Run Out of My Life

“…beautiful! The boys of the Chinese relay team ran very easily, and they qualified for the final, 38.44 seconds, which was second only to Jamaica, the United States and Trinidad and Tobago!"

At 20:30 pm on August 21st, in the Bird's Nest Stadium, the preliminaries of the second group of the men's 4x100m relay race just ended.

The cheers at the scene are rising again and again, and the Chinese relay team successfully won the finals, which made all the audience very excited.

The men's 4x100m event has become one of the strongest events in China's track and field in the international arena since winning the Olympic championship in 2004.

In the stands on the sidelines, Glenn Mills looked like water.

Beside him, Usain Bolt watched Jamaica's first place in the group advance to the final, but his brows were tightly furrowed, and there was no joy.

The men's 200m final was yesterday, but he still can't let it go.

This is not a 100-meter race, this is a 200-meter race, which he is good at.

But he lost.

This was not the first time he lost to Su Zu, but it did make him the most uncomfortable.

He wants to win the championship, very much.

But a game is a game!

You can be annoyed, frustrated, and angry after the game, but you still have to face the result.

The Jamaican audience did not criticize his performance too much. After all, Powell, who was more supporters, failed to perform well, and his family repeatedly comforted him, but he was still a little unwilling in his heart.

"VJ, Su is a great athlete, and so are you. Winning or losing a game doesn't mean anything, your competition has just begun."

Glen Mills said slowly and deeply as he looked at the finish line of the arena. The second preliminaries of the men's 4×100 meter relay race ended, and both Jamaica and China successfully advanced to the final.

"I see, coach!"

Bolt raised his head and looked towards the middle of the track and field, his voice a little vague.

He was going to take part in the preliminaries of the men’s 4×100m relay race, but yesterday’s loss of the men’s 200m had too much impact on him, and he felt a little depressed. The personnel arrangement was adjusted. It was also a preliminaries anyway, and Dwight Thomas was arranged to replace him. As long as there are no accidents, there is basically no problem in advancing.

The two men's 100-meter and 200-meter races with Su Zu have been appearing in his mind repeatedly since last night.

His training may be slack, playful, and occasionally lacks strong self-control, but his heart for chasing championships has never changed.

At this moment, Bolt can understand the mood of Tyson Gay last year. At the Osaka World Championships, the men also lost to Su Zu in the 100m and 200m. The man moved back to a city on the 4x100m.

"Then adjust well and cheer up." Glenn Mills stretched out his thick palm and patted Bolt, "Tomorrow's relay race is very important, I don't want you Come to China, but you can't take away a gold medal."

"Gold?" Bolt's eyes flashed.

Yes, now the game is over, the past is over, he has to do the same as Tyson Gay last year, move back to the last city in the relay race.

Want to take away an Olympic gold medal from the Bird's Nest, now the only men's 4x100m relay race.

This is the last chance.

Also, as strong as the opponent, it will not be an easy match.

The Chinese relay team with Su Zu is very good, and the relay team of Trinidad and Tobago has Mark Burns and Richard Thompson, and they are also strong rivals.

Most importantly, Team USA.

Looking at the history of track and field in the past, unless the US team made mistakes, they almost dominated the men's 4×100 meters in various major events.

This time the US men's 4x100m relay team in the 2008 Olympics has Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin, tomorrow's final will not be so easy.

But, only in this way can you prove the content of this gold medal, isn't it?

Bolt straightened his body, looked at the stadium in the distance, and his eyes rekindled his fighting spirit.

Damn, I don't want to be told one day, Usain, you haven't won the Olympics...

…

Before the finish line of the track and field track, Su Zu looked at Asafa Powell who was not far in front of him, smiled and greeted the other party.

On the Internet of Time and Space, there was a joke about Powell, saying that Powell ran faster with the baton than he was empty-handed in world-class competitions.

In that time and space, although Powell had twice held the world record in the men's 100m, he had never won a single event in a competition. But his performance in the baton was astonishing compared to his losses in individual projects. Whether it is running the third or fourth, they show unparalleled speed, and even many data comparisons are not inferior to Bolt's third and fourth.

There are two groups and 16 teams in the men's 4×100m relay preliminaries. The Chinese relay team is in the second group of the preliminaries, facing Jamaica, Canada, Germany, Thailand, France, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Unexpectedly in this group stage, the 2005 World Championship champion France did not qualify for the final due to changes in the lineup. The four qualifying teams are Jamaica, which is the first in the group, China, which is second in the group, Canada, which is third, and Germany, which is fourth.

Since the Chinese team is now in the second group of the preliminaries, the results of the previous group have already come out, and the eight relay teams that can participate in the finals of the men’s 4×100m relay race tomorrow. Everyone knows that.

The United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and the Netherlands were in the first group, plus Jamaica, China, Canada and the second group. The German team, eight teams will compete for the final men's 4×100-meter relay championship at 22:10 tomorrow night.

"Chinese team, great!"

"Suzu, Suzu!"

"Zhang Peimeng, we support you!"

