The next day, the newspapers and news media reported on the sudden heavy rain at the World Championships, but the space was mainly focused on the weather and the defeat of 400m hurdles star Alexis Sanchez.

Although in order to protect the athletes from the field factors to the greatest extent, the organizing committee uses a new type of water sweeping cart. The rollers under the trolley are made of wool and cotton fabric, and the rollers store the water in a sink inside the rollers and take it away. But the rough conditions of the slippery field are always unavoidable.

"Heavy rain hits Helsinki, 4 gold medals become 3"

"Helsinki falls silent for a moment, and the storm creates a new world champion"

"Two-time World Champion Accidentally Exited Due to Slippery Venue"

"Su Zu didn't play 200 meters in the rainstorm, and many other events of the Chinese team failed"

"The storm that suddenly came to southern Finland on the evening of the 9th local time caused flooding in many streets in Helsinki and interrupted the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki for more than two hours. Affected by this heavy rain, the second round of the men's 200m competition, the qualification round of the men's triple jump, and the final of the women's discus throw were postponed......

In the men's 400m hurdles final, Dominican star Sanchez, a double Olympic and world champion, started too hard and strained his thigh muscles after crossing a hurdle and was forced to withdraw from the race, with Jackson of the United States winning the championship in 47.30 seconds. Another American, James Carter, finished second with a time of 47.43 seconds. The Japanese runner finished third with a time of 48.10 seconds, but he fell after crossing the finish line due to the rain. ”

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After an hour or two of torrential rain last night, the stormy weather that had enveloped Helsinki for the first three or four days after its opening finally improved, and the sun, which had not been seen for many days, climbed into the clouds.

On 10 August, the Helsinki Olympic Stadium was finally restored to its original life, with tens of thousands of seats once again filling up with local and tourist spectators.

15 p.m.

The men's 200m semi-finals were held again.

Starting at 14 o'clock in the afternoon of August 10, the successive competitions were mainly women's hammer throw, decathlon men's pole vault, men's javelin and other events in the field competition, and the track just happened to be free, and the men's 200-meter semi-final could be carried out.

Naturally, this adjustment has an impact on the men's 200m, according to the original venue, August 9 is the men's 200m preliminaries and semi-finals, August 10 is the semi-finals, August 11 is the final.

Now that the schedule has changed, athletes will have to play the men's 200m semi-finals at 15:05 p.m. and the men's 200m semifinals at 19:05 p.m.

"It's finally sunny!"

On the sidelines, Li Zhizhong looked at the blue sky and sighed slightly.

Zhang Pingqiu and others beside him also breathed a sigh of relief, "It's starting to pick up, and it won't affect the game anymore." In the men's 110m hurdles preliminaries in the morning, the athletes did not have any major problems. ”

Men's 110m hurdles Liu Yangyu is the core player of the Chinese team, although before the game, including head coach Feng Shuyong and Liu Yangyu's head coach Sun Pingjiang and others have spoken, saying that Liu Yangyu is not in the best condition and may not be able to win gold, but in private, which one is more than he expected.

This is still the case that Su Zu has already won a gold medal in the men's 100 meters, otherwise in the face of many failures in race walking, long-distance running and other events, the pressure at this time may fall on him.

At 15:20 in the afternoon, the athletes in the third group of the men's 200-meter semi-finals where Su Zu belonged took to the field.

When the athletes in this group of competitions appeared, the attention was still very high.

In addition to Suzu, the new 100m world champion and the best 200m of the year, among the runners in his group is the American star John Capel.

The American sprinter, who also played rugby extremely well, was the men's 200m champion at the 2003 World Championships. He also ran 19.85 seconds at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials. In the 2004 Grand Prix in Eugene, he ran a time of 9.95 seconds in the 100m.

Suzu and his opponent ran over 100 meters at this year's 2005 Eugene Grand Prix, and in that race, it was mainly Suzu and Obikviru, who was not very impressed with the American, but as the last World Championship champion, there is no doubt about his personal strength.

The two have a new 100-meter champion and a previous World Championships men's 200-meter champion, even if everyone can think that the players should have reservations in the rematch, it still makes many viewers look forward to such a strong confrontation.

Other strong players are Shingo Sue, who is in a group with Suzu in the heats, and Aaron Armstrong of Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago is a country that is somewhat similar to Jamaica, the same island nation in the Caribbean, and the same sprinting talent. In a sense, although it is not as bright as Jamaica, it has always occupied a place in the sprint event of world athletics.

