just to make those dreams come true

Chapter 335 200-meter rematch

"Director Lin, the condition of the athletes seems to be pretty good. Xiao Zhu's three games today can be regarded as finished. I just don't know about tomorrow..."

On the afternoon of August 8th, Bird's Nest Stadium.

In the stands, after watching the men's 200-meter rematch first group match, the coach of the Huaxia team, Yuan Guohua, was worried.

It was already 20:10 in the evening, and the first group of the men's 200m rematch had ended.

A total of 200 groups of 4 contestants participated in the 32-meter rematch. In each group, the top three plus the last four best results made a total of 16 people to advance to the next round.In the morning preliminaries, the three players from Huaxia successfully advanced.The semi-finals are grouped into the first, second and fourth groups respectively.

At 20:05, Zhu Kun, who appeared in the first group of the semi-finals, faced the Jamaica flying man Bolt, the former American 200-meter champion Sean Crawford, St. Kitts player Kim Collins and other famous players. Stage fright.

In the first 100 meters, I was dropped by the opponent for a long distance, and I always maintained my own rhythm. According to the most economical efficiency, I ran the entire 200 meters.In the end, after Bolt and Crawford, he won the third place in the group with a time of 20 seconds.

Before the game, Zhu Kun, who played three games a day, was undoubtedly the athlete most worried about by the entire delegation.His successful promotion also made all the members of the Huaxia delegation who were watching the game from the stands breath a sigh of relief.However, as long as they think of the two semi-finals tomorrow with less than two hours between them, they can't help feeling a little hazy in their hearts.

Two games like this are still relatively important games rolled together.It almost never happened to Chinese athletes before.

Speaking of concurrent competitions, it is actually not uncommon for top athletes, and it is not uncommon for top athletes to concurrently perform 200 meters and 200 meters, or 400 meters and [-] meters.Even in the same competition, there are many people who won high rankings and even medals at the same time.

The current group of Huaxia athletes rarely had such concurrent events before, and it was only because they had too short a time to fully break through their own and special skills after fully accepting the new training concept.

But this is certainly not the norm, and it develops according to the situation in which young athletes build their foundations from childhood and gradually grow up.In the future, the concurrent events of the new batch of athletes will definitely become more and more common.

This time, Zhu Kun’s 200m and 400m events are arranged to enter the Olympics. On the one hand, it is to achieve strength, and more importantly, it is to allow young athletes to feel more about the rhythm control of the combined event.

"It should be fine. For young athletes, they don't have performance pressure yet. There is time for them to adapt to their growth steadily. Starting next year, um, it should start in the second half of this year, and Xiao Zhao will also officially run 200 meters part-time. Still With Zhang Meng and Liang Hong, the future is almost like this..."

Lin Mu waved his hand indifferently. In the final analysis, Huaxia Dash already has the background to develop in an all-round way.One or two top athletes lead a group of outstanding athletes.Seek growth between competition and incentives to further strengthen the background.

Zhu Kun was also the first one. Lin Mu had considered before the game that unless it was absolutely necessary, he would not even use Wikipedia to restore the athletes' physical strength.To really let him feel it.

"There are still some problems with the schedule of this game!"

Yuan Guohua shook his head and continued.

"It's okay, such a situation was normal before. Moreover, it is already a good result to have such an intermittent arrangement!"

Hearing the unfinished meaning in Yuan Guohua's words, Lin Mu just smiled.

For the first time, following the guidance of the Olympic Committee's schedule, the intention of the arrangement is that the 200-meter semi-finals and the 400-meter semi-finals will be compared on the same day.This kind of schedule was very rare in the past, mainly because there were many athletes who were both 200 and 400 at the same time.The top group has won two gold medals in the same competition, such as Michael Johnson, who is known as the king of sprinting.

Because of the curves and straights of 200 meters and 400 meters, there are indeed many similarities in rhythm control.But the current form of international runners has changed a lot. Because of the continuous improvement in technology and physique, top sprinters are moving closer to the 200-meter starting speed and acceleration to the [-]-meter direction.

