Text / Yin Hang
Halfway through the Paris Olympics, track and field events are long overdue. According to the schedule, the track and field events at the Paris Olympics are basically concentrated in the second half of the Olympic cycle. The men's 4×100m relay will be held in the first round on August 8, Beijing time, and the final will be held on August 10, the day before the Olympics conclude.
Su Bingtian's absence due to injury has made the track and field event at the Paris Olympics less popular. However, Xie Zhenye, who participated in the men's 100-meter event this time, and the men's 4×100-meter relay team composed of Wu Zhiqiang, Xie Zhenye, Yan Haibin and Chen Jiapeng are strong and are destined to surprise us on the purple track in Paris.
Among them, Chen Jiapeng of the men's 4×100m relay team once staged a scene of "Jedi overtaking" at the Hangzhou Asian Games. At that time, Chen Jiapeng, who was the last runner, was already two positions behind the Japan when he started, and almost everyone did not expect the gold medal, and it was too difficult to close the gap within 100 meters.
However, Chen Jiapeng just made such a miracle a reality. He quickly overtook Japan in just ten seconds, and staged a comeback in the last moment, allowing the Chinese team to win a gold medal in 38.29 seconds. Chen Jiapeng became popular in the first battle, and everyone remembered his name.
Chen Jiapeng's reversal moment
In the men's 4×100-meter relay race at the Paris Olympics, Chen Jiapeng is likely to be the last player of the Chinese team. The competition in the Olympic sprint event is extremely intense, and whether Chen Jiapeng can stage a "reversal" plot again is worth everyone's expectation.
According to the training video released by ASICS before the game, Chen Jiapeng is in good shape. For the industry, another focus of athletics events is the exposure of sports brands in the event. In August 2023, Chen Jiapeng officially became a contracted athlete of ASICS Greater China, so he will also wear ASICS shoes to compete in this Paris Olympics.
Chen Jiapeng once described himself as a "crazy athlete": "Actually, I have always been crazy on the field, because I feel that when I play, no matter who is around me, as long as I do it, it will be over." So isn't the Olympic arena, which gathers the attention of the world, the stage he dreams of the most?
Before the Paris race, we might as well review the strength of this 22-year-old Chinese track and field player.
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Chen Jiapeng in the men's 4×100m relay at the Hangzhou Asian Games is like a god. When asked why he was so motivated in his post-match interview, Chen Jiapeng said, "All I think about is raising the national flag and playing the national anthem."
The Jedi counterattack can be achieved by faith, but of course it is not only faith. In fact, as early as 2017, when he made his debut at the National Junior Track and Field Championships, Chen Jiapeng won the men's 200m championship. Since then, there have been many medals: from 2018 to 2019, the National Youth Competition and the Second National Youth Games won the men's 100m and 200m double championships for two consecutive years; In the 14th Games in 2021, he broke the men's 100-meter record in Jilin Province twice in the men's 100-meter event, and entered the final and won the 7th place; In July 2023, he won the silver medal in the men's 4x100m relay at the Asian Athletics Championships......
Chen Jiapeng's most recent appearance was the Tom Jones Athletics Memorial in the United States in April this year. In the men's 100m final, he set a personal best of 10.08 seconds, winning first place in the group and sixth in the overall standings. And successfully became the fifth athlete in Chinese history to open the 10.10 second mark.
It can be said that Chen Jiapeng is currently in his peak state. 22 years old is also the year of fighting.
In 2002, Chen Jiapeng was born in Siping, Jilin Province, he has the humor and heartiness of Northeast people, looking back at his relationship with track and field, it is also because of his naughty personality in childhood.
When he was young, his family saw that he had an active personality, so they chose the sports path. In 2016, Chen Jiapeng entered the Jilin Institute of Physical Education to receive training in race walking, however, this sport that requires endurance competition has prevented him from getting into the state. Chen Jiapeng, who is in the middle of puberty, has a different idea: "I think it is very easy to practice sprinting."
So he decisively switched to sprinting, but when he came, he realized that track and field training was not easy. But the 100 meters and 200 meters, which pursue speed and explosiveness, also happen to fit his character of "not being still". So Chen Jiapeng began to train with coach Zhang Fuyou.
In the relay race, Chen Jiapeng is good at running the fourth base. The fourth stick is a sprint to the end in one go, which is a key part of determining the outcome of the game, which requires the athlete to have momentum and even be "public" enough.
At ASICS's event, Krypton had the privilege of having a conversation with Chen Jiapeng and was infected by his outgoing personality. When asked about his "personality on the field", Chen Jiapeng said: "You need to be domineering in the field, and you can't be weak when you see your opponent."
In life and training, he is indeed an athlete who runs "domineering" throughout. After the end of the 2020 season, Chen Jiapeng went to the national team for training for the first time, and he showed his newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.
"I'm going to win you!" Chen Jiapeng smiled and gave a "challenge letter" to Xie Zhenye, who was already the Asian record holder in the men's 200m at the time. Now that the two will compete together as teammates in the 100m relay event at the Paris Olympics, there is a strong attraction between the strong and the strong.
But Chen Jiapeng is not only domineering. After the end of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, Siping's relatives welcomed him in victory. After getting out of the car, Chen Jiapeng carefully took out the medal box of the Hangzhou Asian Games and put on the gold medal for his mother.
Invincible and flesh-and-blood, Chen Jiapeng's personality is as flamboyant and cute as many post-00s athletes. I also look forward to Chen Jiapeng and Chinese athletes to create another miracle in the track and field events of the next Paris Olympics.