Chapter 254: Triple Jump Final
Zhang Huasong's Weibo is not only concerned by Chinese media, but also by many foreign journalists.
Although foreign media reporters will not appreciate Zhang Huasong's "Wangyue", by reading the Chinese media's analysis of "Wangyue", they can also understand the goal and confidence expressed by Zhang Huasong in the poem to see the mountains and small mountains.
People in the Stars and Stripes may think that Zhang Huasong is too arrogant, but in the context of four consecutive record-breaking championships, media reporters from other countries feel that Zhang Huasong's way of expressing confidence and purpose is different and imposing.
Anyway, what Zhang Huasong wants to surpass is Phelps of the Stars and Stripes, not their compatriots.
There is excitement to watch and news to publish, which is naturally undesirable for the media in other countries.
Therefore, in addition to the media of the Stars and Stripes, other domestic and foreign media, whether they understand it or not, have praised Zhang Huasong's "Wangyue", and pointed out to readers that the meaning contained in Zhang Huasong's poem will definitely surpass Phelps.
In the world's media reports on Zhang Huasong's fourth gold and "Wangyue", the time came to August 20.
On this day, Zhang Huasong will participate in the men's pole vault qualifying round, the men's 400m preliminaries, and the men's three-level long jump final.
At 9:20 a.m., the men's pole vault qualification tournament officially began.
There were 37 athletes from more than 20 countries, including Zhang Huasong and Liu Feiliang in the Chinese team. Like the World Indoor Championships in Valencia, the passing line for the men's pole vault final at the Beiping Olympics is 5.70m.
The other players chose a lower starting height to warm up and find their feelings, but Zhang Huasong will participate in the 400-meter preliminaries later, so naturally he will not try to jump with a gradual rise like other players.
So, like the high jump qualifying competition, Zhang Huasong still chose the final passing line height of 5.70 meters for the first jump.
For Zhang Huasong's choice, everyone is no longer surprised!
Since he has written poems such as "A glance at the mountains", if Zhang Huasong has to jump again and again like other athletes, it will not be in line with his arrogant momentum!
With the support of 6.0 meters of pole vault skills, Zhang Huasong easily jumped 5.70 meters in one test jump.
From the close-in live camera footage, some TV viewers even saw that Zhang Huasong had at least ten centimeters of margin over the crossbar.
It's so easy!
Now it's not news that Zhang Huasong has advanced from the preliminary round, and the audience doesn't feel anything.
Except for Zhang Huasong's family and friends and iron fans shouting excitedly, the other audience only symbolically applauded and congratulated.
On the contrary, it was Liu Feiliang who won the shouts and cheers of the Chinese audience. After all, Liu Feiliang is more worthy of encouragement!
However, although Liu Feiliang's personal best was 5.71m, he did not perform at that level today. In the end, Liu Feiliang only jumped 5.60 meters, regrettably missing the opportunity to participate in the final.
In the end, 10 competitors jumped directly over the 5.70m final passing line, and the referee team decided on the 12 men's pole vault final spots after replacing the two remaining competitors.
After the pole vault qualifying round, after a break of dozens of minutes, Zhang Huasong was ready to participate in the 400-meter preliminaries that started at 10:30.
A total of 56 runners participated in the men's 400m heats, divided into 7 groups, with the top three in each group plus the best three of the remaining players, and a total of 24 athletes advanced to the semifinals.
This time, Zhang Huasong was not assigned to the final group of finales.
Because Zhang Huasong's personal best time is only 43.73 seconds, and the real first seed in the men's 400m at the Peking Olympics is Jeremy Variner of the Stars and Stripes with a personal best of 43.45 seconds.
Therefore, in the preliminaries this time, Zhang Huasong was divided into the first group to play, and the finale of the last group was Jeremy Variner.
Of course, at the Huaguo National Stadium, no matter which group Zhang Huasong plays in, it will definitely be the most popular group. After all, this is Zhang Huasong's home field, and the largest audience at the scene is Huaguo.
Although Zhang Huasong had just participated in a pole vault qualifying tournament, he only jumped one round to pass the passing line and advance to the final, with little physical exertion.
Therefore, after the start of the first group of preliminaries, Zhang Huasong easily ran into the 44-second mark with a 43.4-second 400-meter skill, ran a time of 43.97 seconds, and directly advanced to the first place in the group.
Then, in the remaining sets of races, no one could run the 44-second mark!
Even Jeremy Varina, who is known as the first seed in the tournament, only ran 44.36 seconds in the end!
After all, it's just a preliminaries, and they just need to advance. Moreover, they do not have Zhang Huasong's system skills, and their state stability is not as good as Zhang Huasong's.
At the 44-second mark, even a fierce player like Jeremy Varina has to play with all his strength to run in, which is completely unnecessary in the preliminaries!
Just make the cut.
As a result, in the men's 400-meter preliminaries, Zhang Huasong became the first among all the players in the preliminaries, and he was the only one who ran into the 44-second mark.
Although it is not news that Zhang Huasong advanced to the finals, it was expected by everyone, but Zhang Huasong's status as a superstar in Huaguo is now, even if he stands still, he will be photographed by reporters or audiences, not to mention that he has been promoted in the official competition.
Therefore, after the morning competition, there were still countless domestic and foreign media reports on Zhang Huasong's advance to the pole vault final and the 400m semifinals.
Of course, the focus is on Zhang Huasong's pole vault round and the 400 meters ranked first in the preliminaries, and was the only one to run the 44-second mark.
"Men's pole vault Zhang Huasong's starting height is the passing line for the finals, and he easily passed the round to advance to the finals!"
"Zhang Huasong ranked first in the 400-meter preliminaries and advanced to the semifinals, becoming the only runner to run into the 44-second mark in the preliminaries!"
In addition to the coverage of the two preliminary rounds, there is also a preview of the men's 3' long jump final in the evening.
In the third long jump, Zhang Huasong's previous personal best was 17.71 meters, while the world record was 18.29 meters. Zhang Huasong's personal bests are more than half a meter off, and it looks very far away.
Moreover, this world record was set in 1995 and has been in the dust for 13 years. The last Olympic champion was only 17.79 meters, far from the world record.
It can be seen that not to mention the world record of 18.29 meters, even if it is 18 meters, it is an unattainable distance for today's three-level long jumpers.
It's already August, but in 2008, there hasn't been a three-level long jump mobilization in the world to jump over the 18-meter mark.
Therefore, if the personal best of other far-distance athletes is only 17.71m, the media must think that it is impossible for him to break the world record of 18.29m!
However, this person is Zhang Huasong, but no one dares to make a conclusion!
After all, a player with good long jump strength will definitely not be bad in the three-level long jump!
In the previous long jump finals, Zhang Huasong even broke the 17-year-old long jump world record, and the three-level long jump record that had only been dusty for 13 years is estimated to be very hanging!
No one knows how much energy is hidden in Zhang Huasong's body!
Anyway, everyone knows that if there is anyone in the world today who is likely to break the world record of the three-level long jump that has been sealed for 13 years, then this person must be Zhang Huasong.
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