Chapter 363: Berlin World Athletics Championships
After the release of WeChat, it was quickly loved by domestic mobile phone users, and the number of online users increased exponentially from millions on the first day to more than 10 million on the third day.
It seems that WeChat has a trend of unifying the mobile phone live chat market.
Although other instant messaging companies were flustered, they did not have mature products at this time, so they could only sit back and watch Zhang Huasong promote WeChat to the whole country with his huge fame and advertising efforts.
After posting WeChat and personally playing a wave of advertisements, on August 12, Zhang Huasong and 32 other teammates of the national track and field team, coaches, team leaders, translators, team doctors, etc., flew to Berlin, Germany, to participate in the 12th World Championships in Athletics.
Countless track and field fans have been waiting for the flowers!
When Zhang Huasong appeared at the Australian Open and won the Australian Open Grand Slam title with Nadal for more than seven hours, many track and field fans were very worried that Zhang Huasong would retire from the track and field world.
After all, Zhang Huasong has reached the top in the track and field world, and there seems to be no difficulty in challenging it.
Moreover, both in terms of popularity and income, playing tennis is much more promising than athletics.
Therefore, although Zhang Huasong did not announce his withdrawal from track and field, since the beginning of this year, Zhang Huasong has not participated in either indoor track and field competitions or outdoor track and field competitions, which does make many track and field fans worried.
If Zhang Huasong no longer participates in track and field competitions, it will undoubtedly be a very disappointing thing for track and field fans.
Fortunately, later the IAAF reported that Zhang Huasong would definitely participate in the World Championships in Berlin.
Then after Bolt broke Zhang Huasong's world record, Zhang Huasong went out of the mountain early to participate in the Golden League to regain the world record, proving his strength.
Even if he hasn't competed for nearly a year, he is still the king of track and field.
However, that time the Golden League in Paris was only one event, and it was completed in ten seconds, and everyone couldn't enjoy watching it!
So, at this year's World Championships in Berlin, when it was confirmed that Zhang Huasong would participate in ten events like the Olympic Games, many track and field fans were excited.
Not only Germany, but also Europe, but also countless track and field fans from other continents and countries, as well as fans of Zhang Huasong, flocked to Berlin with a pilgrimage mentality.
In fact, at the beginning of the Peking Olympics, because many people did not expect Zhang Huasong to achieve the ten crowns, many people did not witness Zhang Huasong's miracle of the ten crowns for the first time.
Not being able to witness Zhang Huasong's title for the first time made these people quite regretful!
Therefore, this time, many fans want to make up for this regret and want to witness Zhang Huasong's ten World Championships on the spot!
Before the game started, Zhang Huasong's tickets for the competition had all been booked, and the audience's enthusiasm for watching the game was quite high.
Not only the preliminaries, but all the tickets for the finals are fully booked! No one believes that Zhang Huasong will not make it to the finals!
In addition, the number of countries broadcasting the competition, the number of journalist registrations, the number of sponsors and advertising revenue, etc., have also set new records for the World Championships.
It's all because of Zhang Huasong!
No one in the history of athletics has ever reached Zhang Huasong's achievements and heights, and Zhang Huasong has indeed been the box office and ratings guarantee of track and field competitions, so it is no wonder that the IAAF and the Berlin Organizing Committee have set the green light for Zhang Huasong's schedule.
After arriving in Berlin, Zhang Huasong was also besieged by media reporters, and hundreds of media reporters followed and interviewed Zhang Huasong from the airport, asking Zhang Huasong's state and the goal of this World Championships.
To his current status, Zhang Huasong has no need to be low-key! No matter how low-key it is, it will become a show of weakness and no self-confidence!
Therefore, Zhang Huasong publicly shouted the goal of winning the ten championships in the World Championships, which made the reporters quite excited! It also made the audience's enthusiasm for watching the game even higher!
The Berlin organizing committee did not let the audience wait longer, and the first game of this World Championships was started by Zhang Huasong.
At 9 a.m. on August 15, the 2009 Berlin World Athletics Championships officially opened.
The national flags of more than 200 countries and regions around the world entered the stadium and performed cultural performances with German characteristics, and then the German Chancellor announced the official opening of the World Championships in Berlin.
After a brief opening ceremony, at 10 o'clock, the first race officially began, starting with the men's 100m heats.
