Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 40 The future is promising! (-in-)

It was completely expected that Gong Wei advanced to the finals as the first in the group.

If China's National Games champion fails to reach the finals of the Asian Indoor Championships, that would be a big mistake.

After experiencing a minor strain, Gong Wei's strength is still at its peak and has not declined.

In his previous life, he was originally the 60-meter champion of the Asian Indoor Championships. Now he advances to the finals as the first in the group, which is just a matter of course.

As time goes by, one event after another comes to an end, and the Chinese track and field team is far ahead in the medal list.

The Neon team performed poorly this time. Their track and field events were very good, but their field events were not outstanding.

Compared with track and field events, athletes in field events are more likely to achieve good results indoors where external conditions are more stable, so in one day, the Neon team only won a bronze medal in the women's pole vault.

As for the relatively strong track and field events, the Neon team did not send the top players in the country to compete in many events.

Players like Nobuharu Asahara, Naoki Tsukahara, and Shingo Suetsugu are currently either in seclusion in Japan waiting for the start of the outdoor season, or they are participating in some less competitive international competitions in Australia in the southern hemisphere according to tradition.

Wen Hao actually still wanted to compete with famous neon players such as Nobuharu Asahara, but with their status, there was no need to "condescend" to participate in the Asian Indoor Championships. After all, they had to make way for newcomers.

But it doesn’t matter. When the outdoor season starts, there will be many opportunities to compete.

There will always be time to compete with them at the Doha Asian Games at the end of this year and the Osaka World Championships next year.

After the semi-finals, Wen Hao and Gong Wei briefly accepted interviews with the Thai media and Xinhua News Agency, and then left the court to rest.

The 2-hour interval, excluding the time spent in the semi-finals themselves, the interview time, and the inspection before the finals, the rest time is actually just over an hour in total.

Time is still a little tight, and you must quickly relax your body and restore your physical fitness.

Then we have to warm up immediately before the finals to mobilize our physical condition. The schedule is quite hasty.

Multi-gun events not only test the individual strength of the athletes themselves, but also test the experience reserves of the coaching team.

Whether the athletes can fully mobilize their competitive state during this hasty rest period is also a science.

In this regard, Li Qing's experience cannot be said to be very rich, and of course it cannot be said that he has no experience at all.

After all, without him, Hu Kai would not have been able to achieve a breakthrough last year. He dominated the domestic 100-meter event for more than half a year and won the championship at the multi-gun World University Games.

However, Li Qing alone is not enough. After all, he alone cannot do all the work, including data analysis, medical security, physical training, and nutritional security.
  Li Qing currently does part of this work himself, and part of it is handled by the national team's doctors, nutritionists and other support staff.

There is no doubt about the level of the national team's logistics support personnel, but the problem is that they are not only responsible for Wen Hao alone, but also for all members of the national team.

Wen Hao thinks very far. He firmly believes that he can become a real track and field superstar in the future, so when faced with various situations that seem reasonable at the moment, but in fact there is still a lot of room for improvement, he can't help but make plans in his mind.
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  While Wen Hao and Gong Wei were actively preparing for the 60-meter final, Yang Jian was rushing to the new studio in the CCTV headquarters building.

He has just received a new program task - to commentate on the men's 60m final of the upcoming Asian Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Under normal circumstances, CCTV Sports Channel rarely broadcasts live or broadcast track and field events held in foreign countries, except for the Olympic Games and World Championships.

What's more, after the results of these track and field events are released, CCTV will consider whether to purchase the videos from the organizers and then broadcast them during non-news time periods.

But as news reports from the Xinhua News Agency in Thailand spread back to China, the ongoing Asian Indoor Track and Field Championships suddenly triggered a heated discussion on the Internet.

Therefore, it was temporarily decided to insert the live broadcast of the Asian Indoor Track and Field Championships into the "Sports News" column at 18: domestic time, and let Yang Jianlai provide commentary.

2 month 10 day.

Bangkok time is 17:10, Yanjing time is 18:10.

The final event of the first competition day of the Asian Indoor Track and Field Championships in Pattaya - the men's 60m final is about to begin.

As for the CCTV Sports Channel, the "Sports News" program currently being broadcast also followed the host's change of focus and came to the broadcast site of the game.

At the same time, the voice of Yang Jian, a commentator familiar to track and field fans, also appeared on the screen.

"Hello, viewers, you are now watching the 2006 Pattaya Asian Indoor Track and Field Championships, the men's 60-meter final, broadcast for you by CCTV Sports Channel. I am the commentator Yang Jian!

Thousands of miles away in Pattaya, a coastal city in southern Thailand, Chinese track and field sprinters Wen Hao and Gong Wei are about to make their debut to compete against other Asian sprinters for the final time.

