Run Out of My Life

August 24th.

At 9:00 am, after a day's rest, Su Zu and Yang Guangzong followed Yu Liwei, Li Zhizhong, Yuan Guohua and several coaches, as well as several delegation officials and related staff. A bus arranged by the organizer was taken in a mighty manner and headed directly to the Olympic Stadium.

This morning was the first round of the men's 200-meter preliminaries. The men's 200-meter event at this Olympic Games is similar to the 100-meter race. It is also four rounds of preliminaries, semi-finals, semi-finals and finals.

The morning of August 24th is the first round of preliminaries, and the second round of the rematch will be held at 20 o'clock in the evening. A slight difference is that, taking into account the physical requirements of the 200 meters for athletes, the semi-finals and finals are held on separate days. The semi-finals will be held at 22:55 on August 25, and the final round will be held at 22:25 on August 26.

The number of athletes participating in the men's 200 meters at this Olympic Games is smaller than that of the 100 meters.

The A mark of the men's 100m at the Athens Olympics is 10.21, and the B mark is 10.28. The men's 200m Olympic A mark is 20.59, and the B mark is 20.75.

If you simply multiply the AB standard of the men's 100m by 2, the values ​​are 20.24 and 20.56, which seems to be higher than the Olympic 200m AB standard.

However, it is not possible to measure the actual AB standard and select athletes to participate.

The men's 100m event, known as the crown jewel of the Olympic Games, has always been the most concerned about the entire Olympic Games. And because it is a straight run, for all kinds of venue conditions, the athletes who specialize in training 100 meters worldwide are an extremely large base.

The 200-meter event requires a lower level of attention. It not only requires the absolute speed and explosive power of the athletes, but also requires a high level of speed endurance and cornering skills. Level.

Compared with the 100-meter athletes, the 200-meter athletes in special or concurrent events have extremely high requirements for their personal speed endurance, that is, the ability to maintain speed in the second half.

20 seconds is much more.

The men's 200m preliminaries were divided into 7 groups with a total of 55 athletes, of which the sixth group had 7 athletes and the other groups had 8 athletes.

The nearly 70,000 seats of the Olympic Stadium may be working days or other reasons, and many seats were vacant this morning.

But in a small area, red flags were fluttering, and the Chinese spectators and overseas Chinese who came to watch the 200-meter preliminaries were more than the previous 100-meter finals yesterday.

These are the men's basketball and women's volleyball events a few days ago, and have not paid attention to the men's 100 meters. Until yesterday, I suddenly heard that in the men's 100m event, Su Zu suddenly won the third place, and then began to pay attention.

Or maybe I noticed, but the men's 100-meter finals in the track and field event were not available at all, so I had to settle for the next best thing and cheer on the 200-meter event.

"Is Su Zu playing?"

There was a commotion in the crowd, and someone asked loudly, the first yellow race to break 10 seconds, the first Chinese to win the bronze medal in the men's 100m final, is worth it anyway People look forward to it.

"Probably not yet, Su Zu seems to be in the third group." Someone in the audience answered.

"It's Yang Guangzong."

As a spectator recognized the Chinese who appeared on the 200-meter starting line wearing red sportswear, the cheering and cheering sounded at the same time.

In the warm cheers of the Chinese audience, the atmosphere of the entire Olympic Stadium is not so warm, the local Greek audience who came to watch the game has been silent, and occasionally there are a few curses sounded.

Yang Guangzong, who was standing on the fourth runway, raised his head and waved to an audience area with a red flag from a distance, his face that used to be laughing, there was no smile at this time, silent and focused .

He, like Chen Jian in the men's 100m, was in the first group of the preliminaries. As for whether the event organizer can do this, it is unknown. After all, both he and Chen Jian have relatively low rankings in the IAAF, and they also lack rankings in international competitions.

"In any case, at least have to run into the rematch."

Yang Guangzong glanced at the athletes on both sides and said silently. Before Su Zu appeared, Chen Jian was the men's sprinter in the 100m and he was in the 200m. Not to mention Su Zu now, just because Chen Jiandu has already run the Olympic men's 100m semi-finals, and heard the second shot of the Olympics, this is the goal he gave himself at least.

