Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 301 Selection for the World Championships
中国2019世界田径锦标赛选拔赛将在8月2日的沈阳奥体中心体育场举行，比赛一共分为两天，共36个项目、498名运动员参赛。

In fact, for some events, even if they win the championship, it does not mean that they can participate in the Doha World Championships, because there are no domestic athletes in this event who can meet the competition standards of the Doha World Championships.
包括但不限于：男子铁饼、男子铅球、男子3000米障碍、男子400米栏、男子5000米、男子10000米、男子800米、男子400米、女子400米、女子1500米、女子5000米、女子100米栏、女子400米栏
Just looking at it this way, the development of Chinese track and field is still very long. After all, it is a big country with a population of over one billion. In many events, not to mention competing for medals, no one can even qualify for the competition.

One of the reasons behind this is that China's track and field training system is still immature and not perfect. Many athletes have put in great efforts, and even their bodies have been injured and disabled, and they can't touch the threshold of the World Series.

Therefore, in this World Championship selection competition, many events only provide domestic athletes with an opportunity to compete, and those events that have already reached the standards of the World Championships are the focus of people's attention.

The men's 100 meters is naturally the focus of attention.

A total of 100 athletes are planned to participate in the men's 16m event of the World Championships trials. Wu Ziyi is the champion of the last World Championships. He does not want to participate in this trials since he has a "wild card" for the World Championships.

But the Shenyang Sports Bureau knew that without Wu Ziyi, there would definitely be fewer spectators who could come to watch the game, so they found the Athletics Center to persuade them on their behalf. With the permission of "Okay", Wu Ziyi still signed up.

Sure enough, when the news of Wu Ziyi's participation came out, more than 5000 tickets for the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center were sold within an hour.

Like Wu Ziyi, there is also Xie Zhenye who "give up" the 100-meter quota in the World Championships. Although Xie Zhenye voluntarily gave up, it is uncertain whether the Chinese team can have 4 athletes qualified for the World Championships before the World Championships.

The leaders of the track and field center also discussed with Xie Zhenye. If the number of qualified people is not enough, they still hope that Xie Zhenye can participate in the 100-meter event of the World Championships, so Xie Zhenye signed up for both events in the trials.

"Friends from the audience, the men's 2019m final of the 100 World Athletics Championships will be held soon. There is a young athlete who has attracted a lot of attention in this event. In the Athletics Federation's points ranking, he did not enter the top [-]."

"You should know that in the updated world rankings on July 7, Wu Zhiqiang and Xu Zhouzheng, whose personal bests were lower than him, were ranked 30 and 31 respectively, and this athlete obviously ran 96 seconds, but Unable to enter the top 10 in the world. Who is this player? Everyone will see him soon.”

现在燕京时间19点50分，世锦赛选拔赛男子100米决赛的8名运动员已经一字排在等待介绍了，这8名运动员代表了当前中国男子100米的最高水平。

"In the first track, Xuan Dajun from Sichuan, the preliminaries score is 1 seconds."

"In the second track, Wu Zhiqiang from Hubei, he looks more fierce, man, his current personal best time has come to 2 seconds, and the result of the preliminaries is 10 seconds."

"In the third track, Xu Zhouzheng from Shanghai, Xu Zhouzheng is one of the members of the current national relay team. On June 3, in the preliminaries of the track and field competition in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, he raised his personal best to 6 seconds 30."

"Track 4, Su Bingtian from Guangdong. Also in London, Su Bingtian and Wu Ziyi won the men's 9-meter championship in London with a time of 92 seconds. This year, he broke 100 seconds twice and is in very good condition."

"Track 5, Xie Zhenye from Zhejiang. In the men's 21m race of the Diamond League London Station on the 200st of last month, Xie Zhenye and Wu Ziyi shined in the London Bowl, creating a personal second in Asian history of 19 seconds. His current world ranking in the IAAF Men's 83 event has also improved to sixth."

"On the 6th track, Wu Ziyi from Guangxi. The Asian record holder has created the world's best men's 100 meters and 200 meters for three consecutive years. After being briefly surpassed by the twin stars of the United States, Coleman and Lyles, After the race in London, Wu Ziyi once again occupied the top spot in the men's 100m and 200m in the IAAF standings."

"In track 7, Liang Jinsen from Guangdong, Su Bingtian's younger brother, ran 10 seconds in the preliminaries."

"Track 8, Cheng Guanfeng from Guangxi. This is the special player I mentioned before. In the Asian Grand Prix Chongqing Station on June 6, 7-year-old Cheng Guanfeng ran for 19 seconds under a wind speed of 2.0m/s The result in 10 ranked fifth in Chinese history. Of course, audiences who have a little knowledge of track and field know that wind speed has a great influence on athletes, so today's competition is also a test for Cheng Guanfeng."

