The news of Chen Qiang's victory spread back to China.

On the beach, Chen Ruji's newspaper office had just opened its door, and today's newspaper was snapped up by the newsboys.

Because the news of Chen Qiang's winning gold in the Olympics appeared in the newspaper again. And this means that today's newspapers will definitely sell out of stock.

In front of a newsstand, the newsstand owner wrote the words "Chen Qiang won the championship again" on paper, and then posted it in front of the newsstand.

Large newspapers such as "Declaration" and "News" have their own printing equipment, and at this time they are already working 24 hours a day, and the printing factory in Shanghai has also received orders for printing.

Some newspapers simply published a collection of news reports on Chen Qiang's participation in the Olympic Games, sorted out all the reports about Chen Qiang in the past few days into a newspaper, and then printed them as a side issue, printed tens of thousands of copies for sale, and sold them out quickly.

Most people usually don't buy newspapers to read, but because Chen Qiang has continued to achieve good results in the Olympic Games, those who don't buy newspapers have also bought newspapers; Originally, those who didn't know what the Olympics were have also paid attention to the Olympics and began to understand the Olympics. In just three days, many sports novices have grown into sports enthusiasts.

This is a bit like Chairman Yao entering the NBA back then, so that people who didn't pay attention to the NBA or basketball started watching NBA games, began to understand basketball, and eventually became NBA fans.

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Not only in Shanghai, but also in Tianjin, Beiping, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha...... A similar situation is playing out in other cities.

Newspapers were sold out, and in the streets and alleys, people were talking about Chen Qiang and the Olympics.

At this time, if you don't know Chen Qiang and don't know the Olympics, it has become a very outdated thing.

Winning three gold medals in three days and breaking world records in three events really made Chen Qiang famous.

At this time in China, although Chen Qiang was not a household name, at least in the city, people already knew Chen Qiang's name, knew that Chen Qiang won the gold medal in the Olympic Games, and won glory for the country.

During the Republic of China, there were only more than 50 formal cities, and the urbanization rate was only 10%, but at that time there were 40,000 people in China, and 10% means that 40 million people know about Chen Qiang, which means that the news of Chen Qiang's victory in the Olympic Games has affected 40 million Chinese and inspired 40 million Chinese!

In that era of poor communication, it was already a great thing to be able to make one in ten Chinese feel uplifted and motivated.

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On August 4, the Los Angeles Olympics came to their fifth day of competition.

On this day, Chen Qiang has to participate in three competitions, namely the preliminary and semi-finals of the 400-meter competition, and the final of the triple jump.

For the audience who came to watch the game, Chen Qiang is not a strange athlete, those who have come to watch the game for several days in a row will even feel that Chen Qiang is very familiar, although the game has not yet started, and there is no link to introduce the athletes, but when Chen Qiang appeared on the field, they recognized Chen Qiang from afar.

"Chinese! It's the Chinese named Chen Qiang, he's here again! ”

"Oh my God, is he going to race the 400 meters?"

"He's already competed in the 100m, 200m and long jump, and now he's in the 400m!"

"Three sprint events, that Chinese have signed up, is he going to charter the entire sprint event?"

"Oops, that Chinese is here again, 100 meters and 200 meters, we all lost, 400 meters race, our American team is also hanging!"

In the past three days, Chen Qiang's results were too good, which left a psychological shadow on many Americans, so when Chen Qiang appeared in the 400-meter field, many American spectators at the scene were extremely weak-hearted, and they felt that the American team would also lose to Chen Qiang in the 400-meter event.

There are also some who still maintain strong confidence in the U.S. team.

"The 400m has always been a strong event for our American team, and this time we will definitely not lose to that Chinese!"

"In the last Olympics, the champion of the 400m was our American athlete, and this time our American team will definitely be able to successfully defend the title!"

"Ben Iskaman, the world record holder in the 400 meters, is in the American team right now, we have the world record holder, how can we lose!"

Immediately afterwards, someone next to him sang the opposite.

"100 meters, 200 meters and long jump, which is not the strong event of our Americans, didn't we still lose!"

"What about the world record holders? Didn't the three gold medals won by the Chinese all break the world record and win the championship? Maybe in the next 400-meter race, the Chinese will break the world record again! Ben Iscaman is not necessarily the opponent of the Chinese! ”

Although the game has not yet started, the voices of various arguments are sounding one after another in the stands.

The Americans, of course, want the American athletes to win the competition, and it stands to reason that they should also support the American team unconditionally.

But they are really afraid of losing, three consecutive days of competition, the United States team has been in the winning events, each event is "the United States team is very good", "the United States team is going to win the championship", "the United States team is cool", three consecutive games are this rhythm, which has seriously hit the self-confidence of some American audiences.

The most important thing is that in the competition of these three events, the American team can see the hope of victory!

In the final of the 100-meter dash, three Americans advanced to the final and then lost;

In the final of the long jump, American athletes once stood in the top two and then were overturned;

In the final of the 200-meter sprint, three Americans advanced to the final, and all three of them had the strength to break the world record, which in anyone's opinion, was a situation of winning the gold medal, and then still lost!

