This Olympics does not have a very tight schedule for Chen Mingming.

The time came to August 25, and Chen Mingliang had two competitions today, namely the men's 800-meter preliminaries and the men's 200-meter semifinals.

On this day, Liu Xiang will also participate in the semi-finals of the men's 110-meter hurdles. His semi-finals were sandwiched between the men's 800m and men's 200m, with the men's 800m, women's 400m hurdles and men's 110m hurdles.

Chen Mingliang has not participated in the 800-meter race for a long time, and although the training is still going on as usual, he doesn't like this event psychologically because he is too tired.

The current world record was set by the famous Danish athlete Jeep Kite with a time of 1:41.11, but he is now old. Since losing to Chen Mingliang in the last Olympics, he has lost his dominance in the world, and even without Chen Mingming, he will not be able to win the championship.

It is said that he will retire after this Olympics.

After Jeep Kite and before David Rudisha, there were no good players in the men's 800m.

There is a trend for athletes, and that is that as they get older, that one gets shorter and shorter.

It's about staying power.

Staying power on the playing field.

For example, Sun Yang, when he debuted, he first swam 1500 meters, then changed to 400 meters, and then 200 meters, but now he can't swim.

So did Usain Bolt, first 400 meters, then 200 meters, and then 100 meters.

Chen Mingliang himself is also thinking about whether to give up the 800 meters in the future, because this is still quite a test of physical strength, and his current training structure is more inclined to him to practice sprinting.

To run 800 meters in less than a mile is actually a test.

So he didn't even really pick up 400 meters, which tested his physical strength distribution skills even more.

However, 800 meters is the project he started as a project after all, and it would be a pity to lose it directly.

In the last year or two, he has trained explosiveness, and his endurance has almost always increased, and he has not deliberately practiced.

Fortunately, Chen Mingliang is still young and there is still room for growth. The coach suggested that he could practice the long jump or triple jump, which was also a direction that could be developed.

Speaking of the men's 800m, there are many athletes participating in this event in this Olympic Games, divided into 9 groups and 72 people. However, the format of the 800m is different from the 100m.

The rules for group promotion are the same, the top two in the group are promoted, so that there are 18, and the remaining 6 people are selected from the best players, not necessarily the third place in the group can be promoted, as long as there are enough 24 people.

The best fifth place in the group can qualify.

There is no rematch in the men's 800m, and the next race is the semifinals. In the semi-finals, there are three groups, and the top two players in the group plus the best two players enter the finals.

After an unfriendly day, the audience seems to have changed a group of people when they come back today.

The enthusiasm of the crowd in the stadium is back!

As long as Chen Mingliang appeared, at least half of the attention of the audience was on Chen Mingming, although he was not the most popular event, but the 800m was also a very important event in the Olympic Games.

Chen Mingliang scratched his head and gestured when he entered the arena, he was the biggest star in the audience, the most beautiful cub.

Starting at 800 meters, it was the first race without a starting point, with a standing start.

The starter's password is also different, there is no 'ready' item, after shouting "all in position", when all the competitors are ready and stationary behind the starting line, they can fire the gun to start the race.

The technical difficulty of this sport is actually very demanding, and there are also requirements for the starting position, and if you don't do it well, it is easy to waste too much physical strength.

In general competitions, including the Diamond League and Grand Prix, because there are no preliminaries, when there are more than 8 athletes, it is common for two people to share a track, and usually the event organizer prepares rabbits.

The rabbit is synonymous with the frontrunner.

The 800 meters of the Olympics are not set with rabbits.

In other competitions, the organizers are particular about setting up the leading rabbits. There are two frontrunners in the 800m, one in the 400m and the other in the 550m-600m.

The marathon event has the most rabbits, and both professional and amateur runners have rabbits, also known as official rabbits.

At 2 o'clock in the morning on August 26, Beijing time, the men's 800-meter race officially began.

Chen Mingliang is in the fourth lane of the second group, which is not bad.

The best track in the 800m is also 3, 4, 5, 6, and the innermost and outer are not good.

The 800m merge at the end of the first corner, but you need to reach the separation line of the string to merge.

Before the game, Chen Mingliang raised his hands, meaning that he hoped that the audience would give some support.

Sure enough, the applause immediately rang out, and the quality of the audience was still very high.

Yesterday's 200m was an exception, and I don't know what will happen to the 200m semi-finals that I am waiting for.

The host of the scene briefly introduced the situation of the athletes on the spot, there are many good players in this group, think Kenya's Wilfred Bunge, Russia's Yuri Bozakovsky are all regulars in the Golden League.

“onyourmarks！” The referees began to prepare the athletes for the competition.

Chen Mingliang subconsciously squatted down when he heard the voice, stepped on the soles of his feet, and almost didn't fall, only to find that there was no starting point below.

The audience at the scene gave a burst of laughter, it turned out that big stars can also make such low-level mistakes.

The referee was very friendly, stopped the game, and came over to ask Chen Mingliang if he was ready, and Chen Minglian said OK.

Then the referee shouted again:

“onyourmarks！”

The athletes all bent down and made a starting position

"Smack!"

It's game on!

Chen Mingliang ran out quickly.

It can't be called fast, it can only be said to be fast.

Running is 800 meters, naturally you can't accelerate as fast as 100 meters or 200 meters, it's easy to lack physical strength, but Chen Mingming's style has always been to run at the front by himself, and he doesn't care what the opponent is doing, and he doesn't want to care.

Chen Mingming's ordinary speed is also faster than others.

The 800m corner was a short distance, and he quickly ran near the parallel marker and then comfortably grabbed the first position.

Keep your head high, count the rhythm in your heart, and stride forward!

The speed is really fast, if you don't know that Chen Mingliang is the Olympic champion of the last year, many people still think that Chen Mingliang is a leading rabbit, he runs a little too fast.

In fact, this is Chen Mingming's own rhythm, especially the growth of his body in the past few years, his physical fitness is better, and his speed and endurance are stronger.

He doesn't care if the players behind him can keep up, anyway, he has already broken the wind, so you can follow boldly.

At first, there were still people following, and then everyone thought it was nothing more than a preliminary match, so why bother, the speed slowed down quickly.

At the last moment, Chen Mingliang did not choose to sprint, and with the cheers of the audience, he ran across the finish line at a uniform speed.

The time is 1:43.71! It's really not a east.

This was almost 1 second faster than the second place.

Chen Mingliang successfully advanced to the group!