Chapter 262: The First Golden League
On August 16, the reporter learned yesterday that Liu Yangyu has confirmed that he has confirmed that he has given up the Golden League Brussels match on the 26th of this month and the Golden League finals in Monaco next month. Since Liu Yangyu has previously given up the Berlin race next month, this also means that Liu Yangyu's golden schedule this year has only the Zurich station on the 19th. ”
On the evening of August 19, the 2005 World Athletics Championships had just come to an end, and the IAAF Golden League in Zurich, Switzerland, came one after another. In the early morning of August 20, Beijing time, a number of track and field masters will compete in Zurich.
It is reported that Suzu has given up this time in the Zurich Golden League, and is seizing the time to adjust and rest, and he will be out of the Golden League Brussels on August 26. ”
On August 22, Xinhua Net News, Liu Yangyu, the Olympic champion and coach Sun Pingjiang, who had just participated in the World Athletics Championships and the Golden League (Zurich Station), flew back to the imperial capital.
In addition, the double world champion Su Zu will return to China after participating in the IAAF Golden League Brussels on August 26, and it is reported that both of them have confirmed that they have given up the Golden League Berlin on September 4 and the Golden League Finals and Monaco on September 9 in preparation for the Asian Championships on August 31. ”
On August 26, the IAAF Golden League Brussels station began.
At 19 o'clock in the evening, Su Zu came out of the hotel arranged by the organizer and boarded the car to the stadium with Zhang Pingqiu. After he returned to Brussels from Dublin the day before yesterday, he had successfully joined Zhang Pingqiu.
This holiday is only a short week, although I am in Dublin, almost every day is a phone call and Zhang Pingqiu to report my personal situation.
The Women's Hockey Euros are just a few days away, and Suzu has to leave Dublin for a day of acclimatisation because of the approaching Golden League time in Brussels.
Li Zhizhong was originally scheduled to fly back to Europe, but finally called to inform a few people not to come again. He is the deputy head coach of the track and field team, and has already gone to Incheon, South Korea, to prepare for the Asian Championships for the Chinese track and field team. After Su Zu and Zhang Pingqiu participated in the Golden League, they returned to China directly the next day.
The Golden League match will be played at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, which has been home to the Belgian national football team and is the largest stadium in Belgium with a capacity of more than 50,000 spectators.
In Europe, any large-scale stadium complex is certainly inseparable from football.
Formerly known as the Heisel Stadium, the King Baudouin Stadium was poorly maintained before hesitation, and during the 1985 UEFA Champions League final, fans rioted between Juventus and Liverpool and the walls of the stadium collapsed, killing 39 people and injuring more than 600.
Ten years after the disaster at Heisel Stadium, it reopened on August 23, 1995 and was renamed King Baudouin Stadium.
This Brussels' Golden League was originally ready to give up, after all, Suzu had not participated in other games before, and it was impossible to enjoy the gold award alone, but the prize money for winning a sub-station championship was also a lot.
And this is the first time he has participated in the Golden League, although there is only one stop, but after missing it, he will have to wait for next year, and Su Zu also wants to enjoy it.
The three major events of the IAAF World Tour, the IAAF Golden League, the IAAF Super Grand Prix, and the IAAF Grand Prix. Su Zu has only participated in three of the 14 Grand Prix races in Osaka, Eugene and New York, and as for the five IAAF Super Grand Prix, he did not participate in this year's training relay in preparation for the World Championships. And in the six-stop Golden League, he can only catch up with Brussels now.
The IAAF connects several of Europe's original independent competitions together, hence the name league. In addition to the prize money awarded to the top 8 winners at each station, a 50kg pure gold ingot will be set up for the entire league, and the undefeated 6 players in each station will share the gold prize worth 1 million US dollars, and the champion of any five of the six events will be able to share half of the total prize money of 1 million US dollars - 500,000 US dollars; The remaining $500,000 goes to the players who won all six tournaments, so the tournament is called the Golden League.
Su Zu in Brussels's stop in the Golden League, only signed up for the men's 100-meter sprint, he is now in a state of adjustment and rest, just finished the World Championships, and soon the Asian Championships, followed by the first time on September 17 in the country set up the Magic City Grand Prix, it can be said that the games are one after another, and many games are completely unavoidable.
The Golden League, the Super Grand Prix and the Grand Prix are slightly different and complementary in terms of project settings, such as the Super Grand Prix relay event only sets up the men's 4×400m, while the Golden League is the men's 4×100m, men's 4×800m, men's 4×1500m, and men's 10,000m long-distance running events.
In the check-in area, Su Zu briefly warmed up and found the number plate issued by the previous chairman from his backpack.
"Hey, Sue, are you going back home after this one?"
At this time, Gatlin finished warming up on the indoor runway, walked up to Su Zu and greeted him.
"August 31 is the Asian Championships, and I will definitely not be able to catch up with the Berlin station and the final finals." Su Zu nodded and said.
"241, mine is 240." Gatlin took the number plate from Su Zu's hand and helped Su Zu clip it with a pin. "It's great that you don't participate, 50 kilograms of gold I've been thinking about for a long time."
"Then you have to win this stop with me."