Zhang Huasong appeared in the first group of the 100-meter preliminaries, warming up the atmosphere of the entire World Championships.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Huasong came out of the athletes' tunnel and waved his hand to the stands, it caused applause, cheers and screams from tens of thousands of spectators.
The Olympic Stadium in Berlin immediately entered a warm atmosphere of spectators, and the audience was in high spirits.
It can be said that more than half of the audience at the scene came to see Zhang Huasong. Seeing Zhang Huasong's appearance, the audience immediately became energetic!
And Zhang Huasong's performance in the preliminaries did not disappoint the audience.
Although it was only a preliminary race, Zhang Huasong did not perfunctory, but finished the whole race very seriously.
In the end, Zhang Huasong advanced with a time of 9.55 seconds, only 0.01 seconds slower than the world record, five or six meters ahead of the second place in the same group, which surprised and enjoyed the audience.
Zhang Huasong respected the attitude of the audience and won the favor and admiration of more audiences.
In the subsequent preliminaries, although Bolt, Gay, Powell and others all advanced easily, none of them ran into 10 seconds. After all, it's only the first round of preliminaries, so there's no need for it!
Therefore, Zhang Huasong's 9.55 seconds became the only time under 10 seconds in the first round of preliminaries, and the high 9.55 seconds highlighted Zhang Huasong's respect for the audience, and won praise from the media and the audience.
After the preliminaries, at 18:50 in the evening, the men's 100m 1/4 finals were held, and Zhang Huasong ranked first without suspense and advanced to the semifinals, and also ran into the 9.6-second mark, receiving applause and cheers from the audience.
After the 100m heats and the quarterfinals, Zhang Huasong has one race left on the first day: the men's 10,000m final.
This is the schedule arranged by the organizing committee for Zhang Huasong to have at least one final every day.
At 20:20 p.m. on August 15, 2009, the men's 10,000-meter final of the Berlin World Championships officially began.
Zhang Huasong's 10,000-meter skill is 25 minutes and 30 seconds, and his world record at the Olympics is 25:57.39, so there is still a lot of room for improvement.
In the first final, the first gold medal, Zhang Huasong hopes to win the championship in a record-breaking form, and strive for the largest number of media reports and audience attention and heated discussions.
Therefore, after the start of the race, Zhang Huasong took the lead in the front, and the runners from the long-distance running powerhouses behind did not want to surpass Zhang Huasong.
They are not at the same level as Zhang Huasong, and they will definitely not win the gold medal if Zhang Huasong participates.
However, if you can't win a gold medal, you have to fight for a silver and bronze medal. Therefore, you can't compete with Zhang Huasong, exhaust your physical energy, and you may not even get a silver or bronze medal in the end.
So, when Zhang Huasong led all the way to the finish line, he even took the second place by him, not to mention the players who were even further behind.
Zhang Huasong's final time in the 10,000m final was 25:54.07, setting a new men's 10,000m world record.
When Zhang Huasong crossed the finish line, the on-site commentator immediately shouted: "World record, Zhang Huasong's first final of the Berlin World Championships ran a time of 25:54.07, setting a new 10,000-meter world record, and leading the second place by a full lap, let us offer the warmest applause to the king of track and field!" ”
Suddenly, there was applause in the stands, and countless spectators were excited to witness the performance of the king of track and field and the birth of a new world record.
"Zhang Huasong really didn't disappoint me, and it was in vain that I came from abroad to watch the game."
"The King of Athletics, worthy of his name! I haven't participated in track and field competitions for a year, and I broke Bolt's record in the 100m of the Paris Golden League, and now the first final of the World Championships has also broken the record, awesome! ”
"This game is worth watching, Zhang Huasong is too powerful!"
In the applause and discussion of everyone, after more than 1 minute, the second and third places crossed the finish line one after another.
Second place went to Ethiopia's Bekele in 26:46.31, followed by Eritrea's Tadesse in 26:50.12.
Zhang Huasong successfully won the first gold medal at the World Championships in Berlin, and set a new world record again, which made countless spectators feel that the trip was worthwhile, and the king of track and field did not disappoint everyone.
In addition to Zhang Huasong's gold medal, Wang Hao won the silver medal in the men's 20km race walk final.
After the first day of competition, the Huaguo team temporarily ranked first in the medal table with one gold and one silver.
