On August 1, at the 100-meter trapeze at the Tokyo Olympic Games, China's Su Bingtian ran 9.83 seconds in the semifinals, setting a new personal best and Asian record, and advancing to the semifinals with the first place. In the final, Su Bingtian finished sixth with a time of 9.98 seconds, setting the best time in the history of Asian athletes in the men's 100 meters event. Liu Zhankun/Photo, special correspondent of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network
On August 1, 2021, in the final of the men's 100-meter trapeze battle at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Chinese was no longer just a spectator, and The Chinese flyer Su Bingtian, who advanced to the first place in the semifinals, stood in the sixth lane symbolizing the C position. In the end, Su Bingtian made his debut for Chinese athletes in the Olympic 100m final with a time of 9.98 seconds.
On July 30, 1932, the tenth Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, USA, and Liu Changchun, a sprinter who had been bumping at sea for 22 days, stood on the men's 100-meter track, there was no training ground, serious seasickness, and Liu Changchun, who was in a greatly reduced state, did not qualify for the final, but as the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Olympic Games, he had pressed the start button for The Chinese speed with a time of 10.7 seconds.
In 0.87 seconds, Chinese athletics spanned 89 years of history from being alone to stunning the world, which is not only a breakthrough in Chinese speed, but also the rise of Asian speed.
The final result of 9.98 seconds, which Su Bingtian set two hours after breaking the Asian record with 9.83 seconds, is a time in history for Asian runners who are still chasing world speed.
"I can still break through 10 seconds in such a short period of time, in fact, I think I am already very happy." I'm going to do the same with my own goals, because all of our stuff still has to have a step-by-step process, it's impossible to say that I just ran 9.83 seconds and I had to run for the medal, in fact, the team and I didn't think about it. After the race, Su Bingtian was very frank, for the 100-meter runners who want to speed up 1 second or even 0.1 seconds every day, recognizing the law of exercise is the key to really speeding up.
Although the new Tokyo National Stadium was empty due to the impact of the epidemic, the media seats filled by global reporters still broke out in horror for Su Bingtian's 9.83 seconds in the semifinals.
This is the best result among the finalists in the men's 100 meters of this Olympic Games, and it is also a result that can be recorded in the annals of Chinese sports. This figure has enabled Su Bingtian to achieve his goal of "standing on the Olympic 100-meter final" before the competition, and becoming the first Chinese athlete on the Olympic men's 100-meter final track and the first Asian athlete after entering the era of electronic timing. The new Asian record of 9.83 seconds ranked 12th in world history.
"Actually, when I didn't come, I didn't say I was going to run 9.9 seconds, but I was pretty sure we could run 9.85 seconds. I can't do it myself, and I hope the people behind me can do it. Su Bingtian vented all his excitement on the field, and when facing the camera, he constantly emphasized the precipitation with humility, "but I think it is close to the 9.85 seconds of this result first, it is impossible to say that there is a very big improvement at once, but today my state has indeed arrived." He recalled the moment of the race, "The foot feel is very good, and the track and the starter are very bonded, I think my opportunity has come, so I heard the gunshot and jumped out first, just be the best I can be." ”
To be the best of yourself, Yu Su Bingtian and Chinese sprinting are all a cumulative process.
As the flag figure of Chinese sprinting, Su Bingtian has been constantly refreshing history since 2015, when in May of that year, the IAAF Diamond League in Eugene, USA, he ran 9.99 seconds to become the first yellow race to break the men's 100 meters 10 second mark, which made his performance at the Beijing Athletics World Championships highly anticipated. Playing on his doorstep, he became the first Asian player to enter the men's 100m battle at the World Championships.
At that time, the strategy of "please come in and go out" of Chinese athletics was being implemented, and the collective efforts of sprinting had been effective. After boarding the world championship final track, Su Bingtian admitted that in addition to making training more meticulous and systematic, the biggest change is to be able to compete with high-level players, "Before seeing some world-renowned players have psychological timidity, but the training competition contact is more, when you really stand on the track of the big race, there will be no sense of fear, slowly progress, we will not be afraid of them in the future, maybe we stand on the track and dangle, the results are getting better and better, and we can slowly make them afraid of our yellow race in the future." ”
Not just talking. In 2018, at the Madrid Challenge, Su Bingtian won the men's 100m final with a time of 9.91 seconds (wind speed +0.2m/s), once again breaking the yellow man's 100m record. The result also tied Qatar's August Augustus' Asian record. The constant explosion of "Flying Man" makes the iconic level of "Breaking 10", a short-distance project, no longer a problem for him.
