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Chapter 230 60 Meter Preliminaries

2004 year 3 month 5 day,
The No.11 World Indoor Athletics Championships officially opened.

(Some people are used to calling the first session in 85 the World Indoor Athletics Games, and the one in 87 was called the first session. Therefore, it is okay to rank the 2004th session in [-].)
The Indoor World Championship lasted for three days, from March 3th to 5th, with a total of 7 events, 26 events for men and women, and only 7 events for the Huaxia team to participate in.They are men's 60m, men's 200m, men's 60m hurdles, men's heptathlon, women's shot put, women's long jump and women's pole vault.

Roughly the same as all previous indoor competitions, the competition schedule is very tight, and as sprint events and field events that consume relatively less energy, the preliminaries of the competitions are basically scheduled to be held on the same day.

On the first day of the competition, there will be women's shot put, women's pentathlon 800m final, women's 60m, men's 60m, women's triple jump and women's high jump.

Speaking of the highlight of the first day, it is undoubtedly the men's and women's 60 meters, and this is also the highlight of the entire Huaxia delegation.

There are 12 athletes in Huaxia, 7 men and 5 women, and the most core men's sprint event accounts for 4 people.Except for Yang Zuyao who participated in the 200 meters, the other three are all 3 meters events. They have held the national 60 meters record holder twice, and the Asian and national 60 meters record holders.No matter which direction you look at them, they have enough reasons to be concerned.

Not only Huaxia, but even all the delegations who came to participate in the competition also set their sights on the 60-meter event.Although the size and influence of indoor competitions in the track and field world are relatively small, as athletes and coaches who lead the team, as long as they come to participate in the competition, it is impossible to really ignore it.

At 9:30 in the morning,
The athletes who are about to participate in the preliminaries of the men's 60m competition are already preparing to go to the preparation area.

"Sean, I'm still watching, I'm going to prepare!"

Budapest Gymnasium, rest area of ​​the US team. Grimes, who just won the Levin Invitational Championship a few days ago, checked his equipment again and looked at his teammate, Sean Crawford.

"Oh! God, just thinking that you are going to compete with me for this 60-meter gold medal, I feel that the world is full of malice towards me!" Grimes screamed strangely!

"I'm just training my starting speed in the first half. I still have a lot of shortcomings in the first half. What happened in the finals last year, I don't want it to happen again!" Closing the booklet in his hand, Crawford He smiled: "But it would be nice if you can get a gold medal!"

Although he does not run much in the 200 meters and 60 meters, his explosive power and starting speed are not weak.When I was in good form in the past, I often ran 6 seconds 53 and 6 seconds 55.Just now he looked at the entire list of players for the 60-meter race, and there were very few players that he could attach great importance to.It's no surprise that he won the gold medal.

"Win the gold medal, if you want to win the gold medal, you should run your 200 meters!" Grimes was a little speechless, "By the way, you didn't participate in last year's World Championships, the 200 meters champion was the Chinese athlete, You don't want to beat him and prove that you are the king of the 200 meters?"

"Haha~" Crawford laughed and shook his head, "I watched the video of the game, and that Chinese man is not an opponent worthy of my attention. He touched the bottom of his feet, swung his arms, raised his knees, and his posture was stable... …The technique is too mediocre! Except for the absolute speed, other aspects are still quite poor. Although it is a sprint technique, it needs to be tempered, but it is not easy to come up with. Good technique requires sufficient physique and strength Come support while the yellow race...

I'm not racist, but I have to say that in terms of physique, it's hard for yellow people to pose a threat to me when they explode to the limit.The confrontation with him is not very attractive!If he really has the ability to rush out, it won't be too late to face off in the Olympics! "

Grimes nodded in agreement. He won the Levin competition. Although the second and third players were all Chinese players, he also felt that their strength was not bad, but he didn't really pay much attention to them.Even the world champion who ran 10 meters in [-] seconds.

"I won't be able to meet the 200-meter champion this time, but isn't the 60-meter champion here?" Crawford smiled strangely: "I don't know the level of the [-]-meter competition when I applied for a wild card. How? Green and Capel are also idiots, they can lose so thoroughly! You won the Levin game!"

Grimes just smiled along with him. There are many famous players on the US team, but no matter how you count, Green is a player with enough weight. Crawford can say it, but he won't go along with it.Everywhere, there will be levels invisibly. Grimes admits that he is obviously not the upper level.

