On the morning of August 6, in the semi-finals of the 110-meter hurdles at the Berlin Olympics, Chen Qiang happened to be in the same group as world record holder Forrest Downs.

In yesterday's 110m preliminary round, Chen Qiang performed not well in order to save energy, and in today's semi-final, Chen Qiang also had no need to steal the limelight. After all, the afternoon final is the highlight.

But Forrest Downs was excited to compete with Chen Qiang.

Unfortunately, Chen Qiang did not give him this opportunity. After starting, Chen Qiang was always behind Forrest Towns and had no intention of surpassing him.

The semi-finals are the top three in the group to advance, and it is enough for Chen Qiang to stabilize the second place.

In this semi-final, Forrest Towns ran 14 seconds, drawing the world record he held, but Chen Qiang knew that Forrest Towns did not do his best.

Chen Qiang ran for 14 seconds and 5 seconds. Although he was second in the group, he was 0.4 seconds slower than Forrest Downs. Judging from the results, the difference between the two was more than one level.

Chen Qiang rushed through the finish line and was about to prepare for the triple jump, but was stopped by Forrest Downs.

"Mr. Chen, you must have not tried your best yet, right?" Forrest Downs asked.

Chen Qiang did not hide it, but nodded: "I can still get faster. But this is just a semi-final after all, just advance. And next, I will participate in the triple jump competition."

"It turns out! I knew that you couldn't just be of this speed. Jesse Owens wouldn't run only 14 seconds 5 when he ran 110 meters hurdles. You were faster than Jesse and were proficient in high jumps. You should be more suitable for 110 meters hurdles. Your results must be better for normal." Forrest Downs said.

"I think you have reservations, right?" Chen Qiang asked with a smile.

Forrest Downs showed a surprised expression on his face, and then he asked, "Why do you think so? I ran for 14 seconds just now, which is a world record! How could you think that such a result is still reserved?"

"Intuition! I can feel that 14 seconds 1 is still very relaxing for you." Chen Qiang replied.

Forrest Downs was silent for a few seconds, and then he answered, "Okay, I admit I didn't do my best, so in the afternoon final, I hope you can compete with me with all your strength."

"That's natural. In the finals, of course I will do my best. I don't want to lose a gold medal." Chen Qiang said.

"If possible, I really hope you can beat me and me." Forrest Downs lowered his voice and continued: "Actually, I haven't lost for a long time. I'm not bragging on purpose. I've never lost any game in the past year. This has bothered me!"

"Aren't you happy to win the game? Why do you feel distressed?" Chen Qiang continued.

"Because there is no passion!" Forrest Downs continued: "When I just started practicing the 110-meter hurdles, I thought this sport was very interesting. Whether it was competition or training, I was full of passion, especially when my grades continued to improve and defeated each opponent, the more I felt that this sport was meaningless."

"Win too much, numb?" Chen Qiang asked with a smile.

"Maybe, in the United States, no one can beat me, so I came to Europe to participate in the Olympics. I hope I can find someone who beat me here and can help me regain my love for hurdling. However, the top hurdling athletes in Europe disappointed me. They are not as powerful as I thought." Forrest Downs said.

"Maybe I'm not that powerful either." Chen Qiang said.

"But you are the world's number one athlete. You can always reach the world record in the events you have participated in, so I think if anyone in the finals can beat me, then you will be the one who will be the one who will be there." Forrest Downs said.

Chen Qiang thought for a while and asked, "What if I can't defeat you?"

"Then I'll play football," Forrest Downs continued: "If I lose my love for hurdling, there's no need to continue!"

Forrest Downs' expression was very sincere. Chen Qiang could feel that he was not pretending to be hypocritical, that he was talking about the truth.

It is indeed a very distressing thing for an athlete to gradually lose his love for the sport and lose his passion for the competition because he is so powerful.

If it is placed in later generations, this is definitely an incredible thing. As a world record holder, if you want to give up, even if the athletes themselves are willing, the sponsors will not. What is the rapid retreat or the golden basin washing hands at the peak, it will not exist in 2019. There are too many people in the world who rely on him to make a living, and those people want to squeeze out his last bit of value. Not to mention changing careers or retiring, even if they are paralyzed, many people will still consume him!

Chen Qiang suddenly remembered the first retirement of Jordan. During the retirement press conference, Jordan once said: "I have reached the peak of basketball. There is nothing in this field that can arouse my enthusiasm." Although many people questioned Jordan, they listed many so-called "real reasons" for Jordan's retirement.

Chen Qiang didn't know why Jordan retired at his peak, but Chen Qiang knew about it, but those who questioned may not even have touched the NBA championship trophy, so how could he know how he felt at the peak of basketball!

Chen Qiang now understands this feeling, because he is also the one who stands at the top.

