August 16th.

The eleventh day of the 2008 Olympic Games, the second day of the track and field schedule, is also a relatively dense day for track and field.

According to the three-star attention given by many websites before the game, two of the finals were more eye-catching. One is the men's 20km race walk that starts at 9 a.m., and it has two-star attention. The other is one of the core events of all the events of today's Olympic Games, the men's 100m final, which starts at 22:20 in the evening, has the highest attention from Samsung.

However, before the final is coming, the men's 100m semi-finals, which start at 20:05 pm, are also very interesting.

At night, the boiling noise of the Bird's Nest Stadium did not subside, but became more and more lively as the time approached step by step. This is the first peak night of the Bird's Nest National Stadium since it was officially put into use at this Olympic Games yesterday.

Tickets for the night of August 16 had been hyped by many scalpers months ago, and in the days leading up to the game, the price was one day a day, and the demand was still in short supply, even in the farthest stand position, the price had more than tripled and increased.

At this time, in addition to the spectators who can enter the venue to watch the game, in the square outside the Bird's Nest National Stadium, in front of several large screens that were urgently placed at the beginning of the last "Good Luck Beijing" Track and Field Open, there are also dense and unclear figures gathering at this time to watch the game.

Many of these were tourists who couldn't get tickets for tonight's games or the many people who worked and lived in the imperial capital, who didn't want to sit alone in front of the TV at home to watch the games, so they simply outside the square and many people who had come to support the Olympics, waving small flags, glow sticks and other objects, creating a small branch venue outside the stadium.

In the same way, across the country and even around the world, more people who can't reach the Bird's Nest to watch the games, or sit at home as a family, or meet up with friends in front of the barbecue stalls in the night market, or in some bars and restaurants, are waiting in front of the TV to watch tonight's Olympic games.

“…… Okay, audience friends, the men's 100m semi-finals of this Olympic Games will start soon, and at the same time, we will also usher in the most interesting men's 100m flyer battle of this Olympic Games in more than two hours, which is likely to be the pinnacle of human history.

Now the first group of athletes in the men's 100m semifinals has appeared in the field. The first is a man from the Bahamas, Derek Atkins, who is also a strong men's sprinter, finishing fourth in the men's 100m final at last year's World Championships in Osaka and having a chance to reach the final in the men's 100m at this Olympics.

(The Bird's Nest Stadium track is 9, and the first one actually starts from the second runway, directly using the statement of CCTV commentary)

Second, the American star Tyson Gay, at last year's World Championships in Osaka, Tyson Gay once spoke in front of the media, asking Suzu and Powell to compete again in the 2008 Olympic Games, in order to achieve this goal, this year Tyson Gay only ran the New York Grand Prix and the National Olympic Trials. Although he lost to Usain Bolt at the New York Grand Prix, everyone really saw what he was capable of and how hard he worked to prepare for the Games.

In the third lane, Trinidad and Tobago's Mark Burns, who ran a personal best of 9.96 seconds in Port of Spain in 2005 and is also a competitor with a chance to qualify for the final.

Fourth, St. Kitts and Nevis' Kim Collins, born in 1976, is now a 32-year-old veteran, and this is his third Olympic Games.

In the fifth lane, Walter Dix of the United States, his start speed is like that of Michelle the cheetah of the United States, and his start will also put pressure on all the players.

The sixth lane, Usain Bolt, broke the men's 100m world record of 9.69 seconds held by Suzu with a time of 9.68 seconds on a rainy night in New York this year, and he made a gesture of pointing to the finish line of the 100m, and no one knows how fast this arrow can fly.

In lane seven, Great Britain's Tyrone Edgar, who ran a personal best of 10.05 seconds in Geneva, Switzerland, and reached the semifinals of the men's 100m for the first time.

The eighth lane, Jamaica's Michael Follett, who is the shortest of the Jamaican three musketeers and the fastest athlete, will be the basis for him to compete for better results......"

In Yang Jian's commentary, at this time, whether it was in front of the TV, or inside and outside the Bird's Nest venue, the audience who saw the introduction of the contestants through the scene or the big screen gradually began to quiet.

This is the first group of the men's 100m semi-finals, and many of them recognize Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, of which Tyson Gay has seen his performance at last year's World Championships in Osaka, while Bolt is relatively unfamiliar to many people except for yesterday's preliminaries and quarter-finals at the Bird's Nest Stadium. Everyone wants to see what is so special about the athlete who just broke the Soviet world record.

Time passed minute by minute, and under the command of the on-site starter, eight runners walked onto the starting gear, leaned over, and squatted.

After two referees in blue suits confirmed that all the players had remained stationary, the referee's starting pistol was raised high.

Syllable!

"Game on!"

At the moment when the gunshots rang out, Yang Jian's voice sounded in front of various TVs at the same time.

Before the starting line, Tyson Gay's reaction time was very fast, and his fast cadence allowed him to run as fast as possible to top speed.

