Chapter 368: 2007 Final Match (Part I)

On September 28, the Songjiang University Town University Stadium was overcrowded, and more than 15,000 spectator seats were full from 2 p.m. onwards.

The venue of the Grand Prix has been changed from the previous 80,000-person stadium to the University Stadium, and the number of spectator seats has been greatly reduced, and this Grand Prix is the elite version of the World Championships, so that 70% of the tickets for the event have been sold as early as a month ago. By the week before the start of the competition, the final list of participants was decided, and it was sold out instantly.

At 20 o'clock in the evening, Su Zu and Su Bingtian had already passed the check-in stage and were waiting for the competition to enter the game.

"Take it easy!"

Su Zu gently patted Su Bingtian, who was breathing a little shortly beside him, at this time he was far from the Asian flyer in later generations, although he had the experience of the men's 4×100m competition at the World Championships, but in the individual event, this was his first time running an international competition.

"Hmm." Su Bingtian nodded lightly, still not idle, although there was a short warm-up for a while between entering the check-in area, he still seemed to feel that it was not enough, and he was still making meticulous preparations in the check-in area.

Su Zu glanced at the side, and didn't say much, this is the stage that every athlete will go through when they grow up. Also warmed up a little in the check-in area. After that, I put on a long-sleeved jacket and prepared to wait until I entered the arena before taking it off.

Since the first two days, the weather in the magic capital has changed, and it was still the same as Osaka, which was relatively hot weather, and an autumn rain came, and suddenly the weather was much cooler. It was wet and it was raining lightly in the morning.

“…… CCTV, here is the 2007 Modu Golden Grand Prix, which attracted most of the current top track and field athletes compared to the previous two years, and many of them were directly from the Osaka World Championships.

Today's venue was a little slippery, and it rained lightly in the morning, but fortunately the rain had basically stopped in the afternoon...... The men's 100m race, which has attracted much attention, will be joined by Su Zu, the double champion of this World Championships, and Su Bingtian, a 4×100m teenager from China...... It was also the last race of the 2007 season, after which he will start training in a closed winter for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing......"

At 20:10, in the Modu University Stadium, the women's 400-meter hurdles had just ended, Australia's Laurinson won the championship, and China's Huang Xiaoxiao only finished fifth, which made a huge sigh in the stadium.

But the sound of disappointment didn't last long, and five minutes later, when the men's 100m runners came out, the stadium began to boil again.

Su Zu stood in front of the starting line of the fourth lane, raised his hands high, and signaled to all the spectators in the venue.

The holder of the men's 100-meter world record and the two-time men's 1,200-meter champion at the World Athletics Championships, Su Zu has already become a business card at this time.

No matter how difficult the event is, no matter how bad the situation faced by the Chinese track and field team players, Su Zu has always moved forward step by step and has never disappointed.

The cheers in the stadium rose higher and higher, and Wallace Spearmon, who was standing in the sixth lane to the right of Suzu, grinned at Tyson Gay in the fifth lane in the face of such a frenzied field, as if to say that this is someone's home field.

Tyson Gay stood on the runway, taking unhurried sips of water, unconcerned about the gaze Wallace Spearmont was looking at him.

He had already felt this kind of frenzy at home last year. As for the pressure, he knew very well that Su Zu should be more stressed than him.

His agent team did not recommend him to participate in this magic Grand Prix at first, because as the first sprinter in the United States, if he lost to Suzu one after another like Powell before, it would affect his business image very much.

But Tyson Gay still chose to come in the end, there are many track and field talents in the United States, and it is more difficult for American track and field athletes to enter the world sports arena step by step from low-level competitions than athletes from other countries.

After losing in the 100m final at the World Championships, Tyson Gay has not had a good time in Osaka during this time, and he still maintains a good training rhythm.

The intensity will not be great, but it will definitely not be small.

There is only one reason to stay in form like this, and he wants to beat Suzu again. By 2008, he had cemented himself as one of the most challenging sprinters in the U.S. today.

Such an urgent mood may not be understood by sprinters in other countries, but Tyson Gay himself knows it very well.

In 2008, the banned Olympic men's 100m champion and the top American sprinter who was once inseparable from Suzu, Justin Gatlin, will be back on the field.

