Starting from June 6, athletes of the national track and field team went to the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and other countries in batches. Before this group of athletes went abroad, Fang Yu, Cui Luoheng, Zhang Ziyi and others rushed to S City first to participate in the IAAF Diamond League S City leg of the race held in S City.
The Diamond League S City race, as a rare world-class track and field series held in China, has certainly attracted a lot of attention. Although Fang Yu, Cui Luoheng and Zhang Ziyi did not meet the Diamond League's entry standards in the 2018 outdoor season, judging from their current results, at least Fang Yu and Cui Luoheng have already qualified for the Diamond League.
With the current heated atmosphere of domestic track and field events, the Diamond League held in City S has naturally received widespread attention. However, compared with the performances of Fang Yu, Cui Luoheng, and Zhang Ziyi in the competition, the one who really made the audience scream at the top of their lungs in this competition was Wang Shen.
Previously, many people thought that it was a pity that Wang Shen achieved his career best of 2.35 meters at the Asian Championships. After all, the results of the Asian Championships had not yet been included in the assessment period for the Tokyo Olympic track and field qualifying results.
There are many uncertain factors in high jump. The athlete's competitive state, psychological state, etc., have a great impact on every jump of the athlete. Looking around, there are few athletes who can boldly say that they can jump over the height of 2.30 meters in every competition.
Therefore, before the competition started, no one had high expectations for Wang Shen's performance in this Diamond League - at most they just hoped that Wang Shen could achieve a decent result in this game.
However, just as the audience was still wondering when Wang Shen would be able to jump above 2.33 meters, the Tokyo Olympic qualifying line, not long after, the horizontal bar at the Diamond League S City leg had risen to a height of 2.33 meters.
In the tense atmosphere where all the spectators could hardly breathe, Wang Shen jumped over 2.33 meters. After landing and turning over, he smiled easily and waved to the spectators around him. That calm posture seemed as if what he had just jumped over was not the Tokyo Olympic qualifying line of 2.33 meters, but just a small mound of earth.
All the players on the scene, including Wang Shen, were amazed at his excellent form and applauded him generously. The audience on the scene went crazy and shouted loudly in the stands, calling out Wang Shen's name together, so that the game was suspended for 3 minutes.
On that day, a photo taken by the media received hundreds of thousands of likes on Weibo.
The photo showed Wang Shen facing the audience, smiling with his head slightly lowered, and his right fist raised high to celebrate his victory. The audience in the audience were shouting excitedly, waving red flags and celebrating wildly. Through the photo, one could almost feel the deafening shouts tearing through the screen and going straight into one's ears.
In the Diamond League that day, the Chinese track and field team did perform well, but the top international athletes who came to participate in the competition performed even more miraculously. In the men's 100m event, a total of four athletes ran under 10 seconds. Although Fang Yu was also in excellent shape, his result of 10.00 seconds only ranked him fifth in front of the four athletes in front.
In the 110-meter hurdles, although Cui Luoheng did not set a new best, he also achieved a good result of 13.23 seconds. However, in front of two top 110-meter hurdlers in the same field, he only got third place.
However, in the men's 400m event, the contestants seemed to be still asleep. Among the three American contestants, only one ran under 45 seconds. He was also the only contestant who ran under 45 seconds that day. After him was Zhang Ziyi who ran 45.12 seconds. Although Zhang Ziyi won the second place in this race, the contestants' condition and level are usually not top-notch, so the joy of this good result did not make people too excited.
After a full day of competition, the climax of the two major events of the day came when Wang Shen scored 2.33 meters, 3cm higher than the second place player, and when she won the women's javelin and set a tournament record.
June and July are months when various large and small competitions are stacked up. In addition, the World Athletics Championships will be held this year, and athletes must also strive for qualification for next year's Tokyo Olympics. Athletes must actively participate in competitions to adjust their competitive state, find a better sense of the game, and create better performance records. So for a while, there were frequent news about athletes participating in various large and small competitions.
Various domestic track and field grand prix, sprint and jump group competitions, throwing group training competitions and other events can now attract the attention of many track and field fans and netizens, not to mention events where a large number of national teams are mobilized and participate at the same time.
When the national team announced the players' participation in the competitions in batches from the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and other countries and the list of players participating in the competitions, netizens instantly paid attention to the consecutive competitions to be held on June 9, 11 and 13.
