Summer in Paris | Gong Lijiao won first to fifth place in five Olympic Games, with both satisfaction and regret
2024-08-12
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In the early morning of the 10th, in the women's shot put final of the Paris Olympics, Gong Lijiao, the champion of the Tokyo Olympics and competing in the Olympics for the fifth time, finished fifth. Gong Lijiao said after the game that she had won the first, second, third, fourth and fifth places in five Olympic Games, "which was somewhat satisfactory, but also somewhat regrettable."
Gong Lijiao
Gong Lijiao won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics, ranked fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics, won a gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, and ranked fifth at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Gong Lijiao's Olympic record has shown a tortuous trajectory, and she has won from first to fifth. Gong Lijiao revealed that in fact, her condition this year is very good, even better than before the Tokyo Olympics, but she suffered a serious waist injury and had to be injected with a blockade before coming to the Olympics. "I felt sore in my waist when I went on stage, and I tried to mobilize myself, but I couldn't mobilize it."
In this Olympic qualifying competition, Gong Lijiao did not "punch out after one throw" as many people expected. At that time, Gong Lijiao's first throw was only 17.65 meters, but after adjustments, she performed better and better in the next two throws, first throwing 18.22 meters, and then throwing 18.73 meters in the last throw. Although she still did not exceed 19.15 meters to qualify directly, she ranked fifth among all the finalists. In the final, Gong Lijiao threw 19.28 meters, but unfortunately this result did not allow her to stand on the podium. Another Chinese player, Song Jiayuan, threw 19.32 meters and won the bronze medal.
The overall results of women's shot put in the Paris Olympics were relatively low. German athlete Oguleye won the championship with a score of 20.00 meters, which was a big gap from Gong Lijiao's 20.58 meters when she won the championship in Tokyo. As for whether she can persist until the next Olympics, Gong Lijiao said that she dare not say that she will definitely become the "six-generation veteran" of the Olympics, but everything is possible. "The overall results of everyone in this Olympics are not very high. Whether you can persist depends on your own condition. If there is no injury, I think there is no problem." Gong Lijiao congratulated Song Jiayuan who won the bronze medal. "I hope that after I retire, Jiayuan can take over and keep the Chinese women's shot put at the top."
Proofread by Sheng Yuanyuan
