Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 133 Preview of the Athens Athletics World Cup

"Chaowen Tianxia International News, please let us follow the overseas footage and take a look at the national track and field team preparing for the Athens Athletics World Cup."

"Xinhua News Agency reported that Feng Shuyong, head coach of the national track and field team, said that 12 Chinese track and field athletes, including Liu Xiang and Wen Hao, completed their assembly yesterday afternoon local time and will join the Asian team composed of athletes from Qatar, Neon, Bahrain and other countries. The track and field team competed together in the 2006 Athens Athletics World Cup. 』

『在此前的整个2006赛季中，中国田径运动员表现不俗。男子110米栏项目上，劉翔先是在7月的洛桑超级大奖赛中，以12秒88的成绩打破世界纪录，本月9日又在斯图加特田径总决赛中以12秒90力压群雄。』

"In the men's sprint event, which has been underestimated by Western countries in the past, our country's famous general Wen Hao has also achieved continuous success in the international arena. Not only did he achieve the reputation of the "Triple Crown" at the Yanjing World Youth Championships, but he also won the 100 meters and 200 meters. The Asian limit of the meter event has successively reached the 10-second and 20-second mark. 』

"Feng Shuyong said that the Athens Athletics World Cup is a collective military parade for Chinese and even Asian track and field athletes. He hopes that this track and field event will allow Chinese track and field athletes to get good training in high-level international events and better prepare for the World Championships and Olympic Games."

On the afternoon of September 9th, Athens time, Wen Hao and Liu Xiang came to Athens to gather with teammates from various events of the national track and field team and met with other athletes from the Asian Athletics United Team.

Qatar's 3000-meter steeplechase world champion Shaheen, Neon's hammer throw Olympic champion Koji Murofushi, World Championships 200-meter bronze medalist Shingo Suetsugu, Bahrain's middle-distance runner Ramzi. And represented the Asian team in the men's 4×100 meters Project Neon Relay Team.

But generally speaking, Chinese athletes still account for the highest proportion in the Asian Athletics United Team.

Women's 400-meter hurdles Huang Xiaoxiao, women's pole vault Gao Shuying, women's discus Song Aiying, women's javelin Ma Ning, women's hammer Zhang Wenxiu, Li Ling women's shot put, women's 100-meter hurdles Feng Yun, men's triple jump Li Yanxi, men's javelin Chen Qi, men's high jump Huang Haiqiang.

Including Wen Hao in the men's 100 meters and Liu Xiang in the men's 110 meters hurdles, there are a total of 12 people.

Judging from the list of various events, China's track and field events are indeed at the dominant level in Asia. However, in terms of men's track and field events, Neon is also represented by Olympic champions like Murofushi Koji.

The 2006 Athens Athletics World Cup will be held from September 9th to 16th. The competition venue is the Athens Olympic Stadium, which has been deeply impressed by countless people in the country.

The Track and Field World Cup is held every four years, but due to the rules of the competition system, its influence is far less than that of the Olympic Games. It is also not as influential as the World Championships, which was changed from every four years to every two years.

But in any case, the Track and Field World Cup is also a top-level event that can barely qualify as a "big competition". It brings together top players from all five continents to participate. It is definitely an ideal training opportunity for the Chinese track and field team.

Wen Hao and Liu Xiang are both participating in the World Cup for the first time, while Liu Xiang's old rival and former idol Alan Johnson is already participating in the fourth World Cup.

However, in the past three times, Alan Johnson has not won a gold medal, so for this legendary hurdler who has reached the age of 35, this is definitely his last chance, and his desire to win will be extremely strong. .

In this regard, Wen Hao also cleverly reminded Liu Xiang that after all, he lost to Alan Johnson in the Athens Athletics World Cup because of his carelessness in his previous life.

Who would have thought that a 35-year-old athlete could show such great strength and run 12 seconds?
  Compared to Liu Xiang, Wen Hao doesn't need to spend too much energy researching the 100-meter event he wants to participate in.

In a word: You can't win if you shouldn't win, and you can't lose if you shouldn't lose.

Due to issues with the track and field World Cup format, a strong track and field country like the United States can only send at most one athlete to compete in one event.

And what a coincidence, the Caribbean sprint kingdom of Jamaica is also divided into North America.

So this leads to the fact that there will not be too many of the world's top 100-meter experts participating in the Track and Field World Cup.

"No wonder even the International Association of Athletics Federations doesn't want to hold this Track and Field World Cup. If I were a spectator, I wouldn't be interested in watching the list of participants selected according to this competition system."

After receiving the entry list for the men's 100-meter event, Wen Hao did not hide his attitude in front of Li Qing when he looked at the opponents he would face in the same field.

"You guy, you can qualify to participate in the World Cup of Track and Field, which is the dream of many track and field athletes, and you actually dislike it?" Hearing Wen Hao's slightly complaining words, Li Qing shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly.

However, Wen Hao did not "reflect", but clapped the list on his hand and said with a little regret: "It's a pity, both Jamaica and the United States belong to North America, otherwise we would have another competition with Asafa Powell."

Representing North America in the men's 100m event this time is Tyson Gay, who has made a strong comeback this season after Justin Gatlin was suspended for doping.

