Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 265 IAAF Best Male Athlete Nomination

"The world's top flyers arrive in Seoul and join hands with Samsung to create brilliance"

"Flying star Wen Hao appeared at the charity party, stunning the audience with his handsome look"

"Two women competing for beauty only want to be in the same frame?" Wen Hao: Both sisters are beautiful"

"Traveler watches became the focus of bidding during the auction, with Jeon Doyeon, Song Hye Kyo, and SM competing fiercely"

"The bidding price of 10 billion is final!" Flying man Wen Hao personally puts on a watch for Li Fuzhen"

"After dinner, we stayed at the Shilla Hotel. Could the Chinese trapeze artist be the guest of the three-star princess?" 》

"With a carefree life and lack of training, Daegu Track and Field Championship Moon-ho may not be able to achieve great results"

Not surprisingly, Wen Hao's series of deeds yesterday were widely reported by various media the next day, and since most of the people involved were women, most of the reported content focused on the field of lace.

And whether it is entertainment reports from China or South Korea, they all mentioned Li Fuzhen without hesitation. For this Samsung princess who behaved a bit mysteriously after marriage, but her husband has made some little tricks from time to time in the past two years, the two countries have eaten. The people of Gua are very interested.

There have always been many fans who feel that a "soft rice man" like Im Woo-jae is not worthy of Li Fuzhen. Therefore, there were many outrageous posts and speeches on the Korean website forum, such as:
[The eldest princess, please kick out the soft-boiled man quickly, and then marry our Moon Ho and Oppa back to South Korea! 】

[Aloof businesswoman + sunny and handsome athlete, what kind of combination is this? ! 】

[Stop talking, I’m already imagining how beautiful and smart their children will be! 】

【Please take care of our Fuma Noona! Leave such excellent genes in South Korea! 】

Naturally, Wen Hao doesn't know how to visit Korean online forums, but girls like Lin Yoon-ah and Jung Soo-yeon were eating melon very enthusiastically in the dormitory, and kept asking him if he had had a relationship with Li Fuzhen.

How else to answer?
Of course not!

Not to mention that this kind of thing must not be admitted. Even if it is really something that can be admitted, he will not be stupid enough to give up the entire forest for a tree.

On the morning of October 10, Wenhao and his team members met up and headed to Daegu.

After walking out of the door of the Shilla Hotel, his way was blocked by more than 20 news reporters from all walks of life who had been waiting for a long time. Fortunately, Li Fuzhen made arrangements for him in advance, and he was escorted by six security personnel in front, left, and right. nanny car.

"You can make some news wherever you go, why can't you just sit back and relax?"

As soon as he sat down, Annie in the passenger seat couldn't help but turned around and complained to him, her eyes filled with resentment.

Wen Hao chuckled: "I thought you were used to it, Sister Anni."

"It's true that you are used to it, but who can stop you from doing this? Fortunately, you are an athlete. If you were a serious celebrity artist, I, as an agent, would have been fired a long time ago due to poor management."

"No, no, no, I should put it another way." Wen Hao shook his finger and said, "If I didn't have the identity of an athlete and was just an entertainer in the entertainment industry, I would have been hidden by the company long ago."

Annie smiled happily: "That's right! If there is a disobedient artist like you, and he is not banned for ten or eight years, it will be considered a kindness of the company!"

In fact, this is just a joke.

Apart from anything else, for an artist like Wen Hao who needs to have good works, good sales volume, and good looks, the company is too late to promote him, and he has not set up the character of an innocent big boy. He has a lot of body parts. What about scandals?

It's just a little too many sunspots, nothing serious.

"By the way, there is news from the IAAF. Do you want to hear it?"

"IAAF?" Wen Hao was stunned for a moment, "Is it related to the Olympics?"

Anne shook her head and smiled: "It's not the Olympics, it's the IAAF's annual award nomination. I don't need to say this, I guess you can guess it."

Wen Hao smiled confidently: "There's really no need to guess, who should I choose as the best male athlete?"

The IAAF's annual award is a very important worldwide honor in the field of track and field, and because the competitiveness of track and field is more fair than other sports such as ball sports, the award is usually announced with public expectation and there are few disagreements and questions. .

