Chapter 1907 Get ready to start the group! Uncle Sam’s traditional performances start early!
After the single item ends.
The rest is a matter of teamwork.
This is also a key attraction in the Olympic Games.
First up is the 4x400m race.
An equally modest miracle occurred here——
In the men's 4x400m relay final, the Bahamas team and the United States team competed fiercely. The United States team took over the baton after the third leg. Taylor maintained the lead in the first 300 meters, but Miller of the Bahamas team accelerated and overtook in the last 100 meters.
Taylor and Miller crossed the finish line first. The Bahamas team won the gold medal in 2:56.72, the United States won the silver medal in 2:57.05, and the Trinidad and Tobago team won a bronze medal. The South African team won the final.
In his debut, the blade warrior Pistorius ran the last baton. Although the South African team ranked last to hand over the baton after the first three batons, Pistorius conscientiously insisted on running to the end. The South African team finished with a time of 3 minutes, 03 seconds and 46 seconds.
At the end of the race, due to a foul committed by the Cuban team, the South African team finished in 7th place.
What is the miracle here?
Mainly because the American team's eight consecutive championships were shattered.
If you know the history of track and field, you must know that 0x400 has always been dominated by the Americans. In this event, they have won for 28 years. Yes, you heard it right, they have won for almost thirty years.
Some people even jokingly said that the 4x400m was specially used to win gold medals for the American team, and they could be canceled directly or the medals could be awarded before the game. Although it is a mockery, it does prove the strength of the American team.
According to the winning odds issued before the game, the US team is still the well-deserved hegemon in this event. They have almost never failed in the competition. However, the Bahamas has seized a unique opportunity. This year’s US team has had a bad year.
Two former Olympic champions in the 400-meter event, Merritt and Varina, retired with injuries; then in the recent preliminaries of the men's 4x400-meter relay, another stalwart Mitchell also bid farewell to London due to a fractured fibula. In the final,
Chel used crutches to cheer for his teammates. He wanted to come over to celebrate the team, but he became the comforter. "The team has been plagued by injuries this year, and it is satisfying to win a medal." After losing the game,
American team member Quay was very helpless.
In the final, the American team lost to Taylor's last leg. In fact, in the first three legs and even the last 300 meters of the battle, the American team was still in the lead. Taylor, who was helplessly accustomed to the rhythm of hurdles, seemed to be very
Unsuited to the 400-meter sprint, even though he ran out of body, he was still overtaken by Panamanian teenager Miller.
But their Uncle Sam's traditional entertainment skills were gone. Not to mention the backbone of the Bahamas, Mitchell was unable to play due to a fractured fibula.
Injuries are always a part of competitive sports.
If the American team wins, then he will definitely say this.
But if he loses.
Injuries are the deciding factor in victory or defeat.
This traditional American double-standard model will be more vividly reflected in the Paris Olympics 12 years later. But now there are still many people in our country who have filters for the United States, and many people have fallen into the trap of self-certification and reflection.
, no matter what people say, they will still think that they are still a beacon and cannot be slapped, so we must still have our own problems.
The Bahamas is located to the east of Florida in the United States. The former is at best an inconspicuous little neighbor of the United States. But it is such an inconspicuous country that used an incredible gold medal to break its unreachable neighbor in the men's 4x400 meter relay event.
28 years of monopoly.
This gold medal is the first men's Olympic gold medal in the history of The Bahamas. For the Bahamas, it is not easy to win this gold medal. Unlike gold medals in individual competitions, gold medals in track and field group events such as relays reflect the overall track and field of a country.
Strength. In this Olympics, the Bahamas delegation has only 26 athletes in total. Compared with delegations from the United States, Russia, and flower growers, which often have hundreds of people, the size is far different. The Associated Press also admitted that when the delegation is very large
For the small Bahamas to win such a gold medal is a breakthrough.
The Bahamas' track and field gold medal may also indicate that in addition to Jamaica, another Caribbean island country will also launch an unprecedented impact on the dominant track and field events of the United States.
ABC News in the United States pointed out that after lagging behind Jamaica in all men's sprint events, the 400-meter relay has always been the most stable event in the United States and has also encountered great challenges: "Judging from the results of the players in this competition, our previous
The huge advantage no longer exists!”
In fact, it has long been known to the world that the Caribbean produces "flying men". Jamaica, the Bahamas, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago... almost all the medals won by these Caribbean countries in previous Olympic Games came from China.
Sprint event. In the past, due to limited training conditions and other reasons, the Caribbean flying people did not have the advantage of forming a group. But after entering this century, with the improvement of training conditions and the role models of track and field heroes, the flying people in the Caribbean are becoming
Just like products manufactured on an assembly line, they pop up one after another, and the best example is undoubtedly Jamaica.
