Born to Run

"Asafa, Asafa..."

In the single-family villa in Kingston, Jamaica, Asafaville, who was undergoing recovery training in the gym, suddenly heard a rush of shouts from outside the door.

"I'm here, Dole!" Asafaville got up from the remaining bouncy ball, took a towel and wiped the sweat from his face, and replied toward the door.

Maybe it was just after the game, his face was a little gloomy, and he was very careful about his training. He hasn't really started the game this season, but he has suffered two injuries.

Once, before going to Sydney for the Grand Prix on February 12, he tripped on the steps of his home. The other time was in mid-April, when he was undergoing weightlifting strength training, which resulted in injuries to his chest muscles and had to undergo surgery. There are still obvious scars on his right armpit.

The doctor's advice is that he should not train for two months and wait until his chest muscles have fully recovered. But seeing the Olympic time getting closer and closer, he couldn't sit still and couldn't wait anywhere.

He still dare not engage in extra-intensity strength training, but through some adaptive training methods such as bouncing ball, swimming, etc., he is already in progress to maintain his physical condition.

Athletes cannot completely get out of training. Even if they are injured, they need to perform some other sports to maintain their physical condition.

Otherwise, even with the best talent and physicality, as long as you leave the training and leave the field, it doesn't take too long. Basically, your performance will decline to varying degrees in ten days and a half.

If you don’t train and rest for a month or two, your motor function will degenerate very badly, and it will take more time to get back to that peak competitive state.

Now, what he lacks most is time.

Less than three months before the 2008 Yenching Olympics, his men's 100m world record was broken by Yechin on May 22. Although it was only a one-hundredth of a second improvement, the record was broken when it was broken. This means that he will never be the owner of the men’s 100m world record.

He can feel the anxiety, pressure, and many uneasy emotions in his heart, all of which are urging him to recover as quickly as possible and devote himself to training and preparations as quickly as possible.

Outside the gym, the agent Dole has already walked in, looking at Asafaville with a somewhat complicated expression, "I'm bringing you a piece of news that I don't know if it is good or bad."

"What's the news?" Asafaville frowned slightly. He seldom saw such actions by the economic man Dole.

"Yesterday it was the New York Grand Prix, you know?" Agent Doller continued.

"Of course, I know." Asafaville nodded. If it weren't for the injury, he would be going to New York to participate in the Grand Prix this year.

Doller looked at Asafaville's staring eyes, paused slightly, and then said: "The men's 100m world record has been refreshed again."

"What? Who is it?" Asafaville's face changed drastically, and he was suddenly excited.

It's only a week since Ye Chin set the men's 100 meters world record in the Bird's Nest. How can someone break it again now?

This is the men's 100-meter world record. Since he broke Montgomery's 9.78 seconds in 2005, it has been cancelled due to drug prohibition. The world records in recent years have been in his hands.

Even if Ye Qin tied his world record once, and set his world record in one hundredth of a second, this was enough to shock him. Now, in just a week, someone has set it again. After reaching the world record, he could hardly believe what he heard.

Dole looked at Asafaville's excited expression, swallowed a mouthful of water, and slowly said, "It's Youssah, Yousebott!"

"It turned out to be Yosef." Asafaville stood there and his body froze slightly, and his mouth muttered silently, "I thought it was Jason Gaby or Yechin, but Yosef has this strength and this potential. ."

As for Yousebot, Asafaville knew very early that the opponent was four or five years younger than him, but he became famous in Jamaica earlier than him. He just made his mark in the Commonwealth Games in 2002. At that time, Yousebot was already the champion of the men's 200m in the World Youth Championship and was praised by Jamaica.

Since 2005, he has become the flag of Jamaica, but for a long time, Usebot has always been in the top five and eighth in the world in the men's 200m event.

He knew that Usebot had a 9.76 100m time in Jamaica last time. He thought it was an accident at the time. After all, in the state of athletes, it is possible to break out once or twice. He didn't expect Usebot to be a coincidence Or unexpected supernormal performance, but the real strength has arrived.

For a while, Asafaville's mood was extremely complicated. On the one hand, he felt the powerful pressure that he seemed to have become the front wave and was forced by the sprinters that emerged from behind.

On the other hand, there is a sense of pride that Yousebot can break the men’s 100m world record. After Yechin took his men’s 100m record, within a week, another Jamaican set the record again. Take it back. As a Jamaican, being surpassed by his compatriots is better than being surpassed by players from other countries.

But as an athlete, his strong competitiveness and self-esteem still made him unable to let go of it at this time.

He has been dominating the men’s 100 meters project for almost three years. Now he feels a sense of great disappointment that the throne is occupied by people. He really wants to return to the field, return to the track, and win back. Lost records!

"Asafa, I know you are very impatient now, but you have to know that what you need most now is to adjust and recover so that you can have a better condition to play."

The agent, Dole, had already read what he meant from Asafaville's eyes.

Even though Asafaville looked a little shy in front of the media and everyone, in his heart, he was still extremely proud. On the sleepless night of the Osaka World Championships, Doller heard Asafaville shout loudly that no one can take away his world record~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He knew the significance of this world record for Asafaville, so I can better understand the mood of Asafaville at this moment.

The world record he created has been leveled and broken one after another. To a certain extent, it is a huge sense of loss, which means that he has become a thing of the past. When people mention the men’s 100m world record, all they think of is It was another person, not Asa Favir anymore.

"Don't worry, Dole!" Asafaville's eyes became firm, he looked at his agent, and said with a smile, "I don't have enough mental power for the Olympics, as the media said."

For Asafaville, many people in the media now seem to have seen him through. Although there is still a period of time before the Olympics, many sports commentators and reporters have stated that he lacks the mental power needed to compete for the Olympic gold medal. If the Osaka World Championships in 2007 are the same, Asafaville is not lacking in strength and ability, but he lacks a strong heart and possesses the competitive spirit to face opponents.

"The Olympics can't frighten me. The opponents I will meet in Yanjing are no different from those I have encountered in other competitions over the years. It's just that the game has changed its name."

Asafaville spoke slowly, as if he was comforting his agent, and he seemed to be saying to himself, "I don’t know why those in the media think that my performance in the finals may be bad. If I look back at the previous In the competition, I participated in the Athens Olympics for the first time in 2004, and I performed very well in the finals.

The Osaka World Championships was the only final I did not do as expected. I made a very big mistake and I promise it won't happen again.

Only myself can beat me, but now, I will not let myself fail! "