Chapter 409:
Since the three rounds of jumps in the "finals" are decided according to the ranking of the three rounds of jumps in the "preliminaries", Wang Sinan, who is temporarily in the first place, is the last to appear.
While being last on the field may not help an athlete improve their performance, it can make a difference at some crucial moments, as was the case in the final of the women's long jump at the National Games.
In the first round of test jumps after the start of the finals, although Wang Sinan, who was in the lead, once again improved his score by 3 cm, Luo Minjia, who was temporarily in second place after the end of the "preliminaries", jumped 6.57 meters in one fell swoop, thus surpassing Wang Sinan by a slight advantage of 2 cm and jumping to the top position.
In the next round of test jumps, although Luo Minjia only jumped 6.40 meters, Wang Sinan, who followed her, was fouled again because she was eager to regain the lead.
Luo Minjia, who aims to defend the title, although she occupies a leading position after the first two rounds of the jump, but because her biggest competitor Wang Sinan will play after her, in order to ensure that she can win the final championship, Luo Minjia still tried her best in the last attempt jump, and also refreshed her best score in the official competition with a score of 6.75 meters.
As a result, all the pressure fell on Wang Sinan, who was the last to appear.
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Although Wang Sinan, who was ranked last, has not yet finished the race, in the athlete waiting area, several contestants who have completed all the competitions before have begun to congratulate Luo Minjia who has just returned to the athlete waiting area.
In their opinion, Luo Minjia, who has jumped out of the best results in the women's long jump event in the past 3 National Games, and winning the final championship is already a sure thing. Even if Wang Sinan also jumped 6.75 meters in the National Games qualifiers in the first half of the year, I am afraid it will be difficult to stage a big reversal in the last attempt jump. After all, for a young athlete who is only 17 years old, the pressure is too much at the moment.
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After walking onto the race field and standing next to the starting point he had "marked" earlier, Wang Sinan did not immediately start the race, but stood there and closed his eyes.
After carefully recalling the whole process of the last test jump, Wang Sinan soon found that the problem was in the force of the last jump.
Although an athlete's performance in a race is directly related to the final force of their jumping foot, before that, that is, the last step taken in the run-up process (hereinafter referred to as the "final step"), can determine the final result, and even the success of a single attempt.
When an athlete chooses the "active acceleration" running mode, if the strength of the "last step" is too small, it will reduce the strength of the athlete's last force, which will indirectly affect the final result of the jump; Conversely, if the "final step" is too strong, it is likely to affect the accuracy of the athlete in choosing the starting point, and the slightest mistake can lead to foul play.
Wang Sinan, who had completed the "recollection with his eyes closed", opened his eyes again, and then glanced in the direction of the athlete's waiting area.
Looking at Luo Minjia, who was receiving congratulations from other contestants, Wang Sinan's face not only showed any dissatisfaction, but also showed a faint smile.
However, the smile on Wang Sinan's face only lasted for a short time, and then a trace of coldness appeared on her face.
"Humph! Do you really think that I can't make it to the last minute!? ”
The next moment, the expression on Wang Sinan's face changed again, and an expression called "confidence" immediately replaced the previous cold color.
Although Wang Sinan committed a foul in the last attempt, she did not move her running starting point backwards after the foul as she did in the previous preliminaries, but was still ready to start running in the same position.
Perhaps, some people who are very familiar with Wang Sinan will think that the reason why she did this has a lot to do with her more stubborn personality, but this is not the case.
The reason why Wang Sinan did not change the position of the starting point of the running in the last attempt was entirely because of the previous relationship of "closing his eyes and recalling".
After the World Championships in Moscow, when Feng Quan went to Madrid, Spain, he let his personal coach El Caris return to China with the Chinese track and field delegation.
After returning to China with the others, El Karis did not stay in the capital, but followed several athletes from Liaoning to Shenyang to help the LN track and field team prepare for the National Games on his doorstep. Moreover, the most important task of El Karis is to guide Wang Sinan's training and preparation.
Perhaps, El Karis is not the world's top long jump coach, but as a world-famous track and field coach, the American old man's attainments in guiding the long jump event are also significantly better than the coach of the LN track and field team.
Although El Karis has a very limited time to guide Wang Sinan, some advanced concepts put forward by the old man in the United States, as well as some training methods that are rare in China used in training, still make Wang Sinan feel that he has benefited a lot.
Among them, the most important point that El-Karis taught Wang Sinan is that the more critical the moment, the more you must calm your heart, and only in this way can you give full play to your strength. When your mind is calm, close your eyes and think carefully about the whole process of your previous games, and then try to find out what went wrong with your game, and then use the knowledge you have learned in daily training to correct the problems.
After learning from the failed experience of the last attempt, Wang Sinan deliberately lowered the strength of the "last step" slightly, so that his jumping foot stepped on the starting pedal accurately and powerfully.
Wang Sinan, who jumped on one leg and entered the air state, quickly and standardly completed a set of technical movements for the upright long jump in the air.
Immediately afterwards, just as Wang Sinan's body was about to land under the influence of the earth's gravity, her feet and hands quickly closed in front of her body, and then quickly moved her center of gravity towards the front.
At the same time, the on-site referee standing near the jump pedal also quickly raised the white flag representing the valid results.
Although the staff at the scene were still carefully measuring the final result of their jump, Wang Sinan, who had just walked out of the sand pit, had a confident smile on his face that only a winner could have.
Sure enough, before Wang Sinan returned to the athlete waiting area, the results displayed on the big screen on the sidelines made many spectators who supported Wang Sinan cheer......