Saying that, both of them laughed, Su Zu didn't remember whether the Jamaican Lightning had achieved the record of winning all six races of the Golden League in the future, but in the previous IAAF Golden League, almost no one had succeeded in the men's 100m and 200m events.
It is almost impossible for anyone to have an absolute advantage in defending all the championships in this event, one is that the schedule is tight and there is hardly much time to adjust, and the other is that the men's sprint event is highly competitive, and it is absolutely impossible to have such events as the women's pole vault and the women's 800m, where athletes are completely unbeatable. Win six races and enjoy a million-dollar prize money.
And while the two were talking, on the track of the indoor competition, Morris Green was warming up at this time, and in the last stop of the Golden League Zurich station, Morris Green lost to Gatlin again. It's not his prime anymore, and after suffering a car accident and knee injury, Morris Green can't hold back these new generations of rising sprinters with his old credentials.
"You're very strong, but I won't necessarily lose to you in the 100 meters." After Gatling tied Su Zu's number plate, he patted it and smiled.
"See you on the field, I just beat you in Helsinki."
"It was rainy, the weather in Helsinki was terrible, I was a little bit off, this trip was different."
"We'll see you on the field." Su Zu replied with a smile.
Gatling was not wrong, and Su Zu himself realized that it would be difficult for him to win Gatling completely in the 100m event.
His biggest weapon is to be in a stable state, as long as he is not too tired and has a negative state impact, he can basically stabilize his results.
Gatlin is also very good in this regard, from 04 to 05, in the basic competition, Gatlin ran 9.9 seconds, but compared to Su Zu, he will still have some ups and downs.
Suzu and Gatling have a good relationship, they can be regarded as relatively familiar, and the personality of the Gatling man has been said before, he is different from the wanton arrogance of many black players, this is a gentle, restrained, but unparalleled determined person.
He is not like Tyson Gaye, if he is a competitor on the field, he tends to remain distant and competitive off the field, like a lion defending his territory.
Jamaican Lightning once said that he occasionally chatted and told jokes with everyone in the check-in area, and Tyson Gaye would laugh and laugh when he didn't see him as an opponent, and when he became a strong competitor later, you would feel the aggressive posture of Tyson Gay.
And Justin Gatlin, in the memory of Su Zu in the past, was an athlete he admired.
In another time and space, after the Athens Olympics, Gatlin and Powell at that time were peerless, and in terms of state maintenance and mental quality, Gatlin was more shining than Powell.
Putting aside the issue of illegal drugs (one theory is that the first ban was to treat ADHD since childhood, and the second was when the U.S. men's track and field team fired a member of the team who had violated the rules, and out of revenge, and perhaps a blush for Gatling's scenery, he drugged Gatling's food to make the drug test positive. )
After 06, Gatlin was banned, and no professional track and field gym in the United States was willing to accept Gatlin for training, so Gatlin found some abandoned track and field fields to practice by himself. At one point, Gatlin wanted to turn into a rugby player, but in the end he still stuck to the runway.
At the same time, Powell. Breaking the world record twice, he continues to write his own glory.
America's Tyson Gay was the only one who could compete with Powell at this point.
Eight years later, the Jamaican lightning began to be powerful again, Powell was not distracted and withdrew from the championship ranks, but Guy, the second eldest in the Powell era, became more and more courageous at this time, surpassing Powell and becoming the second person in the Bolt era. Although Guy repeatedly broke his personal best, he was always held back by Usain Bolt.
After a few more years, Tyson Gay and Powell began to be visibly unable to shake Bolt's position. And Bolt's younger brother, Blake suddenly came out again, and in the final of the World Championships in Daegu, Bolt rushed out, and Blake won the championship. But soon Blake, who was known for his diligence, injured his groin, or a serious injury, and Blake appeared and disappeared like a meteor.
Usain Bolt is once again dominant, and at this time Bolt has become the greatest athlete in the history of athletics, unbeatable. After several changes in the 100-meter throne, few people remember Gatlin, talking about him as if they were talking about a retired star like Donovan Bailey or Morris Green.
However, Gatlin, who has been training on the abandoned track and field for many years, did not give up, he continued to appeal to the IAAF, appealed, and finally reduced his ban so that he could still participate in the last Olympic Games, under the technical guidance of retired star Jondramond, Gatlin stood on the 100-meter track again, at this time he was thirty-three years old.
At the beginning he could only run around 10.2, then slowly recovered to 9.9 and then to 9.8. Before the World Championships in Beijing, Gatlin claimed that he could beat Usain Bolt, and everyone laughed at him, but the race startled everyone, Gatlin was ahead of Usain Bolt 90 meters before the finish line, and people realized that the Athens Olympic champion was back.
In all of his matches against Usain Bolt since his comeback, Gatlin has won just two and lost the rest, including the World Championships and Olympics. But he won the respect of everyone.
In the 2015 men's 100m annual points, Gatlin ranked first.
There is a saying that I have waited for three years to wait for an opportunity. I'm not trying to prove that I'm better than others, but I'm trying to prove that what I've lost must be brought back with my own hands!
Gatlin, on the other hand, was six years, from the age of twenty-three to thirty, and he was never able to appear on the field during the prime of sprinters.
And when he returns, he is indeed worthy of admiration!