Chapter 1765 At this moment, I feel like I saw my past self
Tianchao Sports Channel Sports News:
The 110-meter hurdles competition at the London Station of the IAAF Diamond League is about to begin. This will be the last public competition for the flying man Liu Xiang before the Olympic Games. On his 29th birthday, the flying man certainly hopes to celebrate his birthday with the championship. But in this competition, he has
The more important task is to adapt to the climate of London and the Olympic competition format of two hours and two shots.
This is the first time that Liu Xiang has participated in an outdoor competition in London in his career. Since the defending champion Robles has exempted himself from the competition, Liu Xiang, who has maintained a complete victory in the season, will mainly face the attack of the American duo Merritt and Richardson. Previously, Liu Xiang
Xiang also said in an interview with the media that the London Games will focus on adjustments: "I don't regard the Diamond League as a competition. I just make adjustments and there are no performance requirements for myself. Its competition system is quite similar to the Olympic Games. I
I will treat this as a training session and get used to it easily."
Since there are 16 people registered to participate, the competition will be divided into two groups, with preliminary rounds and final rounds.
Among them, Liu Xiang was placed in the fourth lane of the first group. There was no particularly strong opponent in the same group. Rising star Xie Wenjun will play in the first lane of the second group. The American duo Richardson and Merritt will start in the second group.
The two were tied, with the two ranked third and fourth respectively. Merritt ran a season-best time of 12.93 seconds at the recently concluded U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials. Richardson was the runner-up at last year's World Championships in Osaka. The two
People will also be Liu Xiang's main opponent in the Olympics. There is only about two hours between the preliminaries and the finals. This is almost the same arrangement as the semi-finals and finals at the London Olympics. I believe Liu Xiang will also use this opportunity to fight against
The final simulation of the Olympic Games.
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After a night's rest.
Weekend game scene.
"Is this really summer?" Zhou Bing complained loudly: "Why does it feel so cold?"
"Didn't you read the weather forecast?" Zhao Haohuan said from the side: "The temperature in London today is only 18℃, and the lowest temperature is even only 10℃."
"Damn, what the hell, it's already July, okay?" Zhou Bing finally understood why Sushen Laboratory was developing a series of thermal insulation equipment this year. Now it seems...
It's really necessary.
"Give me some more heat preservation sauce, it's really cold to death." Zhou Bing's complaint was not unique. Liu Xiang also felt the same way. He felt that the temperature difference here was too big, at least compared with that in China.
It's not the same thing. Such weather makes it more difficult for him to warm up suddenly, and it's easy for him to have various minor physical problems.
For example, the ankles and Achilles tendons have obvious discomfort.
Humid and cold weather is most likely to cause injuries to relapse and recur.
"Thanks to Xiao Tian for suggesting coming early." Sun Haiping looked at the weather and shook his head: "The temperature difference between Shanghai and London is nearly 20 degrees Celsius. If you don't adapt early, your muscles will be very tense and it will be difficult to adjust."
He himself has nothing to do with it.
I am just afraid that Liu Xiang will be prone to problems. In fact, he has really had some minor problems in the past few days. Although they can be overcome, the frequent occurrence in such a short period of time shows that London is really not friendly to athletes' injuries.
The place.
The London Olympics men's 110 Milan final will be held on August 8, just over 3 weeks away.
Time is limited.
What Sun Haiping has to do now is... to prevent Liu Xiang from having any non-competition problems.
"It looks like it will rain today." Liu Xiang waved his hand and felt the weather. It seemed that it had started to drizzle.
"Brother Xiang, this is a good omen for you!" several members of Xiang's team said.
After all, the battle between Yu and Liu Xiang is indeed historical, and he is extremely strong. It seems that it is a "good omen", and it is correct.
Only Liu Xiang himself felt that his body was slightly struggling due to the recent increasing training volume.
Although it is said that increasing the amount and intensity of training will inevitably cause physical discomfort.
This is true even for a completely healthy body, but for him, it has been overhauled now and he must pay more attention to the fluctuations in his body.
Fortunately, it is still within the support range and within my expectations.
Finished this section.
should be no problem.
In this game, it was the first time I faced Merritt to win the WL, and it was also the first time I faced Merritt who could open up 13 seconds.
I never paid much attention to this player before.
If we look at it now...
Xiao Tian is still right.
Someone really broke out.
Merritt is not young even at this age.
Because it is an Olympic city, everyone is very enthusiastic about participating. Most competitions have preliminaries and finals, which fully reflects the importance of the London Games.
Perhaps in order to cooperate with the changes in the competition system, the short span will start the preliminaries first.
After the women's side ended, it was the men's turn soon.
In the first group, Germany's Gianni is in the first lane, followed by the German Sharman in the second lane, the American Hicks in the third lane, Liu Xiang in the fourth lane, and the American in the fifth lane.
