Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 295 Reaching the Standard
Lyles, who won No.2, was even happier than the champion Wu Ziyi. He knelt down to pray and jumped up and down. He looked very much like Richard Thompson, who won the runner-up in the 08 Yanjing Olympics. Don't forget to reach out and shake Coleman's hand in front of the camera.

Coleman gave a symbolic shake, and the camera didn't turn away, so he could only smile wryly and applaud Lyles.

With 9 seconds 82, the first shot in the 2019 meters in the [-] season, Wu Ziyi directly completed the task of qualifying for the Doha World Championships and the Winter Beijing Olympics, but he was not the first to complete it.

多哈世锦赛10000米、马拉松、竞走、接力、全能项目的达标时间是2018年3月7日～2019年9月6日，其他项目的达标时间是2018年9月7日～2019年9月6日。

接力项目：19年5月11日-12日在日本横滨举行的接力赛，男子/女子 4x100米、4x400米的前十名，男女混合4x400米接力的前十二名，可直接入围多哈世锦赛。

Wu Ziyi did not participate in the Yokohama World Relay Race. The lineup at that time was Su Bingtian, Wu Zhiqiang, Xie Zhenye, and Liang Jinsen. The Chinese team maintained a slight lead in the first three rounds. Only Liang Jinsen, who was the fourth battalion, faced Lyles and Thomas. Figure and others have a large gap in strength.

He finished third in 38 seconds. Liang Jinsen actually ran very well, and he withstood the pressure, and directly won the ticket for the Doha World Championships.

As for the individual events, Su Bingtian (100m) and Xie Zhenye (200m) had already reached the standard in the Ostrava Athletics Intercontinental Cup last year, and Wu Ziyi also completed the standard today.

The standards for the Doha World Championships and the Beijing Winter Olympics are slightly different. The standards for the Doha World Championships have not changed from the past, but the results are slightly improved.

Men's 100 meters: 10 seconds 10 (48 people);

Men's 200 meters: 20 seconds 40 (56 people).

The standard of the Beijing Winter Olympics is much higher:

Men's 100 meters: 10 seconds 05 (56 people);

Men's 200 meters: 20 seconds 24 (56 people).

The performance standards for the Winter Beijing Olympics can be described as a record high, but in addition to the performance standards, athletes can also be shortlisted for the competition through the IAAF points ranking.

Each event of Olympic track and field has a set number of participants. For example, the men’s 100m is 56 people from all over the world. The standard of 56 seconds can also be regarded as the Olympic "standard".

Now, Wu Ziyi (100 meters), Su Bingtian (100 meters), and Xie Zhenye (200 meters) have all completed the standard, and then Wu Ziyi and Xie Zhenye will complete the standard task of another project.

The maximum number of participants for each team in the individual events of the Winter Beijing Olympics is three, but the Doha World Championships is different. According to the regulations of the IAAF - the champion of the previous World Championships, the champion of the 2019 IAAF Diamond League, The champions of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge, Hammer Throw Challenge and other events can participate in the competition with a "wild card".

Wu Ziyi is the double champion of the men's 100m and men's 200m at the London World Championships, so he can directly compete with the "wild card" without occupying the team quota, so in theory, the Chinese team will send 4 people to participate in these two events.

The men's 100-meter event is not too difficult. Wu Ziyi, Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye can all directly reach the standard based on their results. Although Xu Zhouzheng, Wu Zhiqiang and others may not be able to reach the standard of 10 seconds 10, their strength is enough to participate in the 100-meter race. m qualifying.

But the men's 200m event is very difficult. Unlike the men's 100m, the men's 200m event at the Doha World Championships does not have a qualifying competition, so it must directly rely on the results to reach the standard, and the current situation of the Chinese men's 200m is well understood.

Since Wu Ziyi and others' schedules are not too tight for the training base of Xinzhuang, the magic capital of the National Sports Bureau, they simply came here to borrow the venue.

Before leaving Modu Stadium, Randy had obtained high-speed camera footage from all angles of the game, and is now analyzing the running data of the game between Wu Ziyi and Su Bingtian with Ralph Mann.