In the world athletics world, Asian countries, including China, have always been relatively backward from Europe, America and Africa! Unexpectedly, this time the Huaguo team was able to rank first in the medal table after the first day of competition, which was a surprise.
Of course, in terms of individual athlete reports, Zhang Huasong is naturally the most reported by the media, who called him the biggest superstar athlete at the Berlin World Championships, and the report card he handed over did not disappoint?
I won the gold medal in the first final on the first day, and it was a record-breaking championship, which is very happy!
The competition continued, and in the men's three-level long jump qualifying match on the morning of August 16, Zhang Huasong easily advanced to the final without any suspense.
At 19:20 in the evening, in the men's 100m semifinals, Zhang Huasong once again advanced to the final with a time of less than 9.6 seconds.
This time, Bolt, Gay, and Powell ran into the 10-second mark, and Bolt even ran 9.62 seconds, which is close to the 9.6-second mark, proving that he is in very good shape.
Moreover, it also shows that he is finding his form and preparing to reach new heights in the final.
More than two hours later, at 45 p.m. on August 16, 2009, the men's 100m final of the World Championships in Berlin began.
This time, before the start of the race, Zhang Huasong upgraded his 100-meter dash skills to 9.4 seconds.
Then, in this World Championships 100-meter trapeze battle, Zhang Huasong ran a time of 9.46 seconds, allowing mankind to break through the limit again and enter the 9.5-second mark.
As soon as the results came out, the TV commentators from all over the world went crazy: "Wow, miracles! Miracles! Zhang Huasong ran into the 9.5-second mark, he set a new world record again with a time of 9.46 seconds, he is the king of track and field, he is the king of the fastest speed in human history! ”
In contrast, Bolt's 9.50 seconds that set a new height in his personal record were completely overshadowed by Zhang Huasong's miracle of running into the 9.5-second mark!
At this moment, Bolt finally gave birth to a trace of despair!
This time it's not a hundredth of a second, it's a 0.04 second difference! In the 100-meter race, the gap is not big, but it is not small. Especially when it comes to world records, the higher the limit, the more difficult it is to cross this level of difference.
Bolt had the feeling that he couldn't catch up with Zhang Huasong in the 100-meter field no matter what, which made him quite discouraged and desperate!
As for Guy's 9.71 seconds, it was a world record two years ago. But now, it is only third, and it is far behind the first and second places.
The 100m trapeze is undoubtedly the most eye-catching final of the World Championships, and Zhang Huasong's breaking the world record in the final and running into the 9.5-second mark naturally caused a sensation around the world, no less than the sensation caused by him and Nadal after winning the Australian Open for seven hours.
Zhang Huasong's popularity has risen a lot again! Although it can't shake the status of the last international superstar, it is undoubtedly much closer in popularity.
On August 17, the competition continued. In the morning was the 200-meter preliminaries, and in the evening was the 200-meter 1/4 finals, Zhang Huasong naturally advanced easily without any accidents.
At 30 p.m. on August 17, the men's three-level long jump final at the World Championships in Berlin began.
Zhang's three-level long jump skill is 18.4 meters, and the world record he set at the Peking Olympics is 18.33 meters.
However, the active men's third-level long jumper in the world today is not even able to pass the 18-meter mark, let alone challenge his world record. Therefore, there is no need for Zhang Huasong to upgrade his skills!
In the end, Zhang Huasong did not break the world record in the three-level long jump and won the championship with a score of 18.31 meters. The second place went to Adouu from the United States with a score of only 17.73 meters. Third place went to Evoa from Portugal with a time of 17.55m.
Although it is not a record-breaking, this is already the third gold!
Zhang Huasong is still moving towards the goal of winning the World Championships ten times!
On August 18, in the men's 400m preliminaries in the morning, Zhang Huasong advanced to the semifinals with the only time to run into the 44-second mark.
At 19 o'clock in the evening, in the men's 200m semifinals, Zhang Huasong advanced to the final with a time of 19.38 seconds.
However, this time Zhang Huasong's results are not the best!
Because, Bolt ran 19.15 seconds, which is infinitely close to Zhang Huasong's world record of 19.12 seconds.
And the semi-finals are certainly not Bolt's fastest speed!
Could it be that Usain Bolt is about to break Zhang Huasong's world record again?
This time, even Zhang Huasong was a little nervous! Don't really be overtaken by Usain Bolt in the final, right?
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