Chapter 25: Go all out
In order to mobilize the atmosphere of the audience, Hu Kai, the first seed in the 100-meter race, was arranged to appear in the final group of the preliminaries. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The players in the group with Hu Kai were more unlucky, and basically could only fight for one of the eight places with the best results.
The seeded player in the first group of preliminaries is Wen Yongyi, a local athlete from Nanyue Province, who was also deliberately arranged by the organizing committee in order to set off the atmosphere of the audience.
There is a TV connected to the live broadcast equipment in the lounge, and although it is not a live TV broadcast, the athletes in the lounge can watch the live game in real time.
When the on-site commentator introduced Wen Yongyi as an athlete from Nanyue Province, the scene erupted in warm applause and cheers.
Obviously, most of the viewers, who are locals in Yangcheng, have given the greatest support to local player Wen Yongyi.
In the end, Wen Yongyi lived up to expectations, leading from the start, comfortably advancing in 10.45 seconds on his home turf, while second place did not even run in 10.6 seconds.
However, Zhang Huasong has no impression of this Wen Yongyi. I've vaguely heard of it, but I can't remember it.
Li Yanghong was more professional than Zhang Huasong, and he introduced Wen Yongyi's situation to Zhang Huasong.
It turned out that this Wen Yongyi turned out to be the second person in the current domestic sprint, breaking the domestic record of the 60-meter sprint three times, winning the 100-meter championship of the Asian University Athletics Championships, and Hu Kai has been competing from the domestic to the Asian arena, which can be called the two strongest sprinters in China at present.
Even in this Universiade, the media has already played the slogan of Wen Yongyi and Hu Kai competing for hegemony in the north and south.
According to Li Yanghong, in fact, Wen Yongyi's strength is about the same as Hu Kai, but he is unlucky, and he has not defeated Hu Kai in the past two years. Therefore, it is much worse than Hu Kai in terms of fame.
After listening to Li Yanghong's introduction to Wen Yongyi, Zhang Huasong also felt embarrassed.
The situation of Hu Kai and Wen Yongyi perfectly illustrates the difference between the champion and the runner-up.
According to Li Yanghong, the strength of the two is actually about the same. Even if there is a slight difference, I am afraid it will only be a few tenths of a second.
However, it is this gap of a few tenths of a second and the state of on-the-spot performance, and the fame and income that the two finally gained are far apart.
Come to think of it, many ordinary people are like Zhang Huasong, they only know the glasses man Hu Kai, but few people know Wen Yongyi.
Reflected in celebrity popularity, appearance fees, and advertising endorsement income, it may be dozens of times the difference. What a missed mile!
Seeing this situation, Zhang Huasong made up his mind that as long as he participated in the competition, he must win the championship. Otherwise, no matter how many runners-up you take, no one will remember you.
After the first group of competitions, as time passed, the athletes were called out of the break room in groups, and after a few minutes, one laughed and seven came back in frustration.
The person who smiled naturally ran the first place and advanced directly, and the other 7 people had a chance to rank second except for the second place, and the other 6 people went out directly.
Perhaps it was providential arrangement, Zhang Huasong played in group 8, and Lu Yongtao happened to play in group 7.
Lu Yongtao glanced at Zhang Huasong confidently, and then went out with 7 other players.
After waiting for a few minutes, the 7th group of the 100-meter preliminaries officially began.
With the start of the gunshot, Lu Yongtao showed his best state, took the lead, and sprinted with all his might.
He knew that his strength was not top-notch in the national Universiade, and he didn't dare to stay in the preliminaries like Wen Yongyi, for fear that he wouldn't even be able to pass the preliminaries if he was not careful.
What's more, he also made a bet with Zhang Huasong. The bet of 1,000 yuan is not a small number for him.
Therefore, from the beginning of the preliminaries, Lu Yongtao used all his strength.
The final result did not disappoint him either.
Lu Yongtao won the first place in Group 7 of the preliminaries with a time of 10.49 seconds, directly qualified, and ran 10.50 seconds in the official competition for the first time.
Lu Yongtao felt very satisfied, and deliberately ran to the sidelines to hug Kang Yijia and celebrate, and then returned to the lounge with high spirits.
At this time, Zhang Huasong's eighth group of players was also leaving the lounge under the greeting of the staff and walking towards the arena outside, Zhang Huasong and Lu Yongtao just passed by.
Lu Yongtao smiled at Zhang Huasong: "I ran for 10.49 seconds and advanced directly. 1000 yuan, I hope you don't pay the bill. ”
Zhang Huasong smiled, shook his head and said, "It's only 10.49 seconds, it's far away, I hope you don't pay the bill." ”
Then, ignoring Lu Yongtao, he followed the other seven players in Group 8 out of the lounge and came to the 100-meter field outside.
Lu Yongtao snorted, found a place to sit down, watched TV, and waited for the live broadcast of Zhang Huasong's game.
In the stands outside, Kang Yijia also looked at Zhang Huasong who appeared on the field, sneering.
She knew that Zhang Huasong's family conditions were not very good, and she was a little skeptical that Zhang Huasong could come up with a gambling fund of 1,000 yuan.
"It's really humiliating to compete with Yongtao in the 100-meter sprint, see if you have any money to take out if you lose later!" Kang Yijia thought to herself.
On the field, the players in Group 8 are all unknowns. Except for the organizing committee of the event, no one knew that Zhang Huasong signed up as a national-level athlete.
Therefore, several other players thought that they still had a chance, and they were full of energy to fight for a place to directly advance to the semi-finals.
And the spectators in the stands, after experiencing the warm-up of Wen Yongyi and the previous groups of players, gradually calmed down.
With the exception of a few hundred spectators from the nearest stand to the 100-meter field, everyone else looked elsewhere on the field to watch the long jump, high jump and shot put competitions that had already reached the semi-finals.
Zhang Huasong knows that he is just a nobody now, and he can't attract the attention of the audience.
However, even if there were only a few hundred people watching from the nearest stands, he had to run with all his might.
is not only to slap Lu Yongtao and Kang Yijia in the face and win the 1,000 yuan bet, but also to let some viewers know him and contribute prestige points to him to upgrade his skills.
As a national-level athlete and a seeded player in the eyes of the organizing committee, Zhang Huasong's track is arranged in the middle of the fifth lane, which is in a good position.
After a brief warm-up, everyone stood on the starting line at the signal of the starter, and then squatted down.
On the starting line, Zhang Huasong looked at the front of the track seriously, waiting for the official start of the race.
After a few seconds, seeing that everyone was ready, the starter shouted, "All of you...... Prepare ......"
Zhang Huasong's muscles tightened all over his body, his ears paid attention to the sound of the starting pistol, and he was ready to start.
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