Too cruel! China's post-00s world champion lost the Tokyo Olympics and was replaced by a 17-year-old genius

On July 4, Beijing time, the Chinese gymnastics team announced the list of participants in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Liu Tingting, one of the only two active world champions in the women's team, regretted not being selected, making netizens call "too cruel".

Born in 2000, Liu Tingting, who is not yet 21 years old, is good at balance beams and uneven bars, and is currently the captain of the Chinese gymnastics women's team. Liu Tingting, who has a slender body, is the most "refereeing edge" of the Chinese gymnastics women's team in this Olympic cycle, and her competition video is also the most popular Chinese gymnast female athlete overseas, so she has also been given a cute nickname of "Diva Liu" by gymnastics fans. At the 2018 Gymnastics World Championships, Liu Tingting defeated American star Biles in the balance beam final to win the only gold medal of the Chinese women's team. At the 2019 Gymnastics World Championships, Liu Tingting won another silver medal in the balance beam competition. If the Tokyo Olympics were to be held in 2020, perhaps no one would think that Liu Tingting would lose the election, but the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by one year has produced many variables.

On the one hand, 20 years old is already an "advanced age" for Asian female gymnasts, and injuries and their own state are difficult to control; on the other hand, the International Gymnastics Federation's restrictions on the age of participation have been relaxed until 2004, which has also allowed some young talents who are originally in the current Olympic cycle to usher in opportunities. Under the superposition of various reasons, Liu Tingting finally lost the Tokyo Olympic Games. In this way, in the Olympic list of the Chinese gymnastics women's team, only Fan Yilin is an athlete who has landed on the world championship list.

From the official Olympic participation list of the Chinese gymnastics women's team, it can be seen that Ou Yushan, who was born in 2004 and is now only 17 years old, has undoubtedly attracted the most attention, and she will also replace Liu Tingting on the balance beam to fight for the gold medal for the Chinese team, and the future is worth looking forward to.