There are currently not many athletes competing in both the 200m and 400m internationally, and even fewer are outstanding.Therefore, after the intention came out, the response from various countries was not large.But such a schedule is not very friendly to Zhu Kun.

As the No. 200 figure in China's 400-meter and [-]-meter events, Zhu Kun had such troubles, and the track and field team naturally had to communicate with the center and the General Administration.After communicating with the Yanjing Olympic Organizing Committee, the General Administration put forward opinions to the International Olympic Committee.

After several twists and turns, the semi-final of the 200-meter race was finally advanced by one hour.

To be honest, this result is still not satisfactory.But there is no way, in terms of influence, both the Huaxia Olympic Committee and the individual players are slightly worse.Such an advance of one hour is already the result of the host Yanjing Olympic Organizing Committee's efforts to ease the situation.

Such a situation naturally made many people in the center and the team feel a little uncomfortable.After all, there have been precedents of deliberately changing the game time for athletes to facilitate their performance.

There are some things that Lin Mu doesn't want to think too much about. Letting go of what he said, the fact is that the distance is too high and the level is too far.As one of the emerging sprint powerhouses, Huaxia has the background, but it is still a little insufficient.But he believes that after the end of this Olympic Games, China will be completely different.

"Ugh!"

Yuan Guohua didn't bother with this issue any more.This is the fact, and fortunately, in the team's plan, Zhu Kun is not the seed to win the medal, and currently he does not have such a great reputation that the Chinese people place too high hopes on.At least there is enough room for error.Athletes have relatively less stress.

For the former Chinese athletes, one or two excellent athletes occasionally appeared in an event, and they were naturally forced to be tight by countless people. The athletes competed for various competitions and honors with all their strength.The result is long-term high-intensity, overloaded training and competition.

Tired, injured, and disabled are not uncommon situations.Especially when promotion and commercial factors are mixed into it.For example, Xiao Qi is a decathlon player, and even more so is Liu Xiang.

Thinking of Liu Xiang, Yuan Guohua couldn't help asking: "Director Lin, Director Luo and the others didn't come this afternoon, is it because of Old Sun?"

"Hmm~"

Talking to Yuan Guohua, Lin Mu didn't hide anything, and nodded lightly: "Director Luo, Director Feng, and us all communicated with Lao Sun before the opening conference in the afternoon, and Liu Xiang still wants to fight for it. After all, the significance of the Olympic Games at our doorstep It's really not small."

The afternoon press conference was held as scheduled. As the person in charge of the core sprint project, a press conference is basically Lin Mu's one-man show.Reporters from various countries asked a lot about the sprint and even the relay.Lin Mu who could answer answered all of them.It's just that Lin Mu didn't ask Liu Xiang's question that he was going to ask in the end.

He can't make decisions for others, even if he can represent the entire track and field team or even the field management center, he can't veto certain obsessions in the hearts of athletes.

To put it bluntly, announce the injury, or even lay an ambush in advance, saying that it is possible to retire and so on.For now, it's not a big problem.The big deal is that the media and the audience will make a few noises. As long as the center and the delegation understand, it is not the key to the athletes.

But it can't stand the persistence of athletes and coaches.To put it bluntly, it is for national honor and collective honor, at the expense of oneself.In fact, in the final analysis, it is still driven by various mentalities and emotions such as personal honor, pride, competitiveness, and unwillingness to admit defeat.

At least Lin Mu knew that Liu Xiang didn't even run the preliminaries that day in his previous life.Because running or not does not prevent Liu Xiang from being No.1 in track and field.As for now, the reason and the situation are compared, and the situation is clear at a glance.

"Don't think about others, just watch the game first."

Lin Mu shook his head. Anyway, if it was an athlete under him, he would never give the opponent a chance to struggle psychologically.It's not that he has a strong desire to control and disregards the wishes of the athletes, but that he must consider all aspects of the athletes.The future cannot be ruined for one or two battles of honor and face, after all, they are still young.

