Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 189 New York Reebok Grand Prix

Compared with Shanghai, perhaps the city called "New York" beneath our feet is more suitable to be called "Magic City".

On May 5, after 31 hours of air flight, Wen Hao finally arrived in the world's richest city, located on the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States.

At this point in time, New York is like a paradise to most people in the world, with a naturally fascinating filter.

For Wen Hao, although he had never been to this city in his previous life, with the passage of time and the continuous development of the Internet, the filter of New York in his heart has been broken again and again, especially since the global pandemic. after.

The competition that Wen Hao and Liu Xiang are participating in this time is called the "New York Reebok Grand Prix". As the name suggests, it is sponsored by the sporting goods company Reebok.

By 2010, this event will be combined with 13 international high-level track and field events scattered in Europe, Asia and Eugene, Oregon, USA, to form the "IAAF Diamond League" organized by the IAAF.

The venue for the New York Reebok Grand Prix is ​​Randall's Island, located between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, and is administratively under the jurisdiction of Manhattan.

Based on this, the hotel Wen Hao and Liu Xiang stayed in was naturally set in Manhattan.

After landing in New York and checking into a hotel, Wen Hao did not take a break immediately to relieve jet lag like Liu Xiang did.

He went to the heart of Broadway near Times Square, where the June 6 fan meeting was held, and rented a theater to hold it.

In the singing session of this fan meeting, in addition to singing "We Are Young" and "Chasing Dreams", Wen Hao will also cover several famous rock songs that he has carefully prepared, such as "Hotel California" by the Eagles and "Hotel California" by Linkin Park. "Numb" and so on.

In addition to the first time, "Shape of You", which has been produced as early as last year, will be officially released at 6 o'clock on June 3rd, Eastern Time, and will also be performed at a fan meeting.

It was already 2 o'clock in the night after rehearsing with the band. After dragging his exhausted body back to the hotel and taking a hot bath, Wen Hao suddenly felt sleepy again.

I opened a glass of ice-cold Coke, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and looked at the night view of Manhattan while thinking about my recent plans.

In three months from now, unless something happens that must be dealt with, he will not return to the country.

6月2日的纽约锐步大奖赛、6月10日的尤金普雷方丹经典赛、6月15日的奥斯陆黄金联赛，这就是他6月份的参赛计划。

After participating in the Oslo Golden League, he will go to Paris to train at the Michel Yazzi Track and Field Club, and use Paris as a base to participate in the Golden League and Super Grand Prix scattered in various European countries.

After last year's Doha Asian Games, some leaders of the Track and Field Management Center gradually recognized Wen Hao's idea of ​​reforming the relay team system proposed during last year's World Youth Championship.

At the Osaka Grand Prix in early May, the national team sent a relay lineup of Guangdong team + Wen Hao to participate, taking this into consideration.

Facts have proved that this idea is feasible. Although the relay team only had one coach, Yuan Guoqiang, to guide the training during the preparation and competition of the Osaka Grand Prix, the running-in efficiency among the team members was much higher than in the past.

For the Osaka World Championships to be held in late August, Wenhao is a strong candidate for winning medals in the men's 8-meter event, but a question that comes with it is:

Wenhao will compete in Europe and the United States from June to August. He will improve his technical ability and competition experience by competing with international high-level athletes. This plan is unshakable.

So, what about the relay team?

At the Doha Asian Games last year, despite having a world-class player like Wen Hao, they still lost to the Neon team in the relay event. This is unacceptable to the people, the national team and the players themselves. of.

Therefore, this year the Athletics Association learned a lesson and first used the Osaka Grand Prix as an experiment, and then used the individual results of the Suzhou World Championships trials on June 6 as the only selection criteria for the national relay team.

As for whether the relay team will still adopt the old system or the new system, the Athletics Association has not yet issued a document to explain this, but Wen Hao feels that it does not matter whether there are new regulations or not.

