Chapter 1614 Great master? Thats it? (Finally asking for votes in 2023)
After a night's rest.
The game continues.
I have to say that last night, the entire athletes' hotel in Istanbul was probably complaining about the poor performance of this training venue.
Several people were even eliminated because you couldn't hear the gun clearly, and they directly tweeted to curse the competition organizing committee.
Suddenly the whole world knew how badly they did at the Istanbul World Indoor Championships.
But no matter how bad it is, we can only do it.
Anyway, this competition is here, and it will definitely not be changed again.
In the words of Liu Xiang and Su Shen: Take it as it comes, because it is bad for everyone anyway.
That's still fair.
It’s just that it may not be easy to get results.
Seeing these two leaders of the track and field team say this, the other members of the Flower Planter's track and field team also felt a lot more stable.
No further complaints followed.
Because your complaints at this time will only make you frustrated.
It will only make you look for more external reasons and ignore your own internal factors.
Of course, this kind of complaint is also objective. Who made the Istanbul competition organizing committee so bad? This is not an exaggeration. It is just that it is not the right time to complain.
What Su Shen and Liu Xiang meant was that it would not be too late for everyone to start shooting again after the competition was over.
Right now I still focus on adjusting my competitive state.
Having said this, everyone felt a lot more comfortable.
How to say a sentence will have completely different effects.
Su Shen has now become the leader of the domestic track and field team.
Then he naturally has to speak from a higher position.
We must let our influence positively influence more domestic track and field athletes.
[Dou Rina revealed the details of Liu Xiang’s preparations. The key to flying is to adapt to the starting gun. 】
[Liu Xiang arrived at the arena two hours early to prepare for the match.]
[Yong Shuyong: "One shot determines life and death" trapped Liu Xiang. The complex competition environment is not conducive to breaking the record. 】
[Liu Xiang talks about the start of the preliminaries. I am just imitating Su Shen. If I don’t copy my homework, I’m really stupid.]
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The scene of the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
Because the 60-meter hurdles are arranged in the front, the semi-finals are also held in the front. Since our country has no contestants in the women's 60-meter hurdles, Liu Xiang's 60-meter will be the first semi-final that the Chinese people pay attention to.
Because Liu Xiang played in the first game of the semi-finals, he was also the first to start warming up in the side court.
"Welcome everyone to watch the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships. The upcoming competition is the men's 60-meter hurdles semi-finals." Yang Jian's voice began to appear on the Tianchao Sports Channel, which also brought many track and field athletes outside the TV screen.
Fans were drawn into the game.
"Liu Xiang, the world record holder for Chinese players, will compete on stage in the semi-finals."
While Yang Jian was talking, the director distributed the list of 8 players for Group 1 of this semi-final on the live broadcast signal:
First course Balaz Baji.
Second Road Ben Reynolds.
Third lane Jackson Keenitz.
Channel 4 Andrew Pozzi.
Channel 5 Emanuele Abate.
Sixth Path Liu Xiang.
Seventh Path Konstantin Shabanov.
The Eighth Path Maxime Linsha.
"The vast majority of people here can only open 7 seconds 60 at most. This strength really cannot threaten Liu Xiang now." Yang Jiandao: "It is recommended that Liu Xiang should give priority to safety with this shot, especially now that it has been changed to
It is similar to a sprint competition in which the semi-finals and finals are held together, with only two hours of rest time. In the semi-finals, it is better to focus on water release to conserve energy."
"I also agree with your opinion." Li Tao said: "This kind of competition is not very competitive at the moment. Liu Xiang should save all his physical energy for the finals and then use it."
"And Liu Xiang is getting older now, and he is no longer the Liu Xiang he was in 2004."
"Learning how to conserve energy is the key to his ability to win various international championships in the finals."
