Run Out of My Life - Chapter 358

    “Started?”

    At 21:30 local time in Osaka on August 30th, in the auditorium of Nagai Stadium, Zhang Peimeng carried a few bottles of mineral water, squeezed through the densely packed seats, and found his seat to sit down .

    On the seats on the side of the track near the test arena, three young men in red Chinese track and field team uniforms are sticking their necks, constantly observing the lineup of players on the field.

    “Come on, Dashi has already played. He ran very well in the preliminaries. It seems that he is in good shape and should have a chance to advance to the finals.”

    Su Bingtian stretched his neck and glanced at the arena before answering, then turned around and took a bottle of mineral water from Zhang Peimeng, unscrewed it and took a sip.

    Although the World Championships have started six days and it is now approaching September, the weather in Osaka is still unbearably hot.

    Because of the large number of spectators, the Nagai Stadium was still hot even at 9:30 pm. After Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, Wen Yongyi, and Chen Yuhang sat down for a few minutes, they felt that their backs were soaking wet and sweat was on their foreheads and necks.

      Sweat, the wind blows and catches a cold, which affects the subsequent games, so it will not be worth the loss.

    “What group is Brother Yangyu in?”

    Zhang Peimeng distributed the mineral water in his hand to his teammates one by one, and then asked again. In the past few days, his focus has been on the 100-meter and 200-meter races. For the 110-meter hurdles, he only knows that three competitors have advanced to the semi-finals, but he still does not know the specific races.

    “In the third group, Liu Yangyu and Roberts were assigned to the same group in the semi-finals. It is estimated that the two of them will have to fight first in the semi-finals.”

    Wen Yongyi frowned, looking at the 110-meter runway, a staff member seemed to see that the hurdles were slightly shifted, and he was going forward to adjust.

    “Alan Johnson retired early. In the preliminaries, Ducoure was not in good shape. Brother Yangyu’s main opponents were Roberts and Trammell.”

      Players, it’s not easy.”

    For Chinese sprinters and sprinters, it has always been a very rare thing to be able to run three A marks to participate in the World Championships or the Olympic Games.

    Before the 2004 Olympic Games, the 100-meter A-marks were Su Zu and Chen Jian, and the 200-meter A-marks were Su Zu and Yang Guangzong, and this World Championships, only Su Zu.

    Speaking of this topic, the four members of the Chinese men’s relay team were all silent. The 2008 Olympic Games are getting closer and closer. From the current point of view, everyone is not sure whether they will be able to run out of the A target.

    Su Bingtian and Wen Yongyi are both 60 meters and 100 meters, while Zhang Peimeng and Chen Yuhang are 100 meters and 200 meters, but several of them failed to run before this World Championships If you achieve the required grades, you will not be able to participate in the individual project, and you can only participate in the relay project as a team.

    When they came to Osaka, they didn’t even watch Su Zu’s game, and today was the first time they appeared in the audience. This is still the head coach of the relay team, Yuan Guohua, who is worried about their physical fitness. The preliminaries for the relay will start tomorrow.

    In the domestic sprint and sprint events, athletes no longer only focus on the National Games, National Championships, and Grand Prix, but focus on world-class competitions.

    And because of the emergence of top players such as Su Zu and Liu Yangyu, the Chinese people’s requirements for athletes have also increased. It turns out that if you run for 10 seconds and 25 minutes in China, there may be various reports from reporters.

    This is both pressure and motivation for the backward domestic sprinters.

    The expectations of the men’s 4×100m relay team were much higher this time. In 2005, due to the replacement of athletes, the results were passable. But now it has been two years of running-in, and seeing the 2008 Olympic Games approaching, there is a lot of pressure from coaches to athletes.

    Especially young athletes such as Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, and Wen Yongyi, who are inexperienced in competitions. Knowing that they are carrying such expectations, they are thinking about how to improve their performance almost from morning to night. Level.

    Even if they eat and sleep, they are always on the baton, and they constantly cultivate tacit understanding and handover skills.

    Everyone is eager to prove themselves on the field.

    The men’s 110-meter hurdles event at this World Championships can be said to be one of the few Chinese track and field teams to have three qualified athletes, compared to Su Zu’s solo battle in the men’s 100-meter and 200-meter events , At least in the men’s 110-meter hurdles, there are a few more faces of Chinese players.

    Another reason for them to come to watch the game tonight is because the men’s 110m hurdles semi-final is followed by the men’s 200m final. Su Zu will face the double teams of the Jamaican Legion and the American Legion.

