Chapter 409: First in the Medal List
After Liu Xiang returned, Yi Dun and others gathered together and sighed, feeling sorry for Liu Xiang.
"Brother Dun, you said when will you get involved in the field of sprinting?"
"If you can get involved in the sprint field, the US team's dominance in track and field events will definitely be over."
"That is, without the gold medals in sprint events, the US team's gold medals in track and field events may not necessarily be as many as Russians."
Several national team members complained to Yi Dun.
Yi Dun scratched his head. He didn't want to get involved in the field of sprinting, but even a fool knew that sprinting was definitely not his strength.
I also want to steal all the gold medals of the US team's sprint, but at present, there is almost no possibility, unless the third attribute is speed, so I have the chance to grab those gold medals of the US team.
The United States' strength in track and field events is not just strong in long-distance running events like East African countries. They are strong in every event.
A World Championship can generate 141 medals, and the United States can probably take about one-third of them!
By doing this, they can get a medal in each event on average.
Why do Americans have such strong track and field? To a large extent, the United States is an immigrant country with all kinds of races in China, and many powerful foreign players have also become American nationality and compete on behalf of the American team.
In this case, it is difficult for American track and field athletics to be strong.
However, even if the overall strength is strong, it is definitely a focus. American players have won many medals in sprinting and jumping events. Many of the world-renowned sprinting celebrities and high jumping and long jumping celebrities are from the United States.
If Yi Dun can really monopolize all gold medals in the sprint event, it will undoubtedly be a considerable blow to American track and field.
Now, it is difficult for the US team to rank first in the medal list because of Yi Dun. If the sprint event is also monopolized by Yi Dun, they may really lose to Russia on the medal list.
However, this kind of thing can only be a fantasy at the moment. Yi Dun does not have the ability to complete this fantasy yet.
After the first three competition days, Yi Dun won four gold medals, which is definitely the athlete with the largest number of gold medals so far in this World Championships, and has also made the Chinese track and field team ranked first in the medal list.
On the next fourth match day, Yi Dun's schedule was extremely comfortable, with only one men's 800-meter final that day.
However, in addition to the gold-winning point in the 800-meter final, there was also a men's discus final on that day...
Although Yi Dun did not participate in the men's discus final, he had a close relationship with Yi Dun. He is now waiting for the beginning and end of the discus final so that he can win another gold medal.
It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening, and the men's discus final was as scheduled. After the contestants entered the field, their expressions were a bit strange.
The main reason is that this discus gold medal has a next home, and these players are more like foils to highlight Yi Dun's strength.
In previous track and field events, although the discus gold medal was also Yi Dun, the decathlon event was the last event at that time. After the discus players won the gold medal, they still had some fantasies in their hearts, such as Yi Dun's performance in the discus event in the decathlon was not good, so that he would not have to hand over the gold medal.
As a result, in this Daegu World Championships in South Korea, I didn’t know what to do and had to put the decathlon in front, which led to the fact that these discus players did not participate in the competition, and they knew that they had absolutely no chance of winning gold.
Yi Dun's men's 800-meter final was held at 9:30 pm, and he is not in a hurry to enter the court now. Now he is interested in watching the discus final with his national teammates.
I really enjoy watching it. Yi Dun is watching which kind-hearted person is helping him compete for the gold medal...
"Sister Li, Brother Dun, we have won all the two discus gold medals in this World Championships. Can we say that China is the overlord of the world discus?" A young player asked excitedly.
There were only two gold medals in the discus, but they were all won by the Chinese team. It was said that it was the dominant country in the discus project, so there was definitely nothing wrong with it.
"I really envy Brother Dun. You don't have to play games. You can see the gold medal when you sit here and watch the game..."
"I don't know if this happened in sports history. Anyway, there have been so many incredible things happening to Brother Dun, and I'm used to it."
Just as everyone was chatting, German player Robert Harding finally won the "gold medal" with a score of 68.49 meters, or to be precise, he won a silver medal.
I don't know if this Harding is unlucky or lucky.
However, after watching the game, Harding's excited look may have regarded himself as a lucky person...
The player Harding is actually very interesting. His nickname is Hulk. It is not that he was green, but that he often tore his clothes apart after the game like when the Hulk transformed.
At the end of this discus final, Harding tore his sportswear apart and revealed his furry chest...
"Okay, the competition is over, and the 800-meter finals on my side are about to begin, so I'll leave first." Yi Dun stood up and said goodbye to everyone.
I also got the gold medal in the discus, so it's time to participate in the 800-meter final.
In the previous two competition days, Yi Dun participated in a total of fifteen events, but he didn’t see that he won too many gold medals. As a result, he only participated in one 800-meter final today and could win two gold medals directly...
There have been countless strange things happening to Yi Dun. At present, such strange things may only happen to Yi Dun.
Yi Dun's 800-meter final went quite smoothly. If Yi Dun included, there were eight players in total, most of them were East African players.
Among the eight were two Kenyan players, two Ethiopian players, one Sudan player, one left three, one Russian player, one American player and Yi Dun.
American player Simmonds' strength is not enough. Not to mention compared with Yi Dun, even Russian player Yuri is better than him.
As a result, Yi Dun crushed the second Kenyan player with an absolute advantage of 1 minute 40 seconds 22 for more than three seconds and won the sixth gold medal in this World Championships.
At the end of the first four days, the Chinese track and field team won a total of 7 gold and 2 silver medals. Judging from this momentum, the Chinese team's results may be even better than the last Berlin World Championships.