Judging from the results of the Zhaoqing Grand Prix, except for Wen Yongyi whose coach was Huang Weiwei in the first five games, the other four people, including himself, were either Li Qing's disciples or Yuan Guoqiang's disciples.

Because Hu Kai qualified for the World Championships last year, he at least occupied a substitute spot in the relay team. Therefore, even if Wen Yongyi entered the final relay team list, his coach Huang Weiwei would not be able to make waves.

Especially before going abroad, Feng Shuyong explained that after the trials are over, all members of the relay team will go to Paris for training. By that time.

There is an old saying in China - if you are outside, military orders will not be obeyed!

Thinking of this, Wen Hao not only sighed. He really didn't want to worry about the relay team. After all, he had enough things to worry about on and off the field.

However, if he cannot avenge the Neon team on the field, he will not be willing to do so.

After standing in front of the window for an unknown amount of time, fatigue gradually came over me.

Wen Hao turned off all the lights in the room, lay on the soft and comfortable big bed and slept fully clothed, but before going to sleep, he still carefully checked his property panel.

At night when Xiangyu is not in my arms, it has become a habit to check the property panel before going to bed.
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Name: Wen Hao

Age: 19 years old (1988.05.08)

Occupation: Track and field (sprint) athlete

Power: 89

Stamina: 89→90

Speed: 88

Physical fitness: 90

Flexibility: 89

Responses: 92

Potential value: 37.9%——

In the month since the Osaka Grand Prix, his training focus has been more on technical aspects, so he has only improved his [Endurance] attribute by 1 point, and this was achieved by adding points to his potential value.

As the average physical attribute approached 90 points, Wen Hao found that the potential value obtained through training was less than before. On the contrary, the potential value obtained through competition did not seem to decrease.

Perhaps this is a hint that he should participate in more competitive international high-level events and improve his technical level through constant actual combat.

This also coincides with Wen Hao's own thoughts.

As for the 9 seconds he ran at the Osaka Grand Prix, although this result did break his own PB and set a new Asian record.

But Wen Hao was actually not very satisfied with this result.

Whether judging from the improvement in his own attributes or the ability data displayed in training, Li Qing feels that he already has the ability to run 9 seconds under zero wind speed conditions.

But training data is one thing, and whether you can perfectly utilize your technical abilities in the game is another.

From training to competition, there must be an adaptation process after all.

However, it may also be due to the lack of strength of the opponents in the previous two games.

Some athletes like to abuse their opponents. When their opponents are not competitive enough, they can often perform extremely well because there is no psychological pressure.

Asafa Powell is the most typical example.

Some athletes like strong duels. When a strong opponent is on their side, they can often turn pressure into motivation and inspire a stronger will to fight.

Bolt and Tyson Gay are both athletes of this type, although one of them is very extroverted and the other is very deep, reserved and unsmiling.

To be honest, Wen Hao prefers to compete with the strong. Anyway, in last year's Athens Athletics World Cup and Magic City Golden Grand Prix, he showed excellent competitive form in these two battles with Tyson Gay.

Even at the Doha Asian Games, he was able to run a good time of 9 seconds. In addition to his own sufficient strength, Sutsugo Shingo and Francis put enough pressure on him in the future, which is also a very important reason.

Therefore, Wen Hao is looking forward to the Reebok Grand Prix on June 6.

在5月20日的卡森-阿迪达斯经典赛上，泰森·盖伊借助+2.5m/s的大顺风跑出了9秒79的成绩夺冠。

Although it cannot be counted as a record due to the super wind speed, this 9.79 (+2.5) was run with a little slack, which shows how good his current competitive state is.

After this smooth 100-meter debut of the season, Wen Hao believes that Tyson Gay's technical ability will continue to improve.

Therefore, at the next Reebok Grand Prix in New York, there will definitely be a fierce battle between him and Tyson Gay.

If you want to win, you must do what Li Qing said - show your strength to run under 9 seconds under zero wind speed conditions!

(End of this chapter)