Chapter 349: 100m Semifinals (End)

“…… Tyson Gay has been in great form this year and has improved a lot, having performed well in several competitions at the beginning of the year, and it is said that Guy has cut back on a lot of unnecessary matches in order to prepare for this World Championships, so as to reduce the burden on his body.

When Suzu returned to the 2007 IAAF men's 100m rankings last month, Tyson Gay generously said that he wanted to be against Suzu in peak form, hoping to set a new world record in the race against Suzu like Justin Gatlin and Powell. No matter who set this world record, they are making history! He's going to give it his all at the World Championships and let the world know him again......"

After the first group of the men's 100m semi-finals, the camera of the scene was focused on a black runner with a well-proportioned body and a white sprint tracksuit for a long time.

Accompanied by Yang Jian's detailed commentary, Tyson Gay, who was standing in the fourth lane, picked up a bottle of mineral water and took a slight sip, shrugged his shoulders, and made the final preparations for the competition.

The eight players in the second group of the men's 100m semifinals are naturally less interesting than the first group with Suzu and Powell.

But as the remaining four finalists need to compete for before the finals, it also affects the hearts of many people at this moment.

Before the starting line, the eight runners are scheduled to do the same from the second lane.

The vast majority of the spectators who watched the game in front of the television, starting with the first semifinals between Fang Cai Suzu and Powell, did not move their butts at this time. Still locked on the TV channel and continued to watch the results of the second group.

Since the rise of Su Zu in the world sprint industry, many domestic viewers have become familiar with many foreign 100-meter sprinters under the popularization of various event explanations and media.

This is just as the domestic audience once knew about Liu Yangyu's men's 110m hurdles, such as Alan Johnson, Trammell, Robles and other men's 110m hurdles players, are also known by many people in China.

And Su Zu's men's 100-meter event is even more, in addition to the top Powell and Guy These players, many other players with a slightly lower level, or who have had extraordinary honors in the past, and have had direct and positive conversations with Su Zu, are gradually known to everyone.

When the live broadcast began to introduce the eight athletes in each lane, Yang Jian, the live commentator of the CCTV broadcast of the competition, also began to introduce many athletes to the audience in front of the TV through Chinese.

“…… Spectator friends, the second group of the men's 100m semifinals is about to begin. This group will compete for the final four spots in the finals.

Now you see the second lane is Canada's Anson Henry, whose personal best is 10.12 seconds, and Anson Henry's semi-final is the best Canadian sprinter in the 100m since Bruny Surin won bronze at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain.

In the third lane, Jamaica's Nesta Carter, who was lucky enough to qualify in the men's 100m at this year's Jamaican trials, beating last year's Jamaican national champion Michael Flatt.

Fourth, American Tyson Gay, who is habitually hydrating his body before the race, is expecting him to make it to the final and take us to the top speed showdown on the planet in two hours.

In the fifth lane, British's Mark Lewis Francis, who ran a time of 9.97 seconds when he was 19 years old, but his record was not guaranteed due to the wind turbines at the time, and was not recognized by the IAAF. As he entered his 20-year-old peak, Francis's results declined, and we don't know exactly why he fell in the 100m, but he was still one of the best sprinters on the planet, a member of the British men's 4×100m relay team in 2004.

The sixth Dutch Antilles, Kuranti Martina, competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics and was the gold medalist in the men's 100m at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games. Like this year's rising Bahamian Derrick Atkins, he did very well in 2007, with a personal best of 10.04 seconds.

Britain's Marlon Devonesh, like Mark Lewis Francis, was a member of the British relay team at the Athens 2004 Olympics, a 76-year-old veteran who has not missed five World Championships from 1997 to 2007. This is a seasoned sprinter with a level of competition experience that many young athletes can't match.

In lane eight, Clement Campbell, Jamaica's third athlete to compete in the men's 100m.

