It is now the penultimate day of the closing ceremony of the Beiping Olympics, and most of the competitions on the evening of August 23 are finals, such as the women's high jump, men's 800m, women's 1500m and other finals.

But none of the finals focused the attention of the crowd at the Bird's Nest, and most of the crowd's enthusiasm was in the men's javelin finale.

Because it was Zhang Huasong's ninth final of the Peking Olympics, it was a key battle for Zhang Huasong to hit the ninth gold and surpass Phelps.

"It feels like time flies so slowly!"

"yes, it would be nice to start the javelin finals early!"

"I'm looking forward to Zhang Huasong's ninth gold!"

"Nine gold medals in one Olympic Games, it's fascinating to think about!"

"Previously, Phelps' 7 gold medals over Mark Spitz were considered mythical! Unexpectedly, Zhang Huasong is more powerful than Phelps! Zhang Huasong may win 9 or even 10 gold medals! ”

"Yes! If Zhang Huasong successfully wins the ninth gold tonight, it will be the real Olympic god! ”

"Well, indeed! Much more convincing than the Olympic god canonized to Phelps by the Stars and Stripes media! ”

Of course, the Olympics are more than just athletics.

On the evening of August 23, other competition venues were also playing table tennis, volleyball, taekwondo, boxing, hockey and other finals.

However, like the atmosphere at the Bird's Nest, no matter what the final is, it will not be able to concentrate the audience in person and in front of the TV.

Many spectators frequently looked at their watches, hoping that the time for the men's javelin final would come sooner.

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Just when everyone was looking forward to the men's javelin final in the Bird's Nest, the IOC suddenly announced a penalty decision at 20:30 p.m.:

David Neville, an athlete of the Stars and Stripes Nation, is hereby banned for 5 years for using foul actions in the men's 400m final of the Peking Olympics to interfere with other athletes and seriously affect the competition.

Moreover, if the subsequent investigation reveals that David Neville committed a deliberate foul, he will be subject to additional penalties, and a lifetime ban cannot be ruled out.

This unprecedentedly severe punishment instantly shocked the industry and the news media community.

It can be seen from the IOC's penalty decision that the IOC has not yet determined that David Neville deliberately fouled and interfered with Zhang Huasong's game.

For a foul alone, the IOC imposed such a severe penalty on Neville.

No one had ever been punished in this way just for a foul in a match.

Ordinary fouls will be cancelled, subsequent qualifications will be disqualified, and serious fouls will be banned for one year or two years, even if they are relatively serious punishments.

However, Neville's foul did not cause physical damage to Zhang Huasong, and he didn't even touch Zhang Huasong, and Zhang Huasong finally broke the record and won the men's 400m championship.

Without determining that Neville deliberately committed a foul, everyone thought that Neville's maximum ban for half a year or a year would be remarkable!

As a result, I didn't expect the IOC to impose a 5-year ban on Neville! Moreover, we reserve the right to impose additional penalties in the future!

I can't compete for 5 years, and after 5 years, I won't be able to compete and be competitive! David Neville's career can be declared basically dead!

This penalty decision shows the IOC's outrage against David Neville, and even against the Stars and Stripes delegation!

This punishment can even be seen as not punishing Neville, but punishing the delegation of the Stars and Stripes!

However, the IOC has not yet established evidence that the Stars and Stripes delegation instructed Neville to interfere with Zhang's competition. Therefore, Neville became a scapegoat and was punished with an unprecedented ban!

The reason is that now Zhang Huasong has become the first superstar of the Peking Olympic Games, the guarantee of high global exposure, high ratings and high visibility!

If David Neville's foul action caused Zhang Huasong to interrupt his winning streak, or even lose his balance and fall and retire injured in that 400-meter race, the loss of the Olympic Games and the IOC will be calculated in hundreds of millions!

The men's javelin final, which is watched by at least 400 million people around the world tonight, could plummet to less than a tenth of the audience!

This shows Zhang Huasong's value to the Olympic Games!

A high degree of attention and a large number of viewers represent the high visibility of the Olympic Games, high broadcast costs, high advertising costs, great authority and status of the International Olympic Committee, and so on.

Neville's foul was not only to prevent Zhang Huasong from winning the championship, but also to oppose the interests of the entire IOC, so it is no wonder that the IOC punished Neville harshly with unprecedented means!

After receiving this penalty decision, the people in the Stars and Stripes delegation were simply furious, and immediately held a press conference to express strong protest and dissatisfaction with the IOC's penalty decision, and claimed that they wanted to appeal!

The reason why the Stars and Stripes are furious is that Neville's punishment is not just his business!

Just before Zhang Huasong's men's javelin final in the evening, there was also a 4*400m final, and David Neville was the main player in the 4*400m relay of the Stars and Stripes national team!

In the men's 400m collective event, the Stars and Stripes are basically in a monopoly position, and the Olympic men's 4*400m champions are basically in the bags of the Stars and Stripes!

But if Neville is banned, and the Stars and Stripes can only temporarily change players and find a substitute to compete, then who will win the 4*400m final is not necessarily!

The substitutes are not only the difference in strength, but also the game experience, training tacit understanding, psychological quality, etc., there are too many unstable factors!

From this point of view, the IOC did not delay for two days, but announced the ban on Neville before the start of the 4*400m final tonight, which is not without giving the Stars and Stripes delegation a little color!

Although no evidence was caught, the vast majority of people believe that David Neville deliberately committed a foul in order to prevent Zhang Huasong from surpassing Phelps' record of 8 golds! The suspicion that the Stars and Stripes delegation was behind the scenes is quite large!

So, by banning David Neville before the start of the 4x400m final, the IOC is trying to make the Stars and Stripes delegation pay the price!

Originally, Zhang Huasong's sudden rise caused the Stars and Stripes country, a track and field power, to lose a lot of track and field gold medals and medals!

If there is another accident with this 4*400m gold medal, the Stars and Stripes delegation will not be able to stand it!

Neville's foul action was indeed deliberate, and it certainly can't withstand detailed scrutiny! But the Stars and Stripes delegation thought it would be at least a few days before the IOC would come to a conclusion before punishing Neville.

Before the penalty is issued, it will not affect Neville to continue to participate in the 4*400m final!

Unexpectedly, the IOC was so impatient that it made a penalty decision on the same day, which made David Neville lose the qualification for the 4*400m race, so it is no wonder that the people of the Stars and Stripes delegation were furious!

However, whether you protest or appeal, it is useless!

The finals are almost underway, unless the Stars and Stripes abandon the match!

Finally, at the start of the race, the Stars and Stripes had to send a substitute to win the 4x400m championship with Jeremy Variner and LaSean Merritt!

However, the temporary substitute may have been too nervous, and when handing the baton to LaSean Merritt, he didn't catch the baton handed to him by Merritt, causing the baton to fall to the ground!

By the time he picks it up again, it's too late!

At the end of the competition, the Stars and Stripes delegation ended the final journey of the men's 4*400m Peking Olympics with the last place, and left the field in a gloomy manner, and the championship was won by the Bahamian team!

The conspiracy of the Stars and Stripes people to block Zhang Huasong's winning streak not only did not succeed, but instead stole the chicken and lost the 4*400m gold medal that was originally in their pocket, which made many Chinese viewers and people who are not used to seeing the Stars and Stripes applaud!