"In the next three rounds, we still have to pay attention to the situation of rushing."

In the dormitory of the Helsinki Athletes' Village, after the first round of the men's 100m preliminaries in the rain in the morning, after Su Zu took a hot shower, Li Zhizhong poured him a cup of hot water, frowning slightly.

"The proposal passed?"

Su Zu took two sips of the hot boiled water given by Lao Li, and at this juncture of this kind of competition, this is all he can drink, don't think about any other granule drugs.

The morning rain in the preliminaries did not go too smoothly, eight rounds of preliminaries, of which four players retired or did not achieve results, most of them were due to the weather, muscle stiffness and strain.

"Nope." Li Zhizhong shook his head, "It should be put on hold until the next IAAF congress held in Osaka, Japan in 07." ”

The two discussed the "zero rush" proposal supported by IAAF President Diack and others before the start of the World Championships, that is, if a competitor rushes, he will be disqualified immediately.

The IAAF Council has proposed to amend the existing rules that allow one-time sprints, arguing that the current rules are suspected of being abused by athletes who deliberately run to disrupt their opponents.

Frédérics, a former Namibian sprinter and now a member of the Athletics Federation Athletes' Commission, said that he had experienced many athletes engaging in such small movements in sprint competitions, and perhaps only by banning running can this phenomenon be prevented. After retiring from last year's All-Star Game, Fredericks is now an IAAF official.

However, this proposal has not been supported and implemented, and some countries led by the United States and Canada, as well as the technical committee of the Athletics Federation, are all opposed.

The reason is also very simple, if the "zero front" proposal is adopted, it will objectively make the contestants more conservative, and it will be difficult to improve the sports performance. If the rules are amended, a new world record should be established as a companion measure. The most affected events include the 100m, 200m and short hurdles.

To put it simply, in a country with strong sprinting strength at the moment, it will certainly not be happy to introduce such a policy that is unfavorable to itself. For example, Justin Gatlin, the men's 100m champion at the Athens Olympics, also said that when there is a rush, there is always room to correct mistakes.

This is a small episode, but it has a deep relationship with Su Zu, and even many reporters have interviewed Su Zu a few times when they stared at this proposal.

In the men's 100-meter final of the Athens Olympics last year, Su Zu was the first to run, and because of Su Zu's rush, Obi Keviru, who ran again with the second shot, was sent off.

This matter was discussed by the media at the time, and later with Su Zu's results in the men's 200 meters and men's 4× 100 meters, one silver and one gold, these inconspicuous little turmoil slowly passed.

"This 'zero rush' rule doesn't start with me." Su Zu laughed to himself.

When Su Zu first arrived in Helsinki and learned of this proposal, he was very surprised. As far back as he can remember, the implementation of "zero front-running" seems to have started in 2010, when there was a rumor on the Internet that it was a rule specially designed to limit Jamaica's lightning.

But today, in 2005, the "zero front-running" rule has actually been proposed.

To be honest, Li Zhizhong is not sure if there is a factor in Su Zu's rush to the final of the Athens Olympics last year, and in the case of a rush opportunity at this stage, the phenomenon of pressing the gun in the sprint and sprint events is still very common.

Afternoon.

The weather in Helsinki is finally picking up, and after the heavy rains last night and this morning, the heavy clouds in the sky are gradually dissipating, and the clouds are shining white, and the whole city seems to be opening up.

Located in a seaside city at 60° north latitude, if it is windy and rainy, the humidity is relatively heavy, and it will be a little cold. And as soon as it is clear, the sea and sky are colorful, and the scenery is also very good.

After a short break in the athletes' village, a series of warm-up activities were carried out under the physiotherapy massage of the team's physiotherapist Jiang Daheng.

At around 17 o'clock in the afternoon, Su Zu, Li Zhizhong, Zhang Pingqiu and others took the bus arranged by the organizer and went to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium again.

The bus was accompanied by sprinters from several other countries, including three Jamaican 100m runners Michael Flat, Dwightlah Thomas and Anslivo, Jamaica's sprint event had been on the rise since '08, and this time Asafa Powell did not participate, but three athletes also reached the A standard and made it to the second round of the semi-finals.

Also on board was an old acquaintance of Suzu, Kim Collins of St. Kitts Nevis, who won the 2003 World Championships with a time of 10.07 seconds. Many of the American players in the World Championships were absent that year, and Kim Collins can be said to have won a bit of a fluke.

In other World Championships, if the 100 meters are not scored within 10 seconds, it is basically impossible to have a chance.

Kim Collins' overall strength is relatively strong in the current men's sprint, but it is not the top, and so far the 10-second mark in the 100m has won the 2002 Commonwealth Games in 9.98 seconds.

However, he is the champion of the last World Championships, and he still attracts the attention of the media and the audience.

After a brief greeting to Jin Collins, Su Zu and the others did not communicate much, leaning on the seat of the bus, closing his eyes and resting.

18:45 p.m. The second round of the men's 100m rematch begins.

There are a total of four groups in the semi-finals, which are grouped according to the results of the preliminary round, and Suzu is in the fourth group of the semi-finals.

It seems that the organizers deliberately arranged it, and Suzu and Gatlin, Obikviru, Sean Crawford, and Leonard Scott were not arranged together.

