Sprint champion: start standing on the Olympic field

Chapter 300
"The Chinese delegation for the 2012 London Olympic Games was officially established in BJ on July 2012, 7.

The Chinese delegation has a total of 621 people, including 396 athletes. The number of athletes in the BJ Olympic Chinese delegation once reached a record 639 people.30 BJ Olympic champions including Su Feng, Liu Yuxiang, Lin Dan, Wang Hao and 25 Athens Olympic champions including Liu Xiang will compete in London.The Chinese team will participate in 23 major events and 212 minor events except football, handball and equestrian.

After the announcement of the delegation list, the list of most events was basically as expected, only the list of weightlifting was greatly unexpected. Tian Yuan, who had absolute strength in the women's 48kg class, lost the selection and was replaced by Wang Mingjuan, a veteran who was not selected for the 2008 Chinese Olympic team; and In the women's 53kg class, a strange name Zhou Jun appeared. This person's best result was only a bronze medal in the women's 58kg class in the Weightlifting Asian Championships. She will be relegated to participate in the 53kg class competition.

In addition, although the media had previously reported that Su Wei and Wang Zhelin were not selected for the Chinese men's basketball team, the final announcement of the Chinese men's basketball team's Olympic roster, the failure of these two popular insiders is still a bit surprising.Among the rookies in the men's basketball team, Guo Ailun finally entered the list.

For the badminton list, Li Xuerui is as expected, because she has recently replaced Wang Shixian, who is ranked higher than her in the world, in the women's singles due to her outstanding performance in foreign competitions. "

"Among the 396 athletes in the Chinese team, there are 171 male athletes and 225 female athletes.

The average age of the delegation athletes is 24.68 years old, the youngest is Qiu Yuhan (14 years old) of the swimming team, and the oldest is Liu Yingzi (41 years old) of the flying saucer team.There are 152 athletes who have participated in the Olympic Games and 244 who have not participated in the Olympic Games.

The average age is moderate, and the pattern of bringing the old with the new has been formed, which will ensure that athletes, especially young athletes, can perform well on the field.The new athletes will also make greater progress after experiencing the Olympic Games and contribute to the scientific and sustainable development of Chinese sports. "

On the afternoon of July 7, with the speech of the head of the delegation, Liu Peng, the Chinese national team for the 10 London Olympic Games officially began to take part in the expedition.

Except for a few athletes, the athletes of the delegation will fly to London, England by chartered flight on July 7. They are expected to arrive in the morning of July 17 and stay in the Olympic Village.

"It's finally about to start!" This is the view of most Chinese people at this moment.

After all, the 08 Olympic Games brought too many good memories and wonderful moments to all Chinese people.

Moreover, in recent years, China's national strength has been booming, and the national self-esteem and pride have been rising steadily. The Chinese nation just needs a platform to show itself.

The Olympic Games can undoubtedly carry this weight.

At this time, Weibo has already become a mature social platform. As soon as the news came out, countless Internet celebrities and entertainment stars reposted the news one after another. It was just to gain popularity, but at the same time, it also added fuel to the popularity of the Olympic Games.

After several months or even a year of brewing, the topics related to the Olympics finally officially detonated this summer.

The hottest topics, apart from Lin Dan and a few out-of-the-world athletes, are two-time Olympic gold medalist Liu Yuxiang and BJ Olympic double gold medalist Su Feng.

"Liu Yuxiang has a lot of opponents this time, can we still win the championship?"

"That's right, David Oliver from the United States, Jason Richardson, Aris Merritt, and Roberts from Cuba, that's four people, plus Liu Yuxiang, there are five people, the strength is similar, anyone can win the championship Ah. Especially Merritt, the best result of this year is his run."

"Please, at the level of the Olympic champion, how can there be no competition, Su Feng's side is not much better. Although there is actually only one competitor, but the strength is strong, and there is only one champion.

This year, Su Feng and Bolt haven't met yet. I think they are not sure that they can beat each other, so both of them took a step back for the time being.

