Chapter 1765 It seems that I saw myself in this moment
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The 110-meter hurdles in the IAAF Diamond League London Station is about to begin. This will be the last open competition before the Olympics of Flying Liu Xiang. On his 29th birthday, Flyinger of course hopes to celebrate his birthday with the champion. However, he has a more important task in this competition, which is to adapt to the climate of London and the Olympic system of 2 hours and two shots.
This is the first time Liu Xiang has participated in an outdoor competition in London in his career. Since defending champion Robles has high a free card, Liu Xiang, who currently maintains a full victory in the season, will mainly face the attacks of American two American heroes Merritt and Richardson. Previously, Liu Xiang also said in an interview with the media that the London competition will be mainly adjusted: "I don't treat the Diamond League as a competition, but just adjust it, and there is no requirement for myself to achieve results. Its competition system is quite similar to the Olympics. I will treat this as a training and adapt easily."
Since 16 people signed up for the competition, the competition will be divided into two groups, with preliminaries and finals.
Among them, Liu Xiang was assigned to the fourth lane of the first group, and there were no particularly strong opponents in the same group. Richardson, Merritt will fire in the second group and the two ranked third and fourth lanes. Merritt ran the best season 12.93 seconds in the US track and field Olympic trials that ended not long ago. Richardson was the runner-up of the Osaka World Championships last year, and the two will also be Liu Xiang's main opponents in the Olympic field. The preliminary round, the two shots were only about two hours apart, which is almost the same as the rematch and final arrangements in the London Olympics. I believe Liu Xiang will also use this opportunity to perform the final simulation of the Olympics.
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After a night off.
Weekend competition scene.
"Is this really summer?" Zhou Bing complained loudly: "Why does it feel so cold?"
"Didn't you look at the weather forecast?" Zhao Haohuan said from the side: "Today, the temperature in London is only 18℃, and the lowest temperature is even 10℃."
"Damn, it's really hell. It's already July, okay?" Zhou Bing finally understood why Sushen Laboratory is going to develop a series of insulation equipment this year, and now it looks...
It's really necessary.
"Give me another insulation sauce, it's really cold to me." Zhou Bing's complaints are not an example. Liu Xiang also feels the same way. He feels that the temperature difference here is too large, at least it is not the same as in China. Such weather has suddenly increased the difficulty of warming up, and it is easy to have various physical problems.
For example, the ankle and heel Achilles tendons will cause obvious discomfort.
Wet and cold weather is most likely to cause recurrence and recurrence of injuries.
"Thanks to Xiaotian, I suggest coming early." Sun Haiping shook his head as he looked at the weather: "The temperature difference between the Magic City and London has reached nearly 20℃. If you don't adapt early, your muscles will be very tense and it will be difficult to adjust."
He doesn't have much to do with himself.
I am afraid that there will be problems with Liu Xiang. In fact, I have had some minor problems these days. Although they can be overcome, the frequent occurrence of such a short period of time shows that London is really a place that is not friendly to athletes' injuries.
The men's 110 Milan final of the London Olympics will be held on August 8, only more than three weeks away.
Time is tight.
What Sun Haiping has to do now is...not let Liu Xiang have any non-competition problems.
"It looks like it will rain today." Liu Xiang waved his hand and felt the weather as if it had started drizzling.
"Brother Xiang, this is your auspicious sign!" said several members of Xiang's team.
The battle between Liu Xiang in the end is indeed in history. It is not as strong as it can be. It seems that it is a "good omen" in this way.
Only Liu Xiang felt that his body was slightly struggling with the recent improvement in training volume.
Although, if you increase the amount and intensity of training, you will inevitably feel uncomfortable.
Even if he is completely healthy, he is now overhauled and must pay more attention to physical fluctuations.
Fortunately, it is still within the support range and within my own expectations.
After finishing this part.
It should be no problem.
In this game, I was the first match against Merritt to win the WL, and it was also the first time I face Merritt who could open 13 seconds.
I never cared about this player before.
If you look at it now...
Xiaotian is still right.
Someone really broke out.
It's Merritt, who is not young at this age.
Because it is an Olympic city, everyone is very enthusiastic about participating. Most of the competitions have preliminary and finals, which is enough to reflect the importance of the London Championship this time.
Perhaps in order to cooperate with the changes in the competition system, the preliminaries will be started first.
After the women's side ended, it was the man's turn soon.
