Vietnam Sports at the 2024 Paris Olympics: Hope for the Vinh duo

Medal contenders

TTVN hopes that athletes in shooting, cycling, and weightlifting will create surprises to complete the medal target. Athletes still competing are Trinh Thu Vinh (shooting), Anh Nguyet, Quoc Phong (archery), Nhi Yen (athletics), My Tien (swimming), Nguyen Thi That (bicycling), Trinh Van Vinh (weightlifting) and Nguyen Thi Huong (canoeing).

The focus of the Vietnamese delegation at the Paris Olympics in the past few days was Trinh Thu Vinh's final shot in the women's 10m air pistol event. Thu Vinh performed excellently in her test but that was not enough to win a medal. There was something regretful about Thu Vinh when she competed steadily in the first rounds. But psychological problems prevented the Vietnamese shooter from maintaining the necessary concentration to achieve the best score.

Apart from the psychological issue, it must also be admitted that Thu Vinh's opponents are really strong. Although this is the best achievement in her career, Trinh Thu Vinh still has to perform better to be able to compete for an Olympic medal.

Shooter Thu Vinh competed in the 25m sport pistol event and met Kim Ye Ji (Korea), who won the silver medal in the 10m air pistol event, while the gold and bronze medal winners were absent. The lack of concentration in the first and last shots is still something Thu Vinh must overcome in the 25m sport pistol event, which is not her forte.

Weightlifting is also a medal hope for "leading bird" Trinh Van Vinh, who is expected to shine at the Paris Olympics in the men's 61kg weight class. The athlete, currently ranked in the world's top 10, will compete in the 61kg class and is a candidate in the medal group.

According to the announcement of the organizing committee of the weightlifting event at the Paris Olympics, the men's 61kg category has athletes from Bulgaria, Georgia, Indonesia, Italy, Kiribati, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, China, Philippines, Thailand, USA and Vietnam. In the preliminary registration with the organizing committee, the Vietnamese weightlifting team registered Trinh Van Vinh's total weight as 303kg.

In weightlifting, Vietnam athlete Hoang Anh Tuan won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics and Tran Le Quoc Toan won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics. Sports fans are waiting for Trinh Van Vinh to continue his senior's success and quench Vietnam's thirst for medals at the Olympics.

Waiting for surprise from cyclist Nguyen Thi That

At the Paris Olympics, Nguyen Thi That represented Vietnamese cycling in the women's road event. The women's road cycling mass start event at this Olympics has a distance of 158km. This year, the race course is quite difficult with many ups and downs, requiring cyclists to demonstrate their courage, experience and good physical strength, and cannot think about hanging on to reach the finish line. The 2024 Asian Women's Road Cycling Championship also has a race course quite similar to the Paris Olympics, which has recorded That's good performance. In addition, That has had the opportunity to get acquainted and compete in many European tournaments.

In history, no Southeast Asian cyclist has ever completed a road race at the Olympics. Therefore, Nguyen Thi That's first goal is to complete the race, then calculate the ranking. Compared to other cyclists in Southeast Asia and Asia, Nguyen Thi That has the top talent and experience. Experts expect that That will take advantage of that to complete the distance well, attack the top 50 overall and break through in terms of competition parameters.

The athletes of the Vietnamese delegation have been determined and trying their best to compete, but the competition at the Paris Olympics is very big, it is not easy to realize the goal of winning medals. The best achievement of the Vietnamese delegation in the past days of competition is only the 4th place overall of shooter Trinh Thu Vinh in the final of the women's 10m air pistol event.

From that, it is easy to see that getting a ticket to the Olympics is difficult, winning a medal in this arena is even more difficult.