Chapter Ninety-Seven: Haze

On the morning of November 14, the Guangzhou Stadium was crowded. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because it is a weekend, almost all the spectators who can come to the scene around are here, although archery is not a popular sport, but its viewing is enough, coupled with the birth of Tang Hao, the popularity of this sport is soaring in an incredible way, and the audience arrived early, apparently to catch a glimpse of the Sino-Korean war.

But it was on this day that something happened that caught people off guard.

Smog, a word that was widely known in China, began to be known in 2013 when the state established the term.

Before that, the Chinese people knew that there was such a thing, but they didn't know what to call it and didn't pay much attention to it.

In fact, smog was very famous in London as early as the last century, and it lasted for more than 200 years in the generation at the beginning of the industrial revolution, while China, in fact, began to have haze weather in 03.

Guangzhou, as one of the most developed cities, is also on the rise.

Originally, for large-scale events like the Asian Games, the government would carry out traffic control in urban areas, but because there was not enough strength, and Guangzhou happened to have a sudden fog on this day, the whole city was shrouded in smog after dawn.

Moreover, it is a haze with a high density and very low visibility.

The organizing committee was also caught off guard by such an unexpected situation, because the stadium was open-air, and they were even ready to change the venue to the stadium.

However, this plan is extremely difficult to implement, on the one hand, there is no large enough spare stadium, and on the other hand, the spectators are almost all there, and the transfer is also a big problem.

As a last resort, the team final, originally scheduled for 8 a.m., had to be postponed temporarily.

As time goes by, the audience and the players are under a lot of psychological pressure.

The good news is that after an hour's delay, the fog is finally showing signs of lifting.

After the visibility was almost 70 meters or so that the race could be carried out, the organizing committee announced the start of the race.

In the past such an episode, this game has a feeling of holding the pipa and half-covering his face, and he has been waiting for a long time.

When the two players walked to the arena one after another, the emotions of the audience were immediately aroused, and the previous wait became all worth it.

The spectators were excited, but the contestants were dignified, and such a low-visibility environment was really not suitable for archery competitions.

It's just that as players, they can only try to overcome it.

The previous performance of the Chinese team, especially Tang Hao, has attracted enough attention from the South Korean team, and the Chinese team cannot be careless with the South Korean team, and they are extremely cautious when the order of appearance of the players on both sides is announced.

On the Korean side, Kim Hee-zhao took the lead, Park Ji-hyun was the second, and their core Lim Dong-hyun was the last.

On the Chinese team's side, Qiu Tian took the lead, the veteran Ning Ze was in the middle, and Tang Hao was at the tail.

There are not many surprises in this arrangement, but after it really comes out, the two sides have a feeling of soldiers against soldiers and generals against generals.

When Tang Hao and his teammates warmed up for the last time before the game, they could clearly feel the hostility from the South Korean team.

South Korea is a country with a strong sense of ethnic superiority, and even without Park Tae-an's affairs, the Chinese team's victory over them at the Youth Olympic Games would have been enough to attract their hostility.

"Players prepare. ”

After a brief warm-up, the referee quickly announced that both players were on the line.

Qiu Tian and Jin Xizhao walked to the arena with a recurve bow.

Both of them are young players, and there is no verbal exchange after they get on the field, and they both shoot directly after they arrive.

Qiu Tian shot 17 rings with 2 arrows, Jin Xizhao scored 2 arrows with 18 rings, and the two of them can be said to be half a catty against eight taels.

After the game between the two people ended, Ning Ze and Park Zhixuan followed by the stage, and compared with the previous two people, there were more intersections between them.

After the two arrived at the venue, there was a mutual verbal exchange, and after they got on the field, they also deliberately pressed the time to shoot arrows, changing the way to give the opponent enough psychological pressure.

In the end, Ning Ze had 2 arrows and 18 rings, and Lin Zhixuan had 2 arrows and 18 rings, and both of them shot the same number of rings.

Kim Hee-zhao and Park Ji-hyun are both regular members of the South Korean national team, and in normal games, their results in a round are basically stable at 19 to 20 rings.

But today, after the two people finished shooting, there was not even a ten-ring appearance, and the impact of the haze weather on the players can be imagined.

After the two pairs of players are finished, the finalists of both sides will be followed by the players.

Tang Hao and Lin Dongxian.

Tang Hao walked on the field with a recurve bow, and after playing, Lin Dongxian did not verbally provoke like Park Tae-an in the Youth Olympic Games, but only glanced at him.

It can be seen that he is quite confident in himself.

Because the Korean team's qualifying result was the first of all teams, Lim Dong-hyun had the right to shoot first.

Lin Dongxian walked to the arrow target with a recurve bow, glanced at the arrow target in the distance, took a deep breath, leaned forward slightly, and after completing a series of preparatory actions, he then pulled out his first arrow from the quiver.

His eyes were full of confidence.

Yes, he has a reason to be confident enough.

An atypical and well-known athlete, he has already achieved a number of impressive results, including the Olympic gold medal he dreams of as an athlete, but the reality is that his eyesight has declined since his victory in '08.

At the beginning, he, like others, thought that his career was going to come to an abrupt end at the peak, but he was not convinced, so he insisted on training, even if he couldn't see the arrow target clearly like ordinary people, he could also shoot the arrow into the bull's-eye.

Originally, this was a big disadvantage for him, but in such bad conditions, it became a big advantage for him.

He pulled the upper limit of the arrow, and in the distance it was not because of the haze, but because his vision became very unclear, but he aimed the arrow at the target according to the feeling in his memory, and after feeling a kind of peak, he followed and shot the arrow.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow made a burst of sound through the air, cut a parabola through the air through the layers of haze, and fell straight down towards the target.

"Bang!"

One shot right in the bull's-eye.

10 rings.

Lim Dong-hyun shot the first 10 rings of the game.

The teammates of the South Korean team were screaming with excitement, and the Koreans in the stands were also screaming.

Lin Dongxian's second arrow is still very slow, and like the first arrow, it is straight and hit the bull's-eye.

At the end of his round, South Korea had less than 10 seconds left in their four-minute time, which was no more, no less.

Lin Dongxian was also quite excited after shooting these 2 10 rings, and looked at Tang Hao provocatively for a while when he got off the field.

This move was seen by the audience on the sidelines, and they all looked at Tang Hao with worried faces.

Although Tang Hao's previous performance was amazing enough, in this hazy weather, coupled with Lin Dongxian's outstanding performance, they still seemed a little less confident in Tang Hao.