Chen Qiang didn't think that the Japanese would be so kind, so he took the initiative to send pillows when he wanted to sleep.

"Could it be that there is a mistake in the invitation? Probably not, people engaged in diplomacy have always been very rigorous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a single word, and the Japanese consulate in Tianjin should not be mistaken about the competition items. ”

Chen Qiang sensitively smelled that there was a hint of conspiracy in it.

"The Japanese, they must not be well-intentioned! I'll have to tempt him. Chen Qiang was vigilant, and then he deliberately pretended to be very embarrassed, and asked, "Mr. Kitajima, is this invitation written incorrectly?" It's a 200-meter dash. ”

"Chen Jun, there is no mistake in the invitation, it is indeed a 200-meter sprint, due to the limitation of the competition time, this Japan, China and Russia Trilateral Challenge, there is no 100-meter sprint event." Kitajima Shiro smiled proudly, and then said: "100 meters and 200 meters are about the same, Chen Jun is the fastest athlete in Asia, I want to participate in the 200-meter sprint, there must be no problem!" ”

Chen Qiang frowned, his mind had already begun to think about what the purpose of the Japanese was.

"Recently, I have been practicing 200 meters in the training space, and during the day, I am still training 100 meters, even the teachers and students of Nankai University do not know, in fact, I have already started training 200 meters, and the Japanese do not know! There was no 100-meter event in this competition, but a 200-meter event, so did the Japanese suddenly catch me off guard? ”

Chen Qiang decided to try again, so he shook his head, pretending to be very embarrassed, and said: "Mr. Kitajima, I have always participated in the 100-meter sprint, I have not practiced the 200-meter sprint, if I rush to participate, I am afraid I will ......" Chen Qiang deliberately pretended to be very embarrassed and shook his head.

Kitajima Shiro on the opposite side thought that Chen Qiang was cowardly and did not dare to participate in the competition.

I only heard Kitajima Shiro continue: "As far as I know, Chen Jun is a heroic figure in the eyes of Tianjin people, and if Chen Jun is timid, I think not only Tianjin people will be disappointed, but all Chinese people will also be disappointed." ”

These words came into Chen Qiang's ears, and he suddenly thought of the various praises that those tabloids in Tianjin had given him these days.

"How do I think now, those who praise me are here to deliberately kill me." Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

However, Chen Qiang's expression was still very embarrassed, he deliberately pretended to be struggling in his heart, and then said, "Okay, I will compete." ”

"That's great, I'm looking forward to seeing Chen Jun's wonderful performance in the arena with my own eyes." Shiro Kitajima said with a smile on his face.

Chen Qiang continued: "Mr. Kitajima, I have another reluctant request. ”

"Chen Jun, please speak." Shiro Kitajima said with a smile on his face.

"I hope to get the name of my opponent this time." Chen Qiang said.

"No problem. I'll send you a list of Japanese contestants. Kitajima Shiro thought for a moment, and then said, "Count the days, our Japanese contestants will arrive in Tianjin tomorrow." You'll be able to meet soon. ”

……

Office of the President of Nankai University.

"The Japanese have invited you to race again, and this time there is no 100-meter dash?" Zhang Boling asked with great concern.

Chen Qiang nodded: "100 meters have been replaced by 200 meters." ”

"How's your 200m training, can you win this time?" Zhang Boling let out a long sigh and continued: "If you are not completely sure, you can also find an excuse to shirk it, after all, your time to practice 200 meters is still short." ”

"Now the whole of Tianjin has blown me into a national hero, if I don't fight, I'm afraid that I will be scolded to death by the people, maybe I will be beaten when I go out." Chen Qiang smiled and continued, "Besides, I have confidence in myself. ”

"Just have faith, and if you need anything from the school, just let me know." Zhang Boling said.

"Headmaster, I really have something I want to trouble you." Chen Qiang said and took out a piece of paper, handed it to Zhang Boling, and said: "This is an athlete sent by Japan, one is called Abu Iwao, and the other is Sasaki Yoshizo, I want to ask the principal to help me investigate, what is the strength of this Sasaki Yoshizo." ”

Zhang Boling is one of the founders of the Chinese Sports Association and one of the founders of the Far Eastern Games.