Online, track and field enthusiasts in the Track and Field Kingdom Forum have transferred the list of events and participants to the Track and Field Kingdom Forum as soon as the national team’s official Weibo account announced the list, and began to study the list.
Track and field enthusiasts study the list for no other reason than to see how many qualifications the national team has obtained for the Tokyo Olympics and the World Athletics Championships. Another reason is to see how many domestic athletes have the potential and opportunities to qualify for various events.
After looking through the list of contestants, many people noticed Li Junhao on the list of contestants.
Theme: [Excited! I saw Li Junhao appeared on the list of participants for the World Athletics Challenge in the Netherlands! ! ! 】
Topic content: [Old friends who know me in the forum should know that when Li Junhao first came out, I had been paying attention to him. At that time, I was also a well-known "Li Junhao fan" in the forum.
But later, everyone knew that Li Junhao had a period of low grades, or it could no longer be considered a low period at that time, he seemed to have given up on himself... At that time, I and several friends who were also following him were very disappointed.
I don't know if anyone still remembers that in the individual events of the 2018 season, Li Junhao never ran under 47.50 seconds throughout the year. In many games, his results were just around 48 seconds, so much so that he couldn't even qualify for the 400m competition in the 2018 Grand Prix Final.
During that time, I almost felt in my heart that Li Junhao might never have a chance to rise again... There have been players like this in the past, but they were just too fragile mentally and collapsed completely.
Later, when I saw Li Junhao on the Asian Games 4x400m list, I was still very worried. He was the last runner, which put the heaviest burden of the 4x400m on him! At that time, I was wondering if Su Bai was a novice coach who couldn't judge the players and made up the ranking list at random... But Dahao's performance was beyond my imagination...
From the Asian Games to the Asian Championships, and the previous World Athletics Relays, after watching each game after another, I finally felt relieved - Dahao, this guy, has really stood up again! Even if he can only perform well in the 4x400m relay event, he is definitely an indispensable member of our national relay team.
To be honest with you brothers, I am very excited and happy!
However, the previous competitions were just relay events after all. Since the beginning of this year, I have been waiting for Coach Su to arrange an individual competition for Dahao. Now I have finally waited! It’s the Netherlands stop of the World Athletics Challenge!
This is Dahao's first time participating in an international competition as a men's 400m individual athlete, and it is also a series of challenges...
Without saying anything else, I just want to say one thing here: Dahao, come on! ! ! Waiting for you to show your true achievements! ! 】
The poster of this thread can tell how excited he is just by looking at his short essay. Just as he said, he once thought that Li Junhao was going to be ruined, but in the end, Li Junhao stood up again in the 400-meter event.
The upcoming World Athletics Challenge Netherlands race will be Li Junhao's first 400-meter individual event after he got back on his feet.
In addition to the poster, many people in the track and field kingdom are also looking forward to it with the same eager anticipation.
Ever since Su Bai was dubbed the 'super brain' and 'divine prophet' for his performance on the Yokohama TV station live broadcast, someone in the track and field kingdom has compiled the 'Summary of Su's Prophecies' that leaked out from various channels, including Su Bai's predictions for the national team's participation in this year's World Championships.
Su Bai's conclusion on the men's 400m event of the World Championships is that the 400m team he leads will be fully staffed in the men's 400m event.
At first, many people were shocked by the statement of full participation, but after Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen successively won the qualification for the World Championships in the men's 400m event, Su Bai's original words were only one step away.
Looking at all the current domestic men's 400m athletes, is there anyone who has the potential to run 45.30 seconds within the World Championships qualifying period?
Guo Dun? Lin Chuan? Zhang Wei? Hu Li?
Although these people have had good results in the past, and Zhang Wei and Hu Li were even coached by Su Bai personally, and their results have improved by leaps and bounds, they still seem to be a little short of breaking through to the 45.30 level.
After looking around, it seems that Li Junhao, a guy who was once known as a genius but experienced a period of decline and then shined in the 4x400m relay... is the third strong contender for the World Championships qualification that Su Bai predicted.
But, as of now, these are still speculations.
Since Li Junhao's resurgence, he has continued to appear in various relay events. Since this year, he has been fully committed to training and competing in relay events in order to qualify for the 4x400m World Championships and Tokyo Olympics.
After everyone has been anxiously waiting for such a long time, finally... on June 9th at the World Athletics Challenge in the Netherlands, they can finally see Li Junhao's performance!
Thinking of this, countless track and field fans became particularly excited!
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