However, at this point in time, although Jamaican sprinting is on the rise, the United States is still strong, and the number of American competitors in the men's 200m semi-final has reached four.

In the 2001 World Championships, in 2001, in the gold, silver and bronze medal tables, the United States ranked first, 9-5-5, and Russia was 6-7-6; In 2003, the United States had 10 golds, 8 silvers and 2 bronzes, while Russia had 6 golds, 8 silvers and 5 bronzes; In Athens 2004, the gold, silver and bronze figures for the United States were 8-12-5, while Russia's were 6-7-7.

As the men's champion of the 200m at the last World Championships, John Capel also attaches more importance to Suzu than others, and just this morning, George Williams, the leader of the U.S. track and field team, has named Suzu, and American sprinters should pay attention to it.

The U.S. men's 100m was won by Morris Green in the 97, 99 and 01 years, and after being unexpectedly won the 100m championship by Kim Collins in 2003, he lost to Suzu again in 2005. This is a shame on the United States team, which has always regarded itself as the hegemon of track and field, and this time the men's 200m must not be unexpected.

From the warm-up in the check-in area to the start of the track, Suzu felt that John Capel's gaze kept rolling on him.

Occasionally, Su Zu turned his head to look, and the other party did not dodge or dodge, and kept meeting his gaze. Under the calm expression, there seems to be a high-spirited fighting spirit.

"Is this challenging me?"

Su Zu was slightly puzzled, after all, it was still in the rematch, but John Capel looked at him repeatedly, and his eyes were extremely aggressive. Like a lion guarding his territory, facing other invaders.

Su Zu was a little unclear, but to be honest, he didn't care, don't talk about his eyes in the track and field arena, even if he was verbally harassed and attacked, he would not be shaken by others.

Soon, the athlete walked up to the starting block and the race gun rang out.

After the start, Suzu really found that John Capel was giving it his all, and he showed faster than the other runners from the start, not at all like he was running a rematch, but as if he was running the final.

Of course, Suzu didn't know that the United States had four strong athletes chasing him in the 200m event this time, and John Capel was the first athlete to challenge Suzu in the semi-finals.

Suzu was in lane 4 in the semi-finals, while John Capel was in lane five. In the curve area of more than 110 meters in front, Su Zu was almost always running, and after entering the straight, he found that there was a gap of more than one meter between him and John Capel.

The cheers of the crowd on both sides of the arena remembered that they did not seem to have expected John Capel to work so hard in a group of semi-finals and lead the group with his own strength.

At that moment, Su Zu hesitated slightly. The second place in the group will definitely be able to advance to the semi-finals, but in the end, Su Zu still accelerated to overtake.

As long as it's a competition, as long as it's in the field, no one likes to finish second.

Compared to the performance of others in each group of competitions, Su Zu can now run almost 19.90 seconds, or even within 19.80 seconds, and in the case of competition, he may run even better.

And one thing that is important in the sprint competition of track and field is that the arrangement of the passes is often linked to the results of each group. The player with the better score occupies the middle of the lane. Although for Su Zu, with his stable performance, even if it is the first or eighth way, how can he easily let it go if he can get more advantages.

In the second half of the straight, Suzu began to pick up and John Capel was just as fast, and it was not easy for Suzu to catch up with him when he was significantly behind in the first half, but it was not impossible.

After all, Su Zu's strength in the second half of the journey is there, and if he doesn't want to release the water, he can still catch up again.

More applause, cheers, and cheers rang out on the field, and Su Zu started to catch up quickly from the backward position, and the two competitors staged an absolute speed battle in the last 80 meters at a speed far exceeding the speed of other athletes.

In the last 50 meters, Su Zu and John Capel's speed pulled into the gap between the two positions, and in the last 30 meters, Su Zu and John Capel were neck and neck, and in the last 20 meters, Su Zu took the lead, and in the last 10 meters, Su Zu extended this advantage again.

Rush the line!

20.15 seconds!

The applause was thunderous, this is the best result in the 200-meter preliminaries and semi-finals so far, in this group of semi-finals, Su Zu made a force in the second half of the race, almost surpassing most of the players with an absolute advantage.

John Capel's time was 20.32 seconds, which is good enough. John Capel was just 0.02 seconds shy of winning the World Championships last time.

Both of them are far from their best times in the 200m this year, but they are already the first and second finishes of all the competitors in the 200m semi-finals.

On the sidelines, while others cheered for Su Zu to advance again in this rematch, Li Zhizhong stood in the stands with his hands behind his back, with a thoughtful look on his face.

He sensed something was wrong.