After the morning schedule ended, domestic media took advantage of the excitement on the Internet to summarize the morning competition on April 17.
In addition to these summaries, domestic media also made some previews and speculations about tonight's game, and the object of these speculations was naturally the battle between Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao.
When it comes to various sports events, it seems that it is almost impossible for a player to have no rivals in the event. However, in China, the domestic media often like to give some players with similar strengths titles such as "twin stars", and call their competition "double star hegemony", "three-legged tripod" and so on.
In the track and field circle, the most famous "twin stars" in the past two or three years are naturally Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao.
Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao, before Ye Wenhao came to prominence, Wang Shen had always been the only rising star in track and field events. After Ye Wenhao came to prominence, their results were very close to each other. However, before this year's Asian Track and Field Six Nations Joint Competition, for about a year, Wang Shen's form was sluggish and he always lost to Ye Wenhao in the final stages of the competition, which earned him the title of 'eternal runner-up'.
However, since this year's Asian Six Nations Joint Competition, Wang Shen seems to have broken the curse of "mistakes at critical moments" that has been plaguing him. His individual outdoor PB has also increased from 2.28 meters to 2.30 meters. In the previous International Track and Field Indoor Tour, his indoor PB even surpassed his outdoor results and reached a height of 2.32 meters, tying the national indoor high jump record.
As Wang Shen's performance achieved a breakthrough, Ye Wenhao and Wang Shen's performance also achieved a breakthrough almost at the same time.
At present, Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao have both reached their personal best of jumping over a height of 2.32 meters, but to say who has surpassed the other, there is really no difference.
There was a sense of fateful entanglement between the two on the court. Neither would give in to the other, and neither could shake off the other and move forward.
In view of the competition between the two for achievements, the domestic media can almost accuse Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao of a past life grudge. Now, before the start of the Asian Championships in the evening, someone has written a series of popular science essays to introduce the story between Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao. The story is so tortuous that those who know it know that they are a good pair of rivals in the high jump, while those who don't know it may think that they are a young couple who are entangled with each other and are in love and hate with each other.
Ye Wenhao's personality is quite similar to Qiu Wen's. It was the afternoon in Doha, and he was already sitting on the bus to set off for the competition. He was holding his mobile phone and laughing on the bus. He even got up from his seat, turned around, and handed the phone in his hand to Wang Shen through the back of the chair.
"Hey, Lao Wang, look at this!"
Wang Shen was casually swiping his phone when he saw Ye Wenhao handing it to him. On the screen, which was still lit, was a short essay with twists and turns - "Two stars competing in the Asian Track and Field Championships, destined enemies - who will win?" 》
When Wang Shen saw the title of this short essay, he immediately laughed. He crossed out the essay in a few strokes. This essay portrayed the two of them as being so disgusted with each other that they almost formed two factions in the national team and started fighting when they met.
Wang Shen had no interest in such short essays. He had never noticed that Ye Wenhao was actually interested in reading these strange short essays. This thought only flashed through his mind for a moment, and he handed the phone back to Ye Wenhao.
"Well written." Wang Shen had a smile on his face.
"You think it's well written too, right?" Ye Wenhao seemed very satisfied. He took the phone back and sat down. Before he turned around, he glanced at Wang Shen again and said with a grin, "Old Wang, after today's game, those reporters will definitely write a lot of nonsense. I'll share it with you then!"
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When Wang Shen heard Ye Wenhao's words, the originally perfect and friendly smile on his face couldn't help but freeze for a moment.
He and Ye Wenhao had only really come into contact for the past two years. Last year, he spent a long time in the S Province Track and Field Team, and at that time, most of his energy was spent on controlling his own condition. He really didn't pay attention to the personality of his old rival.
Before, Wang Shen only thought that Ye Wenhao was a little reckless during the competition, and they were not particularly close in private. This was the first time that Ye Wenhao handed these things to him to see.
For a moment, Wang Shen felt that Ye Wenhao's personality seemed to be a little different from what he had expected.
However, the deviation is just a deviation, and Wang Shen didn't care much about it. As a result, when he picked up his phone and started browsing again, he suddenly received an @. When he clicked it, he saw that the person @ing him was Ye Wenhao - oh, by the way, the two were teammates and followed each other on Weibo.
As a result, Wang Shen saw the following text on his Weibo:
High Jump·Ye Wenhao: [(grinning) ^0^ I just saw this article, @王深 said: It’s well written. [Quoted article: Two stars compete in the Asian Track and Field Championships, destined enemies - who will win? ], I think it’s pretty good~~~】
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Wang Shen looked at this @, and then looked at the hundreds of replies that instantly exploded under Ye Wenhao's forwarded @, and the usual perfect fox smile on his face began to crack.
