Chapter 227: Turmoil
72 arrows, the full ring score is 720 rings, and the score of 699 rings means that among the 72 arrows he shot, at least 51 arrows are 10 rings, and this probability is an astonishing 70%!
The amazing stability also shows Lin Dongxian's current hot competitive state. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After Lim Dong-hyun scored such an amazing result, the Korean media completely climaxed.
"699 rings! Lin Dongxian's strong play proves that he is worthy of the most powerful shooter on the planet, Smecta!"
"Lim Dong-hyun broke the world record, and he proved to the world that archery belonged to the Republic of Korea in the past, and now belongs to the Republic of Korea, and will belong to the Republic of Korea in the future!"
"Lin Dongxian has opened the invincible mode, Tang Hao and Allison are not his opponents, double champions in archery, and Smecta is firmly in the bag!"
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Compared with Lin Dongxian, Tang Hao's qualifying results are relatively low-key, his 687 rings ranked 4th among all players, and finally under his leadership, the Chinese team ranked 6th among all participating teams, and successfully advanced to the second day of the knockout round, their first round opponent is the 11th-ranked Chinese Taipei team.
After the qualifying round, Tang Hao and other teammates participated in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Compared with the simplicity of the Olympic Village, the opening ceremony is relatively much more luxurious, in addition to the wonderful programs, all kinds of star appearances are also lighting up the venue again and again.
These include Mr. Bean's actor Rowon Atkinson, world-class football star David Beckham, etc.
What's even more exciting is that Queen Elizabeth II also came to the venue, and in an amazing way, she arrived in the venue by helicopter with the latest James Bond actor Daniel Craig.
The British Olympic Organising Committee is rumoured to have invested £26 million in the opening ceremony, which seems to be true.
Tang Hao was watching Atkinson's piano performance on the field, and Xu Jiayu, who had just come back from going to the toilet, said with a strange expression as soon as he sat down: "Brother Tang, do you know that people from the island country and the Northern Dynasty are making trouble there." ”
"What's the fuss?" Tang Hao turned his head suspiciously, what's so much trouble in the opening ceremony?
"I also heard that the island team was taken directly outside the venue by the team leader. ”
"Forehead ......"
"The staff member who guided them in the North Korea, the national flag on the sign turned out to be Korean!"
“……”
"I also heard that the Indian team was led by a girl in red who appeared out of nowhere, and snatched away the poor exposure of the Indian team. ”
After listening to Xu Jiayu's words, Tang Hao suddenly didn't know what to say.
He even wondered if the opening ceremony had not been rehearsed.
However, because they have little to do with the Chinese team, they just listen to it as an anecdote.
After the opening ceremony, Tang Hao went back to rest early.
According to the schedule, both archery and swimming events will start the next day, and the reason why he gave up the 400m freestyle and 400m medley is because of the conflict with the archery schedule.
The Chinese team played in the afternoon, and in the morning, he went to the scene to watch the game with Qiu Tian and Ning Ze, two old teammates.
South Korea took the lead in the morning knockout round, where they faced a mediocre South African side.
In the end, under the leadership of Lim Dong-hyun's personal 80-ring full ring result, the South Korean team easily eliminated the South African team to advance to the next round.
Tang Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly after watching the game of the Korean team.
In the state of the South Korean team, it is really difficult for the Chinese team to win the team competition, after all, the team competition is not something that he can win by playing well alone.
He turned his head to look at Ning Ze and Qiu Tian, and then smiled knowingly.
His two veteran players, after watching the game of the South Korean team, looked excited.
The morning archery competition continued and they did not leave the field, and according to the schedule, the match between the third-placed British team and the fourteenth-ranked island nation team will determine their opponents in the next round.
After the South Korean team's match, the match between Germany in second place and Ethiopia in 15th place was followed.
They were watching, and Tang Hao glanced at Qiu Tian frowning and looking at his phone.
"What's wrong?"
"This is a bit excessive!" Qiu Tian turned his head and said angrily.
Tang Hao looked at him suspiciously.
Qiu Tian leaned over and said in a low voice: "Men's 10-meter springboard, Daley made a mistake in diving, complained that someone in the audience had a flash that affected his competition, and applied for a rejump, but the referee allowed it! Oh yes, this Daley is British." ”
Tang Hao smiled.
In fact, when he saw that scene in the Shakespeare Theater, he had a hunch, even the leisure place dared to do this, it was not normal not to play some tricks in the competition, it was just this excuse......
Who takes pictures in broad daylight and turns on the flash, and even if it does, isn't it the same for other athletes?
"In fact, even if the appeal is successful, after all, this is within the rules, but the crux of the matter is that when the Malaysian team competed later, some players had a stomach upset and applied to postpone the jump, but they were rejected!"
