Berlin Olympic Stadium.

Several Japanese appeared at the entrance and exit of the athlete passage. In addition to the Japanese team's coaching staff, there were three athletes dressed up, namely Naoto Tashima, Masao Harada and Kenichi Oshima. They were athletes sent by the Japanese team to participate in the triple jump event, and all three of them advanced to the final of the triple jump.

Before World War II, Japan was always the leader in the triple-level long jump event. Even Americans were not as strong as Japanese in the triple-level long jump event. In history, the Japanese won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the triple-level long jump event and maintained a world record of triple-level long jump for more than ten years, which is enough to prove their strength.

However, Chen Qiang's emergence changed all this. At least four years ago, it gave the Japanese team a tragic failure. When Tadhipei of the South had already broken the world record, he had a final victory. He took away the gold medal of the triple-level long jump from the Japanese.

Perhaps it was stimulated by Chen Qiang, in the past four years, Japanese long jump athletes have also slept on firewood and trained hard every day, with the goal of regaining the Olympic gold medal in the triple-level long jump from Chen Qiang.

Now, the Japanese team has finally waited for the moment of revenge. At the Berlin Olympics, they want to avenge their previous shame!

At this time, the Japanese team had already learned that Chen Qiang won the 110-meter hurdles and broke the world record.

"Chen Qiang just broke the world record of 110 meters hurdles, which shows that he is in very good shape today." The head coach of the Japanese team said with a little sad face.

"Yes, Chen Qiang, who is in great shape, may have an amazing performance in the next triple jump competition!" Ken Oshima said, as he seemed to remember the scene four years ago.

At the Los Angeles Olympics four years ago, Kenichi Oshima also participated in the triple-level long jump and witnessed Chen Qiang defeating Tadaehiro Nanbu in the last jump and taking away the gold medal that should have belonged to the Japanese team. That game also caused a serious psychological shadow on Kenichi Oshima. Every time he saw Chen Qiang, he felt lingering fear.

"Senior Ojima, I think you're over-concerned. Chen Qiang might be very good four years ago, but in the past four years, our Japanese athletes have also made great progress! Besides, Chen Qiang is no longer the world record holder. The current world record holder is the Australian Jack Metcalf. I think our main goal should not be to Chen Qiang, but to pay more attention to Australians!" Masao Harada said.

"Harada-kun, you have never participated in the Olympics four years ago. I don't know how powerful Chen Qiang is!" Naoto Tashima next to him spoke.

Among the three Japanese players, only Masao Harada has not participated in the Los Angeles Olympics four years ago. Naoto Tashima participated in the long jump competition at the Los Angeles Olympics. At the Berlin Olympics, Naoto Tashima participated in the long jump and triple jump events at the same time. In the previous long jump competition, Naoto Tashima had lost to Chen Qiang once.

But Masao Harada smiled and said, "What, Tajima-kun? Are you scared?"

Masao Harada and Naoto Naoto are the same age, and they are both students of Kyoto Imperial University. They train together on weekdays, so they are familiar with each other, and it is even more common to joke.

Naoto Tashima looked serious: "Harada, don't underestimate your opponent, let alone Chen Qiang! That's the strongest athlete in the world!"

At the same time, in the other direction, someone was staring at Chen Qiang, who was the world record holder of the triple jump, Jack Metcalf.

"Chen Qiang!" Jack Metcalf looked at the exit of the athlete's passage again and saw that the Japanese team had appeared there.

"There are also Japanese!" Jack Metcalf clenched his fists.

"For the past ten years, the triple-level long jump has been monopolized by yellow people. It is time to break this situation!" At this time, Jike Metcalf couldn't wait to make the game as soon as possible.

...

Three German players advanced to the final of the triple-level long jump, so the audience also showed great interest in this game.

However, the German players' three-level long jump strength is relatively average. The strongest one can just skip 15 meters, while the other two cannot even jump 15 meters. With such a result, it is difficult to hit the medal.

The strength of other European and American players is similar. Even American players, the largest track and field country, have just skipped the level of 15 meters. Most of the best results of players in other European countries are more than 14 meters. For traditional European countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain, no athlete even enters the final of the triple-level long jump.

Therefore, in addition to world record holders Jack Metcalf and Chen Qiang, the gold medal contenders of the triple jump are three Japanese athletes.

The triple-level long jump is Chen Qiang’s last event at the Berlin Olympics. Chen Qiang naturally has to do his best to present a perfect ending for his Berlin Olympics.

The rules of the triple-level long jump final are the same as those in the long jump final. Each person has three jumps. After the first three jumps, the top six are in the next three jumps. However, since 25 players enter the finals, the first three jumps are very slow. If you jump down in one round, you have to wait for forty or fifty minutes.

For athletes who are crazy, this kind of waiting is not a good thing. The body will cool down due to waiting, and the good state will also disappear due to waiting. Just imagine that the two jumps are forty-five minutes apart. No matter how crazy people are, they should calm down. This is not a first prize in the lottery, and it is impossible to have fun for forty or fifty minutes in a row.