Zhang Boling took the list: "You want to know yourself and your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!" Okay, I'm going to ask about this Sasaki Yoshizo. The other one is Abu Iwao, don't you need me to ask? ”

Chen Qiang shook his head: "I've heard of this athlete named Awu Yanfu, and I know a little about him. ”

……

Abu Iwao is a young Japanese sprinter who won the 200m in the 200m at the Japan Athletics Games twice in a row and represented Japan at the 1932 Olympics.

The reason why Chen Qiang knew about Awu Iwafu was because he eventually died in China.

During World War II, the Olympics were not held, the World Cup was not held, and with the exception of the United States, almost all sports around the world came to a standstill.

The same is true in Japan, where many sports competitions have been suspended as the war has intensified, and most athletes have chosen to pursue other careers, such as Tadahei Nanbu who went to work as a reporter for the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, and Takashi Yoshioka who went to Hiroshima to teach and was hit by an atomic bomb.

Only this Awu Yanfu, who ran to join the army, did not learn well, and learned from others to be invaders, and finally was killed by a mortar shell of Chinese soldiers when the Japanese army invaded Nanning.

The physical fitness of athletes is much better than that of ordinary people, so during World War II, athletes from all countries joined the army. In the future, there will be people who specialize in this topic, and among them there are scholars who have mentioned this Abu Iwafu, and it has been cited by others.

Later generations of Chen Qiang have seen these studies, and Awu Iwafu was killed during the invasion of China, so he has a deep memory of this.

When Chen Qiang saw the name Abu Iwao on the list of participants sent by Shiro Kitajima, he realized that his opponent this time was actually a future aggressor.

So Chen Qiang has already made up his mind that he will win this game no matter what! Although the current Awu Yanfu has not joined the army and is not an aggressor, Chen Qiang will definitely not allow Awu Yanfu to take any victory in his own hands!

As for the other Japanese player Sasaki Yoshizo, Chen Qiang had never heard of his name, so he asked Zhang Boling to inquire.

Soon, Zhang Boling heard the news that Sasaki Yoshizo was the champion of the 200-meter event at the 1930 Japan Aland Games, and his winning time was 22.5 seconds.

Hearing this result, Chen Qiang has a big understanding of the level of Japanese players.

The 200-meter run of 22.5 seconds is a very slow result in Chen Qiang's opinion. The manual timing of 22.5 seconds is equivalent to 22.74 seconds of the electronic machine, and the future national first-class athletes, the 200-meter standard result is 22.02 seconds of electronic timing, which means that Sasaki Yoshizo, the Japanese champion, is still 0.7 seconds away from the national first-class athletes.

However, in this era, the 200-meter run of 22.5 seconds is already a very fast result.

Six years ago, when Zhu Baozhang won the national championship, he ran 24 seconds in the 200 meters. In the National Games in the first half of the year, Liu Changchun came out with an injury and finally won the championship with a time of 22.8 seconds. Historically, Liu Changchun also set a 200-meter record of 22 seconds at the Nanjing National Games in 1933, which was not broken until after the liberation.

Chen Qiang only knows Liu Changchun's national record of 22 seconds, but he doesn't know when he set this record. According to Chen Qiang's estimates, the current Liu Changchun's 200-meter score is about 22.5 seconds, which is about the same as this Sasaki Yoshizo, and may be better than Sasaki Yoshizo.

Chen Qiang thought about it in his heart, he felt that as long as he could run a time of 22 seconds, he would be able to win the championship of the China-Japan-Russia Trilateral Challenge, although this still did not meet the standard of national first-class athletes, but it was 0.3 seconds faster than Sasaki Yoshizo.

The 200-meter sprint has a 0.3-second advantage, and even if Yoshizo Sasaki plays very well on the spot, he can't turn the tables around.

……

Athletes from Japan and Belarus have already arrived in Tianjin, and the competition is scheduled for the weekend.

Time was pressing, and Chen Qiang began to train for the 200-meter sprint, striving to improve his performance as much as possible before the start of the race.

