second!

Li Junhao's final ranking was second!

In the final sprint, he finally surpassed Iverson, who was originally one step faster than him, by using the effective part of his body to cross the line first!

After seeing the result, the audience at the scene all let out an exclamation of disbelief.

The moment Iverson saw the result, he frowned, looking around in disbelief, feeling that the scene before him was not realistic.

The player from China won?

Iverson scratched his head and patted his forehead, as if he didn't want to believe the reality before him. However, judging from the images on the big screen at the scene, the Chinese player did cross the line before him.

After seeing the result, Iverson tried to calm down and recalled his condition today. He felt that he actually ran quite well today. Although not in top condition, it was no problem for him to run around 45.40 seconds - his season SB last year was 45.17 seconds, and his world ranking in 2018 was 48th, which is also his career PB so far. When he is in good condition, his results will be within 45.30 seconds. He was actually quite satisfied with his condition today.

……original.

Iverson felt that all this was a bit unscientific. He knew that among the Chinese players whom he had defeated last year, the strongest one, Zhang, had already run a time of 44.96 seconds. In this year's world ranking of China, Zhang had far surpassed him and broke into the top 30 players in the world.

In addition to Zhang, there is another Chinese athlete who ran 45.27 seconds. He is a rhythm-destroying demon in the 4x400m relay event.

Iverson, who has followed the Chinese team's games, has of course seen Li Junhao in China's 4x400m relay. However, the Li Junhao on the field today was obviously very different from the Chinese player he had seen before.

The entire game video was being replayed on the big screen at the scene. Iverson looked intently at Li Junhao on lane nine in the video, and the more he looked, the tighter his brows furrowed.

This kind of athlete has never appeared in the Chinese team and is rarely seen in the 400-meter event. However, any athlete who can stably master this rhythm and possess this kind of control is basically a master in the 400-meter sprint.

The prerequisite is... to master this sense of rhythm proficiently.

Iverson once again looked at the big screen with suspicion, watching the replay on the screen, and then at a certain moment, he saw Li Junhao's rhythm change.

Obviously, this Chinese player is not a master of this rhythm and control method, but it happens that today, this Chinese player used this rhythm and state very well in the game.

When you are in average condition, you meet another player who is in explosive condition - this kind of failure is something that almost every athlete has encountered on the field.

Even if Li Junhao is not here today, there is still Botswana's Walcott at the forefront.

Iverson sighed helplessly, then raised his eyebrows and looked in the direction of Li Junhao, and casually gave him a thumbs up. After Li Junhao saw it, Iverson's face turned into a provocative smile again - boy, you won't be so lucky next time.

Li Junhao saw the gesture and smile Iverson gave him. Although he didn't know the deep meaning behind Iverson's provocative smile, he could certainly still discern the provocative meaning in Iverson's smile.

He glanced in Iverson's direction indifferently, then retracted his gaze and looked at the big screen on the scene, reviewing his own status and rhythm on the screen.

Li Junhao could certainly see that there was a huge gap between himself on the screen and his past self in terms of rhythm control throughout the 400-meter race.

It was after he remembered what Su Bai had once said to him that he suddenly, with his mind highly concentrated, found the sense of stride and rhythm that Su Bai had helped him find through various trainings.

At the moment, he couldn't explain how he entered that state of body control, but he knew clearly that this state of body control might be the feeling that Su Bai had been trying to help him find through various fixed training.

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It felt like he had been tricked by that big-tailed fox again.

After the game, when he calmed down again, Li Junhao found with regret that he once again failed to escape the routine of that big-tailed fox - that big-tailed fox was the king of routines, with many routines, but not very deep, and he ended up being fooled every time!

Thinking of this, Li Junhao felt deeply that perhaps because they were so close, his IQ might have been lowered a lot by that guy Qiu Wen, and he really needed to make some urgent corrections.

In the domestic sports channel live broadcast room, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were also reviewing the game that had just ended.

"This is a personal competition style and state that Li Junhao has never shown in the past! This running state...what should we call it? A controlled runner? It can be clearly said that in the past, our country has never had such a runner in the 400m event. Through the control of rhythm and the extreme allocation of physical energy, he can maximize his speed on the track."

