As a new event in the Tokyo Olympic Games, the skateboard women's street competition attracted a lot of attention on July 26, and 16-year-old Chinese player Zeng Wenhui ranked sixth, becoming the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Olympic skateboarding competition. Japan's and Brazil's players showed team strengths, with 14-year-old Saiyahana and 16-year-old Kaminari Nakayama winning gold and bronze medals respectively, and 13-year-old Brazilian Lyal finishing second.
Zeng Wenhui was pleasantly surprised to learn that she had reached the Olympic final
Originally from Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, Zeng Wenhui began practicing martial arts at the age of 6 and later joined the municipal martial arts team. In 2016, the International Olympic Committee announced skateboarding for the Olympic Games. In the summer of 2017, six skateboarding training teams were formed, and Zeng Wenhui was selected that summer, when she was only 12 years old, and officially transferred from martial arts to skateboarding. At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Zeng Wenhui represented the Chinese team in the women's street final and won the 4th place.
In Tokyo, Zeng Wenhui broke into the final for the first time in the Olympic Games, and she said with regret: "The goal before the game is to enter the final, and during the epidemic period, I learned a lot of difficult moves, but there are still moves that have not been made today." ”
At this year's Tokyo Olympics, only two Chinese athletes qualified for skateboarding, Zeng Wenhui participated in the street competition, and Zhang Xin got the ticket to the bowl and pool competition. The street competition began first, and compared with the scale of Japan, Brazil and the United States with three participants each, 16-year-old Zeng Wenhui could only fight alone.
Zeng Wenhui in the game
Despite this, Zeng Wenhui played at a high level, and she advanced to the final as the sixth in the preliminary round. The competition in the final is more intense, especially after entering the stage of the big trick, 8 players have challenged the difficult moves, and less than half of the players in each round can complete the action, and the scene of people flying on their backs appears frequently.
In the second round of big moves, Zeng Wenhui once again sacrificed the sharp flip 5050, and then scored a high score of 4.93, ranking among the top four at one point. But with subsequent mistakes, and Xi Yahua and Layar completing consecutive big moves, Zeng Wenhui fell in the rankings. Zeng Wenhui fell blood on his legs and continued to fight tenaciously. In the last round, Zeng Wenhui chose the more difficult sharp flip 50, but unfortunately did not succeed.
Zeng Wenhui dared to fight, and finally won the 6th place with 9.66 points, she said after the game: "In fact, it was an alternative action, but I wanted to rush the medal, there is no point in doing simple actions, or I have to fight." Zeng Wenhui has accumulated valuable competition experience at the Tokyo Olympics, and she has begun to look forward to the Paris Olympics three years later, and her goal is to win a medal.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News, Yangcheng Pie, Golden Sheep Network
Text| Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Liu Yi
Source: Yangcheng Evening News