"I'm sure I'll bring makeup to the competition, it's so good-looking, why don't you bring it!"
When the 26-year-old Wu Yanni appeared in the press conference room of the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center, the domestic media's cameras naturally focused on her, and her straightforward answers to controversial topics seemed to create a new topic for the Diamond League.
On the afternoon of April 26, Beijing time, the 2024 Yangtze River Delta International Track and Field Diamond Championships held a pre-competition press conference, where Gong Lijiao, the gold medalist in the shot put of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Wang Jianan, the long jump champion of the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Feng Bin, the discus champion of the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, and Wu Yanni, the runner-up of the women's 100m hurdles at the Chengdu World University Games, appeared respectively and shared their thoughts and expectations from Xiamen to Suzhou to compete in the Diamond League for two consecutive stops.
Wu Yanni at the pre-match press conference.
Looking forward to breaking through 12.9 seconds, the muscles are still asleep
After returning after a four-year absence, the Yangtze River Delta Diamond League not only brought a valuable opportunity for Chinese track and field athletes to compete with top international athletes before the Olympics, but also brought enough traffic topics - Wu Yanni, the "traffic responsibility", will once again catch up with the world's top hurdlers with mixed reviews.
After the end of the Diamond League Xiamen Station, Wu Yanni was pushed to the forefront of public opinion again. It's not her gap to the world's top on the track, it's her one-piece jersey and the sequins on her face that are causing much discussion.
"Everybody knows I had a cold last week and maybe I wasn't in good shape for the whole race, but I always believed that I could break 13 seconds and 13 seconds was very easy for me. ”
Wu Yanni's pre-game adaptation training.
At the pre-match press conference, Wu Yanni also talked about her unsatisfactory form in the last Diamond League game. Wu Yanni revealed that during the Xiamen Diamond League, she suffered from a cold and fever, even in Suzhou, she was still in the recovery stage, coupled with her desire to break through her personal best (PB), which led to the rhythm of the race being disrupted, so she failed to run the ideal result in Xiamen, "I know that if I run with them, maybe a better thing will happen to break the PB, but I want to follow them too much, but I disrupt my rhythm." I hope this race will break 13 seconds, or even 12.9 seconds. ”
However, Wu Yanni has already qualified for the Olympics and is not in a hurry to push her outdoor season to new heights in a short period of time, "For me, it is still difficult to break the PB right now, because both competitions are against the best athletes in the world. ”
Wu Yanni herself said that her ideal plan now is to gradually adjust her condition to the best in the second half of the year, and then stand on the Olympic stage, "Now my muscles have not woken up, and I am still sleeping." ”
Wu Yanni at the Diamond League Xiamen Station.
"In my field, my achievements are a little bit higher"
In addition to the results, another topic that attracted more attention was her outfit at the Diamond League, and the one-piece jersey and sequin decoration on her face sparked a lot of discussion for a while. After all, among domestic female track and field athletes, such competition outfits are rare, but in fact, among European and American athletes, many athletes with flamboyant personalities will also choose some "eye-catching" looks.
"I think it's still a sentence, allow others to be others, allow yourself to be yourself. When asked if she would continue to dress like this in Suzhou, Wu Yanni did not shy away from it, but generously said her thoughts, "Just focus on what you do, don't be influenced by others, because for me, mental exhaustion is a particularly negative energy." I think everyone's magnetic field is very important, as long as you are very positive, the things and people around you will be fine. ”
In Wu Yanni's view, in today's inclusive social environment, more people will understand and support her, "In my field, my achievements are a little bit higher, so I will do my best in my own field while showing some of my makeup and personality." I think confident girls are the most beautiful. ”
It is worth mentioning that in this year's indoor season, Wu Yanni brushed PB four times in one month and created the best result in Asia at that time. At that time, she said that she was "a different self". In the 2024 National Indoor Track and Field Championships women's 60-meter hurdles championship, she dressed up carefully, in addition to the elaborate design on the braids, she also pasted some small sequins on the corners of her eyes, "Because everyone knows that I Wu Yanni loves beauty, so I want to show that I am a particularly crazy girl today, completing the 60-meter hurdles on the field, and then she is also atmospheric and handsome." ”
Now, she wants to take this confidence to the international stage again, to strive for a bigger breakthrough, and at the same time to fulfill the expectations of this season's results in the previous interview, "I must break through my 12.76 seconds to see if I can reach the level of 12.6 seconds." ”