Chen Qiang looked excited, not only because he won the gold medal in the 100-meter dash, but also because he finally reached the 10-second mark.

The 10 seconds of the hand meter is equivalent to the 10 seconds of the electronic timekeeping24 seconds, which is a very fast result even in the future. The Olympic B standard for the 100-meter dash in the future London Olympics is 10.24 seconds, and even in 2012, Chen Qiang met the minimum standard for participating in the Olympic Games.

"After practicing for so many years, I can finally meet the Olympic standards, and if I put it in the future, I can reach the Olympic B standard, and I am also the top athlete in China." Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

Chen Qiang feels that although his physical fitness is not as perverted as Jesse Owens, it is also quite good, even in later generations, there are very few Chinese athletes who can reach the Olympic B standard. And Chen Qiang was able to achieve the same achievement in the thirties, which is even more difficult, the nutritional level and training environment in the thirties are not as good as in the future, and thanks to Chen Qiang having a training space, he can enjoy the training conditions in the future, otherwise he would not be able to practice such a great physical fitness.

Historically, the man who set the world record of 10.2 seconds was Jesse Owens, who set the world record in 1936, and then the world record stood for 20 years until it was broken in 1956. This is mainly due to the outbreak of World War II, which led to the stagnation of most sports, and the level of sports around the world declined, and it was only in the mid-fifties that it began to return to the level it was before.

Jesse Owens was also unlucky in this regard, after he became famous at the Berlin Olympics, and then encountered World War II, sports came to a standstill, and he was useless as a legendary athlete, so he had to work as a gas station attendant, playground janitor, etc., until after World War II, he found a decent job as a vice president of the black baseball league. If it weren't for World War II, maybe Jesse Owens would have made a fortune playing sports.

In 1956, American athlete Willie Williams raised the world record for the 100-meter dash to 10.1 seconds, and in 1960, the Federal Republic of Germany's Armin Harry finally improved the 100-meter dash to 10 seconds.

Since then, there have been five athletes who have run 10 seconds, in addition to Amin Harry of the Federal Republic of Germany, Harry Rosim of Canada, Horacio Esteves of Venezuela, Bob Hayes of the United States, and Chen Jiaquan of China.

Therefore, Chen Qiang's world record of 10 seconds is a full 24 years ahead of history.

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After the final of the 100-meter sprint, Chen Qiang did not immediately return to his residence in the Olympic Village, but stayed to watch the pole vault competition. Because Chinese athlete Fu Baolu entered the final of the pole vault.

In addition to Chen Qiang, the athletes in the Chinese team who did not have competition tasks also came to the scene. They originally came to cheer for Chen Qiang, but now that Chen Qiang has won the gold, they began to cheer for Fu Baolu.

Fu Baolu is from the northeast, his father is Chinese, and his mother is Russian, so he is a Chinese-Russian mixed-race, and he also has the handsome appearance of a mixed-race child, simply put, he looks handsome! It is also for this reason that Fu Baolu became a movie star after returning to China.

Fu Baolu has participated in the Far Eastern Games in Japan and the Philippines, the National Games in Hangzhou, Tianjin and Shanghai, and the North China Games in Jinan, and has known Chen Qiang for a long time.

Historically, Fu Baolu participated in the Berlin Olympics and successfully passed the preliminary round. However, due to inadequate preparation, the delegation did not even bring a bamboo pole to jump on a pole. Before each competition, Fu Baolu has to nod and bow to borrow an old bamboo pole for training from a Japanese athlete, and because the Japanese athlete is not very tall, the pole is only about 4.15 meters long, which is a bit too short for Fu Baolu, which also affects Fu Baolu's performance in the pole final.

Chen Qiang remembered this incident, so before leaving, he reminded Fu Baolu to bring bamboo poles to Berlin. Fu Baolu followed Chen Qiang's advice and brought two bamboo poles of his own, and he didn't have to borrow bamboo poles from Japanese athletes.

In the preliminary round of the pole vault in the morning, the threshold for promotion was 3.80 meters, and Fu Baolu successfully jumped this height. In the afternoon final, Fu Baolu also successfully crossed 3.80m, and he will face the challenge of 4m height.

This time, Fu Baolu used his own bamboo pole, so after two failed attempts, he finally managed to cross the height of 4 meters on the third time.

When Fu Baolu crossed the height of 4 meters, Chen Qiang also breathed a sigh of relief.

In history, Fu Baolu relied on a borrowed bamboo pole to stop 3.80 meters in the pole vault final, and failed to cross the 4-meter mark, but now Fu Baolu has successfully crossed 4 meters, which shows that Chen Qiang's intervention still has an effect.