"This person's normal instinct is to refuse, it's completely different! It's so dark!" Qiu Tian couldn't help but say angrily.
"Let's hope it's just an isolated phenomenon. Tang Hao looked at the arena and said.
Their next match is likely to be against the hosts, and it is not known what will happen.
At this time, the game on the field was almost comparable, and the German team defeated the Ethiopian team to advance to this round.
Germany was followed by Great Britain and, as expected, the British also beat the island nation to advance to this round.
After watching the game of the British team, Tang Hao and the others went down to the venue to prepare.
The Olympic Games have a tight schedule, and all the knockout rounds will be contested on this day to determine the final champion and runner-up.
After preparing on the sidelines, it will be the turn of the Chinese team in a short time.
The appearance of the Chinese team immediately attracted a burst of cheers from the sidelines.
The number of overseas Chinese in Britain is one of the largest in the world, reaching five or six hundred thousand, and they will naturally not miss such an important occasion as the Olympic Games.
And it is very interesting that the opponent of the Chinese team in the first round is the Chinese Taipei team.
Taiwan is a very strange place, most of them are very arrogant, what warship can recover the mainland, the poor Chinese can't afford to eat tea eggs are from their mouths.
Originally, sports have nothing to do with politics and quality, but sports are people's participation, and these players of the Chinese Taipei team, after knowing that their opponent in the first round of the knockout round was the Chinese team, they were extremely excited, and when interviewed by the media in the region, they bluntly said that the best result of such a matchup, the level of the Chinese team is unstable, and they are very hopeful of breaking into the quarterfinals.
The game between the two sides began quickly, and the Chinese team had even more results in the preliminaries, and they had the right to shoot first.
Tian Zhenzhe hoped to win the game as soon as possible, and he was also very direct in arranging the troops, and ranked Tang Hao in the first appearance.
Tang Hao's appearance immediately attracted excited cheers from the audience on the sidelines.
This time, it was not only the Chinese who cheered, but also many local British audiences.
Although the incident of an arrow hitting an apple 150 meters away from the royal back garden was not widely reported, this kind of thing actually did not need to be publicized at all, and word of mouth spread and many people naturally knew about it.
This treatment also made the players of the Taipei team gloomy, and they obviously felt that the crowd on the sidelines was a little unfair.
After Tang Hao came on the field, he shot the first arrow after a little preparation.
One arrow hits the bull's-eye, and the 10 rings are firmly in hand.
There was a burst of cheers from the scene.
Before the cheers fell, Tang Hao followed and shot a second arrow.
There was a muffled "bang", and the landing point of the second arrow was next to the first arrow, which was also a steady 10-ring hand.
The cheers from the crowd on the sidelines were even louder.
"That's it, that's it!" The British audience couldn't help but shout excitedly, they didn't have the opportunity to witness Tang Hao's performance in the royal back garden, but they were also very excited to see such a casual but accurate performance.
After Tang Hao finished shooting, Cai Zhenzhong, who started on the Taipei team, also appeared.
As the top card of the Taipei team, Cai Zhenzhong still has a certain strength.
He came on the field with his first shot on the edge of the 10 rings, his first 10 rings of the Games.
Shooting 10 rings, the other two players of the Taipei team raised their bows and cheered excitedly.
However, compared to them, the audience's reaction was much smaller, and only some Chinese Americans were cheering for them.
After all, this 10 rings, in fact, there is a lot of luck in it, and it will be gone a little further.
Cai Zhenzhong's second arrow, this time he was not so lucky, this arrow is located in the center of the 9 rings, it is an undisputed 9 rings.
However, this still drew cheers from two Taipei teammates.
2 arrows and 19 rings, which is already a pretty good result in the knockout round.
The second appearance of the Chinese team is Qiu Tian.
Compared with Tang Hao, his shooting speed was obviously much slower, and it took more than ten seconds from the beginning of drawing the arrow to aiming.
Although he made history with Tang Hao in the Guangzhou Asian Games and his self-confidence has increased greatly, the Olympic Games are in front of him, and the importance is not comparable to the intercontinental competition of the Asian Games, and it is the first time to participate in the Olympic Games, so he can't be careless.
It was only after he felt that it was almost enough that he let go.
"Bang!"
One shot hit the target, followed by a burst of cheers.
10 rings!
This arrow, the whole of which is within the 10 rings, is an undisputed 10 rings.
Seeing the results, Qiu Tianchang breathed a sigh of relief.
After making a good start for himself, his mentality also relaxed, and the speed of the second arrow was significantly faster.
"Bang!"
It's another arrow in 10 rings, and it's right in the bull's-eye.
The Chinese on the sidelines cheered excitedly.
Tang Hao also stretched out his hand to applaud Qiu Tian.