Cheng Guanfeng was a little shy facing the camera, pursed his lips and waved to the audience around him, he felt his heart beating very fast.Especially when some fans holding Wu Ziyi's support signs at the scene also cheered for him, and even some strange elder sisters shouted "Ah Feng is so handsome", his heart beat faster.

Looking up to the stands on the right, there are two women in the auditorium watching the game arm in arm, one of them has three thousand black hair, wearing a simple and elegant dress, sitting on the seat like a fairy, but Cheng Guanfeng However, her gaze was completely focused on the cute girl next to her with a delicate high ponytail.

"Huh—" Taking a deep breath, Cheng Guanfeng kept hinting in his heart that if you win this competition, you will be Xia Mu's boyfriend!
Seeing Cheng Guanfeng looking straight over, Xia Mu in the auditorium felt a little shy, turned around and buried her cousin Wen Ying's chest.

Um?Why is it not soft?Still a little knocked.
Wen Ying didn't know Xiao Xiamu's inner thoughts at all, pinched the little flesh on her face, and said with a smile: "Now you know how to be shy? If Ah Feng gets the quota, do you want me to reject him for you?"

Xia Mu rubbed her head against her head and muttered, "Sister, you're dead! You know it."

"Oh, it's okay." Wen Ying turned Xia Mu's head back, and stopped teasing her, "Let's watch the game~"

On the runway, 8 runners are ready on the starting blocks, and the postures of the other runners are different. Judging from the posture of the arms, there are both wide and narrow distances.

However, Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, and Wu Ziyi on tracks 4, 5, and 6 all had their heads buried very low. Although the distance between the arms supporting the body was slightly different, their postures were curved arms rather than straight arms.

"Set—"

"boom--!"

A second ago, he was crawling on the ground like a predatory beast, but now when the best time comes, all the energy stored in his body will burst out, shooting forward violently like a hungry tiger pouncing on its food, or a fierce tiger descending a mountain!
The technique is learned under the same teacher's roof, and the posture is the same, but the effect of using it is very different.

The most important thing about the curved arm start technique is to inject more explosive energy into the start with the help of the arm ejection. If there is no arm ejection, or if the force cannot be received after the first step, then the curved arm start is not enough. Not as good as a normal straight arm start.

Cranked arm starting is a not perfect starting technique. Although some athletes have used "cranked arm" starting in the last century, they are not systematic and scientific. At present, there are only three players in the Chinese team: Su, Xie and Wu. People learn and use the technology.

Wu Ziyi was the first to comprehend the curved arm starting technique among the three, but it was Su Bingtian who benefited the most from this technique. The super start brought by the curved arm starting was helpful for him to run three times in the last year. The 9 mark helps a lot.

Although Xie Zhenye also learned this technique, he still didn't grasp the essentials, so in just three steps, he was pulled away by Su Bingtian and Wu Ziyi who were super active.

Ten meters, 20 meters, 30 meters
Entering the mid-running stage, although Xie Zhenye did not start well, his acceleration ability is still very strong in this level of competition. Although he is half a body behind Wu Ziyi and Su Bingtian, he has already kept pace with Xu Zhouzheng. .

Speed ​​up, speed up, speed up!
Xie Zhenye continued to accelerate, hoping that he would not be left behind too much in the future, and then Wu Ziyi disappeared from his field of vision.

Xie Zhenye, who knew the "insider story", was not surprised at all, because he already knew that Wu Ziyi would "give up the run". In today's game, his opponent is Su Bingtian who is equally serious. It is a very rare opportunity to compete with Su Bingtian in the official game , Xie Zhenye just wanted to see and seize this opportunity.

40 meters, 50 meters, 60 meters.
Halfway through the game, Su Bingtian still maintained the lead, and the gap between him and Xie Zhenye remained at about half a body, while the other players were left even further behind.

Currently in the second echelon are Xu Zhouzheng, Cheng Guanfeng and Wu Zhiqiang. They were separated by half a body gap by Xie Zhenye, and then Liang Jinsen and Xuan Dajun fell even further behind.

Liang Jinsen finally realized the "evil door" in Wu Zhiqiang's mouth. The young man on his right who was 4 years younger than him was obviously shorter than him when he was first lined up, but he had a stride similar to his own, and his stride frequency Faster than yourself, how annoying is this?
Young people are all monsters, Liang Jinsen feels that his heart is going to go cold, if this continues, he may not even be qualified to be a relay substitute
Cheng Guanfeng stared straight ahead, ignoring the figures in his field of vision, because he knew that Liang Jinsen on his left was of no reference value, and his two main opponents were in the second and third lanes.Ask yourself, he doesn't have the ability of his elder brother Wu Ziyi to walk around and turn his head to observe his opponent during the game. If he wants to see the positions of Wu Zhiqiang and Xu Zhouzheng clearly, it will definitely disrupt his running rhythm.