Tyson Gay was at the peak of his career from 2007 onwards, and 2008 and 2009 were at his best, with little fear of a challenge as long as he was not affected by injury.

On the other hand, Usain Bolt's starting reaction was not too fast, but the strong lower body force pedaled so that the runner seemed to slide backwards for a short while. The big, powerful stride pedals on the track, and after just a few steps, it also grabs the advantage.

10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters......

Bolt's powerful starting ability has already run to the first position at this moment, and Tyson Gay did not suddenly exert force after Bolt caught up, but always maintained a certain speed behind Bolt.

In the first ten meters, Bolt's lead was not significant, or rather, not leading.

But by the time he reached the 30-metre mark, Bolt had already taken the lead in getting up and starting to run frantically with his fast cadence and a step longer than the others.

A yellow figure and a blue figure on the field, one after the other, almost instantly left the other players behind.

Tyson Gay, who had been involved in many races at the beginning of the season in 2008 and ran well, caused injuries that made him poor in the men's 100m semifinals, but this time, he maintained his physical condition better, and he was comfortable all the way from the preliminaries to the rematch.

And in the semi-finals, facing Usain Bolt, he has no intention of competing with him, and his goal is to reach the final in two hours, with his physical condition, as long as he can guarantee a qualification, if not necessary.

There are 16 players in the men's semi-finals and eight players in the men's finals, and the rules for advancing are simple, just run to the top four in each group

"Usain Bolt got off to a pretty fast start and Tyson Gay was incredibly fast, and the two went all the way to the finish line...... 9.85 seconds, Usain Bolt easily won the first place again, Tyson Gay 9.92 seconds, both of them ran very easily, it can be seen that both of them did not play their full strength at all, but even so, such a result is already very surprising! Bolt's 9.85 seconds in the semi-finals was already one hundredth of a second short of Donovan Bailey's Olympic record of 9.84 seconds......

Before the finish line, Tyson Gay looked at the results on the timing board and then at Usain Bolt, his eyes flashing with a strong desire to compete.

After the New York Grand Prix, his coaching staff has analyzed Bolt's level of strength, and with Bolt's height and long legs, as long as he has super explosiveness and cadence, his speed is absolutely amazing.

Tyson Gay himself needs 45 or 46 steps to run the 100 meters, and Usain Bolt only needs 41 steps, the difference can be imagined.

However, Tyson Gay will not face Bolt the same way he will face Suzu, Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell. Suzu, Gatlin and Powell were already extremely strong at the beginning of his career, and he was one of the followers. It can be said that he gradually rose from repeated defeats and gradually entered the peak of his career.

Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay have won several times in the men's 200m event, establishing a certain psychological advantage, and even a defeat at the New York Grand Prix will not let him hang his head.

In another time and space, Tyson Gay stopped in the semifinals at the 08 Olympics due to injury, and it can be said that the most regrettable person at that time was Usain Bolt, and at that time, looking at the world, the person Bolt wanted to beat the most was Gay, although he had already won once in New York, he still wanted to win the second and third times.

And Tyson Gay has never flinched in the face of Usain Bolt's challenge, and before the '09 World Championships in Berlin, Tyson Gay still has strong faith in himself.

"If Usain Bolt can do it, then so can I." Tyson Gay once said in an interview.

And the meaning of that World Championships for Bolt was, "I just wanted to compete with someone who was about as fast as me." ”

The psychology of an athlete's game is sometimes so subtle.

Although Tyson Gay has a better personal record than Justin Gatlin, he has lost a lot against Gatlin throughout his career.

Powell has not performed well in important large-scale events, but he has always been the king in various Grand Prix Golden Leagues, even the big devil has lost to Powell in many Grand Prix.

Justin Gatlin, who is a bit behind the rest in terms of personal bests, is the man who has won the most medals and championships with the exception of Usain Bolt due to his super consistency and form retention.

To some extent, an athlete's performance also depends on who his opponent is.

In the world sports world, such scenes are not uncommon, especially in sports such as badminton, table tennis, tennis, etc., often a certain athlete may be ranked first in the world and full of glory, but when encountering some special athletes, either the style of play is restrained, or the psychological state is weak.

Of course, this is also a family statement, in fact, since Bolt broke the world record, only Guy, Powell, Gatlin and Blake have beaten Bolt in a small event in the singles event, and the rest have never beaten Bolt.

At this time, on the big screen at the scene, the ranking of the first group of the men's 100m semifinals also appeared in front of everyone.

The top four finalists were:

1. Sixth lane, Usain Bolt, Jamaica, reaction 0.161, time 9.85;

2. Second lane, Tyson Gay, USA, reaction 0.145, time 9.92;

3. Fifth lane, Walter Dicks, USA, reaction 0.143, 9.95 seconds;

4. 3rd lane, Mark Burns, Trinidad and Tobago, reaction 0.124, 9.97 seconds;

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