With the end of Brussels, the first World Athletics Diamond League came to an end at the King's Stadium in Baudouin. In the end, the 32 competitions ended, and the "diamond" of US$80,000 went their separate ways. Croatian athlete Vlasic and flower grower Su Shen became the only two athletes to win undefeated at this World Championships with a record of 7 wins and 0 losses. . The first Diamond League was upgraded from the Golden League. The previous Golden League only had six European competitions, but now, this time the Diamond League has a total of fourteen games, and there are games on almost every continent. point.
American athletes are the biggest beneficiaries, with a total of 10 events winning the championship, two of which are composed of Spearmon and Varina, three are composed of Jeter and Felix, and Felix is the 200-meter and the 400-meter double champion. So far, she is the only one to win two diamond-level awards at the same time. Kenyans compete in seven events, and Rudisha is the most eye-catching one. He broke the 800-meter world record last week and won the "Diamond" award in 20 seconds in the last race.
At the last stop of the first Diamond League, the controversial South African player Semenya finally got a chance to participate, but unexpectedly suffered her first defeat of the season. The world championship champion rewrote her personal best result of the season in Brussels, but only won the women's title. Third place in the 800 meters. Semenya revealed that she will participate in more competitions. Semenya, who had been away from the competition for a long time, officially returned in July. She announced her return with frequent participation, winning three consecutive championships in Finland and Germany. Although her best result this season has exceeded the 2-point mark, she is still 1 point away from herself. There is still a certain gap between the best time of 55 seconds and 45 minutes.
Semenya, who participated in the Diamond League for the first time, was obviously not fully prepared and her running style was relatively conservative. After 400 meters, she fell behind most people. It was not until 200 meters that she started to run at full speed. Although he overtook several people in the sprint, he still couldn't surpass Jepke Segai and the European Champions League's Savinova, who finished third with a time of 1 minute, 59 seconds and 65 seconds. Although she lost her first competition, she was not too disappointed with her performance, "Before the competition started, I never thought I could have such a fast speed, but to have such a performance, I'm already very happy." Semenya's outstanding performance in each of the four events made her full of confidence in herself. She said: "I will continue to compete. I am very aware of my problems. Taking more competitions can improve my speed."
But to be honest, Su Shen, a transsexual competing in the competition, did not mention it during the interview. Although there is no political correctness in this regard in China, how can we talk about this aspect? After all, there are more than 100 people in foreign countries who have the right gender, and it is difficult to remember. If you can’t recite it, don’t bother.
Keep silent, since I am not a Westerner anyway, so I don’t care what the outside world says.
In addition, this is a summary of domestic players participating in the Diamond League————
"Asia Sports" even used the first line of the headline on the front page to write: You want to ask who is Asia's number one strongman in the Diamond League this year? There is no alternative to the answer!
You even ask who is the top strongman in the Diamond League? The answer may be this one, a complete victory over Su Shen in the 100 meters.
Although the Croatian athlete Vlasic is also good in the high jump, in terms of popularity, there is still a big gap between the high jump and the 100 meters. Su Shen won 7 games and defeated Powell, Gay, and Bolt to win the championship. He is the biggest dark horse in this year's Diamond League. In addition, there can only be the female triple jumper Rypakova from Kazakhstan. She fought from the first station to the last station, played the entire season with perfect attendance, and was only one step away from the diamond award.
For the flower growers, one of the top track and field powers in Asia, although many athletes are indeed qualified to participate in the Diamond League, it is regrettable that if we exclude the Magic City Station, we actually only have 11 athletes who have participated. 8 events.
Excluding Su Shen and the other four, there were only seven people.
But what is gratifying is that although there are very few of us in the world's top competitions, the Athletics Association has adopted a method of bringing the best athletes to compete in top competitions, so the results achieved are quite impressive. Except for the most popular topic Su Shen, our players have won a total of 3 runner-ups, 10 3rd places, and 2 4th places in Shanghai, Eugene, London and Brussels. score.
Gong Lijiao's women's shot put competition is always attended by top players, and the difficulty is much higher than that of the men's 110-meter hurdles event at the Modou Station. Gong Lijiao participated twice and finished third in both competitions. The first time was in the Magic City. Before many spectators entered the venue, Gong finished third with 19.60 meters, becoming the first flower grower to win a medal after the Golden League was changed to the Diamond League after the sprint event. player. Later, Gong Lijiao participated in the London event and finished third with 19.26 meters. Although she did not overthrow the "two big mountains" of Ostapchuk and Willy, she was above them both. , and it is enough to prove that Gong Lijiao is the top figure in women's shot put today and has a bright future.
The men's long jump also had two third-place finishes, but the credit was due to two athletes. In the Magic City competition, Su Xiongfeng finished third with 8.06 meters, almost defeating the top runner, American Phillips, while Li Jin won the super wind third place in the Eugene competition with 8.29 meters. Li also borrowed This record once ranked among the top ten in the world. In the men's long jump event, 5 to 6 Chinese athletes have the ability to jump over 8 meters. Li Yanfeng, who surprised everyone at the National Games, participated in the women's discus event in Brussels. She finished third with 64.74 meters. Although it was more than one meter less than her 66.40 meters at the National Games, she was still a A relatively good performance. In addition, in the London competition, Li Yanxi won the fourth place in the men's triple jump with 16.67 meters.
