"Lao Shen's luck is too bad, if you have to run for another 0.02 seconds, the A standard of 100 meters will be in hand."

On the evening of May 22, in a sub-venue used for check-in outside the main track and field venue of Yutong Stadium, Yang Guangzong looked at Shen Yunbao, who was busy doing warm-up exercises, and sighed lightly.

"Now let's see if Brother Shen has a chance to run to the 200-meter A standard."

Su Zu quickly swung his arms, flickered in place and did a dozen high-legged running movements, stretched his body slightly, and looked at Shen Yunbao who was warming up in the field like Yang Guangzong.

"Lao Shen is in great shape this year, it can be said that he is in the best form this year, if he is in time for the Sydney Olympics, he can properly reach the A standard of 100 meters and 200 meters, but now this standard is too high. I have passed a few times, and there are a few talents in Asia who can run to the A standard. ”

Yang Guangzong shook his head, he was not too optimistic about whether Shen Yunbao could run 200 meters tonight, but looked at Su Zu with burning eyes, "You have a chance, when we run the relay, your first and third lanes are fast enough, and your cornering skills have improved greatly." Running the 200 meters depends on the corners and the back, and you beat me once last year, and that time was 20.91 seconds, right? According to the 10-second record you just broke yesterday, is there a chance to score 20 seconds? ”

"Then you have to run with Brother Yang on the field to know." Su Zu smiled, "It's not that you don't know when I train, and you rarely go to run 200 meters." ”

"Yes, then I won't release water on you." Yang Guangzong also smiled.

From the Grand Prix of the year before last year to last year's National Championships and the Asian Championships City Games, the 60-meter indoor world championships, the new national 100-meter record of the national 100-meter race, and now he has entered the ranks of the world's top sprinters.

Even if Su Zu rarely runs 200 meters, Yang Guangzong will not think that Su Zu's level is poor, mainly because his cornering skills are not good enough, and the focus of training is mainly on 100 meters.

Since the beginning of last year's winter training, Su Zu has focused on corner training, and to this year's relay race, the strength shown is no longer the same as in the past.

Yang Guangzong thought that if he could show the state he was in when he ran the Asian Games, he might be able to run with Su Zu, but the words of releasing water could only be a joke in private. He kind of realized the feeling that Chen Jian felt when he looked at Su Zu.

"Well, are you two warming up enough?"

Shen Yunbao, who had already warmed up, had his chest and abdomen rising and falling, his breathing was a little short, and he watched the two chatting, and then interrupted.

"Almost." Yang Guangzong watched Shen Yunbao come back and twisted his waist, moving his wrists and ankles.

"Don't be negligent, go run down again." Shen Yunbao snorted at the two of them again.

"Okay, okay, listen to you."

Su Zu and Yang Guangzong watched Shen Yunbao's whole state recover, and the two grinned and snickered, and without saying much, they jogged directly along several tracks in the sub-venue.

Shen Yunbao looked at the two and shook his head, he couldn't run the 100-meter Olympic A standard last night, and there was a loss, but he started practicing sprinting since he was a teenager, and he has experienced various events over the years.

Competitive sports are like this, even if there are more ideas, no matter how big the unwillingness, but the strength is not enough, we must always recognize this reality. The first and second in the domestic 200-meter level must be Suzu Yang Guangzong, and the third, Chen Jian ran a 200-meter Achilles tendon strain before, and basically gave up, almost him.

He has been in good enough form this year, and he also won the championship of the National Athletics Grand Prix Finals, and this is all he can achieve personally.

The 100-meter A standard failed to reach, and the 200-meter A standard Shen Yunbao didn't think much about it anymore and did his best. At least there is a relay race, and he is still able to participate in this Olympic Games, which is much luckier than many of his predecessors.

At 19:10 in the evening, the men's 200m preliminaries began.

Su Zu was ranked in the fourth lane of the third group of the preliminaries, and Yang Guangzong and Shen Yunbao were both in the second group of preliminaries that had just ended. In addition to He Jun, who had practiced the relay race together, there was also a player who caught Su Zu's attention.

Xu Zhiyu, the men's 400m runner-up in the 8th Games in '97, the men's 400m champion in the 2001 East Asian Games, and broke the national record with a time of 45.25 seconds. In 2001, he won the men's 200m, 400m, 4×400m relay champion of the Ninth Games.

It can be said that in the current domestic men's sprint 400-meter event, Xu Zhiyu is the first person.

The 400m is the most difficult run in the men's sprint event, which has high requirements for the athletes' physiology, special skills, physical fitness, and physical strength. Physiologically, during the whole exercise process, anaerobic accounts for a large proportion and aerobic accounts for a small proportion, so this is a mixed oxygen type sprint event. In terms of special technology, 400 meters and 200 meters are technically universal, but 400 meters have one more corner and one straight, due to the relatively long distance, the adjustment of physical strength distribution and rhythm has become the key.

Athletes who can run 400 meters must have no problem running 200 meters, and if the special speed is high enough, 400-meter athletes can often have more outstanding performance than 100-meter athletes with sufficient speed endurance and back-up ability.

Michael Johnson, for example, won the 200m gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 with a world record time of 19.32 seconds, and is also the gold medalist in the 400m at this Olympics. Three years later, at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, Spain, Michael Johnson set a world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.