Since the Los Angeles Olympics, Chen Qiang has been invincible, especially in domestic competitions, where his opponents are relatively low in strength, and Chen Qiang won very easily, so the joy of victory he felt has become increasingly weak.

Fortunately, Chen Qiang has always had a goal in his heart, which is to kick the title of "Sick Man in East Asia" for the Chinese, which also inspired him to train hard day after day and work hard in this troubled times. If he had no such goal, Chen Qiang might have lost his love for sports, and then rely on his past achievements to find a tolerance in Nanjing and live a life of death. It is also very nourishing.

"Maybe this is the coldest place!" Thinking of this, Chen Qiang suddenly felt a little sympathetic to Forrest Towns, so Chen Qiang smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Towns, you just said that you haven't lost the game for more than a year, right?"

Forrest Downs nodded.

Chen Qiang smiled even more, and he continued, "Maybe you will have a failure this afternoon because I haven't lost the game in six years."

Forrest Downs was slightly stunned. He did not feel provocation or ridicule from Chen Qiang's tone. Chen Qiang's words were more like a friendly joke.

The next second, Forrest Downs suddenly realized that Chen Qiang was telling himself that he would do his best in the afternoon final!

Forrest Downs had the same smile on his face: "Okay, we will compete again in the afternoon final! If I win, I will treat you to the best beer in Berlin!"

...

After the 110-meter hurdles, Chen Qiang went to the long jump sand pool and prepared to participate in the preliminaries of the triple-level long jump.

There were 31 players participating in the triple-level long jump competition in the Berlin Olympics, so a preliminary round was held to eliminate some players.

The threshold for the preliminary round is 14 meters. As long as you can skip 14 meters, you can advance to the afternoon final.

The 14-meter promotion standard is calculated based on the results of the athletes in the previous Olympic Games. At the Los Angeles Olympics, only 12 athletes, including Chen Qiang, jumped out of the score of more than 14 meters, so the organizers of the Berlin Olympics determined the results of the promotion to the finals to 14 meters. They estimated that among the 31 athletes, at most half of the athletes can jump over 14 meters.

However, the organizers of this session underestimated the athletes' level and also underestimated the progress of the players over the past four years. Among the 31 participating players, 25 people actually skipped 14 meters!

There are a lot of 25 people participating in the finals, but since the rules have been formulated, they must not be changed, so the organizer can only allow all 25 people to participate in the finals. The organizer must be very regretful at this time. He should have increased the promotion score by 20 to 30 cm, which will definitely reduce the number of finals to less than 20 people.

For Chen Qiang, 14 meters is not at all difficult. Even if it is practiced normally, Chen Qiang will jump farther than this, so he just went up and performed a test jump. After skipping the 14 meters promotion line, he did not perform the next two test jumps.

Several other capable players, such as world record holder Jack Metcalf, Japanese players Naoto Tashima, Masao Harada and Kenichi Oshima, also succeeded in one trial jump, and then chose to leave the game without continuing the next two trial jumps.

It is worth mentioning that Chinese contestant Wang Shilin also entered the finals.

In history, Wang Shilin was the holder of the national record of triple jump during the Republic of China. He once scored 14.36 meters in the 1936 Olympic Trials. In other words, he had already advanced to the Olympic finals, but when it was time to compete, he performed poorly and failed to actively participate in the finals.

Now due to Chen Qiang's arrival, Wang Shilin has also learned the skills of standing up and taking off from Chen Qiang. His strength has been greatly improved, and he can jump 14 meters more easily, so he has advanced to the final of the triple-level long jump.

...

In the 110-meter hurdles final next week, the six players are two Americans, two British, one Swedish and Chen Qiang. The German athlete did not advance to the final. However, there were no black athletes in the 110-meter hurdles, so there was no scattered booing around.

In the 1930s, the 110-meter hurdles project was still the world of white people!

For Chen Qiang, there is only one real opponent, that is, the world record holder of the 110-meter hurdles, American player Forrest Downs.

The six contestants stood on the starting line and had no communication with each other, and the atmosphere seemed very tense. The audience seemed to be infected by this atmosphere, and people stared at the athletes and looked forward to the start of the competition.

In the 110-meter hurdles event, Forrest Downs has absolute strength. His record of 14.1 seconds six times a year is unrivaled. Neither the British nor the Swedes are his opponent, so in everyone's eyes, Forrest Downs' winning of the championship is almost without suspense.

The only variable is Chen Qiang!

Although this is Chen Qiang's first time participating in the 110-meter hurdle event in an international competition, considering Chen Qiang's level in sprint, high jump and long jump events, his 110-meter hurdle is definitely the world's top. In addition, Chen Qiang has created many miracles, so many viewers on the scene are looking forward to Chen Qiang's ability to defeat Forrest Downs.

This time, Forrest Downs was in the second lane, while Chen Qiang was in the fifth lane. The two were far apart and would not affect each other. Even if someone tripped over a hurdle, they would not fall out of the two tracks.

