USA Olympic Trials
Chapter 494:USA Olympic Trials
27 June 2008, Eugene, Oregon, United States.
The U.S. outdoor tournament, which has been going on for three days, is in the thick of smoke at Hayward Stadium.
Starting June 27, Hayward Stadium will be a gathering place for all-American track and field athletes, and every day in the track and field competition is fierce and abnormal.The high level of competition in some of these events has reached or exceeded the level of the Olympic and World Championships.
In particular, this year's U.S. Outdoor Athletics Championships are a quadrennial Olympic qualifier, and the results of this event will determine the qualification of athletes at the Summer Olympics in Yanjing.
If the athletes reach the Olympic A standard and won the top three in the participating projects, they can occupy a place in the Olympic delegation.
If an athlete wins the event but does not qualify for the Olympic A, or withdraws, the next athlete with the A-qualification will be selected.
This time, the U.S. outdoor athletics championships ran from June 27 to July 8 for a total of 10 days.
Unlike many other countries with a selection committee, the selection of the U.S. Olympic team depends entirely on the results on the track, whether it is the previous Olympic champion or the world champion, if in the selection competition can not reach the A mark, and won the top three, he can not qualify.
Moreover, the U.S. Olympic Trials are open to all citizens who have reached the A-standard in the country, regardless of whether they are registered as professional track and field athletes, they can participate and receive certain subsidies.
Other U.S. citizens who have reached the B for the Olympic Games can also register, but they need to participate at their own expense for some of the necessary fees.
The U.S. Olympic trials are called the small Olympics because of their large scale and the high number of participants.Since 1972, the U.S. Olympic trials have had at least 24 entries, including the 100m, 200m, 400m and 110m hurdles, which can reach at least 32 athletes.
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“Jason, what’s the matter with you, I feel you’re very nervous!”
In the warm-up area outside Hayward Stadium, Lance Blaumann frowns and looked at Jason Gable, who was sitting by the air, and he felt a little wrong.
"I don't know, coach."
Jason Gabi had his head down, a white towel around his neck, sweating on his face.The warm-up has just ended and is about to play in the men's 100m preliminaries, but he does not know why he suddenly became a little afraid.
The Olympic trials are held for ten days and the number of participants is large, and it takes two days to go from preliminaries to rematches, semi-finals and finals in popular events such as the men's 100 meters.
This year is the first day of the trial, according to Jason Gaby's current momentum, he is the first person in the United States men's 100 meters and 200 meters, to the Hayward Stadium to watch the game a lot of people are coming to him.
But at this moment, he suddenly became nervous.
This has never been seen in his more than 10 years of competition.
“Are you afraid you won’t be able to do that, Jason?”Lance Blauman sat down next to Jason Gable as a coach who single-handedly brought Jason Gable to high-level athletics, and he knew more about Jason Gaby than his parents and wife.
"9.70 and 9.72, coach, you know I didn't run a time when I was super winding."Jason Gabi’s head was still low, his hands and feet were slightly trembling, and the muscles on the dark skin were clear, which seemed to show the extremely uneasy mood of its owner at this moment.
From the June 12th Grand Prix in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Ye Qin once again broke the men's 100 meters world record news spread around the world, Jason Gaby felt unprecedented pressure.
There are many sprint talents in the United States, and the Olympic A standard of one or two hundred meters of men can reach in the United States.But now the situation is that the real American players who can compete with the current hot Yechin and Uuse-Bott are only Jason Gable.
Especially in the 100 meters, since Maurice Green retired in February this year, after the Jax-Telling ban, the level of other American athletes is excellent, but there is a significant gap compared to Jason Gaiby.
Before the start of the selection, a number of media television stations interviewed DorJason Gabi, asking him about Yechin and Ussei-Bot after breaking the world record, and the outlook for the Olympic Games.
He expressed his strong confidence in the interview, but really before the Olympic trials, he suddenly felt a little unconfident.
In particular, hearing the huge noise of the spectators in the stands of the Hayward Stadium outside the field, the hesitation and uncertainty of the heart, so that he felt a little lost before the game.
“I can’t help you, Jason!”Lance Brauman sighed silently beside Jason Gable, and Jason Gaby at this moment made him feel a little disappointed.
When he lost to Uuse-Bott at the New York Grand Prix, Jason Gaby was full of confidence that he could also break the world record and win Usse-Boat.
But when the news of Ostrava Yeqin setting the world record again came, Jason Gaby was caught in self-doubt.
This is not to blame Jason Gabi's mentality is not strong enough, but the performance of Yeqin and Yousse-Both in May and June is really a monster.
One holds 9 seconds 76 and 9.72 seconds, and the other is 9.70 seconds, 9.73 seconds and 9.74 seconds!
In less than two months, the world record has been refreshed three times, and the powerful strength of the two has made other sprinters shudder.
