On September 2, it was reported that the 2007 World Athletics Championships ended, the United States Legion dominated the group with 12 golds, and China won 3 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronze The best record in 14 years. The performance at the World Championships has ignited the hope of the Chinese army for the 2008 Olympic Games next year.

AFP also summed up the performance of the Chinese team at the World Championships with "the performance of the Chinese army at the World Championships ignited expectations for the 2008 Olympic Games", the article said that the Chinese team finally ranked fourth in the medal table, and the results of three gold, one silver and two bronze medals still created the best record in 14 years, which also made the Chinese have better expectations for the 2008 Olympic Games next year.

Feng Shuyong, head coach of the Chinese track and field team, said in an interview: "The overall situation of Chinese track and field has improved. With the World Championships, we have further strengthened our confidence. Before the 2008 Olympics, we had to do our best work and strive to fully develop our strengths. ”

IAAF President Diack said in an interview: "I believe that in the 2008 Olympic Games next year, Chinese athletes will perform better at home stadium. In the men's 1200m event and the men's 110m hurdles event, Su Zu and Liu Yangyu have a 100% chance to win the championship again. In other events, the Chinese team will also break out in full force. ”

Three golds, one silver and two bronzes, including the first gold medal in the men's event at the World Athletics Championships, two gold medals in the men's 100m and 200m by world record holder Su Zu, and one gold in the men's 110m hurdles by Olympic champion and world record holder Liu Yangyu.

Another significant is the men's 4×100m relay event, the Chinese men's relay team has created more than 04 Olympic Games and 05 World Championships, although only won the bronze medal, but it is also precious.

Another outstanding event in Asia at this World Championships is the marathon. The cartel's Shami won the silver medal in the men's marathon. Chinese and Japanese runners took half of the top eight spots in the women's marathon: China ranked second and fourth; The two Japanese players finished third and sixth.

At next year's Olympic Games, if several of Asia's top players can compete in the best condition, the overall result will definitely be better than that of this World Championships.

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"Master, are you sure you won't participate in this year's IAAF Finals?"

On the flight from Osaka to Modu, Su Zu sat in the first-class seat, twisted his body, and asked Li Zhizhong, who was reading the documents next to him.

"Well, time is too tight, this year's schedule is until the Grand Prix of the Magic City, and you can take a little rest during this time." Li Zhizhong looked at the pile of documents in his hand, these are the data of Su Zu and some other outstanding players at home and abroad collected by the Osaka World Championships, and they need to be analyzed by the entire research group.

In the just-concluded 2007 World Championships, many newcomers performed eye-catching in track and field events. Especially in some medal-competitive events, basically the coaching staff will have a summary of athletes' data. Athletes' competition on the field often starts from a very early designated training plan and understanding the opponent.

The 2007 IAAF Finals were held on September 22 and September 23 in Stuttgart, Germany, while the Modu Grand Prix was held on September 28. After the fierce Osaka Grand Prix, the research team has given up on this year's IAAF Finals in the face of such a dense schedule.

Because of the World Championships, this year's IAAF Finals are also less attractive than in previous years, and many champions and runners-up who performed well at the World Championships in Osaka have basically given up on the IAAF Finals.

However, because of the proximity to Osaka, many competitors choose to take a break in Japan, or go to the magic city to prepare for the last stop of this year's IAAF World Tour, the Grand Prix.

"By the way, how did the director team of the opening ceremony come over and talk to you that day? When does the rehearsal start? Li Zhizhong asked while flipping through the information of several players in his hand.

"Master, you also agreed to let me participate in the ignition ceremony?" Su Zu was a little surprised when he heard Li Zhizhong ask this.

"It's not a question of whether I say yes or not, the final ignition ceremony will definitely require internationally renowned athletes to complete this link, and speaking of which, you are the only fit."

Li Zhizhong smiled, put up the stack of documents in his hand, knocked lightly on the small baffle in front of the seat, and put it away flat.

As Su Zu's head coach, even if he bypasses him, he still understands the inside story.

Since the 04 Olympic Games, two World Championships have passed, holding four World Championships gold medals and the current men's 100-meter world record, even Da Yao and Liu Yangyu are far less popular than Su Zu among domestic athletes. Globally, Su Zu is also the most recognizable sports player at the moment.

"Director Feng also communicated with me later, the part you are responsible for is not troublesome, it should be almost the same if you have time to participate in two or three rehearsals, and it will not be more troublesome than you shooting an advertisement."

"That's right." Su Zu nodded, since he figured out that the ignition ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games was "Phoenix Homecoming", Su Zu learned about it later.