Eurosport said when summarizing this men's 4x400 meter relay race: "We can imagine that in the future, more and more teenagers will devote themselves to track and field training in the Bahamas."
In the foreseeable future, the short and middle distance competitions in track and field in the Olympic Games may become a civil war among Caribbean flyers.
This is the men's 4x400m and the women's 4x400m, which is dominated by the American team and the Russian team——
The four members of the U.S. team are Trotter, Felix, McCloy and Richards. Among them, Trotter is the bronze medalist in the 400 meters at this Olympics (49 seconds 72), and Richards is the gold medalist.
The winner (49.55 seconds), Felix is the 200-meter gold medalist (400-meter personal best 49.59 seconds, ran 48.01 seconds in the relay), and McCloy ran 50.06 seconds this year.
???????The Russian team is composed of four people, Gushkina, Korivoshapka, Felova and Anteyuko, who are relatively average in strength. The first three of them all achieved 400-meter individual records this year.
The best results are 49.28 seconds, 49.16 seconds and 49.72 seconds respectively. Anteyuk is the gold medal winner in the 400-meter hurdles at this Olympics (52.70 seconds).
Judging from the personal best results, the two sides were evenly matched, but in the final, the American team was in the lead in the first leg, with Trotter running 49.57 seconds; then Felix expanded the lead in the second leg, running 48 seconds.
Seconds 85; In the third leg, McCloy was the weaker member of the American team, but she did not give her opponent any chance. She successfully passed the baton to Richard, the last battalion, in first place in 49 seconds 39.
Dez, she ran 49.07 seconds, helping the U.S. team cross the line first with an absolute advantage. The result was fixed at 3:16.87, successfully defending the title. This is also the best result in the world in the past 20 years.
The Russian team finished second with a season-best time of 3 minutes, 20 seconds and 23 seconds, and the Jamaican team finished third with a time of 3 minutes, 20 seconds and 95 seconds.
Jamaica's 4x100m relay was not as strong as the sprint, at least it was far behind their 4x100m relay. However, they still won a bronze medal.
Similar to this project, our country has never invested in it and has always been a bystander.
Of course, the audience for this event is not that high. In the Olympic Games, where ethnography is determined only in the sprint field, more attention will definitely be put into the sprint field.
Unless one day we are getting stronger and stronger in the sprint field, maybe we will consider expanding the distribution of relays.
We also include 4x400 in our key training areas.
At the same time, another doping scandal broke out - a Syrian female track and field athlete tested positive for drugs and has been officially removed from the team.
According to the International Olympic Committee, Syrian female track and field athlete Hefran Almohamed failed a drug test and was found to have taken the banned drug "methylisohexylamine" and has been expelled from the current Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee said in this statement, "Hefran Almohamed, 23 years old, provided a urine sample for a drug test during the competition on August 3 and was found to have taken methyl isohexylamine.
Her urine sample from bottle B also confirmed the test result of urine sample from bottle A.”
At this time, former World Anti-Doping Committee Chairman Pound said in an interview——
The flower growers team did not undergo strict drug testing!
ha?!
What are these words???
Everyone in the flower gardening family was shocked, because in the past, this kind of thing usually didn't happen to us. It was usually teams from the United States, Jamaica, and Europe and the United States that would encounter such things.
I didn't expect that we would be stabbed like this in London this year.
Although we have become accustomed to this situation 10 years later, in 2012 it was obvious that everyone was not ready for it.
However, Su Shen knows that the price of winning gold medals from the British and American powers is often more suspicion... While our athletes are sweeping the Olympic track and field championship honors, former World Anti-Doping Committee Chairman Pound was interviewed by Reuters
At that time, he threw a bucket of cold water to Su Shen and his teammates. He admitted that he was not satisfied with the current drug testing implemented by the Jamaica Olympic Committee on his athletes.
"No, they are a group of athletes who are difficult to arrange for drug testing. It is difficult for you to find them and get close to them... I think they understand this. The more outstanding results they achieve, the more they will appear on everyone's radar."
Under the spotlight," Pound complained.
In addition to Su Shen who is invincible this year, the Chinese team also has Xie Zhenye and Chen Juan who have won individual medals, plus Zhao Haohuan in Daegu last year. There are so many in the sprint field alone, not to mention long-distance running and walking.
In the legion, the only track and field team to win the gold, silver and bronze Grand Slam this time is our Chinese team. Do you think this is outrageous? Naturally, some people can't sit still!
Although the Olympic organizing committee has expelled 17 athletes for using banned drugs since the start of the track and field competition, Pound believes that it is too early to talk about "an anti-doping victory."
"It's too early to draw conclusions now. I think as the scientific level improves, we should do better and better. We are now starting to work on a smarter and better detection method. To paraphrase Churchill's famous saying - this
It is the end, but not the end of the beginning, but the beginning of the end.”
