Chapter 189: The Stronger Chen Qiang
220 yards are equivalent to 201 meters. In the 220 yards event, Jesse Owens can run a world record of 20 seconds 3, which is an incredible result. Chen Qiang even thinks this result is a bit unreal.
The 200-meter sprint also had a 20-second 3 record, which was set by American player Henry Carr in 1963.
If Jesse Owens' 201 meters can really run to 20 seconds 3, then the 200-meter world record will not be upgraded to 20 seconds 3 until 1963. With Owens' 20 seconds 3 level, it is still easy to run for 20 seconds 5 and break the world record.
So Chen Qiang believed that the 220 yards run by Jesse Owens were definitely not the standard track, and it might even be a 220 yard straight track. Because there were no curves and the whole process was a straight sprint, the result was 20 seconds 3.
If you think about it carefully, it is also possible. At that time, the track and field standards of many events were not unified. For example, the 200-yard or 220-yard straight-line running event existed in the 1930s. The IAAF also had data records of 200-meter straight-line running until 1976.
For example, the first two National Games in the Old China were all code-based. Take the Second National Games in the Old China as an example. The venue was held at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, and the sprint was also held on the straight road in front of the Temple of Heaven. Anyone who has been to the Temple of Heaven Park knows that it is a pure straight line and there are no curves, so the 200-yard race of the Second National Games must be a straight road.
If you calculate this way, Jesse Owens' 220 yards is very likely to run a straight path.
There is no 220-meter sprinting event in the future, so Chen Qiang doesn't know the 220-meter sport. Even the IAAF does not record the 200-meter straight run, and Chen Qiang cannot grasp too much confidence in this event. Chen Qiang can only make inferences based on the results. For example, Jesse Owens' 100-meter sprinting time is 10 seconds 2, so 220-meter sprinting time should be a normal result.
However, this does not mean that Jesse Owens will run poorly in the corners. In the Berlin Olympics in history, Jesse Owens broke the 200-meter world record with a time of 20.7 seconds. A 200-meter world record holder, no matter how poor the curve ability is, it is the world's top level.
Even if calculated based on 20 seconds 7, Jesse Owens will break Chen Qiang's world record of 21 seconds, so if Chen Qiang wants to defeat Jesse Owens, he will at least run a 21.6 seconds.
Considering the uncertainty of the game, 21 seconds 6 may not be safe. After all, in the Berlin Olympics in history, Jesse Owens was ahead of the 200m final and did not meet competitors. Now there is one more Chen Qiang, and maybe Jesse Owens feels the pressure of Chen Qiang and will run faster. After all, if you compete with masters, it is easy to create better results.
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The 200m final was the highlight of the day, but since there were no German athletes participating, the enthusiasm of the audience was not very high. More people were interested in the competition and came to watch the final.
Among the six finalists, the first one was Dutch player Tinus Osendap, the fastest white man in the world. In the previous 100-meter sprint, he also entered the final. However, facing the two masters Chen Qiang and Jesse Owens, the fastest white man in the world did not win the medal.
Now in the 200m final, Tinus Osendap's hopes are still not great. Chen Qiang and Jesse Owens still locked in the top two, and the remaining three players are also extraordinary.
Chen Qiang was arranged in the second lane again, while Jesse Owens was in the third lane. The two were still adjacent, but they changed positions compared to the 100-meter sprint final. In the 100-meter sprint final, Jesse Owens was on the inside, Chen Qiang was on the outside, and now Chen Qiang was on the inside, Jesse Owens was on the outside.
In the 200-meter sprint, the second and third paths belong to the golden track, especially the competitions that six people participated in, and the curve of the track was smaller, so Chen Qiang and Jesse Owens were in an absolutely good position. The organizer's arrangement was obviously to allow the two people to fight each other and bring a wonderful game.
The fourth lane was another American player, Mike Robinson. He had already run a good result of 21.1 seconds in the 200-meter semi-final, showing extraordinary strength. Chen Qiang was not surprised by this. Mike Robinson is a black athlete in the United States and comes from a sports family. It is normal for him to have strength.
The fifth lane is Swiss player Paul Ennie, who also participated in the 100-meter race before, but failed to reach the final.
The sixth path is Canadian Lee Orr. This Canadian who grew up in the United States has been to Europe and Berlin for the first time. Nine years later, Lee Orr will come to Berlin again. However, at that time, he didn't need to apply for a visa, not because the German team is visa-free in Canada, but because Germany surrendered. Lee Orr entered Berlin in a tank as an Allied army.
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Jesse Owens seemed very excited, and this excitement mainly stemmed from his confidence in his strength.
Compared to the 100-meter sprint, Jesse Owens is better at running 200 meters. He has very good physical flexibility, which allows him to control his body more easily during corners. His excellent explosive power can give him the world's top speed.