In lane 9, Nigeria's Orusoki Fasuba, in the 2006 Doha Grand Prix, Suzu and Justin Gatlin faced off at the pinnacle of the race, Fasuba ran a personal best of 9.85 seconds, breaking the African men's 100m record of 9.86 seconds set by Frank Fredericks......

Just as the big screen and various TV stations were commenting on the eight players in the second group of semi-finals, the four players who advanced to the first group of semi-finals had already left, but their respective coaching teams were carefully watching from the sidelines to understand the status of the other opponents they met in the final two hours later.

"Tyson Gay had an injury some time ago, right?"

Li Zhizhong recalled the news he had learned from the media and some channels before, and stared at Tyson Gay in the fourth lane with burning eyes, as if he wanted to catch a little clue from the other party.

"There's news about that." Zhang Pingqiu, who was standing next to Li Zhizhong, nodded and replied, "Tyson Gay suffered a knee injury after winning the 100m and 200m at the Indianapolis US Championships, and the number of training sessions has been reduced since then, and it is said that the main reason for this World Championships in Osaka is to make game adjustments." ”

"Judging from the preliminaries and semi-finals, it's not obvious."

Li Zhizhong frowned slightly, he has carefully observed several important opponents of Suzu in this World Championships, Tyson Gay was rumored to have a knee injury before, and Powell was a groin injury, but judging from yesterday's game, the two were basically not affected by the injury, and their competitive condition was very good.

For a coach like him, the physical and psychological state of an athlete sometimes has a bit of a spectrum just by looking at how many trips they have run.

"Well, Tyson Gay only participated in one Lausanne Grand Prix last month, with a time of 19.78 seconds, and foreign media commented that it was mainly due to the low temperature and deceleration due to injury." Zhang Pingqiu said and added.

"It doesn't look like the final will be easy." Li Zhizhong nodded.

Recently, Su Zu has re-adapted to the new rhythm, and his state has recovered again, and his psychological pressure has been somewhat reduced. But the performances of Powell and Guy also made him very vigilant.

On a stage like the World Championships, the Chinese track and field team can win gold very rarely, and the real ones are Su Zu and Liu Yangyu, but the two are not completely without opponents.

Even though Su Zu and Liu Yangyu are the current world record holders in the men's 100m and 110m hurdles, they dare not say that they will win in the face of the world sports scene with many talents.

"This year, Tyson Gay's results have improved amazingly, his original starting technique was relatively weak, and this year there has been a lot of improvement." Speaking of Tyson Gay, Zhang Pingqiu has obviously put some effort into it, and has carefully studied several games of Tyson Gay this year.

"His skills have improved a lot compared to last year, but the load on his body is also very large when he runs like this, and his body is easy to be unable to support it."

Li Zhizhong also knows very well that Tyson Gay's skills in 2006 are still relatively rough, but after learning from Joan Drummond, who was the first runner in the 4×100m relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Tyson Gay has improved a lot in his starting skills.

While the two were talking, the voice of the starter on the field sounded.

Before the starting line, eight runners got up and changed from a squatting position to a half-squat position, and after a gunshot, the eight runners suddenly started to accelerate!

The second group of men's 100m semifinals begins!

As Li Zhizhong and Zhang Pingqiu said and discussed, Tyson Gay's starting technique has made great progress. His reflexes and acceleration weren't the first, but they didn't happen when he was led by the first 30 meters as he did last year.

Instead, thirty meters later, Tyson Gay took the first place. In the next 40 meters, 50 meters, and 60 meters, the absolute speed stage of the run, no one in this group of semi-finals can pose a threat to him.

Tyson Gay almost ran directly to the finish line in a crushing state, and there was also an obvious water release action more than ten meters before the final crossing line.

But even so, Tyson Gay still won the group with a time of 10 seconds, 0.12 seconds ahead of the second place in the group, Marlon Devonish.

The top four results in the second group of the men's 100m semi-finals were also released, namely Tyson Gay, Marlon Devenish, Kuranti Martina and Orusoki Fasuba.

Since then, at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, the men's 100-meter final has been released, and the 100-meter trapeze battle is about to start!