of 5 points, and won the gold medal with a score of 32 points, without giving any chance to other opponents, and won this gold medal that was crucial for him. This is also the 20th gold medal of the Chinese Olympic delegation in this Olympic Games.
It is worth mentioning that in the last 3 rounds of the knockout round, Chinese player Li Yuehong was still 1 ring behind the Korea player, and in the last 3 rounds, Li Yuehong hit 14 shots in the last 15 big hearts and won the gold in a reversal! 2 out of 3 rounds hit a perfect score! Such a performance shows that Li Yuehong is a real big-scene player. His teammate Wang Xinjie won the bronze medal with a score of 23 points, and the Chinese team swept the gold and silver medals in this event. Korea won the silver medal with 25 points.
Li Yuehong, who previously won bronze medals in Rio and Tokyo, has finally achieved his dream of competing in the Olympics for the third time and is the current world record holder in this event. According to statistics, this is the fifth gold medal of the Chinese shooting team at the Paris Olympics. The first four gold medals are: mixed team 10m air rifle (Huang Yuting/Sheng Lihao), men's 10m air pistol (Xie Yu), men's 10m air rifle (Sheng Lihao), men's 50m rifle three positions (Liu Yukun).
The Chinese team's best record at the Olympics was five gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, and they have now equaled their own best record. In this Olympic Games, the Chinese shooting team achieved a bumper harvest. The shooting team is very reasonable and clear in the construction of talent echelon and athlete selection, and finally cultivated so many Olympic champions. Let's congratulate the Chinese shooting team and the Chinese Olympic delegation!