The 200-meter world record is 21 seconds that Chen Qiang maintained. During daily practice, Jesse Owens' best result is 20 seconds 5. Although it is just a practice and has a certain amount of luck, it is 0.5 seconds faster than Chen Qiang's world record.
For Jesse Owens, running within 21 seconds is not difficult, it is simply a common existence, so he has the ability to break Chen Qiang's world record. An athlete who surpasses the world record is as common as it is, will naturally be full of confidence in himself.
"I lost to you the 100m match the day before yesterday. This time I reached 200m, I will not lose again!" Jesse Owens said in his heart.
At this time, Jesse Owens couldn't help but look at Chen Qiang beside him, and Chen Qiang also looked at Jesse Owens at this time. When the two looked at each other, they smiled at each other. Although they were against each other, they were both top athletes in the world, and they even had a special feeling of cherishing heroes.
Chen Qiang was also very excited at this time, because he had just won the Olympic gold medal in the discus, and the other hand, he was about to compete with Jesse Owens again.
In sprinting, it is a good thing for athletes to be excited. Sprinting is a sport of speed and passion. Excitement often allows athletes to perform better results.
The live broadcast introduced six contestants one after another, and then the athletes bowed down to prepare for the start.
After a while, the six players were ready before the start. At this time, the starter felt that the time was almost right, so he gave instructions before the start.
"Set!" The commander gave the order, and the entire stadium became quiet, and the six contestants were all focused on waiting for the gunfire to start.
"Bang!" With a gunshot, the six players rushed out of the starting line at the same time.
Chen Qiang was very focused. He did not pay attention to the situation of other athletes, but focused all his attention on his own track.
This time, Chen Qiang took the best of his curve running skills. He should control his footsteps as much as possible and approach the track line on the left so that he can run a shorter distance. At the same time, he must ensure that his feet do not foul because of crossing the line.
This is the final of the Olympics. The opponent has a master like Jesse Owens. Chen Qiang cannot be careless at all every step, and he must save running distance as much as possible. Perhaps the difference between masters in the end is this little distance.
As the speed increases, Chen Qiang's body inclination becomes larger and larger. If he looks in the direction he runs, he will even worry about whether Chen Qiang will fall.
This also shows that Chen Qiang's speed is really fast, because the faster the speed is, the greater the centripetal force that needs to be fought against, and the greater the amplitude of the body's inclination.
Chen Qiang ran rapidly in the corner, and the other four players were not inferior, especially the American players, who were also very fast. Not only Jesse Owens, but another American athlete, Mike Robinson, was also much faster than the others, and they also used techniques similar to Chen Qiang's running on the corner.
At the Los Angeles Olympics four years ago, Chen Qiang used more advanced cornering running skills, won the 200-meter championship, and broke the world record. Since then, the American team's track and field coach has begun to study Chen Qiang's skills.
Although there was no slow-spreading of the lenses and no computer analysis in that era, people had only a slight understanding of sports science, after all, after four years, even if they couldn't understand Chen Qiang's skills, they could learn some skills by simply imitating Chen Qiang's movements.
Moreover, the huge United States is the most developed country in sports. With so many athletes, there will always be a few talented people who can slowly master the technical keys of Chen Qiang's curved running through constant imitation and thinking.
So today's American athletes have also learned some tricks of running on the curve from Chen Qiang and applied them to the Berlin Olympics.
The strength of American athletes has improved, which of course will cause some trouble for Chen Qiang. If it were Chen Qiang four years ago, he might really not be able to deal with it. But Chen Qiang is no longer the same as before. After four years of growth, in addition to his stronger body, his curve skills are much more mature than those four years ago.
If any athlete has four years of professional training, the technology will be more perfect. What's more, Chen Qiang has a training space that can provide ten times the time difference. Even if Chen Qiang has to train multiple events at the same time, there is still a lot of time allocated to the 200-meter event within ten times of time. It is no exaggeration to say that four years have passed in the outside world, and Chen Qiang's training space has at least ten years of time allocated to 200 meters.
If any athlete has been training for ten years in his professional program, it is difficult for him to not be proficient!
What's more, what Chen Qiang received was training beyond this era, and his training effect was much better than that of athletes of this era.
The current situation is that although American athletes have become stronger than four years ago, Chen Qiang is also stronger than four years ago, and the increase is even greater.
So in the corner, Chen Qiang had already opened up a gap with other athletes. Except for Jesse Owens, it was difficult for the other four players to keep up with Chen Qiang's pace.
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American athlete Mike Robinson increased his speed to the extreme, but he found that his speed was still not as good as Jesse Owens on the adjacent track!
"Jesse can actually run so fast!" Mike Robinson couldn't help but look at Jesse Owens on the left track, and at the same time he also saw Chen Qiang from the corner of his eyes.
