Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 164 The gun is pointed at Shenshi Gaoping!

"What a pity. We are only 0.02 seconds away from breaking the Asian record. It would have been great if we could have broken it last night."

At noon on December 12, on the bus heading to Asbel Stadium, the head coach of the national track and field team Feng Shuyong was still a little bit "bitter" about Wen Hao's failure to break the Asian record last night.

As the person involved, Wen Hao just smiled lightly: "What's the pity? Anyway, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, and you don't even look at how old I am."

Hearing this, Feng Shuyong nodded with satisfaction and smiled.

He liked to hear words like this, especially when they came from Wen Hao's mouth. This kid was spitting on his tongue, and there was nothing he couldn't do.

眼下还不满19岁，100米项目就6次跑进10秒大关，前三个最好成绩的均值都达到了9.913。

Regardless of the height or depth of results, they are far ahead of young athletes in Europe and the United States. They are even ranked among the top three in the world in the current 100-meter event.

In terms of historical rankings, Wen Hao's personal best time of 9 seconds also ranked Wen Hao tied for 91th in the men's 100-meter event!

There are two people tied with him, and they are both African-American athletes: Dennis Mitchell 9.91 (+1.2) and Leonard Scott 9.91 (+0.3).

The 15 people ahead of them are:

1. Asafa Powell, 9.77 (+1.6), Jamaica, 2005, Athens Athletics Super Grand Prix;

2. Maurice Green, 9.79 (+0.1), United States, 1999, Athens Track and Field Invitational;

3. Donovan Bailey, 9.84 (+0.7), Canada, 1996, Atlanta Olympics;

3. Brownie Sulin, 9.84 (+0.2), Canada, 1999, World Championships in Seville;

3. Tyson Gay, 9.84 (+1.0), United States, 2006, Zurich Golden League;

6. Roy Burrell, 9.85 (+1.2), United States, 1994, Lausanne Track and Field Invitational;

6. Justin Gatlin, 9.85 (+0.6), United States, 2004, Athens Olympics;

6. Olusoki Fasouba, 9.85 (+1.7), Nigeria, 2006, Doha Super Tour;

9. Carl Lewis, 9.86 (+1.2), United States, 1991, World Championships in Tokyo;

9. Frank Fredericks, 9.86 (-0.4), Namibia, 1996, Lausanne Athletics Invitational;

9. Ato Bolton, 9.86 (+1.8), Trinidad and Tobago, 1998, Athens Athletics Invitational;

9. Francis Obikewelu, 9.86 (+0.6), Portugal, 2004, Athens Olympics;

13. Lindford Christie, 9.87 (+0.3), Great Britain, 1993, World Championships in Stuttgart;

13. Obadele Thompson, 9.87 (-0.2), Bahamas, 1998, Johnsburg Athletics World Cup;

15. Sean Crawford, 9.88 (+1.8), United States, 2004, Eugene Prefontaine Classic.

The historical ranking of 16 meters is tied for th in the world. This situation was unimaginable before, but it was only achieved by Wen Hao in just one year. Looking back now, it is like a dream.

The key is that he is not yet 19 years old, and 9 seconds is definitely not the limit he can reach!

In the warm-up field, Yang Yaozu stood on the sidelines and watched carefully as Wen Hao made several turns to start, and then shook his head.

"Haozi, your curve skills are still not very good. After the Asian Games, you have to put your mind into it. The 200-meter curve seems to be easy to practice but difficult to practice, and everyone's habits are different. Technical requirements are different. The requirements are also different.”

“Some people specifically stick to the inner lane line when cutting corners, pursuing the shortest running distance; some people are used to sticking to the outer lane line, because the centripetal force that needs to be overcome is smaller; and there are still people who do not deviate to the outside or in, and pursue the shortest running distance. Maintain a balanced posture when running”

Yang Yaozu said a lot. In fact, his overall understanding of sports science is relatively shallow, but for the 200-meter event that he has trained since he was a child, he really put in a lot of hard work.