"Let's go, we won't meet those people in the preliminaries, but if we think about it, they won't be unable to pass the preliminaries. Wait for the semi-finals in the afternoon. If we can meet them, let us teach them what sprinting is!"

……

At 10 a.m. local time, with the end of the women's 60-meter group preliminaries, the men's 60-meter group preliminaries will be staged at the Budapest Gymnasium indoor track and field.

The representative teams have already obtained the schedule. In their opinion, the arrangement is not ideal, but it is considered normal.

But for many foreign players, three games a day is already considered normal, but it has brought a lot of pressure on the athletes and coaches of the Huaxia delegation.

上午10点10分预赛，下午14点半决赛，决赛时间则是傍晚的18点10。

No matter how much pressure there is, it is still necessary to compete, and even if it is the preliminaries, they must give their best.Otherwise, there may not even be a qualification for the three competitions.

They also know that as they gradually step forward to the world stage, such situations may happen from time to time in the future. This is not a concurrent item, otherwise the pressure will be even greater.At this time, everyone including Feng Yong and Yu Weili seemed to be able to understand why Lin Mu was not too keen on concurrent projects.This made them couldn't help but sigh again, they really looked far away.

Lin Mu didn't know how they felt about them, but if he knew, he could only smile.It's not because of his physical strength that he is not too keen on concurrent events. Physical strength has never been a problem.He will not be too persistent about the existence of Baike, but if he needs to use it, he will not be soft-hearted.

Running in technology and strengthening the body against technology is the current theme, and the direction of his plan is to keep this process going.As for the process of digesting the running-in experience, nothing is more efficient than a real game.

As long as the ultimate perfection can be achieved, how to participate and how many events to participate in, Lin Mu will never draw a formula.

When he saw the schedule, he emphasized to the athletes that they should go all out, and they don’t need to think about the problems of the next game. Only running with all their strength can really make the body feel real.This is also the meaning of running-in.

……

Athletics sidelines.

Today, almost everyone from the Huaxia delegation has arrived. There are only three days of competition, and today is the first competition on the first day. All the athletes and coaches have come regardless of whether they want to participate in the competition today. .

After the streamlining of the army and administration, not many coaches came to Budapest, except for the two head coaches, deputy head coaches and team leaders, and Lin Mu's relay team was due to 4 athletes, so he, Yuan Guohua, and Liu Ren all came. A team with the most.In other events, there are only Sun Ping who has been running with Liu Xiang for a long time, and Coach Lu who is in charge of the jumping event.The head coaches of several other contestants did not travel with them this time.

The coaches and athletes are separated, and they get together separately.Before the game started, we chatted with each other about some gossip.At this time, Liu Ren who accompanied the athletes to the inspection area came back!

"Old Liu, you're back? Someone who has led teams to win championships in the World Championships, why is this indoor competition making you nervous?" Looking at Liu Ren who hurried back with a serious face, Yuan Guohua teased with a smile.

There are not many people, and the coaches are familiar with each other, and the athletes are not around, so they can speak freely.

"What do you know!?" As soon as his feet settled down, Liu Ren said angrily.

He's not nervous, he's worried, the two little Shens are now his athletes, he's not worried about Shen Bao, after all, at such an old age, he has participated in too many competitions!Moreover, since Shen Bao won the world championship relay championship, he has completely let go of his mentality. With this let go, the more he runs, the better he runs!
Compared to Shen Bao, Shen Huan was what he was really worried about.Last year's indoor competition lost all his body, and now it is another indoor competition, it seems like a reincarnation, he is not sure what Shen Huan's mentality will be now.He couldn't understand the communication, and this Xiao Shen was still very worried, even after a lot of changes had been made.

Liu Ren really doesn't pay much attention to those who don't get good grades, but the momentum of steady progress cannot be affected by objective reasons.

Just now, he had been watching over the preparation area, and he specifically told Shen Bao to communicate with Shen Huan when he had time, and if the team got along well with Shen Huan, Shen Bao would be fine.

Thinking of this, Liu Ren couldn't help looking at Lin Mu.At this time, Lin Mu also happened to look at Liu Ren.

Smiling slightly, Lin Mu nodded gently.

"The first group of preliminaries has begun!"

