After the 60-meter race, the next step is the 60-meter hurdles.
The competition at the Indoor World Championships is relatively compact.
Not so many bells and whistles.
The women's short stride started at the front. In the women's 60-meter hurdles preliminaries, Sun Yawei, known as the "Female Liu Xiang", was placed in the second lane of Group 4.
"Game start."
"Sun Yawei has been in a backward position since the beginning."
"After three hurdles, we were clearly behind our opponents... and finally crossed the finish line in 8 seconds 46. We were ranked sixth in the group but unfortunately missed the semifinals."
"Australian star Sally Pearson ran 7.85 seconds in the women's 60-meter hurdles, becoming the only contestant to break the 8-second barrier. This result also set an Australian record."
"It can be seen from here that there is still a gap among Chinese female athletes in short span internationally, and they still need to calm down and train well."
After the situation ended, cheers erupted from the scene again.
The men's 60-meter sprint is about to take place.
Although it is said that the attention of men and women's projects should be balanced as much as possible, which is what the IAAF has been doing in recent years under the influence of feminism. But a generation of great men in our country said well that everything still needs to be realistic.
You can't deny that in terms of competitiveness, the men's event is more competitive and easier to attract attention.
Otherwise, there would be no need to compare men and women separately.
If you don't admit this, then you are either stupid or bad, and it is not a pragmatic behavior at all.
Compared with the women's 60-meter sprint, the ratings began to rise immediately after the men's sprint began.
Audiences in China and even across Asia are very interested in this 60-meter sprint.
One of the most important factors is of course the competitiveness of Asian players. Compared to Sun Yawei and Liu Xiang, the competitiveness is not even the slightest bit worse.
Liu Xiang comes this time, and he is the favorite to win the 60-meter short stride. Without Robles and Oliver, no one thinks that the other athletes can beat Liu Xiang, who set the best result in the 60-meter short stride in the world this year.
This will naturally set their sights on Liu Xiang for Asian audiences who currently have a strong gold medal effect.
Although Sun Yawei is known as the "female Liu Xiang", to be honest, her strength is far from that of Liu Xiang.
This time her original goal was to enter the finals.
The expectations are completely different.
Tianchao Sports Channel.
"According to the rules of the preliminaries, the top three and the remaining four fastest runners from the four groups in the men's 60-meter hurdles preliminaries will advance to the semi-finals. The preliminaries will start at 15:40. Liu Xiang will appear in the second group, and the track will be in the third lane
.Because in yesterday’s men’s 60-meter race, some runners in some races could not hear the sound of gunshots clearly. I heard that Liu Xiang’s side also carried out some urgent gunshot listening enhancements.”
"I don't know what the specific effect will be."
"The venue facilities at the Istanbul World Indoor Championships this time are really not perfect enough, and I don't know how he passed the application." As a former national athlete, Li Tao also understands how much trouble such a venue brings to athletes. Track and field athletes
Unlike highly commercialized games like football and basketball, not only is the game time short, but the stage opportunities they actually have are pitiful in comparison.
So if the performance of athletes is affected by venue problems.
That may be the hardest thing for athletes to accept.
"I hope Liu Xiang can withstand the pressure and perform normally in the game."
The competition in the first group soon ended. The French player Pascal Martino Lagarde, a young player from 1991, won the first place in the group and entered the semi-finals. This French player also opened up a few years later
The ability of 13 seconds, but that was only a few years later. Now he is still standing at the age of eighteen.
The second place in this group belongs to South African player Lehan Fauri. His time is 7 seconds 67, only 0.01 behind the first place Lagarde. Both of them successfully got the big Q.
The big Q in the third group was Russian player Konstantin Shabanov, whose time was 7.72 seconds.
After the end of Group 1, it quickly entered the competition of Group 2.
Liu Xiang also passed through the athlete tunnel at this time, finished the inspection, and walked to the scene. He was wearing the red jersey of the national team today. Since the competition was not intense, Liu Xiang seemed very relaxed. After taking a deep breath, he stepped on
I only ran twice on the starting block and no more test runs.
Instead, he quietly relaxed his body in place and waited for the starting signal.
Hungarian player Balazs Badji in the first lane, pb7.67.
Second Cayman Islands Ronald Forbes, pb7.58.
Third lane Kitty Eagle player Andrew Pozzi, pb7.56.
Liu Xiang, a flower grower in the fourth lane, pb7.38s.
The fifth moral will player Helge Schwarzer, pb7.58.
In the sixth lane, Poland's Dominik Bochenek, pb7.68.
In the seventh lane, Kuwaiti player Abdulaziz Al Mandel, pb7.82.
Lane 8 Peruvian Jorge Armando McFarlane, pb7.98.
"On paper, Liu Xiang is definitely the strongest in the lineup. As long as he doesn't make mistakes, there is nothing the others can do."
"But we must also be careful about the hearing problem in Istanbul this time." Li Tao reminded: "Many athletes have reported this problem. Liu Xiang must not fall for it."
