Run Out of My Life - Chapter 372

    “First of all, congratulations to you, Mr. Powell, you won the RJR Sports Foundation’s 2007 Athlete of the Year Award on January 29. I heard that you gave up the Sydney Grand Prix because of injury. Is the World Indoor Championships because you’ve recovered from your injury?”

    “Asafa, is this your first time participating in the men’s 60-meter competition at the Indoor World Championships? Why did you suddenly want to participate in this competition?”

    “Mr. Powell, did you only compete in the men’s 60m at the World Indoor Athletics Championships this year because you lost the 100m at the World Championships last year? Do you want to prove yourself in this event?”

    “There are rumors that you are trying to compete with Justin Gatlin. He ran a time of 6.43 in his first indoor match after his comeback. Is this your real idea? ?”

    “Can you tell us about your expectations for this year’s Olympic Games? Champion? Runner-up?”

    Standing in front of the camera, Powell looked at the reporters who were desperately pressing towards him, with the indifferent look on his face.

    Stand quietly in the middle of the crowd, not answering, and never changing color because of some sharp questions.

    Some are just calm.

    He is now located in Valencia, Spain. Valencia is located on the east coast of Spain, the capital of the autonomous region of Valencia, and the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona.

    Although it is March, Valencia has a typical subtropical and Mediterranean climate, and now the average daytime temperature is around 15°C, which is very pleasant.

    For a Jamaican, when it is still winter in the northern hemisphere, it is obviously a more pleasant thing to start an indoor game in such a temperature.

    As the number one field star of the 2008 World Indoor World Championships, his appearance is naturally the most eye-catching.

    Although there is no significant medal on him yet, and the world record has already changed hands, the sprint project has always had a reputation as a pearl in the track and field, and he is the runner in the world today. One of the fastest winners is also the biggest track and field player at the current World Indoor World Championships in Valencia, Spain.

    “Asafa, your performance just now is difficult to satisfy the reporters present.”

    The press conference ended soon, and the backstage agent Terry’s expression was not very good. Looking at Asafa Powell’s calm expression, he complained a little.

    The current Asafa Powell is no longer in 2005, when he just broke the men’s 100m world record held by Maurice Green, facing Gatlin and Suzu , have natural advantages.

    Moreover, people are also used to putting him in the first place subconsciously.

      Is the rising and undisputed most talented sprinter.

    But the embarrassment was always there, and there were two people in front of him.

    Although the difference between them is very small in terms of performance, the first is the first, and the gold medal is the gold medal.

    A top athlete, if there is no matching honor, in many cases, his weight will become a little erratic.

    “When I finish the men’s 60m, they may be more dissatisfied.”

    Powell has a faint smile on his face, and he doesn’t take the media’s attitude at all. Since his debut, the voices of praise and bad-mouthing have never stopped.

    His athletic career, at least in the early days, was much smoother than most players.

    He is a very talented player. He has not experienced too many careers where a player competes step by step from low-level events, but quickly entered the international stage. And it was a quick success. Therefore, there is a lot less mental training, so that it used to be particularly vulnerable to the influence of competitions and the media.

    For this World Indoor Athletics Championships, Powell didn’t have the idea to participate in the beginning. In this year, the 2008 season, all the players have their sights set on the Olympics, which is the biggest stage.

    Few of the top sprinters have the choice to participate in the World Indoor Championships, not Suzu, Gay, and Gatling, who just came back.

    Indoor athletics championships mean little to them. Both Suzu and Gatlin have indoor championships, while Gay is trying to prevent injuries and maintain his fitness. His competitive advantage in the 60-meter sprint is not large.

    But the agent Terry convinced him that he needed a gold medal too much to prove himself, which was a consideration of commercial value.

    And a growth from coach Stephen Francis, he is first and foremost an athlete, to adapt to head-to-head competition, but also to be able to better accept the results of head-to-head competition.

    Win, keep going. If you lose, try to catch up.

    Before the Olympic Games, such a major event will undoubtedly allow him to see himself better in the following games.