"China, come on! China, win!"

Su Zu, Zhang Peimeng, Su Bingtian, and Wen Yongyi got off the track and field, but did not leave, but walked to the stands on the sidelines.

The surrounding audience greeted several people very enthusiastically, but fortunately, the stands are divided into multiple layers, so there will be no containment. A few people turned around and waved to everyone, and sat down in the previously reserved seat.

Zhang Peimeng heard someone shouting to support him just now, but he couldn't see who was calling, and for a moment seemed to feel a little wet in his eyes.

He played poorly in the first round of the men's 200m race and was eliminated. Although under the light of Su Zu, not many people paid attention to him, but it still made him somewhat regretful.

Judging from the results of the last two rounds, if he can stably play his own level, not to mention the final, like Yang Guangzong in the 2004 Olympic Games, it is still very good to break into the third round hopefully.

It's just a pity.

Zhang Peimeng clenched his fist and suddenly found Su Bingtian looking at him beside him.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Peimeng coughed lightly.

"Don't worry about it, there is still a relay race, let's work hard together next time!" Su Bingtian smiled and comforted in Mandarin with some Cantonese emphasis.

Zhang Peimeng nodded and looked at the track and field in the distance, "No need for next time, we will work hard tomorrow!"

In the Bird's Nest National Stadium, the broadcast sounded again.

After the men's 4 x 100m relay preliminaries, the women's 4 x 100m relay race, at this time, eight relay teams have appeared on the field one by one, and the athletes of each baseball are warming up and measuring step points .

After the start of the two groups of women's 4×100 meters relay, the Jamaican women's relay team won the first place in the group without any suspense.

"Technology is too crude."

Li Zhizhong shook his head slightly after watching the women's relay team of dental buyers who had just won first place, and couldn't help but sigh.

"But the individual strength is very strong."

Su Zu put on a coat, with his arms supported on his knees, and followed.

The Jamaican women's 4 x 100m relay team in this Beijing Olympic Games has a strong lineup, which is rare in history. Except for a silver medal in the women's 200m, which was lost to an American athlete, it swept the women's sprint 100m or 200m of all medals.

To put it bluntly, they now have four of the fastest female athletes on the planet, and the Jamaican men's relay team is very strong at this Olympics, but not as strong as their women's relay team The lineup is still a lot worse.

"If there are no big mistakes in tomorrow's final, the champion should be the Jamaican women's team."

Li Zhizhong basically agrees with Su Zu's view. Although he pays attention to the baton technique, if the average strength of the individual is too strong, there will hardly be much suspense.

The handover technique can make up part of it, but in the end, the 4×100m, the only collective event in track and field, is still a showdown of speed.

Judging from the current situation, the Chinese men's 4x100m relay team wants to win the men's 4x100m relay race tomorrow, and there is little hope. In addition to Jamaica, there is also the United States team and Trinidad and Tobago.

From what Su Zu knew, the Jamaican 4×100m relay team had hardly made any preparations before the game, and had not even practiced the baton handover. According to Powell, they are all professional athletes, and it is not easy for ordinary athletes to convene. They only practice three or four times a year at most, and once or twice they are in the Olympic Village to sharpen their guns.

In this point, Jamaica is actually similar to the previous US team, but this Olympic Games, Suzu is not quite sure, there are Bolt, Powell, Nesta Carter, Michael Frah The Jamaican relay men's team formed by the United States is more powerful than the American team.

The US team also has two absolutely powerful players in this Olympic Games, Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, plus Walter Dix, Rodney Martin and other members , the average strength is not weak. Before Jamaica's other flyer, John Blake, has yet to participate, the overall strength of the two teams may have a slight advantage in Jamaica, but it is actually limited. Moreover, recently it is said that the U.S. team attaches great importance to the gold medal in the relay race, and uncharacteristically has had many training preparations.

Su Zu, Li Zhizhong, and other members of the relay team are very clear about the understanding of the strength gap in the 4×100-meter event, but no one is timid or fearful heart of.

This is a relay race. When the baton is handed over, a lot of things will happen. Athletes will fall, they will make mistakes, and some people will panic and drop the baton.

In track and field, anything can happen.

…

After the preliminaries of the women's 4x100m relay, what really begins is tonight's highlight game.

At 21:20, the men's 400m final, at 21:45, the men's 110m hurdles final.

In the men's 400m first round preliminaries and second round semi-finals, Yang Guangzong performed extremely well, running 44.78 and 44.82, and got the last eight Strong finals qualification.

The audience cheers, whistles, and clattering noises are almost like waves.

For the world audience, this men's 400-meter race is almost a match between Merritt and Varina, the two current strongest American 400-meter athletes in the Olympic championship.

But for domestic audiences, it is an indescribable surprise to be able to see their own country's players in a race like the men's 400m!

As soon as the game started, the situation on the field was somewhat surprising.

The current world number one in the 400 meters, Varina, who has always been known for the middle and second half of the race, is uncharacteristically, running very fast from the sound of the guns in the game, it doesn't look like he is running 400 meters at all , instead running 200 meters.