However, Chen Qiang knew that Fu Baolu's Olympic journey would end here.

The national record in pole vaulting during the Republic of China was 4 meters held by Fu Baolu, and now he has refreshed his best time, and the next height of 4.15 meters has exceeded the limit of Fu Baolu's ability.

Sure enough, at a height of 4.15 meters, Fu Baolu failed three attempts, and he was not able to go further.

"4 meters is already very good, it has already equaled his own national record." Chen Qiang said softly.

Liu Changchun, who was next to him, said: "Fu Baolu is also not easy, when the Japanese came, he fell out with his family in order to withdraw to Guannai. ”

Liu Changchun and Fu Baolu are both exiled students in Northeast China, and the two are relatively familiar, so Liu Changchun knows Fu Baolu very well.

I only heard Liu Changchun continue: "Fu Baolu's mother is a Soviet, you must know this, when the Japanese hit the Northeast, his parents did not let him leave Harbin, because they are Russian expatriates, and the Soviet Union still has interests in the Northeast. But Fu Baolu resolutely chose to come to Guannai, for which he had a big quarrel with his parents, and then ran away from home in Guannai. I once asked him why he did this, and he told me that although he was of Russian descent, he knew he was Chinese! ”

Chen Qiang nodded silently, but a tragic emotion emerged in his heart.

Chen Qiang knew that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Baolu joined the army and went to the United States to receive training as a P-39 fighter, became a pilot, and died in 1943.

"With the 4-meter score, Fu Baolu should also be satisfied." Liu Changchun's voice changed, and then said: "By the way, I just figured out how Jesse Owens lost to you. ”

"Oh? Let's hear it. Chen Qiang said.

"From the start of the race, you were neck and neck with Jesse Owens, but by the end of the race, you were 0.1 seconds ahead of Owens. Now think about it, it's not that you're getting faster, it's Owens that's slowing down. Liu Changchun said.

"That's right." Chen Qiang nodded: "Even before the finish line, I am maintaining peak speed, but Owens can't do this." ”

"Is it because of 100 yards?" Liu Changchun then asked.

"What 100 yards?" Chen Qiang asked rhetorically.

"Jesse Owens was very good at running 100 yards, I remember he broke the world record of 100 yards. So when it comes to the 100m event, he will end up with no strength. Liu Changchun replied.

"Yard" is a unit of length in the British and American system, so there are many competitions in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the items set up are also based on "yards". At that time, high school and college competitions in the United States were also events such as the 100-yard dash.

Even in the future, there will be a lot of sports in the United Kingdom and the United States that are based on "yards". For example, in rugby, the distance in first gear is 10 yards.

100 yards is equivalent to a distance of more than 91 meters, and an athlete who runs 91 meters on weekdays, let him run 100 meters, although it is only 9 meters more, but it is certainly not so easy, especially in the last 10 meters, which is the most prone to problems.

So Liu Changchun felt that the reason why Jesse Owens slowed down in the end was because Jesse Owens was not suitable for running 100 meters because he was not suitable for running 100 meters in the United States.

Chen Qiang nodded, he felt that what Liu Changchun said made some sense, when he was in the game just now, Chen Qiang didn't think about it so much, but simply felt that his technical flow must be more able to maintain speed than Owens' physical flow. Now it seems that Liu Changchun's analysis may also be a reason.

I only heard Liu Changchun continue: "When I first practiced sprinting, I also practiced 100 yards, and then when I ran 100 meters, I was really uncomfortable, especially in the last 10 meters, I always felt that I couldn't use my strength." ”

"I haven't run 100 yards." Chen Qiang continued: "But I do know that in our early sports competitions in China, sprinting was also 'yard'. ”

The first two National Games in old China, because the organizers were British missionaries of the church, so the sprinting events adopted the "yard system", and it was not until the third National Games that the Chinese Sports Association, as the organizer, began to use the "meter system".

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At the same time, the U.S. team also began to summarize the 100-meter sprint final just now.

"Jesse, throughout the game, you have always been on par with Chen Qiang, but at the end, you lost." The head coach of the U.S. track and field team spoke.

"At the end of the race, I seemed to slow down, but I don't know what's going on, I didn't relax at all, I kept exerting my strength." Jesse Owens spoke.

"In other words, you can't continue to maintain your peak speed, but Chen Qiang can!" The manager lowered his head and thought for a few seconds before saying, "I think I've found the problem. ”

"What is it? What am I not doing well enough? Jesse Owens asked eagerly.

