On August 14, Beijing time, during this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, many Chinese sports fans remembered China's legendary superstar Liu Xiang, who, despite years of retirement, is still the pride of Chinese athletics and still holds the record of the 110-meter hurdles event at the Olympic Games.
Liu Xiang ran a time of 12.91 seconds at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, which is still looked up to by posterity as an Olympic record, this time at the Olympic Games, the United States and Jamaica launched a shock to this record, but neither was able to break, and the world record in the project was created by Merritt in 2012, with a time of 12.80 seconds.
In the 110m hurdles event at the Tokyo Olympics, Jamaica's Pachement finally won the championship with a time of 13.04 seconds, the United States Holloway was only 0.05 seconds behind his opponents in 13.09 seconds and finished second, failing to win the gold medal for the United States, and Jamaica's Levi won the bronze medal in 13.10 seconds, only 0.01 seconds behind Holloway. Another American player, Allen, finished 4th in 13.14 seconds, so it can be seen that in this project, it is really the United States and Jamaica that are singing duo turns.
Born in 1997, Holloway is 23 years old and 1.88 meters tall, making him a very good athletics player. At the 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Doha, he won the gold medal in this event and was officially crowned the title of World Champion. He ran at 13.10 seconds, 0.01 seconds behind this time. In the Olympic test match within the United States team before the Olympic Games, he once ran a superb time of 12.96 seconds, and this year he also ran 12.81 seconds, which made him the number one favorite to win the Olympic Games, which was a huge breakthrough for him, and from the situation of this competition, Holloway's big game appearance did not seem to be particularly good.
At that time, in the game, his starting reaction time was 0.136 seconds, and Pachement was 0.130, a little faster than him, at least in the first 8 hurdles, Holloway was also overwhelmed by the opponent's first place, who would have thought that in the last two hurdles, Pachemente in the 7th lane suddenly killed from the side. In the final moments, Pachement was basically a head over Holloway, who was a bit short of stamina and was even almost overtaken by another Jamaican player, and the silver medal was almost saved.