Chapter 64: Looking Back at the Moon
On the men's 100-meter track at the Central Stadium of Thammasat University in Thailand. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because there were too many matches in the first round of preliminaries, the game time was very tight, and the referee only gave everyone 1 minute to warm up, so that everyone was ready to start the game.
Zhang Huasong, together with several other contestants, walked to the starting line, squatted down, and began to prepare for the race.
Although it was his first time participating in an international race, Zhang Huasong did not feel too nervous and was quickly ready to start.
Because he believes that with his own strength, there is no problem in breaking the national record and advancing to the second round of preliminaries, and there is no need to be nervous.
Seeing that everyone was ready, the starter shouted in English, "All of you are ready...... Prepare ......"
Just when everyone was concentrating and about to start when they heard the gunshot, the referee next to him suddenly blew a whistle, and the starter stopped pulling the trigger of the starting gun.
Zhang Huasong and the others looked left and right suspiciously: No one rushed away, why did the referee blow the whistle?
Then, everyone saw the referee walk up to the athlete in lane 8 and signal him to put his hand back.
Zhang Huasong and the others looked at it closely, only to find that the black college athlete in the eighth lane had put his hand 40 centimeters in front of the starting line.
While everyone else had their hands behind the starting line, he alone put his hands in front of the starting line, and it was more than 40 centimeters.
It's so amateurish!
How can any country send such a player to participate in an international competition?
Zhang Huasong and the other contestants couldn't help laughing.
The audience, the reporters next to them, the other athletes and coaches in the lounge, etc., all burst into laughter.
However, to the judges' dismay, the black player didn't know English at all. The referee stepped forward to talk to him for a long time, but he didn't understand what the referee was saying.
In desperation, the referee could only pull him away, and then squatted down himself, and made a demonstration of the standard starting position with his hands behind the starting line, signaling the black runner to follow along.
The black player finally understood what the referee meant this time, and immediately followed along, and it was considered to pass.
Of course, as long as he doesn't foul, his starting posture is still very different from the standard starting posture of several other athletes such as Zhang Huasong.
But no one cares about him anymore! Everyone knows that this player will definitely be eliminated!
The game resumes.
This time, everyone was seriously ready to start.
Then, after the starter's gunshot, everyone rushed out one after another, and the reaction speed of the start was fast and slow.
The fastest is naturally Zhang Huasong, with a starting reaction time of 0.126 seconds, and he is in the leading position when he runs together.
The slowest was the black college student, who reached 0.382 seconds, which was a completely amateur reaction and fell behind at the beginning.
And Zhang Huasong, who was running at the front, didn't even exert all his strength.
In fact, he didn't plan to do his best to run the first round of heats. Even in the second round of preliminaries and semifinals, he will not do his best.
His sprinting skills are 10 seconds, and he has rested well in the past two days, and his condition is fine, and if he runs with all his strength, he will definitely even break the record of 10.07 seconds at the World Universiade itself.
And now it's only the first round of preliminaries, and the media attention is not enough, just look at the dozen or so reporters on the side of the runway.
Even in the second round of preliminaries, semi-finals, there will not be a few reporters. Everyone is going to report on the events that will produce gold medals, who will report on the preliminaries and semifinals?
Therefore, for Zhang Huasong, who aspires to become a world-class superstar and always thinks about how to expose and gain more prestige, it is obviously unwise to break the World Universiade record of 10.07 seconds in the preliminaries and semifinals.
It's broken, and few reporters report it!
At most, everyone knew about it afterwards, exclaimed, and then gave a tofu block to say, focusing on other athletes competing for gold and silver.
Therefore, his plan is to break a national record in the first round of preliminaries, complete his bold statement on Weibo, and adjust the attention of the domestic media and the public to himself and the 100-meter race.
Then, when the finals are held, in front of many media around the world, they will break the 20-year-old World Universiade record and win the championship to maximize the benefits.
At that time, there will definitely be a lot of media covering the 100-meter flyer final.
If you break the record in the final and win the championship, the exposure, prestige and popularity you will gain will obviously be much greater than that of breaking the record in the preliminaries and semifinals.
Therefore, in this first round of preliminaries, Zhang Huasong did not do his best, but just ran at a level that could break the national record.
But even so, in the eyes of other athletes and spectators participating in the competition, Zhang Huasong still ran too fast, and other athletes could only follow behind and chase hard, but chased farther and farther.
Those overseas Chinese viewers, seeing Zhang Huasong's fierce speed, also shouted excitedly:
"Come on, Huaguo!"
"Come on, Zhang Huasong!"
"Record-breaking!"
"Take the championship!"
There are also foreign viewers and reporters who exclaimed:
"Oh my God, that yellow guy is so fast!"
"It seems to be a Chinese person, and the champion of the last Universiade is a Chinese person, so amazing!"
"This gap is too big, a few meters ahead!"
"Yes, there are so many groups of preliminaries in the front, but there is not such a big difference as this group!"
As the saying goes, there is no gap, there is no gap.
In contrast to Zhang Huasong, the speed of several other foreign college athletes seems to be too slow.
Before he was 20 meters, he pulled down the second place. At 50 meters, he was more than 1 meter away from second place.
When he was approaching the finish line, Zhang Huasong's eyes swept left and right, but no one was seen on the runway on both sides.
Then, Zhang Huasong unconsciously made a move that became big news after the race: he ran towards the finish line while looking back at the athletes behind him.
As a result, he found that the second athlete closest to him was also at least 3 meters behind him.
In a 100-meter dash of just 10 seconds, this distance is a great distance!
At this time, Zhang Huasong was just curious, and wanted to look back to see how far behind the other contestants was.
Especially the black athlete who couldn't even start, and he wanted to see how far behind that man was.
He didn't realize how shocking it was for him to look back at the moon in an international 100-meter sprint.
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