Chapter 567: The Closing Stage of Swimming
With the exception of the marathon and race walking, the rest of the athletics events are held at the Havelange Stadium. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's August 12 at 16 p.m. Rio time, and the gold medal No. 1 track and field competition will start today.
After taking off his shooting suit, Duke changed into a red tracksuit skit, a pair of running shoes on his feet, and a pair of jumping shoes in his sports bag. He has arrived at the Havelange Stadium.
Two hours later, Duke will be warming up for the 400m heats and the long jump qualifiers.
The swimming front came with good news not long ago, and the medley relay team composed of Xu Jiayu, Li Xiang, Li Zhuhao, and Ning Zetao advanced to the final with the seventh place in the preliminaries.
Xu Jiayu is the joint runner-up in the men's 100 backstroke, and Li Zhuhao broke into the men's 100 butterfly final, and the two have good strength in the backstroke and butterfly.
The Chinese medley relay team without Du Ke advanced to the men's 4 x 100m medley final, which reassured Du Ke that all he had to do was to lead a few brothers to upgrade from seventh to first place in the mixed relay final tomorrow night.
The swimming front is safe for the time being, and Duke concentrates on preparing for the track and field event.
At 18 o'clock, the men's 400m preliminaries began.
The 400m heats are divided into eight groups, with the top three from each group advancing to the semi-finals tomorrow night.
Duke was in Group 8 and holds the men's 400m world record of 43.07 seconds, the strongest in the event. The top players are usually placed in the lower preliminary groups.
The pace of the 400-meter preliminaries is very fast, running one shot in more than 40 seconds, and together with the change of group time, it takes about 3 to 4 minutes to complete a group of preliminaries.
Some people in the 2nd and 6th groups rushed to run, delaying some time, and at 18:40, Du Ke appeared, and the men's 400m group 8 preliminaries were about to begin.
Duke, who had already cut to the track and field page, hung up his [wolf's ears] and prepared to listen to the gun and start. He still attaches great importance to the preliminaries, after all, it is the Olympics, not a joke.
Bang! The gun goes off and the game begins.
Doucle started with a reaction time of 0.104 seconds, and immediately after the start, he cut the Leopard's Tail to accelerate into the corner.
After 200 meters, Douc was already well ahead.
After 300 meters into the final 100 meters of the straight, Douc looked back: "So much ahead? ”
He was more than 10 meters ahead of the riders behind him.
So Duke put a full 100 meters, and still won the first place in the group with a time of 45.05 seconds and successfully advanced to the semifinals.
The 100 meters were put to conserve physical strength, and one hour later, at 19:40, the men's long jump qualification began.
Duke changes into jumping shoes and arrives in the long jump area.
The 32 men's long jumpers were divided into two groups, A and B, with 16 people in each group, and the two groups of long jump qualifying competitions were held at the same time.
The passing line is 8.15m, and each competitor tries to jump three times in the qualifying round, one of which jumps over the 8.15m passing line to advance to the final.
Duke was in Group A, and the draw number was No. 12.
The runners in front of them began to run and try to jump one after another.
The No. 1 athlete is from France, and his first attempt was 7.92m, and he failed.
Runner No. 2 is from Greece, 7.79m, worse.
Player No. 3 is from Germany, stepped on the line and committed a foul and did not score.
The No. 4 athlete is from India, 6.16m...... How did this come about? China can jump farther than any second-level athlete in China, how did this guy get into the Olympics?
It wasn't until the No. 5 player, American star Henderson, came out that someone jumped more than 8 meters.
Henderson jumped 8.11m, but he didn't pass either.
Duke looked at it and thought it was funny, until the No. 11 player finished jumping, and no player in Group A could jump the passing line of 8.15 meters.
The best result was defending British champion Rutherford, who scored 8.14m on his first attempt, one centimeter short of the passing line.
"What are you doing here, there's no need to engage in intrigue in the qualifiers, right?" Duke has played against Henderson and Rutherford at the World Athletics Championships and the Diamond League, and he knows that if they jump with all their might, they can at least jump above 8.30m, not to mention 8.40 or 50m.
At this time, it was Duke Duke's turn to appear for the first test jump, and he didn't want to do too much, he was in a hurry, and he was about to fly to the swimming pool to participate in the swimming finals.
Duke stood about 50 meters away from the jump pedal, which was his usual run-up distance.
He started to run, but he didn't rush too fast, and when he was about 10 centimeters away from the springboard, he jumped directly and didn't get on the board at all.
Duke made a jump of soy sauce and jumped 8.20 meters, and the referee raised the white flag, and the result was valid.
He jumped over the 8.20m passing line and advanced to the final.
The promotion rules for the long jump qualifying round are that any player who jumps over the 8.15m passing line will directly advance to the final, and how many people will be counted.
If less than 12 people skip the passing line of 8.15 meters, they will be sorted according to their results, and 12 people will advance to the long jump final.
Duke saw that he had jumped to 8.20 meters, ok, no problem.
Patting the sand on his body, Du Ke left the track and field stadium in style, and the next two attempts stopped jumping, gone, bye-bye.
8.20 meters at a time was enough, and Duke avoided jumping the next two jumps.
At 8:17 p.m., the helicopter parked outside the Havelange Stadium took off to the swimming pool of the Olympic Aquatics Centre, 25 kilometres away.
Duke is in the helicopter, he has more than an hour to rest and warm up, and at 10 p.m., he will compete in the men's 50m freestyle final.
Running a shot of 400 meters in the preliminaries, even if 100 meters are released, Duke runs a time of 45.05 seconds It will take a lot of physical strength.
The long jump qualification was easy, and it was time for Duke to recover his strength.
But Du Ke knows that this is the Olympic Games, not the Chinese National Games, and when it comes to the finals of any individual event in track and field, it will never be so easy.
In order to fully prepare for track and field, Duke needs to hurry up and finish the remaining individual events in the swimming event, and strive for a perfect finish in the pool.
At 21:58, the men's 50-meter freestyle final is about to start at the Olympic Aquatics Center Natatorium.
Tonight, Duke doesn't have to swim in the semi-finals, just swim in two finals, 50 self and 100 butterflies. Tomorrow night, he will swim in the final of the 4x100m medley relay and his swimming assignment in Rio will be complete.
"Lane 6, France's Manado, he's the defending champion in the men's 50m freestyle!" The host of the swimming pool introduces the finalists of the men's 50 free, with Manado, who is the London Olympic champion in lane 6.
"The third way, the American star Erwin, he has won the Olympic championship in this event, the 35-year-old Erwin is a brave fighter, please give your applause to this brave fighter!"
The 35-year-old Irwin, who won the men's 50 free at Sydney 2000, is older than Phelps and Lochte, who were children in 2000 when Duke was in primary school.
The audience stood up and gave a round of applause to Erwin, 35.
"Lane 5, another American star Adrian, who has won the Olympic championship in the 100m freestyle!" Adrian is the London Olympic 100 champion.
"Lane 4, the owner of 13 Olympic gold medals--- Duke!"
Manado, Erwin, and Adrian doubled and doubled their Olympic gold medals together, just one less than Doucle's total number of Olympic gold medals.
Duke, who enjoyed the crowd's frenzied cheers and cheers, stepped onto the platform in lane 4 to challenge for his 14th Olympic gold medal. (To be continued.) )