In a room in the Guangzhou Asian Games Village, Randy Huntington was making a transoceanic video call.

There is also an old white man opposite the screen, but he is obviously much thinner than Randy Huntington. However, the two of them have one thing in common - they like to wear baseball caps.

"Randy, you've been in the Cold Country for a year, right? What do you think?" the old white man on the other side of the screen asked.

Randy pursed his lips: "It's not good, it's not bad...What about you, Ralph? What have you been doing recently?"

The old white man on the other side of the screen is named Ralph Vernon Mann, who is Randy Huntington's good friend.

Ralph Mann was born in 1949. He was an excellent hurdler. He set a world record in the men's 400-meter hurdles in 1970 with a time of 48.8 seconds. He is now a biomechanics expert.

In the fall of 1981, Ralph Mann, who had recently retired, participated in a meeting led by Harmon Brown, Bert Lyle and Jim Hines at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

At that time Eastern Bloc countries had dominated athletics for some time, and Dr. Brown's vision was to start a sports science program to rival those of East Germany and the Soviet Union.

In 1982, Ralph Mann began a long study of the USATF (American Track and Field Federation) sports science project and was the only "survivor".

"As you know before," said Ralph Mann, picking up a book bearing the title "The Mechanics of Spirting and Hurdling."

"I am completing this book "The Mechanics of Sprinting and Hurdling", which is my painstaking work. Every year, many athletes perform impressive results in competitions, so the data in my book also needs

Keep up with the times.”

"A very good attitude. This is an important factor in why you can become an authoritative biomechanics expert, but..."

"But what?"

Randy smiled slightly in front of the computer: "But I think you need to add another yellow athlete besides Liu Xiang to your database."

"What? What does this mean?" Ralph Mann suddenly became interested in Randy Huntington's words, "Is it China's Shi (Dongpeng)? He defeated Liu Xiang in the Asian Games? Or who from Neon?

?It doesn’t make sense, even if Liu Xiang’s injury hasn’t healed yet, they won’t be able to perform well enough for me to include them.”

Randy Huntington laughed: "Why are you so sure I'm talking about hurdles? It seems like you haven't read the news in the past two days. That's right. An athlete running 9.98 seconds is really not news in the United States, even if

He is a Chinese athlete."

"What?!" Ralph Mann was startled, "9 seconds 98? Chinese?"

"Yes, Chinese!" Randy Huntington nodded and affirmed, "But he ran under a strong tailwind of 1.7m/s, and his hard power is actually only around 10.05~10.06 seconds. This guy

It’s almost the same as the 10.06 I ran under zero wind conditions three months ago.”

"The wind speed is 1.7m/s... That's really good luck, but he must also have certain strength. After all, those Neon athletes couldn't break the 10-second mark even with wind speeds of 1.9 or even 2.0

.What’s the name of the Chinese guy you’re talking about who ran 9.98 seconds?”

Randy Huntington replied: "Wayne, the Chinese name is Wei En."

"Wayne..."

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At 17:20 pm on November 24, the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center ushered in another event that became more popular than usual because of a certain athlete - the men's long jump final.

Yang Jian: "Hello, audience friends, what you will see next is another highlight of this Asian Games - the men's long jump final. Our country's 100-meter flying man, the Asian 100-meter record holder Wei En, will be facing his own

The first Asian Games long jump gold medal launched its attack."

"First let me introduce to you the 12 contestants participating in the competition. According to the predetermined order of trial jumps, they are..."

Although the presence of Wei En made the men's long jump final more popular, CCTV originally did not plan to show many scenes for the men's long jump event. It only focused on Wei En, Su Xiongfeng and several other famous Asian athletes.

, then it switches to the competition screen of other events.

There are a total of 12 contestants in the men's long jump final. Of course, CCTV cannot keep the camera on this event all the time. It only needs to show appropriate footage when Wei En and Su Xiongfeng are doing their trial jumps.

In the first three rounds of trial jumps, Wei En and Su Xiongfeng were ranked 4th and 10th respectively.

The overall level of long jump in Asia is not high. In addition to the two of them, those who have the strength to compete for medals include Saudi Arabia's Tahir Saba, Hanguo's Kim Tokhun, and Neon's Yohei Tubei.

Tahir Saba is Asia's long jump king. He has won the men's long jump championship at the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games, and the long jump championship at the 2000, 2002 and 2003 Asian Championships.

But this is just the foundation. Fifth place at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, fourth place at the 2002 Athletics World Cup, runner-up at the 2003/2008 IAAF Annual Finals, champion at the 2008 Golden League Berlin, Oslo, and Paris...

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Tahir Saba has reached his peak since 2000. In the 10 years from 2000 to 2009, 2005 was the only year that he did not break the 8-meter mark. His personal best score was 8.35 meters, the lowest score among the top 10 was 8.23 ​​meters, and the average score among the top 10 was 8.23 ​​meters.

8.27(0.6m/s) meters.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hanguo player Jin Dexian is also a first-class star in Asia, and he already had considerable strength before Randy Huntington coached the Hanguo jumping event.

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At the 2009 World University Games in Belgrade, he won the championship with a time of 8.20 meters and set a new national record in the long jump.

Neon's Yohei Tubei jumped 8.11 meters in June and is Neon's best domestic male long jumper this year.

After the competition started, Dagmir of the Philippines, Sharma of India, and Huweledi of Saudi Arabia tried to jump one after another, but they all stopped at 7.60 meters.