He saw that in the comments under the article, some netizens replied: [@跳高·叶文浩, @王深, Brother Hao, Brother Shen, I didn’t expect that you are still such Brother Hao and Brother Shen. 】
Wang Shen had no choice but to raise his hand and rub his forehead. He also wanted to ask: Ye Wenhao, I didn’t expect you to be such a Ye Wenhao.
Because of Ye Wenhao's @, Wang Shen had no choice but to risk his life to accompany the gentleman. He forwarded the article, attached a smiling expression, and commented: [^^It’s really good. 】
His forwarding of the article, coupled with Ye Wenhao's previous stupid remarks, made it seem as if the two of them were publicly expressing that they had a good relationship. They were not as disgusted with each other as described in the article. Instead, it seemed as if they were publicly clarifying their hostile relationship.
Soon, the sports celebrity who wrote the article popped up, claimed the article, and loudly stated that a large part of the content in the article about the relationship between Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao was the author's subjective speculation, and apologized to both Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao.
This winding and tortuous program provided a wonderful interlude for the track and field enthusiasts surfing the Internet before the start of the evening competition of the Asian Championships.
After the bus arrived at the Doha Stadium, Ye Wenhao shrugged and said to Wang Shen in confusion, "I said that reporter wrote a good article, why did he come to our Weibo to apologize?"
Wang Shen paused, then smiled and said, "I'm not sure either."
Hearing Wang Shen say this, Ye Wenhao spread his hands and said with a careless smile: "Never mind, but, Lao Wang, although we have a good relationship, I won't let you win in the game later!"
"Huh?" Wang Shen glanced at Ye Wenhao when he heard this, then smiled and said, "What a coincidence, me too."
The two smiled at each other where they got off the bus, then high-fived each other, and then went to the stadium's preparation area with smiles on their faces.
Tonight's competition is also an extremely important event for local audiences in Qatar. Tonight, Abdallah, a local high jumper known as the pride of Qatar, will also compete.
At the Asian Six Nations Athletics Joint Competition at the beginning of the year, although Abdullah lost to Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao and only ranked third, Abdullah made a breakthrough in his strength in subsequent training. In this year's high jump competition in Qatar, he has achieved a good result of 2.30 meters.
At the same time, according to Abdullah's coach, during training, Abdullah once jumped 2.34 meters, and he is still making progress. If he is in good shape this year, he will have a good chance of reaching a height of 2.35 meters in the annual season.
According to Abdullah's coach, Abdullah once jumped 2.34 meters. If this result was put into a formal competition, it would be enough for Abdullah to enter the top seven of the year.
Not to mention the 2.34m result that Abdallah has not yet achieved in a formal competition, just looking at the 2.30m result, it has already tied the best result of the 2019 outdoor season.
Because the Asian Six Nations Athletics Combined Competition in which Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao jumped 2.30 meters was also counted as an official event, tonight, in the men's high jump event, there were three athletes who had equaled the world's best result of the year.
In addition to Wang Shen, Ye Wenhao and Abdullah, in this final, Japan's Yamashita Tomoaki also jumped 2.28 meters this year, and there is also Jihani from Syria, who has also jumped an outstanding result of 2.29 meters in this year's competition.
To be honest, tonight's high jump competition will be an incredible battle between dragons and tigers.
In a high jump competition, the contestants take turns to try out the jump, starting from the take-off height set by the referee all the way to the later stages, and the competition takes a long time, so the live TV camera is not always on the high jump event.
Generally speaking, the live broadcast of the competition will first focus on other ongoing track and field events, and then insert footage of the high jump competition during the intervals between track and field events. Once the high jump competition enters the critical stage, a large number of live broadcast footage will be used on the high jump event.
The same is true for tonight's live broadcast of the game. However, having said that, this approach is not impossible to adapt.
For example, the live broadcast of the sports channel is still carried out in this way, but in today's competition, the sports channel's online live broadcast has set up a separate high jump live broadcast room to broadcast the entire high jump competition. The only drawback is that there is no special commentary arranged for the separate high jump live broadcast. If you want to listen to the commentary, you still have to watch the live broadcast on TV.
But then again, many old fans of track and field watch the competition, not the commentary. For this kind of competition without commentary, the live broadcast room is filled with barrages of comments from the audience, and there are endless folk barrage commentary masters, which is another kind of fun.
Shao Minyi and Li Sen were also very straightforward. When the evening live broadcast began, they said with a smile that this was how the live broadcast would be arranged. Audiences who need to watch the entire high jump competition can go to the online live broadcast room. If they feel that they cannot understand the content of the event, it doesn't matter. After the two-day live broadcast period, the two of them will specially re-add the commentary for those events that do not have separate commentary, and everyone can also watch the supplementary version of the commentary at that time.
