"Have you started?"

At 21:30 local time in Osaka on August 30, in the audience seat in Nagai Stadium, Zhang Peimeng carried a few bottles of mineral water, squeezed through the dense seats, and found his place to sit down.

On the seats on the side of the track near the entrance examination, three young people wearing red Chinese track and field team uniforms are sticking their necks out, constantly observing the lineup on the field.

"Come on, Oishi is already on the field, he ran very well in the preliminaries, it looks like he's in good shape, he should have a chance to qualify for the final."

Su Bingtian craned his neck and glanced at the arena a few times and replied, turned around and took a bottle of mineral water from Zhang Peimeng's hand, unscrewed it and took a sip.

Although the World Championships have been going on for six days and it is now approaching September, the weather in Osaka is still very hot.

Due to the large number of spectators in Nagai Stadium, even at 9:30 p.m., it was still hot. Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, Wen Yongyi and Chen Yuhang sat down for a few minutes, and they felt that their backs were already soaked, and their foreheads and necks were covered with sweat.

But everyone is now wearing long sleeves and dare not take off, a few people more than an hour ago is still in relay training, such weather still has to maintain the temperature of the body, in case accidentally because of sweating, the wind blows a cold, affecting the later games, it will be worth the loss.

"What group is Brother Yang Yu in?"

After Zhang Peimeng gave the mineral water in his hand to his teammates one by one, he then asked. In the past few days, his focus has been on the 100m and 200m races, and he only knows that all three competitors have advanced to the semi-finals in the 110m hurdles, but he does not know the specific group passes.

"In the third group, Liu Yangyu and Robles were divided into a group in the semifinals, and it is estimated that the two will have to fight first in the semifinals."

Wen Yongyi frowned, looking at the 110-meter runway, a staff member seemed to see that the railing was a little offset, and was stepping forward to adjust.

"Alan Johnson retired early, and in the preliminaries, Doucoure was not in good shape, and Yang Yuge's main opponents were Robles and Trammell."

"The 110-meter hurdles are stronger than our 1,200-meter hurdles, except for Brother Yang Yu, Dashi and Xiao Xing have all entered the semi-finals. In the semi-finals of the three groups, there were Chinese players in all three groups, which was not easy. ”

For Chinese sprinters, it has always been a very rare thing to be able to run three A marks to participate in the World Championships or the Olympic Games.

In the previous 04 Olympic Games, the 100-meter A standard was Su Zu and Chen Jian, and the 200-meter A standard was Su Zu and Yang Guangzong, and this World Championships, only Su Zu.

Speaking of this topic, the four members of the Chinese men's relay team present were a little silent. The '08 Olympics are getting closer and closer, and at present, everyone is not sure whether they will be able to run the A standard results.

Su Bingtian and Wen Yongyi's main events are 60 meters and 100 meters, while Zhang Peimeng and Chen Yuhang are 100 meters and 200 meters, but several people failed to run the standard before this World Championships, and they missed the individual event, so they could only participate in the relay event as a team.

During the time they came to Osaka, they hadn't even come to see Suzu's game, and today was the first time they appeared in the audience. This is still the relay team's head coach Yuan Guohua is worried about their physical problems, and the preliminaries of the relay race will start tomorrow.

Now in the domestic sprint sprint event, athletes are no longer only staring at the National Games, national championships, and Grand Prix, but looking at world-class competitions.

And because of the emergence of top players such as Su Zu and Liu Yangyu, the requirements of Chinese people for athletes have also increased. It turned out that running 10 seconds and 25 seconds in China might have reporters press all kinds of reports, but now almost all of them are brushed aside.

This is both pressure and motivation for backward domestic sprinters.

The expectations of the men's 4×100m relay team are also much higher, and in 2005 due to the change of athletes, the results were passable. But now that it has been two years of running-in, and with the '08 Olympics just around the corner, there is a lot of pressure from coaches to athletes.

Especially young athletes such as Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, and Wen Yongyi, who have little experience in the competition, know that they have such expectations on their backs, and they are thinking about how to improve their performance level almost from morning to night.

Even if they eat and sleep, they are always hands on the baton, and they continue to cultivate tacit understanding and baton handover skills with each other.

Everyone is holding back their energy and wants to prove themselves on the field.

The men's 110-meter hurdles event can be said to be one of the few Chinese track and field team to have three qualified athletes at this World Championships, compared with Su Zu's lone battle in the men's 100-meter and 200-meter events, at least in the men's 110-meter hurdles event, there are a few more faces of Chinese athletes.