Conte, the notorious "father of doping" and owner of the shuttered BALCO laboratory, said on Thursday that 60 percent of participating athletes were doping and that he believed Olympic drug tests could be easily cheated. Conte's comments
Pound responded: "He may know more than us. I hope this number is not 60%, but what is certain is that there must be more athletes secretly doping than we have caught.
.I don’t want to see too many banned cases in the Olympics. After all, when you take banned drugs, you not only deceive yourself, but also fool everyone’s IQ.”
"Of course, I'm not 100% saying that drugs are used in Chinese track and field, but you know, they also have a disgraceful history, so who knows, it's better to check more."
At this time, in the preparation room where the flower grower could enter the team, Yuan Guoqiang angrily smashed the report on the table——
"What nonsense is this? We are obviously cooperating with the inspections of international competition organizing committees and anti-doping organizations? And there has never been a precedent of evading inspections. Isn't this enough? What does he mean by this? Do you want to add more?
How intense are our inspections?”
"I guess so." Su Shen is very aware of the crazy attacks our swimming team suffered 12 years later. There were more than 200 crazy inspections in a short Olympic period. They asked you to check six or seven times a day, which directly disrupted your training.
Plan for mental rest and recovery.
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After all, compared to swimming.
The loss of track and field is even more difficult for Europeans and Americans to accept.
The rise of track and field has made them more irritated.
So it's perfectly normal to find ways to suppress it.
Just depends on when.
This year, the Chinese track and field team has achieved such good results and has even been firmly ranked in the top three of the track and field rankings, so that's okay. The ethnography that has been painstakingly worked out is becoming increasingly untenable.
I have said before that what these Europeans and Americans are best at is that when they are far ahead of you, they will give you the so-called civilization and justice with a hypocritical and superior attitude, making you grateful.
There are even articles that read that Europeans and Americans don’t care about gold medals, European and American trainers are amateurs, and only flower growers care so much about winning or losing.
Once you catch up with him and even want to arm-wrestle with him...
Only then will the wonderful things appear.
What doesn’t matter about the gold medal?
In fact, Europeans and Americans care about gold medals more than anyone else. The sage said that one should not judge a person by what he says, but by what he does. When you really catch up with him and threaten him,
Various methods will be used frequently. Otherwise, why would the Paris Olympics catch us and conduct frantic testing?
Even their "goat" in the swimming world, now the so-called flying fish, Phelps publicly said in an interview that he believed that the testing agencies were not testing us enough, far from enough.
Are you just saying it's not too far off?
The so-called Europeans and Americans are amateurs, not professionals. We are too utilitarian. This is a pure joke. When it comes to training systems and training models, Europe and the United States are more professional and China is more backward. There are various criticisms. When it comes to professionalism and hard work,
, that is, Europe and the United States are not competing for each other, happy Olympics, completely forgetting the so-called professional athletes, where does this title come from?
They are afraid that they have forgotten that in the original Chinese words, there is no such thing as a professional athlete.
This word is originally a translated word.
In the end, only we care about winning or losing, if that's the case...
If you understand how much American athletes want to win, and how much European and American athletes also want to win, you will know that this is ridiculous.
Because many of them can only take the path of athletes. Remember, they have no choice but to take this path. If they want to turn around, they can only rely on this path. So you say they don’t want to win on this path? And this is the path.
Whether the road is successful also means whether you can make money.
Being able to win means being able to make money. I am afraid that many people in our beautiful socialist society cannot resist this temptation. You need evil capitalist athletes to resist this temptation. Do you think you rely on your cerebellum to think?
If you look at the physical fitness of European and American athletes, their various scholarship systems and rules, and their professional models, you will know...
There is no such thing as not wanting to win, there is absolutely no such thing.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have made a big move and directly changed the medal list, eliminating some unfavorable events and not counting them with you. Then the US team would still be number one.
You said you don't care?
In fact, they care more than anyone else.
I wish you didn't care, were beaten by them, defeated by them, and then you can use the same ethnography to say that your physical skills are not good, and then extend to your race.
And if athletes don’t strive for victory, why should you strive for it?
Team USA has always provided their athletes with the best training and rest environment, and their big-name athletes don't even have to live in the Olympic Village.
The first company to bring a variety of professional chefs, professional ingredients, professional equipment, and various air transport teams. Which one can you guess?
They are allowed to do it but we are not allowed to do it. As Iran says, imperialism will never die even if its imperialism is destroyed. Whenever we have any chance of becoming stronger, we must try our best to discredit it.
Moreover, Su Shen remembered very clearly that the words that the former chairman jumped out to now also happened on the timeline.
It's just that at that time, the people he targeted were Jamaica, Usain Bolt, Blake, Fraser and others.
But now because of Jamaica's collective defeat in London this year, Su Shen estimated that he could only urgently change the draft and directly replace the original Jamaican team with the Chinese team.
