king of sprint

Chapter 356 Berlin World Championships

The American "Athletic News" is an old track and field media.

In 2006, 2007, and 2008, it released the top ten rankings for men and women in world track and field, which aroused great attention from the industry and public opinion.

In 2006, the men's world No. 400 was won by Bauer. In that year, Bauer won the Gold Grand Prix Gold Award. The women's world No. [-] was won by American player Sonya Richards. Sonya Richards was the women's [-] m best athletes.

In 2007 and 2008, it was Usain and Rousseau who took turns to dominate, and Ball and Tyson Gay generally hovered in the second to sixth positions.

The "World No. 2008" selected by "Athletics News" is highly consistent with the IAAF's annual figure, so when Rousseau became the "World No. [-]" selected by "Athletics News" in [-], he also won the IAAF's annual most popular Track and field honors.

In 2008, the "Athletics News" commented on Rousseau as follows: In the 2008 Olympic Games, Rousseau lived up to the 13 billion people who had great expectations for him. to the point of fear.

The 2008 women's 'world No. [-]' was American player Jesse Joyner Cosey.

"Athletics News" believes that she has no weaknesses. She is an excellent high jumper, the world's top hurdler, and the strongest sprinter. She has a very good throwing ability and performed well in the 800-meter event. The king of the almighty.

Although before the 2009 World Championships, "Athletics News" took stock of the two "world No. 2008" in 100. It seems strange, but the main author of this news is just to prove the dominance of men's [-] meters in track and field .

He said in the article: "Even if Ms. Jesse Joyner Corsey is the greatest athlete in history, "Sports Illustrated" named her the outstanding female athlete of the 20th century, and ESPN named her the 50 greatest athletes of all time.

But she, who is actively competing, running, jumping, hurdling and throwing, cannot be compared with the two 2009-meter athletes who have not had an official competition for almost nine months in [-]. I mean the public opinion.

People would rather study why Rousseau and Usain didn't compete than take a second look at Jesse Joyner Cosey's heptathlon, even though she tried so hard. "

The article was suspected of being sexist, and the author of the article soon apologized to the public for it.

However, it is a fact that the men's [-]-meter race is attracting more and more attention from the public.

Of course, it also attracted the attention of WDA.

Since the beginning of August, Rousseau, who lives in Pengcheng Sports Institute, has been frequently patronized by WDA, and the urine and blood tests have not failed. Look at the momentum, it seems that he wants to pick Rousseau off before the World Championships, and Rousseau knows that Yusei Eun was treated the same way.

Rousseau speculates maliciously, is it because Tyson Gay's strength has recovered, and Gatlin is coming back, the US team is preparing to play a big game in this World Championships.

That's right, Gatlin's suspension is over.

From July 2005 to July 7, the four-year suspension period has ended, and Gatlin, once the world's pinnacle, will return to the public eye and on this track.

Theoretically, it is difficult for a track and field athlete who has been deeply involved in a doping scandal to gain public and media recognition in a short period of time, but Gatlin's return this time has gone smoothly. The suspension period ended in July, and the United States immediately It was announced that he will participate in the World Championships.

Although neither the public nor the media believe that Gatlin, who has not played an official match for four years, has a chance to beat Rousseau and Usain, who are rushing at the human limit speed, and whether they can even beat Gay, who is on the same team. Hard to say.

But Gatlin's return has indeed added a lot of chips to the US team. At least in the 4×100-meter relay event, the US team is even more difficult to deal with.

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The time came to August 8.

A 12-member Chinese mainland delegation came to Berlin, Germany.

There are not many representatives from the mainland this time, but there are many world-renowned track and field players in the team, needless to say Rousseau and Liu Yu, Tian Shiwei and Zhang Zhen also have a lot of fame, but other strong players such as women's 5000 meters and pole vault, and Did not join this team.

The reason, of course, is the National Games.

In a world-class fierce competition, athletes may not be able to recover in two months. In the eyes of most provincial teams, although the World Championships is the highest stage of international track and field, its influence is not as good as the National Games in China.

If it weren't for Rousseau's reasons in the past two years, the IAAF has made a large-scale promotion of the World Championships in China. The word "inferior" should be preceded by the word "far". Proper.

The HQ can't do anything about it.

But Rousseau and Liu Yu are all there, and they can also support the scene of the mainland team.

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The World Championships in Berlin has a total of 8 days.

The venue for the match is the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

The men's 100m competition will be held on the 15th, semi-finals and finals on the 17th.

The men's 200m preliminaries will be on the 18th, the semi-finals will be on the 19th, and the final will be on the 20th.

The men's 110m hurdles preliminaries will be on the 20th, and the final will be on the 21st.

The men's 4×100m relay preliminaries will be on the 22nd, and the final will be on the 23rd.

CCTV bought the rights to broadcast the World Championships.

For domestic sports fans, August 2009 is another midsummer that is highly anticipated.

Although the National Games is even more important than the Olympic Games for the provincial sports committees, in the eyes of the national audience, there is really no sense of expectation for the National Games.

Because Chinese audiences have a simple perception, that is, a great player wants to beat foreigners.

Therefore, if in the minds of the provincial sports committees, the National Games is even more important than the Olympic Games, then in the minds of the audience, it is completely reversed.

Seeing the list of matches for this World Championships, the domestic audience was very disappointed. The small number of participants means that the possibility of winning medals is small. Fortunately, starting from the 15th, Rousseau Liu Yu and other Chinese players appeared almost every day The sprint event competition in China has slightly filled the regret.

Naturally, the domestic media also preheated the World Championships with lengthy reports.

The focus is still on the battle of the century between Rousseau and Usain.

Can Usain take the victory and the world record from Rousseau.

Although the last "Battle of the Century" was in 2008, of course, if there is a "Battle of the Century" every year, this "Century" will come too frequently, but apart from this word, the domestic media did not expect it to be too good Wouldn't it be more exaggerated to call it 'God War'?
In addition, the domestic media ignored the fact that Rousseau lost to Usain in the 2008 IAAF Finals. The record is that the two of them are not in good shape.

If the state is not good, what is the point of winning or losing?

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