August 18, morning.

After the five-star red flag was raised for the first time at the Bird's Nest Stadium last night, almost all of the TV and online media appeared on TV at the award ceremony in the Bird's Nest this morning.

At the same time, there are also more people's eyes to the next few races in advance, Suzu's 200m and 4×100m relay races, everyone wants to see if Suzu can continue to be brilliant.

And this morning, there was the men's 200m preliminaries in which Su Zu participated.

There are more than 90,000 spectators in the stands of the Bird's Nest Stadium, and almost 80% of them are domestic spectators, except for some tourists and media professionals from various countries.

Since the start of the game, there has been almost no vacancy in the Bird's Nest Stadium, only those who continue to buy tickets at high prices, but there are almost no sales and transfers.

To be honest, not all the Chinese people who come to watch the competition understand track and field, or have a lot of interest in track and field, many people come here to watch, one is to support the grand ceremony of the national Olympic Games, and the other is to hope to see their country's team members win gold and silver, with very brilliant results, with such simple and simple feelings and enthusiasm.

As for really appreciating the performance of athletes from the perspective of the competition, of course, there are many such spectators, but if there are no athletes from their own countries participating, I am afraid that it can only become a happy event to watch the excitement.

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Greek star Kentrice was banned for various reasons in a temporary inspection before the start of the Olympic Games, and even directed and acted in a car accident. So much so that in the men's 200m, from the preliminaries to the final, the scene was booed.

Supported by simple patriotic feelings, that's it.

Many spectators sitting in the middle of the Bird's Nest Stadium, especially those who entered for the first time, were very excited at this moment.

Although there were no major finals in the stadium this morning, the highlights of the Olympic Games in the past few days have repeatedly highlighted the excitement of this morning's event.

Although most of the track and field competitions are preliminaries, several Chinese athletes compete in the three most important track events.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, in the men's 400m preliminaries, the Chinese players participating in the competition were Yang Guangzong (standard A).

At 10:05 a.m., in the men's 200m preliminaries, the Chinese players participating included Su Zu and Zhang Peimeng (standard A).

At 11:10 a.m., in the men's 110m hurdles preliminaries, the Chinese players participating in the competition were Liu Yangyu, Shi Dongpeng and Ji Wei (standard A).

It can be said that this is the first time that Chinese track and field, especially men's track and field, can have so many athletes participate in an Olympic Games, and among them, Su Zu and Liu Yangyu are two gold points, Yang Guangzong has the hope of competing for medals, and Shi Dongpeng is also fully hopeful of advancing to the finals.

As long as you can see the red sprint suit on the track and field, it is actually worth it for many spectators. And to see so many Chinese athletes fighting bravely in their own national stadium is indescribably happy and exciting.

Of course, it would be even more perfect if we could win the final victory and advance to the semi-finals, semi-finals, and finals step by step.

8:55 a.m.

The bilingual broadcast of the conference began to broadcast, and the men's 400m preliminaries were about to start, and the Bird's Nest Stadium was suddenly jubilant.

The men's 400m preliminaries were divided into seven preliminary groups, with no rematches, with the top three athletes in each group and the three fastest athletes left, a total of 24 people, directly advancing to the semifinals. The semi-finals are divided into three groups, with the top two players from each group and the two fastest players left, a total of eight people directly advancing to the finals.

Yang Guangzong was the second group in the men's 400m heats, and when he appeared on the track and field, the audience responded with warm applause.

He has disappeared for several years, and many viewers have begun to gradually forget about him, and the teenagers who grew up in the 2004 Olympics feel that he is a little strange.

After his debut at the "Good Luck Beijing" Open, there are still many older spectators or Chinese who remember him, and after 2000, he once carried the banner of Chinese track and field sprinting, and many good athletes competed in Asia and Japan.

This is a person who cannot be crossed in Chinese track and field, especially in sprint events, although he may not be recorded, and his individual results are not very eye-catching today, but no one can deny his dedication and contribution.

After the transfer to the men's 400m, it caught all the spectators off guard, and the first appearance of the return broke the record in the men's 400m of the "Good Luck Beijing" Open.

And in the same way, this morning, CCTV 5 also took time out of the many schedules of the Olympic Games to report on the preliminaries of the three events of the Bird's Nest Stadium.

According to the selection of highlights, the preliminaries and semi-finals of the first and second rounds of many projects are not particularly interesting, and they are not enough for TV stations to spend a lot of effort to broadcast. The ten-day Olympic schedule is interspersed with advertisements and studio commentary, etc., and basically every important time period has semi-finals and finals that need to be broadcast live.

Even on August 15, the men's 100m preliminaries, which attracted much attention and had Su Zu participating, were only broadcast in the Olympic news at noon and evening. The complete preliminaries and semi-finals, in his time period, were only briefly explained, and the focus of the broadcast at that time was on the women's 200-meter breaststroke final and the men's 200-meter backstroke final being held in the Water Cube.

