It's injury again! Can Xie Wenjun's last stop chasing his brother Liu Xiang be complete?

"Now I've changed from seven steps back to eight steps, and I'm not quite used to it!" Today at the Athletics Field at the Tokyo Olympics, 31-year-old veteran Xie Wenjun competed in the men's 110m hurdles preliminaries as China's short-jumper. In the end, he advanced to the semi-finals with a time of 13.51 seconds, 4th in the group. "At least I found some feelings." He said after the game.

According to the rules, the top 4 in each group in the preliminary round directly advance to the semi-finals. As the first shot in this Olympic Games, Xie Wenjun did not go well from the beginning of the race, and the first step hit the railing. In the end, he finished 4th with a narrow margin of 13.51 seconds, 0.02 seconds ahead of fifth place.

Since 2018, Xie Wenjun has begun the technical reform of "eight steps on the column to seven steps on the column", and this choice has also proved very correct - in the 2019 Shanghai Diamond League, he won the runner-up with a personal best of 13.17 seconds; the World Championships in Doha successfully reached the final with hard power and won the fourth place, which is the best proof.

However, just in July this year, the 2021 Athletics Invitational Tournament in Hangzhou, some careful track and field fans found out, "How did Xie Wenjun change back to eight steps!" ”

This was due to an accidental injury. In May this year, Xie Wenjun was straining his left leg tendon during training, and the Olympic Games were just around the corner, so in order to minimize the impact of the injury on the game, he changed back to the eight-step upper column technique that gave less pressure to the tendons.

In addition to the accidental injury caused by the temporary change of technology, too long without the baptism of the competition, but also let the 31-year-old veteran some discomfort, "after the start of the run because of the excitement, plus changed eight steps, estimating the distance of the railing is a bit wrong, when the railing is too close to the railing, knocked." ”

Xie Wenjun will usher in the semi-finals tomorrow morning, and if he wants to achieve his goal of reaching the final, his competitive status must be improved by one notch compared to today. And he also shoulders the difficult task of defending China's short span "Asian hegemony" - as the hurdles of China's traditional athletics advantage, he can only rely on him alone to support him, and two Japanese athletes, Junsuke Izumitani and Daiwang Kanai, have advanced to the semi-finals, and the promotion results are 13.28 seconds and 31.41 seconds, both faster than Xie Wenjun. Talking about the two Japanese opponents in the mixed mining area, Xie Wenjun still seemed very confident, "Their young players have momentum, but I just need to run myself, tomorrow my goal is still to impact my best!" ”

Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua Text Editor: Yao Qinyi

Source: Author: Yao Qinyi