Chapter 238: 400m Semifinals
Liu Feiren relied on his hard power to enter the semifinals when his Achilles tendon injury had not recovered. This can be said to make every Chinese person in the field rejoice, in such an intense event as the Olympic Games, dragging half of his right leg can actually break into the semifinals, which can show Liu Feiren's own strength.
In everyone's eyes, as long as Liu Feiren can still be on the field, it is a kind of happiness.
After the game, Liu Feiren hurriedly said hello to the others and hurried to the lounge for massage therapy. Just after the exercise, the ligaments of the Achilles tendon are still hot, and if you wait until the body is completely cool down before going for physiotherapy, the effect will be much worse.
Therefore, after the rematch, Liu Feiren walked out of the arena in the middle of the individual team.
The people around him were stunned, usually looking at Liu Feiren as if he was alone, if he didn't get along with him day and night, it was difficult to notice that he had a work team of nearly 20 people. Usually when Liu Feiren is beautiful on the field, everyone has not appeared in public, and when Liu Feiren was plagued by injuries in the past two days, everyone simply appeared by his side regardless of it.
"A team of so many people is just for an athlete to win the championship, no matter if Liu Yangyu is ready to retire and come back, the responsibility on his shoulders does not allow him to retreat at all."
Wang Qiao looked at the crowd leading to the athletes' passage at the far end, and couldn't help but sigh.
Judging from the first two events, although Lu Wei played the role of the pioneer of the track and field team, in terms of the morale of the whole team, it is difficult for him to compare with Liu Feiren.
At least so far, Liu Feiren's inspiring effect on the collective is something he has no way to replace. Many people know in their hearts that because of his Achilles tendon injury, even if Liu Feiren finally enters the finals, I am afraid that there will be no way to win the gold medal like four years ago.
Objectively speaking, he probably doesn't even have the ability to stand on the podium. Despite this, everyone's reaction in the game just now can still reflect his weight in everyone's hearts.
The audience's eyes also followed Liu Feiren's team, and it was not until everyone made a sports field that most of the audience took back a lot of attention.
After this episode, the audience suddenly lost interest in the last group of the 110-meter hurdles, as if Liu Feiren's hurdles were the real hurdles, and after he left, the sport became boring.
This was followed by the 200m semi-finals, and with a stunning performance in the 100m, Bolt has now become the focus of the audience. It's just that after he appeared, while someone gave him applause, he could also hear a lot of boos.
Maybe the Olympics are held in other countries, and today Bolt may be the darling of spectators, but this is the capital. It all came down to the fact that Usain Bolt beat our own athletes in the final, and the advantage was only a fraction of a second, which was hard for some viewers to let go.
Bolt's main event is the 200m, and with his previous performance in the 100m, in the eyes of the audience, his advantage in this event should be greater than the 100m.
None of the players in the first group ran into 20 seconds, which made the mood of the crowd drop a little. It wasn't until Usain Bolt appeared that the mood of the audience seemed to be high.
Everyone was busy applauding or booing, and after noticing that someone was booing him, Bolt first made a very exaggerated expression of surprise, as if to say: "Is there any mistake, this is how you treat the world champions?" ”
Then he shrugged his shoulders and acted as if he didn't care. At this time, his personal close-up was on the close-up of the big screen, and the audience also laughed together after seeing his expression, and then applauded.
The audience who booed saw that this young man had an innocent face, and he didn't look like a city government at all, and it was as if he had reached a reconciliation with him, and there was no more discordant sound.
Then his men's 200m semi-finals started, and Bolt had the advantage from the start, watching his every step was not very strenuous, but there was a good displacement effect, so that the other team members could not reach it.
Soon, he and the team behind him opened up a gap, and no matter how hard the other team members seemed to try, there was a big gap in the effectiveness of running.
"This kid is really amazing, I'm afraid it will be difficult for our family Lu Wei to him in a short period of time!"
Jiang Jianjun said to Wang Qiao, who also nodded, at this time Lu Wei had already gone to the lounge of the check-in table to make the final preparations before the semi-finals, so the two of them didn't care about it when they spoke.
With about 20 meters to go, Bolt had already begun to slow down and ran forward with big strides.
In sprint races, it is difficult for athletes of the same level to lead more than 5 meters. So far from the finish line, Bolt ran as if no one was around.
"I'm afraid this is too much fun!"