In fact. Before running out of the 9.91 seconds, Su Bingtian, who gradually became a veteran, once fell into a bottleneck, he even thought about retiring, at this time, in addition to the support of his family, there was also the help of foreign teacher Randy, which made him persist to this day, "As a foreign teacher of our track and field team, Randy has a lot of advanced ideas whether it is jumping projects or sprinting. He gave me some suggestions for improvement, and with my previous experience in changing the technology, I was confident to digest these suggestions. I started trying to change two points first, and when I was able to accept them and taste the sweetness, I continued to digest the other suggestions. Originally, Su Bingtian thought that it was good to run 9.95 seconds to the limit, but 9.91 gave him the motivation to persevere, "It seems that if he does not set a goal of 9 seconds and 90, he is sorry for himself." It sounds like 0.01 seconds is a lot of work, but it takes a lot of effort to improve 0.01 seconds, and I'm willing to try. ”
But as a veteran, injuries inevitably become a problem, Su Bingtian, who ran 9.91 seconds twice in 2018, suffered 18 months of injury trouble after the World Championships in Doha the following year, with a new recovery from a waist injury and a shoulder injury, coupled with the lack of opportunities to practice in the context of the epidemic, making a comeback and finding the state of the game as soon as possible is the challenge that the veteran is facing at all times.
How was he injured? Is it still at its peak? Everyone was waiting for an answer.
In June this year, in the National Athletics Championships and Olympic Trials, Su Bingtian won the championship with a time of 9.98 seconds, breaking the 10-second mark for the seventh time in his career, at this time, just over 40 days before the Tokyo Olympics, and just two months ago, he also ran 9.98 seconds in another domestic event, which in his opinion was "OK" and proved that he was ready for the Tokyo Olympics.
When the Athletics Event of the Tokyo Olympic Games kicked off, Su Bingtian, who appeared in the fourth group of the men's 100 meters preliminary, played well, and even in the last 20 meters, he also looked behind him, and after determining that he could qualify, his pace slowed down significantly, and finally he directly advanced to the second group with a time of 10.05 seconds. The extremely relaxed state made Su Bingtian's "Looking Back at the Moon" on the hot search, and "Su Shen" was placed on the high hope of running into the final.
In tonight's semi-finals, Su Bingtian appeared in the third group, and before the game, he said that he was more mature than when he was in the Rio Olympics 5 years ago, and his ability and strength had also improved, "but there is still a gap compared with the international first line, and he still has to work hard." I finished the task when I got to the final, I played as much as I could, and the semi-final was my final. ”
The strong hands were like clouds, but Su Bingtian advanced to the final with the first place in the group. After the game, "Chinese Flying Man" Liu Xiang forwarded Su Bingtian's Weibo of the match to pay tribute to another "Chinese Flying Man" with "Fengshen Shen".
"In fact, I have always been in contact with Xiang Ge, and he is constantly encouraging and supporting me, and I remember that every year on his birthday, I would bless him." The first time I broke through the 10-second mark, Xiang Ge was also on the scene. Therefore, Xiang Ge is not only my idol for me, but also my god of luck. So, I'm very grateful to him because he's really a trailblazer for our Chinese track and field team. Su Bingtian remembers that in 2012, it was raining in Kawasaki, and he was emotionally frustrated when he had just finished running the relay and had to run 100 meters, but at that time, Liu Xiang's first outdoor race was being staged, "He ran 13.09 seconds at once." You know, he went through a big injury at the time, and it was not easy to get back to the top in another Olympic year. After that, Su Bingtian was charged, running at a speed of 10.04 seconds in the competition, "I was very surprised, the most important thing is that in the same competition, I actually won the American player for the first time." ”
"If Liu Xiang hadn't appeared, many people probably wouldn't have had this kind of idea, saying that we would stand on the final line of the Olympic Games, and we Asians would also be able to win the Olympic Championship." Su Bingtian said that now, the baton is in his hands, "I ran to the 6th place in the Olympic Games today, hoping to bring encouragement to the sports path of younger athletes." Let more young Chinese players break through the 10-second mark faster. ”
Tokyo, August 1 (Xinhua) --
Liang Xuan, special correspondent of China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily Source: China Youth Daily
Source: China Youth Daily