The short span of 60-meter hurdles was, except for Liu Xiang winning the championship with a time of 7.43 seconds, Merritt trailed 0.01 and won the runner-up, and the third place was French player Lagarde 7.53s.

The next few are:

Kitty Hawk Country Pots fourth, 7.58s.

Russian player Shabanov is fifth, 7.60s.

Italian player Abat ranked sixth, 7.63s.

South African player Fudi Seventh, 7.69s.

Polish player Noga is eighth, 7.74s.

Merritt said bluntly after the game:

He was already very happy to beat the strongest person in this project just a little bit.

He was not surprised by Liu Xiang's turnaround against the wind. This is the world's strongest player. He should learn from the former.

Liu Xiang’s own side first talked about his feelings about the game in an interview with Dou Rina:

This game was very difficult. As the number one favorite in the game, I was actually a bit unsatisfactory in comparison. Well, the starting reaction was indeed slow. After falling behind in the first bar, I wanted to quickly add up the speed, so I accidentally hit the barricade. Fortunately, I stabilized during the run on the way, which made me have the possibility of defeating my opponent.

At the same time, Liu Xiang also said Merritt:

I have known this player before, but I don't know much about it, but judging from his performance this year, I think it's very likely that he will replace Oliver as one of my American opponents.

Many people will certainly question this. After all, Merritt has never achieved any good results in the outdoor competition. This time he lost to Liu Xiang again in the indoor competition. Dou Rina said, "You are too modest."

I thought it was just humility and encouragement as a champion.

But Liu Xiang said seriously:

I'm not kidding. Maybe many people haven't noticed it, and I haven't noticed it before, that is, he has actually undergone the "Eight-to-Seventh" training, and as of now, his adaptation is very good.

Maybe it was even faster than when I adapted back then.

If he continues to maintain it, maybe his 13-second game in the outdoor game will be near.

That being said, but this is true in the competitive sports world. Even if someone has the foresight to see it, as long as the athlete does not achieve the corresponding results in one day, it will not be convincing for a day and will not change his mindset about him.

Liu Xiang didn't expect him to change the status quo in just a few words, but this already reflects his own beginning attention to Merritt.

Liu Xiang's words also received a response from Merritt, who said when facing the camera:

Careful people may find that like Liu, I am the same as Liu. Now when I start, I also have my left foot in front and right foot in the back. This is the same starting position as Liu.

Yes, this indoor World Championship is the second time I have used the seven-step upper bar in the official competition. In fact, I have only been modifying my starting skills for three months, so there are still many immature areas that need to be learned from my predecessors.

It was Liu who prompted me to think of changing my starting skills. There was no problem with this. Especially now, almost all the top hurdlers have changed seven steps. Robles has seven steps, Oliver has seven steps, and Liu has seven steps, I think I can't wait any longer. Everyone runs seven steps, and if I still run eight steps alone, I will inevitably fall behind. If I want to become a first-class player, I think I must change it to seven steps on the hurdler like Liu.

I hope this time the silver medal will start my season well, and I hope I can perform better in the outdoor competition.

...

Although there are now a lot of celebrations and cheers outside, Liu Xiang's three consecutive championships in the Indoor World Championships have once again improved his historical status and become more consolidated.

In the entire short-span history, he was the only one who won three consecutive championships in the indoor world championships, plus three consecutive championships in the World Championships.

Although Liu Xiang's own obsession is still at the Olympics.

But even in this Olympics, he performed poorly, and relying on the three consecutive honors of the World Championships and the Indoor World Championships, he has now become the first throne.

If you can still win an Olympic gold medal, you will prove yourself on the world's largest stage again.

Then his historical status will be more stable.

After all, there are many types of firsts.

There is a big gap between the second one and the first one with several levels of empty space in the middle.

There are also the first ones that are not very far from the second and third.

All are the first, so athletes naturally want to be the former.

At this time, Liu Xiang was dealing with his injury in the lounge. The injury was broken when he was just hurried, and the heels were broken. The blood on his heels were the mark left when he was punching the railing, because when he passed the railing, his feet hit the railing, his heels were rubbed and his heels were bleeding.

But at this time, because the place where the broken was broken, it was in the same position as his injured foot. In order to avoid the media and outsiders making up randomly, they waited for Liu Xiang to return to the lounge before starting to deal with it. In fact, they were worried very correctly, because in the original timeline, Liu Xiang had such a problem, and was immediately asked to capture it by the media, and began to create various unfavorable remarks on the Internet.

This time, Liu Xiang's team, because Su Shen intervened, naturally helped him avoid this unfavorable remark that was surrounded by public opinion again.

While treating the wound, Liu Xiang and his master Sun Haiping watched Merritt's current speech and interview on TV. When they saw Merritt actually said that it only took three months to reschedule it...

The entire lounge fell into silence.

Even when Liu Xiang saw this time, he felt a trace of solemnity flashing in his eyes.