Another reason why they came to watch tonight was because the men's 110m hurdles semi-finals will be followed by the men's 200m final, where Suzu will face the Jamaican Army and the United States Army.

“On your marks！”

As the starting line began, the starter's voice sounded, and the first group of the men's 110m hurdles semifinals officially began.

Unlike the men's 100m and 200m, the 110m hurdles event has three rounds: the heats, the semi-finals, and the finals, so there are also three groups in the semi-finals. The three Chinese 110m hurdles players were arranged in the three groups of the semi-finals.

After the guns of the game rang out, Shi Dongpeng played very well, continued his good form in the preliminaries, and ran the second fastest time of 13.24 seconds, which was also the second fastest in the group.

"Well done Oishi!"

"I should be able to advance to the finals!"

"Absolutely. With a time of 13.24 seconds, it should be no problem to enter the final. ”

"If Oishi can make it to the final, it will be his second time in the final since the 2003 World Championships."

Several members of the relay team who were sitting on the sidelines watching the game cheered when they saw Shi Dongpeng's results come out. Everyone is a sports eye, and it is still a bit of a spectrum for the 110-meter hurdles to be able to run 13.24 seconds, and it should be stable to advance to the finals.

However, the game is not over yet, and no one is sure.

After the first group of the semi-finals, the second and third groups will start one after another.

Because there are Chinese athletes participating in the competition, the Chinese audience who came to watch the competition has been very excited, waving red flags, waving banners and signs, etc., and from time to time they can hear "China, come on!" "Liu Yangyu, come on!" Something like that.

However, Xing Yanan, a young Chinese athlete in the second group of the 110m hurdles semifinals, lacked strength and competition experience, and only ran a time of 13.59 seconds. Finished fourth in the group, it should not surprise them to have no chance of qualifying for the final.

At the beginning of the third group of the men's 110m hurdles, the crowd who came to watch the competition ushered in the first climax.

Liu Yangyu and Robles' duel is not small, and they also have the men's 110m hurdles champion of the last World Championships in their group, Doucoure, but because it is a semi-final, in fact, the players are reserved.

Liu Yangyu adopted the tactics of tightening the front and loosening the back, and when it was confirmed that something was wrong in the first half of the race, he put it a little bit, and the result was 13.25 seconds, which was a little slower than Robles's 13.21 seconds, but it was a significant improvement compared to Liu Yangyu's 13.36 seconds in the preliminaries.

This is also an experienced top athlete who will adjust the distribution of direct fitness and form according to the importance of each round of the game.

So far, the semi-finals of the men's 110m hurdles have all ended, and shortly after the end of the competition, the final will be announced in time. Surprisingly, Liu Yangyu was ranked in the ninth track, which is not conducive to creating good results, and Shi Dongpeng was ranked in the sixth track. Robles was placed on track four, while American Trammell was placed on track five and his team-mate Payne was on track seven.

In 2005, Helsinki 110m hurdles world champion Abdoulaye Abdoulaye finished ninth with a time of 13.36 seconds and missed the final of this World Championships.

"It's over, Liu Yangyu's path arrangement is too bad."

When the lane arrangement for the 110-meter hurdles final appeared on the big screen tomorrow, Wen Yongyi's face changed greatly.

The men's 110m hurdles final is arranged by random selection, and Liu Yangyu ranked fifth in the overall score of the semi-finals.

But this one is random, and the first place in the semi-finals, Dawei Payne, is only in lane seven.

Su Bingtian and Zhang Peimeng were also speechless for a while, and even the other athletes and coaches of the Chinese track and field team who were also watching the game on the sidelines faintly felt that something was wrong.

This arrangement can be said to be quite disadvantageous, although it is said that they are all straight races, and it seems that there is not much difference, but everyone understands the subtle differences of a lane, and sometimes the result is very different.

Generally speaking, the men's sprint sprint sprint events basically win the championship in the middle of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth lanes, while the first, second and eighth and ninth lanes on the edge, few athletes can win the championship.

"As long as I get to the final, whether it's lane 1 or lane 8, I can run, and I hope to get a taste of being on the podium tomorrow."

On the contrary, Liu Yangyu didn't care about this arrangement of passes, and the self-confidence of a top player was not affected by this unfavorable arrangement at all.

And when Su Zu learned that Liu Yangyu was arranged in the unfavorable ninth lane in the semifinals tomorrow, he had already begun to warm up and prepare for the game.

Just wait for the end of the penultimate event women's 200m semi-finals, which is his competition, the men's 200m final!