Finally, all six players were ready. After a gunshot, they rushed out of the starting line almost at the same time.

Chen Qiang still uses the eight-step technique to go up the column.

Chen Qiang also tried to practice the skills of going up the bar in seven steps, but he still couldn't master it in the end.

The upper bar of eight steps is changed to seven steps, so the advantage is naturally very obvious, because you can run one less step.

Taking Liu Xiang as an example, he ran a total of 41 steps in the 110-meter hurdle. If the grade is 13 seconds, the average time for each step will exceed 0.3 seconds, which means that he will save at least 0.3 seconds if he runs less. Considering that the starting frequency is higher than the step frequency between the bars, and changing to 7 steps to the length of each step will increase by about 0.245 meters after the technology is successfully transformed, it will take more time to improve the grade by 0.2 seconds. For 110-meter hurdles, 0.2 seconds is really important, which is why Liu Xiang has to change eight steps to seven steps while being injured.

But this technology is really too difficult. Even in later generations, there are not many athletes who can master this technology, and Chen Qiang's physical fitness will not be able to learn it even more.

The athlete who found out that the seven-step rushing was Finnish player Brugarre. He was a big man with a height of 2.04 meters and was born with long legs, so he could control the seven-meter rushing technique. If he was asked to use eight meters to go up the railing, he would be a little frustrated.

But now Chen Qiang has barely grown to 1.83 meters. Without long legs like Brugarre, he naturally cannot use the seven-step bar.

Chen Qiang used the eight-step layup technique, and Forrest Downs also used the eight-step top bar. However, Chen Qiang could see that Forrest Downs was not professionally trained, but was more like a starting habit. In other words, Forrest Downs found the eight-step top bar technique in the practice of practice over time, and then naturally converted it into a technique.

Moreover, Forrest Downs' eight-step speed on the rail was almost the same as Chen Qiang, which also surprised Chen Qiang. A technology that was not trained and formed purely by physical instinct can be compared with the trained technology. Forrest Downs is worthy of being a super genius of 110-meter hurdles.

The two crossed the first high bay almost at the same time, and then the second bay was equal, and then the third bay was based on the two of them going hand in hand.

Forrest Downs' hurdling technology has entered the speed stage, so in the first three bars, he is comparable to Chen Qiang.

However, at the beginning of the fourth column, Chen Qiang finally started to exert force, because after passing through the first three columns, Chen Qiang had adjusted his hurdle rhythm.

Hurdle movement only entered the tempo-based technology stage from the speed-based technology stage in the 1960s. At this time, athletes paid more attention to the rhythm and movement of the hurdle, and better combined running and exaggerated technology, which also made hurdle movement a great development.

So after the third column, Chen Qiang had entered his own rhythm, and for Forrest Downs in the 1930s, he did not have this concept. This is equivalent to being a technically ahead of the era.

But rhythm technology is not Chen Qiang's real "killer weapon". Facing a talented athlete like Forrest Downs, Chen Qiang does not expect a rhythm technology to defeat the other party. After all, they are top athletes. If a small universe explodes, it will be like a cheat. Technology that leads an era may not necessarily win them.

Chen Qiang's ultimate weapon in the 110-meter hurdle project is the downward pressure speed of the swing legs and the lifting speed of the cross leg.

Swing the legs down and lift the legs up are the core technologies in hurdle movements. In hurdle movements, when swing the legs on the ground, the support method is different from flat running. When running flat, the legs on the ground support has a process of bent legs. When bending the legs, the resistance of the forward kick can be buffered through the knee and ankle joints.

However, during the hurdling exercise, in order to increase the center of gravity of the body and swing the legs during the entire support process of swinging the legs, the legs are almost straightened. Without the bent legs, the cushioning effect of the knee joint is gone, leaving only the cushioning of the ankle joint, and the impact force on the ground is greater. Hurdling athletes' ankle and Achilles tendons are easily injured, which is also because of this.

At this stage, if you increase the speed of pressing down the swing legs and increase the speed of lifting the legs, it will inevitably cause the swing legs to land earlier and the cross-legged legs to advance earlier, and the speed of passing through the rail will be increased.

The reason why Chen Qiang used this technology is because this is one of the technical characteristics of Liu Xiang in the future. The speed of passing through the bar is not only fast, but also has a small speed loss.

When China was in a hurry to hurdling in later generations, Chen Qiang had specialized in studying Liu Xiang's hurdling technology. He was naturally very clear about Liu Xiang's technical characteristics. He also knew that this technology was more suitable for yellow people, so he learned this technology.

The technology copied from Liu Xiang is Chen Qiang’s real magic weapon for winning in the 110-meter hurdle project!

As for the effectiveness of this technology, Liu Xiang can break the world record, which is enough to explain everything...
Chapter completed!