"set."
Just as he was talking, the competition password was already sounded.
This is already the second password.
Liu Xiang actually still sounds very vague and even has a sense of echo.
At this time, he also thought of what Su Shen did before.
Anyway, this shot is mainly for safety.
The closer you are to the referee, the easier it is to react.
Bang——————————
In his previous life, there was no Su Shen, so he did the same thing. This time, someone actually made a ready-made sample for him to see, and Liu Xiang wasn't that stupid.
Soon they will follow the same example.
Bang————————————
"Game start."
"Liu Xiang's startup speed is not very fast."
"But then he started to attack the hurdles, and his advantages were already reflected!"
"After three consecutive hurdles, Liu Xiang has already taken the lead."
"This is the strength of this year's 60-meter best result holder."
"Liu Xiang finally let go and crossed the finish line."
"7 seconds 60."
"The first place in the group is guaranteed to advance to the semi-finals."
"The one who crossed the finish line behind Liu was Andrew Pozzi from Kitty Eagle Country. His time was 7.61 seconds."
Although the results of these two people seemed to be very close, since it was only the preliminaries, Liu Xiang didn't even break a sweat.
It can be seen that his condition is really not good this year.
In the Olympic year, he quickly began to adjust his state, including his desire to prove himself, which reached its peak three years later.
Just this momentum.
If there is no problem listening to the gun.
Except Peak Robles comes over.
Otherwise, no one else would have any chance of winning.
And even if the peak Robles comes to fight, you should not forget that when competing in the same field, the party with a weak rhythm can easily be affected by the party with a strong rhythm.
If Robles is affected by Liu Xiang's rhythm, it is not impossible to lose.
After all, the 100-meter dash is ultimately about rhythm.
The more rhythmic 110-meter hurdles.
Of course there is no need to say more.
Leaving this shot's reaction at .200.
This kind of reaction is really slow for Liu Xiang, who is good at starting under pressure.
But the advantage is that it is indeed very stable.
Coming from behind is also Liu Xiang's specialty.
It's a pity that Shi Dongpeng started in the third group and did not advance to the semi-finals. In fact, the conditions given by this group were pretty good. There was an accident before this group. One of Liu Xiang's competitors, American Craddock, did not appear, but Shi Dongpeng
Apparently affected by a muscle strain, he only ran 8.15 seconds, ranking 6th in the group and almost missing out on the semi-finals. Italy's Abate finished first in the group with 7.71 seconds.
"There are indeed some problems with listening to guns here. It doesn't mean that you can strengthen this aspect." Liu Xiang said in an interview after the game: "I personally think that in this environment, no matter how strong your ability to listen to guns is,
It’s no use, the element of luck is higher.”
"Yes, I didn't pay special attention to the start. I just followed the example of Sioux City's 60-meter run. I waited for the runners on the side closer to the referee to go first. As soon as they moved, I moved immediately."
"It turns out that even so, I still react faster than them."
This is also true.
Obviously Liu Xiang looked to the left and started running.
But in the end, his reaction time was faster than the player on the left.
The reaction time of the entire top three players on the left was worse than his.
This simply feels like striking first instead of being late.
It sounds a bit mysterious.
But this is actually a manifestation of experience and muscle memory.
There is a high probability that you will be able to detect when the player next to you will move.
You don't even need him to start completely, you can only judge whether he wants to start from some details around him.
Hence the so-called "magic scene" where Liu Xiang looks at the cheongsam on the left but reacts faster than the athlete on the left.
And when he was being interviewed, American player Merritt in the fourth group quietly took first place with a time of 7.66 seconds.
Merritt looked at Liu Xiang, who was surrounded by reporters.
He just stared for a few more seconds.
Just turn around and walk away.
Although he won the first place in the All-meter Indoor Trials this year, whether it was an honor or an honor, he was still far behind the Oriental man who was being interviewed.
He also competed with Liu Xiang countless times in outdoor competitions.
But he never defeated Liu Xiang.
Don't look at the name that he is not familiar with. At this point in time, many track and field fans are indeed not familiar with the name Aris Merritt...
But in fact Merritt is only two years younger than Liu Xiang.
He is now in his mid-twenties.
This is considered an older athlete in track and field, so almost no one could have imagined that this guy would suddenly break out this year.
And it also exploded this year, and it has never been able to open for 13 seconds since then.
But this year.
He is Liu Xiang's biggest enemy in this event, no, it should be said that he is the biggest enemy of all short span athletes in this event.
Maybe that's an exaggeration.
He is the biggest guardian demon king in history.
His strength.
From this year's Istanbul World Indoor Championships.
It's about to kick off.
Su Shen watched Merritt glance at Liu Xiang.
He knows that from now on.
Starting from 2012.
This older newbie Merritt.
He is ready to replace all world records and current kings.
ps: First update, this year is the last day of 2023. I hope everyone will have a good last day and give 2023 one last boost.