The Athens Olympics men's 400m A standard result is 45.55 seconds, Xu Zhiyu created a best time of 45.25 seconds in the 2001 East Asian Games, but from 2002 onwards 400 meters, has never been able to run into the Olympic A standard of 45.55 seconds.

In order to settle for the second, he also signed up for the 200m in the trials, hoping to run an Olympic A standard in the 200m and 100m.

This is the Olympic Games, this is the Olympic Trials, and there are athletes who will perform at the best possible level in order to make a breakthrough and qualify. The Olympic Games, the top arena, as long as you are an athlete, you will dream of standing on that biggest stage to compete.

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"Each in place......

In front of the 200-meter starting line, the starter's voice sounded with a deep emphasis.

When Su Zu's feet landed on the starting gear, he felt slightly wrong, and when he was just debugging, he found that when the starting gear was adjusted to its position, it was a little loose, and he dragged the distance of the next gear slightly, and it felt that it should be tightly locked.

After all, it was a preliminary round, and I didn't pay much attention to it for a while. But at this time, when both feet fell on it, I found that the starting block seemed to be not so stable, and just as I wanted to feedback to the referee, the sound of "preparation" had sounded.

"Smack!"

After a gunshot, Su Zu changed from leaning over and bowing his head to a starting position, but as soon as he ran together, he found that his right foot slipped slightly when he pedaled the starting gear to exert force, and his body stumbled slightly.

Because the athletes in each lane of the 200-meter start are not from the same starting line, the spectators inside and outside the stadium only saw Su Zu's body slightly offset from the start, and felt that the start was not very good, but they did not see the specific problem.

200 meters of a curve and a straight road, the curve is the distance of starting acceleration, Su Zu did not have enough starting force, and his body tilted again, which suddenly made him lag behind in the starting acceleration of the corner.

The athlete in the third lane on the left hand side quickly caught up almost at this time, and was almost on the same level as Su Zu. You must know that 200 meters is two or three meters apart because of the distance of the curve.

On the edge of the track and field, ordinary spectators couldn't see how much time Su Zu had lost, and they just stumbled, but professional athletes and coaches naturally knew how big the problems were.

Li Zhizhong, Chen Jian and others who were watching almost instantly raised their hearts, originally with Su Zu's current sprinting strength, running 200 meters was easy, and the A standard was not a big deal, but this suddenly made people nervous.

Affected by this instantaneous starting action, Su Zu knew that this start was already terrible, but at the beginning of the race, it was naturally impossible to retire, so he hurriedly adjusted his center of gravity and began to keep up quickly.

It may be because of the relatively high agility and reaction quality, coupled with a lot of training, Su Zu's ability to control the body is far more than half of the athletes.

Step 1, Step 2, Step 3......

Without the pedaling power of the starting block, the acceleration of the first few steps is naturally not so fast.

But as soon as the three steps passed, Su Zu gradually found a rhythm, controlling the different amplitudes of the left and right arms swinging, the stride length gradually increased, and the cadence became faster and faster.

At this time, the audience at the scene also noticed that the curves were not on a horizontal line, and it was not easy to see who was fast and who was slow, but the second and third lanes all caught up with Su Zu, and naturally they could compare Su Zu slower.

But soon, everyone found that Su Zu stabilized and began to accelerate rapidly.

Immediately, the curve turns into a straight.

The athletes in the first, second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth lanes all entered the straight stage, and Xu Zhiyu, who had excellent ability in the second half of the race, had already run a distance of two or three meters on the knowledge.

But Su Zu had just crossed the corner.

At this time, many spectators stood up, and Li Zhizhong and Chen Jian, who were watching next to them, as well as Yang Guangzong and Shen Yunbao, who finished running in the previous group, all fell on the baffle fenced by the side of the track and field.

The entire track and field suddenly resounded with an exclamation of "oh oh".

I saw that on the straight runway, Su Zu, who had fallen several meters behind, became faster and faster after entering the straight.

From the last distance that was pulled away, and then one after the other began to be surpassed.

The fast cadence, strong swing arms, and the contrast of seven or eight players on both sides on the straight track make the impact particularly strong.

"Come on, come on!"

"Su Zu, come on!"

Countless cheers and cheers suddenly erupted from the audience!

In this kind of strength national competition, it is rare for lagging players to surpass other players from the last place, and the strength of the athletes who can participate in the selection competition is not weak, but the absolute strength level is beyond the others, so that they can see such an amazing scene.

Sixty meters, fifty meters, forty meters......

It's getting closer and closer to the finish line.

In the last ten meters, only Xu Zhiyu, a strong player in the second half of the race, was left in front of Su Zu, and the others inevitably slowed down in the second half of the 200 meters and were overtaken by Su Zu one by one.

Rush the line!

20.86 seconds!

When Su Zu crossed the finish line, he ran for one or twenty meters and stopped, and countless applause sounded like thunder.

It's so exciting!

At the same time, Li Zhizhong, Chen Jian, and Shen Yunbao on the sidelines breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he did not run the Olympic A standard this time, he finally won the first place in this group.

As long as you can make it to the finals, you still have a chance.