Xie Limei participated in the women's triple jump competition in London and Eugene. Counting the events in Magic City, Xie is actually the flower grower who participated in the most diamond leagues in the first season besides the sprint team, and her best The result was 6th place in the London Station. Ji Wei and Dashi also participated in the 110-meter hurdles, but their results were not ideal.
However, the Asian Athletics Federation still gave the flower growers great recognition--an overall evaluation of S level.
After all, the Asian Athletics Federation is relatively weak among the athletics federations on all continents. In the past, participation in the Diamond League basically meant victory, so there was no need to think about the winning rate. Even among the Asian powerhouses in track and field, there are actually not many people who can run in the Diamond and Gold Games. Just look at Japan and you will know that after so many years of dominance in Asia, they have almost failed to gain anything in the Diamond League.
In the end, I almost didn’t have sex with anyone anymore.
They are all "crossed".
Our country is still better in this regard.
The Diamond League is not a football game, and there are no detailed statistics on how many people entered the stadium. However, through visual inspection, we can know that, except for the Doha station in Asia due to the population limitations of its own country, the other 13 stations, especially in traditional countries such as Europe and the United States, In this hotspot of sports, the occupancy rate of the stadium is quite guaranteed.
From Oslo to Stockholm, from Zurich to Brussels, the scenes of huge crowds of people in the audience are emotional. Although the countries represented by these cities are not sports powers under the definition of our accustomed thinking, nor are they indeed first-line track and field powers, they are These countries have a large number of loyal sports enthusiasts. Expressing a hobby from the heart does not mean how high one's sports level is. Watching the game is a good way to participate and talk. As the oldest competitive event, track and field is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
my country's Magic City Station is one of the successful models in Asia, even more exciting and popular than Doha.
This Diamond League has set a competition to 7 stations, which means that the event can be held once every two stations on average. However, in order to ensure the necessary attention, in actual operation, many events are held more than 10 times. It's just that except for those 7 times, the remaining few times are not counted as so-called diamond points, but the selection criteria are still based on the operation of only the top ones qualifying for selection.
Although no world records were set in the 14 Diamond League events, only three continental records were broken, namely the men's 1500m in Oceania, which is not very high-level, and the men's and women's 5000m in North, Central America and the Caribbean. In addition, There were some national records broken. But since it is a gathering of top athletes, the national records of the countries where these athletes are from have already reached a certain level. It is obviously difficult for them to break records frequently in a small year of track and field. However, the world's best results in 19 events this year were created in these 14 diamond events. In this sense, after only its first season of operation, the Diamond League has already become the premier touring event of choice for track and field fans.
It can be seen from this year's diamond race that the overall number one position of the United States is unassailable, while Kenya, with its unique advantages in middle and long-distance running, can often reach the top positions in the number of diamond championships. This Diamond League also adheres to this characteristic, because there is only one championship for each event, and it is a tournament system event, so there is much less chance. It can be seen that the American national team won 10 championships out of 32 events, mostly in sprint events. The traditional advantage events such as long jump and men's shot put are still strong, while Kenya's 7 championships are all from middle and long-distance running.
Because of Jamaica's overall bumper harvest in the sprint events at the Beijing Olympics, it was once thought that it would steal the limelight from the United States. However, as a country with a small population, even if there are talents everywhere, the reserve capacity and frequency of talent development are definitely higher than those of the United States. It is much weaker. In the past two years, the Americans have reversed their disadvantageous situation in sprinting. Especially in the women's event, the Americans have an overall advantage. In this year's Diamond League, Bolt's poor performance and Fraser's suspension were a devastating blow to Jamaica. In this Diamond League, Jamaica only won the women's 400-meter hurdles. But as far as this project is concerned, it is quite an unexpected surprise, even a surprise for Jamaica.
Although there are many athletics events, many of them are so common that they are widely practiced in primary and secondary schools around the world. But to rise to a level of worldwide attention, there is only one event, the men's 100 meters. The IAAF also deliberately regards this event as the biggest attraction for the audience. The competition surrounding the men's 100 meters is indeed the area that attracts the most attention in this Diamond League.
Almost all of the top ten best results in the men's 100m so far this year were created in the Diamond League.
Bolt has been a bit lonely this year. He originally felt good about himself at the beginning. After losing to Su Shen in Shanghai, he gave up a period of competition due to injury. After his comeback, he lost to Guy and Su Shen. Later, he suffered from various false starts. Poor performance resulted in being overtaken by Guy and Su Shen in the world rankings.
Fortunately, he is still ranked first in the overall ranking.