It was Wei En's turn to perform his first trial jump, and CCTV's live camera also turned back.

I saw Wei En interacting with the audience in a very relaxed manner. Uniform applause rang out in the stadium. The audience in the other two stands also looked towards the long jump field or the big screen, wanting to catch a glimpse of Wei En's style.

Wei En's mentality is very relaxed today, but his goal is not just to win another gold medal.

After the men's 100-meter final two days ago, Wei En received a reward from the system. In addition to a fixed allocable attribute point, there was also news that made him very happy:

His [Backside Skill] has been upgraded from "Proficient" level to "Proficient" level!

Although [Front Side Technique] is still at the "Proficient" level, it has reached perfection. If it goes one step further, it can become "Stand Up - Mastery". After [Back Side Technique - Mastery], the third one will be upgraded to "Proficient".

level of expertise.

In the current men's long jump final of the Asian Games, the overall strength of the opponents is still far behind the world's top level. After all, Tahir Saba's form has declined this year and he has not yet been able to break the 8-meter mark.

So Wei En wants to try to challenge his new limit in long jump today!

Amidst the rhythmic applause of the audience, Wei En started.

The process of changing from being dominated by backside skills in the 100-meter race to being dominated by frontside skills in the long jump is a difficult test for Wei En.

But fortunately, he is an athlete who is very good at adjusting his own condition. He trains constantly every day to keep his competitive condition at a high level. His young body makes him tireless even though he is doing many things.

"Here it comes, Wayne's first jump! Adding up the speed of the approach and ensuring that you have enough speed when you get on the board is the key..."

"The first jump - jumped directly over 8 meters! Wei En got a good start. He showed a very good competitive state in the first trial jump. From the speed of the approach to the technical movements after taking off, he was very smooth.

....”

The referee raised the white flag at the take-off point, and Wei En bowed and waved to the stands. The audience applauded one after another. Then, in the eyes of expectant eyes, Wei En's first trial jump result came out - 8.14 meters!

Seeing this result, except for Su Xiongfeng, who jumped 8.17 meters and won the runner-up at the National Track and Field Championships, who remained calm, Tahir Saba, Jin Dexian, and Tubei Yohei all expressed their helplessness.

Because just this first trial jump of 8.14 meters has already exceeded their season's best score this year. Even for Yohei Tubei, this score has exceeded his personal best score.

Asian flying man, so scary?

The fifth person to make a trial jump was Lin Jingxuan of the Wanwan team. He also participated in the World Youth Championships in Moncton in July this year. At that time, he stopped in the last three rounds of the final with a score of 7.43 meters, ranking 8th overall.

Perhaps it was because Wei En's jump of 8.14 meters put him under great pressure, which caused him to directly make a pedal error on his first jump. And from visual inspection, even if he did not make a mistake, there was a high probability that he would not make a mistake in this jump.

More than 7.3 meters.

Tahir Saba appeared in sixth place. He had passed his 31st birthday 10 days ago and was no longer at his peak. He only jumped 7.73 meters in his first trial jump, but he was temporarily ranked second.

Then came Jin Dexian, a player from the Han Kingdom. He was born in 1985 and is now at his peak. Under the guidance of Randy Huntington, he has stabilized his strength. He also jumped 8 meters in the first jump and won the championship with a score of 8.05 meters.

Applause from the audience.

After that, Su Xiongfeng, who was ranked 10th, and Yohei Tubei, who was ranked 12th, jumped out of 7.86 and 7.85 respectively, temporarily ranking third and fourth.

The second round and the third round continued. Wei En's second attempt to jump on the pedal was slightly over 2 centimeters and was invalid. His third jump improved his score to 8.18 meters, far ahead.

After Wei En, the 2 to 6 are:

Jin Dexian, Hanguo, 8.08 meters;

Su Xiongfeng, China, 8.05 meters;

Tahir Saba, Saudi Arabia, 7.91 meters,

Tubei Yohei, Neon, 7.83 meters,

Maha Singh (India), 7.79 meters.

At this point, the first three rounds of the men's long jump finals have ended. Places 1 to 6 will get three more trial jump opportunities. After skipping these three trials, the best results in all six rounds will be used for ranking.

In the fourth round of trial jumps, the contestants were all making a new round of attempts, but none of them broke through the previous results.

Except for Mahar Singh, the few players present were all famous players from various countries who had tested themselves on the field. After understanding that Wei En was invincible, they all set their goals to compete for the silver medal.

In the fifth round of trial jumps, the contestants will appear in reverse order according to their results in the first three rounds. Maha Singh and Yohei Tubei made a mistake and performed poorly.

Tahir Saba jumped 8.06 (-0.2m/s) meters and finally broke the 8-meter mark in the last game of the season!

It was the turn of Su Xiongfeng, who was currently ranked third. He knew that he had no hope of winning the gold, but he thought that he would be like Lao Yi and occupy the first and second place together with Wei En.

Su Xiongfeng was a little unlucky. He encountered a wind speed of -0.6m/s, but he performed very well and jumped out to a good result of 8.15 meters, temporarily suppressing Jin Dexian's 8.11 meters.

This chapter is not over, please click the next page to continue reading! It was Jin Dexian’s turn to play in the penultimate position. After his fourth trial jump, he had a long conversation with Randy Huntington on the sidelines.

communication for a period of time.
To be continued...