After quitting sports, I became a chef

The 110-meter hurdles final was the heaviest game on the morning of August 8, and the start time of the schedule was naturally scheduled for the final stage of the morning game.

After many competitions in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon, the finals of men's triple jump and men's shot put were also completed before the final of the 110-meter hurdles.

The Chinese team did not have any players to participate in the men's shot put finals, but in the men's triple jump event, some players from the Chinese track and field team entered the finals of this event, but the players who entered the finals did not have the strength to dominate the event. Be regarded as a world-class men's triple jump player.

In the men's triple jump final in the morning, the player of the Chinese track and field team did not perform particularly well, and finally only stopped at seventh in the final.

After the men's shot put final was also decided, staff members finally appeared on the field, and the hurdles and runway for the 110-meter hurdles were arranged.

"It's 11:35 a.m. Tokyo time and 10:35 a.m. city b time. We can see that the staff on the field have set up a runway for the 110-meter hurdles. Next, the most eye-catching part of the morning race schedule The final is about to begin!"

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Minyi's voice was already excited even before the game started.

After all, if the 110-meter hurdles event is just an ordinary track event for foreign track and field fans and spectators, then for Chinese spectators, it can even be called the light of enlightenment for many Chinese people in track and field.

Just like today's track and field kingdom road stalls, there are many track and field fans among them, who entered the track and field pit entirely because of the hurdles prosperity more than ten years ago, and even if it wasn't because of the hurdles prosperity that year, the track and field fans who entered the pit, in their In my heart, China's 110-meter hurdles is definitely a project with a completely different meaning compared with other projects.

It is precisely because of the 110-meter hurdles, precisely because of the former hurdle king, and precisely because of the hurdle king who was once strong enough to stand on top of the world in the age of the gods and stand side by side with those "hurdle gods", so many track and field fans It was the first time I felt the tingling sensation in the track and field.

Although everything seems to have returned to the original point with the retirement of Lan Wang, the era of Lan Wang still left many traces on China's track and field events.

For example, in track and field events, Chinese sports school students will be more willing to choose the 110-meter hurdles event when the talent judgments in multiple events are basically the same.

For example, even now, if you randomly ask a passer-by on the street to remind him of a track and field superstar, nine out of ten it is still the name of the column king.

For example, when asked about the small events under the big track and field, in addition to sprint events such as 100 meters and 200 meters, most people will immediately think of the elephant slave of 110 meters hurdles.

Even among domestic sports schools and provincial track and field teams, the project with the best resource allocation will definitely have the 110-meter hurdles. In domestic track and field project research, the project with the most papers is still the 110-meter hurdle, and even worse , the Diamond League also permanently fixed the 110-meter hurdles competition in the Chinese Diamond League sub-station because of the hurdle king...

All of these, these details that people don't care about inadvertently, are really stacked up, but it will make people suddenly amazed-it's just the power of one person, but it has left such a profound impact in an industry .

It is precisely because of the existence of the former hurdle king that domestic track and field fans will always have some critical eyes on the latecomers, thinking that these latecomers are not as good as the hurdle king or that.

And soon, track and field fans soon discovered that if we look at these latecomers according to the point of view of the column king in the past, it is impossible to find a qualified 'successor to the column king', and they will also give those 'column king successors' The players 'brought undue pressure and made them always have some bad performances in the game.

It's a pity that track and field fans later discovered... Even if they no longer look at these latecomers with a critical eye, it is difficult for these latecomers to give even slightly satisfactory results.

From the glory that was enough to occupy a place in the "Age of the Gods" to the inability to dominate Asia later, the sense of gap in the middle made countless track and field fans dare not even pay attention to the 110-meter hurdles for a time, and did not want to Look at the related competitions of the 110-meter hurdles.

It was not until that year that Lu Mengfan gradually started to make his mark in the 110-meter hurdles.

Although there is still a huge gap between Lu Mengfan and the former hurdle king, his series of stable performances in the Asian-level competitions finally gave domestic track and field fans a better chance in the 110-meter hurdles event. A new object of hope.

Later, Su Bai took Cui Luoheng, who disappointed the domestic audience twice, and abruptly increased his pb by more than 1 second during the game...

The Chinese 110-meter hurdles fans suddenly woke up. Afterwards, Cui Luoheng's performance in one game after another gradually relieved the audience who were still worried about whether he would be a flash in the pan.

From the Asian Games, the Asian Championships to the World Championships, the Diamond League... and now the Olympic Games!

The word 'miracle' seems to be written all over Cui Luoheng's body.

In yesterday's 110-meter hurdles semi-final, Cui Luoheng's pb has been refreshed to 13 seconds!You know, he is only 04 years old this year, and the golden cycle of track and field is still very long for him. If there is no accident, the next Paris Olympics will be the peak of Cui Luoheng's career when he is 22 years old.

