Beijing time on August 4 news, Tokyo Olympics athletics men's 110 meters hurdles semi-finals ended, 23-year-old American star Holloway easily advanced to the final in 13 seconds 13 seconds, Shukov, Ortega two opponents temporarily withdrew, let Holloway win the gold medal can be described as hand to hand, ten to nine stable, and he slowed down in the preliminary round to run 13 seconds 03 times, so that Liu Xiang's 12.91 Olympic record held by Liu Xiang was in jeopardy, and full play is expected to improve to the 12.90 seconds mark.
In the history of the 110-meter hurdles, almost every legendary celebrity ushered in his own Olympic outbreak year, Alain Johnson broke out in the Atlanta Olympic Games, winning gold in 12.95 seconds, Liu Xiang winning gold in 12.91 seconds at the Athens Olympic Games, Robbes winning the championship in 12.93 seconds at the Beijing Olympic Games, breaking Liu Xiang's world record in 12.87 seconds in the same year, Merritt winning gold in 12.92 seconds at the London Olympics, and breaking Robles' world record in 12.80 seconds in the same year.
The 2021 Tokyo Olympic year clearly belongs to Holloway, the US Championship ran 12.81 seconds in history, surpassing Liu Xiang and Robles to rise to the second place in history, only 0.01 seconds away from Merritt's world record, the state is fiery and crazy, and several famous players who can bring competitive pressure to Holloway have been absent, the last Olympic champion, Jamaica McLeod in the domestic selection tournament was injured and did not qualify for the Olympics, the Olympic runner-up, Spain's Famous Ortega and the World Championship champion, Russia Shubukov also withdrew from the Olympic preliminaries.
This season ran out of 13.06 seconds ranked second in the world's Japanese rising star Junsuke Izumitani, the semi-final hurdles affected the performance, with 13.35 seconds did not qualify for the final, the other players who entered the final had a season level of 13.10 seconds, and Holloway was more than 2 grades apart, the Olympic Games will become Holloway's solo show, the opponent is only himself, full play the line, there is a greater chance to break Liu Xiang's 12.91 Olympic record, with a score of 12.8x to win the Olympic gold medal.
If the weather is good and the wind speed is strong, Holloway's extraordinary performance to break the 12.80 world record is also a chance, Holloway has won the Gold Medal of the Doha World Championships, this year's indoor competition is unbeaten, breaking the 60m hurdles world record in 7.29 seconds, and then winning the Olympic gold medal + breaking the world record, Holloway will become Liu Xiang, the second Grand Slam winner in the 110m hurdles, he will open his own hurdles era.