The team competition is a matter of three people, and if Qiu Tian and Ning Ze are in good shape, it will definitely be good news for the national team.
After Qiu Tian finished shooting, Xu Jinzhe from the Taipei team also appeared.
Compared with Cai Zhenzhong, the strength of this young player is a little worse, although the results of 2 arrows and 17 rings are not too bad, but in the face of the Chinese team's 2 20 rings, which makes them fall behind by as many as 3 rings at the beginning.
The last player on the Chinese team was veteran Ning Ze.
His characteristic is stability, 2 arrows and 18 rings, not too good, but not bad.
The last player on Taipei's side was also a veteran.
Chen Xinda, this is his third Olympic competition.
He has similar characteristics to Ning Ze, but his strength is a little worse, with 2 arrows and 17 rings, the same as Xu Jinzhe.
In this way, the first round of confrontation is over, and the Chinese team has a 58-54 lead of 4 rings.
At the end of the first round, the three members of the Taipei team gathered together, and in the face of such an unfavorable situation, they had to discuss how to deal with it.
After a short break, the next day's race continued.
Tang Hao's performance is still as stable as a machine, and the results of 2 arrows and full rings again make people feel like they don't want to continue to compete with him.
Cai Zhenzhong still won 19 rings in the second round, and 19 rings in the second round, he has already played extraordinarily.
To the surprise of the audience, even Tang Hao, Qiu Tian also hit 2 10 rings in the second round, and this talented player who competed with Tang Hao in the national championships seems to be about to usher in his explosion in this Olympic Games.
The remaining three players played decently, and the Chinese team still won 57-54 in the second round.
In this way, after two rounds, the Chinese team has been ahead of the Chinese Taipei team by as many as 7 rings.
At the end of the second round, looking at the huge score difference on the screen, this time the players of the Taipei team were in no mood to discuss any more tactics.
This gap is really a bit big.
Like most Taiwan people, they are unwilling and will not try to accept the changes of the Chinese team, just as they are unwilling to accept the current high-speed development of China, and they do not realize that the Chinese team in front of them is no longer the unstable Chinese team in their memory.
In just 2 rounds, the game has basically lost its suspense.
In the next two rounds, the Taipei team has basically lost resistance.
In the end, the Chinese team won with a total score of 227 to 211 rings.
Because of the schedule, the teams that finished and did not compete were on the sidelines, and after seeing the strong performance of the Chinese team, they were all thoughtful, this Olympic game, it was not only the Taipei team that was impacted, but the other strong teams realized that the Chinese team in front of them was different from before.
The morning match continued, and the quarterfinals were all out.
Exactly as predicted by experts before the game, all the strong teams, including South Korea, Great Britain, and Ukraine, all defeated their opponents and advanced to the next round, without any upsets.
This is also the Olympics, a chance once every four years, and no one will allow themselves to make a big mistake on such an occasion.
The quarters, semi-finals and finals were played in the afternoon, and the intensity of the matches was very high.
Tang Hao and Qiu Tian went to the canteen of the Olympic Village to eat casually, and then returned to the sidelines to rest.
During the time when they were resting, Zhuang Jiajie launched an activity of watching the game on the sidelines in Tang Hao's personal account, which attracted a lot of responses from fans.
After a short break at noon, the afternoon game went on as scheduled.
Compared with the morning, the number of spectators in the afternoon has increased significantly, and the largest increase is naturally Chinese.
In addition to the reason for competing for the championship and runner-up in the afternoon, the biggest reason is naturally the fan activity initiated by Zhuang Jiajie.
And the purpose of this fan event is self-evident.
In the 10-meter platform competition in the morning, not only did Daley apply for a rejump, but in the process of scoring the Chinese team, the referee obviously pressed the score, and in the end, Daley successfully "defeated" Yang Jianqiu Bo and won this "hard-won" gold medal.
In this context, the Chinese archery team will play against the strong British team in the afternoon, so you can imagine how difficult the game will be.
At this time, what fans can do is to cheer for their country's players on the sidelines and make them feel that they are not alone.
Tang Hao and his teammates didn't know this, before the start of the game in the afternoon, they were very excited to see the sharp increase in Chinese on the scene.
At 2 p.m. UK time, the archery knockout tournament went on as scheduled.
South Korea were still the first to take on Germany, who had been in good form before.
In the end, South Korea showed their dominance, beating Germany with a super high score of 232 to advance to the semi-finals.
Germany was followed by the United States, who led by the returning American Allison, who had returned to American citizenship, and defeated tough opponents Italy to reach the semi-finals.
Not long after the game of the American team ended, the audience cheered.
Next up is the home team, Great Britain.
The audience cheered not only for the appearance of the British players, but because at this time, Prince William, who loves sports, also brought his girlfriend Kate Middleton to watch the game on the sidelines.
