"Eugene is so beautiful!"

Before getting on the plane to New York, Jiang Daheng reluctantly held his camera and took a few photos of the scenery of Eugene City.

After Su Zu finished the competition in Eugene, he pulled the entire small team in the past few days, and even Liu Yangyu's coach Sun Pingjiang to visit Eugene.

For him, who grew up in the imperial capital since he was a child, he felt enough of the ancient capital that had precipitated a heavy history, and suddenly arrived in this foreign country and appreciated the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, which was really the biggest harvest of this trip abroad.

Sitting in the position of the plane, Su Zu glanced at Jiang Daheng, whose whole head was blocked by the window of the plane, and couldn't help but chuckle.

The results in Eugene were very good, he won the men's 100m and 200 championships, and Liu Yangyu also won the men's 110m hurdles, and everyone was happy. In the past few days, except for more than an hour of training at the University of Oregon in the afternoon to maintain his condition, everyone has been wandering around with this physiotherapist uncle at other times.

The scenery of Eugene is indeed beautiful, with snow-capped mountains to the east of the city and Oregon beaches to the west, with good vegetation and greenery, and it is one of the best cities in the United States to protect the natural environment. In addition, there are art and nature museums, space museums, planetariums, etc., all of which allow you to fully appreciate them.

In the past, when he went abroad to compete, Su Zu basically acted with the team, even if it was only him and Lao Li, they were more dull and boring than the other, and rarely went out to play.

Speaking of having been to many urban areas, but except for the competition, it is equivalent to running for nothing. Therefore, sometimes in a team, there are still a few people who can play.

June 14, Icahn Stadium, New York, Reebok Grand Prix.

Suzu will participate in the same events as in Eugene, which are the men's 100m and 200 races.

Before this competition, Su Zu asked Li Zhizhong in advance to get the list of participants in the men's 1200 meters two events, there are too many track and field strongmen in the United States, some may not be famous now, but they may have had good results after that.

First of all, the men's 100-meter event, there were two local American athletes participating in the Reebok Grand Prix this time, Su Zu thought about it and had no impression at all.

Among the other contestants, Su Zu found a familiar name, Jin Collins, and the others were all newcomers.

Including Obi Keviru and Leonard Scott, who were brushing points at this time, did not appear, according to Li Zhizhong's speculation, these players who brushed points are likely to be aiming at the Grand Prix in Athens on June 17, and the time interval between the two Grand Prix is too close.

Then came the list of 200m races, and Su Zu's finger swiped his full name in English on the list.

"Dight Thomas, Burns, y Benjamin, Not Known, Usain Bolt......"

Su Zu's fingers swiped from top to bottom, one name after another, and when he skimmed the name at the beginning of the U letter, he didn't react at first.

"Usain Bolt......" Su Zu read it again, and was suddenly startled, and his fingers were scratched on the name again, and this time he could see it clearly.

Name：Usain Bolt； Nationality：Jamaica；

"How did he end up here?"

Su Zu was stunned for an instant, and he was a little confused.

In his memory, there was a lot of Usain Bolt races, but before he broke the world record in '05 and '08, this section was quite blank, and he didn't remember what the opponent had competed in.

Prior to '08, Bolt had been briefly noticed by world athletics when he reached the 20-second mark in the men's 200m at the 2002 World Junior Championships and the 2004 Caribbean Games.

No one cares about the first round of the Athens Olympics, just as few people will remember that the men's 100m at the Beijing Olympics was once participated by Chinese athletes.

And then before he also broke the world record at Icahn Stadium in 08, Su Zu didn't know about it in the middle of the years, he always thought that Bolt at this time should be practicing hard, who would have thought that he would meet him at this point in time?

For a while, Su Zu couldn't tell if it was an accident or a surprise?!

After thinking about it carefully, in fact, this is a men's sprint event, and in the entire world sports world, no one has ever appeared out of nowhere.

Every athlete has made a name for himself in all kinds of small competitions, and then stepped onto a higher world stage one step at a time.

Like Su Zu, he has come to this day, and he is super fast in the sports world, but he is also step by step from the Middle School Games, the National Track and Field Grand Prix, the National Championships, the Asian Championships, the City Games, the World Indoor Championships, and finally the Olympic Games.

If it is replaced by Liu Yangyu, he is a substitute training, and he has participated in countless competitions since 2000, and only became famous in the 04 Olympic Games.

How could a player like Usain Bolt be completely unknown in the past few years from 05-07?

He must have participated in a lot of competitions to accumulate experience and test the results of training, but compared to his brilliant record since 08, no one has noticed it at this time.

Of course, this also means that around the world, in Jamaica, Bolt is still very well-known at this time.

"What's wrong with you?"

Li Zhizhong, who was on the side, looked at Su Zu holding the list of contestants, his face changed uncertainly, and he asked a little strangely.

"Coach, can I give up 100 meters and run 200 meters at this stop?" Su Zu hesitated for a while, then spoke to Li Zhizhong.