On the fifth day of the competition, there was only one event, the women's 20-kilometer race walk, which was also the gold-winning point for the Chinese team.
On this day, all the national team members came to the competition site to cheer for the Chinese female race walkers, especially Liu Hong, the leader in Chinese women's race walkers, who received the most attention.
After more than an hour-long competition, Yi Dun and others finally had a result of expectations. Liu Hong really won the championship. She won the gold medal for the women's 20-kilometer race with a total score of 1 hour and 30 minutes.
This also makes the 20-kilometer race walking event a real fist event in China's track and field.
The man won one gold and one silver for the 20-kilometer race, while the woman got one gold. This dominance is no less than the dominance of East African athletes in long-distance running.
However, Liu Hong's gold medal was actually very thrilling. The second-ranked Italian player was only half a position behind Liu Hong. The final result was only 0.23 seconds less than Liu Hong, which made Yi Dun and others nervous.
If you are behind by 0.23 seconds in the 100-meter race, it will undoubtedly be a big gap. However, if you are behind by 0.23 seconds in the 20-kilometer race, it is basically no difference. Liu Hong can win the championship, which is really thrilling enough. I guess the Italian player is also very upset.
Halfway through the World Championships, the Chinese team has already won 8 gold medals, and Director Xu and others are really happy.
On the sixth day of the competition, Yi Dun's schedule was relatively easy, with only two events, namely the men's 5,000-meter preliminary race and the three-kilometer obstacle course final.
Yi Dun won the championship of the 3,000-meter obstacle course without any suspense, but Gong Lijiao performed poorly in the women's shot put final today.
Logically speaking, Gong Lijiao actually has a great chance to win the championship, but in recent years, she has never won the championship in the World Competitions she participated in.
In this women's shot put final, Gong Lijiao only won one bronze medal. Although his results were good, Gong Lijiao himself was definitely not satisfied.
As a player who debuted at about the same time as Yi Dun, Yi Dun is now a god-like existence in shot put, and Gong Lijiao still does not have a gold medal with high gold content.
Yi Dun remembers it very clearly that at the end of the last World Championships, he comforted Gong Lijiao, and Gong Lijiao failed to win the gold medal in that World Championships.
With the end of the sixth day schedule, Yi Dun's personal gold medal count rose to seven.
On the next seventh day of the match, Yi Dun won another shot put gold medal, and the number of individual gold medals reached eight.
In the first two days of the World Championships, Yi Dun's schedule was extremely dense, and Yi Dun became much more relaxed in the next few days. However, with the end of the seventh day schedule, Yi Dun will be busy again.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on September 3, Yidun welcomed the most cruel competition among all track and field events, namely the men's 50-kilometer race walk.
The cruelty of this event is self-evident. Whether it is the time-consuming competition or the physical challenge to athletes, it can be said to be the best track and field.
Yi Dun felt that the schedule of the previous few days was relatively easy. If the 50-kilometer race walk was ranked third, he might be a little overwhelmed.
Both Wang Zhen and Chu Yafei specialize in 20 kilometers of race walking, so they did not participate in the 50 kilometers of race walking. This time Yi Dun will participate with two other Chinese athletes.
One of the contestants is from Inner Mongolia and has a very interesting name, named Xu Faguang...
During the Berlin World Championships, Xu Faguang also participated in the 50-kilometer race walk event, but his results were not particularly outstanding at the time and he only won the eleventh place.
Two years have passed, and Xu Faguang's strength has improved significantly. This time he may be able to achieve good results.
Another player is named Si Tianfeng, who is Yi Dun's fellow Shandong. His strength is quite good, slightly stronger than Xu Faguang. In the previous selection competition, Yi Dun ranked first and Si Tianfeng ranked second.
As a result, the game started at 8 o'clock in the morning was even more than noon.
Yi Dun won the championship with a time of 3 hours, 27 minutes and 29 seconds. Think about it, it took three and a half hours to complete the schedule, and how long it took for other players to compete.
What is surprising is that Si Tianfeng's score is also quite gratifying. He won a bronze medal in 3 hours, 45 minutes and 21 seconds. Although Xu Faguang failed to win the medal, the seventh place score was also a personal breakthrough. For a young player like him, as long as he can make a breakthrough, he will achieve sooner or later.
After the game, Yi Dun was also exhausted, but today he had no competition. There were two games for his gold point competition in the evening, one was the Javelin final and the other was the men's 1500m final. However, Yi Dun did not have to participate in these two games.
At 8:40 pm, with the end of the men's 1500m final, Yi Dun won three gold medals again on this eighth match day.
Since then, Yi Dun's personal gold medal count has reached a terrifying 11 yuan!
This is definitely a miracle in the history of human sports. It would be fine if this competition is a low-value event. The key is that it is one of the highest-standard competitions in the World Championships, and the stage that countless track and field athletes dream of. Not to mention winning gold or cards at this World Championships, even if you get a qualification, it is already an unattainable dream for most track and field athletes.
As a result, Yi Dun had already exceeded ten gold medals in a competition of this level before the schedule was over!
With Yi Dun's gold medal number reaching 11, the Chinese track and field team has also achieved an impressive record of 13 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze.
With such a result alone, the Chinese team is now 100% able to win the first place in the medal list, and the US team is no longer able to catch up with the Chinese team.
There are certainly places where regrets are there.
Chapter completed!