Recalling that at the end of June three years ago, Zheng Ninali, who had completed her official naturalization in China from Canada for only two and a half months, participated in the Estonian National Championships as a foreign guest player, and finally got the Olympic ticket for the women's heptathlon before the deadline for reaching the Olympic standards.
Now, three years later, Zheng Ninali announced on Weibo that she would not be able to participate in the Paris Olympics.
In the just-concluded national championships, Zheng Nina won the championship with 5946 points. The championship is gratifying, but if you want to think about competing for the right to qualify for the Olympics, 5946 points can only be said to be unqualified.
This score can probably hit 1063 points, counting 50 championship points, and a total score of 1113 points. Zheng Ninali's current Olympic points are 1168 points, which means that the national championship result will not help her Olympic points increase.
With no more games to play, Zheng Nina can only accept the fact that she is ranked 26th in the Olympic standings, and 24 women in the Olympic heptathlon will be selected.
In fact, at the beginning of May, Zheng Ninali's Olympic points ranking was still 16th. Winning the Asian Games and finishing third in a match in the United States in early April were her two major gains.
But relying on these two major events to eat the old money, obviously not safe, Zheng Nina Li participated in a competition in Italy at the end of April, but in the 100m hurdles to run foul, heptathlon into heptathlon, the plan was disrupted.
A week before the start of the national championships, Nina Zheng played again in Germany. In this race, Zheng Nina successfully competed in the first six events, but did not participate in the last 800-meter race, and there was no final result.
At this time, the storm is turbulent, international competitions are frequent, and Zheng Ninali, who has not achieved results in two consecutive games, has fallen from 16th to 26th place and must participate in the national championship.
The more than 5,900 points in the championship game was a failure for Zheng Nina. She made it clear on Weibo: there was a problem with the long jump springboard, which caused her to hurt her knee. 800 meters and a solid fall. Both of these are supported by videos.
Very unlucky. Sigh.
Fortunately, Zheng Ninali's 25-year-old age is still young, and the active world-class players in the women's heptathlon, such as Sebastian Vettel of the Netherlands, Johnson-Thompson of the United Kingdom, and Thiam of Belgium, are all 30 or 31-year-old veterans, but these "big sisters" are still in the top five in the world.
I look forward to the more mature and powerful Zheng Nina in all aspects in four years, which can bring us the biggest surprise.