Paris 2024 enters its fifth day of competition, with 17 gold medals to be awarded. The Chinese sports delegation has the strength to win medals and even gold medals in gymnastics, diving, swimming, rowing and the women's freestyle BMX park race.
The first gold medal came in the women's double 10m platform, and the Chinese pair Quan Hongchan/Chen Yuxi had the absolute strength to win gold in this event, as the facts proved. Their first jump was perfect, with the five judges unanimously giving them a score of 9.5, and finally scored a comfortable 56.40. In the second jump, he performed the "Splash Disappearing Technique" again, scoring 54.60 points, and the total score came to 111 points, continuing to rank first!
From the 3rd jump, Quan Hongchan/Chen Yuxi began to quickly pull away the lead with their optional moves, and each jump can be regarded as a "textbook level". In the end, he won the championship with a total score of 359.10, which is also the 7th gold medal of the Chinese diving team in this Olympic Games, the 3rd gold medal of the diving team, and the 50th gold medal of the previous edition.
Surprisingly, the 8th gold of the Chinese delegation came from an unpopular project! In the final of the women's BMX freestyle park race, Chinese players Sun Jiaqi and Deng Yawen competed. In the end, Deng Yawen won the championship with a high score of 92.6, and Sun Jiaqi ranked 7th. The silver medal was won by the United States and the bronze medal was won by the Australia player. With these 2 gold medals, the Chinese delegation also surpassed the Japan team to rise to the top of the medal table!
But there were both joys and worries on this match day, and the biggest upset appeared in the table tennis men's singles 1/16 finals. World No. 1 Wang Chuqin, the tournament's No. 1 seed, unexpectedly lost 2-4 to Sweden's Moregard and missed out on the round of 16. The top 32 results are also the worst results in the history of the National Table Tennis Olympics.
Regarding Wang Chuqin's exit, the outside world believes that the main reason is that the racket has been replaced, which has affected the feel. We can clearly feel from the game that Wang Chuqin is not in shape, his confidence is not as good as before, and sharp attacks are rarely seen.
Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong, who appeared later, both successfully eliminated their opponents and advanced to the top 16, among which Fan Zhendong became the only seedling of national table tennis in the singles event, and the burden of winning gold completely fell on his shoulders!
Another unexpected news is that Xu Jiayu has withdrawn. In order to ensure the upcoming men's 4ร100m medley relay and men's and women's 4ร100m medley relay, Xu Jiayu chose to withdraw from the men's 200m backstroke group preliminaries. It is worth mentioning that since the start of the Paris Olympics, the Guoguo swimming team has successively had Yu Yiting, Li Bingjie, Pan Zhanle, Niu Guangsheng, and Xu Jiayu to compete in the team relay event and give up their individual competitions.