在当地时间上午10点的预赛，和下午3点的半决赛当中，被誉为“天才少年”的文浩，将室内60米项目的全国纪录从6秒61，先后刷新至6秒59、6秒58。

Breaking two national records in one day fully proves Wenhao's excellent competitive condition at this time. This is one of the reasons why CCTV Sports Channel broadcast this game.

Next, let us look forward to the performance of Wen Hao and Gong Wei! 』

At the Pattaya Indoor Stadium.

As one of the "parties", Wen Hao did not know that his every move was being transmitted back to China through television signals. If he knew, he would probably...
  Act wilder!
  Lens is all about exposure! If you want others to remember you, how can you not act a little different?
  Of course, all this needs to be based on strength.

Wild ≠ arrogant!
  Show your true state in front of the camera instead of doing some controversial looks to create a persona, or even making up a story that you don't even believe.

Such people say "I want to pay tribute to xxx", "I will bring glory to the country", "I am being myself" and "use my actions to tell the world that xxx does not need to be defined".
  In fact, it’s just to market yourself and get traffic, and it’s all business behind it!

After the pre-race preparations were completed, all eight players, without exception, stood behind the starting block, waiting for the introduction by the host.

The camera showed the contestants in Lane 1, and Yang Jian, who was providing live commentary, immediately began to introduce the contestants to the domestic audience:
  "Let's take a look at the list of players. The first lane is Abdullah from Qatar. This is a black player who was naturalized from Africa. He was the 1-meter runner-up in last year's Asian Championships.

The second lane is Neon athlete Gaoping Shenshi, a 2-meter master who has emerged in the past two years and is very capable. His personal best is 200 seconds. It seems that the 6-meter event is not his strong point.

Lane 3 is Thailand's host player Sandy Wachala, a main member of the Thai relay team. He serves as the first leg of the team and his personal best time is 6 seconds.

Lane 4 is our country’s athlete, National Games champion 6-meter champion Gong Wei! He ran 62 seconds in the second group of the afternoon semi-finals and won the first place in the group, and also set a new personal best time.

Lane 5 is Neon youngster Kenji Fujimitsu. Last year he performed well in Neon domestically. He also set a personal best in the semi-finals with a time of 6 seconds. His performance deserves attention.

Track 6, this is Wen Hao, the -meter champion of the East Asian Games, the -meter national junior record holder and the -meter national record holder, known as the "Genius Boy"! 』

In the picture, unlike previous contestants who simply waved and nodded toward the audience or the camera, Wen Hao's performance completely exceeded the expectations of the domestic audience.

I saw him first pointing at Kenji Fujimitsu on the left and shaking his head, then pointing at Francis on the right and shaking his head. Finally, he came to the camera and said something very confident:

"NO.1 Baby!"

This sentence, simple enough for elementary school students to understand, immediately ignited the hearts of domestic audiences.

Damn, he is so crazy!
  This kind of performance goes against the domestic audience's impression of our own athletes and gives people a brand new experience.

In the past, domestic audiences believed that athletes represented the face of the country when they participated in competitions, so they should be humble, courteous, and restrained, so that even if they did not get good results, they would not embarrass the country. But now, Wen Hao’s uncharacteristic performance can no longer be tolerated by the domestic audience in front of the TV.

Good guy, if you don't win the championship, wouldn't you be a complete embarrassment to the country?

Perhaps he was also surprised by Wen Hao's performance, which caused Yang Jian, who was explaining, to be stunned for a while, and almost forgot to introduce the remaining two players.

"Wen Hao's performance is really surprising, but it is understandable. Geniuses always behave differently from ordinary people.

I didn’t mention it just now, but lane 7 is Francis, a player from Qatar, and lane 8 is Hassan Habib from Saudi Arabia. You can tell from the skin color that they, like Abdullah, are naturalized from Africa. of black athletes.

So next, please follow the game footage and watch this fiercely competitive men's 60-meter final with me! 』

For Wen Hao himself, the reason why he behaved so wildly was because he was extremely confident in his own strength.

Although both Shinji Takahira and Kenji Fujimitsu will rank among the top ten in the history of the Neon 200m in the future, they still need to improve their strength at this time.

Moreover, they are all 200-meter athletes. If they are placed in the indoor 60-meter event, their strength will be greatly reduced.

Similarly, Francis, who was originally scheduled to break the Asian 100-meter record next year, has not yet fully grown up. His strength is barely top-notch in Asia, but he is not yet dominant.

Of course, even in his previous life, except for his career peak in 2007, Francis was not very dominant in Asia.

As for the original timeline, Hassan Habib won the 100-meter gold medal at the Doha Asian Games.
  It's not that Wen Hao looks down on him, but in many cases, an athlete may not necessarily be strong enough to win a certain honor.