During this time, Chen Qiang accumulated some points, which were enough for him to use for a few days, so during the day, Chen Qiang did not continue to brush the 100-meter task to earn points, but officially devoted himself to the 200-meter training, which was mainly for the Japanese to see. If you don't practice until the competition is approaching, it will definitely be unreasonable and will arouse suspicion among the Japanese.

The Japanese have been paying close attention to Chen Qiang's training, and they reported Chen Qiang's start of training for the 200m to Kishi Seiichi in Tokyo.

When Kishi Kiyoshi learned the news, he laughed.

"There is a saying in China called 'grinding guns in battle', and now Chen Qiang is grinding guns in battle! This weekend's race is about to start, and it's only now that the 200m is practiced, is it too late? Did he think that he could defeat a professional 200-meter sprinter by practicing for a few days? ”

……

Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye it is the weekend, the match day of the China-Japan-Russia trilateral match.

Guan Wuye carried the bird cage and hummed a little song to the front of the stadium.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Guan Erye came to Tianjin, with the family property left by his ancestors, he bought some industries in Tianjin, and relied on collecting rent and eating old books on weekdays, but it was also a nourishing life. Walking birds, bathing in the bathhouse, drinking tea, and listening to operas are the daily lives of Guan Wuye.

And today, Guan Wuye did not go to the teahouse after walking the birds, but went straight to the Minyuan Stadium.

"Hey, isn't this Guan Wuye, why didn't you go to the teahouse today!" A voice rang out.

Guan Wuye looked back and saw that it was an acquaintance.

"It turned out to be the shopkeeper of Song." Guan Wuye put down the birdcage, waved at the other party, said hello, and then said: "I didn't expect that Shopkeeper Song was also interested in this way of sports. ”

Shopkeeper Song smiled a little embarrassedly: "How do I know any sports, I heard that the athlete Chen Qiang is going to compete with the Japanese today, so I came to join in the fun." ”

"I also came to see Chen Qiang, and I heard that he is the fastest runner in Asia, and even the Japanese are not his opponents. We Chinese have been bullied by the Japanese several times over the years, and now that there is finally one who can win the Japanese, I will definitely have to come and see it. Guan Wuye said.

"But it's not, I've long wanted to see how powerful this Chen Jianjiang is, he has been playing in Japan and North Korea before, and he has never appeared in Tianjin, this time I have to take a good look, how Chen Jianjiang will win the Japanese!" Shopkeeper Song said.

At this time, the entrance gate of the stadium has been opened.

"Fifth Master Guan, open the door, please first!" Shopkeeper Song made a gesture of please.

"It's better to ask the shopkeeper Song first." Guan Wuye is also humble.

The two humbled and walked into the stadium together.

……

This time, the venue of the game was the Minyuan Stadium in the British Concession of Tianjin.

Minyuan Stadium was first built with reference to the Stamford Bridge stadium in the United Kingdom, and those who are familiar with football should know that Stamford Bridge Stadium is the stadium of the British giant Chelsea Football Club.

Although the game was held in the British Concession, the stands were already full of ordinary people from Tianjin, and the British did not see any of them. Obviously, the track and field competition between China and Japan did not arouse the interest of the British.

In addition, some Japanese expatriates also came to the scene, Tianjin also has a Japanese concession, so there are many Japanese expatriates living together, and there is a Japanese military camp in the Japanese concession, after the July 7 Incident, this Japanese military camp became the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China.

In the thirties, the Minyuan Stadium only had about half a week of stands, and the other half of the week was an open space, and the open space was also overcrowded at this time, and those Tianjin people who did not find seats in the stands all came to this open space.

I have to say that the Japanese were still very successful in their previous campaign, and now everyone in Tianjin knows Chen Qiang and regards Chen Qiang as a national hero, even if many Tianjin citizens do not understand sports at all, they are willing to come to Minyuan Stadium to watch this game.

In addition to ordinary people, many groups in Tianjin also came to the scene, such as Tianjin Chamber of Commerce, Tianjin Jingwu Sports Association, Tianjin universities, etc., and even some well-known people in Tianjin also came to the scene.

Tianjin was the largest city in the north at that time, and the degree of development of media newspapers and periodicals was no less than that of Shanghai.