If you can't win the project in the first place, you won't win the gold medal. The audience did not have any hope of winning, watched the game honestly, and enjoyed the wonderful game process. But before the game, I said that I could win, and the situation in the game was also very good, but in the end I lost, this experience is really bad.

Giving you hope and then kicking you off a cliff will make people feel even more desperate!

And this happened three times in a row.

If anyone else is disillusioned for three days in a row, it is estimated that they will lose confidence.

Therefore, there are many American viewers who have lost confidence in the American team, and these people are also involuntarily spreading pessimism.

Even though the 400m is the strongest event for the U.S. team, and even though the U.S. team has a world record holder in the 400m, there are still many people who are not optimistic about the U.S. team.

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On the track, Chen Qiang didn't dare to underestimate the American team.

The 400-meter dash is Team USA's strongest track and field event, and it was like that in the thirties, and it will be like this in the 21st century. It is no exaggeration to say that the strong position of the American team in the 400m event has been maintained for nearly 100 years!

Chen Qiang still remembers that in the future 2008 Olympic Games, in the 400-meter men's sprint, the United States team won the championship, second and third place, and raised three stars and stripes at the same time.

Chen Qiang, who comes from the future, knows that the U.S. team is absolutely the world's top in the 400m event, even if South Africa's Van Niekerk breaks the 400m world record, it is not enough to shake the dominance of the U.S. team in this event, and the overall level of the U.S. team is still too strong in the 400m event.

Unless there is an athlete of Usain Bolt's caliber in the 400m, the dominance of the U.S. team in the 400m will never be broken.

"It's good that it's still 1932!" Chen Qiang looked around, and the participants were all white athletes, which made Chen Qiang feel a lot less pressure.

In the 100m and 200m, the U.S. team sent black athletes, while European countries sent white athletes.

In the 400-meter event, there are no black athletes anymore, and black athletes in this era are only active in the 100-meter, 200-meter, and long jump, which require extremely high explosive power, and for track and field sports with certain technical requirements, black people have not yet participated in it.

It's a blessing that no black athletes are encountered in the sprint arena.

There are a total of six groups in the preliminary round of 400 meters, and the top three in each group are still promoted, Chen Qiang was divided into the third group, and the other four players in the same group, Chen Qiang did not know.

The referee also had no ink and soon announced the start of the match.

The first group featured four athletes, none of whom were Americans, and the biggest star in the group was Germany's Adolf Mezner. He was well known in Europe, having broken the 4x100m world record with the German team and setting the men's decathlon world record in 1929, meaning he was an all-round athlete.

It's just that in the Olympics, he didn't participate in the decathlon, but only participated in the 400 meters, perhaps he felt that the competition in other events was too fierce, and the 400 meters were easier to achieve.

In addition to being an athlete, Adolf Mezner was also an excellent doctor, and in the future he also joined the SS, and after the end of World War II, because he was only a military doctor in the SS, he was not sentenced as a war criminal, but was fined 50 marks and was freed.

The first group of athletes is naturally attracting attention, and experienced athletes can infer the results required to advance to the semi-finals from the results of the first group of athletes.

In the end, Adolf Mezner won the group with a time of 50.4 seconds, which is obviously not his real strength, after all, it is the preliminary round, and there is no need for a master like Adolf Mezner to work hard.

The second and third places were both 50.5 seconds, which is not a very fast time in the 400m. However, this is also much higher than the 400-meter national record of old China, which was set by Chen Yinglang in 50.7 seconds.

After seeing this result, Chen Qiang made a general judgment in his heart: "The score of the first group is lower than I imagined, and if you want to advance from the preliminary round, you should need a score of less than 50 seconds." ”

This was followed by a second group of four athletes, including world record holder Ben Iskaman. There are also Canada's Jimmy Ball and Germany's Johan Sheener.

Jimmy Bauer is the Canadian national record holder in the 400m, having competed at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and won a silver medal in the 400m.

John Sheener also competed at the Amsterdam Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the 400m.

So this group has world record holders, silver and bronze medalists from the last Olympics, and the strength of the athletes is very strong. However, the fourth player in this group is an unwell-known Mexican, and the first three will have no problem making the cut.

The same was true of the results, with Ben Iscaman taking first place with a time of 49 seconds, John Sheena second with a time of 49.3 seconds, and Jimmy Ball third with a time of 49.5 seconds. All three successfully advanced to the semifinals.

In the third group, it was finally Chen Qiang's turn to appear.

There are five players in Chen Qiang's group, and the other four are from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Japan.

There are a lot of people who are watching this group of races, especially the American team, and they want to know how Chen Qiang's 400m skills are from this game.

In the World Games in Tianjin last year, Chen Qiang ran a time of 49.9 seconds, which is not even up to the standard of national first-class athletes in later generations.

But more than a year has passed, and now Chen Qiang is no longer what it used to be, 49.9 seconds, for him, it is simply something that can be done by running casually.

Over the past year or so, Chen Qiang has not only improved his body, but also improved his 400-meter technique. As Chen Qiang's body gets stronger and stronger, Chen Qiang can also use more advanced 400-meter running methods, and can adopt a more scientific physical allocation plan, which will be followed by a leap in performance.

