Guangming Daily reporter Wang Dong
On August 6, the Chinese Legion won two more gold medals in the battle for 23 gold medals throughout the day. The Chinese men’s table tennis team defeated the German team 3:0 without any suspense and won the gold medal. Chinese track and field athlete Liu Shiying won the women’s javelin championship with a score of 66.34 meters, achieving a zero breakthrough in the Chinese women’s javelin Olympic gold medal. So far, the Chinese Olympic Team has won 36 gold medals.
In the Tokyo Olympic Games men’s table tennis gold medal battle, the Chinese team relied on the outstanding performance of Malone, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong to sweep the No. 2 seed German team with a score of 3:0, winning the Olympic men’s team gold medal for the fourth time in a row.
On August 6, the women’s track and field 4×100m relay final was held at the New National Arena. The picture shows the Chinese team members Wei Yongli (right) and Huang Guifen in the game.Xinhua News Agency
At the Olympic Games, the table tennis men’s team event has revised the rules: the competition system has been changed to a doubles set plus four singles set. The first set of doubles was Xu Xin/Malone against the German team’s Boll/Francisca. The Chinese combination outperformed their opponents in terms of technology, tactics, and mentality. They swept their opponents 3:0 in just 26 minutes, giving the Chinese team the first win. one cent.
In the second set, Fan Zhendong, the top player of the Chinese team, played against Ocharov, the top player of the German team. The two sides fought hard for 5 games, and Fan Zhendong won with a total score of 3:2. The Chinese team thus led with a big score of 2:0.
In the third set, Malone played again, his opponent is the 40-year-old veteran Boll. The game was full of surprises, and Ma Long won with a big score of 3:1, which also secured the final victory for the Chinese team.
In the women’s javelin finals of the Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiying took the gold with a throw and threw the highest of 66.34 meters in the first trial. This is also her best result this year. In recent years, the women’s javelin has become an event in Chinese track and field that can “broke the wrist” with the world‘s top teams. Lu Huihui has won many medals at the World Championships, and Liu Shiying is the silver medalist at the 2019 World Championships.
As the finale of the track and field on that day, the men’s and women’s 4×100m relay finals also made Chinese audiences look forward to it. On the evening of the 6th, the Chinese men’s and women’s relay teams both appeared in the Olympic finals for the first time. In the first women’s competition, the Chinese team composed of Liang Xiaojing, Ge Manqi, Huang Guifen, and Wei Yongli finished sixth in 42.71 seconds, making history.
In the men’s match that followed, the Chinese team in the seventh track was Tang Xingqiang, Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, and Wu Zhiqiang. In the end, the Chinese team finished fourth with 37.79 seconds.
In the women’s 20-kilometer walking race in Sapporo, defending champion and Olympic “four dynasty veteran” Liu Hong won a bronze medal in 1 hour, 29 minutes and 57 seconds.
In the women’s 61 kg karate final in the evening, Yin Xiaoyan drew with Serbia’s Prekovic 0:0, but the referee judged that Yin Xiaoyan was inferior, and Yin Xiaoyan missed the gold medal and won a silver medal.
The Chinese team won another silver medal from women’s freestyle wrestling. Pang Qianyu lost to Japan’s Masayu Mukata 4:5 in the women’s 53 kg freestyle wrestling final and won a silver medal.
“Guangming Daily” (version 05 on August 07, 2021)