According to the planning of the director team of the opening ceremony, this part of his responsibility is actually very simple, that is, to receive the torch from other players outside the Bird's Nest Stadium, and then enter the stadium to go around the field, and finally it should be handed over to a shooter on the platform or two people working together, this is not clear, shoot the torch and light the flame.

Compared to what he thought before, it was much easier to hang Weiya to hang around the field for a week. Except for a few rehearsals, it will not have much impact on his training and competitions.

The torch handover of the last stick is actually mainly to require the athletes on the field to have enough popularity and be able to set off a climax of the atmosphere after entering the field.

Another is to have a good psychological quality. In the face of tens of thousands of stadiums and live broadcasts by media from all over the world, the chain will not be dropped at a critical moment.

The reason why the director team of the opening ceremony excluded Zheng Qiuliang from coming to Osaka is actually to see Su Zu's popularity and performance on the field.

Of course, after completing this opening ceremony, Su Zu will definitely have more pressure in the following competitions, after all, you are an active athlete who appears at the opening ceremony, if your performance is too poor in the official competition, you will undoubtedly be tongue-in-cheek.

However, compared to the "Flying Heaven" ignition ceremony, which Su Zu thought would take a lot of time and physical energy at first, he felt that none of this was a problem.

It's pressure, but it's also motivation.

For Su Zu, Liu Yangyu and Da Yao, top athletes with huge prestige at home and abroad, competing at their own home is itself under tremendous pressure. And Su Zu walked over step by step, every step was under pressure, and he was already used to it.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, the plane landed at the capital airport.

Compared with the triumphant return to China after the previous competitions, this time the airport is relatively deserted. The main thing is that the weather is too hot, and then the track and field team comes back in several shifts.

After getting off the plane, Su Zu avoided the noisy crowd in the ordinary passageway, and entered the VIP lounge directly with the four teammates of the relay team, Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, Wen Yongyi and Chen Yuhang.

Half an hour later, a reception vehicle arranged by the center appeared, and the group got into the car and drove directly out of the airport.

Everyone's itinerary is basically the same, attending the press conference of the Athletics Management Center after the competition in the imperial capital, and then taking a short rest, and then going to the magic city for the next stage of training in preparation for the Magic City Athletics Gold Grand Prix on September 28.

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"Suzu, you have won the gold medals in the men's 100m and 200m world championships, and we have no doubt about your strength, so have you ever thought of adding another event, like Carl Lewis, next year is the Olympics, you know all the spectators want to know what kind of amazing performance you will have?"

On September 5, in the press conference hall of the General Administration of Sports of China, Su Zu, Liu Yangyu and several players of the men's 4×100-meter relay team were sitting on the rostrum to accept questions from domestic and foreign reporters.

The day after returning to the imperial capital, everyone made a slight adjustment and attended the press conference of the competition.

It's September 2007, and it's not far from the 2008 Olympic Games, and the attention to domestic sports is unprecedentedly high. And this performance at the World Championships in Osaka has also injected a powerful shot in the arm for Chinese track and field.

At this time, Su Zu was sitting on the rostrum, and an online media stood up and asked him if he could take on some more events, after all, top sprinters, like Carl Lewis, also have amazing performances in the long jump.

"Of course I thought about it, and I've always wanted to be Harrison Dillard." Su Zu took the microphone and smiled, pointed to Liu Yangyu beside him and said, "But Brother Yangyu has never given me a chance." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Yangyu next to him suddenly smiled from ear to ear, but the reporter who asked the question was stunned for a while, obviously not understanding Su Zu's answer.

Su Zu looked at the performance of the reporter who asked the question, and did not continue to explain, in fact, in addition to the pressure of his performance in the past few years, there was also some pressure from both internal and external to ask him to do both.

For example, the long jump and triple jump these events, the main coaches have proposed many times, let Su Zu give it a try, after all, top athletes are hard to find, if Su Zu can win the gold medal in this event, no, winning a medal is a medal, it will attract everyone's attention.

Like today's sprints, it has begun to be popular in China, and the degree of attention and talent influx far exceeds that of other projects.

And Su Zu's own mind couldn't be clearer, he is a track and field athlete, a sprinter, in the eyes of outsiders, he has almost reached the extreme in the field of sprinting, but he understands that he has no at all.

And in terms of the grand slam of honor, he has not yet won a gold medal in an individual event at the Olympics, and after the lightning rise of Jamaica, he wants to compete for gold medals in the Olympics, and the challenge is not ordinary.

