Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 100 Absolute strength—Asia record!
  The evening of June 8.

The National Track and Field Championships entered the fourth day, and all competitions entered the final rhythm.

从上午10点开始，吉林队的孟岩以49秒31获得男子400米栏金牌，广西队的韩玲以23秒41获得女子200米金牌，青海队的任龙云以29分44秒18获得男子10000米金牌.
  By the evening, at this national track and field championships, there are only two team events left, the men's/women's 4×100 meters, and the two individual events of the men's 200 meters and the men's 110 meters hurdles, waiting for the answer to be announced.

After entering the stadium again, Wen Hao found that the number of spectators present tonight seemed to be much larger than that on the 5th. At a glance, it was completely packed.

You must know that today is Monday, and it is indeed very rare to have such a high vote rate on a working day.

But with Liu Xiang's game, it's not surprising.

Obviously the organizers of Shijiazhuang also knew very well, and specially arranged the men's 110-meter hurdles final where Liu Xiang was going to appear in front of the relay event as the finale.

Coupled with the men's 200-meter final and Wen Hao, the new Asian -meter flying star who has made a lot of noise, the ratings are really high.

"Wenhao."

"what?"

Hearing someone calling him, Wen Hao subconsciously responded, and before he could turn around, someone put his arm on his shoulder.

Yang Yaozu had a smile on his face, a bohemian hairstyle, and no airs of "senior" at all.

"It's the finals, please give me some light treatment."

Wen Hao shook his head and said seriously: "Don't make trouble. I'm going to have a distance contest with Sutsugo Shingo today. He even ran to 20 seconds and 25 seconds in the championships the next day. I can't fall behind."

Seeing Wen Hao's serious look, Yang Yaozu couldn't continue joking and immediately stopped smiling.

"Okay, then I'll work harder today, try to push you from behind, and see if I can break the PB by the way."

When Yang Yaozu mentioned Susu Shenwu, he felt that he became passionate in an instant.

Four years ago at the Busan Asian Games, his personal best time was only 20 seconds. In the 70m final, he met a man who was only one year older than him, but his personal best time had already reached 200 seconds. I will continue to be careful.

If you say you are not convinced, that is for sure. After all, in the competitive arena, it is not uncommon for the following to overcome the superior.

What's more, many track and field athletes in Neon are "experts in civil war, but outsiders in foreign wars." Their domestic results are sky-high and they are catching up with the world's top level. As a result, when it comes to performing in international competitions, they are not as good as Chinese athletes.

But Shenwu Moxu gave him a hard education.

In that game, Yang Yaozu ran a time of 20 seconds, significantly breaking his personal best time. He was only 58 seconds away from breaking Zhou Wei's national record of 20 seconds.

What is gratifying is that the result of 20 seconds 58 also allowed Yang Yaozu to reach the A standard for the men's 200 meters in the Athens Olympics and obtain direct qualification for the Olympics.

But this achievement, in front of Sutsu Shengo, was still not enough.

At the end of the day, Shingo showed his high level of competitiveness as always, running a time of 20 seconds to win the first Asian Games championship in his career, and also set a new Asian Games record.

After being officially crowned the 200-meter king of Asia, Shingo Susu in 2003 still did not stop moving forward.

在霓虹国内，他将自己的100米个人最好成绩刷新至10秒03，将自己的200米个人最好成绩刷新至20秒03。

In the international arena, Sutsugo Shingo also reached the men's 200m final of the Paris World Championships and won the first short track event medal in Asian track and field history (World Championships).

The 100-meter event tied for third place in Asia's history, and the 200-meter event ranked first in Asia's history. At the end of that year, Shenwu deserved to be called the "King of Asia's Sprints."

Recalling every detail of the past few years, Yang Yaozu's heart was filled with resentment and unwillingness.

The achievements and honors that Moxu Shenwu had achieved greatly stimulated him back then. With the increase in the frequency of participating in the 200-meter event, Yang Yaozu did not miss any of the 100-meter events he could participate in.

2004年，他总共跑了10枪100米、22枪200米（18枪室外+4枪室内）。

As a result, the performance of the 100-meter event has indeed improved a lot, but the main event of 200-meter has never been saved, and two years have been wasted.

It wasn't until this year that he basically recovered his health, and he set a new 100-meter PB at the Chongqing Grand Prix, and then set a new 200-meter PB that had been in the dust for three years.

Then, in the 100-meter final of the National Championships two days ago, under the guidance of Wen Hao, he set a new 100-meter PB.

Yang Yaozu no longer has any hope for the 200-meter gold medal in the current championships.

