At 14:05 pm local time in Moscow on August 13, the preliminaries of the men's 400m event officially began. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since a total of 48 athletes signed up to compete in the men's 400m event, the organizing committee divided all athletes into 6 groups according to their registration results according to a certain strength ranking.

According to the rules of the competition, in addition to the top two teams in each group who are destined to qualify for the semi-finals, the top four third-place finishers will also qualify for the semi-finals on the morning of August 14.

Among the four groups that took the lead in the competition, Grenada's talented teenager Killarney James, American stars such as Lashawn Merritt and Tony McQuay all easily won the top spot in their respective groups.

In the preliminaries of the fifth group that followed, it was finally Feng Quan's turn to play.

Despite being a double champion at the London Olympics, Feng Quan is now among the world's top athletics. However, as a "newcomer" in the 400m event, Feng Quan "appeared" in the World Series for the first time. Moreover, his registration time in this event was only 44.99 seconds. And such a registration result, among all the athletes participating in the event, only ranked 27th.

As a result, the foreign players, who were in the same group as Feng Quan, were excluded from the list of competitors who qualified from the group almost before the start of the competition.

Unfortunately, soon after the game actually started, the competitors who were in the same group as Feng Quan were completely dumbfounded.

That's right! Feng Quan's registration time was indeed only 44.99 seconds. But what foreign athletes don't know is that such a result is just the result created by Feng Quan when he participated in the 400m individual event for the first time. Moreover, such an achievement is still a result created without the use of any skills by the wind.

As early as two months ago, in an internal test match at the Athletics Management Center, Feng Quan had already run 44.06 seconds, which "surpassed" the Asian record (44.56 seconds).

As a result, under the stunned eyes of all opponents and the audience, Feng Quan easily won the first place in the fifth group with a time of 44.39 seconds, and at the same time, he also "piggybacked" to really break the Asian record.

In fact, Feng Quan's opponents in the same group can't be blamed for belittling him. After all, as the king of speed and the king of all-around, he is only participating in the men's 400m individual competition for the second time. Opponents know very little about his ability in the project.

And just the night before, Feng Quan, who had just experienced a fierce battle with Ashton-Eaton, was still a little tired when he was interviewed by reporters after the game.

However, Feng Quan, whose endurance attributes have been greatly improved, has recovered his physical function to a certain extent after a night's rest, and is barely in a "good" physical condition. It is precisely because of this that he was able to give a more normal play to his strength in this 400-meter group preliminaries.

I don't know if it is deliberately arranged by God, but the competition in the last two groups of the men's 400m preliminaries is destined to bring surprises to all those who pay attention to the project.

In the sixth group of the competition, South African teenager Van Niekerk, who made his international debut for the first time, unexpectedly won the first place in the group with a time of 44.38 seconds. Meanwhile, Masrasi, an athlete from Saudi Arabia, finished second in the group by 0.2 seconds.

Before the race, Dominican player Santos, who was considered the strongest in the group, barely advanced to the semifinals of the men's 400m event with a time of 44.74 seconds, with the status of the fourth best third place.

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Feng Quan, who successfully advanced to the semifinals of the men's 400 meters, did not immediately return to his hotel, but returned to the athletes' locker room to wash up briefly, and after changing another set of clothes, he came to the coach of the "Wind Team" in the stands, El Carris, to continue to watch the games that will be played later.

The reason why Feng Quan did not return to the hotel immediately was not only to cheer for his national team teammates, but also because his "little sister" Sun Mingyue will play in the group stage of the women's 100m event starting at 15:30.

For a long time, most of the sports in our country have presented an embarrassing situation of "yin flourishing and yang declining". However, in recent years, in the 100-meter sprint, the performance of female athletes in China is much inferior to that of men.

Even if you don't count the almost "BUG" existence of Feng Quan, domestic sprinters such as Sun Bingtian and Zheng Peimeng already have the strength to hit the finals of international competitions.

But when it comes to the results of another "half the sky", it has been a long time since Chinese athletes have appeared in the semi-finals of the women's 100m event.

Although Sun Mingyue, who was "born out of nowhere" this year, broke through the 11.50 second mark three months ago, thus getting the ticket to the Moscow World Championships. However, in the international arena full of strong players, it is still unknown whether the 17-year-old Sun Mingyue can play his level normally in the competition.

Moreover, even if Sun Mingyue can break the 11.50 second mark again in the group stage, it is estimated that it will be difficult to advance to the final round. Therefore, the field management center does not have too many "illusions" about what Sun Mingyue can achieve in this World Championships. The reason why I chose to bring her to Moscow was just to let her come out to see the world and accumulate more experience for the future.

After all, as the youngest athlete to participate in this World Championships, Sun Mingyue still has a lot of room for improvement in the future.

As soon as Feng Quan sat down next to El Karis, the old American man asked, "Feng, how far do you think Sun (Mingyue) can go in this competition?" ”

Although from El Karis's point of view, Sun Mingyue is Fengquan's "little junior sister". But in reality, the time the two have been training together is very limited. Therefore, Feng Quan is not very clear about what kind of strength Sun Mingyue has now.

As a result, Feng Quan did not immediately answer El Karis's question. After all, without knowing what kind of strength Sun Mingyue has, it is really not good to speculate about her performance in this competition.

"El, before answering your question, can you tell me what kind of strength Satsuki has at the moment?" Feng Quan asked.

Hearing this, El Karis first smiled and nodded to Fengquan, and then said with a proud face: "Hehe, a week ago, in the last test in China, Sun had broken the 11.20 second mark. ”