Born to Run

? March 8.

Valencia, Spain, the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships are still going on.

On March 7, after Yeqin won the men's 60-meter indoor world championship, the Chinese track and field team has fully gained momentum. Yeqin's performance in the 60-meter field gave everyone unparalleled confidence.

From 400 meters to 200 meters to 100 meters, and now the men’s 60 meters, Yechin’s long-distance sprinting project to the current 60-meter ultra-short sprint almost all showed super adaptability and amazing Achievement.

For athletes participating and training together, the pressure is naturally obvious, but again, it can arouse many people's inner desire to win.

What Yeqin can do, what we can do so beautifully, we should too!

Even if it is not possible to reach the height of Yechin, it is a huge improvement even if it is a discount to run into the finals of world-class competitions.

Yeqin was able to run in 9 seconds 90 on the 100-meter event, and maybe even 9 seconds 80 later. Everyone does not want to reach his height, but maybe, there is a possibility of running in 10 seconds. It's not in vain to practice sports for so many years.

In this regard, it is just like Shi Dongpeng's feeling for Liu Yangyu in the men's 110-meter hurdles project.

With Liu Yangyu, it is impossible for him to become the first man in the country in the 110m. There is a huge difference between the two in terms of fame and commercial value.

But to a large extent, it is precisely because of Liu Yangyu's excellent performance that he won gold and silver in world-class competitions time and time again, breaking the world record, and Shi Dongpeng saw a glimmer of possibility.

Moreover, he is gradually turning this possibility into reality.

In the World Championships, he may not have a chance to win the championship, but he can stand in the finals of the world-class competitions with his sufficiently good performance.

When many people are paying attention to Liu Yangyu, perhaps three or five people can notice that he also participated in the semifinals and finals and is an excellent sprinter in China.

After Shi Dongpeng, there are many other men's 110-meter hurdles runners who have followed in Liu Yangyu's footsteps and are able to run quite well.

This is the pioneering role of having a strong teammate in front of him. He can encourage other domestic athletes in this event to do it, and there is always such a possibility.

This year’s Indoor World Championships is also like this. Shi Dongpeng is standing in front of the men’s 60-meter hurdles semi-final starting line, looking at the hurdles in front, and his teammates. A little excited and nervous.

The biggest difference between the 60-meter hurdle and the 110-meter hurdle is the short distance. For sprinters, it may be because the speed cannot be improved sufficiently. For hurdlers, the impact is mainly reflected in the lack of enough hurdles and the technical play between hurdles. The space becomes narrower.

Shi Dongpeng understands that his speed ability and explosiveness are not particularly strong. He relies on fairly good piece-taking technology. The 5 hurdles of 60-meter hurdles are too few for him to give full play to his advantages. .

The difficulty of entering the final in the 60-meter hurdle is much more difficult than that of the men’s 110-meter hurdle.

However, as an athlete, he is already on the field of competition, and he will go all out no matter what he does.

Snapped!

The game gunshots sounded.

Shi Dongpeng started very well. He can feel that his rhythm is very good. It should be the rare occasion that he ran the 60-meter hurdles in a particularly good state. His players in the same group are very strong, including the former American men's 110-meter hurdles ruler Alan Johnson and British star Alan Scott.

The short-distance explosive power of black players is much stronger than him. He wants to gain an advantage in the 110-meter hurdles. The most important thing is the hurdle technique. Facing such top hurdlers, with a distance of 60 meters and 5 hurdles, It is very difficult to win.

7 seconds 57!

On the timing card, the results of this group of men's 60-meter hurdles champions have come out.

The first to cross the finish line was British player Alan Scott, and the second was American Alan Johnson with a score of 6.64 seconds.

Shi Dongpeng looked at the results shown on the live timing board. He was third with a score of 7.65 seconds, only one hundredth of a second slower than Alan Johnson.

Shi Dongpeng couldn't help but feel a little helpless. The 60-meter hurdles consist of three semi-final groups. The rule to advance to the finals is that each group directly advances to the top two. He is in third place and is not eligible for direct promotion. Now he can only wait until the results of the next two semi-final groups come out, and then see if his results are in the fastest two and get the chance to make up for it.

After leaving the stadium, Shi Dongpeng did not leave directly, but walked in the direction of the Chinese track and field team in the side stands.

"Dongpeng, a good run!"

"There should be a chance to enter the finals!"

"Come on!"

Shi Dongpeng walked through the stands, and several Chinese athletes and coaches all came to greet him. Finally, Shi Dongpeng sat down between coach Sun Chaosheng and Ye Qin.

"Did Brother Dashi just refresh his personal PB?" Ye Qin asked when Shi Dongpeng ran out of 7.65 seconds.

In his memory, this result should already be considered a very good result for domestic athletes.

Domestic sprinters have a certain gap in explosive power and speed ability compared with European and American athletes, but they win in good physical coordination, rhythm and technical ability, so the 60-meter hurdle performance is still worse than that of the 110-meter hurdle.

Just like Liu Yangyu was able to break the men's 110-meter hurdles world record with a time of 12.88 seconds, the gap between the world record and the men's 60-meter hurdles is still obvious.

Just in Dusseldorf on February 28 this year, the Cuban teenager Dai Long Robles ran a time of 7.33 seconds, which ranked second in history. The first in history was Colin. Jackson ran out of 7.30 in 1994.

Ye Qin knew that Liu Yangyu's best time in the men's 60-meter hurdle was 7 seconds ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ was run in Karlsruhe on February 11, 2007.

In fact, it can be clearly seen that in short hurdles, Liu Yangyu and Shi Dongpeng clearly performed better in the 110-meter hurdles than in the 60-meter hurdles.

Shi Dongpeng shook his head and smiled, "Failed to refresh. Although 7 seconds 65 is not bad, it is a bit worse than my last World Championship."

At the 2006 Moscow Indoor World Championships, Liu Yangyu was unable to compete due to injury. Shi Dongpeng was under a lot of pressure to compete, and finally ran his personal best time of 7 seconds 63 in the 60-meter hurdle.

"That's not bad." Ye Qin smiled and pulled him to sit down, and threw a towel to Shi Dongpeng. "There may be hope of reaching the finals."

"This is hard to say." Shi Dongpeng shook his head slightly, "In the past two years, there have been many track and field talents, not only for your sprints, but also for sprints."

Ye Qin nodded, and did not continue to say more.