As for Harrison Dillard, one of the most legendary athletes in the history of world athletics, a world Olympic gold medalist, a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, a James E. Sullivan Award winner, and the only athlete to have ever won an Olympic title in the 100-meter dash and 110-meter hurdles.

In the history of world athletics, there are many athletes who can run the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles, and there are cross-border athletes. For example, Justin Gatlin started out as a 110m hurdles, but Harrison Dillard was the only one who won gold at both Olympic Games.

Of course, because of his age, Harrison Dillard participated in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games, and if he hadn't been immersed in the sports industry for many years, almost not many people would know about it.

But Harrison Dillard is still very prestigious in the American track and field world, and the USATF has a sports award named after Harrison Dillard to recognize the outstanding sports athletes of the year.

After the World Championships in Osaka, there were many news reports in the U.S. track and field that Tyson Gay led the U.S. men's 4×100m relay team back to the top despite failing to win the gold medal in the 1,200m this year, and will be a strong contender for this year's Harrison Dillard Award.

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At the end of the post-competition press conference of the World Championships at the Athletics Management Center, everyone in the track and field team was briefly separated, and everyone had a short few days off before the start of the Grand Prix.

As soon as Su Zu left the Tianguan Center, he followed Yu Yaling directly into the car and went to the Beijing Film Studio.

More than an hour later, the car arrived at the Beijing Film Studio, and Xia Chi, the production director who had a relationship two years ago, was already waiting at the door.

"Su Zu, congratulations, I watched all the matches in the World Championships, and the performance was really great!" Xia Chi came up and shook hands cordially, and welcomed Su Zu in.

Su Zu came over this time, that is, two years ago, Xia Chi went to him to shoot the Olympic Games gift film. Although he refused, Xia Chi never gave up, and due to various factors, the preparation of the gift film was much later at that time.

Today, the movie "One Man's Olympics" has basically completed the pre-shooting, Xia Chi contacted the Tianguan Center and Su Zu again, asking him to show his face at the end of the film and shoot a few shots.

This is a tribute film, Su Zu would not be disgusted if he had time, the main reason for refusing at that time was because he was an athlete and needed to compete and train.

And now there is not much that he needs to complete the shooting, mainly a few scenes, and they do not appear in the form of feature films, but echo the game and the camera at the end of the film.

The movie "One Man's Olympics" tells the story of Liu Changchun, the first Chinese Olympic person, to go to the United States to participate in the Olympics, and also participated in the men's 100-meter and 200-meter races.

At that time, Liu Changchun's strength was seriously reduced because of the long-distance sea drift, but Liu Changchun insisted on running out of the backbone of the Chinese and the dignity of the Chinese, and stood on the track and participated in the competition with the Olympic spirit of "participation is more important than competition". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Changchun devoted himself to sports and cultivated talents for China's sports industry in later generations.

And Su Zu is a representative of this latecomer, and there will be many video scenes of his participation in the Olympics and breaking world records at the end of the film. And some of these scenes, because of the lack of some positive character shots due to the video of the game at that time, Su Zu needed to help make up some of them.

The whole feature film actually has little to do with Su Zu, and his appearance is similar to a part of a menu or tidbit.

Later, Su Zu saw this movie in school, and to be honest, it was made very ordinary, but aside from the quality of the movie, the 2008 Olympic Games will be held in the motherland, and the meaning shown is naturally different from ordinary films.

In particular, the ending song "Stand Up" was written by the Director of the Olympic Cultural Activities Division of the Cultural Activities Department of the Imperial Olympic Organizing Committee, and composed by Shu Nan, winner of the Golden Rooster Award for Best Music. Sung by Han Hong, Jackie Chan, Wang Leehom, and Stefanie Sun, the four represent the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese.

In the MV of "Stand Up", combining two generations of sprinters training under different conditions and galloping on different tracks, from the first time Liu Changchun participated in the Olympic Games to Su Zu's generation has risen in the world athletics, to some extent, it feeds back the history of China's sports development.

Of course, it's still early, and according to the estimated schedule of the finished film, the approximate release time should be in May 2008. And the popularity of this kind of gift film theater is limited.

Su Zu occasionally can't help but complain, no matter in the past or present life in China, real sports competition film and television dramas are almost extinct, even if there are occasionally a lot of almost side ones that have become the main theme, that is, they have become youth idol dramas.

In two days, Su Zu completed the reshooting of some shots, and then joined the track and field team and went directly to the magic capital to prepare for the last race of the year - the magic capital Grand Prix.