Although he failed to fight against Wen Hao in yesterday's preliminaries and rematches, just looking at this guy's two shots to advance, Yang Yaozu instantly felt like he had faced Sutsu Shingo.

This guy Wen Hao is really too strong.

Judging from his performance in the two shots yesterday, his cornering skills are a little bit worse, otherwise
  "Okay, Brother Yang, I'll watch you run away later, so put more pressure on the curve~"

Wen Hao's words were not polite, because his current cornering skills were indeed not very good.

But before the performance reaches a certain bottleneck, there is actually no need to dig into the technical details of corners. Just use pure running strength to overcome it.

To be honest, Bolt's cornering skills are not unique in the world, but who makes his acceleration ability too strong and his top speed too high?
  After a brief exchange with Yang Yaozu, Wen Hao focused on the upcoming 200-meter race.

He has not looked carefully at the list of opponents for this final.

Without him, just because at this time, there are really no 200-meter masters in China.

PB within 21 seconds can be counted with one slap, and it is only PB, not a normal level.

At present, not counting Wen Hao, the only one in China who can stably run within 21 seconds is Yang Yaozu, and Zhang Peimeng is even less impressive.

Wen Hao was placed in lane 5, and Yang Yaozu was in lane 6. They were the top two teams in the semi-finals.

As for Zhang Peimeng, who ranked third in the semi-finals, he was placed in lane 4, looking excited to prepare for his second trip to the championship.

After yesterday's semi-final rankings were released, he was full of confidence and already regarded the bronze medal as his own.

Li Qing wanted to beat him up at the time, but after studying the performance of his final opponents this season, he felt that Zhang Peimeng deserved Zhang Peimeng's confidence.

There was no way, the strength of these opponents was indeed so weak that even Li Qing could not complain.
  After getting the players ready, the pre-match introductions came quickly.

"Track 5, the national record holder - Wen Hao!" 』

The extremely brief introduction evoked far more cheers than any other contestant who had appeared and won the award so far.

Yes, that's right, Wen Hao is now the national record holder in the 200 meters.

In the men's 200m preliminaries and semi-finals held yesterday morning and afternoon, Wen Hao's career 200m debut shocked everyone.

In the preliminaries at 10 a.m., with obvious signs of leakage almost throughout the race, Wen Hao ran a time of 20 seconds.

Walk to reach the master.
  The rematch at 17:, the second shot of his career.

The car is basically at full strength in the corners, and there is no sign of deliberate slowdown in the first half of the straight.

But after 150 meters, he started to look left and right again. Seeing that no opponent could catch up with him, he began to slow down and swayed all the way across the finish line.

Even so, the final finish was still shocking.

20 seconds 47! Yang Yaozu is a man who wants to cry without tears. He worked hard for three years to finally break the national record, but it only lasted for less than 4 months before it was broken.
  The new record of 20 seconds has not yet been certified by the Athletics Association. After all, this thing has to go through a process.

But at this time, is there anything wrong with Guan Wenhao calling him "National Record Holder"?

Of course there's nothing wrong with it, it's a done deal.

"Everyone is in position——"

After the pre-race introduction, the starter quickly gave the order.

The live broadcast camera still focuses on Wen Hao. As the double national record holder of 100 meters and 200 meters, his every move attracts the attention of countless track and field fans and sprint fans.

Wen Hao also understood it very well. He first made a "watch my performance" gesture to the camera, and then walked to the starting line.

The 200-meter event sounds like it is only 100 meters longer than the 100-meter event.

But strictly speaking, the distance between the curves of the 200-meter project is actually 115.6 meters, accounting for 57.8% of the total length.

In the curve part, athletes must always control their bodies to resist the effect of centripetal force. Therefore, the difficulty of acceleration will inevitably be higher than that of a pure straight 100-meter event.

Subject to the existence of this objective factor, there are also two different running methods in the 200-meter event: front-end and back-end.

The representative of the forward running method is undoubtedly Usain Bolt. He is the only athlete in the 200-meter sport who can open up the curve for 100 seconds in the first 10 meters.

Bolt's 200-meter running method is very simple and crude, that is, he goes all out from the starting and accelerating stages, relying on his invincible acceleration ability and top speed ability to establish sufficient advantages in the corners.

And because of his super speed ability, in the range of 100 to 150 meters, even when he enters a slow speed loss state, he can still continue to widen the gap with other players.

As for after 150 meters?
  Sorry, the gap is too big and I can't catch up even if I want to.

Many people would say Yohan Blake is the representative of the late running style, but in fact before him, there was an even more outrageous late running player - Michael Johnson.

When Blake set the second-highest time in history of 19 seconds, his 26-meter event level was actually able to stabilize within 100 seconds. Both acceleration and top speed capabilities were the world's top level at the time.

