BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — As athletes form up for his or her ultimate preparations forward of the nineteenth Asian Games, a number of high-profile names will likely be absent resulting from numerous causes. Following are 10 Chinese star athletes who did not make the roster for the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Yang Qian (Shooting)
Olympic debutant Yang shot down the primary gold of Tokyo 2020 in ladies’s 10m air rifle, earlier than changing into the first-ever Chinese shooter to take two golds from one Olympics by successful a 10m air rifle blended crew occasion with teammate Yang Haoran.
But because the Paris Olympic cycle began, Yang has not been in a position to attain her finest type, given the truth that China’s air rifle crew has all the time been tremendous aggressive with younger skills rising one after one other. Failing to remain on the forefront of the crew, 23-year-old Yang was disregarded of final 12 months’s World Championships roster in addition to the Asian Games.
Su Bingtian (Athletics)
Star sprinter Su introduced his withdrawal from the 2023 season resulting from “physical reasons” in June. The 34-year-old received the lads’s 60m with 6.59 seconds on his season debut on the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2023 Gothenburg Games in February however didn’t compete any occasion after that.
Su was the primary Chinese to run 100m in beneath 10 seconds in 2015. With a private better of 9.83 seconds within the 100m occasion, he’s the fifth quickest man all-time within the class on the Olympics.
Guo Dan (Roller Skating)
As top-of-the-line curler skaters on the planet, Guo accomplished a grand slam of the curler skating World Championships, World Cup and World Games. In 2015, Guo determined so as to add velocity skating to her skillset and began to compete on the wheels and the blades on the similar time.
Guo made the velocity skating nationwide crew the following 12 months and took a silver within the ladies’s mass begin on the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in 2017, in addition to a curler skating silver on the Jakarta Asian Games. However, with very restricted berths on the Hangzhou Games, Guo didn’t make the checklist.
Liu Hong (Athletics)
With her 20km victories on the Spanish leg of the 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge in La Coruna, the 2015 World Championships in Beijing and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Liu accomplished a grand slam of main race strolling titles and retired after the Rio Games. Liu made a shocking comeback in 2019, as she triumphed the World Championships once more and broke the 50km world document.
With two Asian Games gold medals from 2006 and 2010 in hand, the 36-year-old solely made the substitute checklist for the Hangzhou Games after ending seventeenth on the worlds in August.
Zhu Ting (Volleyball)
After successful the CEV Volleyball Cup and taking third place within the Italian Serie A1 ladies’s volleyball league with Scandicci within the 2022-2023 season, Zhu admitted that she wants extra time to get well from a wrist harm and return to the nationwide crew.
The star spiker introduced in August that she will likely be touring to Spain quickly to fulfill together with her physician and rehabilitator to start out a brand new rehab cycle.
Zhu was the main attacker as China’s ladies took gold medals on the 2015 and 2019 World Cups and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Zhou Qi (Basketball)
Starting middle Zhou Qi left the court docket with a again harm in China’s defeat to the Philippines on the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup journey in early September, and will likely be lacking the Asian Games together with captain Zhou Peng resulting from harm.
As China’s males’s crew didn’t qualify for the Paris Olympics after ending twenty ninth on the World Cup, they are going to be pinning their hopes on the Asian Games to spice up their morale. President of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming, has vowed to take all 4 basketball gold medals in Hangzhou.
Lu Yunxiu (Sailing)
Lu claimed the ladies’s windsurfing RS:X gold on the Tokyo Olympics, changing into China’s third Olympic gold medalist in crusing. At the Paris Olympics, nevertheless, iQFOiL will change RS:X as the brand new windsurfing class, that means that Lu needed to begin the whole lot from zero, with changes in coaching strategies, technical particulars and much more.
“It has been a difficult process, but I will keep trying, keep working hard and hope to achieve a breakthrough,” mentioned the 27-year-old.
Ou Yushan (Gymnastics)
The Chinese Gymnastics Association introduced respective rosters for the Hangzhou Asian Games and Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, as the 2 competitions will likely be held at the same time. Since the ladies’s crew nonetheless has to combat for Paris Olympic berths on the worlds, Ou, as one of many better-performing athletes within the trial, will head to Antwerp as an alternative of Hangzhou.
The 19-year-old collected 4 gold medals in ladies’s all-around, stability beam, flooring train and crew occasion on the Chengdu Universiade.
Lyu Xiaojun (Weightlifting)
Olympic champion Lyu was provisionally suspended final December after a constructive results of peptide hormone erythropoietin (EPO) from his out-of-competition testing in October and no additional progress has been introduced.
Lyu has been topped world champion 5 instances and received the London 2012 males’s 77kg and Tokyo 2020 males’s 81kg golds. He has additionally been confirmed by the International Weightlifting Federation because the Rio 2016 males’s 77kg winner since Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan was stripped of the gold resulting from a doping violation.
Tang Jiali (Football)
Tang performed a significant position in China’s aggregated win towards South Korea within the Olympic qualification playoffs. She was additionally among the many 10 candidates for the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) Best Women’s Player in 2020.
A fringe participant at this 12 months’s World Cup, Tang solely got here on in its place within the 88th minute in China’s 1-0 win over Haiti. After lacking out on the Asian Games roster, the 28-year-old introduced that she has joined Spanish membership Levante Las Planas on mortgage, her third abroad spell after Tottenham Hotspur in 2021 and Madrid CFF in 2022.