Athletes' Village for the World Championships in Helsinki.

Early in the morning, Feng Shuyong, the leader of the Chinese track and field team at the World Championships, and several officials from the track and field management center appeared in Su Zu's dormitory and congratulated him with smiles on their faces.

There are not many games today, mainly in the evening, everyone also has time, Su Zu has achieved such results, it is impossible for them not to come to condole.

On August 6 and August 7, the Chinese track and field team lost in race walking and women's 10,000 meters.

There is room for Liu Yangyu's 110-meter hurdles and men's 4×100-meter relay races, and with this gold medal, no matter whether there are other results in this World Championships, the track and field team can be more or less different.

This is the world champion, the world champion in the men's sprint, and it has enough weight to grab everyone's attention.

Since Su Zu came back last night, he has been surrounded by Zhang Peimeng and several other relay team members, everyone knows that Su Zu's strength is strong, but strength and medals are two concepts.

The more sprinters are, the more they can understand the weight of this gold medal, in the men's 100-meter sprint, it is really 0.1 seconds and 0.01 seconds are a huge barrier. And now with such a teammate, he has achieved such results, and the motivation effect is self-evident.

For the honor of the men's 100-meter champion at the World Championships, Su Zu was also very excited in his heart, after all, this was the first world championship. Well, if you don't count the 60m at the World Indoor Championships, the two are very different in terms of influence.

The men's 100m title at the World Championships marks his true rise to the top of the world's athletics, one of the few people standing at the highest peak in the world today. He is now behind Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin in the men's 100m rankings.

However, Su Zu has never been a person who is immersed in the achievements he has made, the World Championships are still going on, the competition is going on, and he also wants to pursue more glory.

Although no one in the team said it explicitly, no matter who Su Zu was looking forward to in the men's 200m event.

In the men's 200 meters of the World Championships, only Su Zu and Yang Guangzong of the Chinese track and field team are eligible, and now only Su Zu is the only Chinese athlete participating in this event.

Although he won a valuable gold medal in the 100m, Suzu in the men's 200m has surpassed the 100m in both his time and ranking this year.

In the 200m this year, Suzu ran 19.79 seconds and 19.83 seconds at the New York Grand Prix and Eugene Grand Prix, which were the two best times in the world men's 200m in 2005. These two results can run in the vast majority of races, and they are basically strong contenders for the championship.

In addition to Su Zu's best top 10 results in the men's 200m in 2005, the two American stars Wallace Spirmont and Tyson Guy are also being watched. The two occupied the third, fourth, sixth, fifth and eighth places respectively. The other seventh, ninth and thirteenth places are Usain Bolt, Javier Carter and Justin Gatlin.

In the morning, after dealing with several leaders and other people who came to congratulate him, in the afternoon, Su Zu entered the inherent rhythm and went to the track and field field in the athletes' village again for simple training.

In the past few days, the relay members of the Chinese team have been training here, and Su Zu rarely had time to come over today, and he also did a little training to hand over the baton together. But the intensity is not large, generally that is, trotting and starting, on the one hand, to maintain the competitive state of the body, on the other hand, it is also to continue to cultivate a tacit understanding with other athletes.

The men's 4×100m at the World Championships this time are all new recruits, and everyone's expectations are not high, but they are mainly based on training.

And Li Zhizhong couldn't get out of his body at all today, and he finished dealing with the leaders on the front foot, and then there was the media, and several media had already started to make appointments and interviews again and again, if it weren't for the fact that the reporters couldn't come in the athletes' village without the consent of the team leader, I am afraid that the next moment would be to wrap up the place where Su Zu was.

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In a lounge in the check-in area, Su Zu was lying on a massage table at this time, and Jiang Daheng was giving Su Zu a full-body physiotherapy.

Today's competition starts at 11:35 p.m., starting with the men's decathlon 100m, followed by the men's javelin and men's pole vault, and at 12:20, the men's 200m heats. As for the 200m rematch, it was at 19:25 in the evening.

Suzu was the fifth group in the men's 200m heats and drew cheers from the Finnish crowd as the new 100m champions in Helsinki, Finland, where they saw a young man from as far away as China won the heaviest gold medal at the World Championships.

Su Zu, the player in this group of preliminaries, doesn't know much, and the slightly more familiar is the player Shingo Sueji from Japan, the third runner-up in the last World Championships, and once competed for the first place in Asia with Yang Guangzong in 01 and 02.

In the end, Su Zu won the first place in the group with a time of 20.55 seconds and easily advanced to the semi-finals, while Shingo Sueji ranked second with a time of 20.85 seconds.

The men's 200m preliminaries went smoothly, and although the weather was gloomy, fortunately there was no rain, and a total of eight groups of preliminaries were successfully completed.

Now the preparation begins for the men's 200m rematch that starts at 19:25 in the evening.

"It's a bit of a problem for the game." Li Zhizhong sat on the chair next to him and sighed slightly.

The weather at this World Championships was really not satisfactory, although the IAAF awarded a record-breaking award of 100,000 US dollars, but in such weather, it would be good not to affect the competition, and it was quite difficult to break the record.

