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Chapter 264 400m semi-final
"...Okay, it's 21:15 local time in Athens, and the men's 400-meter race first group semi-finalists have started to enter the stadium...

There are 24 athletes in three groups in the semi-finals, and the finalists are the top two in each group plus the two best results in the second place, a total of eight people..."

Following Yang Jian's voice, the camera gradually moved closer to the athletes on the track.

In the Olympic Stadium, on the orange-red 400-meter runway, at the starting position of the curve, one athlete after another walked to his position, and the on-site host began to introduce the participating athletes in English and Greek.

"The semi-finals of the first group are about to start, and all eight contestants are already standing on the track..."

As the conference broadcast sounded, CCTV's commentary also followed the synchronous screen shots, and began to introduce the contestants to the audience in front of the TVs across the country.

"Different from the 400-meter race, the 400-meter race is a sprint event characterized by speed and based on speed endurance. The success of the [-]-meter race depends on many factors. It is also the longest and most difficult sprint event. One of the events... Our country's player Lin Mu will appear in the next second group... Okay, let's take a look at the semi-finalists of the first group...

In the first row... the second row is Jamaica's Michael Blackwood. His rematch result is... the third row is Jeremy Wariner from the United States. He is also the U.S. Olympic sprint event The only Caucasian player participating in the competition, just 20 years old this year, is the champion of the 400-meter event in the National Trials...the fourth...fifth road, the Bahamian player, Christopher Brown, and our country's Lin Mu in the preliminaries In the same group, ranked second in the group after Lin Mu to advance to the semi-finals...the sixth..."

"On your marks!"

After the introduction of the athletes was completed, the referee once again confirmed that everything was normal, and then called out the command to be in place.

"The referee has issued the command to be in position, and the game will begin immediately!"

"Set!"

Another clear command was issued, and almost everyone at the scene and in front of the TV temporarily entered a state of silence.

"Bang~"

"Okay, the game begins!"

……

Still at the position of the Huaxia delegation,

With the end of the [-]-meter race and the arrival of the three athletes, the atmosphere here was significantly more lively than before.

The leaders and coaches encouraged and praised the three of them, and then other athletes and staff got together with them and greeted them warmly. It was not until the 400-meter race started that they turned their attention to the field again.

The first group's competition started and ended, and they watched the competition all the time. They were calm and indifferent, but after the results came out, they also became a bit dignified.

"Old Yu, this white man seems to be very good. He looks too relaxed, and his grades are..."

Director Wu is staying with the track and field team for the whole time today, and he also wants to see how far Huaxia can go after the 400-meter race.What's more, the leader above him in the regiment is also paying attention.He hoped that there would be another breakthrough in the 400-meter race, to enter the final, and even take another step in the final. This would be a very meaningful event for the delegation.

It's just that after the results of the first group of 400 meters came out, he felt that it might not be so easy as he thought before.

"It's really good, he still has more! This player is very capable!"

Yu Weili looks much better, but he is still positive about the player's performance.

At this time, the results of the first group of semi-finals are now clearly displayed on the big screen.

1. Jeremy Variner, USA, 44 seconds
2. Michael Blackwood, Jamaica, 45 seconds;

3. Leslie de Jong, France, score 45.01;

4. Christopher Brown, Bahamas, 45 seconds;

……

Yu Weili actually had a rough judgment before the results came out, especially the white man who has been leading very easily.As a former 400-meter athlete with many years of coaching experience, how can he not see that this player still has reservations.

Moreover, this player's technical rhythm, he always looks immature, but even so the results are good, this is what he cares more about.

Director Wu was worried about how strong the opponent was, but Yu Weili didn't particularly care. Their original goal for this Olympic Games did not set a high height for the 400 meters.Now Lin Mu's semi-final has already achieved the set goal.Even if they lose in the semi-finals, as long as it is not due to human factors, if they lose in terms of strength, it will be nothing more than some strange rumors from the outside world, and no one in the industry can find out why.

What's more, he doesn't even know what Lin Mu is doing now, but based on his previous results, he still has great hopes of reaching the finals.

bad mood?Unstable performance?How could it be possible? As for Lin Mu's character and consistent style, he never thought about it.

"Brother Yang, how are you doing?"

Leaders and coaches are discussing, and the athletes on the other side are no exception.After the results came out, Zhao Lin rarely asked Yang Zuyao seriously.

With more than a year of athlete experience, he is now more and more judgmental about many things in sprinting.He didn't pay special attention to it just now, but how could he not pay attention to the leading ones.He doesn't know how much the opponent has kept, and he doesn't quite understand the rhythm of the 400-meter race, but he can still see the state at a relatively high speed.

"That white guy is very strong, the second and third ones are much weaker, and the first white guy's pace of acceleration in the early stage is really similar to our coach. If it was our coach..."

Speaking of this, Yang Zuyao paused. He found that apart from seeing the technical rhythm of the coach's running, he really didn't know anything about it. He had no idea what strength he could run with!

