Chapter 1248 Wild card battle! The Brussels finals begin
August 24, 2010.
American sprinter Tyson Guy said here that he may start to participate in more 400m competitions in the future. He even expressed his hope to represent the US team in the 4x400m relay competition in the London Olympics.
"I'm now 100 meters and 200 meters in both events, and it will definitely be difficult to participate in 400 meters. If these events want to be successfully trained, you have to be assigned. I am indeed seriously considering which event to participate in at the London Olympics. I have not decided yet, but I will definitely want to participate in a few more 400 meters competitions in the next few years."
Guy once ran 44 seconds 89 in 400 meters this year.
"I can still run faster. Obviously, 400 meters is a difficult event. It will make you dizzy, but I still want to give it a try. I am a tenacious person. I hope to join the 4x400 meters relay team in the United States. I hope one day I can become a teammate with Jeremy Varina. This experience is something I have never seen before."
As for the Brussels finals, Guy replied: "Of course an athlete has to go through major competitions to get better. There is no pressure for me. If the conditions are good enough, I usually do well."
"Although they are all very good, I'm not bad either. I'm going to be the best one this year."
"I want to win the wild card of the Daegu World Championships for Amika."
Wild card.
This may be the word that many track and field novices come into contact with for the first time. Generally speaking, there are only three quotas for A and one for B, but if you have a wild card, you can play outside the quota. In other words, you can play up to four people.
There are two ways to get wild cards in the World Championships. One is to automatically win the defending champion of the World Championships, and the other is to win the overall Diamond League championship.
If it appears in a country, the former has greater priority than the latter.
In other words, Bolt has wild cards, and Jamaica can play at most four people outside him. If you are not the World Championships champion, you need the Wild Card for the Diamond League championship to increase the number of places to play in the national team. However, only countries with strong strength need it. If you give it to him with weak strength, you may not have to get four people.
So if you want people to play more, train more troops, and give newcomers more opportunities, this wild card is a must-fight place.
After all, track and field competitions are not basketball or football. The quota is precious, and many athletes may not have the chance to be on the OW stage in their entire lives.
The US team lost the World Championships championship in 2009 and did not have the wild card of the defending World Championships champion, so naturally they have to strive for the wild card of the Diamond League championship.
It was indeed Guy who took it away in his previous life.
But it is obvious that Su Shen did not intend to let go in this life.
"In the past two years, reporters have always asked me if Bolt can be defeated on 100 meters. No one has asked this question since the Stockholm stop." Guy talked: "Su and I have proved that Yusen is not really invincible, he is also a human being."
"I have two small technical flaws this year, so I'm not 100% satisfied with my performance. If my physical and mental state are adjusted, I think I can still mention my personal best score of 9.68 seconds. Maybe I can do this in Brussels this Friday."
Faced with this problem, Su Shen also expressed his opinion: "First of all, I think Tyson is better to focus within 200 meters. I think that an extra 400 meters of his body is destructive, and secondly, wild card..."
"I obviously want wild card for the Osaka World Championships, too."
"So I'm not giving up the opportunity."
"The opponents are very strong, but I have not lost this year's Diamond League, so I don't plan to give up the wild card."
Bolt has lost too many games because he has won too few games. He has not played in London's double game, and there is actually no chance. Moreover, he has wild cards and there is not much need to compete for the championship. The reason why he is still here is entirely because...
He wants to prove that he can.
You can win by yourself.
This season he will end with his performances that suppress Guy and Su Shen.
Otherwise, he would feel upset when he heard the outside world's voice.
Soon, Brussels had already set up the stage, and the reporters were ready to take a look at the top showdown style of the fastest people in the world here.
After watching the game in Singapore, Su Shen and others came to Brussels together, adjusting and resting in advance, including adapting to the venue.
Bolt came two days before the game.
Guy also arrived here on the same day as Bolt.
Powell has been adjusting in Europe and has never left.
These four people will finally compete in Stockholm after they are in another match.
This is all I can say about this duel. Those who like track and field will never miss it. They even waited for this game for so long. Look at the tickets in Brussels sold out so early, you should know how popular this game is.