"We see that Liu Xiang is now standing on the starting block. The pair of boots on his feet are customized products provided by Sushen Laboratory. In addition to the exquisite style, the overall technology is also the best in the world. It can maximize the
Give Liu Xiang’s ankle and Achilles tendon as much protection as possible.”
"on your marks."
The terrible start signal sounded throughout the audience.
The small speaker behind you cannot be heard clearly in the unreasonably designed venue. In addition, there is a strong sense of echo, which requires the athletes to adjust and adapt themselves.
Especially the spectators on the sidelines, who seemed to be shouting crazily like a football match.
This kind of shouting throughout the whole process actually means that when the gun is fired, the athletes listen to the competition command.
There is a considerable level of interference.
This is why both Liu Xiang and Su Shen like to make a silent gesture before the game starts.
This is not for the sake of being a big name or pretending to be cool.
It is entirely to listen to the game call and fire the gun clearly, so that I can contribute better performance in this game, show better state, and give feedback to the audience on what they should do.
Otherwise, you will get terrible results due to mistakes in listening to the gun.
The audience was upset.
As an athlete, I am equally miserable.
"set."
"A total of 16 contestants participated in the semi-finals. The contestants were divided into two groups of 8 contestants in each group. The top 4 in the group, a total of 8 contestants, advanced to the finals. This means that there is no small Q in the semi-finals."
Yang Jian took the time to conduct the final popularization of competition rules: "So in theory, this shot only needs to finish in the top 4 to advance easily."
"But because of the special circumstances of the Istanbul World Indoor Championships, Director Li and I suggested that it would be best to get a relatively high ranking. If it is too low, it will be easy to reach the finals, and the performance will be affected by listening to the gun."
With that said, the game began.
Bang————————————
The first shot of the competition started smoothly. Liu Xiang's start was obviously better than that of the preliminaries. The pressure-sensitive starting device data showed that Liu Xiang's starting reaction time was 0.157 seconds.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This kind of reaction may not be a big deal in normal times.
But in this year's Istanbul, it would definitely be a top-notch result.
No one in the entire group had a better starting reaction than Liu Xiang.
If players of their level cannot take advantage of their starting reaction, they will really be hit hard by Liu Xiang throughout the whole process.
"Game start."
"Liu Xiang was already clearly ahead of the other opponents when he rushed the first hurdle."
"Reynolds in the second lane also had a good start, but before the halfway point he was already unable to keep up with Liu Xiang's pace..."
"After three hurdles, Liu Xiang is already in an absolute leading position. Kitty Eagle Guo Boqi also started to exert strength in the later stages, but it is impossible for him to catch up with Liu Xiang anymore."
"After Liu Xiang passed the last hurdle, he obviously put away his strength and crossed the finish line easily!"
"He seemed to be telling Pozzi, who was almost ahead of him in the preliminaries, that it's the semifinals now, brother, and it's time for me to show off my semifinal strength."
"7 seconds 53." Yang Jian looked at the result and said: "Liu Xiang's condition has obviously improved in this game. He deserves to be the world record holder and the yellow flash. This result is really beautiful.
"
"That's right. Judging from the extent of his efforts, it would be easy to run from 7.50 seconds to 7.4 seconds in the final." Li Tao felt relieved when he saw Liu Xiang's condition: "As far as the current situation is concerned,
, there should be no player who can compete with Liu Xiang."
"Basically no one in this group of players can break 7.50 seconds or more than 7.45 seconds, and no one can break 7.45 seconds, and no one except Liu Xiang. This year is definitely the easiest and probably the easiest indoor time for Liu Xiang to defend his title in three years.
World Championships.”
What Li Tao says now, without God's perspective, absolutely no one would criticize him for not knowing how to run.
Because even the strongest Merritt only achieved 7 seconds 46 last year.
It doesn't say how strong this result is.
Compared with Liu Xiang's previous opponents who could easily hit 7.40 seconds or less, they are simply not on the same level.