"Old Yuan, go back tonight and talk to Lao Lu. Zhang Meng will be included in the relay selection sequence this time. As the head coach, he will form a team with Liu Ren and be responsible for more relay training!"

Looking at the players in the second group of the 200-meter rematch who were about to start the competition, Lin Mu gave Yuan Guohua an order.

Yuan Guohua understood, nodded and agreed, it was time to prepare for the succession of the relay team from the old to the new.

And Zhang Meng is just the first...

While the two were talking, Zhang Meng, the protagonist who was arranged, didn't know at this time.Of course, he would be very happy if he knew.Compared with his former senior brother Hu Ke, his development is much better.He has been looking forward to such a day.

But at this moment, he didn't have time to think about it.Excited and excited, his whole body was full of enthusiasm, just waiting for the start of the second Olympic Games in his life.

Standing in front of the starting line of the track, he felt the enthusiasm of tens of thousands of compatriots in the audience. In the 200 meters, he was not the protagonist of China.But at least at this moment, the cheers and cheers from the audience were only for him.This is an incentive he has never received in previous games.

He knew that compared to Brother Yang and Brother Zhao, the audience didn't expect much from him, but that didn't stop him from working hard for the few expectations he had.He is also a member of the Huaxia Track and Field Team, and he is willing to do his best to defend this honor and pride.

And according to his strength, he must work hard in this group.Because there are 8 players in the second group of the rematch, the overall lineup is luxurious.It is conceivable that the competition will definitely be fierce.

Zimbabwean star Dez Gay, American player Walter Dicks, and Jamaican player Christopher Williams, even British player Christian Malcolm and Mauritius veteran Stefan Buckland and so on.These athletes are all absolute strength players, old and new.

Although there are no top 200-meter runners, they belong to the most powerful group in the world.For Zhang Meng, if he wants to advance, the pressure is really not small.

The game started after a few instructions and a gunshot, and ended after more than 20 seconds.

The results proved that the competition in this group was indeed fierce, and the athletes who deserved the title all ran with good efficiency.

Zhang Meng, who had long strides, high frequency, and no regard for speed at the start, ran a good first half of the race.Compared with the players in the same group, he is not inferior in terms of absolute speed.Just because of the slight gap in overall physical fitness and speed endurance, I was unable to grasp the situation well in the last few dozen meters.

The final ranking was settled. Zimbabwean Dez Gay won the first place in the group with a time of 20 seconds, No.23, No.220, No.27, although Zhang Meng ran 320 seconds The personal best score of 28 is only ranked fifth.This made Zhang Meng feel a little regretful while he was happy to break through himself.

Including Buckland behind Zhang Meng, the top six of the eight players all ran within 8 seconds. Compared with the first group, the overall performance is really strong.In such a group, it is really not easy to advance directly.Failed to advance directly, Zhang Meng can only hope to squeeze into the semi-finals with 20 substitute results.

Zhang Meng left the field without delay, gathered the coach and teammates, and watched the next game with anticipation and apprehension on the sidelines.

Zhang Meng's coach, Lu Qing, was inevitably a little nervous at the moment.

An associate professor from Huaqing, a top coach of the scholar school.After a few years, through the two athletes Hu Ke and Zhang Meng, he has also fully integrated into the national team.

Whether a coach is good or not can be reflected in many ways, but the most practical thing is naturally the performance of the athletes he leads.Whether Zhang Meng's grades are good or bad largely determines him.

He had been a little aloof in the past few years, but due to a Universiade in 05, his only academic reserve was completely destroyed.Since being formally integrated, he also hopes to seek more development.

In that year's Universiade, China was successful. Not only did it lead the gold medal list, it also achieved many breakthroughs in sprint events.But for him, it obviously has some flaws.

