Before you know it, the Paris Olympics have entered the middle stage, and soon the track and field events that everyone is most concerned about will begin. Athletics is the most popular event in the Olympic Games because it embodies strength, speed, and explosiveness, and is closest to the limits of human challenge. Although we have always been in a catch-up situation in track and field, and running has always been dominated by North American and African athletes, we have always had medal events in long and short runs, so we are also loved by domestic audiences.
However, on the eve of the start of the track and field event, Chinese sprinter Xie Zhenye suddenly issued an official announcement, announcing that he would withdraw from the men's 200m in his main event and make every effort to protect the men's 4x100m relay event. Xie Zhenye is 30 years old this year, which is the end of his career for sprinters, and no matter how hard he tries to maintain his condition, his physical function will decline with age, and his speed is irreversible.
For Xie Zhenye, giving up his main event to prepare for the 4x100m relay is a great sacrifice. This decision is an overall decision made by himself, his individual team and the Chinese Athletics Association, and many parties have reluctantly made a choice after discussing it together. Although the individual 200m and 4x100m relay do not conflict, the training arrangement is crossed, don't look at the sprint events, but the training method of each event is different under the subdivision, and the 200m training method to practice 100m is completely wrong. Although it is a great pity for Xie Zhenye personally, it is also a helpless move, although he is the holder of the Asian record in the 200m, but it is very difficult for him to win a medal in the Olympic Games.
There may be many netizens who think that Xie Zhenye's withdrawal is the meaning of the association, and the purpose is to sacrifice personal interests to safeguard collective interests, but in fact this is not the case. Xie Zhenye himself has a back injury, and the 200-meter turn is a big test for him, and he has practiced a lot in the 100-meter event recently, and he also participated in the 100-meter preliminaries before. The next men's 4x100m Chinese track and field team also has some hope of winning a medal, of course, this event is also a strong player.
In fact, when he participated in the 100-meter preliminaries and missed the semi-finals by 0.0001 seconds, he responded to whether he would participate in the 200-meter. For him personally, he must hope to hit the Olympic medal in his last edition, but personal emotions sometimes need some compromise, and under the rational thinking of the team and the association, Xie Zhenye finally made the decision to retire.