It's that feeling. You've been playing on hell difficulty for the first half of your life, and suddenly it's downgraded to a difficult level. It makes you feel like "you've never played such an easy game in your life."
It really feels like you can do whatever you want.
But they ignored the fact that Merritt was a player who truly had both front and back. Of course, his best prospects and best late prospects never appeared together. Otherwise, this result would never have been achieved.
But this also shows that he has historically top abilities regardless of his future.
It just can't be output at the same time.
His best time in the 110-meter hurdles and 60 meters is about 7 seconds 36. What is the concept? Unlike the indoor competition, the 110-meter hurdles in the outdoor competition are 60 meters because there is not so much final sprint time, so
Relatively speaking, it will be slower than the 60-meter section of the indoor competition.
And it's much slower.
Of course, the same situation also occurs with Liu Xiang. Many people actually think that Liu Xiang has always been a late-range type. In fact, this is because Liu Xiang is first of all a very strong late-range type and is among the top 5 levels in history. Secondly, his rhythm is extremely stable.
, so there are often comeback dramas in the confrontation between strong men and people's impressions. But many people may not know that Liu Xiang's future is actually equally strong. In Athens that year, he even ran over 60 meters, with a time of about 7 seconds 39. You
You must know how exaggerated the future of this result is, even surpassing Robles's first 60 meters result in the 110-meter hurdles.
Although the 60-meter sections of the 60-meter hurdles and the 110-meter hurdles are slightly different, it also shows that Liu Xiang also had terrifying abilities when he was young.
It's just that as he gets older, his body's original skills have declined, which makes his future seem to be getting more and more powerful.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, these top players actually have the possibility to break 12.80 seconds in the competition. It just requires the right time, place, people and their own rhythm to be at their best that day.
But almost no one can meet all these conditions.
In history, only Merritt has ever come close.
Even so, it is already quite outrageous.
The final results are as follows:
Liu Xiang was first, 7 seconds 53, Q
Andrew Pozzi was second, 7.56 seconds, Q
Emanuele Abate third, 7.62 seconds, Q
Konstantin Shabanov fourth, 7.67 seconds, Q
Maxime Linsha was fifth, 7.72 seconds.
Balazs Badji was sixth, 7.76 seconds.
Ben Reynolds was seventh, 7.72 seconds.
Jackson Kinitz was eighth, 7.80 seconds.
Participated in the World Indoor Championships five times and reached the finals five times.
After the game ended, the big screen that had been slowing down the replay suddenly began to play Liu Xiang's picture.
And add some text introduction.
At the Atakoy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, Liu advanced to the final battle without any suspense.
This means that Liu Xiang has become the player with the second most appearances in the 60-meter hurdles finals at the World Indoor Championships in history after the world record holder of the event, Colin Jackson, a famous player from Kitty Eagle Country and known as the century hurdler.
He surpassed Liu Xiang’s idol Alan Johnson four times.
Although Liu missed the 2006 Moscow World Indoor Championships due to a foot injury, he reached the final again two years later and won the gold medal directly. Liu maintains a perfect record of appearing in the finals of all five participations. Prior to this, the famous Kitty Hawk player
Colin Jackson once set a record of reaching the finals in all six competitions, and won 1 gold and 3 silvers. In addition, Latvia's Oligas also participated in five finals and appeared in five finals, except for the 2008 World Championships in Valencia.
Apart from winning a bronze medal in the competition, he never made it to the podium. In that event, he still tied for third place with Russian player Borisov.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition to Liu Xiang’s current honors of two golds, one bronze and one silver, as long as he wins another gold medal in this event, it will be a well-deserved indoor hurdles
king.
none of them.
After all, although Colin Jackson has reached the finals 6 times in this event, he only has one gold medal and three silver medals.
Most people now think that Liu Xiang is suitable to tie with Colin Jackson in the indoor competition. There is certainly some European and American feelings in this.
Otherwise, Liu Xiang's one extra gold medal should be able to beat the opponent's three silver medals.
