Asian Athletics Grand Prix Bangkok Station, the men's 400m preliminaries are about to begin, 9 athletes have been on 9 tracks, 1-9 lanes have been activated, 18 players in two groups, the top 4 in each group into the finals.

"on-your-marks~" The starter signals that it is time to switch to English mode when it is time for the continental arena.

The ready signal was given, and the 9 runners walked up to their respective starting stations.

“set~”

The ready signal was given, and the runners crouched down and prepared to start.

"Bang!" , the game begins.

After hanging the "wolf's ear" and listening to the gun, Du Ke skillfully cut the [leopard's tail], and he took the lead after the start in lane 6, and he was still in the first position after 200 meters.

Although Duke is a veteran driver in the international swimming world, including the international iron arena, this 400-meter preliminaries is his first intercontinental track and field competition after all, so he still attaches more importance to it.

In the end, Duke finished first in the group with a time of 45.05 seconds, and he took the 400m heats seriously, but he didn't swoop to death. There is no need to stumble in the preliminaries, it is OK to advance to the finals, not to mention that Duke has to run an 800-meter preliminaries two hours later.

In the men's 400m preliminaries group 2 competition, Saudi Arabia's Yousuf won the group with the same time of 45.05 seconds.

"It's kind of interesting, the results in the preliminaries are exactly the same as mine." When Duke saw Yusef's results, he thought it was quite a coincidence.

400m coach Meng Gui pointed to a typical Arab-looking athlete on the track and said: "Yusuf, 26 years old, the top runner of the Saudi Arabian team in the men's 400m, this year's best time is 44.61 seconds, he ran in March this year. In May and July this year, he ran 44.78 seconds and 44.95 seconds respectively, and it can be said that his real strength must be within 45 seconds, which is on par with Duke. ”

Youssef is a Diamond League-caliber and although he often finishes at the bottom of the 800m in the Diamond League, he is often ranked in the top 20 in the world in the 800m. Don't worry about the other runners in the 400m, you really have only one opponent, and that is Yusuf. ”

Du Ke nodded: "Remember, I'll compare with him at night." ”

Two hours later, Duke made his way into the men's 800m heats in Group 1 and finished first in the group with a time of 1:44.91 to advance to the 800m final.

On the second lap of the 800-meter preliminaries, Duke started the middle-distance running stunt [Desert Camel], after starting the camel stunt, the growth rate of Duke's blood lactate concentration will slow down when it reaches 250 mg, which lasts for 1 minute.

With this camel stunt, Duke ran relatively easily in the back mile, even if he did not use all his strength, he also broke the national record of 1:46.44 in the 800-meter run, thus reaping 10 national record-breaking bonus points, with a balance of 43 bonus points.

Coach Meng is also in charge of the 800m and 1500m events, and he was excited when he saw that Duke had broken another national record, after all, this was an official competition, and unlike in training, Duke had just made a time of 1:44.91 that counted.

Duke now holds the national record in the men's 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m track events, and he now needs a higher presence than the national record, such as breaking an Asian record, and at present, it seems that his most promising event to break the Asian record is the 800m, followed by the 400m.

If you don't flash the light of honor, it will be difficult to break the 100-meter and 200-meter Asian records with Duke's current attributes, unless you stack high attributes or upgrade stunts.

In the second group of the 800m heats, another Saudi athlete, Ladan Mohammed, finished first in the group with a time of 1:45.43.

Coach Meng, who is also in charge of the 800m and 1500m events, pointed to a lean Arab man in a dark green sports vest on the track and said to Duke: "Mohammed, 22 years old, he is a rising rookie in the Saudi team in recent years, his best time in the 800m this year is 1:43.86, he made this result last month, which shows that he has been in good form lately, and he will be your main competitor in the 800m final." ”

"Obviously, he stayed in the preliminaries, West Asians are like this, don't scatter eagles if you don't see rabbits, for this Mohammed who looks ordinary and has an even more ordinary name, you must not take it lightly, the desert foxes are very cunning."

Du Ke nodded: "Understood, Mohammed, it is indeed a very passerby's name, I remember him, and I will have a discussion with him in the evening." ”

The preliminaries in the morning have all ended, and only one or two thousand spectators have come to the Huamu Stadium, which can accommodate more than 70,000 people, and the main reason for the cold is that athletics is not the most popular sports in Thailand, Muay Thai, rattan ball, and football, which are more popular among Thais.

Regardless of whether the Thai people love athletics or not, points and prize money will not be discounted.

The Asian Athletics Grand Prix is a B-level event recognized by the IAAF, and the championship points for each individual event are 100 points, and Duke is the one who rushed to the points. Of course, the prize money for a single champion is 25,000 US dollars, and if you can take it away, you can take it with you, and five 25,000 US dollars is 125,000 US dollars.

In the second half of 2013, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the soft sister currency fell to an all-time low, and the exchange rate of the US dollar against the soft sister currency on October 1 was 6.165, and the exchange rate of 125,000 US dollars to the soft sister currency was 770,000.

However, 770,000 soft sister coins are not too little for Du Ke, and all the 100,000 soft girl coins are stacked, and 770,000 has to weigh more than a dozen catties. (The weight of a 100 yuan soft girl coin is 1.066 grams)

More than a dozen catties of 100 yuan bills, of course you can take them away.

In fact, the level of competition at the Bangkok Grand Prix is still relatively high from a professional point of view, and the Thai people who are extremely fanatical about Muay Thai don't care much about athletics, but the professional journalists are quite knowledgeable.

There were not many Thai local players who participated, and there were not a few Thai journalists, but many reporters from China, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries came, and reporters from China, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries all had their own goals.

Chinese journalists, of course, followed Du Ke.

The darling of Japanese journalists is the 100-meter dash star Shohide Kiryu, a Japanese high school student born in December '95 who has not yet arrived. At the age of 18, he is quite strong, and he ran a time of 10.01 seconds in August this year, second only to Zhang Peimeng's 10 seconds.

Qatari journalists hailed their two African mercenaries, Asian record holder in the 100-meter run of 9.99 seconds, and Ogunod, who naturalized in Qatar in 2010.

Francis's form has been declining lately, and after setting the Asian record of 9.99 seconds in 2007, he hasn't run under 10 seconds again in six years, let alone 10 seconds, and now it's hard for him to run 10.10 seconds. The 22-year-old is on the rise, with four times this year running under 10.10 seconds, with a best time of 10.06 seconds, exactly the same as Su Bingtian's best.

It can be said that in this Grand Prix, the men's 100m competition is the most intense, followed by the 200m.

Saudi reporters pay more attention to the men's 400m, 800m and 1500m with Saudi athletes, and they believe that Yusuf, Mohammed and Masaki will win the men's 400m-1500m events.

At 18 o'clock in the evening, the number of spectators at Huamu Stadium was a little larger, there were three or four thousand people, but three or four thousand people were also deserted in the huge stadium.

Interestingly, most of the three or four thousand spectators were related to Chinese.

There are many Chinese in Thailand, many of them do not speak Chinese Mandarin, but can speak Hakka, Chaoshan dialect, their families worship Chinese gods, the traditional god Guan Erge is not the mainstream to be worshipped, Sanbao Ye Zheng He enjoys more incense in Southeast Asian Chinese families.

Because of its historical origins, Huamu Stadium is like half of the home stadium of the Chinese team, and the Thai Chinese audience is watching a Chinese track and field athlete in a language that most Chinese do not understand.

Wearing a red sports vest, shorts and bright red running shoes, the Chinese man is Du Ke, who is already standing at the start of track 4 for the men's 800m final. (To be continued.) )