Chapter 161: The Olympics Are Coming
“…… Su Zu, whose time was 20.12 seconds and 1.3 m/s against the wind, was valid and a new national record was born......"
With the voice of the host of the venue, all the audience at the scene gave warm applause and shouts.
The results of the 200-meter final came out, and on the heart color scoreboard, all the rankings of the entire final were released.
Su Zu broke the domestic record with a time of 20.12 seconds, ranked first, and also successfully won the ticket to the men's 200m race at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The second place is Yang Guangzong, with a score of 20.73 seconds, the third place is Shen Yunbao 20.84 seconds, the fourth place is Xu Zhiyu 20.87 seconds, the fifth place is Wang Liangyu 21.05 seconds, the sixth place is Tang Jun 21.22 seconds, the seventh place is He Jun 21.24 seconds, and the eighth place is Liu Haitao 1,000 seconds behind, with a result of 21.24 seconds.
Yang Guangzong's results in this group are not as good as his best form in the 02 Asian Games, but they are already the best results since last year's Asian Championships. In the 200m at the Asian Championships last year, he only ran 20.82 seconds. In this group of finals, especially at the end of Su Zu's sprint, he was almost desperately catching up, and he barely got closer.
But the gap in absolute strength is no longer something that can be caught up in the last few steps.
"The progress is truly amazing!"
Before the finish line, Yang Guangzong looked at Su Zu, who took a few breaths and began to celebrate around the field excitedly, and sighed again and again in his heart.
At this time last year, Su Zu had just run 21 seconds, and his score in the final was 20.91 seconds, but this year, he has reached a result of 20.12 seconds, which Yang Guangzong did not dare to imagine.
"It's too fast!"
Su Zu's absolute speed has improved terrifyingly, breaking the national 100-meter record and the 60-meter indoor record one after another, and winning the gold medal in the indoor track and field championships from the top European and American masters.
And now, as Su Zu's cornering skills become more and more proficient, combined with his extraordinary running ability, it is even more powerful, and even, Yang Guangzong is even thinking that Su Zu's physical fitness and speed and endurance are better at the moment when he crosses the line at the end, maybe he will break the record of Shingo Sue in 20 seconds.
Like Yang Guangzong, Shen Yunbao broke out under Su Zu's strong stimulation, 20.84 seconds, although there is still a big gap from the 200m Olympic A standard of 20.59 seconds, but he has also created his personal best in history.
He himself is not a particularly strong athlete in the second half of the race, but in this 200-meter final, he still beat Xu Zhiyu, who is currently the first in the 400-meter in China, and won the third place.
At this point, there are regrets, but there is nothing to regret. He failed to run the A standard in the special 100 meters, and he himself knew that the 200 meters were even more difficult. It's just that an old athlete is holding back this energy, and he didn't finish the competition, and he didn't admit defeat before the result came out.
At this time, on the most eye-catching large-scale graphic display screen in the Yutong International Sports Center, under the shooting of several field cameras, the picture of Su Zu running around the field is being played simultaneously.
Su Zu ran along the runway all the way, waving to the audience. In the spacious stadium, even though the spectator seats are far from full, the enthusiasm that erupts is not diminished at all.
"Su Zu!"
"Su Zu!"
Among the male and female audiences, Su Zu couldn't tell who had the louder voice, but at this moment, in his homeland, in the stadium of his homeland, hearing many people shouting his name was so wonderful.
"Thank you, thank you for your support!"
Standing on the runway, Su Zu's chest and abdomen rose and fell, panting, but there was an indescribable look on his face and eyes!
"This is our dream, our record!"
Li Zhizhong on the sidelines clapped his palms gently, with a heartfelt smile on his face, calm, relieved, and with a hint of pride.
"Stinky boy, you have done it again, you have set a new record again, you must keep it, you must keep running, there are also the Athens Olympics, there are more competitions after that, you will create more glory."
"Lao Li, you are hiding deep enough!" Yuan Guohua, the head coach of the relay team who watched the 200-meter final on the sidelines, walked to Li Zhizhong's side with a smile on his face with applause.