However, as long as Istanbul World Indoor Championships continues to win two hours later, the honor of three gold medals will undoubtedly beat any opponent.
No matter what the situation is, it doesn't matter.
In this way, Liu Xiang will also become the well-deserved number one in indoor short strides.
Even if he doesn't have the strongest record in the 60 meters, he can still rely on his stable three gold medals to defeat other competitors.
In the timeline in Su Shen Ji, because Liu Xiang only had one gold medal in the indoor competition, it was impossible for him to catch up with these people. Naturally, he had no extra motivation or publicity to do this.
But on this timeline, Liu Xiang has not only won three consecutive championships in the outdoor IAAF World Championships. He has also won two gold medals in the indoor competition.
If you can get this one.
Especially this year, basically if there is no opponent, it means giving one away for free...
Let's get three consecutive titles in both the indoor and outdoor world championships, and then hit the London Olympics.
It may also be an inspiration to his own beliefs and designs.
Therefore, in this event, he obviously values this Indoor World Championships more than he did in the original timeline.
Not to mention that in this world, the foundation of track and field itself is better and stronger than in the previous life. Coupled with the 60-meter indoor competition, because Su Shen is popular, plus the ultimate melee between Powell and Bolt, the indoor competition
The reputation and ratings of the World Championships have also increased significantly.
The clear ratings of the game have increased, and naturally the influence will also increase.
The attraction for athletes will naturally increase with the tide.
These are all positively correlated effects.
Liu Xiang will pay more attention to this time's Istanbul World Indoor Championships, which is reasonable.
How can an athlete not have the desire to win?
As the world's top athlete, Liu Xiang's desire to win is actually stronger than anyone else, not losing to Su Shen who reopened.
So when Douri came for an interview, he just said a few words and left heartlessly.
I quickly went to the lounge to rest.
This was to allow his body to recover better, and secondly, he also wanted to take a quick look at what Merritt, whom Su Shen had emphasized in the semifinals, meant.
After Liu Xiang went down, 10 minutes later, the second group of athletes was also ready. The final test run of the venue and the adjustment of the starting blocks were completed. Everyone stood in front of their own starting blocks.
"Axiang, in such a hurry, which player do you want to pay attention to?" Sun Haiping turned on the TV and watched the broadcast as soon as Liu Xiang came in. He was also a little curious, because it seemed to him that Liu Xiang had no opponent.
yes.
"Xiao Tian said that this time someone sent by the American team has a very strong game state and strength, and has achieved a great breakthrough in winter training, but we don't know who it is yet." After Liu Xiang sat down, he accepted the team's standardized instructions.
After relaxing in the physical therapy, he said to Sun Haiping: "Shouldn't I take a closer look at who it is?"
"Xiao Tian really said that? Does he have a way to find out the latest inside information?" Sun Haiping immediately paid attention to what Su Shen said when he heard it, and also went near the TV and asked: "But this batch of
No matter how I look at the players, they don’t seem to have such abilities?”
"I think so too, but as you know, Xiao Tian, if he hadn't received the exact news, he definitely wouldn't have told me this, so we'd better take a closer look and be mentally prepared."
"Well, if Xiaotian told you specifically, then you really need to take it seriously."
After the two of them finished speaking, they saw the game on the TV was about to begin.
And both of them have the same gaze on track 6.
Because according to Su Shen.
If you are an American player.
Then there is actually only one observation target left in this scene...
That is the "older newcomer" Merritt in Lane 6.
Could it be him?
Liu Xiang stared at Channel 6 and said softly in his heart.
"set."
Before the gunfire even sounded, someone had already rushed out of the starting line.
"Huh? Is this a false start?"
Because Liu Xiang had been focusing on lane 6, his first reaction was that the American player in lane 6 had jumped the gun.
No one in the audience, including the audience, heard the gunfire. Then, almost instantly, someone noticed that the timer had started to move. At this moment, Merritt, who reacted the fastest, rushed out, but was immediately heard by the gunfire.
