Chapter 323: Peak Duel (Medium)
"CCTV, CCTV, audience friends welcome you to watch the second day of the IAAF Finals, I am the live commentary Yang Jian. Yesterday, the men's 110-meter hurdles competition was broadcast live, and Liu Yangyu won the championship with a time of 12.93 seconds. Today at 23:50 in Beijing, we will bring you the much-anticipated men's 100-meter flyer battle. China's famous athlete and world record holder Su Zu will also participate......
It's a race to look forward to, having missed two Golden League games, and former world record holder Asafa Powell is back in the men's 100m fly, where he will once again face off against Suzu, so let's see how well they do later......"
On Saturday and Sunday, September 9th and September 10th, yesterday's Liu Yangyu's men's 110-meter hurdles competition was broadcast on CCTV 5, and many viewers in China caught up with the time to watch.
Today's men's 100m race in Suzu on September 10, although the time is a little later than the men's 110m hurdles the day before, but it is not yet 12 o'clock, which is a perfect time for many people who stay up late to watch the game.
The men's 100-meter trapeze battle is not long, and sleeping after watching the game does not affect the next day's work and school.
Since Suzu broke world records in Doha and Zurich this year, the two results have been almost a dream.
In addition to ordinary track and field enthusiasts, or many young people who just went to Su Zu, many middle-aged and elderly people who were older were also included in watching this game.
Only by experiencing pathos can we understand the preciousness of glory.
Tonight in China, many sports schools and provincial and municipal track and field teams are almost all in groups in the cafeteria, in the apartment building, in the dormitory to watch the game.
The IAAF World Finals, second only to the heavyweight competition of the Olympic Games and the World Championships, and unlike the former, so far, the only domestic track and field athletes who can qualify for this event are Su Zu and Liu Yangyu, and the qualification for participation is definitely not available to anyone.
Before Su Zu and Liu Yangyu participated in this competition, even many ordinary people in China were in an unfamiliar stage for the IAAF Grand Prix, Super Grand Prix, and Golden League.
And now, this match, like the previous Zurich Golden League, has attracted the attention of countless Chinese people, and it is expected that Asafa Powell will participate in this game.
Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin, and even world sprinters such as Tyson Gay and Leonard Scott, all have a lot of fans in China at this time.
These top international sprinters may have heard the names of the Chinese people, or they were just circulated in the small circle of track and field, but with the expansion of Su Zu's influence, his opponents also have a high reputation among the Chinese people.
Just like another time and space, Liu Yangyu's opponents, Robles, Trammell, Alan Johnson, and Doucoure, because of Liu Yangyu, the strongest competitors he faced have also entered thousands of households, and they will be talked about from time to time.
"The lineup for the IAAF Finals is similar to the previous Golden League games, and they are all the top men's 100m runners at the moment......"
As the cameraman pointed his camera at one of the competitors, eight athletes competing in the IAAF Finals were seen on the big screen at the Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium and in front of the television.
"The first is Kim Collins; the second is Orusoki-Fasuba; The third is Tyson Gay, speaking of Tyson Gay Some viewers may still be relatively unfamiliar, this year Tyson Gay is already the third fastest after Suzu and Powell, and the rise is very fast, becoming a strong challenger for the new men's 100m championship; the fourth way, Suzu; Fifth Lane Asafa Powell; Sixth Dowry Leonard Scott; 7th Lane Francis Obikviru; Eighth Path: Michael Flat. Now that the eight athletes are in place, we will witness the men's 100m showdown again tonight, and we will be looking forward to seeing who wins this race between Suzu and Powell and whether they can set a new record......"
In front of the starting line, not only the audience and the audience in front of the TV were attracted by the eight runners participating in the finals, but even the referees, assistant referees, etc., who were observing and monitoring on both sides of the track, would inadvertently glance at the people in front of the starting line.
Many IAAF referees and staff have experienced various competitions, and I don't know how many well-known athletes have competed, and many of them are athletes themselves.
But at this time, the tense atmosphere that was faintly permeating the air at the scene made them can't help but sway.
The men's 100m trapeze has always been the highlight of athletics, the most cheered and attractive event, and now they will be there once again.
The appearance of a player like Su Zu and Powell may be exciting enough, but only when there are two players with the closest strength on the same court, can they really achieve each other and create greatness together.
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Inside the Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium, all the runners are making their final preparations for the start.
Or standing silently in place, or exhaling and exhaling with the chest and abdomen rising and falling, or making small jumps, moving the joints and waist.
Su Zu exhaled lightly and patted his hands lightly on his thighs.
Whenever a major event needs to be calm, what he needs now is calm, and at this time his whole person is completely excited.
Standing still, I could feel a flame burning from my chest and abdomen.
Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay, two sprinters he used to know only by watching videos on the TV network, and now he has to compete with them, although it is not the first time, not the second time, but Su Zu can always feel the fire in his heart.
Jamaican lightning at its peak, so what?
“On your marks!”
The voices of the starters rang out again from the radio.
The boiling and noisy scene gradually quieted down.
Tens of thousands of eyes stared at the eight runners in front of the starting line.
A chaotic sound of rustling was transmitted to the TV through a close-up camera and microphone.
It was the sound of the runners adjusting their postures on the starting machine, and soon the chaotic sounds died away, and the eight people in front of the starting line remained absolutely still like statues cast in steel.
The Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium, which had gradually quieted down, was quieted down again, and the spectators in front of the finish line couldn't help but lower their breathing.
It seems that the loud panting will disturb the performance of the players.
But in a stadium of tens of thousands of people, even the slightest movement of a few people can form a loud buzzing background.
However, for the runners at the starting line, this moment is enough.
Su Zu calmed down and lowered his breath, but every muscle in his body seemed to be like the most elastic steel plate at this moment, springing, contracting, deforming, waiting for the moment of explosion.
“SET!”
In front of the TV and in the stadium, all the spectators heard the starter shouting the "ready" password, and the runners in front of the starting line got up at the same time as if they had rehearsed hundreds or thousands of times.
Su Zu lowered his head and looked at the small piece of plastic runway between the thumbs of both hands, but his mind had completely entered a state of emptiness.
Syllable!
The electronic starting gun rang out.
Su Zu couldn't tell if the gunshot came from the referee's position next to him, or from the speaker behind the starting gear behind him, as long as he heard the gunshot, he basically didn't have time to think, and he suddenly exerted force purely instinctively.
The steel plate and spring, which seemed to be hidden inside the body and compressed to the extreme, suddenly exploded at this moment.
In the era when the starting point was not yet popular, the stadium for the race was still mostly flat yellow mud ground, and the athletes had to bring a small shovel with them at the start, and after the starting line was determined, they used the small shovel to dig two small pits that could put down the forefoot. At that time, the runners started in an instant, and the sudden strength of their legs was often able to raise a puff of dust.
Now, the conditions are constantly escalating, and neither the venue nor the equipment are the same, but when the athletes start on the field, it seems that they can still feel the exhaust behind them.
Like the engine with the most horsepower, it suddenly roared and disappeared.
"The game starts ......"
At the moment when the gunshots rang out, Yang Jian's voice was also converted into an electronic signal through the microphone and transmitted throughout the country.
The passionate and surging enthusiasm seemed to make the microphone blind at the moment he spoke.
Zero to ten meters, ten to twenty meters, twenty meters to thirty meters......
In an instant, the eight players on the field went from stationary to starting, like dragons and tigers, soaring forward.
Su Zu's starting reaction and starting acceleration are very good, and on the premise of maintaining a very high level of concentration, Su Zu has adjusted to the best in terms of starting reaction and anti-interference ability.
Although he didn't run like Liu Yangyu yesterday, at the moment of starting, Su Zu still stabilized his rhythm, and his movements were fast and powerful.
Similarly, Powell's start has always been called a model of movement for a sprinter, and when analyzed in slow motion, every frame, every second, is a perfect technical move.
In the case of high concentration, Powell's starting reaction and starting speed were no more than half a point slower than Su Zu's, and even to some extent, Powell's footsteps landed more forcefully than Su Zu.
In the first few steps, Powell's starting action has a larger contact surface between the soles of his feet and the ground than the average runner, but it also provides more power, and each step is long in the air and the pace is large, which can support the body to increase the speed more fully.
But compared to Suzu and Powell, there are still two people in this group who should not be underestimated.
One was Leonard Scott, who started with the same gun as always, with the shortest starting reaction in this set, his feet stretching and whipping with great power and a very fast cadence. Compared to the last time in the Zurich Golden League, he played better in this IAAF final.
From the start, he was basically half a body ahead of Suzu and Powell within a few steps.
The other runner is Francis Obikviru, who was relatively quiet in the 2006 season, and as the first person in the 100m speed in Europe today, Obikviru is the same as Scott in this race.
Fortunately, both of them succeeded in pressing the gun, and there was no rush.
With the advantage of the pressure gun, Obikviru had a better start than before.
Because of the relationship between height and leg length, there is no obvious disadvantage after the start, and the speed of the acceleration stage from 0 to 30 meters has been vividly exerted.
Almost instantly, Tyson Gay in lane 3 felt a completely different sensation from the previous Zurich Golden League, where he was in lane 2 and Leonard Scott in lane 3, despite the fact that everyone started very fast. But if Leonard Scott doesn't run enough at the start, it will be difficult to continue to hold steady in the second half of the race.
And Tyson Gay is confident in his ability to maintain his pace, and he believes he can overtake Leonard Scott in the second half.
But now in him is the third way, and next to him on the right is Su Zu.
Su Zu's starting reaction and acceleration are the best, at least compared to him, Su Zu's starting is much better. The backwardness of the start at this moment made him feel extraordinary pressure.
Su Zu ran a high-speed link on the way to fifty or sixty meters, and the absolute speed was amazing. And the ability to maintain speed in the second half of the race is not weak, before Tyson Gay read the report and learned that Su Zu has been training in the sub-plateau region for nearly half a year, aiming at speed and endurance, from this point of view, this year Su Zu was able to break the world record twice and constantly refresh his best results, to a certain extent, it is the credit of his improved speed and endurance.
In the face of a runner like Su Zu, who is not slow to start, has absolute speed, and has good speed and endurance in the middle and second half of the race, this is a fairly comprehensive running style.
Once he was led by Suzu, Tyson Gay knew that he might not have a chance to catch up with him later.
The IAAF Finals, in the absence of the Olympics and World Championships, are the highest level of athletics competition. In the first 30 meters of the short start, all competitors almost exhausted their means and exerted their full strength and potential.