Looking at Bolt, Zou Zhen couldn't help but muttered to himself.
Seeing that he was less than 10 meters away from the finish line, the team behind Bolt also caught up. At this time, the audience also began to scream, and after arriving at the scene, many spectators came to watch the game with the mentality of watching the excitement.
Their requirements for athletes on the field are actually not complicated: either give me a high level of play, or give me a good show, or let me get away.
In fact, many people came to the arena with the mentality of watching a good show, and seeing that the players behind them were approaching Bolt one after another, everyone was emotional at this time. If this playful black lad had played in the game, it would have been much more interesting than his thrilling victory.
As a result, everyone looked at the people behind and saw that they wanted to catch up with Bolt, but they just couldn't catch up. In the end, he finished first in the group.
"This kid is really good at playing! Even my heart jumped to my throat, it was not easy to be his coach! ”
Wang Qiao said, and his spirit also rose with the game of this group.
After the game, Bolt winked mischievously at the audience, and when he was sure that the camera was pointing at him, he simply pulled his bow and shot an arrow.
After having had enough of the treasures, he walked up to the stands.
"Audience friends, the next thing to do is the men's 400m semi-finals. There are a total of 3 groups in the semi-finals, the top two in each group can advance to the finals, and the best 2 players in the remaining team members can also enter the finals. Merritt, Sweden's Weisman, Great Britain's Ronnie and Trinidad and Tobago's Lenny. Kaul. ”
After hearing Yang Li's explanation, Father Lu smiled.
"This is the first time I watched a sports game to introduce the team members from the last group, believe it or not, if our son is in the second group, this commentary should be said from the middle to both sides, interesting, haha!"
"This shows that our family Lu Wei is excellent, and he can make the narrator ignore the process when explaining."
Lu's mother is not as relaxed as Lu's father seems, and he is still sweating for his son. After hearing the rules for advancing to the semifinals from the commentator, she was still a little worried about Lu Wei, and there was no room for adjustment in such a game.
"I'm sorry, because Lu Wei is in the third group, so he deviated when he spoke. Let's take a look at the players from Group 1. ”
Yang Li saw that the camera began to give close-ups to the first group of players, and realized that it had reached the stage of introducing the players.
As the camera moved, Yang Li began to introduce the members of the first group at one time.
Looking at the grouping of several groups, Lu Wei's group can be called the group of death, with 4 or 5 team members with a best time of around 44.5 seconds. The strongest players in the first group were Varina and Chris. Brown, it shouldn't be too difficult for the two of them to get a direct qualification place in the group, and such a game will be more torturous for the rest of the group! ”
With Yang Li's explanation, Dad Lu also nodded frequently: "If you want to advance, I'm afraid you can only fight for two supplementary promotion places, it's difficult!" ”
Although the players who can make it to the semi-finals are all the top players in the world, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the mountains. Sometimes, the situation of the group can also affect the situation of each group.
Sure enough, by the time the race reached the second corner, Varina and Chris. Brown's dominance was evident to the naked eye, and both men held the top two positions until the end of the race.
Varina ran an easy time of 44.15 seconds. Brown looked helpless in front of him, he couldn't go crazy at all, his time of 44.45 seconds was already his best, but it was still difficult to catch up with Varina.
When the second group of players came out, the narrator's voice rang out.
"Oh, the strength of the second group is a little worse than the previous group, from the best results, the two fastest personal best results in this group are Lu Wei's defeated players in the semi-finals, the French player De Joan and the American David. Neville! ”
After Yang Li finished speaking, the old couple stared at the players on the TV: "These two are indeed the players of Lu Wei's group in the semi-finals, how much advantage they have to take advantage of!" ”
"That's it, if only Lu Wei were in this group!"
The game in this group appeared to be uneventful, with Dejun and David. Neville finished in the top two of the group, and their results did not improve much compared to the rematch.
De Joan's time was 44.79 seconds, and David Neville's time was 44.91 seconds.
"Creation makes people! Ha ha! It is difficult for the group in front of this result to even the top 3, and I am afraid that the top 5 in Lu Wei's group are mysterious, and these two people can buy lottery tickets when they go back. ”
Zou Zhen said with a smile, although there is a big difference in the strength of the first two groups, but he only sighed, and there was no particularly big reaction, and what they looked like had nothing to do with him.
