After running the last international race in June in Almaty on June 22, the Chinese women's 4x100m relay missed the Paris Olympics, which is already an irretrievable fact, and the so-called theory may not exist.
Many sports fans find it difficult to accept, and they still remember that the chic Nezha Tou Army won the sixth place in the final of the last Olympic Games, creating a new history of Chinese women's 4x100m; Hangzhou Asian Games steadily revenge the Bahrain team success; And the last two World Championships have all advanced to the main circle, but last year's World Championships gave up because of the preparation for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Chinese women's 4x100m feels like they have been moving forward vigorously, so why is it suddenly dying down now?
But knowledgeable track and field fans should know that the overall strength of the Chinese team has been slowly declining in recent years. It has nothing to do with whether you are in good spirits or not.
And the Chinese team's loss of Olympic qualification was already doomed on June 11: when the Belgian team ran 42.85 seconds in the preliminaries of the European Championships. One more thing to add: Liberia actually surpassed the Chinese team who ran 43.03 seconds in the Bahamas relay race, and they ran 42.93 seconds in the African Championships.
Outside the 16-team promotion circle, the Chinese team ranked 18th, two positions behind.
After so many years of polishing, the fluency of the Chinese team's cooperation has reached a world-class level. But although the relay has the tactics of passing smoothly and saving time, the core is still the strength of the players. Unfortunately, in an Olympic year, our main players are at a low point.
In the just-concluded national championships, Liang Xiaojing ran 11.33 seconds, and Ge Manqi ran 11.39 seconds, both of which set a new high since the end of the Asian Games last year. The other main force, Li Yuting, has a best time of 11.42 seconds this year, and Wei Yongli has a time of 11.59 seconds.
It can be said that when the Chinese team competed for qualification, our four players were actually in the range of 11.4 and 11.5 seconds, and it was quite good to be able to reach 43.03 seconds in the Bahamas relay competition, and it was a bit wishful thinking to rush to 42.8 seconds.
Wei Yongli is getting older, and it is difficult to make a breakthrough, Li Yuting is specialized in 200 meters, and there is some delay in 100 meters. Liang Xiaojing and Ge Manqi are some distance away from the peak, and the whole team will have no solution.
The Chinese team replaced Wei Yongli with Chen Yujie in the final game in Almaty, which was completely correct, but unfortunately there was only one game. or many runs for two races, which can enter more than 42 seconds, after all, Chen Yujie has an advantage of at least 0.3 seconds over Wei Yongli now.
But this "maybe" can only be achieved in the next Olympic cycle. Judging from the Almaty relay race, the Chinese team began to cultivate a multi-player next-generation lineup.
2019 is the peak of the Chinese team with Liang Xiaojing, Ge Manqi, and Wei Yongli as the core. At that time, he was even able to give a world-top five performance of 42.31 seconds. But what was their 100-meter level at that time? Liang Xiaojing 11.13 seconds, Wei Yongli 11.04 seconds, Ge Manqi 11.04 seconds!
Another core, Kong Lingwei, mainly attacked the third stick, mainly examining the speed of 200 meters, and she was 23.31 seconds in 200 meters that year. And I want to mention one more thing here, for the sake of relay, Kong Lingwei's single event is basically to give up, you must know that Kong Lingwei's 200-meter results in 2018 reached 22.92 seconds, 100-meter 11.34 seconds.
Comparing the two sets of Chinese teams with similar members in 2024 and 2019 together, it is clear that the 2024 version of the Chinese team, even if they do the best to cooperate with the baton, there is still a qualitative gap between them and the 2019 version, although there are still some problems with the cooperation of the Chinese team in the 2019 version, and they made mistakes in the World Championships finals that year.
Now I can only start all over again, the Mesozoic continues to look for the strongest self, the veterans say goodbye in style, and the newcomers join with their heads held high. Not to mention the 2032 Olympic Games, next year's World Championships, and the Asian Games the year after tomorrow, there will be big battles!