Chapter 27—The Night in Grosseto (4)
On the day of the final, the weather in Grosseto was sunny and breezy, which was a good weather suitable for outdoor sports, and it coincided with Saturday, when the enthusiastic Italian crowd arrived at the Glory Stadium early, and the atmosphere in the stadium was already heated up before the game began.
The men's 100m semi-finals were scheduled for the last event of the morning, and Lee Hsien Feng, who had plenty of time, simply used his status as an athlete to watch the other events up close from the sidelines.
"Oh! It's so high! "A tall and slender foreign beauty held a long pole and easily jumped over the crossbar more than 4 meters high.
And the next compatriot from China did not have such good luck, maybe because of nervousness, or because of lack of strength, she did not skip the height that the foreign beauty jumped just now, which made her shake her head in frustration.
"Come on!" A familiar Chinese sentence made the female athlete raise her head, and when she saw Li Xianfeng showing a sunny smile, her frustrated mood just now instantly improved a lot.
"Who are you? Get out of here! Regardless of whether Li Xianfeng understands Italian or not, the referee next to the pole vault pulled Li Xianfeng outside the court without saying anything.
"Hey, I'm an athlete here to warm up, let me go!" Li Xianfeng said sharply.
"Oh? You actually speak Italian. The Italian referee was a little surprised.
"Of course, Italian is not a very advanced language. Is it hard to learn? Li Xianfeng pretended to be calmly.
"Please get out of here, this is not a warm-up area for sprinting!" Of course, the referee, who spoke simple Italian, was not happy, and asked Li Xianfeng to leave quickly with a white face.
Anyway, the time was about the same, and Li Xianfeng didn't entangle with the referee anymore, and slowly ran back to the 100-meter check-in area and sat for the final warm-up exercise.
"Lao Yuan, do you think Li Xianfeng can enter the finals?" The deputy team leader stood beside Yuan Cheng and asked expectantly, it seems that Li Xianfeng has broken through the first round with excellent results and has attracted the attention of the leaders.
"It's hard to say, he is divided into this group of Walter Dix of the United States, Alvaro of Italy, and Boleta of Jamaica, these are all players who have the strength to impact the finals, plus the possible outbreak of other players, Xianfeng wants to fight out of the encirclement to get the top three, or to reach the top eight There is only one word, difficult!" The real situation is not as serious as Coach Yuan said, if Li Xianfeng can still play the level of the preliminaries, there is still great hope of entering the finals, but Li Xianfeng's abnormal performance yesterday afternoon had to make Coach Yuan a lot more low-key.
"That's right." The deputy team leader looked a little disappointed, "But in any case, Li Xianfeng has made history this time, he is the first athlete to reach the men's 100m semi-finals of the World Youth Championships, and he is only 15 years old!" ”
"That's right, I believe the future belongs to him!"
Lee Hsien Fung also knows that the future belongs to him, but now he wants to enter the final of this competition! Because of the just-concluded first group of competitions, his men were defeated, and Junji Dohi ranked third in the group with a time of 10.42 seconds and entered the final round.
"Li Sang! Don't let me down! Junji and Li Xianfeng, who had finished their game, glanced at each other, and Li Xianfeng knew that this was Dongying Kid who was writing a war letter to him.
"Are you from Dongying?" Because of the excellent results in the preliminaries, Li Xianfeng was arranged to the 5th lane this time, and he was surrounded by Walter Dicks, the favorite to win the championship this time, but the young Walter Dicks came up and asked a question that disgusted Li Xianfeng.
"Of course not, I'm Chinese!" Li Xianfeng's tone was a little stiff.
"Oh, Chinese people! That's a rarity! Walter Dicks' expression was a little exaggerated.
"Hehe, you will see more and more Chinese people standing on the international stage of sprinting." Li Xianfeng was already a little angry.
"Hey, bro, I'll see." Walter Dicks shrugged his shoulders indifferently, in his opinion he was just telling the truth, he didn't understand why the Chinese people around him were angry.
"I have to make it to the finals!" Li Xianfeng once again strengthened his goal, because this is no longer a matter of his own face or achievements, but a matter of the dignity of his country, Walter Dicks' unintentional words have pierced his heart, he wants everyone to know that Chinese people can also stand on the final field of sprinting.
"Bang!" With a gunshot rang out, the second group of the semifinals began.
"This Chinese reacted very quickly!" Walter Dicks looked at Li Xianfeng, who was running at the front, with some surprise, and put away his previous contempt.
"Old Yuan! Lee Hsien Feng's first 20 meters are fast! The deputy team leader looked very excited, because Li Xianfeng has always maintained the lead.
"It doesn't seem to be the rhythm of the front." Coach Yuan did not show optimism, because this is not the rear acceleration that Li Xianfeng is familiar with, and his speed is a little too fast now.
Sure enough, as soon as 30 meters passed, Li Xianfeng's speed began to decrease slightly, and Walter Dicks behind him was about to overtake.
"No! If you are overtaken by him now, it will be difficult to enter the final! Li Xianfeng felt that something was wrong, although he also knew that his strength could not win the first place in the group, but his tactics of choosing the first half of the outbreak were surpassed in this way, and he was likely to fall behind in the second half, so Li Xianfeng chose to grit his teeth and try to improve his speed.
"Soon! Huaguo boy! Walter Dicks smiled, he was thinking of saving his energy and running casually, but he was aroused by Li Xianfeng's desire to win, so he accelerated his pace and finally overtook Li Xianfeng at the 60 meters.
"Oops, overtaken." The deputy team leader was a little regretful, but he was still very excited, because he felt that Li Xianfeng would definitely enter the finals, so he ignored Yuan Cheng, who was frowning beside him.
"Oh no, your stamina is dropping too fast!" Li Xianfeng obviously felt that the strength in his body was draining, obviously with his current strength, he could not maintain the high-speed explosion of the whole process, and finally he couldn't hold on at 70 meters, and the speed began to slowly decline.
"It's been overtaken again! It's dangerous! The voice of the deputy team leader has changed a little, because not only Alvaro in the sixth lane has overtaken, but on the left side of Li Xianfeng, Boletta in the third lane has also been neck and neck with Li Xianfeng.
"No! I can still speed up, I have to finish in the top three of the group! Li Xianfeng squeezed out the last bit of strength in his body, and forcibly raised his speed again in the ten meters of the sprint, and finally crossed the finish line almost at the same time as Boletta.