The Chinese Athletics Association "escorted" Su Bingtian's battle in Paris caused controversy Netizen: No need to spray!
On January 17, Beijing time, the Chinese Athletics Association announced the draft of the selection methods for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. In short, the Chinese Athletics Association is not ready to conduct trials, and the threshold for selection for the relay is: 10.10 seconds for men and 11.25 seconds for women in the 100-meter results in the past three years. Track and field fans immediately concluded that this was to escort Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye to fight in Paris. There are also senior track and field fans who said: "The people who sprayed Liu Xiang in the past are the same people who are spraying Su Bingtian now." Newcomers are powerless, no one meets the standard, and the policy can only be tilted towards capable veterans. If anyone can run 10 seconds during this time, they will definitely be selected for the Paris lineup. ”
The men's 100m standard line for the Paris Olympics is 10 seconds, and Su Bingtian ran 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics, which is in line with the "within three years" timeline set by the Chinese Athletics Association. In the past three years, China's best men's 100m time is 9.97 seconds set by Xie Zhenye when he won the gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games, and it is +2.4 meters per second.
Su Bingtian was born in August 1989 and is currently 34 years old. He announced his retirement for a year early last year due to injury, but made it clear that he would not retire and hoped to play in the 2025 National Games and this year's Paris Olympics. At the Guangzhou Tower Ascending Open at the beginning of last month, Su Bingtian, who attended the event and led the way, revealed that he was maintaining a training rhythm, and it has not yet been decided when the new season of 2024 will start.
The Chinese Athletics Association announced the selection method for the Paris Olympics because there was an important relay World Championships in early May, which was held in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, from May 4 to 5. The Chinese men's and women's relay teams have qualified, and the top 14 finishers in this competition will receive tickets to Paris.
According to this selection method, Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye will directly enter the eight-man squad, and the remaining 6 will be selected according to the team's 100-meter test in February and March this year, but at present, the Chinese men's sprinters are the first line, and it is estimated that they are likely to be Chen Jiapeng, Chen Guanfeng, Yan Haibin, Wu Zhiqiang, Tang Xingqiang, and Deng Zhijian.
The current dynamic situation is that Xie Zhenye, Chen Jiapeng, Wu Zhiqiang, and Deng Zhijian are training in the United States for the winter, and because the training conditions are relatively good, they are likely to produce relatively good results in February and March this year. Su Bingtian, Tang Xingqiang, Chen Guanfeng, and Yan Haibin are in domestic winter training. The Paris Olympics and the Bahamas Relay World Championships, the relay events are all 6 people, and the men's side is basically selected among these 8 people.
Su Bingtian is 35 years old this year, and from the relay level, it is a bit unreasonable to let him take on the responsibility of the third baseman, and many people think that Su Bingtian should be allowed to run the first base. Now Su Bingtian's 100-meter strength is a key factor. Some people say that as long as Su Bingtian is not bad beyond 10.40 seconds, the upper relay is better than the newcomer who is 10.20+ seconds. Su Bingtian is a very disciplined athlete, and I am not sure that he will be able to run 10 seconds right now, but if the training intensity is enough, it is still worth looking forward to Su Bingtian running 10.10 seconds now.
Su Bingtian started well and has a very strong future, running 6.59 seconds at the Gothenburg Indoor Championships in February last year, but unfortunately failed to meet the target at the World Indoor Championships held in Glasgow from March 1 to 3 this year (6.58 seconds). In order to compete in this year's Paris Olympics, it is worth paying attention to whether Su Bingtian will impact the indoor world championships, after all, he has performed very well in the indoor 60-meter track. Next month's major indoor events in world athletics are: Boston (4th), Toruń, Poland (6th), Levin (10th), New York (11th), Madrid (23rd).
In 2024, Chinese track and field is looking forward to the return of Su Shen, and looking forward to Su Shen's 100-meter track to bring surprises to the Chinese people.