In competition years, the evaluation of "Best Athlete" is often based on the honors the athlete won at the World Series, but it will not be based on the athlete's performance throughout the season.

For example, in 2021, the Italian flying star Jacobs, who made a blockbuster appearance in the Olympics, won the men's 100-meter gold medal, the most important event in track and field, and also won the gold medal in the 4×100-meter event with his teammates.

But before the Olympics, Jacobs' best time was only 9 seconds, and his record was much inferior to that of Bromel, Corley, De Grasse and other famous players.

In addition to the great players such as Valholm, Kipchoge, Cheptegei, Duplantis, Crusher, etc., who either broke the world record or defended the Olympic title, in the face of their wonderful seasons, Jacobs' Olympic performance Although the performance on the field can be called a surprise, there is definitely no chance of competing for the IAAF's "Best Male Athlete".

In fact, Jacobs wasn't even nominated for "Best Male Athlete."

The "Best Male Athlete" selected by the IAAF in 2006 was Asafa Powell, who tied the world record by running 9 seconds twice during the season and remained undefeated during the season.

According to the original historical trajectory, this year's IAAF "Best Male Athlete" will be won by Tyson Gay, who won three gold medals at the Osaka World Championships. However, Asafa Powell also won the Rieti Award for his victory. He broke the world record again in the competition and received a "Best Performance Award".

The "Best Performance Award" is a lower award than the "Best Athlete". It affirms the athlete's season performance, but it almost clearly says: Brother, you are still a little behind, keep working hard next year.

For example, last year, the male athlete with the "Best Performance Award" went to Liu Xiang, who won the Lausanne Grand Prix in 12 seconds and broke the world record.

Theoretically, "breaking the world record" should be more valuable than "tying the world record", but the impact of the project is also a point that needs to be considered.

Moreover, Liu Xiang did not achieve an undefeated season like Asafa Powell last year, especially when he lost to Alan Johnson in the highly weighted Athens Athletics World Cup, so the overall performance of the season was slightly lacking. .

This year, Wenhao not only achieved the same unbeaten performance as Asafa Powell last year in terms of performance throughout the season, but also broke the 100-meter world record twice and won three gold medals at the Osaka World Championships.

With such honors and record performance, if the IAAF does not award him the "Best Male Athlete", it would be really blind and waiting to be sprayed to death by track and field fans around the world. "By the way, who are the nominees for the Best Performance Award?"

The winner of the Best Male Sportsman Award is already a sure thing, and there is no need for him to worry about it. On the contrary, the Best Performance Award is still quite suspenseful.

"Okay, let me take a look." Annie said, taking out her notebook and checking her emails.

"Liu Xiang, Powell and Varina." She gave the answer.

Wen Hao thought briefly.

First of all, Varina is excluded. Although he is undefeated in the 400 meters event this season and ran an excellent time of 43 seconds to win the Osaka World Championships, he is considered the best man after Michael Johnson. 45m athlete.

But it has to be said that Varina's performance is still far behind. Compared with Liu Xiang, who broke the 110-meter hurdles world record twice this season, and Asafa Powell, who broke the 100-meter world record once, his performance is even less impressive. A lot.

Therefore, the male athlete's "Best Performance of the Year Award" will inevitably be decided between Liu Xiang and Powell.

If you look at it this way, the contrast between two world records and one world record is somewhat obvious.

Moreover, although Powell also broke the world record, from the time he set the world record on September 9 to the time Wen Hao regained the record on September 9, it only lasted 9 days, not even half a month.

In 13 days, the IAAF did not even complete the certification process of the new world record of 9 seconds. Powell was really miserable.

On the other hand, Liu Xiang broke the world record by running 6 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York in June. The new world record of 12 seconds at the Osaka World Championships also completed the certification process on October 87 and was officially recognized by the IAAF. For a new world record in the 12-meter hurdles, it also happened to be a National Day gift.

But having said that, until the awards are officially announced, the suspense of ownership will always exist.

This year's IAAF Annual Awards Ceremony is still scheduled to be held in Monaco on November 11th. This schedule has been included in Wen Hao's November plan.

Let’s see then.

At the Daegu Park Hotel, reporters from all over the world gathered together to record the speeches and take photos of athletes from all over the world.

