Winter Olympics: China’s Ren Ziwei loses chance of third short-track gold, as Audrey King says ‘I gave it my best’
- Speed skater was looking to add 1,500m title to the 1,000m and team relay golds he has already won
- Hong Kong skier King crashed out of the women’s slalom on her Olympic debut
China’s Ren Ziwei’s chances of a third gold medal in the short-track speedskating disappeared with one push on Wednesday night, after he was disqualified from his 1,500m semi-final for blocking Kazakhstan’s Adil Galiakhmetov.
“Yeah. I mean, no,” she said in response to a question on whether she would continue to compete at these Olympics. “I will try to reset again. Maybe try to reset better this time. But I also don’t know how to do it better because … I just don’t. I’ve never been in this position before and I don’t know how to handle it.”
The next two races in the women’s individual alpine programme are the super-G on Friday followed by the downhill on Tuesday. The individual programme ends with the alpine combined race on February 17.
Ren, meanwhile, was left to wonder what might have been, given that he was only trailing Hungary’s Shaoang Liu and South Korea’s Park Jang-hyuk in third at the time of his unnecessary offence, a position that would have been good enough to get him into the final.