22 years old, pb 13 seconds 04.

Although this result is not as good as the hurdle king who broke the 21-second barrier at the age of 13, for track and field fans, Cui Luoheng is definitely a well-deserved successor to the hurdle king.

His body seems to have condensed the light called Miracle, waiting for the moment when it will completely shine on the world.

And that moment, will it be today?

On August 2020, 8, at this ordinary and extraordinary time, in front of Chinese televisions, countless people were waiting for the arrival of an unknown miracle.

The spectators waiting in front of the TV had already held their breath since the game hadn't even started. Many track and field fans even clenched their fists and their palms were already sweating.

"Today's battle... It's no exaggeration to say that this may be the battle that will determine whether Cui Luoheng can truly ascend to the throne." Li Sen also squeezed his hand nervously, waiting for the start of the game.

In the auditorium at the scene, Jiang Wentao's face was also full of uneasy expressions. Not only him, but also many staff members of the national track and field team, their faces were more or less anxious.

The Olympic final of the 110m hurdles...

This used to be the most watched event of China's track and field team in the Olympic Games, but as the talents of this event were cut off, the popularity of Chinese track and field events once again fell back to the bottom.

Now, watching the 110-meter hurdles event appear in the Olympic finals again, even the staff who believe in science the most have an illusion in their hearts that the fate of the 110-meter hurdles is tied to the track and field event.

What will happen?

What is the result of today's game?

In this anxious waiting, the 110 contestants in the 8-meter hurdles final finally stepped onto the field under the eyes of the audience.

In the semi-finals, the 110-meter hurdles players who finally advanced to the final were Cui Luoheng from China, Clough from Spain, Vanderberg from South Africa, Jagger from the United States, McVries from Cyprus, and Tanu from Jamaica. Iraq, Lepworth of France, and Vladimir, who is currently the strongest player in the 110-meter hurdles, participated as a free neutral athlete.

With the appearance of these 8 athletes, the tense and anxious atmosphere instantly became more tense. The 8 athletes came to the starting block under the guidance of the staff, and then began to adjust themselves without saying a word state, or start to adjust the angle of your starting block as soon as you squat down, etc.

"All the athletes are on the stage!" Shao Minyi's voice could clearly hear the tension in his mood: "After they have made their respective preparations, the competition will begin soon!"

After nervously finishing this sentence, Shao Minyi and Li Sen began to introduce each athlete on the field one by one, especially when introducing Vladimir on the fifth track, both Shao Minyi and Li Sen seemed very excited. cautious.

"In last year's World Championships, Cui Luoheng finally lost to the neutral player Vladimir from Russia." Shao Minyi looked at Vladimir nervously: "Coincidentally, in last year's World Championships , Vladimir is on the sixth track, and Cui Luoheng is on the fifth track. In today's Tokyo Olympic 110-meter hurdles final, the positions between Cui Luoheng and Vladimir have swapped. "

In today's race, Cui Luoheng is on the sixth track, while Vladimir is on the fifth track.

After a pause, Shao Min said in a deep voice, "Then... will their final rankings in the Olympic finals be swapped with last year's World Championships 110m hurdles finals?"

Shao Minyi's statement is really a bit mysterious, including he himself knows that this statement can only be used as a "coincidence", but he believes that the nervousness before the start of the game is so nerve-wracking. In tense moments, this kind of 'coincidence' can give the audience in front of the TV a feeling of 'luck'.

——It's like Qiu Wen likes to donate money to himself before his game for auspiciousness.

In front of the TV, there were really many viewers who were full of 'superstitious thinking' and donated a charity fund to Cui Luoheng. These charity funds were all numbers starting with 12, which was enough to see what the audiences who donated had in their hearts. looking forward to it.

In the scene, the atmosphere on the field was much more intense than watching from the TV. In the auditorium, the number of spectators waving the Chinese flag was unprecedentedly large. If you judge it purely from the naked eye, in the auditorium at this moment, Audiences from China accounted for as much as one-tenth of it—you know, this is not a Chinese home stadium, but a track and field final held in Tokyo, Japan.

In the reporter photography area of ​​the arena, a sports reporter from China also noticed the amazing scene in the auditorium. He immediately took out his wide-angle lens without saying a word, and took a large panorama of the scene. In the frame of the camera, , the bright Chinese national flag is flying on the field, and every audience from China is watching the scene nervously at the moment. They are waving the national flag, preparing to cheer for Cui Luoheng's game anytime and anywhere, and looking forward to being able to cheer for him. Victory cheers!

