Chapter 145: It's hard to stand alone
Feng Quan, who stumbled with Liang Jinhui to complete the last handover, when he ran out of the relay area, the Chinese team's ranking had slipped from the previous third place to the fourth position tied with the Japanese team. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, fortunately, before the start of this game, Feng Quan "took" a bottle of [State Recovery Potion] in advance, and once again raised his [physical function] to the peak state. At the same time, after the referee sounded the starting gun, he successively used the two skills of [Viagra] and [Perpetual Heart] to prepare for the final sprint.
Therefore, the temporary unfavorable situation did not have the slightest impact on Feng Quan's mood.
As a result, Shota Iizuka, who claimed "I will never lose to you" before the start of the game, quickly lost after only "holding" more than ten meters with Fengquan.
Even if Shota Iizuka did not lose his fighting spirit to win after being overtaken by the wind, he still tried his best to shorten the gap between them. But in the face of the huge gap in strength, he had to helplessly watch Fengquan gradually widen the gap between the two sides.
"He's, he's really too strong......"
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Perhaps, the Trinidad and Tobago team simply cannot compare to the super sprinting powerhouses like Jamaica and the United States in terms of overall strength. But in their 4x100m relay team, they have an athlete named after the likes of Jamaica's Usain Bolt and USA's Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gaye. He is none other than Richard Thompson, who has been hailed as the "Jewel of Trinidad and Tobago".
Although Richard Thompson is relatively short (1.67m), with his strong explosiveness and outstanding foot frequency, he once won the third place in the men's 100m at the 2008 Capital Olympics. Even though his form has declined as he has aged, he still made it to the 100m flyer at the London Olympics.
Because of Richard Thompson, even Trinidad and Tobago as a whole are not strong enough to shake the supremacy of Jamaica and the United States in the 4x100m relay. However, thanks to Richard Thompson's strong individual strength, Trinidad and Tobago, which is also in the Caribbean with Jamaica, the "Kingdom of Sprinting", can often reach the semi-finals or even the podium in the 4x100m relay events of the World Series.
However, the excellent performance in various world competitions in recent years has also made the players of the Trinidad and Tobago relay team feel a little fluttery. In their opinion, with the exception of Jamaica and the United States, teams from other countries are not their opponents at all. So before the race even started, they had already locked their goal in the 4x100m relay event to third place.
As a result, due to the lack of attention to opponents from other countries, Trinidad and Tobago's performance in the preliminary round was not very ideal. Not only was the "old rival" American team opened up a gap of nearly 1 second, but it also lost to the Japanese team, which was "not eye-catching at all".
Not only that, but if it weren't for the fact that France and Australia both made a slight mistake in the final handover, Trinidad and Tobago would have even been squeezed into fifth place in the group and thus missed the final. So, after yesterday's preliminaries, four teammates from Trinidad and Tobago's 4x100m relay team, who returned to the Olympic Village, were scolded by their national sprint coach, Eaton.
Therefore, the four young men of the Trinidad and Tobago team, who held their breath before the final and wanted to prove themselves to the world again, did their best without reservation after the start of the game.
Even if Trinidad and Tobago do their best, it is still not enough to shake the overall stronger teams of Jamaica and the United States. However, the Trinidad and Tobago team, which got serious, did improve a lot compared to the preliminaries.
Trinidad and Tobago finished the first two rounds of the tournament by almost 0.2 seconds from yesterday's heats, and Trinidad and Tobago was only less than 2 meters behind China. And, taking advantage of the mistakes made by Liang Jinhui and Feng Quan when handing over the baton, Trinidad and Tobago team Richard Thompson also completed the "overtake" of Feng Quan.
Although such a "overtake" does not have any practical significance for Richard Thompson, who was completely blown away by the wind in the 100-meter flyer decisive battle five days ago. However, the moment of "surpassing" the "King of New Sprinting" still made his self-confidence burst instantly, and at the same time, the speed under his feet was obviously a few points faster than before.
However, less than 3 seconds after Richard Thompson's self-confidence "exploded", a red figure appeared in his left field of vision. And, when Richard Thompson was less than 20 meters away from the finish line, the red figure had already thrown him three or four meters away.
After seeing such a scene, Richard Thompson, who was still "bursting" with self-confidence just now, suddenly felt like he had been kicked into a cold ice cave.
"It's that horrible guy again, can't I beat him even in the relay race?"
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The U.S. team, which had been inseparable from the Jamaican team in the first three batons, finally took advantage of the little "flaw" in the baton handover between Usain Bolt and teammate Joan Blake, and established a slight advantage over the Jamaican team by Ryan Bailey in the last bat.
However, just after Ryan Bailey's "slight advantage" was only maintained by three or four meters, Bolt relied on his strong acceleration ability to complete the overtake of the American team again.
With less than 70 metres to go, Usain Bolt opened up the gap between Jamaica and the United States to more than 2 metres.
At the same time, even when Feng Quan was still more than 60 meters away from the finish line, he used the [Instant Acceleration] skill again. However, due to the fact that there was too much gap before, Feng Quan, who tried his best, only pulled the gap between the Chinese team and the Jamaican team back to within 7 meters.
Although Feng Quan successfully snatched the crown of "King of Sprints" from Usain Bolt in the 100-meter trapeze battle five days ago. But when the strength of his teammates was insufficient, he had to helplessly watch Bolt and Ryan Bailey cross the finish line before themselves......
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PS: Top six finishes in the 4x100m relay final at the London Olympics:
(1) Jamaica: 36.84 seconds (breaking the world record);
(2) United States: 37.04 seconds;
(3) China: 37.52 seconds;
(4) Trinidad and Tobago: 38.12 seconds;
(5) France: 38.16 seconds;
(6) Japan: 38.35 seconds. (To be continued.) )