On the huge billboard are full of huge portraits of four people, Subao Gaibo.
Even at the airport in Brussels, when you get off the plane, you will have billboards filled with pieces. The atmosphere of the Diamond League finals is very good.
Because there is only one shot in the finals and no preliminaries, everyone needs to be well prepared.
Warm up fully.
There is no time to find a feeling for you.
Yu Weili also flew over from the imperial capital to watch this game. When facing the reporter's question, he smiled and said, "We all support Su Shen. If we can get the wild card, how to allocate it? We haven't figured out yet. There are many people who meet the standards now, and we need to weigh it carefully."
"The news I received here is that Su is in good condition and has no barriers to prepare for the game. He will have a game tomorrow. He will not come out for an interview today. He must have a good rest to avoid getting sleepy tomorrow."
After saying a little humorous sentence, Yu Weili hurried into a five-star hotel in Brussels.
The delegation of the flower planter is here now, waiting for him to come and join.
...
The night in Brussels is a little cool.
The capital and largest city of Belgium are located on the banks of the Seine River. The northern part is the flat Flander Plain and the southern part is the slightly undulating Brabant Terrace, with an average altitude of 58 meters and is known as the "Little Paris". There are many scenic spots and museums in the city, and there are dense forests outside the city, shimmering small lakes and green grassy meadows. The scenery in this European capital is still good, but it is obvious now that Su Shen and the others have no extra mood to appreciate it. They will have a competition tomorrow. Whether they can get wild cards is here.
This time, the flower planters, Jamaica and Amika, were not in the same hotel.
It seems that everyone attaches great importance to this game and does not want to be distracted before the game.
On the United States, they all held meetings in the room for an hour and a half.
As for what was said, no one knew except themselves.
Anyway, when Guy came out, his face was not particularly good-looking, but he had nothing. It was a wild card, something that was meaningful to the overall national team. In order to stabilize this, it was not a big problem to formulate some special strategies before the game.
The next day, Friday.
Kings Boduan Stadium.
Heads of people continued to pour in, and the competition organizing committee also sent diamonds of all sizes in to stimulate the athletes' fighting spirit.
The Kings Boduane Stadium was completed on August 23, 1930, and was hosted by Leopold III. It can accommodate 70,000 spectators. It is one of the main buildings built by Belgium to welcome the 1935 World Expo. Compared with us in Europe, we do have these stadiums with a history of nearly a hundred years. The stadium was held in 1958, 1966, 1974 and 1985.
The European Winners Cup finals were held in 1964, 1976 and 1980. The 1985 Champions League final was held at the stadium on May 29, against both sides of the Liverpool Football Club in England and Juventus, Italy, and the Heisel tragedy occurred. Since then, there have been no football matches held in the stadium. To this day, commemorative events are still held on May 29 each year.
In 1995, the stadium was completely rebuilt. The stadium includes a standard track and field track and field, with a capacity of 50,000 people.
This is what everyone looks like when they see it now.
"A Tian, I heard that this is the ancient battlefield of Waterloo. Napoleon lost here." Zhou Bing looked around on the bus. It was his first time here. Boys were always interested in the legendary story of swords and guns. What's more, the British-Dutch coalition forces and the Prussian army commanded by Duke Arthur Wellesley besieged and eventually defeated Napoleon. This war called "Waterloo" is probably one of the most familiar wars among young people in China, because the word "Waterloo" is already a high-frequency word in China, and is known to everyone in the old and young.
Su Shen glanced out the window, looked at the sky that was not very good, thoughtfully, and said, "Is the weather so gloomy?"
"It seems we need to be prepared to fight in low temperatures or even after the rain."
"A Tian, I heard that the miserable defeat of Napoleon was also a rainy day, which was a bit similar to this weather." After Zhou Bing said that, Su Shen looked outside again, and it was really beginning to fall a little bit of rain.
Didida.
Leaving outside the bus window.
The originally clean and smooth bus glass gradually became stained, making the scenery outside begin to blur.
Chapter completed!