"Chen Qiang is faster than Jesse!" Mike Robinson was shocked.
As the world's top athlete, Mike Robinson is still very sensitive to speed. Even if he doesn't pass the distance, he can still feel the speed.
"Jesse is already faster than me. That Chen Qiang is actually faster than Jesse. How is this possible!" Mike Robinson even couldn't believe his eyes.
In domestic competitions in the United States, Mike Robinson once ran a good result of 21 seconds. During practice, Mike Robinson once ran a 21 second mark, which means that if he is in better condition and has better luck, Mike Robinson has the ability to break Chen Qiang's 21 seconds world record.
Since Mike Robinson has the strength to break the world record, he naturally has the ambition to challenge Chen Qiang. He thought that even if Chen Qiang improved compared to four years ago, his strength should be similar to himself. If he faced Chen Qiang, he would have a chance to win.
However, the reality in the game was not the case. Jesse Owens was faster than Mike Robinson, and Chen Qiang was faster than Jesse Owens. Doesn’t that mean that Chen Qiang was two levels higher than Mike Robinson!
Thinking of this, Mike Robinson felt depressed, and the confidence that he had originally challenged Chen Qiang disappeared without a trace.
On the runway, Mike Robinson was indeed thrown away by Chen Qiang and Jesse Owens. When the curve ended and entered the straight, Mike Robinson was already more than two meters behind.
Also depressed is the "fastest white man in the world" Tinus Orsendap. As the fastest white athlete in the world, he can only rank fourth, and there are a yellow man and two black men in front of him. Doesn't that mean that white man is the weakest!
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Halfway through the schedule, the athletes entered the straight road from the curve. At this time, it was clear who was ahead and who was behind.
In fact, before entering the straight, Jesse Owens had already realized that he was lagging behind.
"Chen Qiang is actually faster than me in the curve!" A feeling of "a big thing is not good" suddenly rose from Jesse Owens' heart.
It was something that Jesse Owens had not expected before the game to run Chen Qiang in the corner. Jesse Owens had very good cornering skills. In the 200-meter race in the United States, he was always the first to rush into the straight and then led the way to the finish line.
Jesse Owens has always believed that his curves are invincible, but in today's game, Chen Qiang told him that the truth is not the case, you are not invincible.
But Jesse Owens did not give up on the game because of the backwardness of the curve. This backwardness inspired his desire to chase him!
The next moment, Jesse Owens suddenly burst out with all his strength and began his most fierce sprint.
The rest of the schedule is straight, and what Jesse Owens has to do now is just to rush forward without any brainstorming.
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Chen Qiang also rushed forward with no brainstorm.
In terms of speed, Chen Qiang is not stronger than Jesse Owens. Chen Qiang cannot compare to the innate explosive power of black people, not to mention that Jesse Owens' physical fitness is also the best among black people.
What Chen Qiang relies on is the technique of sprinting.
At this time, he was using his sprinting skills to the extreme. Since his speed is not faster than Jesse Owens, he had to maintain this extremely fast sprinting state for a longer time.
The results of these four years of training have been fully utilized at this moment. The daily uninterrupted training has already made Chen Qiang's body have already formed a memory of the technical movements of sprinting. The kicking of the calf, the forward swing of the thighs, and the rhythmic swinging arms all support Chen Qiang and maintain the speed.
As long as Chen Qiang can maintain this speed, Jesse Owens behind him will not be able to catch up with him!
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As the finish line got closer, Jesse Owens found that the distance between him and Chen Qiang had not been narrowed.
"I can't catch up!" After Jesse Owens thought about this, his first reaction was that his efforts were not enough.
The next moment, Jesse Owens' expression became ferocious, and he rushed forward like a wild beast trapped in a trap.
Jesse Owens has completely exploded himself, and he has only one goal to catch up with Chen Qiang in front.
However, the gap between them did not narrow. Jesse Owens' efforts did not pay off.
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Jesse Owens was chasing her desperately behind, and Chen Qiang, who was running in the front, was about to run out of strength.
The pressure brought by Jesse Owens was beyond Chen Qiang's expectations. In order to maintain his speed, he used his physical fitness to the limit.
For professional athletes, exhausting their last bit of energy before the finish line may be the best state.
"Stand by, the finish line is coming soon!" Chen Qiang knew that the closer he was to the finish line, the more he could not relax, because his opponent was Jesse Owens, and Chen Qiang could not give him any chance.
The next second, Chen Qiang arrived before the finish line, and the tense nerve finally relaxed until his chest felt the collision line.
Chen Qiang was the first to cross the finish line.
"I finally won!" Chen Qiang's steps gradually slowed down, and the feeling of exhaustion of exhaustion instantly spread throughout his body!
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Chapter completed!