But for Chen Qiang, waiting is a good thing. After all, he just finished the final of the 110-meter hurdles, so a longer waiting time means that Chen Qiang will have more time to recover his physical fitness.

At the beginning of the final, some unknown cannon fodder players first appeared. They barely skipped the 14-meter promotion line in the preliminary round. When they first tried to jump in the final, many people didn't even pass the 14-meter mark.

As the athletes appeared one after another, their grades gradually improved, from less than 14 meters to around 14 meters 2, and then to around 14 meters 5. By the time American athletes appeared, their grades had improved to 14 meters 7. However, almost everyone knows that these players who appeared were not strong enough to compete for medals.

Japanese athlete Kenichi Oshima made his debut, which officially kicked off the triple-level long jump championship.

At the Los Angeles Olympics four years ago, Kenichi Oshima failed the first two jumps due to nervousness, and only after struggling for the third time, he jumped out of a score of over 15 meters. Kenichi Oshima is obviously much stronger than four years ago. His first jump jumped out of a score of 15 meters 07. This is also the first result that exceeds 15 meters today.

"The Japanese triple-level long jump is indeed amazing, and the first jump exceeded 15 meters!"

"Four years ago, the Japanese almost won the gold medal in the triple-level long jump. They even broke the world record in the last jump, but were eventually stopped by Chen Qiang. I wonder if Chen Qiang can still stop the Japanese from winning the championship this time?"

"Don't forget, there is an Australian, who is the world record holder. As long as he performs better, we whites will take back the gold medal of triple jump from the yellow people!"

While everyone was talking, another Japanese player, Masao Harada, also stepped onto the field.

For the Olympics, Masao Harada is a new face. It is his first time to participate in a heavyweight competition like the Olympics, but Masao Harada has shown excellent physical fitness. He is not nervous and jumped 15.39 meters away from the first try!

"15 meters 39, this Japanese is even better than the one just now!"

"There are not many athletes in Europe who can skip 15 meters, but both of the Japanese teams have skipped 15 meters. The Japanese are indeed dominant in the triple-level long jump event!"

The next one to appear was German player Heinz, who was also the only person in Germany who could skip 15 meters. The audience cheered Heinz in unison and filled him with a buff. This time he tried to jump, he actually jumped out of 15 meters 27 meters, which was his personal best result.

Heinz, who jumped out of his personal best, seemed very excited. He felt that he was not ashamed of his compatriots who supported him. Although 15.27 meters was not enough to win the medal, he had already shown his best self. Even if he could not advance to the next three trial jumps, it was an explanation for the audience.

The next one to appear is Chen Qiang.

After all, it was the first time to try a jump, and Chen Qiang did not use a very unrestrained jump method. He chose to be more conservative, adapt to the competition environment first, and find the state of the competition.

So Chen Qiang jumped out of a score of 15.45 meters.

If it were Chen Qiang four years ago, 15.45 meters may be a result that needs to be done to jump out, but after four years of training, Chen Qiang's strength has increased greatly. 15.45 meters is already a conservative result for him.

From this point, we can also see that Chen Qiang's strength is much stronger than that of jumpers. For other athletes, it is difficult to jump 15 meters and 45 meters and 45 meters and is simply as difficult as climbing to the sky, but for Chen Qiang, 15 meters and 45 meters is not difficult at all.

In fact, from the perspective of future generations, 15 meters 45 is not considered a good result for professional athletes. After all, national first-level athletes with triple jumps meet the standard line 15 meters 35. If they jump 15 meters 45, they are just a first-level athletes. At this level, they have to be more cautious in participating in national competitions.

However, in today's competition, the best result before was only Masao Harada's 15 meters 39, so Chen Qiang's 15 meters 45 meters 45, rose to the first place in one fell swoop.

"Chen Qiang is indeed so powerful. The first time I tried to jump, I easily jumped to 15.45 meters!"

"Don't forget the long jump competition the day before yesterday. Chen Qiang jumped the world record of 8.17 meters. It must have been a big improvement in the long jump event four years ago. Then the triple jump will only become stronger and will not become weak!"

The audience in the stands around began to talk. In their opinion, Chen Qiang's long jump is so powerful that the triple jump will definitely not get worse.

In the Japanese team, they are also observing Chen Qiang's first try jump, or they are the ones who pay the most attention to Chen Qiang.

"Chen Qiang probably hasn't done his best yet!" said the head coach of the Japanese team.

Next to him, Naoto Tashima nodded in agreement: "Better than four years ago, Chen Qiang has become stronger again."

The head coach of the Japanese team continued: "Tashima-kun, when you come on stage, don't use conservative jumping methods, try to fight as much as possible. The opponent is Chen Qiang. If you don't fight, we may not have a chance to win!"

...

The next player to appear is world record holder Jack Metcalf.