"This should be unlikely. Coach Sun and Brother Xiang spent a long time training at that time." A team member immediately asked, as if he felt that the changes to this time were a bit exaggerated, and even couldn't believe it.

"It should be impossible in theory." If Sun Haiping hadn't known that Su Shen revealed this news to Liu Xiang before, he might have really thought so. This was just a "smoke bomb" discussed by Merritt and his team, because the trend of global villages is becoming more and more obvious at this stage. In addition, after the whole nation began to enter the mobile network society, the confrontation between information and public opinion began to affect the athletes' sports mentality more.

This kind of nonsense and smoke bombs are becoming more and more common.

But it was because Liu Xiang had mentioned to him before that Su Shen You Dao and insider information had already told him in advance that someone from the US short team made a big breakthrough in winter training. Now it seems that this Merritt should be, so...

What he said may not be true or false.

And if it is true, it may be more terrifying than fake ones.

How difficult is this technique to train?

Liu Xiang and Sun Haiping both knew that even Liu Xiang spent a whole year or even longer training and running-in. If this guy really only took three months... then his understanding and adaptability of this technology might be better than Liu Xiang.

Although Liu Xiang spent so long was related to his own injury recovery, he could not devote so much energy and physical strength to train in the early stage.

But if you can get it for three months.

Liu Xiang himself was not sure, and he also thought this was too exaggerated. Anyway, if Merritt hadn't said this, he personally thought it would be too unreasonable to suddenly integrate the technology that had been in decades in three months.

"Three months, can you, A Xiang?" Sun Haiping ignored the questions of the team members, turned his head and looked at Liu Xiang first and asked.

"No...at least this is very difficult and very high, and the probability is very low." Liu Xiang did not need to hide his true thoughts too much when facing Sun Haiping. After saying this, he thought about it and added:

"Even if I'm in a healthy state, I probably can't."

"Um."

When Sun Haiping heard this, he nodded slightly, but his face and expression became more solemn.

Look at the Merritt on the screen who had no presence before.

Be more cautious.

"Go and find some of his information." As soon as Sun Haiping finished speaking, a team member immediately turned on his phone and called up a copy of information.

This made Sun Haiping not expect that many of his thinking and behavioral methods were still in the past, but 2012 was the year when the whole country entered the mobile network society. It didn’t take so much time to search and organize a lot of information.

Moreover, Su Shen built this compound team for Liu Xiang, and there were already people responsible for collecting each player's daily information and seasonal results.

Now, you can naturally adjust it immediately.

Sun Haiping took a mobile phone and saw some messages collected by Xiangzhi Team:

Aris Merritt, a first-year high school student, is not very prominent in the school track and field team. He practices sprinting, but he has never been the fastest person.

Once, his teammates bet with Merritt that he could not skip a obstacle on the field. Merritt easily won the small bet. His coach quietly observed the whole process. After that, the coach called him in front of him and said to him simply: 'From now on, you can practice hurdles'.

Merritt changed the project like this.

His background in gymnastics was very helpful for him to quickly master the key points of hurdles. In his last year of high school, Merritt won all the victories on his way to the 5A Interstate Championship in Georgia.

...

Sun Haiping looked over and said from time to time, and murmured from time to time in his mouth: "I used to practice sprinting."

"Is there a gymnastics background? If you say that, his flexibility and smoothness of passing the bar may have inherent advantages."

After reading the collected information about Merritt, Sun Haiping said to the person next to him: "Then this person should be what Xiaotian said."

"Axiang, this person should pay attention from now on, and add some more to watch his game in the future. You can study the topic of his game rhythm."

"Okay, I'll listen to your master."

Don’t talk about Sun Haiping, it was the first time that Liu Xiang had learned about Merritt’s personal career and background so seriously.

Having practiced sprinting and gymnastics, no wonder his height can control the "Eight-to-Seven" so well.

You have to know that Merritt is a little shorter than Liu Xiang. At that time, Sun Haiping didn't agree with Liu Xiang's "Eight Changes and Seven" situation. One big problem was that he believed that Liu Xiang's height was not enough.

Even Liu Xiang, who is behind, still has a gap even though he grows about 1.91 meters.

Before the "Eight Changes and Seventh" policy, most people thought it should be the skills that athletes should learn about 1.95 meters or even about two meters.

Merritt, who was shorter than Liu Xiang, learned this technique. Many people seem to be "seeking death" and is completely incompatible with their physiological characteristics.

But when they saw that Merritt actually had a gymnastics background, they immediately solved a lot of confusion in their hearts. Because people with gymnastics backgrounds have more flexibility and joint flexibility than ordinary people, and there are too many people who have never practice gymnastics.

As long as you have enough flexibility and joint flexibility, you do have such a possibility. Just like Guy is so much shorter than Powell, his stride can often even surpass Powell.

Just Merritt was like this all at once.

Perhaps the basic concept of height required for "Eight Changes and Seven" in the world will be overturned and rewritten.

"Sure enough, a few more brushes."
To be continued...