After hearing Wang Sinan's words, a look of joy immediately appeared on Feng Quan's face.

Since the tragic defeat at the World Championships in Moscow, Wang Sinan has been working harder and harder in training, but because her long jump skills have basically been perfected, there is very limited room for improvement in terms of performance.

Although he was occasionally able to jump around 6.90m in his usual training, his best result in the official competition was 6.79m in the 2013 National Games Qualifiers.

Combined with Wang Sinan's actual performance in large-scale competitions, the national team long jump group believes that "it is easy to be nervous in the competition, which is the key factor hindering Wang Sinan's further performance".

Although psychological therapy can solve the problem of athletes being nervous to a certain extent, because Feng Quan is worried that such treatment will have a negative impact on Wang Sinan's heart, so in early 2014, through the strong network of personal coach El Carris, a female long jump coach who is proficient in business and very good at adjusting the mentality of athletes was recruited from the United States with a high salary, Caryl Smith, who is responsible for Wang Sinan's daily training.

After Carlil Smith came to China, he first carefully observed Wang Sinan's training sessions, and then asked the staff to find a lot of Wang Sinan's game videos.

After observing the training up close, analyzing the video footage, and having a conversation with Wang Sinan, Carlil-Smith agreed with the Chinese coach that "Wang Sinan has limited room for improvement in long jump skills", but did not agree with the view that "easy tension restricts Wang Sinan from further improving his performance".

In Carlil Smith's view, although Wang Sinan's long jump skills have little room for improvement, if her running speed can be further improved, Wang Sinan's performance can also be slightly improved.

Moreover, through a conversation with Wang Sinan, Carlil Smith believes that the fundamental reason why he is prone to nervousness in major events is that he wants to get a decent result and silence those who feel that they are "unworthy".

Of course, the lack of sufficient competitiveness in the international arena is also one of the important reasons.

Finding out the crux of the problem, Carlil Smith listed improving Wang Sinan's running speed as the main training content.

At first, the domestic coach was still skeptical, but after nearly a month of training, Wang Sinan's average score in training increased by nearly 1.5 centimeters compared with before, and after breaking the 7-meter mark three times, he finally gave Carlil Smith a heartfelt thumbs up.

After more than a year of careful guidance by Carlil Smith, Wang Sinan's training performance has been able to maintain a stable range of 6.70 meters to 6.95 meters, and the best one even jumped 7.16 meters.

At the same time, the improvement of his grades also made Wang Sinan more and more confident in himself.

Since the second half of 2014, Wang Sinan has not only won the women's long jump championship in all domestic track and field events.

Although Carlil Smith thinks that it is unrealistic for Wang Sinan to hit the top three now, it is not difficult to reach the final as long as he plays his level normally.

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At 9:20 p.m. on August 26, after an afternoon of recuperation, Feng Quan, who was in the best condition, appeared on the 400-meter course in full energy.

As a rule, when the eight athletes are on their respective tracks, the live DJ will introduce the personal information of the competitors in the order of the course.

When the DJ began to introduce South Africa's Van Niekerk on track 4, many of the audience gave him polite applause, but a small number of radical spectators booed him unkindly because "insiders" listed Van Niekerk as the biggest obstacle on the way to defending his title.

However, the boos of a small number of spectators did not have a negative impact on Van Niekerk's mentality, but only aroused the fighting spirit of South Africans to break the "undefeated" myth in front of the Chinese.

Immediately afterwards, when the DJ began to introduce Fengquan, the most enthusiastic applause and cheers broke out in the stands without suspense, and the applause and cheers on the scene gradually subsided after nearly a minute.

A few minutes later, with the "bang——! With a gunshot, the men's 400-meter final finally officially kicked off.

Although Van Niekerk decided that it would be difficult for him to perform at his best in the 400m final, he did not think he would be able to win easily. After all, Feng Quan's speed advantage is still unmatched.

If he can't take advantage of the corners to build up his advantage, then Feng Quan is likely to overtake himself on the final straight.

As a result, as soon as the race began, Van Niekerk, who was on track 4, was at full speed, trying to make the most of his cornering advantage.

If it had been a month earlier, Van Niekerk might have been able to put a lot of pressure on the wind with his more skillful cornering skills.

However, after a month of intensive training, Feng Quan's cornering skills have basically reached the world's top level.

Even if Van Niekerk, who specialises in the 400m, has better cornering skills, the slight advantage built up by the full-powered South Africans in the corners is not enough to make up for the speed gap between the two.

Until the race entered the final straight stage, Van Niekerk, who had done his best, was still pulled away by the wind by nearly 3 meters.

Unable to establish enough dominance in the corners he excelled in, Van Niekerk had already given up on chasing the wind in the final 80 meters, after all, his body was close to collapse because of the fierce struggle in the first 300 meters.

However, just when the thought of giving up just rose in Van Niekerk's mind, the image of the audience "sending" to him before the game suddenly appeared in his mind.

As a result, Van Niekerk, who was already on the verge of falling into a state of detachment, gritted his teeth again and increased his speed to the extreme.

After 30 meters of all-out pursuit, although there is still a gap of about 2 meters between Van Niekerk and Feng Quan, he believes that as long as he can maintain his current running rhythm until the end, then Feng Quan, who has participated in two more races than himself, has a great chance of collapsing in the final stage, and then let himself stage a good counterattack before the finish.

It's a pity that just when Van Niekerk was rehearsing the drama of overtaking at the last moment in his mind, he saw that the leading Feng Quan suddenly accelerated the pace of running and quickly opened the gap with Van Niekerk.

Despite the strong reluctance to support Van Niekerk, he still maintained his full output, but with 20 meters to go, the gap between him and Feng Quan was still 3 meters away.

In the end, when nearly 80,000 spectators at the scene "pushed" Feng Quan to the first to hit the line with almost crazy shouts, Van Niekerk, who had long been unable to maintain full output, was still nearly 5 meters away from the finish line.