Reporters Chen Chenxi Sun Longfei Liu Shuoyang
On September 29, the five individual finals of the badminton events of the 20th Asian Games were held. Among them, the women's doubles final is between the world's top two Chinese team combination Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, and the Korean team combination Lee So Hee/Baek Ha Na. The two sides fought hard for three games, taking 111 minutes, and jointly presented a world-class badminton doubles contest. In the first game, Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning saved 5 game points and won with difficulty, scoring a rare score of 28:26. In the end, the Chinese team lost unfortunately 1:2 and missed the chance to defend the title.
Looking at the badminton world ranking list, the top five players in the five individual events are almost all from Asia. Every game is a competition between world-class players. The Asian Games, held every four years, promotes the sustainable development of world badminton.
So far, 30 world records have been rewritten in the weightlifting and shooting competitions of this Asian Games. Among them, a total of 25 world records have been broken in the weightlifting competitions, showing the world the dominance of Asian weightlifting. At the women's 61kg competition, Yang Liuyue of the Chinese team broke the world record in the snatch and total score, while Park Jinhae of the North Korean team broke the clean and jerk world record. The two staged a world-class exciting showdown for the audience.
The shooting competition is not over yet. The Chinese team has broken the world record five times and tied the world record once. Breakthroughs and high-level duels have also pushed the Asian Games shooting venue to a world-class competitive stage. In the individual final of the women's 25-meter pistol event, Xiao Jiarixuan had a peak showdown with the world record holder in the event, Indian star Esha Singh. In the gold medal match, the two sides decided the winner through two additional rounds, and Xiao Jiarixuan finally won the championship. While the 23-year-old Chinese team player won the first Asian Games gold medal in individual events, he also withstood the test of the world's top players.
In addition, in some minor events such as table tennis, gymnastics, track and field, diving and swimming, the overall strength of Asian players is also at the forefront of the world.
On the evening of September 28, a world-class men’s javelin throw showdown was staged at the Asian Games track and field venue. Sri Lankan team player Patty Rag and Indian team player Yadav are among the top five in the world this season, and the Asian record holder Nadeem from the Pakistani team is a gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics. In the end, Patilage won the championship with a final throw of 88.55 meters. The competition for the women's javelin championship is also going on among world-class athletes. Yan Ziyi of the Chinese team has the second best score in world history this season, and Haruka Kitaguchi of the Japanese team is the double champion of the Olympic Games and the World Championships. In the end, Yan Ziyi staged a "one-shot victory." After the game, Yan Ziyi said that the two continued to improve their respective results while catching up with each other.
In the table tennis arena, many teams are of high level, and the Chinese team's dominant position has been challenged. It won 6 golds, 4 silvers and 1 bronze in 7 events, and won the championship and runner-up in 3 events: mixed doubles, women's singles and men's singles. Especially in women's singles, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu have occupied the top two in the world rankings for a long time in the past two Olympic cycles. The two have led China's women's table tennis to jointly face challenges in international events.
In the men's individual all-around gymnastics arena of the Asian Games, Chinese gymnast Zhang Boheng withstood the challenges of Tokyo Olympic champion Hashimoto Daiki and Paris Olympic champion Shinnosuke Oka and won the gold medal in this event for the Chinese team for three consecutive Asian Games. "My opponents bring me a lot of strength and motivation." Zhang Boheng said.
When the competitive level of more Asian players enters the world's first echelon, what is shown is the overall improvement and progress of Asian sports.
(Our reporters Li Shuo and Tao Xiang'an, and People's Daily Online reporter Hu Xuerong participated in the interview)
