At 7:31 p.m., the men's shot put competition of the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai station began.
Including Meng Fan, there are a total of 16 men's shot put players in Shanghai Station this time, which is the event with the most athletes participating in the 16 events.
In the men's shot put competition, each player has six trial throws, and the highest score is used for ranking.
The order of trial throwing is based on the results of the current cycle. Meng Fan is the last one. Wallace, who throws 22.67 meters, is ranked by another result due to insufficient competition level records, ranking fourth from the bottom.
The first trial throw was the men's shot put runner-up in Meng Fan's participation in the Asian Athletics Grand Prix. Ahezhuo from Kazakhstan threw it with a bang. The referee raised the flag and reported that the result was 20.07 meters. This made the player very excited, and also attracted applause and encouragement from other players around.
The first person passed 20 meters in the first trial throw, which was a good start and a very good signal in everyone's opinion.
And this result also created A Hezhuo's best result in the past three years, which is only a little short of his personal best result. With such a good start, he is very happy.
After getting down, Ahezhuo gave high-fives to the contestants who extended their hands to him, and finally had a fist bump with Meng Fan, and said with a smile in his not-so-fluent Chinese: "Meng, I can um~pb this time!"
I probably want to say that this time I can refresh my best personal result.
"It can be seen that your condition is very good." During the inspection just now, there were big bosses surrounding Meng Fan, Barabara, and this brother stood far away and smiled at Meng Fan. Meng Fan didn't have the chance to ask questions until now. , "By the way, what about little Ansa? Didn't follow you this time?"
"No, he's in school." As soon as he mentioned this, A Hezhuo looked at Meng Fan with gratitude.
There was a small story about participating in the Asian Athletics Grand Prix last time, which was a small episode for Meng Fan, but it was a big deal for A Hezhuo.
Ahezhuo has a nickname called Ahezhuo with a little boy. The reason is that he will take his son with him wherever he goes to the game. It’s not that he wants to take his son to travel around the world, but his son can’t do without he. Once you haven't seen him for more than 12 hours, you will be extremely emotionally unstable. If you haven't seen Ahezhuo for more than a day, you will collapse emotionally and then commit self-mutilation or even suicide. The reason is that his mother, who loved him as much as his life, suddenly left him and ran away, which cast a huge psychological shadow on him, and he was very worried that Ahe Zhuo would not want him anymore. As for any other more detailed reasons that existed during this period, outsiders do not know.
During the last competition, the kid almost had an accident in the athlete's apartment, and Meng Fan saw him and stopped him. After some understanding, Meng Fan gave him the "spiritual sap" package by the way, and the shadows were basically cleaned up. If there is no particularly serious situation, there will be basically no recurrence. Moreover, the curative effect of Meng Fan's package will continue in the next growth process, and he will heal himself.
It is also because of this that little Angsa can now stay at home and live with his grandparents. After not seeing his father for a while, he will be emotional like a normal child, but he will never lose control.
Ahezhuo was shocked why Meng Fan could do this, Meng Fan smiled and said that he had magic power, Ahezhuo believed it after thinking about it!
Back to the game.
With A Hezhuo's good start, the next few athletes came up and shot very good results, all of which were above normal performance.
Before the troika entered the field, the competitive status of the twelve athletes was basically online. Including A Hezhuo, a total of seven entered the 20-meter mark in the first round, but none of them entered the 21-meter mark. .
The 21-meter mark is still an insurmountable peak for most shot put players.
Here are two figures. Meng Fan's previous national record was 20.41 meters, and the Asian record was 21.13 meters. It can be seen that the 21-meter mark is terrible. Entering the 21-meter mark undoubtedly represents the world's top level. Like the troika, even though the current pb exceeds 22.5 meters, in many competitions they can only achieve results within 22 meters.
Finally, Wallace, the first member of the troika, appeared.