"Yes." Li Sen also took over the conversation and said, "There are currently two athletes in the world who are famous for this controlled flow running method. One is Le Clos from South Africa, and the other is Fernandez from the United States. These two athletes are also top ten in the world 400m event, and both of them have a PB of less than 44 seconds."

"Of the two runners, Fernandez's condition is not very stable, but Le Clos... If our runner Qiu Wen is the rhythm destroyer in the 400-meter sprint, then Le Clos is undoubtedly the rhythm control master. You never seem to see him lose control on the track. His explosive acceleration at the start is never the most advantageous one, but as the game progresses, you can see him calmly surpassing one opponent after another, using the distribution of speed to the extreme."

Shao Minyi and Li Sen were expressing their feelings in the live broadcast room. In the coaches' dormitory of the track and field training base, Wang Ting and others who had just watched the game also had expressions of amazement on their faces.

"I've always thought that... in terms of rhythm control, Ah Hao can't compare to Ziyi, Guo Dun, Lin Chuan and the others. At most, he's just a little better than Qiu Wen."

As Wang Ting said this, he watched the replay of the game on the TV screen in front of him, feeling very surprised. After a while, he smiled bitterly and said, "Now that I think about it, I also remember that when I first trained Ah Hao, his stride was very long. I helped him adjust to the previous stride length and rhythm state."

Li Junhao is 187cm tall, which makes him a relatively tall athlete in the 400m event. His stride length can reach 2.73m, which is almost the limit of his stride length compared to his height, so it does affect his stride frequency.

In order to correct this problem, Wang Ting asked Li Junhao to try to shorten his stride length and increase his stride frequency during training. In the process of gradual attempts, he found a pretty good balance point. It was also in this balanced state that Li Junhao successfully broke the 47-second mark.

Looking back now, Wang Ting realized that he had actually noticed Li Junhao's technical characteristics and personal traits at the beginning. It was just that from his point of view, these characteristics would affect Li Junhao's performance and improvement, so he made corresponding adjustments.

Su Bai said: "Actually, Lao Wang, your original idea was correct. For players of this extreme control type, it is very difficult to train them to master the extreme allocation of their own physical strength and rhythm, or to let them master the allocation of each of their own rhythms. Generally speaking, most players of this style are talented. Ah Hao did not show many characteristics in these aspects at the beginning, and most coaches really would not consider this aspect."

After a pause, Su Bai smiled and said, "In fact, if you say that Ah Hao's rhythm control is not as good as Ziyi, Guo Dun, Lin Chuan and the others, you are right. In today's game, it was mostly luck. He has not yet been able to fully master his own rhythm. If he wants to enter this rhythm state, it depends on his competitive state and luck on that day. Only through more training, this rhythm can be engraved into his body and become his instinct like breathing. Only then can he truly master this state of skills."

"In addition, most of these athletes are not in a stable state. For example, you can refer to the American Fernandez... His performance went from 43.78 to 45.78..." At this point, Su Bai smiled and said, "This ups and downs can be said to be very dramatic."

Su Bai and others were still discussing the performance characteristics of Li Junhao this time. Track and field fans on the Internet were also very excited about Li Junhao's performance this time.

Although most track and field fans are aware of Fernandez's roller coaster performance, after hearing the introductions from Shao Minyi and Li Sen, more people are willing to compare Li Junhao and Le Clos.

Anyway...what if?

While the online chat was in full swing, the referee team had already finished counting the final results of the athletes on site. The final results of the men's 400m sprint at the World Athletics Challenge in the Netherlands were also presented to everyone.

First place: Walcott (Botswana), 45.10 seconds;

2nd place: Li Junhao (China), 45.37 (.233) (pb);

Third place: Allen Iverson (USA), 45.37 (.751);

Fourth place: …

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The difference in performance between Li Junhao and Iverson was only reflected in the imperceptible milliseconds. A year later, Li Junhao once again stood on the official field of the 400-meter individual competition and pushed his PB forward by a full 0.61 seconds.

At this time, Li Junhao was only 0.07 seconds away from the qualifying score of 45.30 for the World Championships.