Source: Nanguo Morning Post 2021-07-31 10:25:53 I talk about reading times
On July 30, Guangxi athletics star Wei Yongli appeared at the Tokyo Olympic Games, running 11.48 seconds in the women's 100m preliminary round, missing the semifinals. But this season, Wei Yongli's focus is on the women's 4×100m relay, and the Chinese women's relay team still has a chance to make a breakthrough in the next competition.
Wei Yongli appeared at the Tokyo National Stadium. Video screenshots
The group stage is unfortunately out
On the evening of July 28, Wei Yongli and the Chinese track and field team arrived in Tokyo and began her third Olympic journey, competing in the women's 100 meters and women's 4×100 meters relays.
In the athletics field where black athletes occupy an absolute monopoly, Asian athletes have been in the position of challengers for many years, and Wei Yongli, who won the gold medals at the Asian Games and the National Games, has always been the semi-final on the Olympic 100-meter track.
On the morning of July 30, as the "gold medalist" of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the track and field competition was officially fired, and Wei Yongli, Ge Manqi and Liang Xiaojing, three Chinese athletes, competed in the women's 100 meters preliminary round. Before Wei Yongli in the seventh group appeared, Ge Manqi and Liang Xiaojing finished the match with the results of fourth (11.20 seconds) and fifth group (11.40 seconds) respectively. Of the three, Wei Yongli is the most senior and strongest, but due to the serious injuries suffered last year, the season state is not outstanding, and the best time of the season is only 11.52 seconds.
Wei Yongli led in the front and was overtaken in the middle. Video screenshots
At the Tokyo National Stadium, Wei Yongli's match was scheduled to be played at 12 o'clock Beijing time, and there were no world-class players in her group, and the CCTV commentator believed that Wei Yongli "must first compare herself with herself and come up with her best performance." With the sound of gunfire in the game, Wei Yongli started well, but did not maintain the leading position in the middle section, and was overtaken by the opponent one after another, and finally missed the semi-final with a time of 11.48 seconds and sixth in the group.
With 11 seconds 48 "lucky"
It is worth mentioning that Wei Yongli's 100-meter performance at the Tokyo Olympic Games was 11.48 seconds, which was also the completion of her past two Olympic Games, and guangxi girls ran this number of seconds many times in her career.
In 2012, when she participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, the fledgling Wei Yongli ran 11.48 seconds in London and ranked seventh in the group, although she did not qualify, she experienced the Olympic atmosphere for the first time;
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Wei Yongli, who was already the leader of China's women's sprint, ran 11.48 seconds again, and the fifth place in the group missed the women's 100m semifinals;
In 2021, at the Tokyo Olympics, Wei Yongli improved her season's best by 0.04 seconds and ran another 11.48 seconds.
Wei Yongli won the gold medal in the women's 100 meters at the Incheon Asian Games in 2014 with a time of 11.48 seconds. The Asian Games' championship results could not even break through from the Olympic group stage, which also reflected the huge gap between the level of Asian athletics and the world's top level.
Of course, 11.48 seconds is not wei Yongli's "ceiling", in the 2019 Athletics Race in Geneva, Switzerland, she ran the fastest 10.99 seconds of her career, setting the best Asian women's 100 meters in 20 years.
Wei Yongli collided with the line instantly. Video screenshots
The focus is on relay projects
After the game, the reporter learned from the Guangxi Athletics Center that last year Wei Yongli suffered from injuries and illness, retreated for 8 months, her physical condition was not in the best state in history, and she could run out of the same results as the previous two sessions, which was already the embodiment of the fighting spirit. At the same time, according to the arrangement of the Chinese athletics team, Wei Yongli's focus in recent years has been the women's relay, so the individual competition can be seen as a "warm-up" and hopes to make a breakthrough in the relay event.
Looking forward to the upcoming relay events, Wei Yongli said, "The goal of [this Olympic Games] is mainly the relay race, and we must strive to compete with our sisters to enter the top eight." For Wei Yongli, who is about to turn 30, to realize the dream of the top eight olympics, the women's relay race is indeed the most realistic path, "We are not without hope, the last Rio Olympic Games, we had hope to enter the final." Wei Yongli said.
At the Rio Olympics five years ago, the Chinese women's team led by Wei Yongli was eighth in the final with a time of 42.70 seconds. However, the American team, which made a major mistake in the semifinals, successfully appealed and was given the opportunity to rerun alone, and finally squeezed the Chinese women's relay team out of the quarterfinals.
On August 5, the preliminaries for the women's 4×100m relay will start, and according to Wei Yongli, according to her recent personal performance, she is likely to appear in the second or fourth base.
Looking forward to Wei Yongli's wonderful performance on August 5, cheering for the Chinese women's relay team!