Chapter 171: The rematch is over
At this time, on the big screen above the Olympic Stadium, the results of the entire semi-final group are all out, according to the rankings:
1. Fourth lane, Sean Crawford, USA, reaction 0.167, score 9.89;
2. Fifth Path, Su Zu, China, reaction 0.157, score 9.99;
3. Third lane, Obadri Thompson, Barbados, reaction 0.156, score 10.12;
4. Eighth lane, Vicente de Lima, Brazil, reaction 0.158, score 10.26;
5. 2nd lane, Madik Osovnikar, Slovenia, reaction 0.168, score 10.26;
6. 7th lane, Deji Aliu, Nigeria, reaction 0.185, score 10.26;
7. Sixth lane, Nicholas Mequezenas, Canada, reaction 0.161, score 10.28;
8. First pass, Gnadi Chenabao, Kazakhstan, reaction 0.154, score 10.42;
Su Zu blinked, looking at this result, his expression changed.
In the last moment, he didn't try his best to sprint.
Since the coach and the team no longer have requirements for his 100-meter results, the pressure in Su Zu's heart has been relaxed.
All the way to the Olympic arena, from the preliminaries to the semi-finals, it is naturally impossible to say that there is no ambition for the champion.
Every athlete is the same, all competitions, all want to win!
But Su Zu also understands that winning depends on strength. He started in the field of athletics and has improved at an astonishing pace in the past few years, and with the help of the system, he has gone from an obscure country boy to the highest stage of the Olympic arena.
Now he is competing with the top masters, the fastest group of people on the planet, with his current speed and results, Su Zu is not sure that he will win in the end.
Competitive sports, after all, is strength speaks.
But his goal is very clear, to get to the semi-finals, to get to the finals, to get to the finals, and finally, to fight for that final.
At the start and in the first half of every race, Su Zu will do his best, but in the second half, when it comes to sprinting, if there is an absolutely certain advantage, he will still consider letting it go.
It's not because I'm lazy, or I've lost the spirit of fighting hard enough.
It's that his current body has not yet entered the peak period of an adult male, and he does not have an advantage in physical reserves and physical recovery.
Despite the advantages of data, starting from the 100-meter event of the Olympics, if he can reach the final, Su Zu will compete at a super-intensity level in just a few days. The men's 100m run in four rounds, the men's 200m run in four rounds, and the final two rounds of the 4Γ100m relay.
With such a dense and intense schedule, and an unprecedented world-class competition, it is a huge pressure from both mental and physical levels.
Even if the coaching staff let go of the requirements for Su Zu's current results, he himself had to consider the follow-up physical reserves and recovery.
However, I really didn't expect that when he was a little loose in the last ten meters, he actually scored 10 seconds.
A natural and unexpected ecstasy instantly filled my heart.
"I'm 10 seconds in!" Su Zu clenched his fists fiercely and waved.
It wasn't expected, but I just did it!
"I can run 10 seconds, I'm going to keep running 10 seconds, and I'm going to run faster and faster!"
"Hey, Kobayashi, what are you doing?!" Jiang Haoping was holding the camera, taking pictures of Su Zu who was walking towards the side of the arena, when suddenly the figure next to him flashed, and Lin Bang jumped out of the baffle directly.
"Su Zu, look here!"
With several shutter clicks, Lin Bang grabbed a few of the best photos at close range.
He is tall and young, but even in a group of strong black athletes, he will not be compared.
Slender, strong, powerful!
There is no shortage of physical conditions for a top sprinter!
After Lin Bang, several European, American, Japanese, and South Korean media, including CCTV reporters, jumped over the baffle, and the microphone in their hands and the cameras on their shoulders poured out.
When Su Zu walked to the side of the arena, the media area isolated by the advertising baffle next to him suddenly poured out a lot of reporters and photographers to surround Su Zu.
"Su Zu, Su Zu, did you think before the game that you would run under 10 seconds?"
"How are you feeling at the moment?"
"As the first non-black runner to run 10 seconds, is there anything you'd like to say to anyone else?"
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Miscellaneous questions came in an instant, Su Zu looked at the long gun and short cannon in front of him, was stunned for a moment, and then found the CCTV reporter he was familiar with among the many microphones and reporters.
"I ...... It's 10 seconds, I did it, I can still run faster! β
Su Zu gasped and replied, and without waiting for everyone to react, he squeezed away the media personnel and walked away quickly.
Several referees are already rushing here, and there are too many media people pouring in, which has affected the follow-up games.
On the other side of the field, the Chinese delegation boiled over the moment Su Zu's results came out. The leading officials, coaches, athletes, translators, and assistant staff of the regiment headquarters celebrated with their crowns, and their palms were all red.
It's broken for 10 seconds!
Unexpectedly, it would break 10 seconds in the rematch!
A score of 10 in the semi-finals may seem ordinary to European and American audiences, but in the eyes of Chinese, Japanese, and Asians, it is absolutely extraordinary. This represents a new chapter in the history of men's sprinting.
