Chapter 652: Capital World Championships (1)

Originally, Bolt thought that he should be able to seize the opportunity of Feng Quan's lack of preparation due to business activities and regain his position as the "king of sprinting" at the World Athletics Championships in the capital, but the cruel reality is that Feng Quan, who is "not in good shape", has created the world's best result in the men's 100m event in London this year.

Although the time of 9.70 seconds is still far from Feng Quan's own world record of 9.36 seconds, Bolt's best time in this year's official competition is only 9.77 seconds.

If he devotes himself to training in the last period before the World Championships, it should not be difficult to improve his current time by at least 0.1 or even 0.2 seconds, even if he can't adjust to his best condition. For Usain Bolt, who is already approaching, it is difficult to guarantee that he will run the 9.70 second mark even in his usual training.

Therefore, even if Feng Quan only maintains his current competitive form at the World Championships, it will be difficult for Bolt to shake his dominance as the "king of speed".

Slightly different from Bolt's estimate, although Feng Quan, who participated in the Diamond League in London, did return to China to devote himself to training, El Karis formulated a training plan for him based on starting skills and cornering skills under Feng Quan's instructions.

Although the athletics center and the national track and field team were a little surprised by Feng Quan's training content, they were relieved to consider that he had just set the world's best time in the 100m event this year, and that he would have to compete in the 100m, 200m and 400m events at the same time. After all, they are well aware of the importance of cornering technology for the 200m and 400m events.

Although Feng Quan's training is more focused on starting and cornering techniques, his [physical condition] has gradually improved due to the lack of training intensity. As of August 22, the opening day of the World Athletics Championships, Feng Quan's "physical condition value" has increased to 96 points.

In the first round of the men's 100m preliminaries held that night, Feng Quan not only easily won the first place in his group and successfully advanced to the semifinals on the evening of the 23rd, but also created the best result in the preliminaries with a time of 9.93 seconds.

In addition to Feng Quan, Sun Bingtian and Zheng Peimeng also successfully advanced to the semifinals of the 100m with the second and third place in the group respectively.

On August 23, because Feng Quan participated in the 100m, 200m and 400m events at the same time, the organizers deliberately put the men's 400m preliminaries at 9 a.m., so that Feng Quan could get enough rest time to participate in the 100m semifinals at 18 pm and the 100m final at 21:20 in a better state.

Not only that, in order to ensure that Feng Quan won the championship of these three events, the organizers also did their best to create convenient conditions for Feng Quan in the timing of the 200-meter event.

Due to the relationship between the semi-finals and finals of the 100-meter in the evening, Feng Quan gradually slowed down the pace of running in the last 50 meters of the 400-meter preliminaries, but even so, a time of 44.05 seconds allowed him to win the first place in his group and successfully advance to the 400-meter semi-finals on the 24th.

At 6 p.m. that night, Feng Quan, who was divided into the first group of the 100-meter semifinals, established his lead from the beginning of the race, and finally won the first place in the group with a time of 9.89 seconds without any suspense, and easily entered the final three hours later.

Immediately afterwards, although Sun Bingtian, who was divided into group 2, failed to win the top two in the group and directly advanced to the finals, his time of 9.99 seconds gave him a good chance to advance to the final as the "third in the group with the best results".

As a result, all the Chinese spectators at the scene hoped that Zheng Peimeng, who was in the third group, could successfully win the top two in the group, and at the same time "cursed" the third place result to fail to break the 10-second mark, so that the three Chinese athletes could win in the final.

However, perhaps because of the tense relationship, Zheng Peimeng, who has always been known for his excellent starting skills, actually played abnormally in the starting link, and fell to the bottom 2 as soon as he came up.

Although he overtook four opponents in a row to move up to third place in the middle of the race, he was weak in the back due to too much running power on the way, and was squeezed into fourth place by his life 2 meters before the finish line, unfortunately missing out on the final.