"It's not your problem, it's ours." The head coach paused, then said, "To be precise, it's our American track and field problem. ”

"Coach, I don't understand." Jesse Owens spoke.

The head coach let out a long sigh and continued: "Our American track and field has always adopted the 'yardyard system', and you run 100 yards in the competitions you participated in in high school and college, right?" 100 yards is 9 meters shorter than 100 meters, and I guess that's the root of the problem! We American athletes are used to 100 yards, so when you run 100 meters, there are some problems at the end. This kind of problem is not obvious in domestic competitions, but when it comes to the Olympic Games, when we meet a world record holder like Chen Qiang, the problem of our American team is magnified! ”

"I see!" Jesse Owens nodded in realization.

"In the 100-meter sprint, we have lost to Chen Qiang for two consecutive years, and our American team must face up to this problem, and we will practice more 'meter' competitions in the future, so that our track and field will not be thrown away by other countries!" The head coach paused, then said: "But I'm still worried about tomorrow's 200m race, 200 yards is shorter than 200m, will our athletes be weak again......

"Coach, don't worry." Jesse Owens said confidently: "In the United States, I often practice not 200 yards, but 220 yards, which is equivalent to 201 meters. So in the 200m race, I am confident! ”

The coach nodded suddenly: "Yes, I almost forgot, you are the world record holder of 220 yards, if you run 200 meters, there must be no problem!" ”

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Nothing was said all night.

The next day, Chen Qiang came to the track and field field, and today he will participate in the preliminary and semi-finals of the 200 meters, as well as the preliminaries and finals of the long jump.

The 200m preliminaries were divided into eight groups, and the top three in the group advanced to the semi-finals in the afternoon. The athletes sent by various countries are basically the same group of people who participated in the 100-meter race, and Chen Qiang met many familiar faces.

As the world's number one sports power, the United States sent Jesse Owens in the 200m event, but the other two are all fresh faces.

The other two players in the United States, one is named Bob Packard and the other is Mike Robinson.

Bob Packard is a 20-year-old young player who was very famous in high school and led Rockford High School to two U.S. national championships. He excelled in the meter and long jump, but due to the fierce competition in the 100m and long jump in the United States, he could only earn one Olympic quota place in the 200m.

Mike Robinson is 22 years old and he has a very famous younger brother named Jack Robinson. Jack Robinson was the first black athlete ever to be in Major League Baseball, won a major league championship with the Dodgers, and he was inducted into the major league Hall of Fame in the future, and his "42" jersey was retired from all major league teams, even Jordan did not receive such an honor.

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Chen Qiang was placed in the fifth group, and his appearance would be relatively late, so he simply began to observe the situation of other athletes.

In the first group, the Dutch runner won the first place with a time of 21.4 seconds, and the third place was a Japanese athlete with a time of 22.2 seconds.

After seeing this result, Chen Qiang judged that the strength of the athletes participating in the 200m this year was much stronger than that of the group four years ago, and Liu Changchun and Cheng Jinguan were afraid that they would not be able to advance to the semifinals.

At the last Los Angeles Olympics, the Dutchman ran 21.9 seconds in the preliminary round under 22 seconds, but now the Dutchman has run 21.4 seconds, which is obviously a big step forward.

Moreover, at the Los Angeles Olympics, there was a situation of 22.9 seconds, or 23.1 seconds to qualify, if you run a 22.2 seconds, it is very likely to win the first place in the group, or at least the second in the group. But today, 22.2 seconds can only be third in the group. This shows that the threshold for promotion has also been raised.

Chen Qiang is not surprised that the performance of athletes has improved, competitive sports are inherently higher, faster and stronger, and the results of athletes will only get better and better, and world records are constantly being broken. Therefore, the level of athletes in the Berlin Olympics should be better than that of the Los Angeles Olympics.

In the second group, the "fastest white man in the world" Tinus Osendup came on the field, running a time of 21.7 seconds to advance to the first place in the group, and the third place in this group was 22.1 seconds, which was 0.1 seconds higher than the first group.

In the third group, Jesse Owens ran a direct 21.1 seconds, 0.1 seconds short of Chen Qiang's world record.

In the fourth group, the threshold for promotion is 22.4 seconds, Cheng Jinguan appeared in this group, and finally only got a fifth place.

In the fifth group, it was Chen Qiang's turn to appear.

There are no masters in this group, and apart from Chen Qiang, the strongest is a Swiss athlete named Paul Enni, who won the European championship in the 200m and ran the European 200m record of 21.2 seconds in 1934.

