Sports Weekly special correspondent Oda reported
If you want to list a list of the probability of Chinese athletics winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics, it is undoubtedly the women's shot put veteran Gong Lijiao who is in the first place, and the second place may be another veteran, from the Asian record holder of the women's javelin event, Lu Huihui.
Although he did not achieve the "Four Dynasties Elders" in Tokyo like Gong Lijiao, the Tokyo Olympic Games were already the third Olympic games trip of the Lukai.
Unfortunately, in the women's javelin competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Lu Kaihui only finished fifth with a score of 63.41 and failed to get a medal.
The speed of going to the Olympics scared the coach
Lu Huihui, who was born in 1989, is 32 years old this year.
In 2001, due to her excellent results in the javelin competition at the county games, Lu Hui would be selected to the Xinxiang City Sports School and begin systematic javelin training, and that year, she was only 12 years old, 20 years have passed.
From the municipal sports school to the provincial sports brigade, Lu Huihui's potential has been recognized, but in terms of achievements, her improvement speed is not ideal. This also once made Lu Huihui lose confidence in himself.
In 2007, 18-year-old Lu Huihui came to Zhengzhou University's Sias International College to study, hoping to successfully graduate and find a good job. At this time, although she will still represent the school, she is already a little less "determined" about the javelin sport.
Fortunately, at this time, Lu Will meet someone who can be said to have "changed" her life: coach Lv Gang. It is said that at that time, Lü Gang was interested in another javelin player, Song Dan, and he still inquired about Song Dan's situation through Lü Huihui. However, Song Dan refused Lü Gang's kindness, and later, Lü Huihui took the initiative to contact Lü Gang. Facing graduation, there is no big improvement in grades, Lu will want to fight again, so after graduating from undergraduate, he was admitted to Wuhan Institute of Physical Education and trained with Lü Gang.
Lü Huihui, Lü Gang, the same surname, many people who do not know the situation, and even think that the two have some blood relationship. Although there is no blood relationship, the fate between the two is also somewhat wonderful. Before Lü Huihui took the initiative to contact Lü Gang, Lü Gang had seen Lü Huihui in more than one game, and for her conditions, Lü Gang felt that sooner or later He could bring Lü Huihui to the stage of the Olympic Games.
"I just didn't expect it to be so fast." Lü Gang said that in 2011, he began to take Lü Huihui to meetings, and as a result, at the 2012 London Olympic Games, the disciples were already standing on the Olympic field.
At the beginning of 2012, Lu Huihui was selected for the national training team, and at the National Open, he threw a score of 63.78 meters, reaching the Olympic A standard.
Standing on the Olympic stage for the first time, Lu Huihui was not afraid of the stage, shooting 64.45 meters in the first shot, exceeding the promotion line, and advancing to the final with only one shot. She also became the only one of the three Chinese women javelin throwers to advance to the final. However, in the final, although Lu Huihui had 6 shots, the young her was still inferior to several foreign masters in terms of strength and experience, and finally ended her first Olympic trip with a fifth place result.
Coming out too early is also a problem
In fact, it is quite high to say that Lu will start his javelin career. Before competing in London 2012, she hadn't even competed in the World Championships.
I don't know if it is because of the high start, so that the world championship gold medal for Lu Huihui, is so easy to get, but can not be seized.
The 2015 Beijing Athletics World Championships was lui's first world championships in athletics, three years after the end of the London Olympics, and the Rio Olympics were about to begin.
As the host athlete, Lu Huihui threw 65.07 meters in the qualifiers, and then crossed the promotion line of 63.5 meters in one shot, and this time, she was even the best among the only three players who relied on the first shot to cross the line.
If Lu Huihui was just a newcomer in the women's javelin final at the London Olympics, she was already unafraid of any opponent at the Beijing Athletics World Championships. After the first five shots, with the 66.13 meters of the fifth shot, Lu Huihui broke the Asian record held by teammate Zhang Li, and at the same time, he also rose to the first place, just one step away from the gold medal. Lu Huihui, who has always said that he is strong on the outside and fragile in heart, after this throw, he shed tears of excitement, and the coach In the stands, Lu Gang, has also stood up and waved his arms, and it is difficult to hide his excitement.
However, in the final shot, German veteran Katarina Molito threw the world's best of 67.69 that year, and snatched the gold medal from Lu Huihui.
However, the first trip to the World Championships, won the silver medal, which is undoubtedly a great boost in confidence for the Rio Olympic Games trip of the LuHui.
Standing on the ground of his second Olympic javelin competition, Lu Huihui has only one goal: to go further. The preliminaries are another "gun" to advance. In the final, the final results of the women's javelin competition were not ideal, Sarah Clark reached 66.18 meters on the 4th shot, the rest of the runners did not exceed 65 meters, and Lu Huihui's best result was only 64.04 meters, and finally ranked 7th. Clark's gold medal in the 68.18 meters was only 5 centimeters more than Lu Huihui's World Championships.