In December last year, Jack Metcalf broke the world record of triple jump held by Chen Qiang with a score of 15.78 meters. Chen Qiang's previous world record of triple jump was 15.76 meters, so Jack Metcalf actually only jumped 2 cm more than Chen Qiang. In the triple jump movement of that era, 2 cm was not a very difficult gap.

The good condition that Chen Qiang showed at the Berlin Olympics made Jack Metcalf feel that these 2 cm are not safe at all, and Chen Qiang easily jumped 15.45 meters after his first try to jump, which made Jack Metcalf feel an inexplicable sense of crisis.

"The situation is worse than I thought. Those two Japanese and Chinese Chen Qiang have already skipped 15 meters. I can't be sure of stability. If you want a gold medal, you have to fight!"

Thinking of this, Jack Metcalf chose a unrestrained jumping method.

Fortunately, he was very lucky. He successfully jumped and scored 15.50 meters, surpassing Chen Qiang's 15.45 meters.

The last one to appear was Japanese player Naoto Tashima.

Chen Qiang's 15 meters and Jack Metcalf's 15 meters and Naoto Tashima felt a lot of pressure. In this first time, he followed the coach's instructions, without any conservatism, but adopted a very extreme jump method.

Naoto Tashima successfully jumped, and the traces in the sand pool were obviously more than 15 meters and 50 meters, and it was estimated that it had reached about 15 meters and 7 meters.

After the surveyor quickly measured, the referee gave Naoto Tashima's first jump score: "15 meters 76!"

The audience suddenly became an uproar!

"15 meters 76! That Japanese man can jump so far!"

"I think the Japanese have won the championship ahead of schedule with such results."

At the Los Angeles Olympics four years ago, Chen Qiang won the championship and broke the world record by 15.76 meters. Now Naoto Tashima jumped out of the same result in his first try jump, almost locking in the championship ahead of schedule.

Naoto Tashima seemed very excited after walking out of the sand pool. Although he had the ability to jump out of 15.76 meters, he did not expect that his first jump could perform so perfectly. At this time, Naoto Tashima felt that the Olympic gold medal in the triple-level long jump was already waving to him.

The entire Japanese team was also in full swing. Naoto Tashima made such a good result. The Japanese did have the capital to celebrate the championship in advance.

"Hahaha, we won, we finally took back the gold medal of the triple jump! The king of the triple jump is still our Japan!" The head coach of the Japanese team looked excited, and at the same time he couldn't help but look at Chen Qiang and Jack Metcalf not far away.

Jack Metcalf's expression became more and more serious. The score of 15.76 meters is close to his limit. Moreover, considering the ups and downs of the competition, Jack Metcalf cannot guarantee that he can jump out of the same result. At this time, Jack Metcalf had a premonition that he might not win this Olympic gold medal!

The appearance of Jack Metcalf is very satisfied with the head coach of the Japanese team. He likes to see his opponents showing nervousness or fear.

Then he looked at Chen Qiang not far away.

Chen Qiang still had a calm expression on his face, as if he did not take this 15.76-meter score into his eyes.

Chen Qiang's indifferent expression made the head coach of the Japanese team worried.

"Chen Qiang is so calm. He seems to have no pressure at all. It seems that the score of 15.76 meters may not be able to win him!"

Thinking of this, the head coach of the Japanese team said, "Don't be careless, the game is not over yet. There are five trial jumps in the next. We have to continue our efforts and never relax!"

...

In the second round of trial jump, after waiting for more than half an hour, more than 20 players in front finally completed the competition.

Ken Oshima went to the run-up area and started his second try jump.

Kenichi Oshima followed the coach's arrangement and also adopted relatively unrestrained techniques. However, the coexistence of benefits and risks, and the more unrestrained techniques mean a greater probability of mistakes. The result is that Kenichi Oshima's second trial jump failed.

Masao Harada also jumped very hard next time, but his luck was better than Kenichi Oshima. He successfully jumped 15 meters and 45 meters, improving his score by 6 cm, and also rose to tie for third place.

German Heinz's test jump also ended with a foul, and then it was Chen Qiang's turn to appear.

Naoto Tashima jumped out of 15.76 meters for the first time, which really surprised Chen Qiang, but this also alerted Chen Qiang. It was time to show some real strength.

The first trial jump before was just a test for Chen Qiang. Now, the second trial jump is about to really exert force.

After a rhythmic run-up, Chen Qiang completed the one-foot jump, step jump and jump, and then landed in the air. Then Chen Qiang took advantage of his inertia to stand up, and looked back at the traces left in the sand pool, and he felt relieved.

"No, I've jumped to 15   8 meters!" Chen Qiang walked out of the sand pool with a relaxed and comfortable look on his face.

The referee stepped forward to measure and quickly gave Chen Qiang's results.

“15 meters 82!”

15 meters 82, a new world record is born!

After realizing this, endless applause suddenly erupted in the audience.

It was also at this moment that everyone in the Japanese team was ashamed!

At the end of the last round of trial jump, the Japanese team was still celebrating that they won the gold medal of triple jump in advance.

And before this round of trial jump was over, the gold medal flew away...

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Chapter completed!