Jiang Wentao in the auditorium also noticed this, but after he noticed this, his face looked a little ugly-for no other reason, he was worried that there were so many Chinese audiences at the scene, so much attention At this point, if Cui Luoheng fails to perform well in today's final...

That might bring some pressure from public opinion that Cui Luoheng shouldn't have to bear.

Su Bai was also standing in front of his position at this time, but he didn't pay attention to everything else around him, he just calmly looked at Cui Luoheng in the arena, his gaze never blinking.

Before Cui Luoheng went to the backcourt, he once said to Su Bai: "Xiaobai, can you keep watching me for today's game?"

Facing his stubborn gaze, Su Bai finally nodded affirmatively, and said, "Okay."

On the field, Cui Luoheng also seemed to have remembered the agreement before the game. After adjusting his starting block, he squatted on the starting block, looked up and looked exactly at the position of Su Bai in the Chinese player area of ​​the auditorium, and then After Yaoyao met Su Bai's gaze, he retracted his gaze and gathered it in front of his eyes again.

He looked up, looked at the track ahead, and then stubbornly looked at the end of the track in his heart, and said to himself——he wants to win, he must win...

In the end, the first person to reach the finish line must be him!

Just at this moment, the big screen at the scene cut to the scene in front of Cui Luoheng who was shooting at him. It was only for a moment. After seeing this scene, the audience in front of the TV had the illusion of being locked in danger. Cui Luoheng in the picture seems to be an extremely dangerous beast, his eyes are full of firmness and dedication to victory.

Cui Luoheng's gaze...

Shao Minyi and Li Sen were taken aback by Cui Luoheng's eyes on the screen. Before they could recover and want to say something, there was already a radio broadcast announcing the start of the game. , The contestants on the 8 tracks all squatted on their own starting blocks, put their hands on the ground, and were ready to fight hard at the beginning of the competition.

The final of the 110-meter hurdles in the Tokyo Olympics is finally about to officially begin!

On the race track, in the auditorium, in the commentator's live broadcast room, and in front of thousands of TVs, everything fell silent in an instant, and then it was so quiet that people could almost hear themselves The pounding heartbeat.

Cui Luoheng, who was squatting in front of the starting block, completely let go of the sharp senses that had terrified him at this moment of sudden silence. He even began to feel McVries and Vladimir on his left and right sides. breathing.

The tense atmosphere in the entire arena seemed to condense into a heavy voice, howling in Cui Luoheng's ears like a wild wind, but now he is not afraid of these things that might have affected his game rhythm.

The firm obsession with speed and victory in his heart, the firm heart in his heart... wanting to become a strong man, and then stand side by side with Su Bai, are telling him—all these things around are nothing but unnecessary obstacles , Believe in yourself, you will become the strongest on this track!

In this tense atmosphere that made people's breathing stagnate, the sound of the order on the radio officially sounded.

"Everyone take their places."

"preparation."

After these two sounds that all athletes are extremely familiar with, there was a crisp starting gun sound——

"boom."

The game...begins! ! !

Almost instantly, the 8 runners in front of the starting line had already stepped on the starting block with a strong explosive force, and then sent themselves to the track in front of them with this explosive force!

During the start of the race, almost none of the 8 players made mistakes. With the high concentration of spirit, these 8 players all broke out with great strength and excellent condition.

The cheers and shouts of the audience swept over like a torrent at the moment when all the runners started running. All kinds of cheers seemed to be a powerful force rushing from the circular arena to the final track of the 110m hurdles final !

"come on! Come on!!!"

"Cui Luoheng, come on!!! China, come on!!!"

There was almost hoarse shouting on the field, and everyone was sparing no effort to cheer for the audience on the field, especially the audience from China. Their shouting almost turned this scene into China's home field!

On the field, the starting bursts of the eight players were all very good, but among them, Vladimir and Cui Luoheng were still the most outstanding.

Vladimir, a guy who only gave relatively conservative performances in the preliminaries and semi-finals, finally let go of his fangs completely in the last final, showing his fierce side.

In the last World Championships, his starting state was mediocre, and his starting reaction time was only 0.155 seconds, but today is different. He is in full peak state today, and his starting reaction time of 0.128 seconds is almost the best in the field.

The only person who is faster than Vladimir is Cui Luoheng, but Cui Luoheng's starting reaction is only 0.001 seconds faster than Vladimir's - although the starting reaction of 0.127 seconds is the best in the audience, but Cui Luoheng's overall outfit at the starting stage The state is still slightly inferior to Vladimir.

It can be clearly seen from the on-site photography that from the start stage to the first three hurdle stages, Vladimir is completely ahead of the other players, while Cui Luoheng barely maintains the second place, or even the third place. In the second hurdle attack, she once lost to Jamaica's Tanui.