He is not the kind of person who wants to stop and enjoy his life after becoming a national champion.

In order to be able to realize his dream of defeating Sutsu Shingo and stepping onto the stage of the World Series finals, Yang Yaozu has also worked extremely hard in the past few years. However, many problems such as domestic sprint training concepts, training environment, and his own injuries have always been They are all hindering his progress.

"Are you really so particular?" Wen Hao touched the sweat on his face and said expectantly: "Brother Yang, you know so much, why don't you come to Yanjing with me for winter training and be my sparring partner? Let's make progress together. !”

"Me?" Yang Yaozu subconsciously glanced to the side and saw that his coach Liu Xia didn't seem to hear Wen Hao's words, so he responded in a low voice:

"Don't worry about my affairs. The Competition Control Center and our Modu team have already discussed it. They will arrange for me to go to the United States to train after participating in the Asian Games. You kid, just wait until I complete my training and return to China next year. I have to torture you!"

When he talked about going to the United States for training, Yang Yaozu's eyes flashed, and it was obvious that he had great expectations for his future.

But when Wen Hao heard the news, his first reaction was indeed to frown.

In his previous life, he was not very familiar with Yang Yaozu. He only occasionally saw track and field enthusiasts mentioning him on the Internet, so he had some knowledge of his career.

If I remember correctly, Yang Yaozu went to the United States for training after the Doha Asian Games. However, he neither focused entirely on the 200-meter main event nor vigorously developed the 100-meter concurrent event. Instead, he was arranged to perform the 400-meter concurrent event. .

As a result, the high-intensity training of the 400 meters caused a pneumothorax. After the operation, it took a lot of time to recover, and it was not until 2008 that he officially returned to participate in the competition.

Unsurprisingly, Yang Yaozu has never been able to return to the level of the "King of China's 200 Meters", and the Yanjing Olympics, which he had been looking forward to day and night, has naturally become an eternal regret in his career.

At 15:40 in the afternoon, the men's 200m preliminaries officially started.

Wen Hao was placed in the third group, Yang Yaozu was in the first group, and Sutsu Shenwu was in the second group.

As luck would have it, Wen Hao's third group also had a pretty good opponent - Shinji Takahira, the 200m runner-up in this year's Neon Championship, with a personal best score of 20.35 (+1.2).

Fumihao knew a lot about Shinji Takahira, mainly because at the Yanjing Olympics in his previous life, the neon relay team composed of him, Naoki Tsukahara, Nobuharu Asahara, and Shingo Suetsugu ran a time of 38 seconds. of good results.

Although they failed to break the Asian record of 38 seconds set at the Osaka World Championships, they won a bronze medal and created a new history in Asian track and field in one fell swoop.

Shinji Takahira's performance in the relay event was indeed excellent, but his performance in the individual events was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Before Kenji Fujimitsu and Shota Iizuka grew up, he had indeed won the Neon Championship 200m championship many times, but he had never won the championship in the intercontinental level competitions (Asian Games, Asian Championships).

In addition, all of his good results in individual events were created domestically. He is a very typical Neon player who is "an expert in civil war and an outsider in foreign wars".

It didn't matter to Wen Hao that he met Shinshi Takahira in the preliminaries, because except for him, no other player in this group had the ability to stably open 21 seconds.

There are a total of three preliminary groups, and the top two in each group advance directly, so Wenhao is not afraid of Gaoping Shenshi's hard work and exhaustion of his energy.

The competitions of the first two groups ended one after another. Yang Yaozu ran 20 seconds and Sushu Shenwu ran 80 seconds. Both of them easily got the promotion places.

Next, it’s Wen Hao’s turn

"Set——"

In the 200-meter starting line area, the starter’s command has been conveyed through the small speaker.

Wen Hao is on the 6th lane, and Gaoping Shenshi is on the 5th lane.

"Snapped--!"

After a gunshot, the players on the field followed the instinctive reaction of their bodies and rushed out, but soon they had to pause because the starting gun rang twice.

