Magic City Stadium.
In the women's 100 meters, the first sister Qin Wangping did not come, nor did Yan Shu. As the host, only young player Chen Juan was invited to compete.
But the gap in the women's 100-meter event is huge. It's like being beaten.
This situation cannot be changed if you want to. As I have said long ago, the international level of women's events is even more difficult to overcome than men's. Of course, this may also be because men have fully exploded later. Otherwise, if both 10.30+ and 10.40+ were able to win National Games medals, there would probably not be much difference.
Someone has to step forward and open up the situation.
Chen Juan ran 11.39 seconds in this race, which is not bad. She has already exceeded 11.40+. This is almost the best performance in China, even in Asia. . Unfortunately, in the international arena, except for the Thai player who was sent off for jumping the gun, she could only finish last. The championship was taken away by Felix of the United States, and the runner-up and third place were also taken away by Lao Mi.
It's absolutely crushing right now, without any temper at all.
People just randomly came up with 11.10+, how can this compare?
Fortunately, Chen Juan has gotten used to it. After she was completely shocked by the gap in the International Bureau in Moscow, she has slowly settled down under Su Shen's guidance. She knew that the honor didn't belong to her now, and that didn't matter. Just like Su Shen said, work slowly and you'll have a chance in the future.
During this year's winter training, she secretly clenched her fists and secretly vowed to continue working hard.
Don't let the "Su Shen system" be held back.
Of course, the biggest game, at least the biggest game at the Magic City Stadium, is Liu Xiang and his 110-meter hurdles.
The original course of this game can be described as thrilling. Liu Xiang was not used to listening to guns, and his command was too tight this time. The same situation as in Athens occurred, and Alan Johnson was greatly left behind at the beginning. Fortunately, Liu Xiang was one of the strongest runners in the 110-meter hurdles, so he managed to catch up and finally completed the counterattack.
But to be honest, Su Shen believed that Liu Xiang's performance in this game was even... worse than in Athens.
Because if you win this game, you will win, but the bigger problem is actually that Alan Johnson had some problems with his own performance. In the end, he didn't hold back and his rhythm was a bit messed up. This gave Liu Xiang 13.07 seconds to successfully counterattack.
But among the people cheering at the scene, how many of them knew that Liu Xiang's champion's score was actually not as good as the 13.03 that ranked second in the Athens World Cup.
It dropped almost a notch.
Therefore, outsiders are cheering for Liu Xiang’s defending gold medal 110-meter hurdles championship at home, but in fact some problems have been gradually exposed. Moreover, the psychological pressure of striking later is too great, and it stimulates the body's functions more. Similar to this kind of duel between top players, whoever is ahead from the beginning, to be honest... the psychological pressure on the laggard is very high.
Take a look at the interviews conducted by Oriental Sports reporters at that time——
Oriental Sports: How does it feel to win the championship?
Liu Xiang: I'm very happy, I just think it's quite thrilling. I don't feel anything special, I just really want to sleep.
Oriental Sports: What do you think of the atmosphere today?
Liu Xiang: It was much more exciting than the World Cup in Athens. Really, I feel very much like going home to my hometown. Thank you to everyone who came to the scene to support me, thank them.
Oriental Sports: Are you satisfied with your performance?
Liu Xiang: How should I put it... I haven't done any systematic training in Shanghai these two days, and I feel that my muscles are quite tired today. However, I am quite satisfied with the result of 13.07 seconds.
Oriental Sports: You started very slowly this time. What do you think?
Liu Xiang: I don’t know what’s going on. I’m probably too tired. However, although I felt a little tired mentally, I managed to hold on in the end.
Oriental Sports: At the beginning of this year, Sun Haiping said that you can just compare the Russian Indoor Championships, the Athens World Cup, the Shanghai International Athletics Golden Grand Prix and the Doha Asian Games at the end of the year. By now, most of this year's competition tasks have been completed. You how do you feel?
Liu Xiang: I'm quite tired now. I haven't thought about it that much. I just want to have a good rest. This month compared to now, I am very tired both physically and mentally. I don’t want to go anywhere, I just want to sleep.
