Chapter 151: 60m Semifinals
"Jason, good run."
In the rest area of the British delegation under the rice word, 43-year-old coach Neville saw Jason Gardner finish the 60-meter heats and threw him a coat and a towel.
"I can't stay for 60 meters. Coach Neville, what's wrong with Chambers? Jason Gardner asked, draping his coat over his body, wiping the sweat that had just oozing from his forehead.
Jason Gardner is a black and Hispanic mixed-race man with a well-balanced and powerful build, and although he is also black and genetically significant, he, like Morris Green, has a much lighter complexion than many black people.
At this time, Jason Gardner's attention was also not on the 60m group stage, he also held the unbeaten record in the 60m indoor competition in 2000, and also won the second and third place in the 60m at the indoor championships several times in a row. The attention to the 60-meter race is not too high, and the few indoor races that did not win the championship were not because of his lack of strength, but because he was not very lucky, and he met Green, who could run 6.40 seconds in the 60 meters at his peak.
And this time in the Indoor World Championships, Green, Montgomery, and other super opponents in the first half did not come to participate, only Crawford, who ran 200 meters, and Obi Keviru and others, he didn't care.
He is now concerned about another teammate from the national track and field team who was unable to compete indoors.
"He's probably going to be banned."
Jason Gardner's head coach Neville shook his head and sighed, "On the 24th of last month, the IAAF found him taking illegal drugs and punished him with a two-year ban. β
"Damn, what about the next relay race at the Olympics? Such a bastard bureaucrat in the IAAF, and Dwayne Chambers, this damn idiot doing such a stupid thing at such a critical juncture. Jason Gardner lashed out, both at the National Athletics Athletics and Chambers for using illegal drugs.
Dwayne Chambers, Britain's strongest sprinter at the moment, ran under 10 seconds in five of his 26 races in the 2002 season, beating Montgomery and current 100m record holder Maurice Green, and was hailed as Europe's best male track and field athlete in 2002.
But with only half a year before the Olympic Games, the IAAF was found to have used illegal drugs and banned from the competition, which is simply speechless.
For Jason Gardner, he doesn't care about Chambers' personal ban race, without Chambers may have one less opponent in the 100m, but in the men's 4Γ100m relay, there is a lack of a strong general.
"We still have a chance, you're in good shape this year, and you've got a good bench for athletes, so you won't necessarily lose to the United States." Coach Neville comforted that there have been a lot of excellent British men's sprinters in recent years, and it can be said that it is a rare time to be able to compete with the American team. Even if Chambers is sidelined, there will still be someone on the relay team to replace him, but it will inevitably add some uncertainties.
"In 6.53 seconds, Su from China easily won the first ...... in this group of preliminaries"
While the two were talking, suddenly a passionate voice came from the radio.
"6.53 seconds?!"
When Jason Gardner heard this, he immediately picked up his spirits and walked from the rest area to the edge of the court.
"Who did you just say? Who ran 6.53 seconds? β
The world record for the 60m is Green's 6.39 seconds, which is his super start and explosiveness, which not everyone has. Most of the top sprinters only run between 6.5 and 6.6 seconds in the 60 meters. Including Jason Gardner himself, who was at a level of about 6.50 seconds, suddenly heard a result of 6.53 seconds, which shocked him a little.
As the sound of the radio sounded, Jason Gardner's eyes crossed the arena and saw a red figure on the 60-meter finish line of the just-concluded group four group stage.
"Jason, who is Su from China, is the champion of this year's Levin Indoor Championships in France and last year's Vienna Indoor Championships, and he is an athlete with a lot of potential. His results are very stable, and Liu in the 110-meter hurdles is on the rise, if I didn't really see them competing, I can't believe that the Chinese can also appear some excellent track and field athletes one after another. β
For athletes, some new players will still be relatively unfamiliar, but the vast majority of coaches will not miss this information, which is a basic lesson for coaches. In particular, athletes with major results will have a detailed record of the database.
It is used to study the advantages and disadvantages of various athletes' technical skills in the future, and in the future training, to figure out and absorb the technical characteristics of various athletes, and to train athletes with similar styles in a targeted manner.
"I was amazed that an Asian athlete could run a time of 6.53 seconds."
Jason Gardner didn't know much about the athletes before the race, and there were only a few people who could compete in the 60m final without Green and Montgomery in the indoor race. But now it seems to be different, a new face has appeared.
"Crawford, Kentris, Grimes, Obi Keviru, and now another Sue from China, Jason, don't be careless." Coach Neville counted several of the top sprinters in the current indoor competition and solemnly admonished.
The best athletes often aim to surpass the top athletes, but they often lose sight of the catch-up force behind them. If you are not careful, you may be overturned by the newcomer, and you will become a newcomer with your own failure. There are countless such things in the world of sports.
At 2 p.m. local time, 21 p.m. Beijing time.
Hungarian TV broadcasts the morning preliminaries as a simple news bulletin. The matches in the afternoon were the semi-finals and finals, which were very interesting, and the TV station naturally broadcast the whole process live.
As the first television station in Eastern Europe to broadcast teletext, the first set of programs of Hungarian TV has long covered the whole country. As a small country, Hungary had more than 2.7 million television sets in the country in '94.
At this time, in front of the TV, a well-known Hungarian sports commentator was sitting in the studio, and began to introduce the details of the game to the audience.