To be honest, the sports channel's approach is quite popular with the audience. Although some viewers want to watch the high jump live, they are not as old fans of track and field after all. After watching for a while, they really can't understand the twists and turns. In the end, they jumped back to the live broadcast on TV, turning on their mobile phones or computers to check the progress of the high jump, while watching TV and listening to Shao Minyi and Li Sen's comments on the competition.
In tonight's men's high jump final, there are a total of 12 athletes who have qualified for the final. In addition to Wang Shen, Ye Wenhao, Abdullah, Yamashita Tomoaki and Jihani, there are also quite a few good players among the rest.
After the referee announced the start of the competition, the starting height of the high jump was set by the referee at 2 meters.
When the height measurer raised the high jump bar to 2 meters and measured accurately, the referee began to issue the first questioning to the surrounding contestants.
"2 meters high, does anyone choose to try jumping?"
The 12 contestants in the waiting area looked at each other, and no one stepped forward. For the first 2-meter height choice, all chose not to jump.
On the domestic sports channel's online live broadcast, there were also new fans of track and field who were watching the high jump competition for the first time. After they saw that the horizontal bar was set up, but no one participated in the competition, they could not help but be confused.
【? ? What's going on? ? ? No one wants to jump? ? ? Is this too high to jump over? 】
The game has just started and there are not many people watching the game here, so the comments are sparse, so this question stands out.
Soon, a high jump enthusiast who had been waiting here to watch the high jump gave the answer with a smile.
[No, this is of course for better performance later on.] 】
[In the high jump event, each jump consumes a lot of physical energy. The athletes present are all those who can enter the Asian Championships high jump finals. They are all top athletes in Asia's men's high jump. There is no need to consume physical energy on the 2-meter height trial jump mentioned above. 】
If everyone jumps over the 2-meter test jump, not only will the competition be endless, but the contestants' scores will certainly not improve - think about it, all the physical energy is consumed in the previous heights of 2 meters and 2.05 meters, do they still want to challenge 2.30 meters later? 】
This old high jump fan answered the previous questions, but some people also had new questions.
[Huh?] If that's the case, why did the referee set the starting height so low? For the heights mentioned above, the contestants should apply to be exempted from jumping, right? 】
[Not really. Choosing which height to start the test jump from is also a compulsory task for the contestants. It doesn’t mean that you can just start the challenge from the highest height - what if you can’t jump over it? Right? You can't just not care about your grades? Furthermore, the trial jump at an appropriate height can also help the players gradually adjust their competitive state in this game...】
In this online live broadcast room dedicated to broadcasting high jump competitions, there are newcomers who are confused when they first start watching the competition, as well as enthusiastic old fans. For a while, everyone is asking and answering each other, and it seems quite harmonious.
During the live TV broadcast of the competition, Shao Minyi and Li Sen had just finished the previous commentary when the camera happened to cut to the high jump, where all the players chose not to jump. The referee then directly raised the height of the bar to 2.05 meters and asked again if anyone chose to try the jump.
Shao Minyi and Li Sen also naturally introduced to the audience in front of the TV the idea of the players choosing whether to apply for exemption from jumping in the early stage, which coincided with the opinions of the old fans in the live broadcast room. This made the audience in the live broadcast room applaud and laugh, applauding the big man who had just explained it.
Although the height of 2.05 meters is not high, two athletes chose to do a trial jump at this stage. These two athletes are Adnan from Malaysia and Lee Deok-hee from South Korea. Their strength can only be ranked in the middle and lower reaches among all the athletes participating in the finals. They chose to do a trial jump at this stage probably to have a guaranteed result.
The height of 2.05 meters is indeed not high. Even Adnan and Li Dexi easily jumped over the bar in just one attempt, while the rest of the contestants continued to be exempted from the jump.
After this time, the referee quickly raised the height of the horizontal bar to 2.10 meters - it was obvious that the referee actually knew the estimates of the players present, but set the starting height lower so that if some players wanted to choose a low-height trial jump, their strategies would not be disrupted and they would not be unable to jump.
After the horizontal bar was raised to 2.10 meters, many more athletes chose to have a trial jump. Among the 12 athletes present, 7 chose to have a trial jump. The only 5 athletes who still applied to be exempted from the jump were Wang Shen, Ye Wenhao, Abdullah, Yamashita Tomoaki and Jihani from Syria.
The other contestants present looked at Wang Shen and the other four, but didn't say anything.
Everyone has different strengths and therefore different competition plans. These people are confident that they can jump over the next height in one go, but for those of them who don’t have the confidence to jump over it in one go, it is of course more important to try it well.
Soon, the seven 2.10-meter contestants finished their trial jumps. At this height, all the contestants who tried the jump succeeded easily in one go.