"Lao Li, Lao Li, you brought a good apprentice! Broken 10, hahaha, broken 10. β
The moment Yuan Guohua saw the results, almost the whole person jumped up and gave Li Zhizhong a hug.
No one can describe his mood at the moment, Yuan Guohua, a middle-aged man who is nearly fifty years old and dressed in old fashion, the head coach of the domestic sprint relay race.
Similarly, he was a sprinter and the first national record holder for electronic timekeeping.
June 10, 1978, Baoding, 10.61 seconds; September 21, 1979, 10.53 seconds; July 14, 1982 Lausanne, 10.52 seconds.
Since the beginning of his hands, the electronic age has been constantly moving towards the 10-second mark.
Not counting the predecessors of those memorization eras, starting from him Yuan Guohua, Yu Zhuanghui, Zheng Cheng, Li Tao, Chen Wenzhong, Zhou Wei, the dreams and expectations of several generations of sprinters have finally come true today, in the semi-finals of this Olympic Games!
It came so quickly, so unexpectedly, and so expected.
Li Zhizhong's lips trembled slightly, looking at Su Zu who was looking up at the big screen on the track of the arena, and a great sense of relief and joy filled his heart.
"Su Zu, you did it! With your unparalleled talent and efforts far beyond ordinary people, you have finally done it on this highest stage. At that moment, Li Zhizhong seemed to have a hint of tide in the corner of his eyes.
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After the second group of rematches, the competition on the field is still going on. A group of athletes, led by the guide, walked onto the field and started the competition.
Top three in the third group of the semifinals: USA, Justin Gatlin, 9.96 seconds; Great Britain, Jason Gardner, 10.15 seconds; Nigeria, Uchena Emoduri, 10.15 seconds.
The top three in Group 4 of the semi-finals: Ghana, Aziz Zachary (10.02), St. Kitts and Nevis, Kim Collins (10.05), and Jamaica, Michael Flatt (10.11 seconds).
Soon, the players from the fifth group of the semi-finals appeared on the field.
At the sports scene of tens of thousands of Greek and European and American spectators, only one or two thousand Chinese and Chinese media came to watch the game, but when Chen Jian, wearing a red tracksuit, appeared on the eighth track, there was another burst of cheers.
Just now, one of his compatriots has already set a new Asian record, becoming the first non-black runner to run 10 seconds, and now there is a Chinese athlete on the track in the rematch, also wearing a red jersey, who will continue to compete.
βOn your marks.β
Amid the same command over and over again, the semi-finalists of the fifth group began to prepare.
After a gunshot, Chen Jian took a few steps almost instantly, and this time he almost put all the pressure, that is, to run with all his strength, and at this point, the result is no longer simply to say that he can win by playing extraordinary.
The sheer strength of the athlete is the dominant factor in the whole game at this time.
After Chen Jian threw away the burden, the starting reaction of this group was very fast, and the starting reaction of 0.121 seconds was almost his rare starting reaction time.
The start was fast, but not the fastest.
The fastest runner in the fifth group was the champion of the previous Sydney Olympics, with a reaction time of 0.117 seconds, almost with a lot of experience in the race.
It may be the last semi-final group, and the pressure on the athletes is huge, and the spirit is more focused.
In addition to Chen Jian and Morris Green, the runners in the fifth group of the semi-finals had the fastest reaction time in the entire semi-final group. More than 5 runners had a reaction time of 0.14 seconds, and the slowest runner had a reaction time of 0.167 seconds.
Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate!
The eight athletes from the start to the acceleration of the period, due to the reaction time is relatively fast, except for Morris Green, with the strength of super starting reaction time and 60-meter world record, a little distance from other athletes, the rest of the athletes are basically on the same level.
Minute by second, the runners ran wildly.
6 seconds, 7 seconds, 8 seconds......
In the blink of an eye, we reached the finish line of the 100-meter course.
Fast figures flickered, and eight athletes ran across the finish line one after another.
In 9.93 seconds, Morris Green, who crossed the finish line first, was already on the timing board next to the finish line.
Subsequently, on the big screen of the stadium, the results of other athletes were also given one by one.
The top three finishers in the fifth group of the semi-finals were: USA, Morris Green, 9.93 seconds; Jamaica, Asafa Powell, 9.99 seconds; Ghana, Leonard Myers Mills, 10.18 seconds.
Chen Jian was fourth, with a time of 10.20 seconds in this group.
Although the semi-finals reached the semi-finals, in addition to the top three teams in each group, there was also a top-performing athlete who entered the semi-finals.
But Chen Jian has no chance, and in the rematches in front of him, the third and fourth places ran 10.15 seconds and 10.17 seconds.
Chen Jian gasped for breath, put his hands on his waist, and watched the results of the fifth group of the semi-finals appear on the big screen.
This time he was already running at his best level, and although the run was not the best in his history, it was also one of his best first 100m times.
"This is the end of my Olympic 100m journey, and the next one is the relay race. It's just Su Zu, I don't know how you ran? β
Chen Jian let out a long sigh of relief, and his tense muscles relaxed. At this time, he didn't know that Su Zu had already run into 10 seconds and broke into the semifinals of the 100 meters.