Chapter 49 Shanghai Golden League (1)
On August 8, the Golden League started in Shanghai.
The Golden League is the most popular competition for track and field athletes in addition to the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
In 1998, the IAAF merged several traditional track and field Grand Prix events in Europe in order to attract the world's best track and field athletes and thus better promote athletics around the world. Several separate competitions are linked together and are therefore called leagues.
The top 8 invited athletes in each tournament will receive prize money, as well as 50 kilograms of pure gold ingots for a full league win. The influence of the Golden League has since skyrocketed, and in 2003, the IAAF raised the prize money to US$1 million.
Before the start of the competition, the track and field stadium was already full of spectators.
Today's competition was a star-studded event, with almost every event featuring the world's best athletes. Tyson, the unbeatable in the 100-meter race. Guy and Jamaican flyer Campbell, Jeremy who was lonely in the 400m race. Varina, pole vault queen Isinbayeva, these big stars are here for today's competition.
However, the biggest selling point of the competition is the hurdle battle between Liu Fei in the 110m hurdles and Robles of Cuba.
In the shadow of these people, Lu Wei is nothing more than a young athlete who is not noticed.
The entrance ceremony of the superstars is also extravagant, with star athletes of various disciplines standing in open-top luxury cars and circling the track for a circle. When the stadium commentator pronounced each name, it elicited bursts of cheers and screams from the audience.
When Liu Feiren appeared, the momentum of the arena was overwhelming, and it was even more unstoppable. The crowd unreservedly dedicated their screams to the world champion who came out of Shanghai.
"Is it such an exaggeration!" Lu Wei stood next to Wang Qiao and Director Jiang, both envious and a little jealous of Liu Feiren's star effect, and he felt that one day he could also gain such an influence.
In the first 100-meter race, Tyson, who was almost sideways before the race. Guy ran only 10.02 seconds to finish second, and another American runner-up, Wallace. Spearman took first place in 9.96 seconds.
After the game, Tyson. Guy yelled angrily at the finish line, making the audience laugh, Lu Wei was also one of them, in his eyes, this cool and handsome guy was simply a tease.
After looking at the schedule, Lu Wei found that it was not that the organizers of the competition did not invite him, but that there were no shot put and javelin competitions in today's competition.
The shot put has never been the traditional gold medal of Huaxia, although the female team members can win a bronze medal from time to time in the world competition, but most of the team members participating in the competition are fat, and the body size can not attract attention, and it is difficult to attract the attention of Chinese sports fans by throwing an iron ball around in a small range.
After all, we are not a track and field powerhouse with a deep heritage......
The javelin competition is even more dangerous, the participating team members are amazing arm strength, each shot 80 meters easily, such a strong strength with a javelin running around, in case of a mistake in position, the direction of magnification is wrong, throwing it on people is a big accident.
This kind of thing can be said to happen often, and we haven't touched the edge of the podium at all before, so it's not neat at all.
After the men's and women's 1,500m races, the 400m race is about to begin.
Under the watchful eyes of the spectators, 8 athletes came to the track.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the next thing to do is the men's 400m race, and standing in lane 2 is Gary from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kikaya, the 2nd lane athlete is the American Claremont, and the 3rd lane is the Canadian Taylor. Christopher, 4 lanes is the 400m male god who has never lost in a major competition for several years. Varina! ”
The narrator's voice became high-pitched as he spoke of Varina. The audience immediately responded with warm applause, and now everyone in the world athletics world knows Varina, and being able to see the superstar with their own eyes is naturally enthusiastic.
The narrator immediately read out Lu Wei's name, and at this time, the audience immediately cheered for the young Lu Wei with the highest cheers.
"It's pretty much the same, it's one thing what I run, I deserve such treatment at my doorstep!" The audience's enthusiasm for their own people made Lu Wei finally balance a little.
In this game, Lu Wei was divided into 5 lanes, and it can be said that the organizers made full use of the convenience of the home field and found a golden lane for Lu Wei.
In order to arrange a suitable path for Lu Wei, the organizer can be said to have used his brains. The aim of this tournament is to give the young players a taste of the atmosphere of the tournament. The best experience is nothing more than being around a superstar, and such a chance to play is probably something that countless training sessions can't get back.
If Lu Wei's strength can compete with Varina, then Lu Wei can be placed in the front lane, so that in the whole game, Lu Wei can keep an eye on Varina and predict in advance when the opponent has a tactical change.
The current situation is that Lu Wei can't do Varina, if the Dao is in front, he will let the opponent get rid of it, which is equivalent to not putting it to the side.
The purpose of putting Lu Wei on the adjacent path behind Varina was to give Lu Wei more time to observe the operation of the great god.
The width of the regular race track is about 1.2 meters, and the distance between the two adjacent lanes is about 7 meters.
Of course, Lu Wei doesn't see it that way.
On the way before the starting line, Lu Wei specially observed Varina: "This guy looks like 1.85, such a body condition can only be regarded as ordinary, there is nothing special about running a few times when I watched him warm up just now, I want to give him some color today." ”
After the starting gun sounded, Lu Wei immediately lowered his body and dived, and he kept his head down for the distance he started until he entered the straight, and only after his speed was stable did he slowly raise his head.
After Lu Wei raised his head, he skimmed the two lanes on the right with his spare eyes, and the start of the two American team members was also very sharp. Lu Wei didn't expect the opponent's starting ability to reach such a strong level, with Lu Wei's current ability, if he participated in another domestic competition, he would definitely be able to establish an obvious advantage after the start, but he didn't expect that he couldn't get close to the opponent at all.
Before the game, Lu Wei didn't know much about these two team members, he only knew that in the United States, grabbing a random 400-meter team member is the strength of the top eight in the world championships, and I have to say that the country's track and field strength is really strong.
Lu Wei now does not dare to look at Varina, the master duel, sideways observation of the opponent may put himself in a disadvantageous situation, it seems that the real person will have to wait until the second half of the game.