Sprint champion: start standing on the Olympic field

Chapter 102 Side by Side with Seniors

Paris (July 7), Zurich (August 23).

Because the time between Paris and Zurich is relatively short, after a short two-day rest in Paris, the Suzhi team immediately left for Zurich to prepare for pre-match adaptation training.

"Powell is not coming, is the news reliable?"

On July 7, the day he arrived in Zurich, Su Feng learned the news from He Jun.

"That's right." He Jun seemed to be in a good mood at this time, and the big stone in his heart was finally put down temporarily, so there was an obvious smile on his face.

"I heard that he suffered a muscle strain at the end of the Paris race, so he will be absent in Zurich, but his agent also issued a statement saying that the competition between Powell and you has just begun, and he will definitely participate in the Brussels race on September 9.

"If it's a simple strain, it will be healed in more than a month, but is it believable? I don't remember him showing signs of a muscle strain at the end."

100-meter athletes have a comprehensive grasp of the human body. Although it cannot be compared with scientific research, it is a bit like Chinese medicine.

Especially for those who started to run quickly, it was absolutely sure to see if there was any problem. Powell was by his side at the time, and he didn't see that Powell had a muscle strain, and he absolutely sprinted with all his strength in the end.

A person with a muscle strain, even a slight muscle strain, will feel severe pain when sprinting with all his strength, and even say that he cannot sprint at all.

As a decades-old coach, He Jun naturally knew this, but he still said with a smile: "Of course I know, he should be afraid of you, or lose to you in a row, and he can't bear it anymore. Just take a break.

No matter what his reason is, in short, he will not come this time, so your pressure will be much less, and it is enough to be sure of this. "

"Yeah." Su Feng nodded.

This kind of continuous 100-meter race is not only the entanglement in running on the court, but also the psychological contest off the court. The competition is persistence.

Now it seems that in this psychological contest, he has won for the time being.In fact, he couldn't hold it anymore.

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Zurich is located in the north-central part of the Swiss Confederation. It is the largest city and the most important industrial and commercial city in Switzerland, the capital of the canton of Zurich, the national political, economic, cultural and transportation center, and the richest city in Europe. It has been rated as the world's most suitable city by the United Nations for many years one of the cities I live in.

The Swiss bank as the world knows it refers to the banking industry in Switzerland, and the vast majority of banks are located here.

In addition, for those who like sports, especially football, this place is even more famous. FIFA, the headquarters of FIFA, is here.

And for all those who like track and field, here is another person and thing that must be mentioned.

As we all know, the first man to enter the ten-second mark was Jim Hines of the United States, with a score of 9 seconds. It was at the 95 Mexico Olympics. It was also from this Olympic Games that the 1968-meter was changed to electronic timing. .

But there is another story on the European side, which is also somewhat related to a former sprint king in China.

In 1960, also in Zurich, West German white player Amin Harry created human sprint history. In the men's 100-meter final, Harry won the championship with a time of 10 seconds, becoming the first player to run to 0 seconds.

Zurich and Europeans are still proud of it.

And almost at the same time, in 1958, Chen Jiaquan from Sichuan, China was elected to the national team. Not long after entering, he tied the Chinese record held by Liu Changchun 10 years ago with a time of 7 seconds.

Since then, Chinese track and field has ushered in the era of Chen Jiaquan. In 1959, Chen Jiaquan ran 10 seconds.

1960年，陈家全先后跑出了10秒4和10秒3。

Since then, he has started to train harder.

However, in 1962, Chen Jiaquan suffered from an illness and was in poor condition after recovering from the illness. For a period of time afterwards, Chen Jiaquan tied his own record of 9 seconds nine times, but he was unable to improve.

In order to improve his performance, he asked to participate in the high-intensity winter training experimental class, but was not approved at first because of his age, and was approved after repeated requests.

Facts have proved that older age can also create miracles. In 1965, 27-year-old Chen Jiaquan ran a new record of 10 seconds.

At that time, Aminhari's time of 10 seconds and 0 had been spread to China, so he started training with the goal of this time, and wrote a poem "A man with a seven-foot body, what is there to be afraid of working hard? Do you have great ambitions for the country? Only ten seconds one".

Not long after this poem was written, Chen Jiaquan really broke through himself again, running a record of 10 seconds, making the Chinese 1-meter record only 0.1 seconds away from the world record!
And on October 1965, 10, Chen Jiaquan finally achieved the first generation of sprint king in New China. In the Second National Games in SC Province, when Chen Jiaquan ran across the finish line, the stopwatches on the hands of the three referees pointed at 24 seconds. !
This is the result of tying the world record!

According to regulations, the chief referee at that time sealed up the three stopwatches immediately.

Soon, news came out that Chen Jiaquan had equaled the world record, which caused a sensation in the international sports circle, especially shocked the western countries.

Because of their athletes, they just ran for 10 seconds!France's largest sports newspaper "L'Equipe" directly said: "Chinese athletes are ready to compete with world sports".

Domestic newspapers even proudly announced: "Chen Jiaquan is one of the fastest runners in the world."

According to the editor's comment in the newspaper at the time, "Chen Jiaquan entered the national team in 1958, and in just seven years, he raised China's backward 100-meter event to the world's highest level in one fell swoop."

In 1965, Chen Jiaquan equaled the world record at that time, and 40 years later, Su Feng also came to Zurich, the place where the world record was made, with the result of equaling the world record.

Coincidentally, the stadium used for this game is also the same stadium used by Amin Hari, who set the world record 46 years ago.

After learning about this period of history from Liu Sheng, Su Feng felt that the pressure suddenly dropped a lot. Compared with his predecessors 40 years ago, the environment he was in and the training facilities he used were undoubtedly very different.

And standing shoulder to shoulder with his predecessors, there is no reason for him not to run a good result, and there is no pressure.

However, Liu Sheng is not the only experienced sports reporter in Zurich.

Those journalists from other European countries and from Zurich undoubtedly have a wider understanding of this history.

Before the game started, a large number of media had already discovered this coincidence, and "Letzigren Stadium ushered in the world record again" became the most resounding slogan in the mouth of the media.

The influence of this slogan on Zurich and the Swiss is undoubtedly huge, so ten days before the start of the game, this matter began to ferment violently in Zurich.

As mentioned earlier, the most important thing in Zurich is rich people. Therefore, a grand high-price ticket grabbing event kicked off like this.

In the end, even the temporary addition of 1000 seats by the IAAF and the local government did not dampen the enthusiasm of Zurich and the Swiss in the slightest.

(End of this chapter)