Chapter 179: National Athletics Grand Prix

By the end of March, outdoor track and field events at home and abroad began to be in full swing.

It's the real start of the outdoor season, and in years without World Series, it's a very early time to start, and many athletes are still lazily picking and choosing.

If it is not a competition with a particularly high prize money, the choice of high-level athletes to participate is generally based on their personal circumstances.

Except for major events, the general competition time is one day, and the maximum is no more than two days. Many of the matches are one-time solution battles, and there will be preliminaries and finals for the two-day tournament.

For high-level athletes, after months of preparation, four months of competition adjustment is enough. Most of the players will use this time to fix their shortcomings at the end of the day, then find a feel for the game and adjust to the best form in the early stages of the Games.

Only a handful of athletes will use the final three months to try to qualify for the Olympics. For example, the Chinese track and field team, many of the participants are empty, and now not only the athletes are anxious, but the country is even more anxious.

The Olympic Games held in Beijing may be a once-in-a-century event, some people want to show the national strength of the Chinese nation in this event, and some people want to make political achievements through this event.

For the leaders of the field management center, it seems that there is no need to fight for any resource tilt. The development of track and field events will be an important project for Chinese sports in the future.

If you want to see the development of Chinese track and field in recent years, the increase in gold-winning events is undoubtedly an evaluation of a country's sports level.

Liu's performance in the 110m hurdles looks increasingly convincing, and he is sure to be the favourite to win the event at this year's Olympics.

In addition to this project, Lu Wei's birth has undoubtedly added a lot of confidence to the leaders of the field management center. In addition to the men's sprint and race walking, the men's shot put and javelin competitions seem to have great hope of winning at least one gold medal for the Chinese delegation.

In addition to these events, Lu Wei participated in the 400m and women's middle-distance running events all hope to win medals.

Judging from the previous Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation won 3 gold medals is a good result, so in the current view, the Chinese track and field team is undoubtedly very promising for this year's Olympic Games.

If we look at the depth and breadth of the development of track and field events, the development of track and field in various regions is uneven, which is a matter that needs to be developed for a long time, not overnight.

However, the number of team members participating in each event can also reflect the level of track and field in China to a large extent, so the biggest goal of the athletics management center in recent months is to let as many team members as possible qualify for the Olympic Games, so that more team members can appear in the Olympic Games.

Even if the competitiveness is not strong in unpopular events, at least it is necessary to ensure that there are team members who qualify for the competition and appear in the representative team of the Chinese Olympic Corps.

At this time, the National Athletics Grand Prix became a lifesaver for athletes who did not qualify for the Olympic Games.

In recent years, the Athletics Management Center has strived to make the National Track and Field Grand Prix the second event in China outside the National Games.

Athletes can earn prize money by accumulating enough points in the race and then participating in the National Finals. It looks like this project is like the Golden League of China.

In non-major years, athletes usually participate in such events to show their faces in front of the national team coach, and if they perform well in the competition, they are likely to enter the national team through this competition.

If you can be selected for the national team, it will definitely be something to celebrate for your career. After all, it is a national team, and the training and competition resources obtained are usually far better than those of the provincial team.

In the year of the National Games, this event will be linked to the qualification of the National Games, so many team members attach great importance to this competition.

In the Olympic year, this event is a warm-up venue for athletes who have already qualified for the Olympic Games, and it is a lifesaver for the team members who have not qualified for the competition.

Although the prize money of the event is very average, if you can't have record-breaking results in the competition, the final reward is even worse than that of the regional competition, and there is no way to compare it with the National Games and the Olympic Games.

However, the strategic significance of this event is much higher than the benefits that can be obtained, so it can always attract many outstanding domestic players to participate in the competition.

The National Track and Field Grand Prix held in Yuzhou this time is the first battle of this year's competition, and it can be said that it is the most complete competition for outstanding athletes in China.

On the plane from Haigeng Airport to Yuzhou, Wang Qiao took the trouble to explain the format and significance of this track and field Grand Prix to Lu Wei, but after listening to a few words, Lu Wei felt that this event was a bit chicken, and the competition system was not simple and direct enough.

The competition may seem like a domestic competition, but it's actually a bit of a chicken in terms of popularity and the number and quality of athletes involved. The number of points earned in this competition is very low when converted into international points, and the prize money is so small that it is difficult to attract famous players to participate.

It is estimated that there are a little more of this stop, and after mid-April, there will be a little more events for everyone to choose from, and the celebrities are not expected to participate in the following competitions.

The complicated competition system sometimes even the athletes themselves can't understand, the audience just watches the excitement, and they go to the scene to watch the stars when there are more stars, and there is no temptation for stars and high-level results, and no one goes to give away tickets.

"We came to participate in this competition, in fact, the main thing is to achieve results, for the sake of prudence, we only reported 100 meters for you, just to let you focus on this event in this competition and play your best."

Explanation to explanation, Wang Qiao himself gave up continuing to give Lu Weikop this domestic Grand Prix. There are few points and there are no bonuses, and even Wang Qiao himself feels unhappy when he talks about it.

"To put it simply, it is to use this competition to qualify for the Olympic Games, let's not fix those useless, as long as the 100 meters can run within 10.21 seconds, your goal of this competition will be achieved."

Wang Qiao was also thinking in his heart that Yu Wei had already revealed that he would not add more events to Lu Wei when he was at the World Indoor Championships, so that Lu Wei could concentrate on breaking through one by one in the several events he participated in.

The shot put competition takes place on the first two days of athletics, the 400m race in between, and the javelin race tends to take place on the last two days of the event. It looks like Lu Wei's race will only take place on the same day as the 4x100m.

Two days ago, Yu Wei suddenly found himself and said that he had signed up for Lu Wei to participate in this competition, so they also followed everyone to Yuzhou to participate in the competition.

"Coach Wang, let's not talk about so many useless things, you just need to tell me whether the IAAF admits or not, and if you don't admit it, I'll be playing. If I admit it, I wouldn't take it seriously, but it's an easy result for me. ”

In the end, Lu Wei was finally a little fried, he hated to study these detailed things the most. Especially this kind of chicken rib competition format.

“...... Do you have any misunderstanding about my introduction to the National Athletics Grand Prix, this competition is also a national competition recognized by the IAAF, and the results will of course be recognized by the IAAF......"

After Wang Qiao said this, he was also a little helpless, he knew that he would not waste his tongue on the plane, and even he felt that it was a waste of time to come.