August 24th.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, after a day's rest, Su Zu and Yang Guangzong followed Yu Liwei, Li Zhizhong, Yuan Guohua, several coaches, as well as several delegation officials and relevant staff, and walked a bus arranged by the organizer and drove directly to the Olympic Stadium.

This morning is the first round of the men's 200m preliminaries, the men's 200m event schedule of this Olympic Games is similar to the 100m, the same four rounds of preliminaries, semi-finals, semi-finals, and finals.

On the morning of August 24, the first round of preliminaries will be held, and at 20 o'clock in the evening, the second round will be rematched. Slightly different, the semi-finals and finals are held on a separate day, taking into account the physical requirements of the 200m. The semi-finals will be held on August 25 at 22:55 and the final round will be held on August 26 at 22:25.

The number of athletes participating in the men's 200m is smaller than that in the 100m.

The A standard for the men's 100m is 10.21 seconds and 10.28 seconds for the men's 100m, while the Olympic A standard for the men's 200m is 20.59 seconds and 20.75 seconds.

If we simply × the AB standard of the men's 100 meters, the values are 20.24 seconds and 20.56 seconds, which seems to be higher than the AB standard of the Olympic 200 meters.

However, in fact, it is not possible to measure the AB standard and select athletes to participate in the competition.

The men's 100m event, known as the crown jewel of the Olympic Games, has always attracted the most attention in the entire Olympic Games. And because it is a straight run, for all kinds of field conditions requirements, the world's special training of 100 meters of athletes is an extremely large base.

The 200-meter event, on the other hand, has a lower level of attention, requiring not only the absolute speed and explosiveness of the athletes, but also the speed, endurance and cornering techniques to reach a high level.

Compared with athletes in the 100-meter event, the 200-meter athlete in the special or concurrent event has extremely high requirements for his personal speed endurance, that is, the ability to maintain speed in the second half of the race.

Later, the official website of the IAAF listed the top 100 best results in the 100m and 200m in history, and the number of human beings running 10 seconds in the 100 meters is far more than running in the 200 meters in 20 seconds.

The men's 200m preliminaries were divided into seven groups with a total of 55 athletes, of which the sixth group was composed of seven athletes and the other groups were eight athletes.

The nearly 70,000 seats at the Olympic Stadium may have been vacated this morning because of a weekday or something else.

However, in a small area, the red flag was unfurled, and the Chinese spectators and overseas Chinese who came to watch the 200-meter preliminaries were much more than yesterday's 100-meter final.

These are all events that have been paying attention to men's and women's volleyball for some time, and they have not paid attention to the men's 100 meters. Until yesterday, I suddenly heard that in the men's 100-meter event, Su Zu suddenly won the third place, and then began to pay attention.

Or maybe you have to pay attention, but you can't find a ticket for the men's 100-meter final in the track and field event, so you can only retreat and cheer for yourself in the 200-meter event.

"Is Su Zu playing?"

There was a commotion in the crowd, and someone asked loudly, the first yellow person to break 10 seconds, the first Chinese to win the bronze medal in the men's 100-meter final, is worth everyone's expectation in any case.

"It shouldn't be yet, Su Zu seems to be in the third group." Someone in the audience replied.

"It's Yang Guangzong."

As a spectator recognized the Chinese wearing a red tracksuit who appeared on the 200-meter starting line, the cheering and cheering rang out at the same time.

Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the Chinese audience, the atmosphere of the entire Olympic Stadium was not so enthusiastic, and the local Greek spectators who came to watch the game remained silent, with occasional scolding.

Yang Guangzong, who was standing on the fourth runway, raised his head and waved to a spectator area of the red flag from a distance.

He, like Chen Jian in the men's 100m, is the first group of the preliminaries group. As for whether it is the organizer of the event, it is unknown, after all, he and Chen Jian are relatively low in the IAAF points ranking, and they also lack international competition rankings.

"No matter what, at least we have to run into the semi-finals."

Yang Guangzong glanced at the athletes on both sides and said silently in his heart. Before Su Zu appeared, the men's sprint event 100 meters was Chen Jian, and the 200 meters was him. Now not to mention Su Zu, Chen Jiandu alone has already run the Olympic men's 100-meter rematch, and heard the second gunshot in the Olympic arena, and the goal he gave himself in his heart is at least this.

There is a gap in strength, but no matter what, you have to do your best to run a result that you are satisfied with.

With the introduction of the athletes on the radio of the stadium conference, the players of Yang Guangzong's group were seated one by one, and among the eight athletes, in addition to the Chinese audience who will pay special attention to Yang Guangzong, the other player who is attracting the attention of the audience the most - Francis Obikviru.