The performance of young people this year is also quite exciting. After all, for a sport to maintain considerable vitality, the emergence of high-level newcomers is absolutely indispensable. Although the Diamond League is an event where experts gather, it is unlikely to give anyone around the age of 20 Children have the opportunity to show their faces, but we have still seen that through the training of the Diamond League, some young people who were originally hovering around the 20th place in the world have rushed into the top five or even higher ranks in the world as quickly as possible.
The leader is the sprinter Su Shen. At the age of 21 this year, he has already won the championship, creating history for Asians and yellow races, which is enough to mark the annals of history.
In addition, the Jamaican player John Blake, who was born on December 26, 1989, passed the Diamond League and is now one of the top five men's 100m and 200m double events. He has thrown 9.80+ in the 100m and 200m many times. He ran 19.78 seconds in Monaco, which is quite impressive for his age group.
At this age, only Su can steadily stay ahead of him, and the future is quite promising.
In the 5,000-meter event, Kenya has many excellent athletes, but it was Ethiopian athlete Melgar who finally won the gold medal. He was not the best athlete. This athlete in June 1988 once won a prestigious but not very strong track and field competition with a time of 13.29.75 seconds. Melgar's popularity in the Diamond League was not very high. But he has participated in a lot of games, so his scores have always been very high. In every game, he has a big advantage.
French athlete Tamgo, born on June 15, 1989, can be said to be the most promising athlete in this Diamond League. His best result in the last Diamond League was only 17.11 meters, but this time, he has He won the championship in New York with a height of 17.98 meters and won three championships. But Tamgo's performance was not very good and he only finished third in the European Champions Cup.
Croatian discus thrower Perkovic almost became the athlete closest to a "diamond" in the world with a score of 66.93 meters in Brussels.
Asia's overall performance is extremely strong in a single point, but there are gaps when viewed horizontally:
Kazakhstan's triple jumper Rypakova tied with Cuba's Savigne after seven games. This was the only draw in this diamond competition, but Savigne's The results were better than those of Rypakova, who also failed to win a diamond. Apart from her and Su Shen, there are no top athletes in Asia, and Asian athletes rarely show up. It is a pity that although Asia is the largest country in the world, its influence in the world is the smallest.
Fortunately, Su Shen performed violently in the most popular 100 meters, which allowed his final Asian Diamond League performance to receive an A+ rating from the IAAF.
This is what the IAAF says about this A+————
Without Su, this grade would only be a C or lower.
Poor Repakova was obviously ignored by the 100-meter glory.
Overall, the performance is still very good, and there are 3 to 4 Asian athletes participating in the 100 meters this time, which can be regarded as refreshing everyone's perception of Asian sprinters.
Faced with the A+ evaluation from the IAAF, compared to the past, it may only be a C. I don’t know how much it has improved.
The Asian Athletics Federation was even more generous in giving S.
Among them, the efforts of flower growers account for more than 90%.
There is nothing to be dissatisfied with. Japanese player Masashi Erikochi said when answering reporters’ questions:
"If we can also run the 100-meter diamond race with 3 or 4 people, and someone can win the championship in the end, we can also occupy 90% of the share. This is what flower growers deserve."
"At the same time, congratulations to my teacher Su, for becoming the real number one player in the Diamond League."
This may seem like a big statement, but if you think about it carefully, there is no problem. Because the Diamond League has only started once, Su Shen is naturally the only "100-meter champion." Coupled with the popularity and influence of 100 meters, it seems that it is not so unacceptable to get this so-called "number one player in the Diamond League".
It's just based on past experience. Judging from the Gold Tournament level, it is still something that everyone is not used to if the number one player of the year is an Asian.
It's like watching too many European and American blockbusters and getting used to the value output of Omi people saving the world. At first, it was definitely a little uncomfortable to watch our own people saving the world, but again, to get used to this thing, watch more Just adapt. Don’t underestimate your own ability to adapt.
While Su Shen received these praises, he thanked many people semi-officially and semi-privately.
But in the end, he gave a signal at the Diamond League summary conference:
I will participate in the IAAF World Challenge in Rieti on August 29th, three days later.
It was nothing.
As a result, almost at the same time, Tyson Gay of the United States, Powell and Usain Bolt of Jamaica all announced that they would also participate in the IAAF World Challenge in Rieti three days later.
Suddenly.
The media were stunned for a moment and their eyes suddenly lit up. They originally thought that Brussels was over and there would be no fierce collision.
As a result, I didn’t expect these people to have another date!
interesting!
There’s big news to come!
The event team of the Rieti IAAF World Challenge felt a little bit like a pie in the sky and immediately issued an official press release saying——————
Rieti welcomes the Big Four!
Then people started to decisively replace the originally prepared Nesta Carter C poster overnight.
Replaced with the latest joint C position of the four giants.
Nesta Carter:? ? ?
When I woke up, I was still in the C seat when I got off the plane yesterday, but today I have been squeezed into the "nook and corner".
Look at the person again.
He almost couldn't breathe.
How did you meet them?
This is just a challenge, what are you giants doing here to join in the fun?
I'll do it!
It seemed that the sure winner and the first prize were all turned into overcooked ducks and flew away overnight.
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