Michael Johnson is different. When he set the 1996-meter world record twice in 200, his personal best time in 100-meter did not break 10 seconds. His acceleration ability and top speed ability were far behind those of 100-meter athletes. cut.

But this is Michael Johnson, who can firmly hold the throne of the "King of 200 meters" before Bolt's era, with a career top 10 time of 19 seconds.

In that era, Michael Johnson was able to dominate the 200-meter and 400-meter events and became another track and field superstar after Carl Lewis, thanks to his unique speed and endurance ability.

Through yesterday's two-shot competition, Wen Hao always felt that he was a bit like Michael Johnson in the 200-meter event.

"preparation--"

"Snapped--!"

The starting gun sounds and the game begins!
  Although he adopted a late-stroke speed-endurance running method, Wen Hao did not slack off at all when it came to starting and accelerating.

Adopting a late-range speed-endurance running method does not mean deliberately saving energy in the curves. This is a very wrong idea.

The essence of front-end and back-end is not the allocation and application of physical strength by athletes, but the reflection of athletes' physical quality and technical ability.

For example, Su Bingtian is only 1 meters tall. His innate stride length limits him from being a late-range 72-meter athlete. Only by maximizing his forward-range ability and increasing his stride frequency to the extreme can he consider improving his stride length.

The reason why Wen Hao feels that his running style is similar to that of backward runners is mainly because his starting acceleration ability is indeed not advantageous compared to world-class athletes of the same level in the world.

However, his muscular endurance is very outstanding, and his continuous output ability and recovery ability are very powerful.

This has been demonstrated both on and off the field.

Therefore, after the starting gun sounded, he still tried his best to accelerate his start. However, because his cornering skills were not mature enough, he was not able to catch up with the outsider Yang Yaozu quickly.

However, from a visual point of view, Wen Hao is still closing the gap with Yang Yaozu, which is also a major feature of the 200-meter event.

In order to ensure that all athletes run the same distance in the 200-meter event, there is a concept - reach number.

The runners' passes are different, and the curves on the outer lane are longer than those on the inner lane. Therefore, the farther out the lane they are assigned, the further forward their starting point will be.

Therefore, Wen Hao is not "chasing" Yang Yaozu, but "chasing" Qian Zhanshu.

In the 115.6-meter curve, if the inside track player "catches up" or even "surpasses" the outside track player, it means that his curve performance is better than that of the outside track player.

If the player on the inside lane fails to catch up with the player on the outside lane until exiting the corner, it means that his performance in the corner is weaker than that of the player on the outside lane.

However, most ordinary viewers actually have only a partial understanding of these things, and they have no intention of understanding them in depth.

What they only care about is the visual effects of the players on the field and the final finishing result!

Therefore, when the more than 20,000 spectators at the scene saw Wen Hao continuously "approaching" Yang Yaozu in the inner lane, their cheers and shouts became more powerful and enthusiastic.

"Come on Wenhao!"

"Come on! Come on Wenhao!"

"Chasing, chasing, chasing! We almost caught up! Add up the speed!"

"Oh oh oh oh oh"

In the auditorium and in front of the TV, those who were inspired by the atmosphere of the stadium and Wen Hao's performance were clenching their fists and shouting loudly.

In the studio of CCTV Sports Channel, Yang Jian's real-time commentary was also broadcast in every corner of China due to the spread of TV signals.

"We analyzed yesterday that Wen Hao's cornering skills are not very mature yet, but his own speed ability will definitely not let him lag too far behind in corners! 』

"Today's shot in the 200-meter final may just break the national record by the way. What Wenhao really wants to do is to attack the Asian record in the third 200-meter race of his career!" 』

"Snapped--!"

"Game start! Wen Hao's start was very beautiful, and he quickly opened up the gap with the inner lane players. He was struggling to catch up with Yang Yaozu from the outer lane! 』

"After 80 meters, Wen Hao has passed the first place, and entering the straight is his world!" 』

"Be the first to enter the straightaway! 』

"Wen Hao is charging towards his personal limit and Asia's limit, accelerating with all his strength! 』

"Absolute strength in the final sprint - Asian record!" 』

"20 seconds 02!" Wen Hao set a new Asian record! 』

"He broke the 2004 seconds set by Neon star Shingo Suetsugu at the 20 Neon National Championships, declaring that from this moment onwards - the Asian record of 03 meters belongs to China! 』

　In the protagonist's "first" 200-meter race, because the domestic opponents were not very good, the content of the race was simplified and some more popular science content was added to pave the way for the subsequent 200-meter race.

　　
  　
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