His first outstanding disciple, Hu Ke, won the runner-up in the [-]-meter race, and his results were very good.But the champion is indeed Jiang Bing, who has achieved the miracle of the dark horse.It was also from that time that he discovered many shortcomings.With a more humble attitude, he brought Hu Ke and Zhang Meng to the side of the relay team.

He also hopes to discover and improve himself and the level of athletes by constantly broadening his horizons.The level of Hu Ke and Zhang Meng has improved rapidly, but because of the disadvantages of age and further potential development, the national team, which is already full of talents, has no place for Hu Ke.

Last year, Hu Ke gave up completely, and he returned to Huaqing with regret.And Zhang Meng became the only athlete he personally led.

Zhang Meng's progress did not disappoint him, and he succeeded in competing for the Olympic spot, which made Lu Qing finally heave a sigh of relief.After the Olympics started, he waited for Zhang Meng's competition with anticipation.

Entering the semi-finals, his heart was slightly relieved.According to personal plan and overall plan, Zhang Meng has already completed the set goal.But who doesn't want better grades?

Zhang Meng's competition just ended, and his results were very good. Although he didn't reach the best result in the usual test, he also ran his personal best in the official competition.Considering the direction of young athletes, as long as they can perform stably, it is very rare.

But just because of his good grades, breaking through his personal best time, 20 seconds is not a low score. It would be a pity if he was eliminated.

The current situation is that Zhang Meng's group is fifth.The first group of No. 4 that has ended has a time of only 20 seconds, which can be excluded. There are two more groups, and no more than two of the No. 43 groups in the two groups can have a time exceeding 4 seconds.According to the situation in previous years, it seems promising, but it has not really ended, so who can be sure.

For Zhang Meng's situation, Huaxia's athletes and coaches were very concerned. In their attention, the third group of the rematch ended, and the Huaxia delegation burst into applause.

They were not congratulating whoever won the promotion spot. The overall results of the third group of players were not ideal, but it was also a good thing for Zhang Meng.

小组第一被安提瓜和巴布达选手克里斯蒂安以20秒26拿下，No.2美国选手斯皮尔曼20秒31拿下了第二，而No.3和No.4的成绩仅仅只有20秒42和20秒47。连张蒙小组的No.6都有不如，这一情况使得张蒙的晋级前景变的十分理想。

In the last group, as long as No.6's time does not exceed 20 seconds, Zhang Meng will successfully squeeze into the semi-finals.

In the vigorous atmosphere of the competition, the fourth group of players in the rematch of the 200-meter race, which China is most concerned about tonight, will appear.

When Yang Zuyao stood on the track and field, the audience applauded enthusiastically.

There are many big names in the evening game, but for the Huaxia audience, Yang Zuyao is the biggest big name.This is China's top 200-meter runner, and they are also their favorite.

Although he has never won an Olympic gold medal, he has never broken a world record.But his own honor in the World Championships, his status as the absolute main player in the relay, and Yang Zuyao's calm but sunny, stable but always improving attitude have made him gain the love of countless Chinese track and field fans.Many Chinese people who have been paying attention to track and field affectionately call Yang Zuyao "Big Brother" and "Captain Yang".

"Oh oh oh!"

"Huaxia, come on!"

"Huaxia, long live!"

"..."

The competition of the fourth group ended in joy.Yang Zuyao lived up to expectations and easily won the first place in the group with a time of 20 seconds. At the same time, this result is also the No.18 among all the players in the rematch.

More importantly, No.4 in this group failed to outperform Zhang Meng.Zhang Meng finally squeezed into the four substitutes and advanced to the semi-finals.

The men's 200m rematch is over, whether it is Zhu Kun who has three races a day, or the top Yang Zuyao, and even Zhang Meng who advanced at the last moment.The three Huaxia players have successfully completed all the games on August 8.

All of this is further proof of China's status as a powerful country in sprinting. Countless Chinese audiences are full of enthusiasm and joy!
(End of this chapter)