Chapter 131: Ascending the Throne (1)
"Well done!" At the end of the first day of the World Championships, in addition to Li Xianfeng advancing to the semifinals in 9.92 seconds and 9.89 seconds, Zhang Jiakai also ran a personal best of 10.13 seconds in the second round to break into the semi-finals.
"Haha, I'm promoted, I'm promoted!" Zhang Jiakai also danced and hugged Li Xianfeng, who had been waiting in the athletes' tunnel and watching the game.
"It's... Where is this? Our goal is to reach the finals! Li Xianfeng was almost out of breath by Zhang Jiakai, and said intermittently.
"Finals? It's not impossible! Zhang Jiakai's ambition was also ignited, and his own excellent form gave him confidence, and more importantly, the performance of other athletes in the World Championships was not very ideal, and his score of 10.13 seconds ranked seventh among the 16 athletes who advanced to the semifinals, and there was no reason not to impact the final.
"Hmph, it's still really rampant." Looking at Li Xianfeng and Zhang Jiakai celebrating in the athletes' tunnel, athletes from other countries are very uncomfortable, when will Huaguo's men's sprinting have a place in the world?
"What do you want to do with all this? The championship still belongs to the United States! Gatlin and Crawford, who were surrounded by athletes from some small countries, couldn't help but glance at their mouths, the proud United States didn't care how fast their opponents rose, anyway, they would be the final champions.
As for Powell, who was surrounded by several African and South American athletes, he didn't say anything, didn't know what he was thinking.
"On the third day of the World Athletics Championships, in addition to the 5 gold medals decided, the most eye-catching is the men's 100m preliminaries, and finally Huaguo player Xianfeng Li ranked first with a time of 9.89 seconds, such a result greatly exceeded previous expectations, it is worth mentioning that Jia Kai Zhang, also from Huaguo, also advanced to the semifinals, in the face of Huaguo's such an excellent performance, Mr. Smith, what do you think? Does this mean that Chinese sprinting is on the rise? ”
As a track and field country, when the first day of the World Championships in Athletics, American Sports has tracked and reported the whole process, and the men's 100m is the focus of great expectations.
"It's just an accident, such as Gatling, Powell, Collins and other powerful athletes have not yet exerted their strength, and the athletes with strength in the preliminaries are just running casually, so in my opinion, Li Xianfeng, who tried his best in the preliminaries, may be weak-hearted, so after he loses in the final, he also has an excuse to say that he consumed too much physical energy in the preliminaries, as for another guy who has never even heard of his name, I bet he will never enter the finals!" Smith swears to the camera.
"Huh." Li Xianfeng sneered and turned off the TV with a "snap", and this clown-like Smith slandered himself on the TV again, "I really want to see your expression after the game the day after tomorrow." Since Li Xianfeng, who has been affected by the so-called barriers among people and the turmoil of changing his age, although he is calm on the surface, he has long accumulated monstrous anger in his heart, and he has only vented a small part of it in front of the media.
"Let's talk to Zhang Jiakai first, so that he can also be prepared." Li Xianfeng, who calmed down after a while, felt that it was very necessary to remind Zhang Jiakai, but what he didn't expect was that his mentality was surprisingly good.
"Actually, I don't care, I came to Osaka with the mentality of playing soy sauce, and now it's a surprise to be able to reach the semi-finals, and as for whether I can make it to the finals in the end, as long as I do my best, the result doesn't matter. It's Xianfeng you, don't put too much pressure on yourself, anyway, we're still young, we can afford to lose! Zhang Jiakai instead comforted Li Xianfeng.
"I understand." Li Xianfeng nodded, it is true that his mood has been affected recently, in addition to because he has not broken through 9.85 seconds for a long time, it is more likely that he is worried about the future, Bolt's result of 9.69 seconds two years later has been pressing on Li Xianfeng's body like a mountain, pressing him out of breath.
"Well, let's do it together!" Although Zhang Jiakai saw Li Xianfeng's perfunctory, he didn't persuade him, as an athlete, he knew that this kind of thing had to be adjusted by himself, and it was futile for outsiders to say more.
Back in his room, Li Xianfeng sat by the window, facing the silver moonlight, looking at the stars in the night sky, not knowing what he was thinking. Suddenly, a meteor appeared in the night sky, and its light shone brightly over the stars, even obscuring the moon's brilliance for a while. "Even if it's an ordinary meteor, its last-minute glow can outshine the moon." Waiting for the meteor to fall to the ground, Li Xianfeng muttered.
"Li Xianfeng, what do you think of Smith's statement?"
"Li Xianfeng, do you have anything to say?"
Sure enough, as Li Xianfeng expected, before the last training session before the final day, before Li Xianfeng entered the stadium, dozens of American reporters blocked him at the door.
"We don't accept any media interviews, please leave quickly! Don't interfere with our normal training! Yuan Cheng and Gao Song hurriedly separated the reporter from Li Xianfeng, and beckoned the stadium security guards to protect Li Xianfeng to train.
"You can't do that! We are America's media! Qualified to interview any athlete! "American reporters have always been powerful in Dongying, and they don't even look at these security guards to stop them, and sure enough, those security guards in Dongying stopped one after another under the obscenity of these reporters, stopped one by one, and watched Li Xianfeng and his party being surrounded.
Li Xianfeng only turned up the corners of his mouth slightly in the face of such a situation, smiled and faced the reporters' long guns and short guns, and did not say a word.
"Xianfeng Li, are you scared!"
"Xianfeng Li, you really have a weak heart as Smith said!" The reporters present laughed unscrupulously, imagining how frightened and trembling Li Xianfeng was now in his heart.
"Are you in a hurry? Won't everything be revealed tomorrow? Li Xianfeng finished smiling, pushed away a few reporters who were in a daze in front of him, broke through the encirclement in a dashing manner, and walked into the stadium with his head held high.
"He, he's a naked provocation!" Several big-name reporters reacted and trembled with anger, because this was different from the script they had expected before, and what they wanted to see was Li Xianfeng, who was provoked and made a lot of nonsense, not like this.
"Maybe he's really confident." A reporter in the corner said to himself.
There were no fools among the people present, they thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there was really such a possibility.
"Then how should we report when we go back?" Someone asked suddenly.
No one answered, and dozens of people at the scene fell silent all at once.
PS: It's not so easy to defeat the demons~