Chapter 247: Long Jump Final
The men's 10,000m was the last event on August 17, and after the medal ceremony, the media in China naturally reported the news that Zhang Huasong broke the record to win the second gold medal. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Zhang Huasong broke the record in the men's 10,000-meter final in 25:57.39 and won the championship, and the human 10,000-meter entered the 26-minute mark for the first time!"
"Men's 10,000m Zhang Huasong broke the record and won the second gold of the Peking Olympics!"
"Zhang Huasong unexpectedly broke the record to win the men's 10,000-meter gold medal, and the possibility of surpassing the myth of Phelps' eight gold medals has been greatly improved!"
"Zhang Huasong won the men's 10,000-meter championship, won his second gold medal, and successfully advanced to the high jump and third-level long jump qualifications, looking forward to Zhang Huasong's next competition!"
The Chinese media naturally has the most news reports on Zhang Huasong's victory.
And foreign media, although most of them are still reporting Phelps's myth of eight golds, but some countries other than the Stars and Stripes country have also begun to notice the difference in Zhang Huasong's second gold medal.
If Zhang Huasong's second gold medal is 200 meters, high jump, long jump, etc., everyone will not be surprised, because it is within everyone's expectations.
However, Zhang Huasong broke the record and won the gold medal in the 10,000 meters, which really surprised many people.
Since Zhang Huasong can break the record and win the 10,000-meter gold medal with a huge advantage, the strength of the marathon is definitely not much worse, and it is very likely that the marathon will also win the championship.
Coupled with Zhang Huasong's terrifying strength in other events, Zhang Huasong is really likely to win more than 8 gold medals and surpass Phelps.
Some Western media have published comments about Zhang Huasong's possibility of surpassing the myth of Phelps' eight golds, but they have not attracted too much attention.
After all, Zhang Huasong is only the second gold medal, and Phelps' eight-gold myth is hot.
2 gold medals compared to 8 gold medals, the difference is too far. Now that Zhang Huasong may surpass Phelps, except for the Chinese people who believe it, people from other countries think it is unlikely.
Especially the audience of the Stars and Stripes, at this time, they have already regarded Phelps as a national hero, thinking that Phelps is already an Olympic god that no one can surpass, where will Zhang Huasong care.
In addition to the big celebrations of the Chinese people and the comments of some Western media, Zhang Huasong's second gold medal did not cause a sensation around the world.
Zhang Huasong wants to surpass Phelps, there is a long way to go, and he still needs to continue to break the record to win the championship!
On August 18, after the international celebrity popularity list was refreshed, Phelps's ranking was promoted from a second-tier star to a first-tier superstar, and his fame in the world has made a qualitative leap.
There are also media reports that Phelps' annual income before the Peking Olympics was more than $10 million.
After winning 8 gold medals in the Peking Olympics, as long as Phelps' competitive state does not decline too much in the next few years, his annual income will be as high as more than 30 million US dollars, or more than 200 million yuan.
And, it's net income.
Some companies may have a market value of tens of billions, but their net profit in a year is not necessarily as high as Phelps's.
Therefore, this income is already a very terrifying number!
While not as much as Tiger Woods' annual income of more than $100 million a year for golfing, it is not far from the annual income of football superstar David Beckham and basketball superstar Kobe Bryant's annual income of more than $30 million.
Phelps's signature was also revealed to have fans spend more than 10,000 yuan to trade, and the popularity can be called hot.
However, none of this has much to do with Zhang Huasong!
What Zhang Huasong has to do is to play well and surpass Phelps. At that time, backed by a market of more than one billion people in China, Zhang Huasong's popularity and income will definitely surpass Phelps.
On the morning of August 18, Zhang Huasong will participate in the first and second rounds of the men's 200m preliminaries, and in the evening, Zhang Huasong will participate in the men's long jump final.
The Beiping Olympic Organizing Committee deliberately tilted Zhang Huasong's schedule, and in terms of track and field schedule, except for August 15, from August 16 to August 24, Zhang Huasong will participate in at least one final every day.
If Zhang Huasong can win the championship in the finals of every event, then the Bird's Nest will raise the national flag and play the national anthem for Zhang Huasong's victory every day.
This is an achievement that has never been done before!
At 9 a.m., the men's 200m heats began.
A total of 64 athletes participated in the first round of the men's 200m heats, divided into 8 groups. The top three finishers in each group and the remaining 8 people, for a total of 32 people advanced to the second round of preliminaries.
There are a lot of 100-meter athletes and 200-meter athletes, so there are many old acquaintances of Zhang Huasong.
Usain Bolt, Tyson Gaye, Kuranti Martina, and many others have all competed in the 200-meter dash. There is also Zhang Peimeng of the Huaguo team, who did not reach the 100-meter A standard, but reached the 200-meter A standard, and was able to participate in the 200-meter preliminaries with Zhang Huasong.
As a result, Bolt, Gay, Martina and others all successfully advanced to the second round, while Zhang Peimeng ranked 6th in the fifth group of the game, unfortunately eliminated and failed to enter the second round, causing the audience to sigh.
Zhang Huasong still played in the finale of the last group of the eighth group.
In the cheers of the audience, even if Zhang Huasong deliberately retained his strength, he still ran a time of 19.84 seconds to rank first in the group and directly advance.
Moreover, he was also the only one in the first round of heats to break the 20-second mark.
Seeing this result, everyone has a hunch that the men's 200-meter champion may be Zhang Huasong's again.
In the second round of the 200m heats, Zhang Huasong went one step further and ran a time of 19.65 seconds, which surpassed the Athens Olympic champion Sean Crawford's time of 19.79 seconds, causing applause and exclamations from the audience.
Another athlete who ran the 20-second mark in the second round was Usain Bolt.
Everyone understands that in the field of men's sprinting, except for the Jamaican genius Usain Bolt, who is closer to Zhang Huasong and may compete with Zhang Huasong, all other sprinters in the world cannot create any threat to Zhang Huasong.
With Zhang Huasong's strength, it is too normal to advance to the 200m semifinals, and there is nothing to watch. Therefore, the media around the world, including Huaguo, only routinely sent one or two newsletters after the game.
However, the upcoming men's long jump final in the evening has made the media post a lot of forward-looking reports.
After all, now that Phelps' games are all over, Zhang Huasong has become the most interesting star in the remaining games of the Olympics.
Zhang Huasong's third final naturally made the media around the world more interested except for the Stars and Stripes.
Especially Huaguo, if Zhang Huasong can win the gold medal in the long jump, he will be the same as Li Ning, and become the athlete with the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games (3).
Therefore, even if the long jump is not as influential as the 100-meter dash, the Chinese audience who watched the men's long jump final on the evening of August 18 was not much less than the 100-meter dash on August 16.
Everyone is looking forward to Zhang Huasong's performance!
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