So he can only cast his eyes forward, and keep running, running, running!

His worries have long since been dissipated by the news before the game that "it doesn't matter if he can't make it to the World Championships". He wants to run with his own demeanor, put his love and belief in sprinting, and his belief and pursuit of speed into full play. Unleashed on this runway!
"The game has started! Both Wu Ziyi and Su Bingtian started very fast, and the two are neck and neck."

"Wu Ziyi withdrew from the competition first, and he wants to give up the stage to other players on the field."

"Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye, Xie Zhenye is still trying to catch up, the gap is gradually narrowing, the final sprint, pressing the line—"

"At 9 seconds, Su Bingtian won the men's 93-meter championship in the 2019 World Athletics Championships trials. Xie Zhenye also performed very well. He put a lot of pressure on Su Bingtian in the back leg. He should be able to run this shot in about 100 seconds."

After the finish line, Xu Zhouzheng, Wu Zhiqiang, Liang Jinsen, and Cheng Guanfeng all stared at the big screen above the stadium in different poses. Sichuan's Xuan Dajun had already given up, because before crossing the line, he clearly saw I realized that I was pulled away by at least three positions by Wu Zhiqiang.

Xie Zhenye and Su Bingtian hugged and congratulated each other, and then walked to the interview area. After seeing 9.93 on the timer, this game was not attractive to them.

After several replays on the big screen, the results of the contestants were finally refreshed——

Wind speed: (+0.1m/s)

1 Su Bingtian, Guangdong 9.93
2 Xie Zhenye, Zhejiang 9.97 SB
3 Wu Zhiqiang, Hubei 10.11=PB
4 Cheng Guanfeng, Guangxi 10.14
5 Xu Zhouzheng, Shanghai 10.17
6 Liang Jinsen, Guangdong 10.21
7 Xuan Dajun, Sichuan 10.29 PB
8 Wu Ziyi, Guangxi 11.25
When Yang Jian saw this list of results, he immediately beamed with joy: "11 seconds, after 25 seconds in the 2017-meter race in the 200 Diamond League Rome Station, Wu Ziyi ran another surprising result. Let us congratulate you here. Wu Ziyi's personal career has reached a new low!"

After making fun of Wu Ziyi, Yang Jian changed the topic back and continued to comment:
"Wu Zhiqiang created a new personal best time of 10 seconds, which is worthy of congratulations! And Cheng Guanfeng's 11 seconds fully shows that the previous 10 seconds is not the so-called [chicken blood]. The wind speed of this game is + At 14 meters per second, it can be said that there is almost no wind, and the results of the players can be directly equated with hard power. Next, let's take a look at the interviews with the three famous players."

As soon as the camera changed, Wu Ziyi, Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye were already standing in the media area to accept the long-lost interview with Tong Rina.

Tong Rina: "First of all, congratulations to Su Bingtian for winning the championship. How do you feel now?"

Su Bingtian smiled and patted Wu Ziyi, and replied: "Ah Yi gave it to me, but I'm still very happy, because this 9 seconds shows that my current state is very good, and I feel that I can make an impact in the World Championships Better grades."

Tong Rina: "What do you mean by better results? Are you refreshing your best results or are you trying to get a higher ranking?"

Su Bingtian: "The best situation is to break through your personal best and get a higher ranking. In 17, I was ranked fifth in 9 seconds. This time, I will strive for medals. Bar!"

Tong Rina: "Then let's first wish you to achieve your goal. Next, I would like to ask Wu Ziyi, your start is obviously very good, why did you choose to let go of this race? Was it a strain during the running?"

Wu Ziyi waved his hand: "No, no, my physical condition is very good. The reason why I didn't give full play this time is because I want to hand over the stage to other players on the field, hoping that they will not be affected by me."

Tong Rina "suddenly realized", and exclaimed: "Oh——, so it is like this, what about Xie Zhenye? You are also in a very good state this year. Have you set a goal for yourself like Bingtian, such as hitting the top five? "

Xie Zhenye shook his head and said, "No, no, this year I will give up the 100-meter event and focus all my energy on the 200-meter race and the relay, so just move my quota down."

"In that case, wouldn't the other two places in the 100-meter event be?"

Wu Ziyi raised his hand and pointed: "That's right, according to the qualifying rules of the trials and the World Championships, Cheng Guanfeng will directly enter the preliminaries. If Wu Zhiqiang can run under 9 before September 6, he can also enter the preliminaries. If he fails to meet the standard , he can also get the men's 10-meter qualifying place."

In the direction of Wu Ziyi's finger, Wu Zhiqiang and Cheng Guanfeng are holding each other's shoulders and accepting photos from the audience with bright smiles.

(End of this chapter)