Chapter 265: Arrival in Lisbon

In February 2014, after the Spring Festival, Du Ke left Nangang and set off for the capital, accompanied by Su Bingtian, a teammate of the Nanyue track and field team. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The two of them will travel together to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to compete in the IAAF Super Grand Prix Lisbon on March 1.

Du Ke is not the only one who wants to brush up on points, Su Bingtian also wants to participate in this year's Diamond League, so he signed up for the men's 100m event at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Lisbon.

The Diamond League is the highest-level international athletics league, and only the top 20 athletes in the world are eligible to participate in the Diamond League.

All over the world, there are definitely more players in each individual event than the top 20 players.

Masters play advanced games between masters, and sub-masters, seemingly masters, middle players, and low players must of course arrange some suitable projects for them.

Events such as the IAAF Super Grand Prix and the Asian Athletics Grand Prix, complementing the Diamond League, offer economy class options for those who can't afford first-class tickets.

As an A-level event second only to the GL Diamond League, the IAAF Super Grand Prix is not as high as the first class, but it is also more high-end than the ordinary economy class, which can be regarded as business class.

It doesn't mean that anyone who wants to participate in the IAAF Super Grand Prix will definitely be able to participate, but there are several review requirements for each stage of the IAAF Super Grand Prix: a personal best result, an average score in the individual event within one year, and no doping or other illegal drugs found in the past two years.

Based on the above requirements, athletes from all countries can register in their individual names, and after the IAAF reviews and approves the registration application, the athletes can participate in the individual competitions they have registered.

Du Ke met the registration criteria in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, high jump and other five events, and Su Bingtian met the registration criteria in the 100m event.

The capital in mid-February is very cold, and the current season is still within the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Before the end of the year, they had to start training, and it was still snowing outside, so it was impossible to train outdoors, so Du Ke, Su Bingtian, Zhang Guowei and several other powerful athletes trained indoors at the Indoor Training Center of the Chinese Track and Field Team.

In addition to Du and Su, Zhang Guowei will also go to Lisbon to compete in the high jump, and the Chinese track and field team will compete in Europe, including three of their men's competitors and two women's athletes in the 5,000m and discus.

On February 25, led by Coach Han, a group of 21 members of the Chinese track and field team stepped on a passenger plane to Europe.

Compared with last October, Du Ke took two reserve team brothers to Bangkok to compete, the overall strength of the team to Europe is much stronger, Du Ke, Su Bingtian, Zhang Guowei, and the two female players are the main force of the national team, which shows that the specifications and level of the IAAF Super Grand Prix are a grade higher than the Asian Athletics Grand Prix.

The 14 events of the Diamond League are concentrated in the five months from the beginning of May to the beginning of September, and the IAAF Super Grand Prix starts two months earlier than the Diamond League.

Similar to the format of the Diamond League, each event of the IAAF Super Grand Prix has seven individual events for men and women, including Lisbon, Los Angeles, Prague and Montreal...... The specific events for men and women are different for each Grand Prix, but the total number of men's and women's events will not change, that is, 7 events each.

For example, the men's 7 events in Lisbon are: 100m, 400m, 5000m, high jump, triple jump, discus throw, javelin. (The women's events on this site are also these 7 events)

The men's seven events in Los Angeles are: 100m, 200m, 110m hurdles, 800m, pole vault, long jump, shot put. (Men's 110m hurdles in women's 100 hurdles)

The seven men's events in Prague are: 200m, 800m, 1500m, 3000m hurdles, high jump, triple jump and javelin. (Same for women's events)

Duke's plans for March and April are:

March 1 to Portugal for the IAAF Super Grand Prix Lisbon (100m, 400m, high jump)

On March 10, he went to Japan to participate in the Asian Athletics Grand Prix Nagoya Station (100 meters and 200 meters, according to the competition events set by Nagoya Station, Du Ke can only register for these two)

On March 23, Duke had to go to the United States to compete in the IAAF Super Grand Prix Los Angeles (100m, 200m, 800m)

On April 5, Duke returned to Asia, where he will travel to South Korea to compete in the Incheon leg of the Asian Athletics Grand Prix, which Incheon has applied to host in preparation for the Asian Games in September. (100m, 400m, high jump)

In the Bangkok competition in October last year, the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, and high jump events happened to be all set up in this year's event, so Duke had to brush up on a few Grand Prix races to get enough points to participate in the Diamond League.

In the 100m event, Duke participated in two A-level events and two B-level events, and if he can win four championships, his 100m individual points should be enough to participate in the Diamond League.

In the 200 meters, 400 meters, and high jump, Du Ke participated in one A-level event and one B-level event, and if he could win two championships each, the points would be almost enough.

The men's 100m event is the most competitive, and it is more safe to brush more points, and other events are not much of a problem with fewer points compared to the men's 100m.

Because of the IAAF and the Asian Athletics Federation's sub-station events, there is only one 800-meter event before the end of April, which is the 800-meter in the IAAF Super Grand Prix Los Angeles Station, if the 800-meter points are not enough, Douc will have to go to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, on April 29 to brush up on another round of 800-meter points.

Duke's big plan is about the same, if there is an unplanned situation, it can only take one step at a time and respond flexibly.

At 8 a.m. local time on February 26, Portugal, the passenger plane of the Chinese track and field team arrived at Lisbon Porteira International Airport.

Lisbon in southern Europe is the capital of Portugal and the political, economic and cultural center of Portugal, a port city bordering the Atlantic Ocean and the Age of Discovery in the 16th century.

Moistened by the warm Atlantic current, Lisbon is lukewarm at the end of February and early March, making it a warm and sunny spring season, with outdoor temperatures of 14-18 degrees Celsius in the capital, which is suitable for athletics.

There is a 7-hour time difference between Zhongjing and Lisboa, and after the Chinese track and field team arrived in Lisbon, they checked into the hotel and began to reverse the time difference.

On February 26 and February 27, after adjusting to the local environment and outdoor climate for two days, Du Ke, Su Bingtian, Zhang Guowei and other participants went to the Ferdinand-Magellan Stadium for adaptation training on February 28.

Magellan was a Portuguese, a brilliant navigator who, although he once betrayed Portugal in favor of the Spanish royal family, is still remembered by the Portuguese people for his voyage around the world.

Magellan's sailing around the globe in a very chic manner directly or indirectly led Portugal to increase its overseas colonies of more than 10 million square kilometers such as Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Indonesia, East Timo, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, and Macao, while Portugal has a mainland area of only more than 90,000 square kilometers, which is not as large as the area of China's eastern Zhejiang Province.

The Ferdinand-Magellan Stadium, named after Magellan, is the venue for the Lisbon Grand Prix, with a capacity of more than 30,000 spectators, and Duco and his teammates will compete in the stadium for one day to meet and challenge track and field athletes from all over the world. (To be continued.) )