He was sent off in the final men's 100m final the night before, and today he was almost completely gloomy and silent. With his strength, missing the 100-meter event is missing a medal. At this time, Obi Keviru's eyes showed a strong battle intent, and he was furious.

On the big screen at the scene, the information of the 8 players in the first group of the men's 200m was also played at this time.

First Lane, Paul Blazer, Ireland;

Second way, Juan Pedro Toledo, Mexico

the third way, Nabifo di Fovana, Guinea;

Fourth, Yang Guangzong, China;

Fifth Way, Francis Obi Keviru, Portugal;

Sixth Lane, Stefan Buckland, Mauritius;

Seventh Path, John Westman, Sweden;

Eighth Path, Handabisun, Saudi Arabia;

Among the athletes in Yang Guangzong's group, Obikweiru's strength is self-evident, and he is an athlete who can break into the men's 100-meter final.

It is worth noting that Stefan Buckland of Mauritius ran a best time of 20.06 seconds in 2003 and ranked first in the IAAF World Ranking 200m event in July 2004, just before the start of the Games. It is worth mentioning that Stefan Buckland, a black athlete, is quite handsome, and later in the 08 Beijing Olympics, as the flag bearer of Mauritius, he was once concerned.

In addition, Mexican Juan Pedro Toledo is also a long jumper, who was a long jumper in the early days, and later changed to 200 meters, won the first place in the 200 meters in two consecutive Central American Caribbean Championships, and participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

At 10:35, with the sound of a starting gun, the first group of competitions in the men's 200-meter preliminaries of this Olympic Games officially began.

But after the sound, less than five seconds later, the audience was in an uproar.

Obi Keviru is running again!

Obikviru held his forehead in disbelief.

Yang Guangzong saw the nervousness caused by excessive concentration in the eyes of the other party, he cared too much about the 200-meter race this time, especially after being sent off in the 100-meter, almost the whole person's attention was immersed in the preparation for the 200-meter preliminaries.

Fortunately, it was the first shot, and it was not directly punished.

Then the game started again, and this time, the entire crowd was almost stunned.

At the starting line of the 200, there was once again a situation of athletes rushing to run.

This is the rematch of the first group, but all the athletes are nervous.

However, this time it was no longer Obi Keviru who almost completely reduced his reaction time from the start, and it was Saudi Arabia's Handa Bisun who took the lead in lane eight.

This situation almost shocked people to see if he deliberately did not want to finish the game and made such a move.

As in the 100-meter final the night before, it was affected by two sprints. In the first group of the men's 200m heats, all the athletes reacted much longer than before.

The fastest reaction times were Ireland's Paul Blazer and Mauritius' Stefan Buckland at 0.179 seconds and 0.185 seconds respectively.

Obikoviru had a starting reaction of 0.243 in this group, which was the slowest of almost all the competitors in the race.

Yang Guangzong's starting reaction speed was also not fast, reaching 0.217 seconds. The rest of the runners also had a reaction time of 0.2 seconds after the start.

Yang Guangzong ran almost as best he could, and he clearly understood that his own strength was by no means those athletes who could run for about 20 seconds, and they could release water in the preliminaries.

In China, his 200m level in Asia is considered to be the top level, but in the world arena, it is far from enough.

If you want to reach the finals, you have to play at your best.

Corners, straights, accelerated runs.

When Yang Guangzong crossed the finish line with the fourth person, he almost jumped up.

Rematch, he entered the rematch!

20.59 seconds, his personal season best.

In the 200m 7 preliminaries group, the top four in each group can directly advance to the semi-finals, leaving the four athletes with the best results, a total of 32 athletes, to participate in the semi-finals.

After Yang Guangzong finished this group, he saw that he was fourth in the group, 0.01 seconds faster than Sweden's John Westman, who was fifth in the group.

In his group, Stefan Buckland was first in 20.29 seconds, and Obiqueviru and Juan Pedro Toledo tied for second in 20.40 seconds.

At this time, the Chinese audience cheered and applauded when they saw Yang Guangzong successfully advancing to the semifinals.

Yu Liwei, Li Zhizhong, Yuan Guohua and several other coaches on the sidelines also breathed a sigh of relief, Yang Guangzong's smooth promotion, finally did not have to be the same as Chen Jianchu, hanging people up and down.

On the field, the athletes in the first group of 200m heats finish, and the athletes in the second group of heats play.

At this time, on the warm-up track in the third group of preliminaries check-in area, Su Zu ran back and forth twice carelessly, and all that came to mind was the figure he had just seen.