A preliminaries of a 100-meter sprint, but because of Jesse Owens' 10.3 seconds, it was instantly full of gunpowder. At this time, anyone can see that Jesse Owens has challenged Chen Qiang.

Four years ago, Chen Qiang won five gold medals in one Olympic Games, broke world records in five events, and was known as the "world's No. 1 athlete".

Last year's Jesse Owens, who set five world records in 45 minutes, set the greatest 45 minutes in sports history.

The contest between these two can be described as a needle-to-needle, and no one knows who will win in the end.

Both the spectators and the athletes were looking forward to the rematch of the 100-meter dash in the afternoon, and Jesse Owens had already written a letter to Chen Qiang, and people were looking forward to what kind of response Chen Qiang would make.

Of course, the most important thing is tomorrow's final, and the final champion is the final winner of this game.

"Jesse, the morning's game is over, let's go back!" Ralph Metcalfe spoke.

Jesse Owens looked at Chen Qiang in the distance: "Chen Qiang hasn't left yet, so I want to stay a little longer." ”

"Didn't Chen Qiang leave either? Could it be that he still has a game this morning? Is it a long jump? Ralph Metcalfe asked, surprised.

Jesse Owens shook his head: "The long jump competition is held the morning after tomorrow. ”

Jesse Owens also signed up for the long jump, so he knows when the long jump will be.

"In addition to Chen Qiang, the other two Chinese athletes did not leave, I think they stayed here to cheer for the other Chinese athletes. In this respect, Chinese athletes are quite united. Ralph Metcalfe began.

Jesse Owens nodded, agreeing with the statement. Then he asked, "What's next?" ”

"It's like a qualifier for the high jump." Ralph Metcalfe replied.

"High Jump, Dave Albreighton should be on the scene, too. It's only a qualifier, but Dave is the world record holder in the high jump, so I'll stay and see. Jesse Owens spoke.

Although Jesse Owens did not sign up for the long jump, he is still very talented in the long jump. Jesse Owens started learning high jump at the age of fifteen, and then he jumped 1.85 meters in just one year, according to the standards of track and field athletes in later generations, he is a national second-level athlete who can jump 1.83 meters, and Jesse Owens can reach the national second-level athlete at the age of sixteen, and he is a very talented player even in the future.

At this time, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe didn't know that Chen Qiang had signed up for the long jump.

At the Berlin Olympics, more than 40 skaters competed in the long jump, most of them for the first time. In that era when information was not developed, if athletes were not very prominent, basically no one knew about them. Therefore, among the more than 40 athletes, except for a few well-known athletes, the others are just unknown people in the Olympic Games.

It is said that with Chen Qiang's fame, his participation in the high jump event should be widely reported, but the host of this Olympics is Germany, and Chen Qiang is a Chinese. With the environment in Germany at that time, how could it be possible to promote a person of color in the newspapers!

As a result, the news that Chen Qiang signed up for the high jump, discus throw, and 110-meter hurdles is almost zero people in Europe. Only those athletes who participated in the long jump competition would see Chen Qiang's name on the list after getting the list of contestants.

In the high jump event, in addition to Chen Qiang, the Chinese team also sent a player from Wu Bixian. Wu Bixian is a native of Tianjin, the historical Wu Bixian was the former high jump national record holder in New China, with a score of 1.87 meters, and in the future he became a businessman and founded the American Chinese Sports Association.

At the last Los Angeles Olympics, there were only 14 athletes competing in the high jump, so there was no qualifying tournament at that time, and each game was decided to be won or lost. Today's Berlin Olympics have a total of 41 skaters competing in the high jump, so a qualifying tournament must be held to eliminate some of them.

The qualifying round was divided into two groups, Wu Bixian was placed in the first group, while Chen Qiang was placed in the second group.

The rules for qualifying are also very simple, starting with 1.60m, then jumping 1.70m and 1.80m, and finally jumping 1.85m, as long as you can skip 1.85m, you can advance to the final in the afternoon. In other words, the threshold for promotion is already there, and there is no competition between athletes in this promotion journey, it all depends on their own ability.

The 21 players from the first qualifying group competed first, arrived at the athletes' waiting area, and then took to the field one by one.

The first height is 1.60 meters, which is very simple for athletes participating in the Olympic Games.