Gently shaking his head, Yang Zuyao couldn't help but smile, it's my turn to worry about the coach's affairs, it's really mediocre.

"Linzi, Huanzi, let's watch the game. The coach has his own rules, so let's cheer!"

"Oh! You said the coach can..." Zhao Lin wanted to ask another question, but stopped before asking.

"Ah, the coach is here!"

He kept his eyes on the track, and finally saw the coach coming out from the entrance of the corridor, and he shouted hastily.

"Coach, come on!"

"Director Lin, come on!"

"..."

……

"The second group of men's 400m race semi-finals is about to start, and all eight players have entered the field."

In the voice of Yang Jian's commentary, the audience in front of the TV saw eight athletes walking out of the corridor beside the track one after another. In a column, there was a Chinese player with a skin color that was obviously different from the others in the middle.

"Walking in the fourth position in the middle of the team is our country's player Lin Mu. Many audience friends may not know that he is not only an athlete, but also a coach. He is the head coach of the men's relay event of the National Track and Field Team. Among the three contestants in the previous [-]-meter race, Shen Huan and Zhao Lin's coaches...

Last year, at the World Athletics Championships in Paris, he led athletes Zhao Lin and Yang Zuyao to win the men's 100m and 200m gold medals.At the same time, the men's 4*100m relay team, joined by Zhao Lin and Yang Zuyao, fought bravely against many world-class teams, defeated the US team and the UK team, and won the gold medal by breaking the Asian record... This is also a Chinese athlete In world-class competitions, the first men's sprint medal, gold medal...

In the subsequent Asian Athletics Championships, his disciples won the top three in the 200 meters and won the 400 meters gold medal. At the same time, he himself won the men's [-] meters championship, breaking the national record...

I am very excited now. He brought his disciples to the Athens Olympics. As a coach, the disciples he led have made a historical breakthrough in the Olympic Games in the [-]-meter event.As athletes, we also hope that Lin Mu can perform at a high level in today's competition, and show his strength in the next high-level competition..."

"Okay, the athletes have already stepped onto the runway. After the athletes have made some preparations, the information about the athletes has begun to be introduced at the stadium..."

Feeling that Yang Jian's emotions were getting more and more excited, and he began to look forward and imagine, Han Qiao hurriedly took over the conversation.

Sports commentary, it can be said that it is very taboo to do this.The commentator must remain neutral. Of course, it is impossible to be neutral in the Olympic Games, but he cannot give hopeful statements, which raises the expectation index for the audience. Once an accident occurs in the end, it will be bad for the commentator and the athletes.

He also understood that Yang Jian meant that he was excited, and he was also excited. In fact, he had heard these stories many times before, but every time he was still excited.But he wasn't talking after all, so he could hold back a little bit.

The commentary of the two partners is that they can help each other sometimes, such as this time!Of course, he may make more mistakes than Yang Jian.

After Han Qiao took the call, Yang Jian also realized it instantly, and then cooperated with Han Qiao to start introducing the athletes.

At this time, the big screen at the scene also displayed the list of contestants in this group:

First Road, Sestak, Slovenia;

Second Road, Lopez, Cuba;

Third Way, Davion Clark, Jamaica;

The fourth road, Linmu, Huaxia;
Fifth Avenue, Derek Blue, United States;

Sixth Avenue, Gardinas, Mexico;

Seventh Road, Matthews Binu, India;

Eighth Road, Anton Galkin, Russia;
……

"On your marks."

After the introduction of the athletes' information, the general international password began to sound.

Following the referee's command, the eight contestants embarked on their respective starting tracks.

Before the starting line, Lin Mu exhaled lightly, and his breathing became more and more gentle.

Since he made the decision to strengthen his coaching background with the experience of athletes, he has become more and more able to control the different emotions on the sidelines and on the court.

The habit of calm observation developed in the coaching career in the past two years, all the athlete information in the encyclopedia and the physical memory of his predecessors, after synthesis, enable him to quickly enter into a calm and focused environment in any noisy environment in the state.

"Let's run once without distraction. There is no experiment this time, so it's time to test the training results of the past year!"

Bending down and lowering the head, both feet landed on the starting block, the strength of the body suddenly collapsed, and then relaxed slightly.The response transmission of active muscles and strength, what he has always taught his disciples to do, he has done everything in detail.

Finished all the preparations for the start, now only waiting for the starter's password and the sound of the starting gun.

"Set!"

The sound of the starter's preparation sounded, and all the runners got up and took the starting posture.

In the stadium, it was unusually quiet, and the short two or three seconds were like the calm before the storm.just wait...

"boom!"

The gunshots of the game rang out.

The general starting reaction of conditioned reflex, even if he started running after he clearly heard the gunshot, Lin Mu was quite satisfied with his reaction to this running, and he always practiced what he taught the athletes.