Wallace is the troika who won the fewest championships in the world's top competitions, but he has the fastest and most ruthless results, but he may not be too lucky. Extraordinary performances always appear in other low-level competitions. There is always a little bit of meaning missing in top competitions.
It's really not to say that his psychological quality in large-scale competitions is not good, let alone that his competitive state is not in place, especially in terms of mentality. On the contrary, it can be said to be very good. One is that he never complained that his performance was not at the right time, and the other is... You see, people just danced the Maori war dance and entered the stage. After so many times, it was almost unreasonable to be like this, and the mentality is not good These words are really inappropriate for him.
ha!
Wallace made a shot, and the shot flew out, causing the players watching the match to exclaim.
The condition is very good, the shot is very beautiful, and the shot put exceeds the line of 22 meters!
This result, not to mention extraordinary performance, but it is definitely a very good performance. Breaking the 22-meter mark, it is a delisting or even a championship result in any top competition.
that's right...
After Wallace's trial throw was over, the referee raised the flag to indicate a foul. After the throwing action, the foot fouled. It was obvious that the referee felt sorry.
Why.
There was also a sigh off the court.
Wallace was very optimistic. He went to the other players and said with a smile: "I am in a good state today, and I feel that I can achieve very good results today." After speaking, he looked at the other two carriages and Meng Fan, " You must break out today, I need your stimulation! I can lose the game, but I must brush up my pb!"
The two carriages laughed for a while, then looked at Meng Fan together and smiled again, the picture was very... harmonious.
Behind Wallace is Ryan Cruther. He and Wallace can be said to be opposite. Currently, the pb is the lowest among the three, but they have won two consecutive Olympic champions, 16 years and 20 years. , I can't say how lucky he is, the main reason is that his performance is more stable than the other two, much more stable. The number of extraordinary performances is less than the other two, but the number of stable performances is far more than the two.
Cruther's first test shot was as stable as usual, with a good score of 21.7, which was also his best shot after the Olympics. It is true that there is no problem with calling it stable, but compared to His pb, or personal best, of 22.61 meters is still a bit short-this result is a new Olympic record.
Following Cruther is Kovacs, who is currently the owner of the best score in the past ten years except Meng Fan, 22.65 meters, which is 0.01 meters behind Meng Fan's current best score of 22.66 meters In terms of official results, it can be said that the strength is almost the same as that of Meng Fan.
This Kovac is in a better state than the other two, and he played very well. He broke 22 meters in the first trial shot, and the score was 22.08 meters, and there was no foul, and the result was valid.
Breaking the 22-meter mark for the first time, let alone nearly ten years, has never happened in the past thirty years.
This time the men's shot put is the focus of the live broadcast. Except for a very few men's 400 meters who are participating in the competition because the country has the most important athletes, all the live TV broadcasts are focused on this. The commentators are Passionate and salivating.
Immediately afterwards, Meng Fan appeared on the stage. As the biggest player in men's shot put this time, and also the biggest player in the Diamond League Shanghai station, he naturally has absolute attention, not to mention that this is the first time Meng Fan has crossed the border Go to the world-class competition in track and field.
Whether Meng Fan's performance in the Asian Athletics Grand Prix was a flash in the pan, or whether he continued to maintain his terrifying momentum of pushing across any field, this is the answer they all want to know.
Meng Fan made a move, and the answer was there.
The biggest feeling of Meng Fan's movements is stretching, stretching wide open and wide. The shot flew along his arm as if he had grown wings. Everyone's eyes followed the shot. It hit the 23-meter line, and everyone stood up and exclaimed!
However, the exclamation did not end, and it became a sigh amidst the referee's raising the flag to signal a foul.
This is really not the effect of Meng Fan, it is indeed an action foul. Action fouls in throwing competitions are common, and Meng Fan is no exception.
Embarrassedly smiling, he left the stage, looked at his troika, and said, "Didn't I just want to stimulate you, isn't that exciting enough?"