The rules of high jump in the thirties were different from those of later generations. In the high jump competition of later generations, each person has three opportunities to try to jump at the same height, and after jumping, you can enter the next height, and you can also choose PASS directly if you jump the first two times. If you choose PASS, then the number of next attempts is 3 minus the number of times you tried this time.

For example, if an athlete does not try to jump 1.70m but chooses PASS, then he will have three attempts at a height of 1.80m.

And if the athlete jumps once at 1.70m, but does not skip, he can continue to try to jump 1.70m, or he can just pass 1.70m and jump 1.80m, but when he jumps 1.80m, there are only two chances left, because he has already used one chance at 1.70m. If he can jump 1.80m, then his next altitude jump will become three more jumps.

If he fails to jump at 1.70m, then he can pass 1.70m and jump 1.80m, but then there is only one chance left.

This rule greatly increases the spectacle of the game, for example, if a player fails to make two attempts at a certain height, and he only has one chance to try to jump, then he can save this last chance to bet on a higher height, and maybe he can make a big reversal at the last moment.

This was not the case in the thirties, when there were three attempts at each height, and you could jump to the next height if you skipped it. However, the PASS must be selected before the attempt, not after you fail to jump. In other words, the PASS rule at that time was to directly pass a whole height, so that the athlete could go to the next height, and the athlete would still have three opportunities to try the jump at the next height. Once you start your first attempt, you have to go to the next height to use the PASS.

At the same time, the PASS in the thirties is not allowed to lose two heights in a row, for example, if you choose PASS at 1.60m, then you can't choose PASS at 1.70m, and you can only choose PASS again when you get 1.80m.

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To get back to the point, the initial height of 1.60 meters did not make it difficult for any athlete, and then the high jump bar came to 1.70 meters.

Although the promotion standard of 1.85m is already there, considering that athletes need to warm up and find the state of the game, the crossbar cannot be placed at a height of 1.85m at the beginning, but there is a gradual improvement process, which can help athletes adapt to the game, and also allow those who are really strong to not miss the hooves.

The height of 1.70 meters still did not stop the athletes from moving forward, and all 21 athletes in the first group also jumped this height.

The next height is 1.80 meters, which is a bit challenging for some athletes.

As a result, 6 competitors failed three attempts at this height, and 15 of the 21 remained.

The next height is the final 1.85m, and as long as you skip this height, you can advance to the high jump final in the afternoon.

Those strong athletes will not be stopped by a height of only 1.85 meters, which will only be the level of national second-level athletes in the future. However, for China's Wu Bixian, this height is somewhat difficult. After all, the best time in his career was only 1.87 meters, and now let him jump 1.85 meters, and his probability of success is not great.

Sure enough, Wu Bixian finally fell to this height and failed to advance to the finals.

In the first group, 10 players successfully jumped 1.85 meters, which is equivalent to eliminating half of the people, and the elimination rate is not very high.

If this is also the case for the second qualifying group, then the afternoon final will have 20 players.

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After watching the qualifying tournament of the first group, Chen Qiang already has a preliminary understanding of the high jumpers of this era.

As he expected, the high jumpers of this era used prone high jump techniques.

When the modern high jump was just emerging, athletes used the leapfrog high jump, the kind of high jump taught by elementary school physical education teachers, and at the 1986 Athens Olympics, athletes used this "schoolboy technique".

In the second modern Olympic Games, the "scissor technique" was used, and Bakstier used this technique to cross a height of 1.90 meters and become the first person to jump 1.90 meters. This technique then became popular and was still used in the fifties and sixties, such as the Chinese high jumper Zheng Fengrong, who broke the world record in the women's high jump in 1957 with a score of 1.77 meters.

However, the "scissor technique" technique is more complex, not easy to master, and requires high flexibility and control of the body, so there are relatively few people who use this technique. In today's competition, Chen Qiang also did not see any athletes using the "scissor technique".

In 1912, American athlete George Hollining invented the rolling technique, which is also known as the "Holling style", George Holling broke the world record, and the emergence of this technique made the world's top athletes break through the two-meter mark. Back in 1956, there were still athletes using this technique.

And in today's arena, Chen Qiang also saw several athletes using this rolling technique.

In 1923, Soviet athlete Polozov created the "prone" high jump technique, which quickly spread and was widely used by athletes. In 1970, Chinese athlete Ni Zhiqin used this technique to break the world record with a score of 2.29m. The highest result in the prone technique came in 1978, when the Soviets jumped 2.35m in an indoor competition.

