Sprint champion: start standing on the Olympic field

Chapter 196 Extra Pressure

2008年8月21日，晚20点30分。

Bird's Nest Stadium, Track and Field Stadium.

The high-spirited atmosphere in the bird's nest has not dissipated.

Today, during the day and at night, two flag-raising ceremonies were held here.

Twice in a day, accompanied by the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, the five-star red flag was raised in the center, which raised everyone's patriotic enthusiasm to the peak.

Although track and field events are not our strong point, it is enough to make us proud to be able to achieve such results and win three heavyweight gold medals.

Among them, Liu Yuxiang's 110-meter hurdles broke his own Olympic record of 12 seconds.

In the original history, from the 2004 Athens Olympics to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, there have been four Olympics in 17 years, but Liu Yuxiang's record of 4 seconds has never been broken by anyone.In the final Tokyo Olympics, Jamaica won the gold medal with Pachimente's 12 seconds, which is even far behind Liu Yuxiang.

Originally in the 08 BJ Olympics, Liu Yuxiang retired due to injury. Cuban player Dai Long-Robos ran 12 seconds and finally won the championship, 93 seconds behind Liu Yuxiang's record;
In the 2012 London Olympic Games, American star Aris Merritt won the championship with a time of 12 seconds, only 92 seconds behind Liu Yuxiang's record;
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the 110-meter hurdles champion was Jamaican Omar McLeod, but he only ran 13 seconds. Compared with the champions of the previous three Olympic Games, this result still has a big gap.

It can be said that the era when Liu Yuxiang won the championship was the most intense competition in the 110-meter hurdles, with many high-level athletes.

In this life, with the influence of Su Feng, the Chinese track and field duo has attracted the attention of the world.The Chinese track and field team is no longer just Liu Yuxiang as a banner figure, which greatly reduces the pressure that Liu Yuxiang cannot bear. The record of the Olympic Games has been broken, and the repertoire of the tragic hero in the previous life has not been repeated.

And Su Feng needless to say, 100 meters, 200 meters world record, Olympic record, Bird's Nest Stadium record, Olympic gold medal, although I don't know what will happen in the future, but the two games have all kinds of honors in one, if not With Bolt as a super competitor, the generation of [-]-meter king can already take the throne at this time.

And what will be held next is the men's relay competition. Although everyone knows that the overall strength of the Chinese team is not as good as that of the United States and Jamaica, and even Trinidad and Tobago and the British team are also strong opponents of the Chinese team. With Su Feng at the end, all the audience is still full of expectations for this game.

At 9:10 in the evening, the teams of the competition began to appear one by one.

Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, these are the opponents that the Chinese team will face in the group stage.

Encountering one of the US and Jamaica teams was within Su Feng's expectation. After all, they are the two strongest teams. They must be divided into different preliminaries. Otherwise, the final may be staged in advance. No benefit to the participating teams.

It is also a good thing for the Chinese team to be able to play against the US team in this group in advance.

In addition to the US team, the Trinidad and Tobago team and the British team are also traditional strong teams, especially the Trinidad and Tobago team, which has won medals in the Olympic Games and World Championships many times. In the case of the U.S. team being out of the preliminaries due to violations, they even won the silver medal in the relay.

As for the Japanese team, it is the Olympic bronze medalist.

It can be said that the competitiveness of this group is not weaker than that of the other group.

The four members of the Chinese team have separated at this time, standing in front of their respective starting lines.

Zhang Peimeng played first, Chen Zhilong second, Liu Yu third, and Su Feng fourth. This is the best combination determined after long-term experiments and grinding.

Zhang Peimeng's sprinting power was strong, second only to Su Feng.

Chen Zhilong and Liu Yu spent the longest time in relay training, and they were responsible for the second and third batons that required two steps: handing over and taking over the baton.

Su Feng, as the world's flying man, sits on the last baton. He only needs to complete the steps of taking over the baton. The rest is the [-]-meter straight. He can fully display his world's number one straight sprint ability.

Moreover, Su Feng, as the last stick, can not only deter other teams, but also boost the confidence of the top three teams of the Chinese team, and play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Zhang Peimeng stood on the field, even though he had participated in the Olympic [-]-meter race and achieved certain results, he was still nervous at the moment.

At 100 meters, although he didn't want to admit it, he was still incidental.If he is out of the game with the first shot, it won't cause much impact. The people all over the country will regret it at most, and then they will continue to focus on Su Feng.

Because everyone didn't have any confidence in him winning the championship or the second No.3.

For everyone, he is just an extra Olympic athlete for the Chinese team in the men's sprint event.

Although some eyes were allocated, it was actually not important.

But this is also beneficial, most of the pressure is not on him, he just needs to run out of himself, and he adjusted his psychology in this way at the beginning.

But it is different now, he is an indispensable member of the Chinese team, and it is difficult for Su Feng to win an Olympic medal with Su Feng alone.

The four players of the Chinese team are indispensable, and they all need perfect performance to have a chance.

In this game, he is still not the protagonist, but he is one of the protagonists!

This can be said to be the first time for him to be alone in the Olympics, without Su Feng to shield him from the wind and rain in front of him, but to fight side by side with Su Feng as a group!
Especially after Su Feng won the men's 100m and 200m championships in a row, the Chinese people's eyes were almost all on the last competition that Su Feng was going to participate in, and because Su Feng and Bolt surpassed the limit of human cognition , now the eyes of the whole world have a considerable amount of focus on this competition.

Even if it is a team competition, audiences all over the world want to see the performance of Su Feng and Bolt, as evidenced by the number of reporters present on the scene.

An hour before the start of the relay, there were only a third as many journalists as there are now, and now there are three times as many.

The extra reporters are all reporters who should have interviewed in other venues!
They are all Olympic events, but they can attract so many extra reporters. At this time, the influence of Su Feng and Bolt can be seen.

This also caused the three people including him to bear heavy pressure from the beginning of the game.

Su Feng is used to these pressures, but they can't do it!
They have never received so much attention, and they have never felt such heavy pressure.

"Zhang Peimeng, you can't lose the chain!" Zhang Peimeng said viciously to himself in his heart.

Regarding the pressure in this area, the coaching staff did not provide timely psychological counseling, although the coaching staff had expected the attention Su Feng brought now.

But the pressure that Su Feng put on other athletes who cooperated with him was not discovered by them in advance.

Even the three athletes themselves only discovered the change in identity after playing.

They have become a community with Su Feng, and they will both prosper and lose, including the expectations and attention they receive!
(End of this chapter)