    And, there is another important reason, that is, the interval between the semi-final and the final of the men’s 60-meter indoor competition is two hours.

    He did not perform well in the finals of the top competitions, and the team has analyzed one reason, that is, his body does not seem to be so adapted to the semi-finals and the finals being played on the same day.

    In the golden leagues of the various Grand Prix races one day at a time, he performed relatively well, but when there is a one-day league, especially after the semi-finals, in the interval of two hours, he Unable to adjust my body to a better state, I was constantly tense and unable to relax.

    In this case, even though his mentality in last year’s Osaka World Championships has been smooth and peaceful, it still affects him to a certain extent.

    Powell himself knows that his mentality in the Osaka World Championships is not bad, but he needs to adjust and hone through more competitions.

    As for the medals.

    The 2008 World Indoor Athletics Championships, the men’s 60-meter competition, a total of three rounds, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals, were all held on March 7th.

      Just like the Olympic Games, take a good rest and adjust your state between the two games.

    The men’s 60m preliminaries were held in the morning. There were a total of 64 contestants in eight groups.

    Powell is in the eighth group. Most of the players in the same group are not familiar with him. The only one who has heard of the name is the rising young player from the United States, Michael Rogers, A small player, but a great first half.

    But for Powell, it was just to advance to the semi-finals, without any difficulty, with a score of 6.55 seconds, and easily won the first place in the group.

    Although there are no top men’s 100m runners in this indoor track and field championship, it is a world-class event after all, and there are still many first-class sprinters on the field.

    Portugal’s Francis Obikvirou, Nigeria’s Orusoki Fasuba, British star Dane Chambers, who returned to action in 2006, St. Kitts and Neville Stalin’s Kim Collins et al.

    In the men’s 100m event, although these athletes are good, but basically since 2005, in various Grand Prix and Golden League, almost no one can beat him head-on Asafa Powell of.

    But the man is 60 meters. Although Powell is very confident, he is still somewhat nervous.

    His start and first half speed are very fast, and many players call him a textbook start and acceleration, but many people ignore it, he is also a tall and large player.

      Stride wins.

    But with his strong muscles and superb starting skills, he has an extraordinary performance after the acceleration.

    The men’s 60m semi-final consists of three groups in total, with eight players in each group, the top two will advance directly, and the two remaining players with the best scores will advance.

    In the morning preliminaries, there were still 6,500 spectator seats left in the Luis Puig Stadium in Valencia, but in the afternoon, the men’s 60m semi-finals and finals were about to begin After that, the auditorium in the stadium was full, and the seats were full.

    Especially many reporters who did a lot of interviews and questions before the game, Powell did not get an answer, they were all excited, everyone wanted to see, one of the most dominant men in the world. Will the meter sprinter die in the men’s 60-meter race at the Indoor World Championships?

    If you really lose, then there will be a hot spot the next day.

    “Powell missed the championship again? 》

    “A genius who can run fast in a big race with a baton? 》

    …

    Whether you want to sneer or express a deep emotion and regret the uncrowned king of sprinting, the final result of the race is always the athlete.

    The three groups of men’s 60-meter semi-finals went very fast, and the final list came out. There is no doubt that Powell advanced again.

    And advanced with the first result, 6 seconds 44, a result that can win the indoor championship in previous competitions, faster than the fastest second place Orusoki Fasuba 0.07 seconds.

    16:40 PM.

    The atmosphere at the Louis Pugh Stadium was once again reaching a climax.

    More than six thousand native Spanish spectators and several hundred tourists from other countries began to look forward to it.

    The indoor track and field championships at this time are not as fancy as after 2010, and there will be no fireworks for each player.

    However, the athletes who appear one by one still have close-up shots and passionate pre-match introductions on the broadcast and the big screen.

    When Powell walked out of the passage with a calm look, the cheers of the audience were still the most enthusiastic. Since 2005, Powell, who has performed successfully in almost all kinds of European Grand Prix, is very concerned about the local Spanish Many viewers are familiar with it.