On the afternoon of October 10, the pre-match press conference was held at the Daegu Track and Field Games.

In the first item of the press conference, the Daegu government and the South Korean Athletics Association officially announced that Moon Ho would serve as the global ambassador for the 2011 IAAF Daegu World Championships.

Wenhao appeared in a decent formal suit, received the letter of appointment from the mayor of Daegu, and took photos with relevant officials.

After the appointment ceremony, the pre-match press conference continued as usual.

The scale of this year's Daegu track and field competition is not inferior to that of last year, but the number of famous athletes invited is obviously less than last year.

In addition to the women's pole vault Queen Isinbayeva and the women's triple jump star Tatyana Lebedeva, only Wen Hao has won the World Championships. The famous players invited in the other events are basically World Championships Race 2~5 players.

For an international track and field event, the lineup of each event in the Daegu Track and Field Championships is quite shabby. Only 1 to 3 athletes in each event can be ranked at the world-class level.

For example, in the men's 100 meters, because Wen Hao's budget reached an astonishing US$20, he had to give up the idea of ​​inviting Asafa Powell. In addition, Tyson Gay, who was eager to take a vacation, also declined the invitation.

Therefore, the organizers of Daegu could only do the next best thing and invite Spearmon, Michael Flatt, and Fasuba, who had just participated in the Magic City Golden Grand Prix, to run the 100 meters with Wen Hao. rice.

Otherwise, just those neon and South Korean players would be too much to hold up the scene.

In the men's 110-meter hurdles event, because Liu Xiang declined the invitation to participate in seclusion to recuperate, Alan Johnson, David Oliver, Dairon Robles and other famous players also declined invitations from Daegu, resulting in this event requiring participation in the Hanban World Championships. The fifth player Shi Dongpeng came to support the scene.
But for the South Korean people, it doesn’t really matter whether Alan Johnson, Asafa Powell, Jeremy Varina, and Kenenissa Bekele come to compete or not.

Originally, the atmosphere of track and field in South Korea is relatively dull, and the competition is still held on a working day (Wednesday). If Wenhao hadn't participated, who would have come to watch your bad competition?

Therefore, the organizers of Daegu continued what they did last year and planned to mobilize young students in Daegu to watch the game on site in order to gather enough spectators so that at least the auditorium would not be too empty during the live broadcast.

But what people didn’t expect was that on the day ticket sales started on September 9, all the 30 tickets originally planned to be released to the outside world were sold out in less than one morning.

After the tickets were sold out, ticket sales channels in various places and on the Internet gathered many people with strong willingness to buy tickets, and began to clamor for the event organizers to increase ticket sales.

The organizers of Daegu were confused. They originally planned to open 3 seats this time. They thought that selling 5 tickets like last year would be enough, and there might even be left.

As a result, there is not enough to sell now?

Although it was a bit confusing in a short period of time, the organizers responded immediately and added 5 tickets to various channels for sale in the afternoon, but all of them were eaten.

On the morning of October 10st, another 1 tickets were sold. This time, the digestion speed was much slower than the previous day. It was not until around 5 o'clock in the evening that they were all eaten, so the Daegu organizer decided not to sell more tickets.

As a result, something unexpected happened again. At noon on October 10, hundreds of students from various middle schools in Daegu gathered in Daegu Park to protest.

The reason was that the school had issued a notice to watch the game three days ago. After learning that they could enter for free to meet the youth idol Wen Hao, many middle school students were very enthusiastic and looked forward to the arrival of the game day.

As a result, on the morning of October 10, many students were informed that their plans to watch the game were cancelled. After asking around, it turned out that the organizers were not well prepared and had sold the seats originally allocated to students.

As a result, students gathered together to protest.

Student gatherings to protest are a traditional program in South Korea. The incident quickly spread through various media reports, so much so that at the pre-game press conference, the official responsible for coordinating the Daegu track and field competition had to apologize to the public.

But all the tickets have been sold, and it’s impossible to ask people who spent money to refund their tickets, otherwise I don’t know what trouble will happen.

Therefore, the organizers could only work overtime and temporarily added 1 seats to "return" them to the students, which completely calmed the incident.

(End of this chapter)