The call came back.
The referees in a mess gave Merritt the order to go out. One of them waved the red card at the American, which meant that he was sent off directly.
"This..." Sun Haiping was stunned when he saw this, and said: "Is this the American player that Xiao Tian asked us to pay attention to?"
"I don't know." Liu Xiang didn't know what to say. After all, he had already jumped the gun, so he could only say mindlessly: "Maybe I'm just too nervous."
"Xiao Tian also makes mistakes in judgment sometimes." Sun Haiping smiled with some relief. If Merritt is sent off, even if he is really in excellent condition and has a breakthrough during winter training, Liu Xiang will be disappointed.
This game poses no threat.
Without Merritt and Liu Xiang winning the championship this time, it is a sure thing.
But not long after, Merritt was back on the court.
According to a reporter on TV, the reason was that because the horn on the starting block did not sound the starting gun, there was a strange scene where the timer started running without everyone hearing the gunshot.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This situation is considered a mistake by the competition organizing committee and is not included in the false start.
"Can it still be like this?" Sun Haiping came on again after seeing Merritt go down: "Obviously he just ran out without thinking about the gun. Why did he turn off the timer? If he couldn't get out without grabbing the gun, then he must have jumped the gun.
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"Forget it, Master, the American team has always been privileged internationally. Even if it is a relay foul, it can be replayed separately. We can't compare with this." Liu Xiang was the first to react. He was not worried about Merritt's recovery.
When I went on stage, I felt that there were too many mood swings.
Anyway, he was ready to take a closer look.
No big deal.
"Well, okay." Sun Haiping saw that Liu Xiang had no reaction, and there was no need to worry about it anymore. Anyway, even if Merritt was eliminated, he believed that the strongest person on the court was still Liu Xiang.
After all, Merritt's best time was never 7.45 seconds.
It's not at the same level as Liu Xiang's current ability to run within 7 seconds and 40 seconds.
So even if I stand on the field again, it doesn't matter much.
This episode caused a lot of boos in the audience. Merritt, who was already breaking out in a cold sweat, had a nervous expression on his face after receiving the affirmative reply that he could return to the track. He no longer felt as relaxed as before.
At the second start, the referee fired the starting gun with almost no gap after the prepared call.
Compared to the previous slow gun start, this one's start is ridiculously fast.
Many people are not prepared.
Especially Merritt, who almost received a red card just now, was even more afraid to react. When he saw his reaction at the start, he was ranked last.
It seems that the false start incident just now caused a lot of psychological disturbance to Merritt.
"Merritt had a slow start, but Spain's Ortega had the fastest reaction at the start."
In fact, Merritt's shot was even worse than what was explained, because when he started, he reacted too slowly and rushed out in too much haste, and he stumbled a bit in the first step.
This made him almost fall down.
Fortunately, with this shot, the overall abilities of the other opponents were poor, allowing Merritt to barely catch up to third place.
If there were a few stronger players participating this year, Merritt would definitely be eliminated this time.
Just like that, there is Lehan Fury, who has exactly the same results as him.
The finalists from this group are:
Pascal Martino Lagarde first, 7.60s.
Lehann Fury was second, 7.65s.
Aris Merritt was third, 7.65s.
Arthur Noga was fourth, 7.68s.
…
After seeing the results of these people, Liu Xiang and Sun Haiping looked at each other a little.
For a moment, the two people looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
But they can all see similar answers from each other's eyes.
It seems to be saying...
This so-called American breakthrough master?
That's it?
Is this the level?
Almost eliminated in the semi-finals?
Faced with the results and process of the game that I saw with my own eyes.
They also started to "draw their swords and look around at a loss".
ps: Second update, I wish everyone a happy meal and fun on the last day of 2023. See you in the next chapter on New Year’s Eve, hehe!!!!!!!!!!!!