Chapter 189 opportunity
Li Dai suggested that Zhao Yue specialize in 200 meters. After listening, Xue Li immediately fell into silence.
Li Dai knew that Xue Li was seriously considering his suggestion.
Regardless of whether it is at home or abroad, there are not many sprinters who specialize in 200 meters, and it can even be said that there are very few. The vast majority of sprinters are mainly 100 meters and 200 meters.
In terms of influence, 200 meters is certainly not as good as 100 meters. The world record holder of 100 meters is known as the “fastest person to run”. There is no title for 200 meters.
At the same time in the Grand Prix, Super Grand Prix and Diamond League held by the IAAF, the probability of the 200-meter sprint event is also very small. According to the IAAF rules, only one of the same type of events will appear in the competition.
For example, long jump and triple jump, high jump and pole vault, 800 meters and 1500 meters in the middle run, 5000 meters and 10000 meters in the long run, there can only be one event in the IAAF Grand Prix at a certain station.
If the sprint event is selected between 100 meters and 200 meters, the former will definitely be selected. How can the track and field competition be without the 100-meter trapeze battle!
As a result, the 200 meters became the queen’s wife, and generally only appeared in high-level large-scale events such as the World Championships in Track and Field, the World Cup in Track and Field and the Olympic Games.
There are few competition opportunities in the 200-meter sprint, and those world-leading sprinters will naturally not specialize in practicing the 200-meter. Even if athletes have a good talent in the 200-meter event, they will focus their energy on the 100-meter Because there are many opportunities for the 100-meter race, only after the 100-meter race has been run, will you have the opportunity to participate in more competitions.
Many people think that 100-meter and 200-meter sprints are the same sport. Fast athletes running 100 meters must run 200 meters quickly; conversely, fast athletes running 200 meters will also run 100 meters quickly.
In fact, this view is only half right. Players with a good 200-meter performance will also perform well in the 100-meter event. However, a player with a good 100-meter performance may not necessarily be able to run 200 meters.
The difference between 200m and 100m is that there is an additional distance of 100m, and the extra 100m is still a curve. The curve is the difficulty of 200 meters.
Because there are more corners, athletes must master three more techniques. The first is the curve starting technique; the second is the curve running technique; and the third is the curve turn to straight technique.
Starting from a curve is different from starting from a straight line. Straight starts only need to sprint your head forward, but you need to control your body to turn after starting a curve. Athletes need to maintain their starting speed, but also control the angle of movement. If both are combined, it becomes a complicated starting technique.
The width of a track is about 1.22 meters to 1.25 meters. In terms of the explosive power of sprinters, if the body control is not good, the rush is too fierce at the start, and it is easy to rush to other people’s track. If you slow down the starting speed deliberately to maintain the angle, the starting speed will lag behind people.
Sprinting is a sport that accurately loses an advantage of 0.01 seconds. If the starting stage is a few tenths of a second slower than others, it is blunt to say that the game has lost more than half.
An excellent curve start, the starting speed should be fast enough, the starting angle should be better, after the start, you can also quickly control the body to run on the curve. Even professional sprinters have to spend at least a year and a half to work on the starting curve.
Running in a curve is also a very complicated technique. When an object turns at a high speed, it will bear a certain centripetal force, so the process of running an athlete in a curve is actually the process of controlling the body against centripetal force.
At the same time running in a curve, athletes must master the technique of running along the track.
In a 100-meter curve, the distance along the inner edge of the runway is about 3.7 meters shorter than the distance along the outer edge of the runway. If you run 200 meters in 20 seconds, 3.7 meters is equivalent to 0.037 seconds. So when we look at the 200-meter sprint race, the athletes will desperately run against the left side of the track in the corner, the purpose is to save 0.03 seconds as much as possible.
However, in the sprint rules, athletes who step on the line are fouls and will be disqualified. It is impossible for an athlete to look down at the edge of the runway all the time while running. With the pace and pace of a professional sprinter, if you want to run close to the inner edge of the runway without stepping on the line, you must go through long training This technique also takes more than half a year of training to master.
In addition to this, the moment the curve enters the straight is another technical difficulty for the 200-meter sprint.
The athlete runs through a curve of 100 meters, and the body already has the inertia of the curve movement. At the moment of turning into the straight, the athlete must first confront the inertia of the body.
At the same time, at the moment of entering the straight, athletes must keep their speed constant, even skilled athletes can accelerate at this stage.
When the curve enters the straight line, the skill is good or bad, which will cause a gap of about 0.1 seconds. For this 0.1 second, the athlete needs to spend months of practice to improve his skills.
Therefore, the 200-meter sprint project has fewer opportunities to participate, has higher technical requirements, and is far less influential than 100-meter. For athletes, the price-performance ratio of 200 meters is too low.
However, Li Dai felt that Zhao Yue is very suitable for the 200-meter project.
When he was in the national team, Zhao Yue’s main item was 100 meters, and he ran 200 meters at the same time. He has a certain technical background in the 200 meters project, and he does not need to spend too much time on cornering technical exercises.
And at the age of Zhao Yue, if you continue to practice 100 meters, it is impossible to have a chance to get ahead. There are too many excellent talents among young athletes. Compared with the genius of Yang Sijie, Zhao Yue is not competitive.
But the 200-meter event is different. Young athletes want to master the cornering technology, let alone two or three years of training. Although Zhao Yue is relatively old, his skills are still there, and it only takes a short period of training to become an instant combat capability of a 200-meter project.
More importantly, Li Dai has detected that Zhao Yue’s talent on the 200-meter project is better than his talent on the 100-meter project. Zhao Yue’s talent for 100-meter sprint is B, and the talent for 200-meter sprint is B +, which shows that Zhao Yue’s ability to control the body is relatively strong He should be very good at running corners. In the national team, Li Dai did not find a 200m talented B + player.
So Li Daicai recommended to Xue Li to let Zhao Yue practice 200 meters. Li Dai believes that if Zhao Yue can seize this opportunity, he can definitely return to the national team.
However, Xue Li was not very optimistic about Zhao Yue. The 26-year-old “old age” made Xue Li discouraged from Zhao Yue.
Xue Li pondered for a few minutes before he said: “In two months, the Asian Games training camp will start. At that time, a large number of athletes will be recruited to participate in the training camp. Of course, they will eventually be able to represent the country in the Asian Games. There are probably only five or six people. Whether Zhao Yue can seize this opportunity and stand out from the selection depends on his own. ”
Li Dai suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He was very happy to help Zhao Yue and won such a chance for Zhao Yue to return to the national team.
Xue Li went on to say: “The training camp of the Asian Games will not only call for athletes, but also for coaches, so you have to participate. You haven’t returned home some days? I will give you a holiday in a few days. Go home and have a look. When you come back, follow me to prepare for the Asian Games! At this Asian Games, we are at home and we must get at least one medal for the sprint event! “