Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 60: Going to Long to visit Shu?

"10 seconds 16?"

Some are happy and some are sad.

After seeing the results of the third group of the semi-finals officially confirmed, Lao Yi, who was still waiting for his replacement, suddenly showed a helpless smile on his face.

"Is this the difference between mortals and geniuses? When they were 18 years old, they had already broken the national record, but when I was 20 years old, I still couldn't run under 10 seconds."

In fact, Lao Yi turned 10 in October last year. He changed his age just to participate in more events this year, especially the current National Youth Track and Field Championships.

Changing one's age cannot be said to be common in the sports circle, it can only be said to be a tacit "hidden rule".

Since officially joining the Guangxi Track and Field Elite Training Camp in February this year, Lao Yi has gone through three more rounds of tests.

三月初，10秒76，18~20岁年龄组排名第8，全年龄组排名第20。

四月初，10秒69，18~20岁年龄组排名第3，全年龄组排名第7。

五月初，10秒56，18~20岁年龄组排名第1，全年龄组排名第1！

Before coming to Luohe, Lao Yi also specifically checked the results of previous National Youth Track and Field Championships for reference.

He estimated that with his own strength of about 10 seconds, he might not be able to win a medal in the finals. After all, the strength of Wen Hao, Liang Jiahong, Zhang Peimeng and others lies there.

But reaching the finals should be a sure thing.

But who knows.
  Lao Yi turned around and glanced at the figure on the runway who was attracting everyone's attention.

Wen Hao.

This name has been widely circulated in track and field circles after last year's National Games.

Not to mention that after the start of the 2006 season, he set the national indoor 60-meter record three times at the Asian Indoor Track and Field Championships that day.

As for Wenhao, he ran 2 seconds in the Tsinghua high-level athlete recruitment physical test in late February.

Although everyone knows that such results cannot be counted and cannot be used to declare personal records according to the rules of the Track and Field Center, but
  As a sprinter, who can't see that Wen Hao already has the ability to hit the national 100-meter record?
  Since then, Lao Yi has been thinking about it, waiting every day for the day when Wen Hao really starts the outdoor season.

He knew that when Wen Hao officially stepped onto the outdoor track, the national 100-meter record would have a strong impact.

I just didn’t expect that this new historical moment would come so quickly!

After yesterday's preliminaries, the athletes and coaches in the circle were actually discussing that in today's final, Wen Hao has a good chance of hitting Zhou Wei's national 100-meter record.

But what he never expected was that Wenhao actually realized this guess in the semi-finals, and it was under a strong headwind of -1.6m/s!
  Since the era of electronic timing, only three Chinese sprinters have reached or exceeded the 10-second threshold.

In 1996, Cheng Wenzhong, 10 seconds 20;

In 1998, Zhou Wei, 10 seconds;

In 2003, Cheng Haijian, 10 seconds 17.

And now, a fourth athlete has appeared, and this person is only 18 years old!

How I hope that one day, I can also run such excellent results.
  Looking at the figure focused by the flash, Lao Yi clenched his fists unconsciously.

In the men's 100-meter event at the National Youth Championship, he lost to Su Bingtian, a teenager from the Guangdong team who was not yet 0.03 years old, with a gap of 17 seconds, and missed the final.     But this will definitely not be the end of his career.

His sprint career has just begun!
  One day.——
  After dealing with the enthusiastic media reporters, Wen Hao followed Li Qing back to the rest area.

Change out of your sweat-soaked clothes, dry your body with a wet towel, and then lie down on the stretcher to rest for a while.

"How about it? It's not easy to break the record against a headwind of 1.6, isn't it?" Li Qing walked to the bed and patted his thigh.

"That's for sure. Running against the wind is definitely much harder than running with the wind."

"Running with all your strength against the headwind, do you still have enough physical strength for the finals?"

"It should be enough. Regardless of whether I can fully recover or not, I will run with all my strength. You also know what I will think next. If I can't run well enough, I won't be qualified to apply for the top events in Europe."

Li Qing nodded and began to massage Wen Hao's thigh muscles vigorously.

Because technical improvements in spring training took too long, Wenhao has already missed several domestic track and field grand prix events. When the current All-Youth Championship ends, there will be no domestic events for him to participate in.

The closest is the Asian Youth Championship held in Omen in mid-July.

But Wen Hao didn't really want to participate in this competition.

First, the overall level of the Asian Youth Championship may not be much higher than that of the All-Youth Championship. Neon has not heard of any talented young people appearing, so the competitive level of the Asian Youth Championship has no stimulating effect on Wen Hao. .

If you skip the Asian Youth Championship, you will have to wait until the National Championship in early August. The opponents then will definitely be more than one level higher than those in the All-Youth Championship.

But in this case, we have to wait for another month, which is a waste of good competitive status.

However, if you can participate in the upcoming IAAF Golden League and IAAF Super Grand Prix events across Europe, wouldn’t the problem be solved?

But the problem is that after nearly a century of track and field events created by the IAAF and various countries, Europe has formed a strict division of track and field events at all levels.

From the lowest level, F level, to the highest level, GW level (excluding the Olympic Games and World Championships) (IAAF World Athletics Year-end Finals), each level of track and field events has certain entry thresholds.

GL-level events such as the Golden League and Super Grand Prix usually require athletes to reach the top 20 in the world before they can register to participate or be eligible to be invited.

Wen Hao's current world ranking is not low. Thanks to the fact that the Asian Indoor Championships is a higher-level A-level event, and his own performance is not bad, he has gained a lot of points and is currently ranked 57th in the world.

However, applying for a European GL event with such a ranking would definitely not be approved. The organizer probably just glanced at his world ranking and threw the registration form into the trash can.

But this does not include the points in the All-Youth Championship he is currently participating in.

The All-Youth Championship is an F-level event. The 10.16 (-1.6m/s) he just ran is equivalent to 1159 points when converted into points.

This score is even higher than the shot he won at the Asian Indoor Championships in 6 seconds and set a new national record.

Counting the 1159 points that this shot deserves, if he can run another good result in the final, especially within 10 seconds, then his world ranking can jump into the top 10!
  In this way, it is possible to compete in Europe!
  "You, if I were to find an idiom to describe your current state, do you know what it would be called?" Li Qing cursed with a smile, and used more force on his hands, "You're like Long Wangshu!"

Wen Hao lay on the stretcher bed, hummed twice, and said with a smile:
  "No, no, no, the coach is wrong. I am ambitious!"

"There is a saying that goes well - a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier."

"I now know very well how much I weigh. The competitive level in China no longer puts too much pressure on me. Only by going to Europe to compete with the world's top players can I make progress!"

(End of this chapter)