In the current IAAF world rankings, Tyson Gay is currently second only to Asafa Powell in the men's 100-meter event, and ranks first in the world in the 200-meter event.

Among the top five results in the world in the 2006-meter event in the 200 season, Tyson Gay alone occupied four places. Although the top result was Xavier Carter's 19 seconds, Tyson Gay's overall performance was obviously more stable. Many are the well-deserved kings of the 63 meters this year.

"You brat, you've got to wait for a long time, right? If you want to challenge Asafa Powell, you should run under 9 seconds first, otherwise you won't even be able to absorb their exhaust!"

Li Qing took the match list, nodded and commented: "Although there is no Asafa Powell among the opponents you will compete with this time, there are also famous American players like Tyson Gay. His strength is better than yours." The best state is still one level better.” ˆ ˆ ˆ So far, Wenhao’s best competitive state has appeared at the Yanjing World Youth Championship, with a big water release of 9.98 (-0.5m/s) and a strong headwind to set the Asian record. 19.97 (-1.1m/s).

Just talking about the shot of 9.98 (-0.5m/s), based on the research data of biomechanical analysis, since the thousandth percentile score is 9.978, Li Qing feels that he should be able to run 9 when sprinting to the line with all his strength. Results of 94 seconds to 9 seconds 95.

After excluding the impact of headwind, it is estimated that under ideal zero wind speed conditions, Wen Hao's hard power can reach about 9 seconds and 92 seconds.

而泰森·盖伊目前的最强一枪，是8月18日在苏黎世跑出的9.84（+1.0m/s），硬实力是9秒90。

黎庆一直坚持的观点是，硬实力计算只是理论参考，因此别看泰森·盖伊目前的“硬实力”也只是卡在了9秒90这个关口，但跑出9.84（+1.0m/s）的难度肯定是要远高于文浩理论上的零风速9.94~9.95的。

Therefore, for the Athens Athletics World Cup, Li Qing's request for Wen Hao is to try his best not to be more than one level behind Tyson Gay in performance.

At the world-class level of 100 meters, "a grade" is usually considered to be 0.05 seconds.

Of course, if Tyson Gay suddenly breaks out and his hard power improves to another level, then that's another matter.

No one could have expected this kind of thing, but it is possible for Tyson Gay.

After all, three months ago, Tyson Gay's PB was only 10 seconds. After running to Europe, in the third game, with the extreme wind speed of +04m/s, he ran out of 2.0 seconds. An amazing score of 9.

The PB instantly improved by 0.16 seconds, and the first 10-second mark was 9 seconds, which is also unprecedented in the history of sprinting.

Wen Hao responded with "Hmm" twice.

Fortunately, he didn't know what Li Qing was thinking. If Li Qing said what was on his mind at this time, he would probably have to suppress his laughter.

Is it a big deal to run 10 seconds after opening the 9-second barrier?

In two years' time, when you see Usain Bolt hitting the 10-second barrier for the first time in 9 seconds, your jaw will drop in shock, right?
  Tyson Gay is just having fun. In terms of the degree of perversion, it has to be Usain Bolt, the devil who is so perverted that he doesn’t look like an earthling.
  "Apart from Tyson Gay, there are actually no famous players in this game."

Li Qing threw away the divergent thinking in his mind and continued the list: "Portugal's famous player Obikveru and France's Ronald Vernon. You have also played against these two people. Their strength is not bad."

"Russia's Andrei Yepishin is the runner-up in the European Championships, but his strength really doesn't need to be taken too seriously. Greece's host player Gusis, Emmm Trinidad and Tobago's Mark Burns, this He ran 9 seconds last year, and his strength is quite good."

"Nigeria's Emedolu ran 03 seconds in 9. He is also a good player in Africa. There is also Australia's Patrick Johnson. You must have heard of this, right?"

Hearing this relatively familiar name, Wen Hao nodded subconsciously.

Breaking 10 meters in meters is already among the top ranks in the world, but in fact, athletes who have crossed this threshold can be described as "rare and rare".

A piece of lukewarm knowledge: Since the IAAF launched the era of electronic timing, the number of athletes who have broken 10 meters in the history of sprinting is far less than the number of astronauts who have entered space.

In 1968, American star Jim Hines broke the 10-second barrier for the first time in high-altitude Mexico City, and in the following 45 years, all athletes who broke the 10-second barrier were African-Americans.

It wasn't until the Mito International Track and Field Invitational held in Neon in 2003 that the first top-10 athlete without African ancestry was born - Patrick Johnson, an Australian Aboriginal + Irish descendant.

Under the wind speed of +1.8m/s, Patrick Johnson ran a time of 9 seconds, breaking the Australian national record and the Australian record in one fell swoop.

Wen Hao is the second non-African athlete after Patrick Johnson to complete the feat of breaking 10 meters.

In the original time and space, the "second person" was Christophe Lemaitre from France, and the "third person" was Su Bingtian.

Thanks to the blessing of being a yellow race, coupled with the scandal caused by attending a charity dinner with Emma, ​​Wenhao's pre-game discussion level for the Athens Athletics World Cup was not bad at all.

The single "We Are Young" is scheduled to be released at 9 noon on September 17, the day after the competition.

Therefore, in this Athens Athletics World Cup, Wenhao will definitely use all his energy and go all out to achieve a good result as much as possible!
  (End of this chapter)