At this point, there were a total of 12 contestants in the competition, and only five of them, including Wang Shen, had no results. The remaining contestants all had a one-time clear score of at least 2.10 meters.
After the athletes who applied for the trial jump finished their 2.10-meter trial jump, the referee signaled again, and this time, the horizontal bar used in the competition was raised to a height of 2.15 meters.
This height is only 1 centimeter away from the final mark of 2.16 meters for the men's high jump of this Asian Championships. At this height, some athletes present have begun to look solemn - although there are athletes like Wang Shen and Abdullah who do not take heights below 2.15 meters seriously, there are also athletes who find it difficult to successfully cross the line when faced with a height of 2.15 meters.
This time, at the height of 2.15 meters, finally no athlete applied for exemption from the jump. Wang Shen and five others also made their first official trial jump appearance in this round of trial jumps.
This time, Wang Shen was still in the first place. After receiving the signal from the referee, he made some simple movements. After the timer pressed the stopwatch, he easily started his run-up outside the starting line of the take-off area. After eight steps of run-up, he reached the taking-off board in front of the horizontal bar. His take-off leg pushed the ground, and with this push, he converted the lateral force of the previous run-up into a vertical upward force. His hands also swung back sharply at the moment of take-off, and with the help of the power of his arm swing and the upward force of pushing off the ground, he simultaneously rotated in the air!
After a series of movements, Wang Shen easily crossed the horizontal bar. After landing, he quickly turned over, smiled easily, and left the landing area.
The horizontal bar between the two pillars was firmly clamped on the bar from beginning to end, without any movement.
In the audience, Jiang Wentao and others turned their attention to the high jump area after Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao applied for a trial jump.
Although the height of 2.15 meters was not difficult for Wang Shen and his friends, they still applauded with smiles on their faces after seeing him successfully complete the jump.
After Wang Shen, Abdullah, Yamashita Tomoaki, Jihani and Ye Wenhao also passed the pole easily in one go.
In the commentary booth, Shao Minyi and Li Sen's attention happened to turn to the high jump, and when they saw the performance of these five people, they couldn't help but praise them.
"These five athletes are worthy of being the strongest in the men's high jump tonight. The height of 2.15 meters is not particularly difficult to say, but we have a data. From the competition in 2018, there were only 252 athletes who successfully jumped over 2.15 meters in the whole year. In other words, the easy jump just now by these five athletes is already ranked in the top 252 in the world in terms of difficulty."
The audience in front of the TV originally watched the competition for fun. They had not paid much attention to the high jump event before and didn't know much about it. It was only after Shao Minyi and Li Sen talked about it that they knew the data.
Zheng Xiaoya was watching the Asian Championships at home with her parents. When she heard the commentator's words, she was stunned: "Is 2.15 meters so difficult? I saw people saying online that Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao are going to challenge a height of more than 2.30 meters tonight. I think the gap between 2.15 meters and 2.30 meters is so big, it doesn't look very good..."
On the side, Zheng's father and mother were also a little surprised. They were stunned for a moment, and Zheng's father said with some emotion: "After all, it is a top track and field competition in Asia..."
After hearing what Mr. Zheng said, Zheng Xiaoya also nodded.
As the high jump competition progressed, most of the other events of the Asian Championships tonight also ended. For a while, a large number of live broadcast shots turned to the high jump event.
At a height of just 2.15 meters, because the opening stage was a one-time clearance by Wang Shen and four other players, many people felt that the difficulty of 2.15 meters did not seem high.
As a result, after the five of them easily passed the bar, only two of the remaining contestants maintained the success rate of passing the bar in one try, and the remaining five contestants successfully passed the bar after the second attempt.
Finally, although all the contestants successfully cleared the bar at the height of 2.15 meters, it can be said that 2.15 meters, as a watershed of performance, has reached a height that some contestants need to try their best to pass.
Afterwards, the referee raised the height of the horizontal bar again, but this time, the referee did not raise the horizontal bar to 2.20 meters at once, but kept the height at 2.19 meters - the referee shortened the range of the horizontal bar's rise.
Obviously, the referee has already judged that not all the athletes present can easily cross the 2.20-meter bar.
It should be said that the chief referee, as a referee of the high jump event, was indeed sharp-eyed and experienced. After the bar was raised to a height of 2.19 meters, although the one-time clearing rate was still quite high, at the same time, in this competition, it was the first time that a player failed in three attempts.
While Wang Shen and five others still maintained a perfect one-time clear rate, two players were eliminated for the first time in this competition at a height of 2.19 meters.
At this stage of the game, the smell of gunpowder finally began to spread.
The brutal elimination phase of the high jump event is finally about to begin in earnest!
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