The appearance of the prince not only excited the audience, but also the members of the British team, which simply gave them the strongest booster.
"Kate, this time our national team is going to be challenged. Prince William looked to the other side of the arena and said to his girlfriend Middleton with a smile.
"William, are you talking about the Chinese half a year ago?" said Middleton with a smile, although more than half a year has passed, he is deeply impressed by the boy who dared to perform archery in front of the queen.
"He's on the Chinese team. Prince William smiled and nodded, he had a very good impression of Tang Hao, after the opening of the Olympic Games, he was looking forward to seeing Tang Hao again, and now that the British team met him, it was a godsend opportunity to use this excuse.
"Then our national team will really have a big challenge. Middleton said with a smile.
"Look at it. Prince William said with a smile.
Although it was not as hot as the British team when they appeared, the appearance of Tang Hao and the Chinese team still attracted cheers from the Chinese on the sidelines.
Although the number of people was not as large as the local British audience, the cheers were not weak at all.
Hearing this cheer, Qiu Tian couldn't help but stretch out his hand and wave the bow and arrow in his hand.
The young man's heart must have been boiling.
Tang Hao, who is also a "young man", was a lot calmer at this time, and after waving his hand to the Chinese audience, he took a bow and arrow to prepare for the competition.
"Look, Prince William and Princess Kate. When he arrived at the competition preparation area, Qiu Tian spoke.
Tang Hao looked up and noticed Prince William.
It so happened that Prince William was also looking this way, and now he smiled and stretched out his hand to greet him.
Tang Hao smiled and nodded.
"Everyone is not married yet, where is the princess. Ning Ze opened his mouth to speak, and when he said this, his face was obviously worried.
The archery strength of the British team can rank among the top three in the world, and with the help of Prince William and the home game, the Chinese team's game will be really difficult, and the difficulty is even no less than that of the South Korean team.
Tian Zhenzhe noticed Ning Ze's expression and said: "In this game, winning is making history, and I don't blame you for losing, you let go of your hands and feet to fight." ”
"We will, if we win at someone else's home stadium, that feeling will definitely be refreshing!" Qiu Tian retracted his gaze at this time, unlike Ning Ze, Prince William's presence aroused his fighting spirit.
Tian Zhenzhe nodded with satisfaction, and pulled Ning Ze to speak alone.
Tang Hao is definitely not worried, Qiu Tian is also full of fighting spirit, but the team competition is a matter of three people, and no one can go wrong.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is time for the game to start, and the British team and the Chinese team have appeared one after another.
Unlike the Chinese team, the three players of the British team are all veterans, and the youngest Alan Wells was also born in 1981 and is now 31 years old.
The British team has a higher ranking position than the Chinese team, and they have the right to shoot first in the game.
The first of Great Britain's appearance was Larry Goldfrey, who captained the British national team after snatching a bronze medal from the South Koreans at Athens '04.
In the same psychology as China against Taipei, the British team clearly wanted to get off to a good start and then take advantage of the momentum to win the game.
The first player on the Chinese team was Qiu Tian, and Tian Zhenzhe was relatively conservative in his arrangement when facing the British team.
Goldfrey's appearance brought a small climax to the emotions of the audience.
As the captain of the team, coupled with the popularity of archery in the UK, his popularity is also quite good.
In the cheers of the audience, Gao Defrey also lived up to expectations, although the second arrow was a little thrilling, but he still shot a wonderful 20 rings with two arrows.
This kind of play also ignited the scene instantly, and even Prince William applauded.
After Gao De Frey shot, Tian Zhenzhe looked at Qiu Tian with great concern, although the young man worked hard, but the scene of the away opponent's opening 20 rings brought unprecedented pressure.
However, Qiu Tian did not show nervousness, and he even gave Tang Hao a thumbs up before going on the court, and then he played.
Seeing Qiu Tian's actions, Tang Hao couldn't help but smile, he had a hunch that if he retired from archery one day, at least there would be this Qiu Tian, and Chinese archery would not collapse.
Qiu Tian took a deep breath, drew his arrow and drew his bow, and then fired.
His movements were coherent, and he couldn't see anything dragging.
"Bang!"
In the exclamation and cheers of the scene, this arrow hit the bull's-eye.
One heart with 10 rings!
Tian Zhenzhe couldn't help but press his fist excitedly.
Qiu Tian's arrow hit the bull's-eye, and the whole person's self-confidence was raised again, followed by another arrow.
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, this arrow hit the target, attracting a burst of screams from the Chinese audience.
This arrow, although it did not hit the heart, was within 10 rings.
Another arrow and 10 rings!
Like Goldfrey, Qiu Tian withstood the pressure in the first round and also came with a 20 ring!