It's just that in the preliminary round, the masters were reserved, so Paul Ennie didn't work hard with Chen Qiang, but just ran a 21.9 seconds and advanced to the second place in the group. Chen Qiang qualified for the first place in the group with 21.5 seconds.

In the sixth group, Liu Changchun debuted, but he was also unable to create a miracle, and finally finished the game with the fifth place in the group and failed to advance to the semifinals.

In the seventh and eighth groups, two other American athletes took the stage one after another, and both advanced to the top of the group. Among them, Bob Packard ran a good time of 21.2 seconds, and Mike Robinson's time was 21.6 seconds.

After the preliminary round of the 200 meters, Chen Qiang came to the sand pit again to participate in the preliminaries of the long jump, along with Jesse Owens, who also signed up for the long jump.

Chen Qiang didn't know the other two people in the United States, but one of them came over to greet Chen Qiang, his name is John Brooks, who was a student at the University of Chicago, and John Brooks had met Chen Qiang when Chen Qiang went to the University of Chicago to give a speech on "sub-health" four years ago.

Another American athlete named Bob Clark signed up for the decathlon in addition to the long jump, and he won a silver medal in the decathlon at the Berlin Olympics.

In the long jump competition at the Berlin Olympics, a total of 43 competitors participated, so a preliminary competition was held first, and each person had three attempts to jump in the preliminary round, and the standard for promotion was 7.15 meters, as long as they could jump over, they could advance to the final in the afternoon.

At a distance of 7.15 meters, of course, Chen Qiang passed it once, so he didn't bother to jump in the next two attempts.

In addition to Chen Qiang, the Chinese team also sent Hao Chunde and Situ Guang to participate in the long jump competition.

Historically, neither of them made it to the final of the long jump, but Chen Qiang's crossing changed history. After the North China Games in Jinan that year, Hao Chunde and Situ Guang went to Tianjin to find Chen Qiang to learn the skills of standing up in the air, and Chen Qiang was not stingy and taught them the standing up in the air. It is also for this reason that the strength of Hao Chunde and Situ Guang has risen sharply, and they jumped the 7-meter mark as early as two years ago.

In the end, Hao Chunde successfully jumped 7.15 meters and advanced to the finals, but Situ Guang was unlucky, and only succeeded in one of the three attempts and failed to advance. In this way, Chen Qiang will not have to fight alone in the finals in the afternoon, at least Hao Chunde will be his teammate.

In the afternoon, the 200-meter semi-race began.

There are four groups in the semi-finals, and the top three in the group are also promoted, and Chen Qiang is divided into the second group.

In the first group, Canada's Lee Orr ran 21.2 seconds, while Switzerland's Paul Enni and the United States' Bob Packard both ran 21.3 seconds.

Seeing this result, Chen Qiang couldn't help but be shocked, knowing that in the final of the Los Angeles Olympics four years ago, in addition to Chen Qiang and Eddie Tolan, the other four players only achieved 21.4 seconds, 21.5 seconds and 21.6 seconds. Now this is only one group of semi-finals, and the qualification result has already surpassed the bronze medallist at the Los Angeles Olympics.

In the second group where Chen Qiang is located, the strength of the players is not so strong, and there is a German athlete in this group, so except for Chen Qiang, everyone else is not strong, which is equivalent to creating a more relaxed promotion environment for the German athlete.

In the end, Chen Qiang won the group with a time of 21.4 seconds and advanced to tomorrow's 200m semifinals.

In the third group, Jesse Owens ran another time of 21.1 seconds, while in the fourth group, American Mike Robinson won the group with 21.2 seconds, followed by the "fastest white" Tinus Osendup with a time of 21.3 seconds.

If Chen Qiang is counted, seven of the twelve players who have advanced can run to 21.3 seconds, and tomorrow's semi-finals will inevitably be a fierce battle for you and me.

However, Chen Qiang's mind is not on tomorrow's 200m semifinals, he is now preparing for the long jump final.

In the next long jump final, Chen Qiang, as the defending champion, will face the challenge of Jesse Owens.

However, in May, Chen Qiang's long jump world record was broken by Jesse Owens. So Jesse Owens, as the world record holder, also has to face the challenge of Chen Qiang.

In yesterday's 100-meter sprint event, Jesse Owens lost to Chen Qiang, and today's long jump is the event that Jesse Owens is better at, and he will never allow himself to lose to Chen Qiang again.

The second round between the two is about to begin!

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