Oriental Sports: What about the Asian Games?
Liu Xiang: Let’s talk about it then. Isn’t there still two months left?
In the entire short interview, Liu Xiang answered four of the six questions with the meaning of "tiredness" and "tiredness".
This is Liu Xiang in 2006.
The outside world only pays attention to his achievements and does not realize how many difficulties he has. This is the real Liu Xiang.
As a top athlete and the world record holder at the time, most of the interview was about "tired". Unfortunately, no one stood up to support him and let more people see these words. Everyone only cheered for his championship, not Liu Xiang himself.
After completing the 100 meters, Su Shen and the others sneaked over to Liu Xiang to watch the race.
This is normal. Now Liu Xiang is the main protagonist of the entire Huazhongjia track and field team.
It wasn’t just them, people from the track and field team who didn’t have a competition to prepare for came to watch when they had time.
Everyone regarded him as an absolute superstar. Only Zhao Haohuan seemed to have discovered something. Because he had been with Su Shen for a long time, he had become very sensitive to the physical condition of athletes. After all, one thing Su Shen often emphasized was...
Don't push your body too hard.
Training hard and pushing your body too hard are basically not the same thing.
So he saw Liu Xiang's face, which showed some visible fatigue.
The funny thing is that at this time, except for them, everyone was attracted by Liu Xiang's halo, and few people noticed this problem.
"Xiao Tian, why do I feel that Brother Xiang is not in good condition?" Zhao Haohuan is very tall, so he has the best view, and he first saw something was wrong.
"What else can there be?" Su Shen said a little "angry": "I'm tired."
After saying that, Su Shen readjusted his facial expression management and squeezed through.
After all, he was second in the 100-meter gold medal race today, so he still has the qualifications.
Zhao Haohuan saw Su Shen squeezing past and followed him.
When reporters saw Su Shen and Zhao Haohuan, the two 100-meter young players who had just made history, they immediately included them in the spotlight. Su Shen responded with a smile, sat next to Liu Xiang, and then whispered something to Liu Xiang secretly.
Liu Xiang was stunned after hearing this, but Su Shen nodded and said nothing more.
The 110-meter hurdles race is about to begin.
The emotion of the audience has reached its highest climax, and obviously the enthusiasm at this moment exceeds that of the previous 100-meter event. All kinds of cheers and shouts, including small banners and small slips of paper, all had two big words written on them——
Liu Xiang.
Liu Xiang's main opponent this time was Alan Johnson, who defeated himself in Athens.
This old man, Lao Ji Fufeng, is very powerful even for his age.
Johnson is obviously trying his best to defeat him here again.
Of course, Trammell also wanted a piece of the pie. He felt that Liu Xiang might not be in good form recently, and the defeat in Athens was a typical example, so... he didn't have a chance.
After the athletes all arrived at the starting line, got on the starting blocks and stepped on the footboards, the whole place gradually became quiet.
"on your marks."
"set."
Bang——————————
"Game start."
"Liu Xiang reacted very quickly. He was the first one to rush out. He was incredibly fast. The referee indicated that there was no false start with this shot."
"Keep the rhythm of interception and increase the speed."
"Liu Xiang has widened the gap with Johnson and already has a multi-position advantage."
"The ninth hurdle...huh? Johnson hit the hurdle, Johnson made a mistake!"
"Johnson was eager to pursue and made a mistake!"
"Liu Xiang has distanced himself from him. There is no suspense anymore. Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang sprint!!!"
"Crash the line!!!"
"12.95s! The score is revised to 12.97s!!!"
"Liu Xiang opened for 13 seconds for the third time this year!!!"
"He defeated Johnson by a huge margin and avenged Athens!!!"
…
After crossing the line, Liu Xiang did not stick out his tongue as usual. After winning, Liu Xiang patted his chest uncharacteristically.
He turned around and looked at the same 0.100+ level reaction time.
He looked at Su Shen aside and breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, I can have a good sleep at night.
I just hope that today's activities can end as soon as possible.
ps: The real report will be posted in this chapter later. You can check it out by yourself~
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