The 1932 world record in the 400m was 46.4 seconds. According to the entry standards of the track and field events of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 400m needs to run to 45.95 seconds to reach the B standard of the Olympic Games, which means that the world record in the thirties will not even meet the minimum Olympic participation standard in 2008.

From this, it can be seen that in the thirties, the level of the 400-meter dash was much behind.

For the preliminary race of 400 meters, Chen Qiang looks very lightly, as long as he can ensure promotion. And Chen Qiang will have to participate in the triple jump competition later, so he must save his physical strength.

With a gunshot from the starter, Chen Qiang rushed out of the starting line, he did not exert force, but accelerated step by step. With Chen Qiang's current strength, if he only runs within 50 seconds, he doesn't need to exert any special force at all, he only needs to skillfully use the technique of physical energy distribution, and then don't make mistakes.

As a world-class athlete, Chen Qiang can of course easily sense the speed of the opponent, and at this time, Chen Qiang can feel that the other four competitors in the same group are all slower.

"It's just the preliminary round, maybe they're retaining their strength, or maybe they're really cooking. If you continue to run like this, you will be able to achieve a time of 50 seconds. Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart, but under his feet he was moving forward step by step.

Chen Qiang's guess was right, the strength of the players in this group is indeed relatively weak, the Finn and the Norwegian, their personal best times are outside 48 seconds, and the Japanese and the Swedish players, even if they try their best, only barely run into the 50-second mark.

This level is very good in their home country, but in the Olympic Games, it is really not enough.

After 200 meters, Chen Qiang can feel that his physical energy has not been consumed too much, even if he sprints to the finish line with all his strength next, the remaining physical energy should be able to cope with it.

However, Chen Qiang did not do that, and he was unwilling to do any fearless physical exertion at this time.

On the sidelines, the athletes of the American team have been observing Chen Qiang.

"That Chinese didn't run fast at all!" Bill Carr said with a look of disdain.

Ben Iscaman next to him also had a much more relaxed expression. He is also worried that Chen Qiang will be like the 100m and 200m, killing all sides at the beginning of the race and breaking the world record in the semi-final.

As a result, the speed shown by Chen Qiang at present, that is, running for 50 seconds, such a result, it is very good to be able to enter the semi-finals, and Ben Iscaman also feels that there is no need to worry about Chen Qiang at all.

"My real opponent is still Bill, this guy was a big hit last year, and he's beaten me twice this year." Ben Iscaman said in his heart.

At this time on the track, Chen Qiang had already entered the final straight sprint.

After entering the straight, Chen Qiang found that he was still in the first place.

"I didn't exert my strength at all, but I still ran to the first place, and the strength of the opponent was too weak." Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart, and at the same time, he slowly relaxed his steps.

Chen Qiang is still thinking about the next triple jump final, so retaining physical fitness is also Chen Qiang's first priority now.

"That Chinese has slowed down, is it because of his physical exhaustion? It seems that he is only good at short-distance explosions, and if he is long-distance, his physical fitness is not good. It turned out that he could only run 100 meters and 200 meters. Bill Carr on the sidelines commented with a smile.

The coaches in the United States next to them nodded approvingly when they heard Bill Carr's evaluation. At this moment, they felt that the pressure on their bodies disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump are all strong events of the American team, but the American team lost gold medals one after another, and they all lost to Chen Qiang, which made the coaching staff of the American track and field team feel a lot of pressure. They don't want to lose to Chen Qiang in the 400-meter event, which is a strong event, and then the United States will lose face in sprinting!

Now Chen Qiang's performance in the 400m event is not outstanding, which makes the head of the coaching staff of the American team breathe a sigh of relief, and the last fig leaf of their American sprint has finally been saved.

On the track, Chen Qiang's speed slowed down a bit, and the Norwegian and Finnish runners behind him also caught up. The Norwegian's sprinting ability was very good, and in the blink of an eye, he overtook Chen Qiang, and the Finnish athlete was also 50 meters from the finish line, alongside Chen Qiang.

As for the Japanese and the Swede, they are a little behind, Chen Qiang visually measured the distance, and the Japanese player in fourth place was at least 0.3 seconds slower than him, and the gap is still widening. It is clear that the physical fitness of Japanese athletes is no longer sustainable.

"Asian athletes are worse in the 400m." Chen Qiang thought as he continued to keep up with the Finnish.

Norway was the first to cross the finish line and won the group with a time of 49.5 seconds, Finland accelerated before the finish line and qualified second in the group with a time of 49.8 seconds, and Chen Qiang crossed the finish line in third with a time of 49.8 seconds.

In the third place in the group, Chen Qiang just stepped on the threshold to advance, while the Japanese players and Swedish players behind him had to score 50 seconds away.

Successfully promoted, and also maximized the retention of physical strength, Chen Qiang felt that it was a successful game, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Also smiling were the three players of the U.S. team, as well as the coaches.

The contestants felt that they would be invited to the White House to be entertained by the president.

The coaches feel that they can finally defeat Chen Qiang in the 400-meter event and regain some face for the American team!

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