Chapter 160: Before the Qualifiers

The Chinese delegation came to Valencia 3 days in advance, leaving 3 days for the game to adjust. The game was not very focused on the impact, but it was just for some players to find a feeling and improve their physical condition.

Such competitions will also be held in China for several consecutive years from next month, and now each country will host the World Indoor Championships around March.

It turned out that there was no indoor competition at the beginning of the track and field competition, and the track and field competition was passable, but the track competition really felt constrained, and the 400-meter track was reduced by half.

For example, in an outdoor field, you only need two corners to run a 400-meter run, and you have to cross four outer roads in an indoor race, which is really difficult for people to get used to.

However, the practice of European and American countries has proved that holding indoor competitions during the adjustment period is of great help to athletes to shorten the adjustment period, enter the active activity period, enhance the awareness of the competition, and improve the technical level.

The competition lasted for three days, which is definitely a big competition for indoor track and field competitions. In most indoor track and field competitions, the preliminaries are followed by the finals.

In this competition, many competitions still have semi-finals due to the large number of participants.

Like the outdoor championships, there are also qualifiers for the field races. The IAAF has taken this adjusted competition the same as the outdoor World Championships and the Olympic Games.

Lu Wei participated in the 60m and shot put events in this competition. The arena was too small to do a lot of throwing competitions, so there was no javelin event.

400 meters is really too many curves, whether you participate or not, it has little impact.

Lu Wei feels that in addition to the Olympic Games, try not to participate in too many events in various competitions this year, if the time is short, one track race and one field race are enough.

After 3 days of preparation, everyone has already passed the jet lag, Valencia has a 7-hour time difference compared to the capital, so when the morning game is played here, Huaxia has already reached the afternoon.

After watching the schedule, Lu Wei felt that he was in pain, and both events were completed on the first day, which was quite intense.

Under normal circumstances, the organizing committee will consider separating the same type of competition, so that the participating athletes can reasonably allocate their physical strength during the event.

I didn't expect that there would be such a miracle as Lu Wei, who could break the huge barrier between the physical requirements of track and field competitions and track and field competitions, and maintain the top level in several competitions with such a large span.

Although the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon compete a little more, they can't do it at the top level in all competitions, and their results are still not far from the individual top athletes.

Lu Wei can be said to be a clear stream in the track and field world.

The first event of the competition was the men's shot put competition, so Lu Wei started warm-up activities an hour and a half before the competition.

This is the principle he has always abided by, even if it is such a long preparation time, Lu Wei feels that it can only be just enough, in his words, half an hour is used for warm-up, half an hour is used for stretching, and half an hour is used for check-in.

He didn't think that the 20-meter qualification line in the preliminaries would be difficult for him, but it was better to form a habit.

Habit is a very important thing, and many times the instinctive actions of athletes at critical times are usual habitual actions.

Just when Lu Wei was stretching, he heard someone greeting him, and when he looked back, it turned out to be the American shot put player Hoffa: "Hey, old friend, it's been a long time, are you okay?" ”

Saying that, Hoffa stretched out his meat hand, and in the shot put final last year, the two of them did not decide the winner until the last throw, and both of them had a little sympathy for each other after the game.

After this meeting, the two even had some feelings of reunion.

"I'm not bad, I've been training, I feel like you're fat again!"

Lu Wei looked at Hoffa's appearance, which looked like a meat ball than last year. As he spoke, he squeezed Hoffa's arm with his hand.

"Lao Tie, it's heart-piercing! I don't think you're as honest as you say, I've seen your boxing videos, and your interests are wide-ranging! ”

Hoffa's eyebrows were high on one side and low on the other, and his hands were parted to the sides, looking shocked.

"In the future, you can also participate in boxing matches, and we may have the opportunity to coach in the ring once!"

Lu Wei smiled, clenched his fist and stretched it out.

"Oh no! I don't want to go back to the life of being beaten every day, boxing is only a small part of the fighting competition, the Olympic competition cannot be counted as a competition at all, the water of the fighting competition is very deep, I advise you not to fall too deep even if you participate in the competition in the future, and when the competition is decided by the winner or loser, to the life and death, there will be no benefit to yourself! ”

Hoffa still looked thoughtful when he spoke, and the two of them did not continue to talk along the topic.

Then several team members who saw the World Championships last year shook hands and hugged Lu Wei, and in less than a year, Lu Wei was already like a veteran player in the game.

This competition gathered a lot of strong players, and most of the top eight players from last year's World Championships came to Valencia.

Because the field competition in indoor or outdoor will not have much impact on the level of the athletes, when there are weather changes outside, it may affect the strength of the athletes, just like last year's javelin final, after the rain, many team members do not dare to exert their strength in the competition, in this kind of competition to test the comprehensive ability of the whole body, a slight mistake may sprain the body. Therefore, weather problems in outdoor competitions may restrict the performance of the players.

"The game is about to start, the body must be active, strive to complete the qualifying round once, compare to 5 appearances a day, and one less shot is counted as one."

Wang Qiao said, looking at the other players who came to participate in the game.

"The athlete who was with Hoffa over there was called Cantwell, and his strength in the past two years was also good, the strength of these athletes was comparable, which athlete practiced hard and practiced hard in that year, and he was focused, basically the champion was eight or nine or ten.

Okay, you can come over when you check in later, and there should be no problem with the morning game. ”

After Wang Qiao and Lu Wei finished speaking, they returned directly to the audience, the qualification line is only 20.2 meters, with Lu Wei's current results, there is no big problem in entering the finals if nothing else, so Wang Qiao is not too worried this time, he believes in Lu Wei's ability.

Another point is that he wants to learn from Jiang Jianjun, he can pretend to be light-hearted, giving people a confident look, he always felt that he was a little unstable at critical moments in the previous games, and sometimes he was even not as calm as Lu Wei.