In the first group, Germany's Jenny ranked first, followed by German Sharman on the second runway, American athlete Hicks on the third runway, Liu Xiang was on the fourth runway, American athlete Porter on the fifth runway, American athlete Brown on the sixth runway, German athlete Turner on the seventh runway, and German athlete Alex on the eighth runway.
Liu Xiang moved his joints on the track.
The electronic password rang soon.
“on your marks.”
“set.”
Bang ————————————
The password was very fast, even a little too fast. Liu Xiang's reaction was 0.152, and the fastest was 0.137s. His starting reaction was only ranked fifth.
But this can't affect anything.
There is no expert in this shot. Liu Xiang is actually just doing his legs and lays the foundation for the finals.
"The competition started, Liu Xiang started a little slower."
"But the upper bar is still good, the rhythm is OK."
"By adjusting the rhythm through three bars, Liu Xiang gradually entered the state, and the speed increased. When the speed increased on the way, the rest of the people had no chance."
"Liu Xiang kept widening the gap, and the last column was released."
"The final force was closed and the finish line was passed."
"No surprises in the first place, 13.25s, easy group first to enter the finals."
"In the final, he will compete with Merritt and others to see who is the strongest quarrel this year."
In the second group, Xie Wenjun was divided into the first runway, German athlete Pots 2, American athlete Richardson 3, Merritt 4, American Wilson 5, Carac 6, Braswit 7, and Akins 8.
In the second group, American Merritt easily won the first place in the group with a starting reaction of 0.139 seconds and strong strength. It can be seen that Merritt is very excited now, and his running state is completely different from that of Liu Xiang's memory.
Watching him pass through the bar one by one.
Liu Xiang frowned slightly.
Sun Haiping beside him is also similar.
Nothing else, mainly because they saw that Merritt's hurdle rhythm... was unexpectedly outstanding.
It is completely different from the body flow of Oliver before.
More like...the former Column King Johnson.
Liu Xiang himself knows how important this sense of rhythm is in the short span.
Because of himself.
It is to rely on a strong sense of short-span rhythm to win.
Unexpectedly, Merritt is now...
It's done so well, too.
final.
Richardson finished second with 13.23 seconds, Wilson finished third in the group in 13.28 seconds, and Potz ranked fourth with a time of 13.34 seconds, and this was his personal best result. Xie Wenjun missed the final with a time of 13.35 seconds.
In fact, he could have run better, but because he was a little nervous and unadapted, he was in a bad state of running this shot.
Finally, they were out of the top four.
But this result is already one of the best results in Asia this year.
Especially when Shi Dongpeng was in a sluggish situation and was unable to go to London.
For a young player born in the 1990s who attended the Olympics for the first time, it is already very good.
Sun Haiping touched Xie Wenjun's head and signaled that he could do it without any worries.
But when I touched him, my mind was a little "absent-minded".
The attention is still on Liu Xiang's side.
Merritt's reaction and strength of this gun are so strong that it seems that there is really no luck this year.
Even without Robles...
This champion is probably not easy to win.
The preliminaries were 13.14 seconds, and the final state was that I couldn't even hold back the water. I could feel it even though I was dozens of meters away from Sun Haibo.
Even Richardson, who was second, scored 13.23s in one shot.
It's better than Liu Xiang's preliminaries.
Although the limelight was snatched by Merritt in this year's US Championships, Richardson was also a two-hour double-opening for 13 seconds. Liu Xiang has never done this ability. Although the previous competition system did not require such a short output, now the competition system has changed, so we have to adapt to it.
Otherwise, your competitiveness will be inferior to others.
At this time, Merritt, who had the best results in the preliminaries, naturally got an on-site interview with media reporters:
"My idea for the season is to compete for the championship with my idol Liu!"
"This is also my dream."
"Now I have this opportunity, I will do my best to defeat the other party!"
"He is the idol who inspired me to be an eight-point change to seven-point, so he is also the person I dream of surpassing."
"Now I finally have this opportunity, I won't miss it easily."
"Liu, please fight me."
"I want to beat you."
Merritt really regards Liu Xiang as his idol, but in the competitive sports world, in addition to chasing stars and motivating himself, his greatest role is to improve himself as a goal.
Even to surpass this goal.
Merritt got this "essence of idols".
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 large screen above his head. He seemed to be a little...
I saw myself once.
Back then, I seemed to be in New York, facing the then world king Alan Johnson, who said similar words.
A similar look was revealed.
Yes.
That's the look.
Just like myself in 2004.
Exactly the same.
Just now.
He is Alan Johnson.
And this suddenly rising American Merritt.
It was myself at that time.
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