At 19:05 in the evening, the semi-final players of the first three groups finished competing one by one, and it was Su Zu's turn to start the semi-final group.

Led by a tall Finnish beauty, Suzu and seven other players walked from the corridor to the Olympic Stadium again.

Because the weather is somewhat cloudy, the lights in the stadium are lit up early at this time, as if it were daytime. Although the organizers of the event did not do a good job of arranging the waiting arrangements for the athletes to enter the media area after the competition and sheltering the spectator seats from the wind and rain, other aspects are still good.

After the rain stopped, in addition to the water on the track, the lawn in the middle of the field, the water in the spectator seats, were cleaned up, and even the long jumper's sand pit was replaced with new dry sand.

It seems that because of the rain, the whole stadium looks exceptionally clean under the night lights.

Standing in the starting area, Su Zu paid attention to the players in his group, and at this level, Su Zu was somewhat impressed by the players who basically reached a certain level. The higher the level, the fewer players can participate in the competition.

Suzu was in the fourth lane, and in the third lane was Jamaican athlete Michael Flat, who was walking with Suzu from the Athletes' Village in the afternoon.

The Jamaican, who was born in '82, is also on a steady upward trajectory, running 10.22 seconds at the Madrid Grand Prix on 16 July this year with a headwind of 0.7 m/s. He was a member of the 4×100m relay at the '08 Olympic Games and '09 World Championships in Jamaica.

As for the fifth Marlon Devonish, they were a group in the preliminaries, but they didn't expect the rematch to be arranged together.

Sixth lane is Barbados' Thompson, a 1976-born veteran who reached the semi-finals at last year's Olympics and set a personal best of 9.87 seconds in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1998.

The first is France's Ronald Bonon, born in '82, who just set a 60-meter indoor record in France this year with a time of 6.45 seconds.

The second lane is Trinidad and Tobago's Darryl Brown, born in '84, also in June this year, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and Tobago, running a time of 9.99 seconds.

The first and second lanes are both rising sprinters this year, in line with the trend of the rise of a new generation of sprinters in the world at this time.

The seventh lane is Hena Emedolu (also translated Uchena Emmodulli), the men's 100m semi-finalist at the Athens Olympics, who ran 9.97 seconds in 03 and was the second runner in the men's 4×100m relay at the Athens Olympics.

The eighth is Saudi Arabia's Salim Mubarak Yami, whom Suzu played against at the 2003 Asian Championships.

After the starting gun sounded, Su Zu's start was smooth. Li Zhizhong specially explained that he should pay attention to the matter of pressing the gun, and he did not rush, and in the face of these players in the rematch, it has not yet reached the level that Su Zu attaches special importance to.

However, it was really unexpected by Su Zu, from the acceleration of the start to the stage of running on the way, Su Zu was tightly pressed.

France's Ronald Bonon in the first lane, Trinidad and Tobago's teenager Daryl Brown in the second lane, and Jamaica's Michael Flatt in the third lane, the three of them may be close in strength because of the similar lanes, and they almost bit Suzu tightly.

All three of them are considered to be the new forces in the field of athletics at this time, and in this rematch, they also showed a level that surpassed the older generation of athletes, and there was no obvious lag in the front sixty or seventy meters. Like Ronald Bonon, who was 60 meters in front of him, he once had a lead.

In the end, Suzu crossed the finish line in first place.

Su Zu ran 9.97 seconds, and under the fierce pursuit of several people, he was only slightly relieved in the last few meters. Out of the need for a reasonable distribution of physical energy, if it were not for the very high pressure of competition, Su Zu would put a little bit appropriately.

Competitions like the World Championships and the Olympics don't depend on how good your results are in the first three rounds, and in the end, it has to be the final results.

Trinidad and Tobago's Darryl Brown was in 10.10 seconds, France's Ronald Bonnon in 10.11 seconds and Jamaica's Michael Flatt in 10.12 seconds.

Nigeria's Hena Emmedolu ran 10.16 seconds, while veterans Marlon Devonish and Thompson ran 10.20 and 10.34 seconds.

The results of the fourth group of the semi-finals came out, and Su Zu was the only athlete in the four semi-finals to run under 10 seconds, and the overall results of the fourth group were also the best in the semi-finals.

The rules for advancing to the semi-finals in the semi-finals are the same as in the Olympic Games, with the top three players from each group advancing directly, and then four athletes will be replaced according to their results, for a total of 16 athletes to participate in the finals.

It was also after this set of results came out, on the sidelines of the field, Kim Collins looked desperate.

In addition to the top three in the semi-finals, the order of return is Jamaica's Michael Flatt in 10.12 seconds, Nigeria's Hena Emmedolu in 10.16 seconds, Britain's Marlon Devonish in 10.20 seconds and Australia's Josh Ross in 10.31 seconds.

Last year's world champion Jin Collins, in the second group of the rematch just now, he finished fourth in the group with a time of 10.32 seconds, and according to the semi-final order, he ranked fifth, missing the men's 100m semi-final.

This is the men's sprint event, even if the champion of the last World Championships, this World Championships did not play well or was not strong enough, it is still inevitable to be out of the game.

On the first day of the World Championships in Helsinki, the first topic of the news was born.