Such a huge scene is also what the Japanese want to see, and defeating Chen Qiang in front of so many Chinese is the result that the Japanese want to see the most.

……

Chen Qiang walked into the arena, and there was a continuous applause and cheering around him.

These applause and cheers were all given to Chen Qiang.

At this time, Chen Qiang was a little excited, and it was the first time for him to enjoy this kind of home treatment.

At the time of the National Games, Chen Qiang was just an unknown person, so he naturally would not enjoy the treatment of the home field; The Far Eastern Games were held in Japan, although there were some Chinese students and Chinese expatriates at the scene, but compared with the Japanese audience, after all, they were a minority, even if they shouted loudly, they could not bring out the atmosphere of the home stadium; When he was in North Korea, there were some numb North Koreans all around, and even Takagi Takesawa in North Korea didn't care about it, so naturally no one would cheer for Chen Qiang.

And this time, Chen Qiang finally felt the atmosphere of the home battle.

In the audience, or in the surrounding open space, there were dense crowds of people, all of whom came for Chen Qiang, and they all wanted to witness Chen Qiang's victory with their own eyes.

Chen Qiang also felt a trace of pressure, but more of motivation.

"This is not just a game for me, but also a game for these Tianjin fathers and fellow villagers! Even for them, I can't lose! ”

Walking on the track, Chen Qiang met Yoshizo Sasaki, Abu Iwao, and the White Russian athlete.

Yoshizo Sasaki is already twenty-five or sixteen years old and looks old, while Abu Iwao is only nineteen years old this year, and he looks young and vigorous.

As for the Belarusian athlete, with a big beard, Chen Qiang couldn't tell how old he was, anyway, he was here to make up the numbers, and Chen Qiang didn't mind.

Chen Qiang did not communicate with the three contestants, but only said hello symbolically, and went directly to the track to prepare for the race.

The innermost track is still unused, so athletes line up from the second lane.

Chen Qiang was placed in the second lane, and he was also the most inverse of the left and right athletes; Japan's Abu Iwao is in the third lane, adjacent to Chen Qiang; In the fourth lane is another Japanese player, Yoshizo Sasaki, while the outermost is the White Russian athlete who made up the numbers.

The day before yesterday, Chen Qiang had already been to Minyuan Stadium and was familiar with the venue here, and he also ran two laps in person at that time, and had a certain understanding of the crankshaft of the curve of Minyuan Stadium.

Chen Qiang walked to the position close to the outside of the runway, squatted down, and prepared to start.

To start at a corner, try to get as close to the outside of the track as possible, so that it will be a little farther away from the corner, and the distance of the straight sprint after the start will be longer, and the speed will naturally be faster.

In later generations, this is common sense sprinting knowledge, but the two Japanese athletes, Yoshizo Sasaki and Abu Iwao, obviously did not know this, and they started from the middle of the track.

And because Chen Qiang was on the innermost flat track, the other three runners did not notice Chen Qiang's starting position and starting posture.

In a curve start, the athletes do not start in a straight line, the starting position of the inner track will be relatively backward, and the starting position of the outer track will be relatively forward. So the athlete on the inside track can see the outside track, but the athlete on the outside track can't see the inside track.

Chen Qiang's starting position and starting angle are completely different from those of the other three athletes, but among the spectators, few people know how to sprint at all, and no one cares about Chen Qiang's 200-meter starting technique.

The starter shouted the command to prepare, and with a gunshot, the game officially began.

Chen Qiang's cornering skills are still not proficient enough, he still has a lot of room for improvement, but it is more than enough to deal with Abu Iwao and Sasaki Yoshizo, these two people have no cornering skills at all, they just rely on their body instinct to run.

If it is a super-talented athlete like Bolt, even if he runs by physical instinct, he can crush Chen Qiang, but the two Japanese players obviously do not have the perverted physical talent of Bolt.

Chen Qiang's cornering technique unleashed, and he tried to run close to the inside line, and as his speed increased, his body began to lean towards the inside.

Only halfway through the corner, Chen Qiang was already neck and neck with Awu Yanfu.

It's a curve. When you go head-to-head in a corner, it means that the athlete on the inside side has actually overtaken!

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