Chapter 144: The Battle of China and Japan
Perhaps inspired by Sun Bingtian's wonderful performance, Zheng Peimeng, who held the baton steadily, rushed forward with full horsepower. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Even if Zheng Peimeng was not able to shorten the "gap" between the Chinese team and super teams such as Jamaica and the United States like Sun Bingtian. However, when he has given full play to his full strength, he has gradually narrowed the "gap" between the Chinese team and opponents such as Canada and the Netherlands.
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Although the first two athletes of the Chinese team have played very well, there is also a team from Asia that has a good performance in this 4x100m final. That is China's "close neighbor" - the Japanese team.
At the beginning of the race, Sun Bingtian of the Chinese team was able to form a slight advantage over the Japanese team by virtue of his quick starting reaction, and widened the "gap" (the distance difference between the two teams) from 8.168 meters to about 8.5 meters.
However, in the following races, although Sun Bingtian had a slight advantage in absolute speed. However, Ryota Yamagata of Japan, who has better corner skills, relied on the advantage of the relatively short distance of the inner track of the corner stage to narrow the "gap" between himself and Sun Bingtian little by little.
When Sun Bingtian entered the relay area, the "gap" between the two teams of China and Japan had been narrowed to a little more than 7 meters.
Due to the historical reasons between China and Japan, no matter in any competition, as long as the two countries meet, both sides will inevitably do their best. Therefore, Zheng Peimeng of the Chinese team and Masashi Esaguchi of the Japanese team both held back their strength in their own stages.
In the next second straight stage, Zheng Peimeng and Eliguchi Kuashi, who are strong in the middle of the best, all played their highest level.
In such a very competitive situation, Zheng Peimeng, who was rushing forward with all his might, only had one thought left in his heart: "Even if it is death!" I must not let little Japan take advantage of me! ”
Under the powerful effect of this thought, Zheng Peimeng broke out with a more terrifying speed than before entering the relay area at a distance of more than 20 meters. Therefore, when Zheng Peimeng entered the third relay area, the "gap" between the Chinese and Japanese teams was once again widened to a distance of nearly 9 meters.
And it wasn't until Liang Jinhui, who was the third stick, successfully completed the handover of the baton, that Zheng Peimeng's heartstrings, which had been tight, finally relaxed.
However, when Zheng Peimeng raised his eyes and saw the Japanese team's third baseman, Shinshi Takahira, once again relying on the advantage of the inside track in the corner stage, gradually eating away at the lead of the Chinese team, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Damn, these little Japan are really difficult......
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Although Liang Jinhui's cornering skills are relatively prominent in the national track and field team. However, due to the lack of absolute speed, even when he had already played at a high level, after he completed the second corner stage of the Chinese team, the gap between the Chinese team and the two teams of Jamaica and the United States was widened to 11 meters and 9 meters respectively.
Not only that, but even the Japanese team, which was nearly 9 meters behind the Chinese team, shortened the gap between the two teams to within 5 meters after entering the relay area.
In fact, it cannot be said that Liang Jinhui's performance was not good enough, because his performance in the final was even better than yesterday's preliminaries. It is only because of his own strength, coupled with the fact that the opponents' cornering skills are better than him, that he looks like the shortest board in the "bucket" of the Chinese team.
As a result, Liang Jinhui, who participated in a major competition like the Olympic Games for the first time, also had a subtle change in psychology when he was chased back by a nearly 4-meter gap by the opponent who "didn't want to lose the most".
"Damn! Why do you always drop the chain with me. My teammates are working so hard, why am I the only one who is dragging his feet!? ”
Due to the subtle changes in his psychology, when Liang Jinhui was about to hand over the baton with Feng Quan, the rhythm under his feet became a little messy.
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Because the seats of Yuan Gui and Liu Jianjun are at the very front of the stands, and the stands where the two of them are located are just near the last relay area. As a result, both of them were able to see clearly what was happening in the relay area.
So, after seeing Liang Jinhui's messy rhythm under his feet, Director Yuan shouted: "Not good! ”
And Liu Jianjun, who was sitting next to Director Yuan, was also shocked in his heart.
"Could it be that the scene in the final four years ago is going to be staged again......
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Although with his excellent performance, Takahira Shinshi narrowed the gap between the Chinese and Japanese teams to within 5 meters. However, when he and Shota Iizuka completed the handover of the baton, there was not the slightest joy on his face.
In Takahira's view, if the Japanese team is unable to establish a lead of more than 5 meters over the Chinese team after the first three baton matches, then in this contest between China and Japan, the only thing that awaits the Japanese team is defeat. Because Takahira Shinshi knows very well that with the strength of Shota Iizuka in the 100-meter straight race, it is at least about 0.5 meters worse than the Chinese team's wind all.
However, when Shinshi Takahira and Shota Iizuka successfully completed the handover of the baton, and then looked away from their teammates' hands, they saw an unexpected "surprise......
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In order to ensure that there were no mistakes, Feng Quan, who stood in the relay area and served as the last baton of the Chinese team, had to helplessly slow down the speed under his feet in order to meet the somewhat messy rhythm at Liang Jinhui's feet.
Although in terms of time, Feng Quan and Liang Jinhui only lost about 0.2 seconds in the process of handing over the baton. But in the 100-meter race, a difference of 0.2 seconds is enough to make or break a race.
If you add the loss of Feng Quan's deliberate slowing down of the pace, then the Chinese team will lose at least about 0.4 seconds in the final baton handover.
Therefore, just when Feng Quan held the baton and began to accelerate forward with all his might, Shota Iizuka, the fourth baton of the Japanese team, who was originally in a backward position, took advantage of the Chinese team's own mistakes to form a parallel trend with Feng Quan at this time.
After seeing that his teammates tried their best to win the lead, but it was wiped out in his own hands, Liang Jinhui, who almost made a mistake when handing over the baton with Feng Quan, suddenly fell into deep self-blame...... (To be continued.) )