Chapter 235: Fierce Semifinals
In the world's admiration and heated discussion of Phelps, at 20 o'clock in the evening of August 15, the second round of the men's 100m preliminaries was held at the Bird's Nest. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The 40 players who advanced to the first round of the preliminary round are divided into five groups for the second round of preliminaries, and the top three players in each group and the last person with the best result advance to the semi-finals, for a total of 16 promotion places.
Zhang Huasong continued to be placed in the fifth and final group finale.
The second round of preliminaries was a bit more competitive than the first round, and the results of the players were much better than the first round.
In the first group, Kuranti Martina of the Netherlands Antilles advanced to the semi-finals with a time of 9.99 seconds.
In the second group, Tyson Gay, the star and stripe national flyer, advanced to the semifinals with 9.95 seconds to first place in the group, and also ran into the 10-second mark, and Hu Kai, the glasses man of the Chinese team, unfortunately ranked sixth in the group with 10.27 seconds and was eliminated.
For Hu Kai, reaching the second round is already the limit of his strength.
In the third group, Jamaican flyer Asafa Powell topped the group with 9.98 seconds to advance.
In the fourth group, Usain Bolt, who is also from Jamaica and tied Zhang Huasong's world record, ranked first in the group with 9.92 seconds to advance.
The first place in the top four groups all advanced to the semi-finals with a time of running into the 10-second mark, and everyone's results are getting better and better.
Now, it's up to Zhang Huasong's performance in the fifth group.
As a result, after the start of the game, under the attention of more than 90,000 spectators, Zhang Huasong once again easily ranked first in the group and advanced, with a score of 9.88 seconds, entering the 9.9-second mark.
Moreover, this is the first result among all athletes in this round of preliminaries.
When he saw Zhang Huasong crossing the finish line first and his 9.88-second score on the finish timer, the host of the Huaguo CCTV live broadcast room suddenly shouted: "First place, 9.88 seconds, Zhang Huasong once again advanced to the semi-finals with the first place among all athletes in this round." This is the first time that a Chinese athlete has reached the semi-finals of the men's 100m at the Olympics, so let's congratulate Zhang Huasong. ”
Countless Chinese audiences at the scene and in front of the TV immediately applauded, happy for Zhang Huasong's running results.
9.88 seconds, which is already a championship in many international competitions, was run out by Zhang Huasong in the preliminaries.
Moreover, looking at Zhang Huasong's relaxed demeanor when running and the fact that he didn't make a line crossing action in the end, Zhang Huasong still retains his strength.
Zhang Huasong is in good shape, 9.88 seconds, far from reaching the limit of Zhang Huasong's strength.
After the men's 100m preliminaries, Zhang Huasong's first day of competition on August 15 was over.
Although no media has compared Zhang Huasong to Phelps, as far as the men's 100m event is concerned, many people have already regarded Zhang Huasong as the favorite to win the championship.
"The Olympic competition on August 15 came to an end, Phelps broke the record and won the sixth crown, and Zhang Huasong easily advanced to the men's 100m semifinals! 》
"Zhang Huasong in the two rounds of men's 100m preliminaries advanced to the next round with the first place in the preliminaries, and Zhang Huasong ran a time of 9.88 seconds in the second round of preliminaries! 》
"Zhang Huasong in the men's 100m two rounds of preliminaries is in good shape, and he easily advanced to the semifinals without being affected by Phelps! 》
"Peking Olympics Men's 100m Flyer Battle, Zhang Huasong is the first favorite to win the championship! 》
Huaguo, on the Internet, in addition to the news that the Chinese team won four gold medals again and Phelps broke the record to win the sixth gold, Zhang Huasong's Olympic debut was also the focus of netizens' attention.
After all, Huaguo track and field has always been very weak, Liu Xiang can become a national hero if he wins an Olympic championship in the 110-meter hurdles, and Zhang Huasong's performance in the men's 100-meter star event is naturally more concerned by netizens.
And Zhang Huasong's stable performance in today's two rounds of 100m preliminaries also reassured Chinese netizens.
"Zhang Huasong really has a big heart, the first time he participated in the Olympic Games, he didn't look nervous at all, and he easily ran out of the first place in the two rounds of preliminaries."
"Not only is he not nervous, looking at Zhang Huasong's demeanor in the live broadcast footage, he also retains his strength!"
"Of course, this is the preliminaries, as long as you advance, the strongest strength will definitely be left until the finals to break out!"
"Zhang Huasong is too strong, it was great for Asians to run into the 10-second mark before, but Zhang Huasong was able to run 9.88 seconds in the preliminaries, and I don't know if he can break his own world record of 9.66 seconds in the final?"
"Absolutely record-breaking! How can you win the championship without breaking the record? How do you compare the number of gold medals with Phelps? Phelps has broken the world record six times and won six gold medals! ”
"Yes, Phelps is so perverted, he won all six races in a record-breaking way! Zhang Huasong not only has to compete with Phelps for the number of gold medals, but also has to break the world record! Otherwise, even if the number of gold medals is the same, foreigners will never say that Zhang Huasong is not as good as Phelps! ”
"Phelps is indeed divine, fortunately Zhang Huasong doesn't seem to be affected!"
"Zhang Huasong is indeed tenacious enough, and he has always been in a very stable state, and now it seems that even the Olympics can't make him nervous and play abnormally!"
"That's what it's like!"
"Tomorrow is the 100m final, I hope Zhang Huasong will break the record and win the championship!"
"Yes, support Zhang Huasong to break the record and win the championship, surpassing Phelps!"
Unlike the reaction of Chinese netizens, the media and people in other countries gave more praise to Phelps.
As for Zhang Huasong, the first place in the preliminaries to advance to the semifinals can only be said to be in everyone's expectations. After all, Zhang Huasong is the world record holder in this event.
However, such achievements still can't make everyone put Zhang Huasong on a par with Phelps.
To compete with Phelps, you have to win a gold medal and break a record!
And on the evening of August 16, it was the time for Zhang Huasong to hit his first Olympic gold in the men's 100-meter final of the Peking Olympics!
At 9 a.m. on August 16, 2008, the men's 100m semifinals will be held.
The semi-finals consisted of 16 people, divided into two groups to compete, and the top four in each group directly advanced to the final round.
In the semi-finals of the first group, Usain Bolt ran a time of 9.83 seconds and Tyson Gay also ran a time of 9.86 seconds to advance to the final.
Moreover, both of them entered the 9.9-second mark, which is in good shape.
In addition to Usain Bolt and Gay, the first group to advance were Trinidad and Tobago's Mark Burns and another Jamaican sprinter, Michael Flatt, both of whom ran the 10-second mark.
The four people who advanced to the first group of the semi-finals all ran into the 10-second mark, which was the most fierce semi-final in the international competition in recent years, and also caused all reporters and spectators to exclaim.
Such a level of competition made everyone look forward to the men's 100m trapeze battle at night!
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