In the early morning of August 3rd, Beijing time, in the quarter-finals of the 2024 Paris Olympic badminton men's singles, Chinese player Shi Yuqi lost 30-2 to Thailand's Kunlawutt and missed the semi-finals. After the game, Shi Yuqi apologized to the fans and netizens through personal social media, saying that it was a pity that he did not win a medal for the Chinese team and he wanted to say sorry for this. Soon, "Shi Yuqi apologizes" topped the list of hot searches.
Shi Yuqi regrets that he stopped in the top eight of men's singles
Shi Yuqi is now ranked No. 1 in the world, and his status during the Paris Olympics cycle has been maintained well. In May this year, he also led the Chinese team to win the Thomas Cup championship. In the French Open and Olympic test match, he defeated today's opponent Kunlavut twice 21-19 to win the men's singles championship. Now, facing last year's World Championship champion again, Shi Yuqi played very passively throughout the game and was almost completely suppressed by his opponent. He lost two consecutive games 12-21 and 20-21 and ended up in the men's singles quarterfinals.
With Shi Yuqi's early elimination, all Chinese men's singles players have been wiped out, and the national feather team's wish to win all five gold medals has also come to nothing. After the game, Shi Yuqi apologized through personal social media. "Sorry, sorry that I couldn't win a medal for the Chinese team." Subsequently, the topic "Shi Yuqi apologizes" quickly became a hot search topic, and once occupied the top of the hot search list.
Netizens seemed very tolerant of Shi Yuqi's apology and commented one after another to express their condolences. "You have tried your best. You have worked hard in the past few years.", "Brother, you are sorry for yourself", "Shi Yuqi, you have not sorry for anyone!", some netizens suggested that Shi Yuqi continue to fight. "As long as you fight, we will fight with you until the 2028 Olympics!"
Shi Yuqi apologized and let gymnast Su Weide accidentally "lay down": "Su Weide is the one who should apologize!" In the men's team finals, Su Weide was competing on the horizontal bar Two missed bars directly caused the Chinese team to be reversed by the Japanese team and lost the gold medal they almost won. Although Su Weide apologized after the game, netizens still refused to forgive him.
