Chapter 170: The first encounter with Usain Bolt
As soon as the 400-meter race was over, before all the races in the evening were over, the media reporters couldn't wait to send out the news that Zhang Huasong broke the 44-second mark in the 400m of the Melbourne IAAF Grand Prix. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"The Melbourne IAAF Grand Prix witnessed a miracle, and the flyer Zhang Huasong broke the 44-second mark in the 400 meters!"
"Zhang Huasong broke through the 44-second mark in 400 meters, becoming the first in the history of Blue Star, and the only one who broke through the 100-meter 10-second, 200-meter 20-second, and 400-meter 44-second omnibious speed king at the same time!"
"A historic breakthrough was made in the history of world track and field, Zhang Huasong entered the 44-second mark in 400 meters, and became the king of sprint speed!"
"Zhang Huasong has broken through the three major barriers of sprinting at the same time and has become the strongest speed king in the history of Blue Star!"
In addition to ordinary media, the Huaguo CCTV news broadcast, which started at 19 o'clock Peking time, also broadcast the news that Zhang Huasong broke the 400-meter 44-second mark in Melbourne.
"This afternoon local time, in the men's 400-meter competition of the IAAF Grand Prix held in Melbourne, Australia, Chinese athlete Zhang Huasong won the third place with a time of 43.97 seconds, successfully breaking through the 400-meter 44-second mark. Combined with his personal bests of 9.73 seconds in the 100m and 19.64 seconds in the 200m, Zhang Huasong has become the first sprinter in the history of the Blue Star to break the 100m 10 seconds, 200m 20 seconds, and 400m 44 seconds at the same time, doing something that the stars and stripes track and field superstar Michael Johnson has not been able to do. Let's take a look at the live report brought by our reporter!"
Then, there was the live game picture, as well as the results of the game on the big screen of the stadium, and Zhang Huasong, who was specially marked by CCTV for the third place, scored 43.97 seconds.
Zhang Huasong's fans and countless Chinese people were excited, pouring into various sports forums, sports news pages, and Zhang Huasong's Weibo to express their excitement by commenting enthusiastically.
"Zhang Huasong is so awesome that he really broke the 44-second mark. ā
"The king of the strongest all-perched speed in history, the cow is just one word, I serve!"
"The flying man Zhang Huasong, worthy of his name, will create another miracle and win glory for Huaguo!"
"Since then, passers-by have turned into fans and paid strong attention to Zhang Huasong!"
"Fans turn to diehards, and Zhang Huasong is dead!"
In addition to foreign countries, foreign media also focused on the news of Zhang Huasong's 400-meter breakthrough of the 44-second mark as a blockbuster news.
The official website of the IAAF also issued an article to report and congratulate Zhang Huasong on his historic breakthrough.
Zhang Huasong's limelight completely overshadowed the winning Jeremy Varina to become the hot news of the afternoon and evening of the day, and also made Zhang Huasong the biggest focus of this Melbourne Grand Prix.
The immediate response was that the Melbourne Olympic Stadium added more than 10,000 people to the evening game, bringing the total audience to more than 60,000 people.
These increased audiences were all suddenly interested after watching Zhang Huasong's news in the afternoon, and the local citizens of Melbourne who temporarily bought tickets to watch Zhang Huasong's 100-meter trapeze performance in the evening.
Even in foreign countries, Zhang Huasong has begun to show good box office appeal.
At 20:30 in the evening, the start time of the men's 100m trapeze battle at the IAAF Grand Prix in Melbourne.
Before the start of the race, the athletes entered, and when the on-site commentator shouted Zhang Huasong's name, and Zhang Huasong walked out of the athletes' tunnel, the audience erupted in the biggest applause and screams since the start of the Melbourne Grand Prix.
As the 100m world record holder, and just broke the 44-second mark in the afternoon 400m race to become the king of sprints, Zhang Huasong has become the biggest star at the Melbourne Grand Prix.
In addition to Asafa Powell, who did not compete, the men's 100m in Melbourne will be joined by stars and stripes Nation star Tyson Gay and Jamaican talent Usain Bolt.
Bolt's main event is the 200m, and he only started training the 100m last year, but his current best time has reached 9.84 seconds, which is quite a frightening improvement, and it is not much slower than Zhang Huasong.
Therefore, both the media and track and field insiders believe that the era of Asafa Powell has passed, Tyson Gay has never broken the world record, and the one who can compete with Zhang Huasong in the sprinting field in the future is the current Jamaican sprinting genius Ursain Bolt.
Bolt naturally regards Zhang Huasong as his goal to surpass, and this Melbourne IAAF Grand Prix is the first meeting between Bolt and Zhang Huasong.
Seeing the applause and cheers that erupted in the audience when Zhang Huasong came out, Bolt secretly clenched his fists and made up his mind to defeat Zhang Huasong in this game to win the championship.
Although Zhang Huasong broke the 44-second mark in the afternoon 400-meter race, his popularity is booming. But popularity is not equal to results, Zhang Huasong only ran 400 meters in the afternoon, and then ran 100 meters in the evening, it is impossible not to be affected at all.
Coupled with the long journey and the change in temperature, Bolt believes that Zhang Huasong's 100-meter condition is definitely not very good, and he has a chance to beat Zhang Huasong.
Zhang Huasong appeared as the world record holder in the finale, and after interacting with the audience, he began to warm up like the other contestants.
At 20:30, under the attention of more than 60,000 spectators, the men's 100-meter race officially began.
With a shot from the starter, all eight competitors shot like arrows, but Zhang's starting reaction was only 0.129 seconds, behind Usain Bolt's 0.122 seconds and Tyson Gay's 0.127 seconds.
On the track, Zhang Huasong, who was sprinting with all his might, did not stay and showed all his strength in the 100-meter sprint.
However, Zhang Huasong felt that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't play his best.
The 400-meter race in the afternoon is only 3 hours after the end of the 100-meter race in the evening. Coupled with the long-distance flight and the sudden change in temperature, Zhang Huasong's state in this 100-meter race is worse than that of the World Championships.
Of course, the stability of the system's skills makes Zhang Huasong, even if his state is poor, he will not be too far behind. From the start, Zhang Huasong has been in the first group with Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, and has not lagged behind.
On the other hand, Usain Bolt, whose home country is Jamaica, is near the equator like Australia, and the temperature is similar in both countries.
Therefore, in terms of climate adaptability, Bolt is much stronger than Zhang Huasong and Guy, and is the least affected.
Coupled with the belief of defeating Zhang Huasong, Bolt is full of inexhaustible energy.
After 50 meters alongside Zhang Huasong and Tyson Gay in the first half, he still had the potential, running faster and faster in the second half of the race, and gradually overtaking Zhang Huasong and Gay to take the lead.
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