Two beeps indicate that someone on the field has jumped the gun, and the players have to return to the back of the starting block and wait again. Soon, the referee walked into the field and showed a yellow card to the player who committed the foul, but no one expected that it would be - Wen Hao!

The audience present couldn't believe it, and they exclaimed one after another. The director also focused the camera on him.

Wen Hao just spread his hands in front of the camera, expressing his helplessness.

In the short period of time when he was about to start, he suddenly saw an ant crawling on his arm, so his body trembled subconsciously. It may have happened to trigger the induction threshold of the starting block, and the electronic timing system determined that he had jumped the gun.

This situation is very special, but since the IAAF has not yet implemented the "zero tolerance" penalty rule for false starts, the first false start will only result in a warning but not a penalty, so Wen Hao did not bother to explain to the referee.

In regular track and field competitions, in all events that use starting blocks, the first false start in each game will be "tolerated". If subsequent false starts occur without justifiable reasons, they will be directly punished according to the rules.

"On Your Marks!"

The command to get into position was given again, and this time they walked onto the starting line. Wen Hao deliberately lowered his head and glanced twice to make sure that there were no ants or other small insects causing trouble, and then he started to prepare for squatting.

Although these things are small in size, they can really scare people when they appear under certain circumstances.

"Set——"

"Snapped--!"

Perhaps it was affected by Wen Hao's starting foul just now. After the shot was fired, several less experienced players on the field started to react obviously slower than the shot just now.

This also includes Wen Hao. His starting reaction under normal performance is usually within 0.180 seconds, but this time it actually reached 0.269 seconds, which is obviously a beat slower than the second-to-last player.

Among a group of players whose reaction time is 0.18~0.20 seconds, a player whose starting reaction time is only 0.269 seconds, his lag is visible to the naked eye.

In addition to being slow to react at the start, he also did a very poor start.

He probably realized that his reaction was slow, so he started a little anxiously. In addition, he was not very experienced in the 200-meter race, so he got confused in this event with a curve at the start, and his steps were unsteady in the third step. Staggered.

This stagger immediately caused him, who had poor starting reaction, to fall behind significantly in the starting acceleration phase. Even those players on the field who had a PB of less than 21 seconds performed better than him.

Shinji Takahira, who was in the fifth lane on the inside, was concentrating on accelerating from the start, but did not notice Wenhao's mistake.

But thanks to his good start, he quickly caught up and was even with Wen Hao less than 20 meters away from the start.

The moment he passed Wen Hao, Shenshi Gaoping was suddenly startled, and then an indescribable feeling of joy surged out of his heart.

what's the situation?

Am I so fierce?

When I watched the video before, it seemed that coach Ito Koji did say that Wenhao's cornering skills were not very good, but it wasn't that bad, right?

impossible!

After all, he is the Asian record holder, with a PB of 19 seconds. Even if his cornering skills are relatively weak, he cannot be this weak.

The only possibility is that he made a mistake in starting!

At this moment, Shinji Gaohira's brain was running rapidly. After coming to the most likely conclusion, he made a decision that went against the coach's arrangement - give full play!

Gaoping Shenshi has a relatively clear understanding of his own strength. He knows that under normal circumstances, he is absolutely unable to defeat Wen Hao. At most, he will compete with Yang Yaozu for the bronze medal.

This is most likely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If we seize Wen Hao's mistakes and defeat him, although it would be a bit disgraceful to say it, facing a "big devil" who is very likely to rule Asian sprints in the future, even if the win is not very So what about brilliance?

Just say you won or not? !

Just do it!

With this determination, Gaoping Shenshi immediately felt as if he had been given a shot of blood. His steps were a little faster than before, and he seemed to have entered the rhythm of refreshing his PB!

In the stadium, the audience in the stands couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw this sudden scene. Especially Wen Hao's fans, their hearts were all clenched at this moment.

Not only did Shinji Takahira overtake him in an instant, but even the Jordanian player in lane 4 caught up with him at about 30 meters away, looking like he was already a long way behind the other players on the field.