But this morning, the game at the Bird's Nest Stadium was different, although it was a preliminary round, but there were several events with Chinese players in succession, which can be described as the attention of the whole people.

At this moment, Yang Jian, who was in the commentary seat in the media area, couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he saw Yang Guangzong waving to the audience, but he was commenting in front of the national audience, and it was not easy to express his emotions if he was too private, so he raised his voice slightly, and introduced to the audience in front of the TV: "...... The second is China's Yang Guangzong, who is competing in his second Olympic Games. At the Athens Olympics in 2004, he reached the semi-finals of the men's 200m event and helped the Chinese relay team win a valuable gold medal, which was his first appearance as a 400m athlete at this level of Olympic competition......

With Yang Jian's commentary, the radio on the scene sounded the instructions of all the players to take their places.

The noisy arena gradually fell silent!

Syllable!

Race guns rang out!

"Game on!" Yang Jian's voice sounded at the right time after the gunshot.

On the field, Yang Guangzong reacted very quickly from the start. Just as there is a gap between the men's 100m and men's 200m athletes in starting reaction training, there is also a certain gap between the men's 200m and men's 400m athletes in starting reactions.

In the men's 100m final of a world-class competition, athletes rarely react to a start of more than 0.160 seconds, and many top experts even start to within 0.140 seconds.

In the 200m world-class final, the starting reaction is generally between 0.150-0.200 seconds, and in the men's 400m final, the starting reaction is between 0.200-0.300 seconds.

This depends on the nature of the race, the shorter the run, the more emphasis is placed on the starting reaction, while the 200m and 400m are not so important for the athlete when there is acceleration and overtaking in corners, and there is proper physical distribution and speed control adjustment.

But even so, Yang Guangzong's start was still very fast, and almost at the moment when the gun rang out, he quickly accelerated and rushed out.

He's in lane two, which is already the innermost lane in the track with only eight runners, and from here, all he has to do is outperform all the runners in the previous lanes.

Walk firmly, breathe evenly, and maintain a rhythm......

Despite being a 400m heats, Yang Guangzong did not let up at all, and this was his Olympic debut in four years, which was completely out of the same class as the "Good Luck Beijing" Open, regardless of the opponents or the level of competition.

Before he went on the field, he was even a little nervous, but after the gunshots rang out, everything was extremely smooth, and all the points of ordinary training had already been integrated into the bone marrow after training.

“…… Yang Guangzong's start was very solid, in the first corner he surpassed Russia's Ivano Buqi, his speed was so fast, the whole audience cheered for him, and in the second corner, Yang Guangzong caught up...... Chris Brown and Joel Millburn were tied to Yang Guangzong, and the three of them were neck and neck...... Punch the line!! ”

"44.78 seconds! The first place in the group, Yang Guangzong won the first place in the group! He broke his own national record!! ”

Standing in front of the finish line, Yang Guangzong swallowed his saliva, raised his head with heavy breathing, looked at the timing board next to the runway, and then turned to look at the big screen.

On the big screen, after the eight runners crossed the finish line, the results of this group of athletes have also been released. Yang Guangzong won the group in 44.78 seconds, followed by Chris Brown in 44.79 seconds, Joel Millburn in 44.80 seconds and John Weisman in 44.81 seconds. The top four times were unexpectedly rare, all of them ran under 45 seconds.

In the men's 400m event, a striking feature is that the top players will not run much difference in the preliminaries, semi-finals, and even the final.

Because of the difficulty of 400 meters, the speed and endurance requirements for the second half of the race are high, basically the last dozens or even one or two hundred meters, the main competition is speed endurance, unlike the men's 100 meters and 200 meters, when you are sure, you can properly release the water, reduce the intensity to prevent physical injury.

On the contrary, in the 400 meters, at the last moment, you need to grit your teeth and sprint directly to the finish line, at this time you can't relax, a little slack, even if you have a few meters ahead, you may not be able to run directly after a breath of relief, lose a good advantage, and catch up with other players.

"Advanced!"

Yang Guangzong looked at the results in front of him, and couldn't help but clench his fist fiercely, and he became the first Chinese athlete to run into the second round of the men's 400m at the Olympics.

His choice was not wrong, his efforts were not in vain, from the 200m to the 400m, he finally handed in a very good answer sheet in the Olympic arena, at the National Bird's Nest Stadium, and he still hopes to do better in this paper and get higher scores.

In the applause of the audience, Yang Guangzong did not stop after crossing the finish line, and in the three track and field preliminaries participated by Chinese athletes this morning, Yang Guangzong won the first race and made a good start.

After the men's 400m has five preliminary group competitions, the men's 200m preliminaries will start on the track at the Bird's Nest Stadium.