Anyway, it’s about collecting money to do things.
Who is writing but not writing?
This is actually not surprising.
Just as he finished speaking, there was a "dong dong dong" sound outside the door.
What's going on?
"Didn't you say that we are discussing tactics to prevent knocking on the door?" Yuan Guoqiang frowned and walked over to take a look. It was the staff who ran over panting and said: "Director Yuan, the London Olympic Organizing Committee and the International Anti-Doping Organization are conducting temporary inspections.
.”
"Furthermore, our new spot inspection method and spot inspection mode have been changed. This is the document they sent for your review."
Yuan Guoqiang's eyes jumped when he heard this, and he grabbed the document and took a look.
Suddenly furious.
"What?"
"We need to conduct a minimum of 4 inspections a day on our track and field athletes participating in the next London Olympics???"
"How can this happen? Don't you train well? Don't you take a rest?"
Su Shen was not surprised when he heard it.
In fact, he believes that this intensity and concentration may intensify as the Chinese team continues to explode and improve, and eventually it will become like a swimming team, which will do it seven or eight times a day.
Anyway, this is how he used to punish Bolt and Powell that year.
In fact, it is the traditional craft of Uncle Sam.
Just don't be surprised if you're surprised.
"Okay, no problem. Where is he? Let's go."
"Xiao Tian, isn't this unfair to us?"
Su Shen smiled and seemed not to take this seriously at all: "It's just routine harassment. Let's not be confused. This shows that they are already anxious. The US team has now lost the 4x400m gold medal it has maintained for 28 years.
, now we are really in a hurry, we should hold firm and not fall into their trap."
"But this really affects your rest. If you check like this, plus there are random checks, the amount per day will definitely not be less. Even if you think about it, if he wants to increase the intensity of blood tests..."
How much water do you need to drink every day to maintain urination so many times? Furthermore, athletes are different from ordinary people. The body's water content and weight need to be controlled. In fact, a large amount of water can easily cause edema and weight gain, affecting sports performance.
Then these are things that ordinary people will never know.
From the perspective of ordinary people, isn't it just a drink of water? Just follow their lead. They forget that the modern Olympic Games are becoming more and more scientific and technological. Any increase or fluctuation in weight will affect the athletes.
performance.
This is another reason why they want a urine test.
Using formal urine tests will make your competitive status worse, not to mention disrupted rest, disrupted training plans and other problems.
As for blood tests, that's even more exaggerated.
Because blood needs to be drawn, if too much is drawn, it will cause disorders of the entire body, reduce red blood cells, and reduce oxygen supply capacity, which will directly affect the economic status. Powell has complained many times about similar things after the rise of Jamaica.
In fact, the IAAF and the International Anti-Doping Organization, led by the United States, are just attacking Jamaica first. It’s just that Jamaica is a small country and its people are too weak to resist.
I have to say here that Bolt is awesome.
This has withstood the indiscriminate bombardment.
But not everyone is Bolt, and such high-intensity inspections will definitely affect the state.
Moreover, such high-intensity inspections will also make uninformed people think that there is something really wrong with us. Otherwise, why would we be inspected so frequently?
As for why it is said that this is led by Europe and the United States?
This is because Su Shen knows that the Anti-Doping Organization of the International Olympic Organizing Committee, the Anti-Doping Organization of the IAAF, and the International Anti-Doping Organization will be announced in the market outlook...
The largest sponsors are from Europe and the United States.
It can even be said that it is the United States directly.
This is why doping organizations dare to directly bombard and scold the United States if they don't listen to it.
It's because they are the biggest financial backers. It feels like I've invested so much money in you, but you don't listen to me.
"No problem." Su Shen turned to Yuan Guoqiang very calmly and said: "I will solve this matter when the time comes."
"Don't violate the regulations now, otherwise you will be easily charged with deliberately resisting the prosecution and violently resisting the prosecution."
Seeing Su Shen walking out, Yuan Guoqiang clenched his fists, but soon let go, because this was actually a game between countries, and it went beyond the Olympic Games itself.
We may not be able to compete now.
But Su Shen...
But he had already thought of a method.
Because he knows very well that if one day the Chinese track and field team as a whole comes here, it will definitely receive treatment similar to that of our swimming team in the Paris Olympics, and it will definitely receive treatment similar to the high-intensity anti-doping bombardment in Jamaica in recent years.
Even because our country is stronger and bigger, this force will be stronger than bullying Jamaica.
So Su Shen had already prepared backup plans and plans, waiting to see when they, the European and American countries, would launch an attack.
He originally thought it would be in the next Olympics.
Didn't expect it to be so fast.
Then...
Let the whole world see your true face.
Su Shen took small and calm steps.
Walk towards the inspectors in front of you who look like ghosts and monsters.