He changed to a new coach this year. In view of his strong speed endurance, he especially improved the speed of the first half to gain the opportunity to create better results.

In an instant, everyone's eyes were drawn to Varina, ignoring the performance of other players.

But from the beginning of his running, whether it was Su Zu, Li Zhizhong, or other track and field coaches who knew something about the 400 meters, he felt that there seemed to be a problem with Warina's running method. According to his strength in the second half, it is naturally feasible to increase the speed appropriately in the front, but a balance value needs to be taken in the middle. If running too much, the physical energy loss is too large, and basically there will be problems in the second half.

As expected, at about 250 meters, it was originally the second half of the race that Varina was best at, but at this stage Varina's speed obviously declined.

Rann Sean Merritt, the second-ranked player in the world, suddenly caught up behind him. At this stage, he has fully released his energy accumulated in the first half of the race, and the last corner As soon as it passed, it rushed to the front.

Another Bahamian player Chris Brown and American teenager David Neville were closely following at the same time, approaching Jeremy Warina.

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of boiling in the stadium.

Su Zu, who had been sitting in the auditorium, jumped up instantly.

A red figure was at the last corner, catching up!

That is Yang Guangzong!

250 meters ahead, nearly 300 meters ahead, Yang Guangzong's speed is not slow, he has been running at his own rhythm, and after the last corner, and pull Earnshaun Merritt erupted as suddenly.

Although not as fast as Rahn Sean Merritt and rushed to the front, it was by no means slower than Bahamas Chris Brown and David Neville of the United States.

Jeremy Warina's fast 200m sprint in front of him not only consumed a lot of his physical energy, but to a certain extent, it also took the rhythm of several other 200m runners to run. .

At this time, in addition to the so-called "Tyrannosaurus", Lahnshaw Merritt showed absolute strength, and several other people actually experienced different degrees of speed attenuation because of the excessive rush in the first half.

Yang Guangzong was completely able to stabilize his rhythm.

Before running the 400m, he was the top 200m runner in Asia. It can be said that he is the most experienced runner in various 200m races among the eight runners. ·Warina has his own judgment in the first half of the race. It is regarded as a 200-meter run. Even if his physical fitness and speed and endurance are amazing, he can't stand such a toss.

Now, he has waited for his chance.

The last fifty meters!

Lahn Sean Merritt is the best in the world, with a strong strength within 44 seconds, with Jeremy Warina adopting a new running method, he has almost no opponents.

Yang Guangzong showed his achievements in the 400m training for several years at this time.

If it was the previous game, he also knew very well that Jeremy Warina, who wanted to beat the strength within 44 seconds, had almost no chance, but at this time the opponent was exhausted.

At this time, he was only one position away from David Nevilleman, and half a meter away from Chris Brown.

The last forty meters…

Yang Guangzong caught up with David Nevelman and almost tied with Chris Brown.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters…

In the last thirty meters before the finish line, the athletes have fully demonstrated their most powerful strength.

In the last 20 meters, Yang Guangzong surpassed Chris Brown and was on the same level as Jeremy Warina. The two of them were five or six meters ahead. Advantage of Lahn Sean Merritt.

Ten meters, Yang Guangzong surpassed Jeremy Warina, the current world leader in the men's 400 meters.

Cross the line!

The audience was boiling like a pot of boiling water!

Yang Guangzong won the men's 400m silver medal.

In front of him, Lahnshaw Merritt won the championship with a huge lead of 43.75 seconds.

Yang Guangzong won the runner-up with a time of 44.70 seconds when Jeremy Warina adopted a new running method. Na, the current best player in the men's 400 meters, finally won the third place with a time of 44.74 seconds.

Standing in front of the finish line, Yang Guangzong burst into tears as he watched the final result.

This silver medal was a fluke, but it was a matter of course!

From winning the 200m National Championships for the first time in 1999, to the third round semifinals of the men's 200m at the Olympic Games in 2004, and then to the United States for training, pneumothorax, injuries, and The coach turned back. He failed to stand on the highest podium in the men's 200m event, but won the Olympic silver medal in the men's 400m event!

After the men's 400-meter final, the Chinese team once again won a silver medal in the men's 110-meter hurdles final at 21:45.

Liu Yangyu won the silver medal in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.09 seconds. The champion was Cuban Roberts, who scored 12.93 seconds.

The result is not satisfactory, but this is competitive sports.

Failure gives us strength, and pain drives us to grow.

It seems that all the things that are easy come from the accumulation and persistence day after day!

…

After watching the two men's 400m and men's 110m hurdles finals on the sidelines, Su Zu did not continue to watch the men's decathlon game, but quietly left with the other members of the relay team stand.

The 2008 Olympic Games are going on until now, and there are still three days until the end of August 22, 23 and 24, but for Su Zu, his Olympic journey in the Bird's Nest is about to end, and only One day, or just one game left.

Tomorrow, August 22nd at 22:10.

The last race, the men's 4×100m relay final!