Immediately after that, the players of the third group appeared, and from the moment Lu Wei showed up on the field, the cheers of the audience never stopped.
In the 100m, he broke the world record with Usain Bolt and nearly pulled the fastest man on the planet off the top sprinter.
It is precisely because of his powerful background that Bolt is even more of a god-like existence among others.
Immediately after that, the introduction of the players on the field began: "Standing on the second track is the Congolese player Gary. Kikaya ...... The fifth track is our team member Lu Wei, he just won a very high quality silver medal in the 100m race, I hope he can also get good results in this event, it is best to change the color of the medal for us. ”
After Lu Wei was introduced, the audience on the field began to erupt in sonar tactics again. It stands to reason that this environment is a good motivation for the athletes on the field.
But later, everyone else discovered a rule, once Lu Wei appeared, when the players behind him appeared, the voice of the basic audience could suppress the voice of the host of the arena. No one can hold it down unless the gun is fired immediately.
Merritt, who is located on Runway 7, was very helpless when he introduced himself, obviously seeing himself on the big screen, but the audience was still shouting Lu Wei, which made him feel a little ignored by everyone.
He waved his hand helplessly: I really don't treat my brother as a wrist!
Finally, when the game began, and as soon as the starting gun went off, Merritt ran out as if venting his anger. He maintained a high cadence in the first half, which shows that he was very unhappy to be ignored by the audience just now.
Lu Wei has not competed in the 400m on the international stage since last year's World Championships, and Merritt thinks he should still be like last year, and he will be abused on the field casually, and there is no problem in winning him anyway.
The strength is stronger than him, and the power behind and ahead are not far behind, so Merritt is more ruthless than usual in the first 200 meters.
This left the rest of the team behind.
At this time, Lu Wei was running unhurriedly on the field, this shot made everyone unexpected, originally thought that after the starting gun sounded in this game, Lu Wei would take the lead.
Unexpectedly, after Lu Wei started, he took a big step in the middle of the team, and it seemed that there were at least 5 people on a par with him.
"What kind of medicine are you selling in this gourd, you two are so desperate in the last shot, and you are so Buddha in the semi-finals, which one are you singing about?"
Jiang Jianjun was a little confused at this time, and it could be seen that Merritt's outburst after the opening was also aimed at Lu Wei's running style in the preliminaries.
However, everyone didn't expect that Lu Wei was still "taoguang and obscure" when the first straight was about to end.
"Merritt is in lane 7, and I told him to just follow his opponent in the first half of the race, and then wait for the opportunity to kill at the end."
Wang Qiao said, his eyes didn't look at Jiang Jianjun, and he looked very light-hearted.
Everyone turned their heads to look at Wang Qiao in disbelief, with a look of "I will give you full marks for your beep".
Wang Qiao's heart was happy at this time, but he didn't expect this kid to really play according to his own deployment.
Unexpectedly, after the second corner, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and Lu Wei suddenly began to accelerate, and suddenly threw off the players who were close to his ranking. Although the 400-meter race has an extension of the track due to the different number of courses, it simply means that the outer course is along the arc of the track than the adjacent inner course, and the starting position is about 7 meters forward.
The team members are all experienced in this project, and Lu Wei began to speed up and realized that they had been thrown behind.
At this time, no one wanted to be blocked in front of the finals, and everyone began to accelerate wildly, and the sprint battle was staged in advance.
Because he occupied the 7th lane, he couldn't see Lu Wei's position at all, Merritt was still complacent when he entered the last straight, and Lu Wei stuck up before he ran 20 meters first, and he could see the other party's body slowly moving forward in his line of sight.
Merritt was not to be outdone, and the two fought together on the straight before the finish, which made the audience feel refreshed again, and they didn't expect the semi-finals to be so good-looking.
When the two of them fought until they were less than 50 meters away from the finish line, Merritt felt that Lu Wei was a little faster, and at this time, he felt that his thighs were so sore that he couldn't stand it, and even his lungs felt like they were on fire.
"Don't fight with this madman, you have to fight until the finals, I won't play, you can go crazy yourself!"
Thinking of this, Merritt did not continue to fight with Lu Wei, and in the last 50 meters, Lu Wei threw off his position of almost 3 meters.
"Good job, our son is good job!"
Mother Lu happily got up from the sofa and waved her fists tightly, no matter what, win first and then talk.