Sprint champion: start standing on the Olympic field

Chapter 186 The Explosive Bolt
"Oh, our game is about to start. Michael, who do you think will win this game, Su Feng or Bolt? Is it possible to break your previous record? And I heard that Bolt is still yours Fans, have you been practicing sprinting since childhood?"

United States, CNN TV sports program.

Because of Su Feng and Bolt's astonishing contest, and they both ran 9 seconds, this caused a huge sensation in the track and field powerhouse of the United States.

According to the survey, the expectations of the American public for the 200-meter race between Su Feng and Bolt have hit a record high, which prompted the program manager of CNN to make a decision to start broadcasting the 200-meter preliminaries.

It is also because of the high attention to this competition that, in addition to its own ace host Felt, CNN also invited Michael Johnson, who has maintained the men's 12m 200 record for 19 consecutive years, as a live guest. commentary.

At this time, Felt threw the topic to Michael Johnson. After all, he was invited for [-] US dollars, and as the ace host, he naturally knew that sometimes as a host, the more active the better, When faced with a professional field, what the host needs to do is not to make meaningless interpretations based on the information he read temporarily, but to be a lubricant for explanations and help professionals mobilize the emotions of the audience.

Michael Johnson shrugged his shoulders, "My friend, when CNN invited me after the 100-meter finish, if you asked me this before the 100-meter finish, I would tell you that it is impossible for someone to break my world record.

Even in last year's World Championships, Su Feng and Bolt ran 19 seconds and 42 seconds respectively.

At that time, Bolt was still far behind, especially because his skills were mature and could not be improved. If only relying on his body at that time, it was impossible to run to 19 seconds.

As for Su Feng, his skills at that time were only excellent and still need to be refined, but I don't think people of yellow race can have my speed and stamina. Of course, I am black myself. This is not racial discrimination, but an objective fact.

Even among blacks, the vast majority of those who break 100 seconds for 10 meters and 200 seconds for 20 meters are of West African race.

So at that time, I thought that Su Feng didn't have the strength to increase by 0.1 seconds again.

But if it's now, it's really hard to say. These two people have not reached the ceiling of talent in the last World Championships. I was surprised by the results of the 100-meter run this time.

God, I jumped on the couch at home when I saw the grades. "

"So you think they can beat your 200m record?"

"Who knows, but I think there is a possibility. As for who will win, I think Bolt is more likely. After all, he is black and taller."

"And Bolt is still your fan, isn't he?"

"Couldn't Su Feng be my fan? You know, at their age, they probably all grew up watching my games."

"Seeing your fans surpass yourself, as a senior, aren't you very relieved?"

"I am gratified, but I am also unhappy. After all, it is my own world record. But fortunately, I still have a 400-meter world record. I don't think anyone will break it for a long time."

"Okay, I hope your world record lasts longer, because it doesn't feel right to talk about two non-American records here.

We have seen that the first group of 200-meter athletes have entered the field, and we have seen Tyson Gay, who used to be a full-time 200-meter player, has begun to enter the field. "

在遥远的中国，8月19日上午10点05分，男子200米的预赛正式开始。

A total of 200 players participated in the men's 71m preliminaries, divided into nine preliminaries groups, with eight people in each group in the first eight groups, and a total of seven people in the last group.

The top three in each group will enter the quarter-finals, and the remaining players will advance to the top five according to their results.

The total number of people entering the semi-finals is 32 people.

In this kind of large-scale competition, the organizer will generally assign some seeded players to different groups in the first round, which is beneficial to the excitement and ratings of the game, and is also beneficial to other players.

After all, if a group accumulates too many famous players, the famous players will be eliminated early. For other players, the hope of advancing will be very slim.

And the star of this first group is Tyson Gay.

After losing to Su Feng and Bolt in the men's 100m final, Tyson Gay was expressionless even in the 200m preliminaries, making it impossible to see what he was thinking, maybe it was his final 200m score Very stressful.

However, in the preliminaries, Tyson Gay's performance was still very stable. He lived up to expectations and won the first place in the group with a time of 20 seconds, successfully advancing.

Then the second group, the third group, Powell, Walter Disco and others also advanced one after another.

Su Feng was assigned to the fourth group, and finally advanced with a time of 19 seconds.

Yang Wei, also a Chinese athlete, ran a personal best of 20 seconds in the sixth group and entered the semi-finals as the third in the group.

Next, is Bolt's seventh group.

The men's sprint competition, even the preliminaries, is very exciting, fast-paced, fiercely competitive, one group after another, and each group has familiar famous players.

And especially when there is a sense of substitution, the enthusiasm of the audience is easily mobilized.

After the game started, the cheers on the scene never stopped.

The appearance of Bolt was the second peak of cheers after Su Feng.

Bolt followed the line of athletes out of the tunnel. He was fifth in line and looked unhappy.

For the men's 100 meters this time, he was full of confidence. Even his coach told him before the game that no one could beat him.

And before setting off from Jamaica, he told reporters in his hometown that he would definitely win the men's 100-meter gold medal.

But unexpectedly, he still lost to Su Feng in the end, and only for a few thousandths of a second.

And it was on the premise that he broke the world record and greatly improved the world record.

This undoubtedly made him very unhappy.

He knew that he couldn't hold on at the last moment, and this annoyance had stimulated him for several days.

He vowed that he must take away the 200-meter gold medal from China, only in this way can he feel better.

It was with this feeling of revenge that Bolt stepped onto the field.

After the start of the competition, he had long put the coach's advice to keep his strength in the preliminaries behind him, and sprinted with all his strength from the beginning. He didn't want to do anything else, but just wanted to vent his depression through running.

During the race, he didn't even pay attention to the positions of other players, didn't care or even heard the cheers of the audience. It wasn't until after he crossed the finish line that he realized from the panting sound caused by his exhaustion that he seemed to be running. Too hard.

But soon, he felt that something was wrong. He found that the sound that should have been cheering did not appear, and there was an extremely quiet and strange scene on the field.

"Shouldn't it?" Bolt was a little surprised. The Chinese audience has always been quite friendly to him. It's impossible for him to have no cheers at all. What's going on with this weird silence?

Bolt subconsciously looked at the big screen. He couldn't see the small screen from his position, and it took him a lot of time to slow down after crossing the finish line. Now the big screen should show his results.

Sure enough, less than two seconds after Bolt raised his head, the results of the eight athletes in the seventh group were displayed on the big screen one by one.

The number one above is naturally Bolt.

The first line reads, No.1, Usain Bolt, with a reaction time of 0.135 seconds and a score of 19 seconds!

And the wind speed on site is +0.5, the result is valid.

"World record!" Bolt also lost his head for a moment, just repeating this sentence in a murmur.

(End of this chapter)