(Central News Agency reporter Li Jianzhong, Taipei, 19th) Li Zhikai, who won the men’s pommel horse gymnastics silver medal for Taiwan at the Tokyo Olympics, has determined that he will not be able to qualify for individual events in advance after four World Cup and Olympic qualifying events this year. He said helplessly that he Already burned out, maybe the time has come.
If Li Zhikai had won the gold medal at the Gymnastics World Cup Duha yesterday and his main opponent, Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov, ranked fifth, he could still have reversed his points and grabbed an Olympic ticket. However, in the end, it backfired and he ended up in second place. .
Talking about the rating of this station, Li Zhikai said in an interview with a reporter from Central News Agency that since the Tokyo Olympics, countries including Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Jordan and other countries have “formed their own alliances”, but the last station is in Doha, ” This kind of score is really unconvincing. It’s obvious that they want to kill me. It’s definitely sad, but what can I do?”
Li Zhikai stressed that he had done everything he could in this competition. “The difficulty score of 6.6 is my highest score in this cycle, and the movements were also very smooth. If I failed today, I would admit it, but it happened like this.” the result of.”
The 28-year-old Li Zhikai is definitely not qualified to participate in the pommel horse event of the Paris Olympics on his own. Although he can still qualify for the individual all-around at the Asian Gymnastics Championships in May, he said meaningfully: “There are less than 3 weeks left. Come on, at this age and with all the injuries, how can I possibly compete in the Asian All-Around Championships where I have to compete in 6 events in one day?”
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Li Zhikai sighed helplessly and said, “I have done everything I should do. I have given everything to gymnastics in the past 20 years, at least 200%, but I have suffered a broken foot and wrist injury since July last year. No, I don’t know how to keep myself going.”
Li Zhikai emphasized that in fact, his original personal plan was to end this year. “I have really burned out. In the end, I still failed to win the qualification. I think the time has come and I will not force anything anymore.” (Editor: Xu Ruicheng) 1130420
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