In this year's swimming world championships, the Chinese team achieved excellent results. Sun Yang led the team and won many gold medals. However, today, there was a pity scene on the field: Although the Chinese team reached the end third in the preliminary of the mixed 4 * 100 relay, the referee decided that someone had violated the rules and finally cancelled the results of the Chinese team!
The Chinese team waited anxiously for results
In the preliminaries of the mixed male and female 4 by 100 relay race, the Chinese team's contestants are Li Guangyuan, Wang Lizhuo, Wang Yichun and Zhu Menghui. From the perspective of overall strength, they are fully capable of reaching the finals. Therefore, in the preliminaries, as long as they play normally and ensure that they can enter the finals, even if they complete the task, it is often such a seemingly sure game, but there are accidents.
The results of the Chinese team were cancelled
In the game, the Chinese team was overtaken by the Belarusian team in the third leg and fell to the fourth place. Fortunately, Zhu Menghui caught up with the Belarusian team in the last leg and finally successfully won the third place. It's just a little surprising that the game is over, but the results are not given. Everyone is waiting anxiously!
The players were helpless
Suddenly, a shocking picture appeared on the big screen: the Chinese team was cancelled! At the same time, the Japanese team, like the Chinese team, did not score. The on-site commentators were stunned. They didn't know where the Chinese team had a problem. They also hoped that there was a mistake with the referee and we could have the opportunity to appeal. But in the end, the penalty was still maintained, and the Chinese team missed the final of the project in the world championships.
It is worth mentioning that the results of this project in this year's World Championships will be used as the selection conditions for next year's Olympic Games. If the results are cancelled, it will undoubtedly lose a good opportunity for the Chinese team to participate in the 4 by 100 mixed relay of men and women in next year's Olympic Games.
So, in the end, why was the foul of the Chinese team cancelled in this game?
At first, we all thought that it was probably Wang Lizhuo's second butterfly leg after turning around. The final judgment given by the referee was that Wang Lizhuo used the butterfly leg after starting, and the next long stroke arm hit the butterfly leg again, which did not meet the competition rules. Finally, it was judged that the Chinese team violated the rules and cancelled the achievement.
In relay events, we not only rely on the individual strength of the players, but also test the tacit understanding of the team. We pay great attention to how to hand over and cooperate. I hope this unexpected defeat can let the swimmers of the Chinese team learn a lesson!