It has been a month since Su Feng and Bolt were injured, during which the 100-meter race at the Eugene Station in the United States was held as scheduled.
However, without Su Feng and Su Feng, the excitement of the game was greatly reduced, and it ended with Gatlin winning the championship with a time of 9.88 seconds.
Then we arrived in Oslo, Norway, where the Diamond League still has the men's 100 event.
The biggest names among the participating athletes are Gatlin, Powell, Leonard, and Walter Disco, but it is worth mentioning that Zhang Peimeng was also invited to participate in this competition.
The competition started soon. There was still some gap between Zhang Peimeng and Gatlin and Powell, but the gap with Leonard and Walter Disco was very small. In the end, he finished sixth with a time of 9.94 seconds, which can be said to be pretty good.
"How's it going? It just looks uncomfortable, right?" Jiang Yun poured a glass of water for Su Feng and then sat on the chair next to him and asked.
Although he is not a professional athlete, he has naturally figured out some of their thoughts after spending so long with athletes like Su Feng.
Especially for a top athlete like Su Feng, it must be uncomfortable to watch others slaughter everyone on the field. He obviously has the ability to beat them but can only watch.
"It's okay." Su Feng replied casually.
He is now recovering well from his injury and can already put his feet on the ground, but he has not yet been allowed to resume training.
It seemed that the leaders and coaches of the General Administration had made up their minds not to let him participate in the World Championships. Although he felt that these people were making a fuss, he could still understand their thoughts.
"I would rather let myself cultivate for a while than let myself take a little risk."
On the one hand, their leaders often follow the rule of life that they would rather not do something than do something wrong.
On the other hand, they are too important to them and they don't want to take risks.
Su Feng shook his head and stopped thinking about this.
Half a month later, after consultation with several experts, Su Feng received permission to start light training.
Another month passed, and Su Feng's training intensity had reached 80% of normal training, but it was still incomparable to this winter training period.
The time has come to the beginning of August. On this day, the world athletics world received a piece of gratifying news. Bolt has confirmed his comeback at the World Championships and will participate in the men's 100 meters, 200 meters and relay competitions.
A few days later, the General Administration of Sports of China also held a press conference. It was stated at the meeting that Su Feng's recovery was very good, but due to the risk of injury again, Su Feng would be absent from this World Championships.
These two press conferences, one after the other, shocked most of the media in the world.
The first focus is that Bolt can play in the World Championships, but Su Feng will miss the World Championships!
In the eyes of most people, this means that the World Championship champion has once again lost all suspense, and it must be Bolt.
All other 100-meter and 200-meter athletes who wanted to win the world championships had no chance.
This is very different from the situation in the Diamond League where the heroes competed for hegemony in the past two months.
In fact, people are full of contradictions. When there are no Su Feng and Bolt, people may feel that the most exciting part of the game is missing. But when someone appears, they feel that the previous game without them is more suspenseful.
Of course, there is no solution, that is, Su Feng and Bolt appear at the same time, the two kings lead the way, and the heroes compete for hegemony. That is the golden age of track and field that truly belongs to track and field fans.
Secondly, there are conspiracy theories or bad speculations that some people have made.
Some media and netizens feel that Su Feng's injury may not be as optimistic as expected. Otherwise, why isn't he coming out to compete now?
This is also a major mainstream of public opinion. Although the official website of the Sports Bureau has provided an explanation, not many people believe the truth. Instead, people believe more in various bad speculations.
In this way, amid the turmoil of public opinion, the time came to August 27, 2011, the opening day of the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
Although Su Feng did not sign up for the competition this time, he still followed the Chinese team to Daegu.
"I said Su Feng, you really won't participate in the competition this time. I think you are recovering well."
On the evening of August 27, after attending the opening ceremony, the athletes checked into the hotel arranged by the organizing committee.
Liu Yuxiang only arrived this afternoon, and the two of them had time to talk now.
Although Su Feng has not participated in the competition in the past few months, Liu Yuxiang's competition has not stopped. He has been flying around the world. The two have only now had time to get together.
"I'm not participating. I'm here to cheer you on this time. Especially you. If I can't get on the court, the gold medal will be on you. Robles is so menacing that it's hard to deal with it."
Unlike the previous World Championships in Daegu, Liu Yuxiang was not troubled by injuries this time. The duel with Robles was also going on, but most of the attention was taken away by the competition between Su Feng and Bolt.
, but the two are still the track and field double stars in the 110-meter hurdles.
In the past few years, the two have won and lost duels. Overall, although Liu Yuxiang is still more powerful, he can't say that he can definitely beat Robles.
Su Feng cannot compete in the World Championships this time. Given the relatively weak position of the Chinese team in track and field, Liu Yuxiang's gold medal is even more important.
"I'm going, I'm here to persuade you, you are putting pressure on me." Liu Yuxiang said angrily, that is, the two of them are relatively familiar, so Su Feng dared to say such things.
At this time, even the coach knows to subtract rather than add to the pressure on the athletes, and Su Feng is good at it.
"But what you said is exactly what I want. If you were here, I could relax a little. Now that you are gone, I will still get the gold medal."
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On August 28, the men's 100-meter preliminaries of the Daegu World Championships officially started at 10:05 in the morning.
A total of 56 athletes participated in the men's 100 meters this time.
The competition is divided into three rounds. There are seven groups in the preliminaries, with eight people in each group. The top two will advance to the semi-finals, and the remaining two places will be won by the two remaining athletes with the best results.
The Chinese team, even without Su Feng participating, still obtained three A-level quotas for the World Championships.
They are Zhang Peimeng, Su Bingtian and Chen Zhilong.
However, due to Su Feng's absence, the Chinese team has little hope of winning a medal. After all, even the fastest runner Zhang Peimeng's time was only around 9.95 seconds.
Among the athletes participating in the World Championships, there are five athletes whose best time is in the 9.8 seconds range. As long as Zhang Peimeng can reach the final, he will be considered a victory.
As for Su Bingtian and Chen Zhilong, their situations are also different.
Chen Zhilong can be said to be able to fight one step at a time, and the possibility of entering the finals is not high.
However, Su Bingtian's current best time is 10.05 seconds, so the possibility of entering the finals still exists.