China News Network Hohhot, April 12 Title: Chinese track and field athlete Shi Liying: Everything goes with the flow with the ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games
China News Network reporter Li Aiping
Shi Liying, 23, ushered in the highlight of her life a day ago - officially got the ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games.
On the morning of April 11, the 2021 National Marathon Championships and Olympic Marathon Trials started on the banks of Yunlong Lake in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. After fierce competition, Shi Liying, a native of Inner Mongolia, ran 2 hours, 29 minutes and 18 seconds to finish fourth, and personally reached the participation standard of the Tokyo Olympic Games for the first time.
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According to the Olympic selection rules of the Chinese Athletics Association: according to the standard and the selection of the marathon project, after selecting 3 athletes, 1 athlete who has reached the standard is selected as a substitute athlete according to the ranking of the selection competition. In the end, Shi Liying ranked 4th and met the Olympic participation standards, and was shortlisted for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
For the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese track and field athlete told reporters with a smile, "Anyone who wants to win olympic medals, but everything must go with the flow." ”
As an athlete from Inner Mongolia, Shi Liying is also the only marathon runner in the local area to receive an Olympic ticket.
Regarding the experience of the day's competition, Shi Liying recalled: "After the game started, I followed the rhythm of the game. "But I always have a goal in mind, that is, to get a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics."
2 hours, 29 minutes and 18 seconds!
For the achievements made this time, Shi Liying believes that "it is related to the winter training in Yunnan for more than 3 months, which was reflected in the final critical moment." ”
This competition is also a process of doing her best for Shi Liying, who is determined to impact the admission ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games.
She recalled, "The moment of the last collision was indeed more tiring, but fortunately it passed." ”
As a young Chinese athletics player, Shi Liying has won many awards in the past three years and has become well known to the international track and field community.
She won the 2019 Beijing International Marathon and National Marathon Championships, and at the 2020 Sichuan Meishan Renshou International Half Marathon and National Marathon Championships, she won the international and domestic double championships.
Earlier, Shi Liying said in an interview with reporters, "Persistence + effort will always leave traces." Today, she still thinks so when she got her ticket to the Tokyo Olympics.
"If you break through yourself, you have no opponent." She said the words have always inspired her. (End)
Source: China News Network