Men's 62kg Group B.
"Brother Jiang, this is the last lift. How much weight should we add?" Li Dai asked.
"How much was added to Fang Dashan's third trial?" Jiang Aiguo asked.
"I don't know, they haven't added yet, and coach Fang Dashan seems to be saying something to the referee." Li Dai replied.
"They are deliberately stalling for time and want us to choose first!" Jiang Aiguo is also experienced in competitions and saw Fang Dashan's intention at a glance.
If two people compete in the same group, this situation will not happen. The person with the lower score must choose the weight first. But now that the two are in different groups, there is room for delay.
"Brother Jiang, what should we do?" Li Dai asked.
After all, Li Dai was young and inexperienced, and it was his first time to participate in a national-level official competition. At this time, he had no choice at all, so he could only ask Jiang Aiguo at this time.
"Let's stall for time. Let's go and find the referee. Just say that I think the barbell is unbalanced from left to right and ask for the barbell to be changed." Jiang Aiguo said.
Formal competitions must use international standard barbells. There are two types of barbells, men's barbells and women's barbells. The main difference is in the barbell bars. The barbell plates are of the same standard. The men's barbell is 2.20 meters long and weighs 20 kilograms, while the women's barbell is 2.15 meters long and weighs 15 kilograms.
As a tool for official competitions, the length and weight of the barbell must be exactly the same. At the same time, the left and right balance must be achieved. If the barbell is unbalanced, one side will be heavy and the other will be light, and the athletes will be greatly affected.
Replacing the barbell during competition is a very troublesome thing. After the new barbell is brought in, it cannot be used immediately. Instead, the left and right balance must be re-measured, which will consume a lot of time. Of course, veteran athletes like Jiang Aiguo knew this very well, so they chose to use this method to delay time.
But the referees are not fools. At this time, they all saw that both Fang Dashan and Jiang Aiguo were just looking for excuses to delay time. They just wanted the other party to choose the weight first.
The progress of the competition has been delayed, and there is still a next-level competition. Of course, everyone cannot waste time here. After several referees discussed it, they issued an ultimatum.
"You must choose a weight within two minutes, otherwise it will be considered a forfeit!" the referee said.
"What about them?" Jiang Aiguo pointed to the side of Group A: "What about Fang Dashan?"
"They also have two minutes. If they don't choose within two minutes, it will be considered a forfeit." The referee said.
Jiang Aiguo nodded: "Okay, I understand."
"We have to choose a weight within two minutes. How much should we choose?" Dai Li looked anxious. It was his first time to experience such a scene, especially when he felt time passing by second by second with the sound of his heartbeat. , I felt even more flustered.
"We have now beaten them by 1 kilogram, which is our advantage, but Jiang Aiguo weighs more than Fang Dashan, which is our disadvantage. What weight should we report? 171 kilograms? Or 172 kilograms? This is safer. Jiang Aiguo should be able to lift the numbers. But if Fang Dashan also reports the same weight, then we will lose!"
Dai Li knew that it was now a psychological game. If the weight was too low, he would be surpassed by the opponent; if the weight was too high, it would be in vain if he could not lift it. For Li Dai, a rookie, he simply didn't know what number to choose. At this time, luck and experience may be the most important.
Jiang Aiguo on the opposite side looked very calm. As a weightlifting veteran, the last thing he lacked was experience. The more this time came, the more Jiang Aiguo had to keep a calm mind.
After a while, Jiang Aiguo took a deep breath, with determination in his eyes: "Give me the weight of 175 kilograms!"
"175 kilograms? We have never tried such a high weight." Li Dai looked surprised: "I remember I checked the information. The champion of the 62 kilogram class in the last Olympic Games only lifted 176 kilograms in the clean and jerk. 176 kilograms You can win the Olympic championship, do you really want to lift 175 kilograms now? We have secured the top two, and we now have a 1 kilogram lead, so there is no need to work so hard!"
Jiang Aiguo said nothing, but his expression told Dai Li that he would stick to his decision.
The clean and jerk of 175 kilograms would not be difficult if it were the former Jiang Aiguo. At that time, after all, he was an athlete in the 69kg category. For the 69kg category, the clean and jerk of 175kg was probably just the threshold for high-level domestic athletes.
For athletes in the 62kg category, 175kg in the clean and jerk is a difficult peak to climb. As Li Dai said, in the last Olympics, only 176kg in the clean and jerk was needed to win the gold medal, and the Olympic record in the 62kg category in the clean and jerk was It is only 177.5 kilograms. Based on this calculation, in a national weightlifting championship, 175 kilograms of clean and jerk is really an unimaginable number.
When he heard the number "175", Li Dai knew that Jiang Aiguo was taking a risk, or even gambling. Since Jiang Aiguo dropped to the 62kg category, he has never lifted a weight of 175kg, a number that has never been lifted in training. To achieve it in a formal competition, Li Dai can only pray that Jiang Aiguo can perform exceptionally.
Dai Li wrote "175" on the paper and then walked to the referee's table, but he did not hand the note to the referee immediately.
Ten seconds later, Fang Dashan's coach also came over. He also stopped at the referee's table, looked at Dai Li, and did not hand the note to the referee.
Both of them are prepared to wait until the 2 minutes are about to end before handing the note to the referee. This will prevent the other party from temporarily changing their weight after knowing their weight in advance.
The two of them stared at each other like this, and the referees also looked helpless. Since they had allotted two minutes, they couldn't grab the note in advance.
Finally, when the two minutes were almost up, the two handed the note with the weight to the referee's hand almost at the same time.
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In the stands, the audience has been waiting for a long time, but everyone knows that this is the last move and the moment that determines the final victory, so they all wait patiently.
"I don't know how much weight Fang Dashan will add. It won't be just 1 kilogram! I remember that the minimum weight is 1 kilogram."
"Fang Dashan is now 1 kilogram behind. He will definitely not only add 1 kilogram, because Jiang Aiguo on the opposite side will also get heavier. After Jiang Aiguo gets heavier, he will still suppress Fang Dashan. If Fang Dashan wants to be equal to Jiang Aiguo, at least You have to add 2 kilograms.”
"It is relatively safe for Fang Dashan to lift 172 kilograms. He must suppress Jiang Aiguo's weight at least two times."
"Barbell plates of different weights are distinguished by color, so we only need to see what color barbell the staff brings up to know how much weight they have added."