“前60米6秒44，后40米3秒38，不错的数据，你自己感觉怎么样？”兰迪将数据分析完后笑呵呵的问吴子义。

Wu Ziyi bowed his head and thought for a while, then replied: "It's very strange. After firing the gun, I kept restraining my body. My mind was messed up in the future, and I felt that my steps were chaotic. I didn't find the familiar foot until after 50 meters. a feeling of."

"So you understand now that Ralph and I don't recommend you to [release water] in the future?"

Wu Ziyi scratched his head: "I didn't really think about it, I just felt very awkward when running."

Ralph Mann said: "You have too many thoughts in your mind, but for an athlete, the accumulated training over the years has already given your body and your muscles a memory, especially during the period from starting to running on the way. interval, the more you want to control your body, the more chaotic the rhythm will be.”

"This is why top athletes will choose to run in the back if they can release water, because the running rhythm of the athletes has long been finalized. The acceleration stage is extremely important for sprinters. If this stage is not done well, the rhythm of the back will also be disrupted."

Randy turned the laptop around and pointed to the data on it for Wu Ziyi to watch: "Your data for the last 40 meters is 3.38 seconds. Although you won the championship, Lyles next to you ran 3.36~3.37." Segmentation, this should not be for you now. Because you are doing your best in the back leg, running the last 40 meters of segment lower than Lyles shows that the rhythm of the future is disrupted, which affects your Later journey."

Speaking of this, if Wu Ziyi still doesn't understand, he can just jump into the Huangpu River and let Xie Zhenye come to fish for pigs.

The process of the 16-meter race is very short, and rhythm is very important to athletes. An athlete's [-]-meter running rhythm is honed through years of training and competitions, unless the starting foot is changed like Su Bingtian, or Wu Ziyi [-] You can't change the number of steps like you did years ago, otherwise the rhythm is set.

What Wu Ziyi has done now has disturbed his running rhythm. If things go on like this for a long time, his muscle memory will change.

After running a few more games like this, Wu Ziyi's strength might really be fixed at around 9 seconds. When Coleman hits another 80 seconds, the champion will be handed over?
After trying to understand the reason, Wu Ziyi solemnly said to Randy: "I understand Mr. Randy, I will change this aspect as soon as possible!"

Randy turned off the computer with a smile and began to pack the equipment, "It's good that you understand, there are more than 20 days before your next race, and it's still a 200-meter race, we have enough time to adjust"

On the second day, both Wu Ziyi and Su Bingtian returned to the State General Administration training base in Yanjing to continue training. Xie Zhenye went to Nanjing to participate in the IAAF Challenge on May 5. Wu Zhiqiang and Liang Jinsen went to participate in the National Athletics Grand Prix series. His condition was relatively poor, so he returned to Yanjing to train with Wu Ziyi and others.

Two days later, on the 21st, good news came from Nanjing. Xie Zhenye beat Mike Rogers and De Grasse to win the World Challenge with a time of 10 seconds, and successfully qualified for the Doha World Championships and the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Another day later, on May 5, a piece of good and bad news came from Jinhua, Zhejiang: Wu Zhiqiang lost.

In the National Athletics Grand Prix, it stands to reason that Wu Zhiqiang, whose PB has reached 10 seconds, should be able to win easily. After all, Wu Ziyi and the others have not participated in this level of competition for a long time. Xu Zhouzheng is still adjusting his state. .

Wu Zhiqiang was depressed, and Wu Ziyi was happy, because the person who defeated Wu Zhiqiang was named Cheng Guanfeng.

其实某种程度上也不算输，当时第一个冲线的其实是吴致强，成绩是10秒36（-0.8m/s）程冠峰是第二10秒41。

But in the post-match replay, it was found that Wu Zhiqiang was cheating, so he was sentenced to a foul and the result was cancelled, and the champion became Cheng Guanfeng.

Cheng Guanfeng 3:1 Wu Zhiqiang

(End of this chapter)