Just the slight lag in the opening stage caused the audience on the scene and in front of the TV to break out in a cold sweat.

"Come on!!! Come on, Cui Luoheng!!!"

Countless people cheered loudly in front of the TV, and in the live broadcast room of the sports channel, the voices of Shao Minyi and Li Sen were equally nervous and full of anticipation.

It seemed to be responding to this expectation. Starting from the fourth hurdle, Cui Luoheng's speed between the hurdles suddenly accelerated again visible to the naked eye. While Cui Luoheng's speed increased, the audience's mind was filled with a possibility that made them want to scream.

Speed ​​up!

Cui Luoheng's speed increased!

He was originally in the top three position, so where can he be now after he accelerated?

is it possible?

Before the match, Xiao had thought about it countless times, and that Cui Luoheng was always steadfast in the direction of his sword... Could it really be reached?

On the track, Vladimir originally thought that there would be no surprises in today's final - at last year's World Championships, he had already seen how powerful the player on his right was from China. I understand that if I don't go all out in the best condition in this Olympic game, then I may fail in this Olympic arena.

It is precisely in order to be able to deal with this Chinese player with all his strength in the finals that he ran very cautiously in the preliminaries and semi-finals, just to keep his best form in the finals.

This young Chinese player is good at everything. The only thing he did wrong was that he spent too much energy and state in the preliminaries and semi-finals.

Vladimir originally thought that the excessive pride of this young man would make the Chinese player fall into the sand-he believed that the Chinese player would be able to compete with him in his prime, but he didn't think that, in the continuous After running 13 and 16 in the two races, this Chinese player was able to fight against himself in the third day of the final!

……

Originally, Vladimir thought so, and even after the start of the game, he still maintained such confidence in the first three hurdles.

However, from stepping into the fourth hurdle, Vladimir clearly felt that the player from China, his speed has become faster!

How can it be? !

Vladimir was originally known as the absolute king between the fifth column and the seventh column. At this stage, his column speed is unmatched.

But now, the competition has reached the stage of the fifth hurdle, the player from China, his speed is still getting faster and faster!

Yes……

Vladimir remembered that this Chinese player, whose fastest hurdle speed appeared on the eighth hurdle, was an absolute second-half player.

but……

It's only the seventh hurdle now!

This should be his absolute domain, right? !

But Vladimir could feel that the Chinese player on his right was standing shoulder to shoulder with him! ! !

How can it be? !

how can that be? ! ! !

In front of the TV, the audience who saw Cui Luoheng trailing behind in the first half and were so nervous that they stopped breathing, the moment they saw Cui Luoheng standing side by side with Vladimir on the seventh hurdle, everyone started to feel their scalps go numb and scream ! ! !

Cui Luoheng! ! !

Come on, Cui Luoheng! ! !

He rushed up! ! !

He is already standing side by side with Vladimir, standing side by side with Vladimir who claims to be invincible from the fifth column to the seventh column! ! !

Now that he is standing side by side with Vladimir at this moment, then...

What about the eighth hurdle? !

Under everyone's nervous gaze, under Vladimir's unbelievable gaze, at the stage of the eighth hurdle, Vladimir managed to control his speed so as not to slip, but in his On the right, that Cui Luoheng from China has really rushed to a faster speed!

"Overtake!!! Cui Luoheng overtook Vladimir!!!"

Shao Minyi's voice was completely torn apart. The irresistibly excited voice was obviously not pleasing to the ear, but it made every audience in front of the TV crazy excited!

Eighth hurdle!

Ninth hurdle!

The last hurdle! ! ! !

After Cui Luoheng overtook Vladimir on the eighth hurdle, Vladimir tried to speed up the overtake on the eighth hurdle, but he accidentally hit the hurdle because of too much anxiety and a decline in physical fitness. The hurdle made his speed stagnate, and it was this hurdle that completely made Vladimir lose his original speed advantage.

At this moment, Cui Luoheng has completely established his ultimate advantage!

"The last hurdle!!! Sprint!!!"

When Cui Luoheng rushed over the last hurdle, the audience was completely crazy, and the audience in front of the TV had already started screaming!

The last 10 meters, 5 meters! ! !

In the sprint stage, Vladimir still did not give up his desire to chase and surpass Cui Luoheng, but finally... until the last moment, the first person to cross the finish line on the field was still from China—Cui Luoheng!

"Won!!!!"

"Champion!!!! Champion of the 110m hurdles!!!"

"The champion of the 110m hurdles is from China - Cui Luoheng!!!!"

"we won!!!!"

At the moment when this voice sounded, countless people at the scene and in front of the TV had tears in their eyes.