Jason Gaby's best run so far was 9.76, at the 2007 New York Grand Prix, where he ran in the event of super-wind speeds.Compared with Yeqin and Uuse-Bot, even under the ultra-wind speed, the results are still not good.
Lance Blauman knew that he was just a coach, and that he had been training Jason Gable for more than two years before he had been in prison, but he gradually learned a truth.
That is, athletes can't live without the guidance of the coach, but in fact, more often, they need to rely on themselves.
The power within oneself, the power within oneself.
By this time, Jason Gable was in a little trouble, but he believed Jason Gable could get over it on his own.
In the face of a strong opponent, not fear, not retreat, but the courage to face difficulties and competition, such a person can step on the peak.
As time passed, Lance Blauman and Jason Gaby just sat there, no longer talking, and the staff on the straight side of the court came to inform that the men's 100-meter preliminaries were about to begin.
Jason Gabi wiped the sweat on his forehead and neck with a towel, followed the staff through the check-in process, ready to enter the game with other athletes.
A few minutes later, the athletes arrived.
Standing on the third track in front of the men's 100-meter starting line, Jason Gaby breathed deeply to adjust his mentality.
The heat of the U.S. Olympic trials has been high, and the five major television networks in the United States have special sports channels to broadcast the event, and as the hottest track and field athlete, he does not want others to see him in poor condition.
The U.S. championships for him is not really, even if the very rapid growth of the past few years Walter Dix is much worse than him.
He just felt a little undying about himself in the face of Yechin and Unce-Bot, which led to his late-term mentality.
After a shot, the game started quickly.
After the start, the opponent quickly rushed out of the starting line, Jason Gabi's start reaction was very slow, reaching a staggering 0.274 seconds, and the movement was stiff, just 30 meters in front, he fell to the last of the eight players.
At this moment, the audience watching the game through the five major TV networks, as well as all the audience in the Hayward Stadium, were extremely surprised.
Jason Gaby's start has not been particularly good, but his strength is strong, fast pace, even slower than Asafaville, but never so slow.
As the first person in the sprint in the United States, Jason Gabi, was surprised by the performance after the gunshots of the preliminaries.
Forty meters, 50 meters...
Jason Gaby's face muscle twitching, the bulge on his forehead and neck was bulging and irritated.
He is behind!
In his best men's 100 meters, he was surpassed by the other seven players who were far weaker than his players.
In the Hayward Stadium stands, Lance Brauman and Jon Drummond, two Jason Gaby coaches, face the face of the blue, and at this moment, they saw that Jason Gaby's mentality was still not adjusted.
The whole running movement was stiff and deformed, completely losing the feeling of fluency in his weekdays.
The U.S. Olympic Trials Men's 100m four-shooter final, the preliminaries have eight groups of more than 30 of the United States' top 100 meters athletes to participate.As long as the top four of the runway group can advance to the rematch.
Now is the first shot of the preliminaries, Jason Gaby, the most powerful sprinter in the United States, if eliminated in the preliminaries, will be a laughing stock.
“Jason Gableby, what’s going on?”
Maurice Green, who was hired by Fox Television as a live commentary, sat on the media narrator and could not say a word.A dozen seconds before the game, he also talked with the host around him, saying that Jason Gabi is the only American athlete in the United States who can compete with the current top 100-meter players in Yeqin and Use-Bot.
He and Jason Gable had a long-established feud with Jason Gable, who were both new to the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, when the fledgling Jason Gable and Wallace Spellon were both newcomers and asked by him and John Caper, the veterans to carry the water.
As a result, both were unconvinced and even made the move to leave the U.S. track and field team residence and stay in a hotel, so that the media was in a frenzy at that time.
But since then, Jason Gabi has grown incredibly fast.Especially after the suspension of the Jax-Trin, almost instantly made up for the embarrassment of not having the top players in the one-two-hundred-meter sprint in the United States.
Morris Green is not used to Jason Gable, but he also has to admit that Jason Gabi's talent and strength are beyond his possibilities, and he is the current front of the United States.
Just ...
“What are you thinking?”
Morris-Green had the thought roll over in his head, almost jumping to the track and field to run the game in place of the other party.
As the same top athlete, he knows that after the level has reached a certain level, it is easy for athletes like Jason Gabi to lose their game and reach the final, or to qualify for the top three.
But now, at this moment, he can hardly believe that Jason Gaby, who can easily run within 9.90 seconds in the past 100 meters, fell to the end.
If Jason Gable is eliminated in the preliminaries, Morris Greene could say he would have laughed at each other without hesitation.But as an American athlete to participate in the Olympics, he doesn’t want Jason Gable to lose.
Because in the 100-meter project of the American sprint, if Jason Gaby loses his qualification, the Jamaican and the Chinese will be unstoppable.
“I cannot lose!”
“I can’t be eliminated!”
"I'm going to the Olympics, and I'm going to face off with Yechin and Youss-Boat!"