While Lin Mu and Liu Ren were communicating silently, the first group of men's 60-meter preliminaries had already entered the field!

……

Check-in area
Dozens of athletes were arranged in different preparation rooms according to their groups, waiting to enter the competition later.

There are a total of 60 athletes in the men's 49m competition at this year's Indoor World Championships, divided into 6 preliminaries.The top two in each preliminaries group will directly advance to the semi-finals, and the remaining four with the best results will advance to the semi-finals.There are a total of 16 people. The semi-finals will be divided into two groups. The promotion rules are the same as the general competition. A total of 8 people will advance to the final.

The three members of the Huaxia team, Shen Huan, Shen Bao, and Zhao Lin were divided into the second, third, and fifth groups of the preliminaries.

At this time, the first team has already entered the field, and the staff of the second team's preparation room have come to prepare to guide the players to the stage.

The competition went on very quickly, in just two to three minutes. With the loud noise coming from the gymnasium, the players of the second group, led by the staff, walked into the arena through the corridor.

As soon as he entered the arena, Shen Huan felt surrounded by countless buzzing sounds, which made him take a deep breath.

Even though he has gone through many big battles, he has been a leading role and a supporting role, but when he is in this small space surrounded by thousands of people, he still feels a little uncomfortable.Especially listening to these buzzing sounds that he couldn't understand, and feeling the countless eyes that made him uncomfortable.

This reminded him once again of Birmingham last year. It seemed that thousands of people gathered together like this. As soon as they appeared on the stage, countless surprised eyes focused on them.He very, very disliked these strange eyes.

Once in China, such eyes were because of his height and shape.Later in Vienna, in Birmingham, in Levin, it was the color of his skin, and it is the same now.

While his thoughts were beating, he silently followed the team and walked towards his track.Among the black-skinned figures, Shen Huan in a red sprint suit was particularly conspicuous.

Different times and similar environments also reminded him of things that made him even more uncomfortable.It was a sigh that seemed to be suddenly and sure!

Meticulously checked the starting equipment, stretched his body again, Shen Huan adjusted his breathing gently, and his whole body seemed more and more calm.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the athletes from the second group of the men's 60-meter preliminaries have already entered the field...the first track is from...the third track is from...the sixth track is from Dongfang Huaxia, and they were in Levin's room not long ago Huan, Shen, who won the second place in the 60-meter invitational race—”

The host of the event introduced the personal situation of the athletes one by one based on the information in his hand. When introducing Shen Huan...

Although he couldn't understand the host's introduction, he could still pronounce his awkward name.

Waved around the stands, Shen Huan looked calm, but the surging emotions in his heart were ignited again!
I can't understand what to say!But in public, it can't be a bad word, but this tone, slightly surprised with a smile...

What happened to the Chinese people?So what about people of the yellow race, is there a problem with being short?

Coach Lin is right, the path of an athlete needs to be stepped on with his own feet, for himself and for the mission!

In China, the current me, the name on the stage is no longer that little guy.Then, in the international arena in the future, my name can only be Huaxia's Shen Huan, not... oh? !Asian!
Missed the opportunity, I'm one step behind that one, I won't be late...

"The competition is about to start, let's see how the players in this group perform? Look at the youths from the East..."

After the on-site host introduced the contestants, he spoke quickly and passionately, accompanied by background music, and the sound echoed throughout the indoor hall.

The gymnasium gradually quieted down, suppressing the noisy audience and focusing their eyes on the starting line of the track.

"On your marks!"

The athletes are ready, and the referee checked the athletes' conditions for the last time. After everything is correct, the order is issued!
"set!"

boom!
The starting gun sounded.

"Game start!".

"Oh? Look, who is that? Shen, a young man from the East, started at a very fast pace... He took the lead...Six times, two times, four times, crossed the line..."

In just six or seven seconds, the host of the competition, who tried his best to mobilize the atmosphere of the scene, spread his passionate voice to every corner of the gymnasium!

“6秒55，6秒55，来自东方华夏的shen以6秒55的成绩轻松取得了预赛第二小组的第一。这是……”

Panting heavily, Shen Huan only glanced at the timing board at the scene, then raised his right hand and closed his eyes slightly.

He turned a deaf ear to all the sounds around him, and only one voice echoed in his heart.

I'm Shen Huan, an athlete from the People's Republic of China, the National Athletics Relay Team!
(End of this chapter)