Chapter 403 Race Walking Trials
Yi Dun, I won’t say anything else. In terms of track and field, I think no one on this earth has more say than you.”
"Since you think you can participate in the race walk and participate in the two events together, I won't stop you."
"In the near future, I will ask the following to hold a trial race. Three players will be selected for the next World Championships for the 20-kilometer and 50-kilometer race walks. You should stay at the training base recently."
Director Xu didn't dare to delay this matter, after all, there was not much time left before the registration deadline.
Of course, he could name Yi Dun to participate in these two race walks, but this means that someone will be denied the original World Championships race walk.
It is extremely cruel for any athlete to be deprived of the World Championships.
You should know that most athletes may have the most brilliant and memorable moments in their careers, just participating in a World Championships.
Even if there is no gold medal or medal, just participating in the World Championships, this will make their careers successful.
This is the highest stage in the World Championships, except for the Olympics, and no one wants to miss such a grand event.
Director Xu naturally doesn't want to do such a cruel thing, so the selection competition is quite necessary. Athletes rely on their strength to speak. If Yi Dun qualifies for the competition in the selection competition, no one will find any fault.
"By the way, Yi Dun, do you need to train race walks these few days? As far as I know, it seems that you have never been involved in race walks before, right?" Director Xu asked curiously.
In his impression, Yi Dun seemed to have never been involved in the race walk event. Not to mention participating in the competition, it seems that he had never trained.
"Director Xu, you are underestimating people now. I have practiced some racing events on weekdays. Don't worry, I will never let you down during the selection competition." Yi Dun said confidently.
The difference between the race walking event and the running event is not very big. It is both racing events. The fundamental difference is that when racing, the feet must rotate in contact with the ground and there is no stage of evacuation.
When describing people walking fast, they often use the idiom "steady as flying". When describing race athletes who walk fast, they must not use the "steady as flying", because once they "fly", they will be fouled.
Apart from this, there is no obvious difference between race walking and long-distance running events. This is why Yi Dun is so confident in race walking.
However, if you want to say the difference, there must be a difference. Otherwise, racing walking would not be an advantageous event for Chinese sports, while long-distance running is not an advantageous event for Chinese track and field.
Women's long-distance running can be considered a half-advantage event. Men's long-distance running must have nothing to do with their advantages before Yi Dun appears.
"I have always maintained confidence in you. Even if you told me today that you would participate in high jump, long jump or triple jump, I firmly believe that you can win the championship and break the world record far."
"I have lived for most of my life. I have never believed in any genius before. I only believe in sweat, but in you, I have to believe that there are really geniuses in this world and miracles." Director Xu was filled with emotion. In a short period of time, Yi Dun's growth rate had actually far exceeded his estimate.
Once upon a time, Director Xu took a fancy to Yi Dun and only saw Yi Dun's talent in the decathlon project, he felt that it was possible to train Yi Dun to become Qi Haifeng's successor.
Who would have thought that Yi Dun gave him an extremely huge surprise at that time. Later, the surprise became bigger and bigger. If nothing unexpected happens, Yi Dun will definitely create another incredible surprise in this World Championships.
"I feel a little embarrassed to praise you."
"Director Xu, continue to maintain confidence in me. At least in the next ten years, China's track and field will definitely be the world's number one, and there is no suspense. As long as I have one day, China's track and field will definitely be the strongest in the world."
Director Xu's face was flushed, "Well said, it seems that I will rest assured in the next ten years."
"However, it's not a big deal for you to be strong alone. We still have to train more reserves and strive to make China's track and field strong all the time."
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A week later, Yi Dun and a group of national race walkers appeared in the stadium, and all the leaders of the track and field center came to watch the race walk trials.
In fact, if Yi Dun had not participated in the race walk event, there would be no need for this selection match to be held at all. The main reason is that the number of national teams is only a few, and I know the strength of it.
But now Yi Dun is here, and this selection competition is very necessary. It will definitely be a good score to decide who will participate in the final.
There are a total of ten people in the national team, and the two minor events are five. If Yi Dun is included, there are 11 people in total.
Some of these people are familiar with Yi Dun. At the last World Championships, Yi Dun got along well with some of them.
For example, Wang Hao and Wang Zhen are quite impressed by Yi Dun.
"Dun Ge'er, when you last World Championships, you said you participated in the race walk event at this World Championships, but you didn't expect you to come."
"That's great. These two race gold medals are ours. Our brother Dun has made a move, so how can we not win the gold medal?"
"Now let's think about whether Brother Dun can break the world record by then."
"Is this necessary to think about it? In the next challenge, Brother Dun will definitely be able to easily break the world record."
The national team members have a good mentality, and they don’t have any negative emotions because Yi Dun, Cheng Yaojin, came out halfway.
As top athletes, they know better than anyone else that athletes speak by their strength. If they are not strong enough, they will not be qualified for the competition. That is natural.
"Because of the hasty preparations for the game, we will hold the trial competition in this stadium, and we will first come to 20 kilometers."
"Yidun, Wang Zhen, Wang Hao, Chu Yafei..., you six of you left the line!" The supervisor of the race team shouted the names of the six people and signaled the six people to leave the line.
These six people are the players who will be the next 20 kilometers of race walk. If they can get the top three, they can represent China to participate in the next World Championships.
Yi Dun was a little curious. Logically speaking, this selection match should actually be more regular, and the competition is really too simple at the moment.
The reason why the competition was not too formal was entirely Director Xu's idea.
In Director Xu's opinion, it is actually meaningless whether this competition is formal or not. If Yi Dun's performance is similar to other players and there is no obvious advantage, then Yi Dun's participation in the World Championships will have no meaning at all.
With a gap within three seconds, Director Xu is preparing to let Yi Dun give up the World Championships race walk event. After all, the physical consumption of the race walk event is still quite terrifying. Director Xu definitely does not want Yi Dun's other events to be affected.
And if Yi Dun has no obvious advantage in the competition with the national team players, it means that Yi Dun is not sure of winning the championship when he participates in the World Championships. Director Xu feels that he probably doesn't have to persuade him, and Yi Dun will give up his qualification for the competition.
So there is no need to be too formal in this game, you just need to know Yi Dun's strength roughly.
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With the whistle of the race team supervisor, six players "walked" at the starting line at the same time.
Yi Dun has practiced racing walking. Although he has not spent much effort, he is still very clear about the things he needs to pay attention to when walking racing.
A total of 20,000 meters of competition. After the first two thousand meters, the six players were already divided into two echelons, Yi Dun, Wang Zhen, Wang Hao and Chu Yafei ranked first echelon. The remaining two national team players were obviously weaker. They are likely to be unable to qualify for this selection.
Chapter completed!