Last weekend, Japan's 28-year-old veteran Ryota Yamagata set a new National Record in the Men's 100m with a 9.95 seconds (+2.0m/s) in the Tottori City Bust Sprint. However, this incident has remained the focus of discussion among Chinese and Japanese netizens in the past two days. Japanese professional sports media "Nikkan Sports" published an article on the night of June 6, saying that the starting end of this competition site has a wind fence", which closes when the wind speed is too strong and opens when it is weak. The next day, the Chinese media "Sohu Sports" quoted this report, and listed the achievements of the top ten flyers in the Chinese and Japanese dynasties, and concluded that the top ten majority of the Japanese men's 100 meters in the past were achieved under the conditions of big tailwinds, and Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye were still the benchmarks for Asian sprinting. The Japanese media relayed this report, adding fuel to the fire that this was the "glass heart" of the Chinese media. The vast majority of Japanese netizens who understand athletics still have a calm judgment on this, but a few "Japanese keyboard men" have an unbalanced mentality, are ashamed and angry, and post posts slandering Su Bingtian for taking Chinese medicine to run out of the Asian record of 9 seconds and 91 seconds.
First of all, it needs to be determined that Ryota Yamagata ran 9.95 seconds under the conditions of wind speed +2.0 m/s within the rules of the World Athletics Federation, and the official database of the World Athletics Federation also recognized and included this new National Record in Japan. In Japan, everyone has different perceptions and feelings. Some of their practices are indeed not understood by the world. However, no matter what social hotspot phenomenon, there are opposing voices in Japan that are allowed and objectively existing, that is, the voices of "disharmony" as we call it.
Ryota Yamagata ran 9.95 seconds, and it was supposed that the whole country of Japan should beat gongs and drums to celebrate this breakthrough. However, Japan's very professional sports media "Nikkan Sports" published an article late at night on June 6, exposing the two reasons why Tottori City's cloth sprints are often prone to good results, the first is that the track is the most advanced, the kind of track that Bolt ran at 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin; the second is that there is often a good tailwind in the afternoon of that race. Moreover, the race will also set up a "wind fence" after the starting line, if the wind speed exceeds +2.0 m/s, the fence will be closed, and the wind speed will not exceed +2.0 m/s conditions to open the fence.
Let's first discuss this behavior, which is to create conditions for sprinters to run well under the condition of making full use of the rules, which is not strictly speaking cheating, but the results of running under such conditions are definitely very watery. Ryota Yamagata won the championship in 10.14 seconds at +0.1 m/s in her hometown of Hiroshima on April 29, and around 10.15 seconds should be Ryota Yamagata's real strength now. In the athletics 100m event, the downwind of 1 m/s has a big impact, and the performance can be more than 0.05-0.10 seconds. This gap is related to the specific situation of each person, some runners are more windy, the downwind headwind is not very much of an impact on him, but the general downwind conditions are conducive to most runners to create good results.
The next day, the Chinese media "Sohu Sports" reported in depth the case of Ryota Yamagata running 9.95 seconds, and listed the results of the top ten flyers in the 100 meters of the Chinese and Japanese dynasties, concluding that China's Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye arrow arrows are the strongest in Asia, and Japan's overall upward momentum is strong, but most of the good results are run in the big downwind conditions. According to the comparison of this table, it can be seen that only Wu Zhiqiang's 10.17 seconds in the history of the Chinese men's 100 meters is a big downwind of +2.0 m/s, and the wind speed of the rest of the results is below +1.0 m/s. And Su Bingtian ran 9.98 seconds in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, in April this year, which was a headwind of -0.9 m/s. Seven of the top ten flyers in Japan did so under the conditions of high downwinds of +1.5 m/s to +2.0 m/s.
Most Japanese netizens still agree with the fact that Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye are Asian sprint benchmarks, as well as the fact that Japanese sprinting peers mainly rely on big tailwinds to achieve good results. Some Japanese netizens posted: Su Bingtian is a world-class sprinter, and Ryota Yamagata is the best runner in Asia. Su Bingtian ran twice in 9.91 seconds, and the Asian Games also won in 9.92 seconds, the results are impeccable, which means that Su Bingtian has the strength to fight in the final of the World Series. I hope to see Japanese players such as Ryota Yamagata, Shoshu Kiryu, and Sani Brown compete further with Su Bingtian. ””
Another Japanese netizen said: "In fact, the Japanese players certainly do not think that they have surpassed China, and even do not have the idea of 'having equaled their Chinese counterparts'." To keep China silent, Japanese runners have to run into 10 seconds many times, even opening the 9 seconds 90 mark for the first time as Asian runners. ”
As a netizen, there are also a few people in Japan who have a more extreme view. Some Japanese netizens posted sourly: "Whether it is a tailwind or a headwind, if it is the same field at the same time, the conditions are the same." Isn't it a big tailwind for Chinese players to participate in the competition with the support of the state!? ”
There are also extremely extreme Japanese netizens who slander and say: "Isn't that sprinter in China also using doping?" It seems to be taking Chinese medicine. ”
In fact, Su Bingtian has so far run into the 10-second mark 6 times, and 4 times have been achieved in overseas competitions, including winning the 9.92 seconds at the Jakarta Asian Games and two times running the Asian record of 9.91 seconds, all of which have been achieved in foreign competitions. The domestic one ran 10 seconds twice, one in April this year in Zhaoqing against the wind 9.98 seconds, and the other time running 9.99 seconds in the semifinals of the 2015 Beijing World Championships. Xie Zhenye broke the 10 seconds twice, which was also achieved in European competitions.
The number of people who broke 10 seconds in Japan reached four, of which Kiryu Shoshu and Ryota Yamagata both achieved 10 in Small Competitions in Japan, and the wind speed was very large. Yuki Koike ran 9.98 seconds in the Diamond League London in 2019, and Sani Brown ran 10 seconds twice in the U.S. domestic collegiate competition.