When the course ran to 50 meters, it seemed that the screams and noise on the sidelines made Jason Gabi sober, or return to the familiar runway, and the wind galloping ran to let him find the familiar feeling and rhythm.
A strong impulse burst from the bottom of his heart, suddenly woke him up!
“What am I doing, I’m playing!”
Looking at the track ahead, Jason Gabi suddenly realized that after a short period of 50 meters, if he ran like this, he might miss the most important race of his life!
“Ah!”
For an instant, it seemed that the staff and the referee on the sidelines heard a roar.
Jason Gabi, who was running on the third track, suddenly broke out, and the speed increased almost instantly.
“Oh!”
A sound that sounded almost at the same time swept the entire stadium, and all the spectators in the stands could not help but stand up at this moment.
The men's 100-meter race, the gap between the electric flints, Jason Gabi suddenly broke out.
At a distance of about fifty meters, from the last one, suddenly began to accelerate and chased wildly.
Sixty meters...
Jason Gaby went from the top-down position to the second.
70 meters...
Jason Gabi has gone hand in hand with the seventh-place finisher and is fast approaching the sixth.
He is the second half of the racer, the front start can be said to have a super big mistake, but as long as he wakes up, does not give up the game, will be the second half of the advantage out, there is still possibility...
“Heal!Rush!Rushed!”
At the media commentary, Mosley-Grin broke out almost instantly with a loud roar and roared almost out.
At present, the strongest athlete in the United States in the 100 meters, if you are eliminated in the preliminaries of the Olympic trials, it will be a big joke.
80 meters, 90 meters...
The finish line is getting closer...
Jason Gabi can hardly hear any sound, eyes did not pay attention to the opponent, this time, the last fifty meters, he has been completely unable to be distracted, from the beginning of the line has been a long way behind, to now, to this moment, he only has to go all out to fight!
He did not want to lose the Olympic qualification, once he was so full of expectations for the Olympic Games, from the boyhood to see Karl Lewis's game, watching Michael Johnson's game, he is very much looking forward to one day standing in the Olympic Games.
The opportunity is already in front of him, but he is out of shape because of the powerful opponents he may encounter, which should not be!
He needs this opportunity!
Fast and arms strong, at the last fifty meters, Jason Gaby could be sure that he had never run so fast at this moment since he started in athletics.
Lance Brauman and Jon Drummond in the stands almost felt like they were on a roller coaster, and because time was too short, a mood had just risen and was immediately replaced by another.
At this time, they both tugged open their collars and shouted, “Gabi, rush!”Rushed!”
The line!
There was a sudden silence in Hayward Stadium!
Then, a sudden burst of a huge gasp, and it seemed that everyone was breathing a long sigh of relief at this moment.
10 seconds and 33 seconds!
The fourth group!
Jason Gabi surpassed the original fourth player in the final moment, winning the other in one hundredth of a second and winning the qualifying round.
Jason Gaby looked at the results on the live timer, the heart pounded, he did not know because of the high-intensity burden of the heart after vigorous exercise, or at this moment, he was happy to have qualified.
"Eather Yeqin, Uuse-Bot, I don't think much now.If even the Olympic qualification is lost and there is no qualification to stand on the same track as them, then the rest is meaningless.”
Jason Gabi’s eyes grew brighter and brighter, and although his breathing was still short, the whole person’s spiritual bread changed dramatically at that moment.
After a short game, no, it should be a few seconds, after a distance of 50 meters, the strong pressure that was originally pressed in his heart suddenly disappeared.
Since Yeqin and Uuse-Bot broke the world record, although he has been hinting at himself that he will not be weaker than them and can overcome them, in fact, the deepest part of his heart will always have a lack of confidence and suspicion.
Especially in the past few years, in the face of Ye Qin's game, he lost more and less, which has a great impact on the mentality of an athlete.
But now, Jason Gaby suddenly felt that his mental burden was really too heavy, challenging his opponents, for the Olympic Games, all the games need to run out of their own efforts one after another, thinking too much without any benefit.
He is currently the first person in the U.S. track and field sprint, but not the entire American sprint.
Jason Gaby, who is behind these joints, stands in front of the finish line, looks at himself in fourth place and runs 10.33, which is one of the few places he has appeared in major events since 2005.
If he had run such a place and a result in previous competitions, he might have been angry and desperate, but now he seems to have taken off a layer of shackles.
The face was always silent and heavy, and the grin rang in front of the TV, and a bright smile appeared.
...
At 20:20 p.m., the men's 100m rematch, Jason Gaby set a new record of the American men's 100m for nine years with Maurice Green in 9.77.
The next day, June 28, in the men's 100m final of the American Outdoor Athletics Championships and Olympic trials held at 21.30 p.m., Jason Gaby won the men's 100m championship with a time of 9.68 seconds in the super wind speed (+4.1 m/s).
This time, the super wind speed is not a world record, but this is the fastest man's 100 meters ever under any conditions.
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