(Tokyo Olympics) Athletics Preview: Who will be king after the Chinese Army breaks through Bolt?
China News Agency, Beijing, July 16 (Reporter Xing Chong) Track and field is known as the "mother of sports". It is a comprehensive competition composed of walking, running, jumping, throwing and other sports skills. The most watched event in the Olympic Games.
The Tokyo Olympics track and field competition will officially start on July 30. A total of 48 gold medals will be produced, which is the event with the largest number of gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics.
Can the Chinese Army make another breakthrough, and who can become the world's track and field star after Bolt?
Can the Chinese Legion break through again?
In recent years, the Chinese Athletics Team has made continuous breakthroughs in international competitions: in the 2015 Beijing World Championships, it achieved 1 gold, 7 silver and 1 bronze, ranking fourth on the medal list. At that time, it created the best record of the Chinese track and field team in the world competitions; 2016 The Chinese track and field team won 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes in the Rio Olympics, and created their best record since participating in the Olympics.
Judging from the past two World Championships, China’s track and field has also made steady progress: the 2017 London World Championships won 2 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes. The Doha World Championships in 2019 ended with 3 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes. The number of gold medals and medals. Both are steadily rising.
It is worth mentioning that 40% of the Chinese team's athletes and 48% of the participating events at the Doha World Championships have won the top eight results.
The Chinese track and field team will compete in 23 events for the Tokyo Olympics, and the goal is also very clear: Strive to surpass the Rio Olympics in terms of the number of gold medals, the number of medals, the top eight, the number of qualified people, and the number of participating events.
Shot put athlete Gong Lijiao, who is about to participate in the Olympics for the fourth time, is undoubtedly the most stable gold spot. He has won the championship in the past two World Championships. Last month he cast 20m 31 and 20m 39 consecutively, ranking high in the world. the first.
Gong Lijiao, who is in a fairly stable state, has also stated many times that he is bound to win the Olympic champion.
Data map: In the women's shot put final of the 2019 IAAF World Championships, defending champion and Chinese player Gong Lijiao won the championship with a score of 19.55 meters.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
Competition has always been the dominant track and field event in China. The two track and field gold medals in the Rio Olympics both came from race walking. At present, the Chinese team has formed a group advantage in the 20-kilometer race walking.
For the women’s team, Liu Hong, the double champion of the Olympic World Championships, Yang Jiayu, the 2017 World Championships champion, and the experienced Tibetan star Sister Qiyangshi all have the ability to win gold. The men’s Wang Kaihua, Cai Zelin, and Zhang Jun have all out of the top three in the world this season. good grade.
In addition, in women's hammer throw, women's javelin, men's long jump, men's 110m hurdles, men's 4x100m relay and other events, the Chinese team also has the ability to compete for the top eight and even medals. Chinese track and field is also expected to achieve its pre-match goals.
Who is the king of sprinting after Bolt?
In the Olympic track and field competition, the men's 100-meter trapeze is the most concerned.
Jamaican Flyer Bolt is the best men's sprinter in the past three Olympics-from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the 2016 Rio Olympics, he swept the men's 100m and 200m 6 gold medals and won the relay championship twice. , And still maintain the men's 100 meters, 200 meters world records.
Data map of Su Bingtian.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
Bolt, who has retired, said not long ago that he did not believe his world record would be broken at the Tokyo Olympics.
He further explained that it is not that it cannot be broken in the future, but that the current group of people cannot run 9 seconds 58 or 19 seconds 19.
Bolt's "Versailles" remarks are actually not unreasonable.
Looking back on the entire Tokyo Olympic cycle, the world track record has never been able to appear as a dominant player like Bolt.
The former "kingdom of sprinting" Jamaica declined after Bolt retired, and no one even ran into the 10-second mark this season. The decline is quite obvious; Doha World Championship champion and American trapeze Coleman is hailed as Bolt's successor , But due to missed inspections and was found to be banned for doping violations, and ultimately missed the Tokyo Olympics.
This season, 6 American players ran in 9.90. The best result was Brommel's 9.77.
Not surprisingly, the US sprint is expected to regain the gold medal in the 100m, but it is still difficult to shake the world record set by Bolt.
In the men's 100-meter event, the Chinese players and the host Japanese players have similar goals, namely to qualify for the Olympic 100-meter final.
Chinese flying man Su Bingtian is the first Asian player to break the 10-second mark, and he has twice advanced to the 100-meter finals of the World Championships to compete with Bolt.
This season, Su Bingtian has "breaking 10" twice. He recently admitted that if he enters the Olympic finals, he will hit a better place.
Japanese player Ryota Yamaxian broke the Japanese national record with 9.95 seconds last month.
In addition to entering the finals in the 100-meter individual event, Japan has even more frankly said that it will strive to win the 4×100-meter relay gold medal, and the Japanese sprint at home will also strive to become the king of the Asian sprint.
After Bolt, who will become the next track and field superstar?
The new National Arena lacking spectators does not know whether it can witness the birth of the next superstar.
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