"Good afternoon, I'm Najibshandor and I'm excited to be able to talk about the World Indoor Athletics Championships. First of all, let's talk about the afternoon schedule, which will start immediately as the highlight of the competition, the men's 60-meter semi-finals, followed by the women's triple jump final and the women's 60-meter final, and finally at 18 o'clock in the evening, the men's 60-meter final. β
The voice fell, and the TV screen was cut to the indoor athletics hall of the Budapest Stadium.
"The atmosphere was very warm and we Hungarians made the athletes feel the enthusiasm...... This is the American star Sean Crawhead, you can take a look at his strong muscles...... Wow, what did I see on the field, in the swarthy group of athletes, there was a white-skinned, oh no, it was a yellow-skinned player, it was so eye-catching. Oh, I'll look at the information, this is SUZU from China. β
The TV screen came the voice of the narrator Najishandor, who was full of emotion, and when he read Su Zu's name, the pronunciation of the two words was really a little awkward, and he read it as a flat voice.
"Sue, his preliminaries time was 6.53 seconds, which is amazing. surpasses Obikviru and Kentris, and it seems that he is a very strong athlete. We need some new faces in athletics, he is the fourth lane in Group A in this semi-final, and next to him is Obikwiru, who in 2000 was unhappy with the Nigerian sports department ignoring his injury, and joined Portugal and became the best sprinter in Europe......"
βOn your marks.β
At the race site, in front of the 60-meter starting line, the sound of the referees in place sounded.
Su Zu jumped lightly on the spot twice, moved his wrists and ankles, and exhaled lightly. Two lives, coupled with the accumulation of one event after another, Su Zu's mentality has been adjusted very well. But at this moment, in a foreign arena and competing with the world's top sprinters, I can't help but have a string in my heart tremble.
He didn't face any big players in the preliminaries, but with only two groups in the semi-finals, he will inevitably have to compete against the best athletes in the world at the moment.
Before the semi-finals, Su Zu also had a detailed understanding, and in his group, Sean Crawford naturally needless to say, the American star, the 200-meter result was amazing. And his previous wins in Levine, France, Grimes and Obikviru, are also strong, and they are both sprinters with great fame.
As the command sounded, Su Zu leaned over and squatted in front of the starting block, eliminating distractions.
βSet.β
"Smack!" Guns rang out for the semifinals.
It's game on!
At the moment when the gun rang out, Su Zu's body suddenly exerted force and started quickly. The likes of Crawford, Grimes and Obikviru on the runway on either side of him were equally quick.
The difference in starting reaction is basically within 0.05 seconds, and it is almost impossible to tell with the naked eye. After Su Zu started the winter training, he once again focused on training the start.
Although the starting reaction is not effective in a while, it has basically been able to make Su Zu's starting technique more mature and stable, and the starting reaction speed can basically be controlled within 0.14-0.15 seconds, and the occasional pressure gun can even reach 0.11-0.12 seconds.
Su Zu's 60 meters is the original rhythm of running, walking together does not emphasize the stride, but as fast as possible to increase the cadence, and strive for the fastest speed to reach high speed.
This is also the running style used by short athletes like Shen Yunbao Montgomery, who are not known for their stride, but by cadence.
It is rare for athletes to control their cadence during running, which is related to core strength, hip joints, arm swings, etc., and has a large extent the extreme talent of the individual's body. Stride control is much easier.
When Carl Lewis runs the 100 meters, his running style emphasizes that the starting run should be large and powerful, and the speed may be slightly weaker in the first half, but the second half can completely push the body speed to the extreme. Su Zu changed the starting feet left and right, and the new rhythm of learning was also this method.
But this style of running is obviously not suitable for the 60 meters. The first half of the 60-meter race should be emphasized, so he needs to switch back to the previous running style, and during the start, he should properly control the stride length and run as much as possible to get his body into the highest speed.
At this time, the live broadcast is in the TV screen.
I saw the athlete in the gunshot, the body suddenly burst from a static state to the highest speed, strong footsteps, large arm swing movements, eight athletes neat movements, an instant explosion-like impact sensation made a little dizzy.
"It's time for the game!"
The high-pitched voice of Najisandro, the live broadcast commentator in Hungary, tore the screen at the same time, and the commentary on the track and field match was like a single scene of a European Cup football player after connecting two people, screaming.
"Obikviru, Sue, Crawford, Grimes......" The names of several athletes were quickly pronounced in Najishandor's mouth, and then his voice, along with the picture on TV, suddenly stopped to a name.
"Sue, it's Sue, he's ahead, no, Crawford, he's catching up, and they're both hitting the line almost at the same time. Let's see who's who, who's winning this set, and who's faster! β
On the field, eight athletes crossed the finish line at high speed, and because they were running at the highest speed, almost no one could stop in an instant.
A series of sounds sounded, and the eight semi-finalists all ran a distance of more than 30 meters, hitting the soft cushion set up by the event organizers in advance about 90 meters.
"6.52 seconds, the results are out. Su, from China, ran a better time than the heats, 0.01 seconds faster than Crawford and 0.03 seconds faster than Grimes, and he was the first place in Group A in the semi-finals and made it to the final.
We can now start to see how the 17-year-old sprinter from China will perform in the final ahead. β
ββ¦β¦ The men's 60m group B semifinals are about to begin, and Jason Gardner, who is known as undefeated in the indoor competition, will surprise everyone, and I am now full of expectations for the final at 18 o'clock tonight, who will become the champion of the men's 60m at our indoor track and field championships. β