It can be seen that the pressure of competition between the two people is definitely very high for people who are proud of them to retreat. "

"But it's impossible for them not to meet again in the Olympics. No matter who wins, I've been looking forward to it for a long time. I have a hunch that there may be a new world record in the 100 meters this time. There is a relationship between the two of them." It's pressure, but it's also a big move."

"No way, the world record is already 9 seconds. If you break the record again, can you still get within 52 seconds?"

"Of course, everyone is guessing now, even my grandma has to tell people about the world record when she goes out for a walk."

In fact, not only in China, but also in the whole world, the topic of Su Feng and Bolt is being discussed, wondering whether they can break the world record.

This is the particularity of the [-]-meter sprint. Once the performance reaches the world record level, it will naturally transcend the boundaries of countries and nations and become a global topic.

All cultural barriers, ethnic barriers are gone, and people want to know where the limits of human beings are.

Even from the Chinese Internet, it can be seen that although netizens still prefer to let Su Feng win, there are actually more discussions about breaking the world record than simply about Su Feng.

And the timing is too good to be true.Last year, the two were injured after a world-record-breaking match, and they never fought in the same field again.

Although this was done intentionally out of fear of excessive competition before the Olympics, it did arouse audiences around the world's speculation and expectations about the two's current results.

"Hey, blessings come from misfortunes, and misfortunes depend on blessings!"

On the way to the airport, Liu Yuxiang closed a newspaper, looked at Su Feng with some excitement and said.

"Let the two of you play tricks and avoid battles before, but now it's all right. The whole world is focusing on you on the Olympics. And judging by the public opinion, it seems that the two of you will definitely break the record. Fire It's already set up, just wait for you to put it on the pot!"

"It's not worth it. Who knew it would be like this. In fact, it should have been thought of a long time ago. The more people's curiosity is suppressed, the stronger the rebound will be. However, the few games after last year's World Championships were to prevent re-injury , this year’s games are before the Olympics, so it’s normal for us to have such a plan.”

"Speaking of which, the influence of the 100-meter hurdles is indeed greater than that of the 110-meter hurdles. I am really jealous of this. You know that I have more competitions abroad, and those track and field enthusiasts from various countries often ask me for news about you. "

"Let's not talk about me, Bolt and I are just like this. You have to wait for a comparison before you know. But you, you have many opponents, especially that Merritt, who has a very strong momentum this year."

This is not what Su Feng said casually. Historically, it was Merritt who won the Olympic 110-meter hurdles championship, although it was because Liu Yuxiang was injured and retired in the preliminaries.But it is true that Merritt ran the best result of this year's 110-meter hurdles, which cannot be underestimated.

"You just said about yourself, and I am the same. If you don't run, who knows. Our sprint is like this. As long as there is an opponent with similar strength, the result is unpredictable. Who knows if we don't run down.

Are you still playing in the 100m, 200m and relay this year? "

"Yes, in the 100 meters it's me, Zhang Peimeng, Su Bingtian. In the 200 meters it's me, Zhang Peimeng, Xie Zhenye. In the relay, it's Zhang Peimeng, Chen Zhilong, Su Bingtian and me."

"There's nothing to say about the 100m and 200m, but what is your plan for the relay? Do you want to get a card?"

Liu Yuxiang was really curious about this point, because he came back late, so even he didn't know about it, and it was even more impossible for the media to find out, so he now knows nothing about the goal of the Chinese team.

"Well, to the outside world, it's just the official rhetoric. It's good to run out of spirit. At most, it's enough to enter the final. But internally, our expectation is to keep the three and compete for the second. The No.1 Olympic Games doesn't need to think about it."

"You guys have no ambition." But even though he said so, thinking about the lineup of the Jamaican relay, Liu Yuxiang didn't have the mood to continue teasing.

Gatlin, Tyson Gay, and Su Feng of the US team can pull back some.But with Bolt in Jamaica, Su Feng has no advantage, and there are Powell and Blake. The Chinese team wants to challenge Jamaica like this, and the hard power is indeed not good enough.Even in Su Feng's plan, it will take until Xie Zhenye grows up and Su Bingtian breaks out completely. In the next Olympic Games, the Chinese team will have a real chance to fight against Jamaica.

(End of this chapter)