Since the audience could not see the results of the athletes who had just finished the race in the first place, the vast majority of the audience "cursed" in their hearts for the French player Jimmy Vicoult, who squeezed Zheng Peimeng to fourth place, for more than 10 seconds.

Dozens of seconds later, the results of the third group of athletes in the semifinals were finally displayed on the big screen at the scene.

When the audience saw that the first number of Jimmy Vicott's result was actually "9", they couldn't help but chuckle in their hearts, after all, this means that the Frenchman's score must have broken the 10-second mark.

Considering that Sun Bingtian's score is only 9.99 seconds, anyone who can break through the 10-second mark may squeeze him out of the final finals, so Sun Bingtian is hanging nine times out of ten.

However, just when everyone was secretly screaming badly, some of the audience who reacted quickly suddenly let out a scream of surprise, because Jimmy Vicott's time was also 9.99 seconds.

In this way, Sun Bingtian and Feng Quan reached the final at the same time.

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At 21:15 in the evening, nine athletes participating in the men's 100-meter final stepped onto the 100-meter track of the Bird's Nest Stadium under the leadership of the on-site staff.

Before the live DJ began to introduce the athletes, the audience seats near the side of the 100-meter track erupted in deafening cheers, the reason is simply that they saw the pride of Chinese sports, and the first person in today's sports world - Feng Quan.

When the DJ shouted in an impassioned voice: "Track 4, Olympic and World Champions, World Record Holder - Feng Quan", many foreign friends also stood up from their seats with the Chinese audience around them, and gave the warmest applause and cheers for Feng Quan.

Although Feng Quan has already seen countless big scenes, the spectacular scene of more than 80,000 spectators standing up and cheering for himself still makes his heart full of excitement and emotion.

As a professional athlete, Feng Quan can only repay the audience's love for him with outstanding results.

A few minutes later, when the DJ introduced the personal information of the last athlete, Feng Quan and other 9 athletes all stepped on their respective starting machines with concentrated expressions, waiting for the referee to sound the starting pistol in their hands.

Tens of seconds later, with a "bangβ€”β€”! With a gunshot, the "in good shape" Fengquan finished the start in just 0.125 seconds, and then rushed to the front of everyone.

Bolt, who is in the 5th track, although he knows that it is difficult for him to break the undefeated myth of Feng Quan, he still tries his best to catch up with Feng Quan, who is in the lead.

"In case that kid gets dizzy under the encouragement of the audience, and collapses in the final stage of the first half with too much force, won't my chance come?"

As the race progressed, Bolt, who is extremely sensitive to speed, not only felt that Feng Quan's running rhythm today was significantly faster than last month's in London, but even vaguely felt like it was more than the 100m final at the World Championships in Russia two years ago.

You know, two years ago, Feng Quan set a world record of 9.36 seconds, is he going to break the world record again today?

Thinking of this, Bolt's heart couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness.

"You kid knocked me off the throne of the 'King of Speed', and now I'm still making a lot of money while playing football, and by the way, I'm going to break the world record again! How can we all run live!? ”

However, Bolt's sense of powerlessness did not last long, and with his extensive training and competition experience, he was confident that there was a strong chance that Feng Quan would collapse in the final stages. The reason why he desperately tried to open the gap in the first half was that he hoped to make his competitors lose confidence with his terrifying momentum, and then give up the idea of chasing him.

"That's right, it must be like this, as long as you do your best not to let him extend the lead, the final victory will definitely belong to me Usain Bolt."

It's a pity that when the game entered the second half, Bolt, who tried his best, was still thrown farther and farther away by the wind.

At this time, although Bolt still had the illusion of a reversal in the final stage, when the game entered the final 30 meters, after seeing that Feng Quan actually accelerated the pace of running again, Bolt immediately lost his confidence in overtaking like a deflated ball.

As Usain Bolt had guessed at the beginning of the race, the "in perfect form" Feng Quan not only crossed the finish line with an absolute advantage, but also set a new world record in the 100m with a time of 9.32 seconds.