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, most athletes used this prone technique.

The prone technique was followed by the dorsal technique we are familiar with today, but it didn't appear until the sixties.

Later, it was suggested that as early as the beginning of the 20th century, athletes used the back-crossing technique, but because the mat was not soft enough at that time, athletes used the back-crossing technique, which was easy to fall and get injured, so the back-crossing technique could not be used at that time.

In fact, this kind of remark is pure nonsense, and the person who said it does not understand high jump at all.

Because of the early prone technique, the use of a flat flip posture over the pole, this posture has a leg retraction valgus action when crossing the pole, that is to say, at the moment of crossing the pole, the body is to do a rotation of the crossbar, and after the body turns, it happens to fall in a supine posture and land on the ground with the back, which is similar to the back-crossing landing posture.

If the mat is not soft enough to cause an injury to the athlete on the ground, then the flat flip position can also injure the athlete, and it is impossible for the athlete to use the prone technique.

Since in 1923, the flip position over the pole can be used, which shows that at least in hardware, there is no problem with using the back-over technique.

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The final height of the qualifying round is only 1.85m, so those athletes who are really strong will not show their full strength in the qualifying round.

Next, it was the turn of the 20 players in the second group, including Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang walked into the area where the athletes were waiting in line to try the jump, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"That person seems to be Chen Qiang, right?"

"It's Chen Qiang! Although I think Chinese are almost the same, Chen Qiang just appeared in the 100-meter sprint, so I can still recognize his appearance. ”

"How did Chen Qiang come to the high jump competition, did he come to the wrong place? Think of the long jump as the high jump? ”

"How could he be in the wrong place, and the referee is there, if he is mistaken, the referee must not stop him!"

"So Chen Qiang also signed up for the high jump competition this time?"

"It's not surprising that there are quite a few athletes in the long jump and high jump. I just don't know what Chen Qiang's strength is in the high jump event. ”

"His long jump is so powerful, the high jump shouldn't be weak!"

There was a lot of talk.

Jesse Owens also looked at Chen Qiang in surprise.

"Chen Qiang actually participated in the high jump competition!" Jesse Owens frowned.

Jesse Owens originally had the intention of competing with Chen Qiang, and he couldn't wait to compete with Chen Qiang in every race, so this time Jesse Owens not only signed up for the 100m and 200m, but also signed up for the long jump.

But when he didn't expect it, Chen Qiang participated in a high jump, but Jesse Owens did not. It made Jesse Owens feel like a punch was being punched in the air.

Chen Qiang's appearance made everyone's eyes focus on him, and everyone wanted to see how strong Chen Qiang was in the high jump event. Among the athletes in the same group, there are also many people who think that Chen Qiang has cast a vigilant gaze.

However, the qualifying round only needs to jump to 1.85m to advance, so there is no competition between the athletes, and the athletes still try to complete their own jumps.

First of all, the height of 1.60 meters was successfully jumped by everyone, and Chen Qiang directly chose PASS.

For the back-crossing technique, 1.60 meters is too pediatric, and Chen Qiang is too lazy to jump.

The next height is 1.70 meters, and since the rules do not allow two consecutive passes, Chen Qiang can only choose to participate in the test jump.

Under the expectation of everyone, Chen Qiang stepped onto the running area.

Chen Qiang also didn't have ink, 1.70 meters was too simple for him, so he directly began to run and accelerate, came to the crossbar, jumped with the leg far away from the crossbar, after jumping off the ground, kept the stretched posture and rose up, driven by the swinging leg and its arm on the same side, accelerated the body to rotate around the longitudinal axis, so that the body was facing away from the crossbar; After the head and shoulders cross the crossbar, raise the head, invert the shoulders, stretch the body, raise the chest, close the legs, the whole set of movements in one go, and then flick the legs over the crossbar to carry the cushion.

This is the most common back-to-back technique, and people with a little sports knowledge in the future will know this set of techniques.

However, at this moment, at the scene of the Berlin Olympics, when Chen Qiang used the back-to-back technique, everyone looked at Chen Qiang in shock.

No one has ever seen a back-to-back high jump!

"My God, this turned out to be a new high jump technique!" Jesse Owens couldn't help but exclaim.

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