9/30 Essay 2 free writing

Recently, the Chinese Sports Association once again advocated using physical fitness test results to determine the number of selected players. In a national swimming championship, two “new record-makers” were disqualified for the final due to poor physical performance. Even in the newly launched Chess Division A, many middle-aged veterans also need physical fitness tests. All athletes must participate in a two-day physical fitness test before the official start of the event, which includes a 3000-meter run, a 30-meter sprint, vertical jump, pull-ups, and trunk core strength. Only the top 16 athletes in the preliminaries and the top 8 athletes in the physical test can enter the finals. I think it is very wrong to use the data of the physical fitness tests as the decisive factor for judging whether an athlete is good. For example, the famous sprinter Su Bingtian said, “3000 meters belong to slow aerobic exercise. Sprinters focus on strength and explosive power training. If you train too much for long-distance running, fast muscles will become slow muscles and affect our explosive power. It is recommended that we focus too much energy on this.” This forced promotion and vicious shortcoming behavior are very unfavorable for athletes to challenge the limit in their field of expertise.

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