Ignoring the factors of the times behind it,
  If you are lucky, you can become the Asian Games champion with a time of 10 seconds.

Due to bad luck, he could only place second or third in the Asian Games with a time of 10 seconds.

"On your marks!"

Following the starter's order, the eight players on the track stepped forward and embarked on their battlefield.

At this stage, Wen Hao didn't do anything fancy.

For example, when other athletes come forward to prepare for the squatting position, I point to the sky and pray alone behind me, letting everyone wait for it.

Be careful during the introduction phase, which is called showing yourself.

If you do this after the starter has given the order to get everyone in position, it is hindering the progress of the race. No wonder it is disgusting!
  "Set——"

With the prepared instructions in his ears, Wen Hao slowly tightened his waist and raised his hips, tensing his muscles all over his body.

At this time, he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to this game. His body is like a strong bow stretched to the full moon, and arrows are ready to be fired at any time!
  "Snapped--!"

The moment after the gunshot, the eight runners on the track suddenly stepped out, and several screens in the stadium instantly popped up the players' starting reaction times:

Abdullah 0.167, Gaoping Shenshi 0.161,

Wachala 0.149, Gong Wei 0.154,

Kenji Fujimitsu 0.172, Wenhao 0.168,

Francis 0.143, Khabib 0.185.

Francis’ starting reaction ranked first. Habib, who is good at starting and accelerating, was the slowest this time at 0.185 seconds.

Although Wen Hao's starting reaction ranked sixth, the gap between fourth and fifth was very small. In fact, it was quite satisfactory.

When it comes to starting reaction, you don’t need to be too obsessed with pursuing “fast”, as long as it suits you. As long as you can have a good starting and acceleration rhythm, even a slower one is good.

Any accident can happen on the field.

After the gunshot, Hassan Habib, who had slightly suppressed Wen Hao in the semi-finals, unexpectedly fell behind due to his poor starting reaction, which prevented him from using his original rapid acceleration rhythm.

On the contrary, Sandy Vachala, who performed well in the semi-finals, and Francis performed even better in the final, taking the lead in the first 10 meters.

However, this lead is extremely limited.

Francis was on Wen Hao's right hand side. Although he started running with his head down, he could still see his position clearly from the corner of his vision.

Anyway, from Wen Hao's perspective, he didn't feel that Francis was leading.

From this point of view, even Wachala and Francis, who did the best in the first 10 meters of the start-up process, were not able to completely suppress Wen Hao. So what happens next?
  For professional sprinters, the 60-meter event is a very short distance.

Even for some late-range athletes, the distance of 60 meters is not enough for them to accelerate to the top speed.

Therefore, in the ultra-short distance racing event of 60 meters, there is no need to consider the distribution of physical strength at all, just keep your head down and sprint to the end!

10 m! Wenhao's performance was quite satisfactory, neither taking the lead nor lagging behind.

20 meters! The position between Wen Hao, Francis and Wachala quickly narrowed, and Gong Wei also began to exert force, following Wen Hao to the fourth position.

30 meters! Wen Hao's position has been highlighted. Not only has he recovered the gap, he has even taken the lead!

40 meters, 50 meters. The competition entered a fierce stage, Wen Hao's lead became more and more obvious, and Gong Wei also caught up with Francis during this period!
  CCTV Sports Channel, although it was a hastily received task, Yang Jian was fully involved in it the moment the gun was fired, and gave the audience a wonderful commentary:

"Game start!
  Francis was slightly ahead, but Wenhao also started very quickly and overtook him after twenty meters!

Thirty meters later, Wen Hao had completely thrown away his opponent!
  Wen Hao speeds up! Sprint with all your strength! Press the line!
  6 seconds 56! Wen Hao once again achieved a breakthrough and improved his national record that had just been set in less than two hours by 0.02 seconds again!
  A seventeen-year-old genius! Seventeen-year-old Asian champion! This is Wen Hao! This is the star of hope for China's sprint! 』

No more waiting for final grade calibration.

The Chinese tourists and Chinese spectators at the scene all raised their arms and shouted, giving Wen Hao thunderous cheers and applause for his strong victory.

In the Pattaya Indoor Stadium, the five-star red flags waving one after another formed a sea of ​​red, which made all domestic audiences who watched this scene couldn't help but feel excited.

Although this victory only came from the Asian Indoor Championships, which is not very well-known and influential, the victory was not against European and American athletes with dominant sports.

But whether it was the Chinese audience at the scene or the domestic audience watching the broadcast on TV thousands of miles away, they couldn't help but cheer in their hearts for the young man who had just created a new history of Chinese sprinting.

At the same time, a flame called "hope" also ignited in people's hearts.

He is only seventeen years old!

The future is expected!

(End of this chapter)