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The 2024 Paris track and field events officially kicked off, and in the women's 20km race walk, Chinese player Yang Jiayu performed well and finally won the championship.
This is the 11th gold medal of the Chinese sports delegation in the Paris Olympics and the first gold medal in track and field.
Yang Jiayu's victory marks a strong comeback in China's athletics race walking, which has been hovering in the trough since the Tokyo Olympics.
Now that he has recovered and started to compete for gold and silver again, I hope to continue to do so in future competitions.
Yang Jiayu ran wildly on the track and swept the field with a full 29 seconds ahead of the second place, so that the event commentators unconsciously began to call out Yang Jiayu's name.
When he learned that he had completed the "Grand Slam" of Olympic gold medal + world championship + world record, Yang Jiayu was very happy and kept making gestures to express his emotions.
Yang Jiayu was suspended for two minutes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but ultimately failed to compete for a medal and failed to achieve his goal, and now after two years of hard work, he has rushed to the peak of his life.
Suspended for 2 minutes.
Yang Jiayu was born in 1998 and studied physical education at Liaocheng University.
Yang Jiayu has been very interested in sports since he was a child, and when he first came into contact with track and field, he chose the race walking event in track and field.
Race walking is a great test of balance and endurance, and it is not easy to achieve excellent results in this event.
In particular, the women's race walking event has been dominated by Russia athletes since entering the Olympic Games, and since Russia was sanctioned, Chinese athletes have emerged and gradually gained the advantage.
Yang Jiayu is also considered a gold favourite ahead of Tokyo 2020.
But who knows, on the day of the game, there was a small episode, Yang Jiayu unconsciously passed the toe position, and the referee directly sentenced him to a foul, which made Yang Jiayu's next game collapse.
On the track, Yang Jiayu followed the footsteps of teammate Liu Hong, and by the halfway point, Yang Jiayu had been suspended for 2 minutes.
After the penalty stoppage, there was no hard work, and in the end, the big white sister did not win a medal.
Being suspended for 2 minutes in Tokyo may have been a big blow to Yang Jiayu's psyche, and she did not take the defeat in Tokyo as a reason for her defeat, but it also affected her subsequent form.
In the 2021 National Games race walking preliminaries, Yang Jiayu finished seventh with a time of 1 hour, 26 minutes and 19 seconds and did not enter the final.
In the women's 20km race walk at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Yang Jiayu and teammate Liu Hong won the gold and silver medals again, and Yang Jiayu returned to form!
On the track of the Paris Olympics, Yang Jiayu broke through the door to superstardom, let's analyze the reasons why Chinese track and field race walking can return to the track.
Chinese track and field race walking is back strongly.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Chinese women's race walkers won two gold medals, and in the 2004 Athens Olympics, Chinese women's Chen Yanlan won the gold medal with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 40 seconds in the previous competition experience, and also set a new world record.
Since then, the Chinese women's race walking has dominated the competition, and this situation has been maintained until the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In 2016, Liu Hong won the gold medal with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 36 seconds, and Yang Jiayu won the bronze medal, which shows that in the four Olympic Games before 2016, the Chinese women's generals won the championship and second place.
But in the 2020 Olympic Games held in Tokyo, the Chinese track and field race walking event fell into a trough and was ridiculed by the world on the field.
Yang Jiayu did not perform well in Tokyo, but finally returned to form at the 2023 World Championships, but won gold at the Paris circuit.
Yang Jiayu's state is sometimes good and bad, and the reasons are as follows:
First of all, Yang Jiayu's previous results have fluctuated a lot, and judging from the recent results, Yang Jiayu's state is still very good, and he has won a grand slam.
When we turn our attention to the Chinese women's race walking collective, we can find that the Chinese women's race walking has returned to its peak state.
Because at the World Championships, the Chinese team retired with gold and silver Grand Slam results in the 2023 World Championships, and Yang Jiayu and Liu Hong's performances on the court were perfect.
Coupled with the previous performance in the 2020 National Games, it can be seen that both Yang Jiayu and Liu Hong have gradually recovered after many major trainings.
Speaking of Yang Jiayu, he was suspended for 2 minutes on the Tokyo circuit, but in fact, the Korea athlete's movements were not punished, but this was because the referees were inexperienced in judging athletes, and even in the pre-race line training, the warnings given by the referees were inconsistent.
It can be seen that the referee skills on the Tokyo circuit need to be improved, which affects the later performance of many athletes.
epilogue
Yang Jiayu's outstanding performance in Paris will have a positive impact on the following competitions, and her success will also influence more young athletes and inspire them to devote themselves to race walking.
Let our track and field project go to the next level, Yang Jiayu's performance also reminds us that in the future development of Chinese track and field, we should also strengthen the cultivation of talents and build a reserve force for race walking.
In addition, in the future international competitions, we can also strengthen scientific training, so that our athletes can improve their overall quality and perform better on the field.
Yang Jiayu is not afraid of failure, has the courage to challenge herself, constantly polishes herself, swims against the current in adversity, breaks through the gate of the arena, and enters the palace of superstars.
Yang Jiayu may have a lot of psychological pressure on the field, especially before the competition, and needs professional psychological counseling to help athletes maintain a good psychological condition.
Therefore, more participation in race walking events is helpful for our health, and we can enhance everyone's sense of participation by holding more domestic and foreign events, so that everyone can feel the charm of race walking.