Chapter Seventy-Eight: Leading the Way (Asking for Recommendation Votes)

Twenty meters is just the beginning of the race, and Chen Qiang has already taken the lead.

Yoshioka Lund also watched Chen Qiang's game yesterday and was not surprised that Chen Qiang was able to take the lead in the starting stage.

Although the starting technology of this era is very backward, there are still some athletes who are particularly good at starting, and the explosiveness of this kind of athletes is very good, their starting reaction is faster than others, and the acceleration of the first 20 meters is also faster than others.

But good explosiveness does not mean that the speed is faster, nor does it mean that this explosive power can be continued later. Lacking speed and stamina, the little lead that was achieved at the start will quickly disappear.

Yoshioka Lund doesn't know what "speed endurance" is, but he has the confidence to catch up with Chen Qiang and then overtake him.

Athletes want to win, and so does Yoshioka Lude, not to mention that this is still his home stadium, and the surrounding audience is full of Japanese people cheering for him, in his hometown, in front of his compatriots, he wants to win this game.

Unlike Yoshioka Lund, Steve finally saw clearly how Chen Qiang surpassed him.

In yesterday's preliminary round, Steve only cared about competing with James and didn't pay attention to Chen Qiang, so when Steve's attention returned to the track, Chen Qiang was already ahead. As for how Chen Qiang took the lead, Steve didn't pay attention at all. Then Steve chased all the way, but in the end he couldn't catch up and lost the game.

In that game, Steve felt embarrassed to lose because he didn't even know how he lost.

In today's final, Steve has been observing Chen Qiang, and then he saw Chen Qiang's unique starting posture, and also saw Chen Qiang take the lead at the beginning.

"It turned out to be the start, and yesterday's preliminary race, he took the lead in this way. Yesterday I didn't overtake you, and today I must surpass you! Steve made up his mind, and his steps were a little stronger.

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Although Chen Qiang was ahead, he could perceive that Yoshioka Lund was chasing very tightly behind him, and Chen Qiang even had an illusion, as if in the next second, Yoshioka Lund would catch up with him.

"He is worthy of being the first Asian sprinter in the thirties!" Chen Qiang secretly said in his heart, he knew that Yoshioka Lund had not caught up with him, but the sense of oppression brought by Yoshioka Lund made him feel an inexplicable pressure, and Chen Qiang even had an illusion, as if it was himself who was lagging behind, but it was Yoshioka Lund who was leading.

Tokutaka Yoshioka is not very tall, only about 165 cm, which is of course a normal height in Japan at this time.

This height is also determined, and Yoshioka Lund is the type of athlete with a high explosive and fast cadence. Athletes with a fast cadence tend to run aggressively. On the contrary, there are many tall sprinters, their running style is not very oppressive, and it looks like they are charging up and holding back their ultimate, waiting until the charge is over to defeat the enemy in one hit.

For example, Usain Bolt, a big man of 1.95 meters, does not have that sense of oppression and eagerness when watching him run the race, but the overall running process is very smooth, and every time he crosses the finish line, it seems natural.

"Yoshioka Lund really used an aggressive running style." When Chen Qiang saw Yoshioka Lund's height, he had already guessed his running style, and Chen Qiang knew that in the face of such a very aggressive opponent, he must not be disturbed by his rhythm.

Every sprinter has his own rhythm, and the thigh swing technique used by Chen Qiang needs to have a sense of rhythm.

When using the thigh forward swing technique, once the rhythm of running is disturbed, the stride length and cadence of the forward swing and the retraction of the supporting foot will all be affected. A delayed retraction of a support foot can cause a loss of speed of 0.1 seconds, and in the 100-meter sprint, every 0.1 second is an insurmountable gap.

The race entered the 40-meter position, and Chen Qiang gradually entered his own rhythm.

With the two techniques of back kick and forward swing, which are ahead of the times, once Chen Qiang enters his own rhythm, the game will be considered nine times out of ten.

It's a pity that Yoshioka Lund, who was chasing behind, didn't know this, and the Filipino player Steve didn't know either. They are still trying hard to catch up and try to get to the top spot.

At 60 meters, Chen Qiang was still in the first position, while Yoshioka Lund and Steve were on par, and it was difficult to tell which of them was faster with the naked eye in this high-speed movement.

At this point, Steve began to get impatient.

"This Japanese beside me can actually keep up with me, from the beginning of the race to now, he has run more than halfway, I haven't even thrown him away, and more importantly, there is a Chinese in front of me, I can't even surpass it!"

What was happening in front of him was something beyond Steve's knowledge.

As a white man who came to Asia from the United States, Steve has an innate advantage in sports, and those indigenous Filipinos are completely weak chickens in Steve's eyes.

The usual superiority of white people makes Steve look down on Asians, or the sports level of Asian athletes, in Steve's thinking, Chinese are some yellow-faced skinny and ragged sick ghosts, while Japanese are some thin short people. Sick ghosts and dwarfs, how fast can they run!

At that time, Americans' thinking was similar to Steve's, in terms of understanding the world, Americans have always been a little anti-intellectual, a fictitious "Manchu people" have frightened the American people for decades, the US president has been angry with North Korea for decades, and most Americans cannot find the location of North Korea on the world map.

Steve thought he would be able to stay ahead of the rest of the pack from the start, leaving the Asian athletes far behind. Even if he was a little behind at the beginning, he only needed a little force to get ahead of him.

The reality is completely different from what Steve expected!

He fell behind and lost to a Chinese, and the Japanese dwarf next to him was also trying to overtake him.

That white man's natural superiority was like a needle at this time, piercing Steve's heart deeply, and the Asian athletes he looked down on, one was on par with him, and the other was running ahead of him.

This sense of disparity made Steve even more impatient, he wanted to speed up, to get rid of Yoshioka Lund, and to surpass Chen Qiang in front, but the more he exerted his strength, the more flustered the rhythm under his feet became.

Forcing the speed up because of his impatience had the opposite effect, and instead of improving his speed, Steve's speed began to fall behind.

In the 100-meter sprint race, the athletes' rhythm is out of order, and it is difficult to get it back.

Seventy meters, Yoshioka Lund overtook Steve, and at this moment, Steve also withdrew from the competition for the championship.

Only Chen Qiang and Yoshioka Lund are left to compete for the ultimate championship.

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