Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 196 The first Golden League game—Oslo!

"Why do you always feel that Paris is not as beautiful as the books say?"

In urban Paris, a minibus is driving on the street.

Today is June 6. The members of the Chinese men's relay team arrived in Paris two days ahead of schedule.

Preparing for the Osaka World Championships was such an important matter that the team members couldn't decide to take a vacation. They simply made a phone call to reassure their families. After spending a few days together in Suzhou, they all applied to leave for Paris in advance.

Among the people in this car, the relay team members include Hu Kai, Lao Yi, Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, and Liang Jiahong.

The coaches are Yuan Guoqiang and Li Qing. In addition, there is an accompanying translator and a masseur.

Now they are taking a bus to the Michel Yazzi Track and Field Club, the training base for the World Championships in Osaka.

After boarding the train from Dai Gaulle Airport, several members of the Chinese men's 4×100-meter relay team turned their heads to look out the window with great anticipation, wanting to appreciate the legendary romantic and beautiful Paris.

But after a while, the team members gradually lost interest.

Prosperity is indeed quite prosperous. After all, it is the most economically developed city in continental Europe.

I haven't seen the romance yet, but for beauty, do we have to say that the garbage heaps that can be seen everywhere on the streets are beautiful scenery?

When I didn't close the car windows, I could even smell a very "refreshing" smell of feces and urine. The smell was simply amazing!

Li Qing turned his head and looked at the young men with disappointment written on their faces, and couldn't help but chuckle.

Although the city of Paris is economically prosperous and has a profound cultural heritage, its public security and sanitation have always been criticized.

When there is a contrast between imagination and longing and what we see in reality, our cognition will change and our worldview will become more mature.

"You don't have to be disappointed." Li Qing said loudly, "In fact, many European and American cities that sound famous are not as good as those in the story books. No one is perfect, so why bother with a gathering place? A city with tens of millions of people?”

"While Wen Hao is going to Norway to participate in the Oslo Golden League, there is no rush to train these two days. Let's go shopping in various places in Paris and learn a lot. Let's relax our body and mind first, and then train, okay?"

"Okay——!" the team members responded one after another, and then the car started to chirp and noisy.

"Coach, coach, where are we going to play today?"

"Go to the Louvre? I want to see the Mona Lisa!"

"I would say go to the Eiffel Tower, one of the seven wonders of the modern world!"

"The old writer said there isn't much to see in downtown Paris. How about we go to the Palace of Versailles?"

"I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to sleep now"

As the relay team members headed for the training base, Wen Hao's flight happened to fly over Paris.

At the Eugene Prefontaine Classic three days ago, he once again broke the Asian 19m record held by himself with a time of 82 seconds, which caused quite a stir.

The improvement in the record is not large, but anyone with a little knowledge will know that there is a huge gap in hard power between 19.88 (+0.7) and 19.82 (-2.3).

When discussing this winning result, many industry experts pointed out that if the wind speed of the competition was changed to 0.0m/s, Wenhao would probably have achieved a historic result of less than 19 seconds.

If the wind speed can exceed +1.0m/s, then Wenhao will have a high probability of becoming the second fastest person in the history of the 200-meter event.

在间隔仅为8天的纽约锐步大奖赛、尤金普雷方丹经典赛中，文浩先是超风速+2.2m/s“破世界纪录”，又是大逆风-2.3m/s跑出19秒82的200米优异成绩。

再加上5月份大阪大奖赛上小顺风9秒88创造WL，以及中国国内肇庆大奖赛大放水9秒97的表现。

Now in his IAAF world rankings, the 100-meter event has surpassed Tyson Gay and ranks second, second only to Asafa Powell.

The 200-meter event also surpassed Xavier Carter, Wallace Spearmon and others, ranking second behind Tyson Gay.

But it is obvious that the reason why Wenhao is currently stuck in second place in both events is not because his season performance is not as good as Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay.

But because these two people have not participated in many games in the 2007 season, they can still rely on their excellent results in the 2006 season to temporarily suppress Wen Hao in points.

Therefore, in the world rankings of the men's 100-meter event at the Oslo Station of the IAAF Golden League two days later, perhaps Asafa Powell will step down from the world's number one spot.

Before boarding the plane today, the men's 100-meter competition roster for the Oslo Golden League station was also completely determined.

There are many "acquaintances".

Portuguese star and European record holder Francis Obikwelu.

Nigerian star and African record holder - Olusoki Fasouba.