"Huh?" Li Zhizhong looked at Su Zu, his eyes were a little puzzled, "Have you seen any strong opponents again?" ”

Taking over the list of 200-meter runners in Su Zu's hand, Li Zhizhong glanced at it suspiciously.

In the men's 200-meter race of the Eugene Grand Prix, Li Zhizhong didn't pay much attention to the competitors at the time, but when he came out after the run, he was startled and found that the level of that group of players was terrifyingly high.

After Li Zhizhong learned about it through some channels, he learned that the participants were indeed American sprinters. But in the 200m rankings, several of them are in the top 10, not far behind last year's Olympic champion Shaun Crawford.

Wallace Spearmon is the third in this year's All-American 200m rankings, and Tyson Gay is fourth. The strength of these rookies is much more challenging than the veterans Su Zu met in the 100-meter run.

Therefore, this time in the New York Reebok Grand Prix, Li Zhizhong had an eye in advance, and after getting the list of participants, he collected the information of the contestants. As a coach, it is enough to be derelict once, and it is impossible to repeatedly fail to understand other players.

At present, in addition to Kim Collins in the 100m, the 200m is a former World Youth Championships champion, and the Jamaican teenager who was eliminated in the first round of the Olympic Games last year has no other athletes worthy of attention.

Su Zu opened his mouth, and he was a little hesitant in his heart, and he didn't know where to start with Lao Li for a while, and after thinking about it, he said again: "Forget it, coach, that is, I am thinking blindly." I'll run well. ”

At this moment, Su Zu didn't know that his current psychological state had fallen into a kind of "Beamon disorder" that is common to athletes.

What is Beamon Barrier?

It was at the 1963 Mexico Olympics that Bob Beamon, a famous long jumper from the United States, broke the world record of 8.35 meters in the long jump final with an outstanding jump of 8.90 meters. What is this concept? In the past 33 years, the long jump record has improved by a total of 22 centimeters, and Bob Beamon has improved this record by 55 centimeters in just a dozen seconds.

After Bob Beamon completed this amazing jump, the other long jumpers either gave up the game or did not play well and ended hastily.

Since then, there has been an additional term in the field of athletics - Beamon obstacles, which refers to the fact that the athletes in front of them are better than they imagined, and the latecomers cannot surpass them again.

Su Zu's current best result in the 100 meters is 9.88 seconds, and the best time in the 200 meters is 19.83 seconds, including Li Zhizhong and the people of the national track and field team, and even in the current mainstream view of world athletics, Su Zu's achievements at this age are already too good to imagine. The well-deserved rising stars in the sports world feel that Su Zu will definitely be able to continue to create new achievements and history.

But because Su Zu knew the 100 and 200 meters world records of the future Usain Bolt's human limit, he always subconsciously compared in his heart, and there would be this kind of Beamon barrier.

9.58 seconds and 9.88 seconds, it looks like the difference is 0.3 seconds, but it is almost a moat, running in the 100-meter race, this gap is two or three meters visible to the naked eye.

There are still three years to go, can you do it?

Su Zu couldn't help but ask himself.

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The interval between the men's 100m and 200m at the Reebok Grand Prix is slightly longer than in Eugene, with the men's 100m starting at 3.30pm and the men's 200m at 4pm.

The timing of this kind of competition arrangement seems unreasonable, but in fact, it is also to prevent powerful sprinters from frantically brushing up points. The real World Championships, the IAAF Grand Prix Finals, will not be set up so intensively.

Moreover, the schedule of each event will be flexibly adjusted according to the popularity of the contestants to create a sense of expectation from the audience. In the Golden League, which was once held in the magic capital, the men's 110m hurdles was often used as the finale.

At 3:30 p.m., Su Zu stood in front of the starting line of the men's 100-meter race.

He only knows one player in this group, Kim Collins. The other sprinters are basically black runners, and if it wasn't particularly noteworthy, Su Zu wouldn't have bothered to remember it.

Kim Collins is a sprinter from St. Kitts and Nevis, who ran 9.98 seconds at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 10 seconds at last year's Olympics.

In Su Zu's group of men's 100-meter races, the final result was 9.97 seconds, and there was no particularly strong opponent stimulation, and he ran relatively averagely. Kim Collins clocked in second place with a time of 10.05 seconds.

After running the men's 100m, Suzu saw Kim Collins jumping and jumping on the spot, and although the result was not particularly good, it was also a Grand Prix runner-up.

and quickly rushed into the audience on the sidelines, where a chubby old black man gave him a hug with a smile on his face.

It was Glenn Mills, whom Kim Collins had mentored and trained at his runners' club.

And beside Glen Mills, a black boy who was a head taller than ordinary people also stayed on Su Zu at the moment Su Zu looked at him.

Twenty or thirty minutes later, the IAAF Reebok Grand Prix men's 200m race will begin!