Chapter Eighty-Nine: Backward in the Corner
“…… I think it can be done. ”
In a room of the Shiping County Hotel, Wang Yuanbin held his mobile phone in his hand, looked at the misty morning fog outside the window, and said excitedly.
On the other end of the phone, a slightly hoarse male voice was silent for a moment and paused, "Yuanbin, what you said is now being considered by the bureau, and you have to seize the opportunity later." After all, transferring you from the city sports school to the competition management center is already gossiping. If it's really like what you said, if you go out in this step, you will immediately stand in the wind, and you will be under a lot of pressure in the future. You have to be mentally prepared for this. ”
"The talent is really good, the people are hardworking, and the most important thing is that they are young. I've been watching for two months, and I've evaluated it from start to finish, and if a national champion is not in the province, if it happens, it will be able to go to the next level, both for me and for you. ”
"Well, I'll go say hello later, and make some work adjustments when the time comes. That's it, I'll have a meeting later. ”
"Alas, okay. Good bye! ”
Wang Yuanbin, who hung up the phone, shook his fist fiercely, remembering a sentence in the red treasure book that he memorized when he was a teenager, "10,000 years is too long, just seize the day." ”
There was a knock on the door.
"Who?" Wang Yuanbin turned to the door and shouted.
"Assistant Teacher Wang, it's almost time, it's time for us to go." A faint voice could be heard outside the door.
"Got it, I'll be right away."
Wang Yuanbin took a light breath, cleaned up his mood, opened the hotel door and walked out.
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On the morning of October 29.
The third day of the National Athletics Championships and Grand Prix Finals is also the last day of the competition.
Today's events are basically the final events, starting at 9 a.m., the women's 3,000m obstacle run, followed by the women's 10,000m at 9:25 a.m.
From 10:10 a.m., the track competition will enter the other two highlights of the short track competition, the men's and women's 200m finals, and the men's 110m hurdles and women's 100m hurdles finals.
In the center of the Shiping County Gymnasium, there were not many spectators this morning. After the novelty of holding sports competitions in front of their homes on the first and second days, there were many spectators who were not interested in joining in the fun. In addition, it was a working day since yesterday, so there were fewer visitors than on the first day.
After the women's 200-meter sprint, at 10:20, the men's 200-meter finalists appeared in the final one after another. The finals will be arranged according to the 12345678 of the results of the preliminary round, corresponding to the runway 45362718 the runway. This is also the international runway sequence arrangement, except for some special circumstances, it is generally the same.
Due to the curve in the 200 meters, the starting runners are basically in different positions before and after, and the arc length difference between the lanes of a semi-circular track is calculated from the starting point to locate the forward extension of the starting point.
The distance traveled is fair for each track, but in the statistics of the 200-meter sprint event, the 200-meter champion is generally more likely to appear in lanes 3-6, while the runner in lane 8 is relatively easy to get out.
The common analysis is that the strength of the players in the edge track in the preliminaries is also relatively weak, and the other is that the middle track has a relative psychological advantage, which is easy to look at the overall situation and is conducive to the rhythm of running.
Therefore, in the sprint event, although the distance of everyone is the same, the advantage of the middle few lanes can not be ignored, in the sprint event, the eighth and ninth miracles can be staged, after all, it is a very rare case.
Su Zu is the third in the preliminaries, and the path he is in is also in the third lane according to the division, and his 200-meter preliminaries this time are not slow, compared to his previous test results, he has improved a lot. Successfully advanced to the 21-second mark, reaching 20.98 seconds. There is still a big gap with the current best results in Asia.
In 2001, Asia's best 200m was 20.59 seconds, created by Yang Guangzong and Japan's Shingo Sueji. In 2002, Shingo Sueji, a Japanese sprinter who was entering a high-performance explosion, won the gold medal in 20.37 seconds at the just-concluded Asian Games in Busan. And also in the informal field, the 100m ran 10.05 seconds, and the 400m ran an astonishing time of 45.99 seconds.