Future Jamaican star and "Startup Machine" - Nesta Carter. In addition to these three people who impressed Wenhao deeply, there are also British sprint master Marlon Dvornish, Gambian African-American athlete Jesuma Saidi Doure who was naturalized in Norway in 06, and there is another person who Wenhao has no impression of at all. Danish player.

Of course, the above six players are just side dishes.

The only person who can move Wen Hao is a hot man - the "King of Grand Prix" Asafa Powell!

In fact, this man is sitting on the same plane as Wen Hao now.

What a coincidence.

After the Eugene Prefontaine Classic, Wenhao had activities to attend on the 11th and 12th, such as visiting the Nike headquarters in Portland.

Unexpectedly, after boarding the flight, he discovered that Asafa Powell and Nesta Carter, two "senior brothers" from the same club, were actually on the same flight as him.

This really feels a bit like "enemies never get together".

Last year's Athens Athletics World Cup, Magic City Golden Grand Prix, and this year's New York Reebok Grand Prix, Wenhao has had three "single" duels with Tyson Gay.

However, it is really the first time to face Asafa Powell alone without Tyson Gay.

This is of course talking about the 100 meters, and the 200 meters is not even considered a secondary event for Asafa Powell, so although Eugene beat him in that game, it did not bring any satisfaction to Wenhao.

From 2005 to 2006, Asafa Powell became a hot world track and field star by breaking and tying world records once and twice.

However, his three times of 9 seconds, the wind speed was at least +77m/s, which is not particularly strong in terms of personal strength alone.

But in the 2007 season, Asafa Powell's strength will be further improved and he will reach the true peak of his career.

The water release easily broke the world record in 9 seconds under legal wind speed, and then ran 74 seconds in zero wind within two hours.

Such a performance, even if Usain Bolt is at his peak, comes, he must carefully weigh it.

So at this point in mid-June, Wen Hao was indeed a little panicked when he rashly faced off against the "King of Grand Prix" Asafa Powell.

He wouldn't have been like that last year.

Because at that time, Wen Hao knew very well that there was a huge gap in strength between himself and Asafa Powell, and it felt like an insurmountable gap stood in front of him.

If there are no expectations, there will naturally be no disappointments, so even if you lose, you won’t panic at all.

But now, he has defeated Tyson Gay, who is playing at full strength. At this point in 2007, Asafa Powell is the only opponent left!

And in the next Golden League Oslo station, if he can defeat Asafa Powell, he will have a great chance to surpass the points and become the first sprinter in Asian history to be ranked No. 1 in the IAAF world!

This honor is now clearly in front of him. Whether he can grasp it or not depends entirely on him.

After arriving in Oslo, Wen Hao rushed to the hotel as quickly as possible. After checking in, he said hello to the team members and closed the door tightly.

Regarding Asafa Powell's impression of the 2007 season, Wenhao only remembers that he performed extremely poorly at the Osaka World Championships, but after the World Championships, at the Grand Prix and Track and Field Finals, he performed like a god.

As for his state before the World Championships, Wen Hao really forgot.

But no matter whether Asafa Powell's current condition is good or bad, he still needs to improve anyway.

Before the Osaka Grand Prix, his potential value in the attribute panel had accumulated to 37.9%. After four games, his potential value finally exceeded 100%, and he could add points.

Since we plan to participate in all 6 Golden Leagues this season, we will strive to win the gold prize.

In addition, he would challenge Asafa Powell in the 100-meter event next, so Wenhao added the potential value to the [Strength] attribute without hesitation.
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Name: Wen Hao

Age: 19 years old (1988.05.08)

Occupation: Track and field (sprint) athlete

Strength: 89→90

Stamina: 90

Speed: 88→89

Physical fitness: 90

Flexibility: 89

Responses: 92

Potential value: 107.3%→7.3%——

The moment the addition is completed, a surprise comes.

Unexpectedly, in addition to the normal increase of the [Strength] attribute to 90 points, the [Speed] attribute also reached 89 points.

If we go by past experience, the most difficult attribute, [Speed], will not move until at least the [Flexibility] attribute has been raised to 90 points.

Wen Hao probably understood.

It should be because his mastery of technical abilities has become even better recently than in the past, so that he can more efficiently unleash the potential of various basic attributes.

The previous [Speed] attribute of 88 points has allowed him to run a 43-meter segment speed of over 10km/h under super wind speed conditions. The ultimate instantaneous speed may even exceed 43.5km/h.

Wen Hao had a hunch that if his [Speed] attribute could reach 90 points, maybe his instantaneous speed could reach the realm he longed for - 44km/h!

(End of this chapter)