"Is there a hiding?" Li Zhizhong laughed and patted Yuan Guohua's shoulder, "You don't know the coach of the relay team?" ”
When Yuan Guohua heard this, he also laughed, indeed, he also knew.
Most of the team's training, except for the standard timing of the relay race in Xinzhuang that uses electronic equipment, usually uses a manual stopwatch to pinch the time.
Su Zu's 100-meter record has been stable within 10 seconds many times, and the 200 meters have also been run into 20 seconds in the record many times.
It's just that training is training, it's ability training, not standard timing, Yuan Guohua didn't dare to imagine that in the official competition, Su Zu's personal ability was so good, not only 100 meters approached the 10-second mark of the electric mark, but 200 meters also reached the door of the 20-second level.
Before the Asian Championships last year, Yuan Guohua pulled Su Zu to the relay team from Su Zu's last coach, Lu Jianming, and he liked Su Zu's sprinting level.
This is a young man with great potential, with a very good running rhythm, from the first half to the second half, to the sprint, the strength level is very perfect, there is no problem like Yang Guangzong, the first half of the acceleration is too slow, and there is no disadvantage of Shen Yunbao's lack of ability in the second half.
From the time when Su Zu won the 60-meter championship at the World Track and Field Indoor Championships this year, Yuan Guohua had already determined in his heart that Su Zu's strength level had far surpassed that of Tongji and began to rank among the world's top sprinters.
"It's the right idea to use relay events to drive individual events. If he didn't practice like this, Su Zu's cornering skills would not have improved so quickly. ”
Li Zhizhong did not hesitate to give Yuan Guohua the credit for Su Zu's ability to run a new record of 200 meters, his own level knows that in the overall rhythm of athletes, as well as explosive and physical training, he has a clear idea and a very complete training plan, but there are still weak aspects in the specific details of athletes' starting reaction and cornering technology.
In the two months of relay training, Li Zhizhong, Yuan Guohua and Mai Shaoqiang and other members of the coaching staff fully communicated, which can be said to have benefited a lot.
"Is it because you're going to have a better time in athletics, our men's sprint team? Just like the rise of Koji Ito, it has led to the rapid development of the entire Japanese sprinting program, breaking the dominance of our sprinting in Asia. And now, is there such a person who will take the hope of our generation, the hope of your generation, to stand on the world stage again? ”
The Athens Olympics are coming!
In 1932, in that war-torn era, Liu Changchun stood on the Olympic stage in Los Angeles after three weeks of drifting at sea.
In 1936, Liu Changchun stood on the runway in Berlin for the second time after 28 days of rough waves.
In the huge China region, there is not even a State General Administration of Sports, and some of them are just a non-governmental organization called the "All-China Sports Association." It relies on donations and support from people from all walks of life to hold sports meetings and athletes to compete abroad.
What was the significance of sports in those days?
The invasion of foreign powers, the chaos of warlords, the shattering of mountains and rivers, the collapse of families and countries, and the hat of the "sick man of East Asia" cannot be taken off on his head.
In the photos seen by later generations, all of them are weak and insensitive.
When the country is strong, sports are strong, and when the country is weak, sports are weak.
Even though North Korean Son Ki-jeong played as the Japanese team, he won the gold medal in the men's marathon at the Berlin Olympics, which still lifted the morale of a large number of people in the occupied areas at that time.
To this day, there are still many Americans who believe that their victory over Germany in World War II began with the 1936 Olympics. Jesse Owens, a descendant of American black slaves, in this Olympic Games, in the 100-meter run, 200-meter run, long jump, 4×100-meter run, has tied the world record three times in the preliminaries, second rounds, semi-finals, and finals, broke the Olympic record 9 times, won 4 gold medals, and created a miracle in track and field history.
"Develop sports and strengthen people's physique." Under such a call, there will be Xu Haifeng's first shot, there will be an iron hammer, there will be a gymnastics prince, and there will be Liu ...... One Olympic gold medal after another has boosted the morale of the Chinese people.
Countless athletes have shown the world the vitality of our home and abroad with outstanding achievements, strengthened the national self-esteem and pride, and stood tall among the nations of the world with a new look.
Passed down from generation to generation, this baton is handed over to you!