He doesn't have many games, but as long as he is on the track, even in the training ground, he always maintains rigor and regulation.

Take learning as a teacher and take your body as a model!
Whether as an athlete or a coach, he believes that first of all, his disciples and younger generations must be able to see an attitude towards training and competition.

Focus on training, focus on competition!This step of starting is naturally very important and deserves special attention!

Although under normal circumstances, the requirements for the start of the 400-meter run are not too high. After all, with such a long distance, there is rhythm and control of the start speed.

But the real statement can't be calculated by just using the difference of a few tenths of a second.Starting 0.1 seconds ahead of others does not mean that you can be 0.1 seconds ahead of others as soon as you run down the course, maybe more are possible.On the contrary, a difference of 0.1 does not mean that it will reach the end point 0.1 slower, maybe even slower!

The key lies in a rhythm. Sprinting is a sport of rhythm and speed. Athletes' training and competition must have a process of running into the best rhythm.Reaction, then connecting to the starting speed, and continuing on the way, the whole process will inevitably have the most suitable and comfortable rhythm for the athletes.

Normally, in sprint events, no matter who it is, the starting point of his adjustment must be based on quick response, and Lin Mu's situation is naturally no exception.

With a quick reaction connected to the start, he smoothly completed the transition from static to dynamic.

At the beginning of the gunshot, just like Lin Mu, the other contestants also rushed out in an instant. Although there was no comparison on the horizontal line, it even seemed to be very fast and could not be discerned by the naked eye.

But after the start reaction time that appeared on the sidelines of the race was displayed one by one, everything was clear at a glance.

"Boom~"

"Oh~"

The 400-meter race is long, and people have time to pay attention to the starting reaction. Seeing this, many knowledgeable people immediately exclaimed.

"Game start!"

Yang Jian's voice came out through the screen when all the players ran out of the TV screen.

"Lin Mu's starting speed is very good, 0.146. This speed is definitely an excellent starting reaction even in the shorter 200-meter and [-]-meter events... The starting reaction ranks second..."

On the runway, the surrounding exclamation and clamor did not affect Lin Mu.From the start, he found his rhythm smoothly and started his first corner run.Stable and smooth steps, fast running, swinging arms, maintaining strides, he did every detail very well.

With an encyclopedia of real-time dynamic checking, after long-term training, he can already control his speed very accurately.Just like the training requirements he arranged for the athletes.

No matter how long the distance is, how long the stride is, and how fast you can reach it, you can't go faster or slower. These are the training requirements for control and special speed.This is especially important for projects with slightly longer distances.

Start speed, accelerate, you can go faster...

Controlling his own speed, with as much speed and rhythm as possible, he gallops on the curve without distraction...

50 meters...80 meters...100 meters...

He still maintains his own speed and rhythm, but even so, compared with other players in the same group, it is obvious that he uses a faster speed for the first corner.

Because the number of reach was slightly ahead, he left the first three competitors early.When the first corner was about to enter the straight, he was gradually getting closer to the position of the five-lane American players.

Immediately entering the first straight, Lin Mu began to adjust his pace, and his speed became faster!
……

"It's still the same rhythm as before, but the speed is faster than before! It's really exciting!"

On the sidelines, from the start to the more than 100 meters to the present, Yu Weili has been paying attention to Lin Mu's figure.At this time, he had completely let go of his slight worries.

There was no such a reckless rush as in the preliminaries, and the starting pace he had seen in the Asian Championships was still used, but it was definitely faster than then.After entering the halfway of the straight, the rhythm of increasing the pace without reducing the frequency is the same as before, and even reduced some steps to vacate, and the speed has been further improved.

Yu Weili is really satisfied. He is now very much looking forward to Yu Linmu's next performance, and he is even more looking forward to the final results of this run.

……

Under Yu Weili's attention, Lin Mu finished the straight and cut into the second curve...

At a position of more than 200 meters, Lin Mu adjusted his pace again, and further accelerated the pace without changing the pace. Although the increase was not much, the overall speed became faster again, and he began to enter the final The acceleration sprint stage.

240 meters, 250 meters, 260 meters, 270 meters...

The second bend is gradually coming to an end,

At this time, even people without much professional vision could tell that the red figure in the fourth lane was advancing towards the last straight lane at a speed absolutely ahead of other players.

The form is gradually becoming clearer!

There are 7 people in the stadium. As the game enters the final climax, the clamor and shouts become more and more passionate.

And all over the world, people who are watching the game on TV at this time, they are the same.

Different regions, different times, speaking different languages, using different cheering slogans, sent their encouragement to the eight running figures on the track!
　It may be a bit procrastinating to write about Lin Mu's race, but it is also for the sake of pointing out some of the situations that Lin Mu has been training for during this run...

　　I really didn't want to be so out of context, there is no way, a newcomer, even a newcomer who has written a million words, he is still a newcomer.There are also some bad rhythms...

　　
　
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