Of course Wen Hao knew how bad his start was, but the image of Bolt's false start at the Yanjing World Championships in the original time and space flashed through his mind, and he calmed down again in an instant.

His competition experience is naturally not as rich as that of Bolt, who has been in the original world for 15 years, but the same thing is that they both have enough dominance in the competition they are in.

After stumbling, he relied on his strong core strength to stabilize his center of gravity. After warning himself "Don't be anxious" in his heart, Wenhao began to get back on track and accelerate as usual.

40 meters, 50 meters, 60 meters.

He lost speed due to a mistake in starting, which caused him to fall behind in this section where he should have directly determined his advantage. However, fortunately, after his center of gravity stabilized, he gradually regained his proper rhythm, and his strides followed the completion of the technical transition. And with rapid improvement, the cadence is getting faster and faster.

80 meters, 90 meters, 100 meters.

Curve into the straight!

On the track at this time, with the exception of Shinji Gaohira in lane 5 who was at least three positions ahead of the other players, the rest of the players were basically lined up.

The gap in hard power exists objectively. As the only athlete in Asia who can break the 200-second barrier in 20 meters, despite serious mistakes in the starting stage, Wenhao still recovered the previous gap in the corner. !

On the track, Gaoping Shenshi had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter. After all, he had overtaken Wen Hao very early, and while running at full speed, he had indeed accumulated a huge advantage before Wen Hao's speed slowed down.

The moment he entered the straight, the distance between him and Wen Hao was a full 3 meters!

At a distance of 3 meters, this is a lead of nearly 0.3 seconds!

After seeing this scene, the reaction of the neon audience in the stadium became even more enthusiastic. The scene of last night's famous player Shingo Suetsugu being crushed was still vivid in his mind.

How could they not be excited now that they saw that Shenshi Gaoping had gained such a huge advantage and was very likely to defeat Wen Hao and win the title of first place in the group? How could you not be excited?

Come on, Mr. Gao Ping! It's up to you to defeat the "Empire's most ferocious tiger"!

But before they could be happy for too long, another burst of exclamations broke out in the stadium.

The moment the field turned into a straight track, Wen Hao's feet seemed to be stepping on hot wheels. He took a wide stride that was almost an afterimage, and quickly threw away all the players who were originally on the same level as him. Behind you!

110 meters, 120 meters, 130 meters.

During this period, Wen Hao has not recovered much distance from Gao Ping Shenshi. After all, the latter is not a vegetarian, and he is also the current master of the 200-meter event in Asia who is steadily "guaranteed four and three".

But after 140 meters, the most difficult slowdown phase of the 200-meter event entered, and the gap between the two in speed endurance quickly became apparent.

160 meters, the gap was narrowed to two positions!

180 meters, the gap was narrowed to only one position!

With the last 20 meters left, can a reversal be achieved?

Of course!

How could it not be possible? !

Not only was he able to achieve a reversal, at the final moment of crossing the line, Wen Hao even had time to raise his right hand and make a shooting gesture towards Gaoping Shenshi, and mouthed: Ba!

When Wen Hao crossed the finish line with this unique gesture, all the spectators in the stands except Neon stood up in excitement.

Especially Wen Hao's fans, they either slapped the cheering sticks in their hands or cheered and shouted excitedly. The warm atmosphere in the stadium has reached a new climax tonight.

Bravo!

Although the final crossing time was only 20 seconds, it doesn’t matter what the time is.

Pictures like this of a race that was significantly behind at the start and completed with unremitting efforts, and such an "arrogant" and "arrogant" finishing move on the track and field. Even if it only happened at a school sports meeting, it would be enough to make all the spectators fascinated. Rejoice and cheer for it!

　Originally, the "Gun Pointer XXX" was planned for Guy or Bolt, but lately Carvin has been feeling uncomfortable, so he took it out in advance to recuperate.

　　Poor Gao Ping

　　

　

(End of this chapter)