The competition of athletes is sometimes like this, not only to compete with the top players in the world, but also to compete with domestic teammates.

Even Wallace Spearmon and Tyson Gay have a good personal relationship with him, but the two have been competing against each other in the 200m since the NCAA era.

However, Wallace-Spearmon is far less competitive than him and knows each other better, so even the competition in the 1200 meters on the field will not hurt too much feelings.

Others, when they are on the same starting line as Tyson Gay, have begun to see them as enemies.

There will only be one winner.

Wallace Spearmon didn't pay much attention to Tyson Gay's expression when he saw it, and the eyes of the audience at this time were focused on Suzu, or some attention was on Tyson Gay, and he was extremely relaxed.

Before yesterday, he was thinking about running both the 100m and the 200m, and he felt that he was in good shape after the World Championships.

But later after learning that Powell chose the men's 200m event, he directly and decisively gave up the men's 200m event.

Because Suzu does not participate in the competition, and Powell is a special 100m athlete, even if he is not as good as Powell in the 100m event, in the 200m event, he never felt that he would lose to Powell, even Tyson Gay has lost to him many times in the 200m event.

The reason for choosing to run the 100m is also very simple, Wallace Spearmon is already the top group of current men's 200m athletes, and it is also the top three and top five in the world, but the difference in popularity between the 100m and 200m runners is simply muddy.

He was two years younger than Tyson Gay, who also started switching from the 200m to the 100m at his age and was a huge success.

In addition, Jamaican player Usain Bolt, who has a very good personal friend, has also started to switch to the 100m this year, and he wants to try it too.

And there is no doubt that in the Grand Prix, under the pressure of the top 100m runners like Guy and Suzu, he should be able to test his 100m level and consider the direction of his career in the future.

On the other hand, Su Bingtian, who is in an international competition for the first time, is also on fire.

Since the beginning of domestic track and field in 2004, the attention has become higher and higher, and Su Zu, Liu Yangyu, and the men's 4×100-meter relay team have almost occupied more than half of the current domestic sports page.

Especially in 2007, when the World Championships were over and the Olympics were getting closer and closer, as soon as he walked into the stadium, the atmosphere of the almost overwhelming stadium almost suffocated him.

When I participated in the 4×100m relay in Osaka, although there were more people than there are now, after all, I was in a foreign country, many languages were not spoken, and I didn't feel the deep feeling of team events.

And in your own country, playing at home, the experience at this moment is completely different.

Su Bingtian clenched his fists, and he could feel that his blood seemed to be slowly boiling along with the entire scene.

I really wonder what it will be like to be in the Bird's Nest next year?!

……

“…… Okay, the men's 100m trapeze battle is about to begin. The first lane is our country's Su Bingtian, the second lane is British player Ricky Faferton, the third lane is Jamaican star Michael Flatt, the fourth lane is Suzu, the fifth lane is Tyson Gaye, the sixth lane is Wallace Spearmon, the seventh lane is Kuranti Martina, the eighth lane is Marcus Brunson, and the ninth lane is American veteran Joshua Johnson...... This is Tyson Gay's second challenge since the World Championships, and we look forward to seeing if they can produce even better results in this game......"

In the passionate commentary of CCTV commentator Yang Jian, now the nine players have walked onto the track under the instructions of the starter.

Compared with the previous Grand Prix, this year's Magic City Grand Prix CCTV not only commented, but also arranged a special website report, it seems that because the Olympic Games are approaching, more attention has been paid to the only international track and field event in China.

Su Zu leaned over and stood in front of the starting line, glanced up at the finish line in the distance, leaned over, and bowed his head.

It was the last race of 2007 and soon after that it was 2008.

Usain Bolt has started to rise, Justin Gatlin is back again, Tyson Gay is in good form and taking every opportunity to challenge him, and Powell, despite avoiding the 100m in this race, has already had a taste of rebirth after 2007 based on his World Championship results.

The challenge of so many strong players brought Su Zu excitement, excitement and anticipation.

From the day I stepped on the runway, I never thought that I would get to where I am today, but now that I have reached the top, I will continue to run again and again as long as I can still run.

The noisy cheers in the University Stadium gradually quieted down, and the eyes of tens of thousands of people focused on the starting line, and the pins could be heard.

“SET!”

Syllable!

The race is on!