king of sprint

Chapter 353 Rousseau's 200 Meters

before filing for retirement.

Pan Kai on the training ground at Capital University Stadium.

One month of special training.

After countless sweaty runs, he couldn't even get a 10.

On that day, Pan Kai lay exhausted on the track he loved so much, watched the sun set from the west, and realized that his sports career was over.

It's brutal.

Of course.

Not everyone can be a champion.

……

Pan Kai was born in 82. In 2009, he was 27 years old. He was in the golden age of a track and field athlete. But in three years, Pan Kai will be 30 years old. After 30 years old, he can still maintain his sports status. There are not many track and field athletes, and all of them are the chosen ones with outstanding talent and hard work.

In terms of hard work, Pan Kai has no lack of hard work. All athletes who can stand on the Olympic field lack hard work, but talent... Regrettably, Pan Kai is a bit far behind in terms of talent. His strength, explosive power and reaction ability are all just domestic top level.

If you can still see the unfulfilled potential in Zhang Zhen, you can already see the peak level in Pan Kai.

……

Dakar Grand Prix.

200m project.

Rousseau successfully advanced in the qualifiers.

In the final he met Sean Crawford, a player from the United States.

Sean Crawford was born in 78 and is 31 years old this year.

Over there Pan Kai said that he wanted to retire, and here stood a 31-year-old 'senior' athlete.

As the 200-meter champion of the two Olympic Games in Athens and BJ, Sean Crawford's best 200-meter time is 19 seconds.

卢梭在200米项目上的最好成绩，则是2005年欧洲杯冠军赛时的19秒95，最近一次成绩是2008年12月份在香江亚洲全明星赛上的19秒99。

The past 200-meter results of the two are different.

Crawford is far better than Rousseau.

The gap of 0.2 seconds is not easy to smooth out.

But consider that Crawford is 31 and Rousseau is only 23.

If you describe it, Rousseau is a train that is charging with fuel, but Crawford is approaching the end of his sports career.

In the 08 Olympic Games, if Usain hadn't given up the 200-meter event, Crawford would not have won the gold medal. After all, Usain has shown absolute dominance in all 06-meter events from 08 to 200. He can even run within 19 seconds.

Usain is even stronger in the 200-meter event.

"Go and run your 100 meters. Why waste your energy on something you are not good at." Crawford said to Rousseau in a mocking tone before the game. This may be a tactic.

"You should probably thank me." Rousseau countered.

"Why?" Crawford asked him.

"If it weren't for me, you shouldn't have won the 200-meter gold medal in BJ's Olympics." Rousseau said, "Usain's retirement has achieved you, but you are a bit too watery as an Olympic double champion."

"I never liked you Chinese," Crawford said.

"Of course, you don't like Jamaicans either." Rousseau shrugged, "Because we're all faster than you."

"It's 'you', not 'you'. In the 200-meter event, you are still far behind." Claude Ford continued to laugh at Rousseau, "What qualifications do you have to compare with me and Usain?"

There's no time for more trash talk, because the game is about to start, and the big game broadcast has already started introducing Rousseau and Crawford to the audience.

Before the game, the trash talk confrontation ended in a draw.

……

The weather in Dakar in April is good.

This is the second time Rousseau has raced in the Dakar.

The audience seems to remember this young Asian world trapeze.

When Rousseau's name was read on the broadcast of the competition, there was a warm applause for Rousseau.

But when it came time to introduce Crawford, the applause was not so enthusiastic. Obviously, in terms of popularity, Rousseau was far greater than Crawford.

This is not fair. Crawford is a two-time 200-meter Olympic champion. He has also won the World Championships and the World Athletics Finals. Compared with Rousseau's performance in the 100-meter event, Crawford may be only one world behind. The identity of the record holder.

But it’s not Crawford’s fault. Michael Johnson’s world record of 1996 seconds in Atlanta in 19 is too abnormal. Now that 36 years have passed, the world’s famous players are still hard to come by.

Maybe Usain can break this record.

Speaking of popularity, the tens of thousands of spectators in the Dakar National Stadium firmly remembered the name Rousseau and ignored Crawford, just because the influence of the 100-meter event far exceeds that of the 200-meter event.

In the 08 Olympic Games, Rousseau's miraculous performance against Usain on the 100-meter track is still being broadcast repeatedly on sports TV stations in many countries around the world.

Crawford felt the 'stifle' of the times.

He vowed in his heart to teach this arrogant Chinese kid a lesson.

Crawford's advantage in the 200-meter event is definitely beyond the imagination of this Chinese kid.

……

Snapped!
The starting gun sounds.

Eight players rushed out of the starting line at the same time.

Crawford at Lane 4 and Rousseau at Lane 6 had already become the dominant dominant group when the first corner passed.

After entering the straight, Crawford was surprised to find that Rousseau was closer to the finish line than him. This Chinese kid has excellent cornering skills...

Crawford started to give chase.

But he could only watch Rousseau getting farther and farther away from him, and getting closer and closer to the finish line.

On the straight, Rousseau's speed advantage was fully utilized. When he strode across the finish line with his head held high, Crawford behind him was still four or five bodies away.

It's unbelievable.

What is even more unbelievable is Rousseau's achievements.

When the number '19 seconds 66' appeared on the big screen at the scene, the cheers in the auditorium were only a little higher. Most of the audience here did not know what this result meant.

And Crawford stood under the LED electronic screen, unable to move for a long time, as if he was in a dream.

How is this possible...

Didn't the Chinese kid's 200-meter score just enter the 20-second mark? How could it be possible to suddenly improve so much, to a speed that Crawford could not imagine?

Rousseau ignored Crawford and just ran towards Dong Zijian. The two patted each other on the shoulders, one said excitedly, "It's a good run", and the other said excitedly, "The training plan is very effective".

After the IAAF Finals last year, Rousseau started an interesting training, which Dong Zijian called "running training", the content is to maintain the running rhythm through a lot of basic training, and help Rousseau to control the vitality of this body .

Of course, this training method was proposed by Li Yan. Dong Zijian’s innovation lies in the discovery that this kind of training can be used for 200 meters at the same time. After adding basic movements related to 200 meters, Rousseau’s 200 meters score has achieved a straight line. promote.

The Dakar race is proof of that.

……

"Why does LU only run 200 meters instead of 100 meters?"

At the training ground in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica.

Usain studies his opponents on a daily basis with his coaches.

This was exciting for Usain.

It's just that Rousseau has stopped participating in the 100-meter event since last year's IAAF Finals, but focused on the 200-meter event, and only got a result of 19 seconds in Dakar, which is very impressive. World Athletics was shocked.

Everyone knows that Rousseau's 200 meters is also good, but it is unexpected that he is so strong that he can easily leave the Olympic champion Crawford behind.

　One more~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)