Now the most discussed topic in the athletes' village is the weather, playing wrong, bad state, this is the reason for the rainy day, everyone is too uncomfortable, the muscles are stiff and the movements are deformed, and they can't play at the level they should have.

"It's okay, Coach, it's the same for everyone."

Su Zu lay prone on the massage table and waved his hand gently at Li Zhizhong.

He is no longer a newcomer, he is always aware of the state of his body, and the difficulties he will encounter in this kind of rainy day are the same as others.

But speaking of this, Su Zu suddenly remembered the situation when he met Liu Yangyu in training today, and asked out loud: "If it's hurdles in this weather, there is no way to compete in the rain." ”

"Of course, hurdles are more difficult on rainy days, and Coach Sun Pingjiang has talked to me a few times, saying that Liu Yangyu's movements are a little tight and I can't let go. In addition, his opponent, the French hurdler, seemed to be often deformed during the warm-up, knocking down several hurdles. ”

Li Zhizhong was a little worried, the impact of the weather on sprinting is quite good, after all, as long as it is not pouring rain, he can always race. But for a more technically demanding sport like hurdles, the impact is even greater on rainy days.

"It's raining, it's raining!"

At this moment, outside the door of the lounge, Zhang Pingqiu suddenly hurriedly pushed the door in and shouted.

Li Zhizhong stood up immediately, ran to the window of the lounge and looked out, and sure enough, the dripping raindrops began to knock on the window glass.

"It's not easy. Has the women's 100m hurdles started outside? Li Zhizhong turned his head to Zhang Pingqiu and asked. This lounge, facing the outside side of the stadium, can only see the street outside, not the inside of the stadium.

"It's started, when I came in, I just arrived at the third group, and it is estimated that there are still three groups to finish." Zhang Pingqiu breathed a sigh of relief and replied.

"It's almost time, Su Zu, you can stop running, just be able to advance, don't delay after the race, come back directly."

After listening to Zhang Pingqiu's words, Li Zhizhong glanced at the time on his watch, and the hands had already reached 19 o'clock.

"Okay." Su Zu got up from the bed, moved his joint muscles slightly, and nodded.

"Hehe, Su Zu, it looks like you're really going to brave the rain to compete." Jiang Daheng patted Su Zu's shoulder and smiled, "But it's okay, I have dry clothes, and I'll come back and change them after the competition." ”

"Thank you, Master Jiang!"

Su Zu smiled, put on his coat, and prepared to go to the indoor warm-up track in the check-in area for several sets of warm-up training, and it was almost time for the game to start.

As soon as he arrived at the check-in area, Su Zu looked through several window glasses in the room and found that the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, splashing on the glass.

Su Zu was in the third group of the men's 200m semi-finals, and at this time, the athletes in the first group had just finished preparing and were punched back by the staff before they left the venue.

A rare sight on the track and field field happened.

At this time, outside the Olympic Stadium, when the runners in the second group of the women's 100-meter hurdles were lined up on the starting line, a lightning bolt suddenly crossed the sky above the sports field; Before the runners could understand what was happening, the track was completely obscured by a dense rain curtain.

"Woo" The sound of some machinery turning stopped, and the entire inside and outside of the stadium suddenly went dark, and there were black holes inside and outside, and there were exclamations from far and near, and the sound of opening the door sounded at the same time.

"There's a power outage?!"

“AHT FUCK？”

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Everyone in the stadium was suddenly stunned, Rao is everyone has experienced a lot of games, but this is the first time that the power outage in the arena participating in the competition is encountered.

At this time, the rain outside is getting heavier and heavier, accompanied by gusts of howling winds.

The Finnish staff in the stadium reassured everyone present loudly in English, but fortunately, it didn't take long, but in just three or two minutes, the lights came on again. This time, the backup power in the stadium was activated.

At this time, outside the entire Olympic Stadium venue, the women's 100-meter hurdles competition barely ended in the rain, and suddenly encountered a power outage, which could only end hastily.

Suddenly, the entire Helsinki Olympic Stadium was darkened by tens of thousands of people, except for some emergency lighting.

Although the emergency lights came on soon, it still cast a shadow over tonight's 200m semi-final. The delay in the resumption of the men's 200m is already inevitable.

Compared to Su Zu and other players who have not yet played, they are very good. At least they didn't accept the baptism of wind and rain, and the 100-meter hurdles players and the discus throwers in the field competition in the Olympic Stadium were all shivering in the wind and rain. Not to mention the many Finnish spectators who are waiting in the dark.

The blackout lasted almost an hour, with only barely enough lighting to take place, and by the time the lights in the stadium came back on, the men's 200m rematch had passed.

Suzu received the latest notice that the second round of the men's 200m and the men's triple jump qualification had to be rescheduled to the 10th, while the final of the women's discus throw will be postponed to the 11th local time.

Almost every event of the World Championships is arranged in strict accordance with the process, and any changes will affect the subsequent competition schedule.

Tonight's 200m men's semi-final will be followed by the 3,000m steeplechase, the women's 800m final, the men's decathlon 400m and finally the 400m hurdles final.

In the lounge, Su Zu stared at the rain curtain outside the window in a daze, and he didn't expect that this World Championships was really such a twist and turn.