The performance of the Rio Olympics has disappointed Lu Hui a little, compared to London, which is even a "regression". However, just like when she firmly believed that her conditions were not worse than others, she resolutely decided to go from Henan to Wuhan alone to find Lu Gang to study. Lu Huihui quickly packed up his mood and prepared for the first World Championships of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the 2017 Athletics World Championships. Five years ago, she was here and finished fifth in her first Olympic Games.
At that time, Lu Huihui, judging from the results, already had a vague feeling of the Chinese women's javelin head chair. In that competition, the other two participants were Li Lingwei, who was the same year as Lu Hui, and Liu Shiying, who was 5 years younger than them. In the preliminary round, Lu Huihui continued the momentum of the world's top competition, 67.59 meters, more than 4 meters, and was the only one among all the qualifiers who exceeded the 66 meters.
The last time the Chinese women's javelin won gold on the stage of the World Championships was Xu Demei in 1991, and since then she has not been able to win gold, and the last time she won a medal was the silver medal won by Lu Huihui in 2015. This time, she brought hope again.
Unfortunately, in the final, Lu Huihui did not throw 65.26 meters until the fifth shot, raising the ranking to third place. But at this time, her physical strength had been consumed too much, and the last attempt could not even exceed 60 meters, and she won a bronze medal, and Li Lingwei won the runner-up.
The good state always came out too early, and it seemed to have become a problem for Lu Huihui.
The regrets of the World Championships go to the Olympics to make up for it
Two world championships, two medals, for the Chinese women's javelin, is a commendable achievement. But one silver and one copper, for Lu Huihui, is full of regrets. And in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Lu will have another chance, the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
The whole year of 2019 can be described in one word for Lu Huihui: "breakthrough". Before the Doha World Championships, Lu Huihui participated in 13 competitions, large and small, won 12 championships and 1 runner-up result, broke the Asian record many times, and maintained the world best result of the women's javelin that year. Going to the venue of the World Championships in such a state and not winning the gold medal seems to be a bit unreasonable.
However, the familiar picture appeared in the eyes of Chinese sports fans one by one.
First of all, in the preliminaries, although Lu Huihui failed to advance to the first shot, the second shot of 67.27 meters was enough to shock all opponents, and once again became the only one among the qualified players who scored more than 66 meters.
In the final, all the players seemed to be out of shape, until the penultimate shot, Liu Shiying and Lu Huihui threw 65.88 meters and 65.49 meters respectively, ranking first and second. Once again, the champion beckoned to the Chinese players. However, the dramatic scene takes place in the final shot. Australia's Babel threw 66.56 meters, rising to the first place, while Lu Huihui and Liu Shiying failed to achieve a rebound in the last shot, just like at the 2015 Beijing World Championships, so the gold medal slipped away from the Hands of the Chinese team. Lu Huihui won the bronze medal again, although three consecutive World Championships, three medal performance, Lu Huihui can be regarded as the second person in history, before only the Greek famous Maniani from 1999 to 2003 has done it, but there is no gold medal, And the regrets in Lu Huihui's heart can be imagined.
After the game, Lu Hui will write on his Weibo: This World Championship still did not get the result he wanted. If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight! Obviously, there are still many deficiencies, at least not mentally ready. What I want to say to all the people who have followed me and supported me along the way is: "I will only become more and more courageous in the face of setbacks, and at the same time strengthen my faith to go on!" ”。 The season is over, looking forward to the new "will throw the future" in the coming year!
"Will throw the future" is the weibo name of Lu Huihui, showing her expectations for her javelin career. And the veteran who is already the beginning of the "three", the regret of the World Championships, Lu will hope to make up for it in the Olympic Games. In March 2020, Lu Huihui once again wrote on Weibo: Eight years ago, it was a fledgling, four years ago was like a nightmare, what will happen this year? I can't predict it! But the only thing I can do is take every step in front of me, and everything is a natural fit!
The scrappy Lu Huihui had to conduct closed training due to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games due to the epidemic. But even so, Lu Huihui, who has been closed for more than half a year, threw the world's best result of 67.61 meters in the domestic event, and coach Lv Gang said that this shows that Lu Huihui has accumulated and has stronger strength. Although the delay of a year has raised The age of Lu Huihui to another year, this year coincides with her 20 years of exposure to javelins. On such a special day, Lu Hui will hope to use a perfect result to give back his 20 years of hard work.
Unfortunately, although Lu Hui will do his best, he can only finish the Tokyo Olympics tour with a fifth place result. But at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, another youngster, Liu Shiying, stood at the top of the field with a gold medal, and this seems to have a kind of inheritance, and the baton of the Chinese women's javelin was successfully delivered to Liu Shiying from the hands of Lu Huihui at this moment. Three years later in Paris, the Chinese women's javelin is still expected.
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