After a break of about half an hour, the 32 athletes participating in the decathlon competition were divided into two groups, A and B, and went to two long jump venues. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Unlike in domestic competitions, where lots are drawn to determine the grouping and the order of appearance, the London Olympics decided the grouping and the order of the athletes before the long jump competition began. The basis for the grouping is also very simple, that is, after the popularity of the comprehensive athletes, as well as the results of participating in various competitions in the past two years, the top 16 athletes in the "ranking" are divided into Group A, and Ashton Eaton, Trey Haldi, Dmitry Karpov, and Roman Sabler and other famous players are all divided into this group without exception.

Feng Quan, who has just become the "king of sprinting in the new class", although his registration score of 8539 points ranked in the top six among all participating athletes, but because of the poor overall "results", he had to be reluctantly assigned to Group B.

Before the start of the long jump competition, Dutch athlete Ingmar Wirth walked up to Feng Quan's side and joked, "Hey! Man, can you sign me after the game? It's the first time I've had the opportunity to be in a group with an Olympic champion......"

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Due to the great uncertainty of the long jump event, and in order to ensure that I will not have an embarrassing situation of no results in this project, and at the same time, I will also seek a "good luck" for myself.

When the first round of jumps began, the vast majority of the competitors chose a more secure "gradual acceleration" mode.

Therefore, in the first round of the test jump, even Ashton Eaton, who was considered the "strongest in the long jump" among the active all-around athletes, who had broken the 8.20-meter mark, was not able to break the 8-meter mark. But even so, after the first round of trying, he still firmly ranked first in Group A.

Among the rest of the athletes in Group A, the best Ukrainian athlete Oreksey Kasyanov, who jumped 7.55 meters, also had a difference of more than 30 centimeters from Eaton.

Although the grouping of the long jump competition seems to be very similar to the common situation of "class-based classification" in domestic middle schools, judging from the results of the first round of jumping, the overall performance of Group B athletes is indeed slightly inferior to that of Group A.

Compared with only 6 players in Group A who did not exceed 7 meters in the first round, in the case that Feng Quan and Qi Haifeng have not yet played, only 5 of the 14 players in Group B who have appeared before have broken through the 7-meter mark.

Because Cuban athlete Lionel Suarez was helped by Qi Haifeng during his participation in the 2008 Olympic Games in the capital, the two have formed a deep friendship since then.

In Lionel Suarez's view, if it weren't for the injury, Qi Haifeng should at least have the strength to be ranked in the top ten in the world.

Therefore, even when Qi Haifeng rarely appeared at the World Athletics Championships in the four years after the Capital Olympics, and was gradually forgotten by the decathlon masters from all over the world, Lionel Suarez has been constantly in touch with Qi Haifeng through the Internet. Even, in his mind, he had already regarded Qi Haifeng as his brother.

So, when Qi Haifeng, who was ranked second to last in Group B, came out, Lionel Suarez, who had already completed the first round of the test jump, gave a thumbs up to Qi Haifeng, who was about to try the jump, and shouted loudly: "Hey! Qi, come on! Show the guys how ridiculous it is to put the two of us in Group B......"

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Qi Haifeng smiled at the athlete waiting area, Lionel Suarez nodded, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes and simulated the whole set of long jump moves in his mind.

A few seconds later, Qi Haifeng slowly opened his eyes, and silently shouted in his heart, "Come on, I will definitely be able to do it......", and then started his own run rhythmically.

When Qi Haifeng started to run, Yue Wenjun, who was sitting in the stands, clenched his fists nervously.

"Haifeng, come on, you can do it, you must seize this rare opportunity and let the whole world see that the former 'Asian iron man' is back......"

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Pedaling, jumping, stepping, landing buffer, Qi Haifeng cleanly completed a complete set of "walking long jump" movements. And, judging from the marking line where he landed, this jump will be at least 7.40 meters or more.

A moment later, when Qi Haifeng walked outside the sand pit, the referee near the springboard raised the white flag in his hand. A few seconds later, the big screen at the London Olympic Stadium showed Qi Haifeng's jump result - 7.56 meters (950 points).

For Qi Haifeng, who is standing in the near future, even in his usual training, he is rarely able to make a score of 7.56 meters. Therefore, when he saw his achievement, he immediately waved his fist excitedly, and at the same time raised his head to the sky and let out an angry roar, heroically releasing the suppressed emotions that had gathered in his chest for four years.

At the same time, the excitement of the three people was no less than that of Qi Haifeng himself.

Yue Wenjun, who was in the stands, raised his fists high and kept waving them in the air.

Lionel Suarez, who was sitting in the athletes' waiting area, jumped up from his seat and shouted: "That Chinese is my good brother!" ”

And Feng Quan, who was preparing to start his first round of jumping, was in the direction of Qi Haifeng, and at the same time gave two thumbs up, and shouted at the same time: "Brother Feng, well done!" ”

Immediately afterwards, when Feng Quan got the instructions of the on-site referee to "it's time to start the race", he started his own run......

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Unlike other competitors who chose the safe "gradual acceleration" running method in the first round of the jump, Feng Quan chose the "more adventurous" "active acceleration" running method. Although the "active acceleration" method can help Feng Quan to obtain a greater initial velocity, but the "behind the benefits" is also unexpected risks.

Since the "Positive Acceleration" method is faster than the "Gradual Acceleration" method, it is more difficult to accurately select the starting point and connect the movements after the jump. Therefore, except for some "fighting moments", few athletes will choose the "active acceleration" way of running. And like Feng Quan, it is even rarer to use the "active acceleration" running method in the first attempt to jump.

So much so that when Yue Wenjun, who was sitting in the stands, saw that Feng Quan had made such an "impulsive" choice, he couldn't help but shake his head helplessly.

"Hey, this muddy boy! Just won the Olympic title, and you got carried away like that......" (To be continued.) )