9.74 seconds at the Olympics was his "acceleration" in time and space, and one of the biggest opponents of Bolt's career.
He has a life story of ups and downs, once banned for 4 years due to medication, but also handed over 1 Olympic 100m champion, 2 world championship 100m champion king answer sheet, throughout his career he is an ivy in the field of athletics, the former world's first flyer retired, a mixed career, is he a benchmark on the 100-meter track?
This issue of Sports Watch takes you back to the american "acceleration" and god of addition , the career story of Justin Gatlin.
Chosen Son – Justin Gatlin
From the time Bolt gradually entered his personal peak, the competition for 2 to 5 places was unprecedentedly fierce among American sprinters.
The light of the American sprint "Dream Team" began to be covered by Bolt players, but the invincible Bolt also often lost to several naturally chosen sons of the "Dream Team", and Justin Gatlin, as a sprinter, was one of them.
Born on February 10, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, Justin Gatling graduated from the University of Tennessee, where he won six consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association championships and embarked on the professional track and field sprint with the honor of six crowns.
In 2001, he was diagnosed with the banned drug amphetamine, and was sentenced to be unable to participate in international competitions for two years in his early years.
After being sentenced, Justin Gatlin immediately appealed, saying that it was due to the illness of many years of medication in his childhood, and after the IAAF entered the investigation, the ban was finally lifted, that is, at the beginning of his career, Justin Gatlin was almost unable to participate in international competitions.
In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Justin Gatlin became famous in one battle, surpassing the dark horse Francis and champion Maurice Green with a very small advantage, and successfully won the men's 100 meters sprint championship of the Olympic Games with a time of 9.85 seconds.
On August 12, 2005, at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Justin Gatlin won gold medals in the men's 100 meters and 200 meters, and he stood on the top of the sprint event with the American "Dream Team" of the same period.
Suspicious of the medication, the giant tree fell down again
Fans who had expected Justin Gatlin to set a new world sprint record could not have imagined that he would once again fall for a drug test.
Gatlin, who became famous in World War I, became the heart of the American sprint to win the championship, and the first person expected to break the world record in sprinting was once again rejected by the drug test.
In April 2006, Gatlin tested positive for a post-match drug test, and as the second athlete to be found to have used banned drugs, the Athletics Federation was supposed to impose a lifetime ban, but Justin Gatlin expressed his willingness to work with anti-doping organizations to eradicate doping abuse in sports competitions.
Coupled with the results of its previous drug test, the Field Federation made a ban of up to 8 years, although it was reduced to 4 years, but these 4 years will be Justin Gatlin's darkest 4 years.
It is worth mentioning that at the moment when the results of this drug test were reviewed, his achievement in equalizing the world record in the men's 100-meter sprint in the annual competition was also cancelled for the first time, and the negative news was overwhelming for a while, and even our domestic reports took out a piece of paper to state the facts.
But he does not seem to be defeated by this incident, undefeated him will eventually make him stronger, after 4 years of golden years in his career, Gatlin has not become a joke in the sports world, those who want to watch him silently retire how can not imagine that at the 2011 Daegu World Championships, "acceleration" came back.
Although he did not participate in the competition for 4 years, Justin Gatlin's day-to-day training has kept him in good physical condition, and although he failed to reach the final in this competition, the figure running on the field is just like yesterday.
However, it is well known that during the four years of his ban, a chosen son named Bolt was born, and in the next few years, they became each other's biggest rivals.
At the pinnacle of their swords, the two became rivals in the tournament, and after justin Gatlin's comeback, he quickly found his form and won the 2012 IAAF Masonry League in Doha in 9.87 seconds.
At the London Olympics that same year, the 30-year-old Gatlin stood on the final track and eventually won a bronze medal, which has returned to the state he was in before the ban, but Gatlin is regarded as the one who is most likely to beat Bolt.
The 30-year-old will become a legend in the track and field field, but the appearance of Bolt has always cast a layer of haze on his career, can the "plus god" of time and space break through?
Absolutely proud, the sword is fierce
Justin Gatlin, shrouded in bolt light, had the greatest vision of his life to be able to reach the top again, and he did.
At the 2013 IAAF Masonry League, Justin Gatling won the championship in 9.97 seconds, and the jaw-dropping number became one of the few glorious glories for Justin Gatlin after the age of 30, and time flies, the "100m five tigers" of the United States have always been pressed under the Jamaican, and the Jamaican's biggest opponent has been changing.
As a veteran, Justin Gatlin can often run within ten seconds in the race, but the multiple runners-up have more or less made him a little reluctant, surpassing the champion Bolt naturally became the biggest goal.
Time to August 6, 2017, the much-watched 2017 London International Athletics World Championships began, in the men's 100 meters final there are our familiar "Plus God" Gatlin, as well as the proud Bolt and our top domestic player "Su Shen" Su Bingtian, the gun ended, several players started, in just 10 seconds they divided the victory and defeat.
As the "American Tigers", Gatlin won the championship with a time of 9.92 seconds, wearing the American flag, he burst into tears, and after decades, he finally beat Bolt to win the championship in the world's top men's sprint, and the veteran from New York finally fulfilled his dream.
In the following time, Justin Gatling still cashed in on his talent at the top of the competition, but it is hard to believe that at the age of nearly 40, he can still finish second in the men's 100 meters of the 2019 Doha Athletics World Championships with a time of 9.89 seconds, and he rarely appears in the public eye after this battle.
On February 10, 2022, a news came that a generation of famous players chose to retire on his 40th birthday, which may be the best birthday gift he prepared for himself, he carried off people's "pride and prejudice", and finally became a famous generation of famous players in history, let us praise him!
We have an old saying called: "Both Shengyu, He Shengliang", maybe Gatlin and Bolt are just like this, looking at the sports world, Lin Dan and Li Zongwei in the feather world, Merrow in the football world, Nadal and Federer in the tennis world seem to be the same situation, but perhaps, there has never been an example of "both born Yu Liang", they are all epoch-making meteors in the sports world, and it is precisely because of their confrontation, cooperation and win-win that we can become witnesses of these brilliant historical moments.
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