    “Onyourmarks!”

    Before the starting line, the starter’s voice sounded, and the first group of the men’s 110-meter hurdles semi-finals officially started.

    Different from the men’s 100m and 200m, the 110m hurdles are three rounds of preliminaries, semifinals and finals, so the semifinals also have three groups. The three Chinese players in the 110-meter hurdles were arranged in three groups in the semifinals.

    After the gunshots of the game, Shi Dongpeng played very well, continued the good state in the preliminaries, and ran the second fastest personal time of 13.24 seconds, also the second in the group.

    “Beautiful stone!”

    “Should be able to advance to the finals!”

    “Definitely. With a score of 13.24 seconds, it should be no problem to enter the final.”

    “If Oishi can make it to the final, it will be his second final after the 2003 World Championships.”

    Several members of the relay team who were sitting on the sidelines watching the game cheered when they saw Shi Dongpeng’s results. Everyone is a sports eye, and it is still a bit of a feat to be able to run the 110-meter hurdles in 13.24 seconds. It should be stable to advance to the finals.

    However, the game is not over, and no one can be sure.

    After the first group of the semi-finals, the second and third groups started one after another.

    Because there are Chinese athletes participating, the Chinese spectators who came to watch the game have been very excited, waving red flags, holding banners and lights, etc. China, come on!” “Liu Yangyu, come on!” and so on.

    However, Xing Yanan, a young Chinese athlete in the second group of the 110-meter hurdles semi-finals, is still lacking in strength and competition experience, and only ran 13.59 seconds. Ranked fourth in the group, not surprisingly, there should be no chance to advance to the finals.

    When the third group of men’s 110-meter hurdles began, the audience who came to watch the game ushered in the first climax.

    The duel between Liu Yangyu and Roberts is not small, and they also have the men’s 110-meter hurdles champion Doucure in the last World Championships, but because it is a semi-final, In fact, the players have reservations.

    Liu Yangyu adopted a tactic of tightening the front and then loosening it. When something had been confirmed in the first and middle half, he put it a little bit. The result was 13.25 seconds, which was better than Roberts’ 13.21 seconds. It’s slower, but it’s a big improvement compared to Liu Yangyu’s 13.36 in the preliminaries.

    This is also an experienced top athlete, who will adjust and allocate direct physical fitness and state performance according to the importance of the rounds of the competition.

    The men’s 110-meter hurdles semi-finals are all over, and soon after the race, the race will announce the finals in time. Surprisingly, Liu Yangyu was placed on the ninth track, which is not conducive to creating good results, and Shi Dongpeng was placed on the sixth track. Roberts was placed on the fourth track, American Trammell was placed on the fifth track by the race, and his teammate Payne was on the seventh track.

    And the 2005 Helsinki 110-meter hurdles world champion Doukure ranked ninth with a time of 13.36 seconds and missed the world championship final.

    “It’s over, Liu Yangyu’s schedule is too bad.”

    When the schedule of the 110-meter hurdles final appeared on the big screen tomorrow, Wen Yongyi’s face changed greatly.

    The arrangement of the men’s 110m hurdles final was randomly drawn and arranged. Liu Yangyu ranked fifth in the semi-finals, and under normal circumstances, it would be second at most Road or the seventh road, it is impossible to go up the ninth road of the runway.

    But this is random, and David Payne, the first in the semi-finals, is only in the seventh lane.

    Su Bingtian and Zhang Peimeng were silent for a while, and even the other athletes and coaches of the Chinese track and field team who were also watching the game on the sidelines felt a little bad.

    This arrangement of races can be said to be quite unfavorable. Although it is said that they are all straight races, it seems that there is not much difference, but everyone understands the subtle difference of a race, and sometimes the result is the sky different.

    In general, the men’s sprint and sprint events are basically in the middle of the three, four, five, or six passes, while the first, second and eighth and ninth courses on the edge are rare. Athletes can appear to win championships.

    “As long as I make it to the final, I can run whether it is the first or the eighth. I hope I can taste the taste of standing on the podium tomorrow.”

    On the contrary, Liu Yangyu didn’t care about this arrangement of stages. A top player’s confidence was not affected by this unfavorable arrangement at all.

    When Su Zu learned that Liu Yangyu was placed in the unfavorable ninth track in the semi-final tomorrow, he had already started meticulous warm-up and pre-match preparations.

    Just waiting for the penultimate women’s 200m semi-final to end, that’s his competition, the men’s 200m final!