    Madrid IAAF Grand Prix for three consecutive years, Powell has a dominant performance in the men’s 100 meters, and Suzu, Gatling, Gay in the past few years in the 100 meters competition for hegemony , which made him very popular in many parts of Europe.

    Just, what kind of performance will Powell bring to the 60-meter final of the World Indoor Athletics Championships?

    Whether it is the audience or the media, there is a big question mark in their hearts.

    The competition is withering, the competition performance is abnormal, the psychological quality is not good, and so on, the titles appear in the minds of many people in an instant.

    Ahead of the start line, Orusoki Fasuba, Dane Chambers, Kim Collins, Michael Rogers, Vicente de Lima, Simon Williamson, Isaac Uche and Asafa Powell, eight players are already in place.

    Before the starting line, Powell stood out from the crowd. His height and size were significantly higher than other players.

    The difference between the men’s 60m and the men’s 100m is obvious at this time.

    Men’s 60m requires players to have better starting skills and fast stride frequency. Therefore, in terms of height, almost most of the players are below 1m80. (Orusoki Fasuba 175, Dane Chambers 179, Kim Collins 179, Michael Rogers 170, the current timeline 60m world record holder Maurice Green 1m76)

    In the men’s 100m competition, players in the range of 1m80 to 1m90 are more common, and they also belong to a relatively good category in terms of material selection.

    In your 60-meter final, Obikviru, who is about the same height as Powell, was eliminated in the semifinals, and his tall body did not have an advantage at the start.

    But Asafa Powell is an exception.

    At this moment, Powell leaned over in front of the starting line, listening to the sound of gunfire, focused, without the slightest distraction.

    Pop!

    The gunshots of the match!

    Powell’s explosive start was displayed incisively and vividly almost instantly.

    The moment the first step is taken, the right foot has full contact with the ground, the stride is large, and sufficient reaction force is obtained, and the left foot that follows is almost dragging the ground Stepping forward without too many folds saves a lot of time with his legs at the start.

    The strong muscles provide enough power to the hips, so that his running not only has a large stride, but also has a fast stride.

    Step forward and backward with both feet, all in a straight line, not shaking left and right like Tyson Gay, wasting unnecessary time.

    The arms swung high, the palms and fingers spread out, all provided unimaginable power at this moment.

    Asafa Powell’s starting skills are unparalleled in the world. This sentence contains almost all sprinters in the world, and even all sprinters in the entire history of track and field.

    Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters…

    In an instant acceleration, from the start, there were almost no distinction between the many players of Xuanlin, at this moment, there was a distinction between the front and the back.

    And Powell grabbed a position lead at 30 meters.

    And in the eyes of the audience, Powell’s lead has not decreased, but is expanding.

    For a few seconds, all the spectators almost felt a flash in front of their eyes, and then saw a tall figure stand out, occupy the first place, and sprint directly towards the finish line.

    It’s too fast and too fast.

    It was almost a dazzle, Powell crossed the finish line, and because of the speed of the sprint, he hit a soft pad 30 meters outside the finish line with a loud bang.

    When the audience and reporters saw the set of numbers appearing on the tall yellow clock beside the runway, almost all of them grew their mouths.

    6 seconds 37!

    New world record!

    Asafa Powell got a new world record after the men’s 100m world record was broken, the men’s 60m world record!

    The spotlight flashed again.

    In the most heavyweight track and field event before the 2008 Olympic Games, Asafa Powell showed his amazing this year with a gold medal at the World Indoor Championships and a new world record status.

    What is Powell’s best time in the 60m?

    6 sec 44.

    Time, 2016. Location, Portland.

    At that time, Asafa Powell was over 30 years old, and his body was plagued by various injuries all the year round, but he was still able to run this 60 meters ranked eighth in history.

    And now, he is at his peak.

      The 100-meter time was 9.72 li, and the first half of the 60-meter speed reached 6.31 or even 6.30. Although the official 60-meter race is different from the 100-meter race, he is actually capable of breaking the 60-meter world record.)