Chapter 23: The 400-meter battle begins
On the afternoon of the third day, the 400-meter race, which is a spectacle of the track and field competition, will begin. In the world championships, the 400m has always been considered to be the event that best reflects the overall quality of athletes.
In this competition, it is necessary not only to have a strong speed ability, but also to have excellent anaerobic endurance, tenacity and physical condition...... In short, only a person with a very perverted physique can reach the top of the world.
Huaxia's 400m performance has been relatively dismal, and the national record of 45.25 seconds has been broken for more than 5 years, and no one can even come close.
The overall strength of the domestic 400m is not strong, and in the last Asian Games, both team members stopped in the semi-finals. The 400m has always been thought to be the domain of black athletes, and no one has been able to disprove this until now.
In the recently concluded Ningcheng Track and Field Championships, the top three results are already good, especially Lu Wei and Hu Yuan ran into the 46-second mark, which is already very competitive.
Before the start of the afternoon heats, the athletes participating in the 400m heats warmed up at the training ground next to the main field. After Lu Wei finished the warm-up exercise, Wang Qiao walked to his side and asked him about his situation: "How do you feel about your physical condition?" Feeling a little nervous? ”
"To be honest, I'm not nervous, just a little excited." Lu Wei had an indifferent expression and calmly replied to Wang Qiao.
“...... Okay, but remind you, the national competition can't be like the Ningcheng Championship, come up and rush, in the national competition, everyone's level is basically not too bad, and the people who can win the championship are usually in state and game details. ”
Wang Qiao was still a little uneasy, and specially reminded Lu Wei to pay attention to the rhythm of the game. The preliminaries of the Ningcheng Championship rushed too fiercely, and the game that was almost overtaken by Tang Yang was still in Wang Qiao's mind.
"Well, if I was overtaken by Tang Yang that time, I would have to go crazy......" Lu Wei did not forget the embarrassment brought to him at the last moment of that game, and he was determined not to let the plot repeat itself this time.
"In this competition, if you want to get a good result, there are a few players that you need to pay attention to. In particular, Zhang Huadong and Zhu Chenbin from Shanghai, who are currently the best 400m athletes in China, and Tan Tianhao from Guangdong, who is only 21 years old this year, ran in the semi-finals of the World Youth Championships. There is also Hu Yuan from our Ningcheng, who also has the strength of the top 6. ”
These athletes were all warming up on the training ground, and Wang Qiao pointed out the first three opponents to Lu Wei.
Lu Wei looked at Wang Qiao's introduction, and he saw that Zhang Donghua was about the same height as himself, Zhu Chenbin was about 1.85 meters, and Tan Tianhao's height was relatively short among the 400-meter team members, only about 1.75 meters.
It seems that the athletic talent of these people does not make people shine, 400 meters is a sport that relies on talent, Lu Wei feels that from the perspective of physical condition, he is not lost to them. What the strength is, we can only observe it from the game.
After the warm-up, the athletes entering the competition field.
Tang Yang was in Group 1, his opponents in the same group were Zhang Donghua from Shanghai, Hu Yuan and Zhu Chenbin were in Group 4, and Lu Wei and Tan Tianhao from Guangdong were placed in Group 5.
There are a total of 6 groups in the preliminaries, and the top 3 players in the group will directly enter the semi-finals, in addition, among the other players, the 6 players with the best results can also enter the semi-finals.
With the referee's starting gun, the match in Group 1 quickly entered a fierce contest. Zhang Huadong's strength in lane 4 is obviously higher than that of other players, and when he entered the first straight, he had already caught up with the players in lane 5. Tang Yang, who is in lane 3, runs very smoothly in the future, he belongs to the team with strong ability in the back, and the fact that he is slightly behind other team members in the future does not disrupt his rhythm.
When entering the corner, Zhang Huadong's advantage was already obvious, and he used the corner to accelerate and constantly expand his advantage. Tang Yang also began to accelerate at this time, and the ranking gradually ran into the second group from the last few places.
After entering the straight, Zhang Donghua was nearly 5 meters ahead of the players behind him, and the advantage was obvious. There were four people in the second group behind, and Tang Yang ranked fifth.
Seeing that Zhang Donghua is far ahead, the other team members can only fight for the semi-final qualification.
At this time, everyone's speed has decreased, and Tang Yang seems to be very fast in the second group. Not because he was accelerating, but because he was trying to maintain his previous speed as much as possible.
In the last 50 meters, everyone's expressions were painful, but Tang Yang was still gritting his teeth and insisting for the appearance of the group. In the last 30 meters, he overtook two team members in a row to reach the semi-finals with the third place in the group.
Zhang Huadong, who was at the top of the group, saw that he had a big lead in the last 10 meters, so he did not continue to exert his strength, and his body relied on inertia to run the last 10 meters. Despite this, there is still a large lead.
Zhang Huadong's time was 45.72 seconds, the only athlete in this group to enter 46 seconds, and Tang Yang ranked third in the group in 46.09 seconds, almost the same time as the second place. His results were an improvement over the Ningcheng Championship, but the improvement was not significant.
Then Hu Yuan and Zhu Chenbin also had a fierce competition in the 4th group, Hu Yuan of the 5th and Zhu Chenbin of the 4th began to compete with each other from the beginning of the game, and when the first straight road went to the corner, everyone found that this group of games was their two-person turn.
The other team members really couldn't keep up with their rhythm, because the number of paths was different, and there was a distance at the start, and many spectators couldn't tell who was ahead at this time, thinking that the competition was very fierce.
After entering the last straight, the audience finally found that Hu Yuan and Zhu Chenbin had established an advantage of 10 meters, and the rest of the team members in this group were too watery.
Hu Yuan's coach Zhou Hu hugged his arms and looked like he was in his chest. Compared with Tang Yang, Hu Yuan's promotion is indeed very easy. After establishing a huge advantage, Hu Yuan did not need to exert all his strength in the last few tens of meters.
Sure enough, Hu Yuan and Zhu Chenbin seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding, and they were not exerting their strength when they were 15 meters away from the finish line. They also used their inertial speed to run to the finish line, and they reached the finish line for a full 1 second before the other team members crossed the finish line one after another.
Zhu Chenbin's time was 45.84 seconds, and Hu Yuan was slightly behind, and the final time was 45.92 seconds. He was still able to run into 46 seconds after putting 15 meters, and the intensive training during this period of time still helped him improve his performance.
Next, it was Lu Wei's turn to play, and when he was about to get on the runway, he found that there were two opponents in the same group who were about the same age as him, and they looked very nervous. Compared to them, I am a little too calm. In his eyes, these people and he did not belong to the same realm at all. Even if he crossed over to this not outstanding body now, he didn't take them seriously at all.