Porter, American player Brown on the 6th track, German player Turner on the 7th track, and German player Alex on the 8th track.
Liu Xiang moved his joints on the track.
Soon the electronic password sounded.
"on your marks."
"set."
Bang——————————————
The command was very fast, even a little too fast. Liu Xiang's reaction was 0.152, the fastest was 0.137s, and his starting reaction was only ranked fifth.
But this doesn't affect anything.
There is no expert in this shot. Liu Xiang actually just followed his leg and prepared his body for the final.
"At the beginning of the game, Liu Xiang started a little slowly."
"But it's still good to go up the rails, and the rhythm is okay."
"By adjusting the rhythm through three hurdles, Liu Xiang gradually entered the state and picked up the speed. If he picked up the speed during the run, the others would have no chance."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Liu Xiang kept widening the gap, and the last column was leaked."
"Finally pulled back and passed the finish line."
"There was no surprise in first place, 13.25s, easily the first in the group and entering the finals."
"In the finals, as expected, he will compete with Merritt and others to see who is the strongest hurdler this year."
In the second group, Xie Wenjun was on the 1st track, German player Pozzi was on the 2nd track, American player Richardson was on the 3rd track, Merritt, the owner of the best result this season, was on the 4th track, and American Wilson was on the 5th track
In the second group, American Merritt relied on his starting reaction of 0.139 seconds and strong strength to easily win the first place in the group in 13.14 seconds. It can be seen that Merritt is in a very excited state now. His running state and Liu Xiang’s memory
He is completely different.
Watch him pass hurdles one after another.
Liu Xiang frowned slightly.
The same goes for Sun Haiping beside him.
Nothing else, the main reason is that they noticed that Merritt's hurdle rhythm... was unexpectedly good.
It's completely different from the previous Oliver's physical flow.
More like... former hurdle king Johnson.
Liu Xiang himself knows how important this sense of rhythm is in short strides.
Because of himself.
It relies on a strong sense of short-span rhythm to win.
Unexpectedly, Merritt now...
Also doing so well.
finally.
Richardson finished second in 13.23 seconds, Wilson finished third in the group with 13.28 seconds, and Pozzi ranked fourth in 13.34 seconds, which was his personal best. Xie Wenjun finished in 13.35 seconds.
Ranked out of the finals.
In fact, he could have run better, but because he was a little nervous and unadapted, he was not in good condition for this shot.
Finally ranked outside the top four.
But this result is already one of the best results in Asia this year.
Especially when Shi Dongpeng is in a downturn and unable to go to London.
For a young player born in the 1990s who participated in the Olympics for the first time, this is already very good.
Sun Haiping touched Xie Wenjun's head and told him that his performance was okay and there was no need to be upset.
But when I touched him, my mind was somewhat "absent-minded".
The attention is still on Liu Xiang's side.
Merritt's reaction and strength of this shot are so strong, it seems that there is really no luck this year.
Even without Robles...
I’m afraid it’s not easy to win this championship.
The preliminaries lasted 13.14 seconds. In the end, he was in a state where he could not hold back any water. Sun Haiping could feel it even from dozens of meters away.
Even Richardson, who placed second, shot 13.23 seconds.
Better than Liu Xiang's preliminaries results.
In this year's US Championships trials, although Merritt stole the limelight, Richardson is also the one who can double open in 2 hours and 13 seconds. This ability has not been done by Liu Xiang so far. Of course, this is not necessary in the previous competition system.
Output, but now that the competition system has changed, you have to adapt to it.
Otherwise, your competitiveness will be inferior to others.
At this time, Merritt, who had the best score in the preliminaries, naturally received an on-site interview from media reporters:
"My idea for the season is to compete for the championship with my idol Liu!"
"This has also been my dream for a long time."
"Now that I have this opportunity, I will go all out to defeat the opponent!"
"He is the idol who inspires me to change from eight to seven, so he is also the person I dream of surpassing."
"Now I finally have this opportunity, and I won't miss it easily."
"Liu, please fight with me."
"I want to beat you."
Merritt indeed regards Liu Xiang as his idol, but in the world of competitive sports, apart from chasing stars and motivating oneself, the biggest role of idols is... as a goal to improve oneself.
Even to exceed this goal.
In this regard, Merritt has obtained the "essence of the idol".
I like you very much and respect you very much, but I also want to surpass you.
Liu Xiang saw Merritt's big white teeth on the high-definition screen above his head, and for a moment he seemed a little...
I saw my past self.
It seems that I was also in New York when I faced the then world hurdler Alan Johnson and said something similar.
He showed a similar look.
Yes.
That's the look.
Just like myself in 2004.
Exactly the same.
Just now.
I am Alan Johnson.
And this sudden rise of American Merritt.
That's who I was at that time.
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