And at this time in 2002, Yang Guangzong was still able to compete with this iconic legendary sprinter in Japan in the 200-meter field, and he was on a horizontal line, which can be imagined.
In fact, with Yang Guangzong's current strength, participating in the men's 100-meter sprint also has a chance to enter the top three and top five, but at this time Chen Jian's momentum is strong, and Yang Guangzong is weaker than Chen Jian in the 100-meter competition, so the main focus in the competition is the 200-meter event. Compared with a medal that is not very certain in the national 100 meters, it is certainly not as attractive as winning a 200 meters championship directly.
Similarly, Chen Jian rarely participated in the 200-meter race due to his lack of physical fitness and ability to maintain speed in the second half of the race.
When Su Zu observed the first and second players in the preliminaries in the fourth and fifth lanes, he found a very interesting phenomenon, that is, Yang Guangzong, who was the first in the preliminaries, and Gu Kai, the second player in the preliminaries, were both running with glasses.
Although it was a night game, Yang Guangzong was wearing a pair of dark sunglasses, while Gu Kai, a player who was specially recruited by Tsinghua University last year, looked polite and wore a pair of short-sighted glasses. It's not uncommon for sprinters to wear glasses, but it's surprising to see two of them on track and field at the same time.
Gu Kai and Su Zu are both newcomers who are making their first appearance in the national track and field competition, and both have registered for the men's 100m event, but Gu Kai does not seem to have qualified for the semi-finals due to his poor form in the 100m. On the contrary, he broke out in the 200m event held the next day, and directly won the second place in the group preliminaries.
This is also a common problem of young players, who are in unstable form, and when they are in good shape, they can directly challenge the top champions, and when they are in poor form, they may be directly out of the first round of preliminaries.
Especially in a competition like the National Track and Field Championships, it is basically a round of preliminaries, and many players with good strength will accidentally sink in the preliminaries and miss the promotion.
The biggest difference between running 100 meters and running 200 meters is the corner, and the ability to maintain speed in the second half. For many sprinters, the 200m is more difficult than the 100m. In the history of athletics, the number of people who run 20 seconds in the 200 meters is much smaller than the number of people who run 10 seconds in the 100 meters.
"Each in place......
In the 200 meters, from lane 1 to lane 8, all the athletes are ready before each starting line.
"Prepare ......"
The huge stadium fell silent in an instant.
"Smack!"
With the crisp sound of the starting gun, the athletes in front of the starting line rushed out at the same time.
Su Zu still maintained a good starting reaction, and after the starting gun sounded, his eyes fell on the athletes of the 45678 five tracks in front of him on the right.
At this time, it is necessary to chase the other runners who have the ability to stretch forward, but this is by no means an easy task.
At least at this stage of the starting corner, even if Su Zu has a fast cadence, he still can't fully raise his speed and reach the highest value.
The difference between 200 meters and 100 meters of corners, when the human body reaches the highest speed, it is necessary to stabilize the center of gravity and grasp the balance when running.
What's more, due to his lack of training in the 200m, it was difficult for him to determine his position in the 200m corner.
One or two runways on either side of the left, he couldn't observe the opponent behind him. The five runners on the right track were almost all in front of him, and it was difficult for him to determine if he was the first of the eight runners at this time without having trained specifically in the 200m.
And once you lose your judgment of where you are in the whole race, it will affect both your mental state and your speed.
Soon, the corners entered the straights. At this time, everyone pulled back to a horizontal position again.
Su Zu once again clearly measured the position he was in now. He lagged behind, not a little bit, but to the fifth or sixth place.
Yang Guangzong, who was in the fourth lane on his right, had already opened a gap of one meter, and there was also a distance of more than two positions from Gu Kai on the right. The other players also more or less surpassed him by a position and a half.
However, it is already in the straight, so it is easy to say.
Accelerate and catch up.