There is a gap in strength, but no matter what, you have to do your best to get a satisfactory result.

With the introduction of the athletes by the broadcast of the stadium conference, the contestants of Yang Guangzong's group took their places one by one. Among the eight athletes, in addition to the Chinese audience who will pay special attention to Yang Guangzong, they are attracting the most attention. The audience's attention was another player - Francis Obiq Viru.

He was sent off in the final men's 100m final the night before yesterday, and today he was almost gloomy and silent. With his strength, if he missed the 100m event, he missed a medal. At this time, Obikvelu's eyes showed a strong fighting intent, and he was full of anger.

On the big screen at the scene, the information of the 8 players in the first group of the men's 200m was also played.

First Course, Paul Blazer, Ireland;

Second Course, Juan Pedro Toledo, Mexico;

Third Road, Nubuat Fodfana, Guinea;

The Fourth Road, Yang Guangzong, China;

Fifth Road, Francis Opic Viru, Portugal;

Sixth Road, Stefan Buckland, Mauritius;

Seventh Road, Johann Wiseman, Sweden;

The Eighth Road, Handa Beeson, Saudi Arabia;

Among the players in Yang Guangzong's group, Obikweilu's strength is self-evident. He is an athlete who can enter the men's 100m final.

It is worth noting that Stefan Buckland of Mauritius ran the best time of 20.06 in 2003. In July 2004, before the start of the Olympic Games, Stefan Buckland ranked first in the 200m event in the IAAF World Rankings. It is worth mentioning that Stefan Buckland, a black athlete, is quite handsome in appearance. Later generations in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as the flag bearer of Mauritius, have been paid attention to.

Another Mexican athlete, Juan Pedro Toledo, is not to be underestimated. He was a long jumper early in the morning. Later, after the specialization was changed to 200 meters, he won two consecutive championships. First place in the 200 meters in the Americas and the Caribbean, and participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

At 10:35, with the sound of a starting gun, the first group of the men's 200-meter preliminaries of the Olympic Games officially started.

But after the sound, within five seconds, the audience was in an uproar.

Obike Viru rushes again!

Obikvillu put his hand on his forehead, almost unable to believe it himself.

Yang Guangzong saw the tension caused by excessive concentration in the eyes of the opponent. He was too concerned about the 200-meter race this time, especially after being sent off at 100 meters, almost the whole person His attention was immersed in the preparations for the 200-meter preliminaries.

Fortunately, it is the first shot and will not be sent off directly.

The game started again, this time, the audience was almost stunned.

On the starting line of 200, there was another situation where the athlete rushed to run.

This is the rematch of the first group, but all the players are nervous.

But this time it was no longer Obikviru who took the lead. His start this time almost completely reduced his starting reaction time, and the Saudi Arabian player in lane 8 took the lead Handa Bison.

The appearance of this situation is almost shocking, whether he deliberately did not want to finish the game and made such a move.

Like the 100m final the night before, it was affected by two rush runs. The reaction time of all the athletes in the first group of the men's 200m preliminaries was much longer than before.

The fastest reaction times were Paul Blazer of Ireland and Stefan Buckland of Mauritius, with 0.179 seconds and 0.185 seconds respectively.

Obike Viru's starting reaction in this group was 0.243, which was the slowest among all the runners in the competition.

Yang Guangzong's starting reaction speed was not fast, reaching 0.217 seconds. The reaction times of the other runners were all after 0.2 seconds.

Yang Guangzong ran almost as hard as he could. He clearly understood his own strength. He was definitely not an athlete who could run for about 20 seconds, and could release all kinds of water in the preliminaries.

In China, his 200-meter level is the top level in Asia, but in the world arena, it is far from enough.

If you want to enter the finals, you can only play your best level of strength.

Curves, straights, accelerated runs.

When Yang Guangzong crossed the finish line with the fourth person, he almost jumped up.

Rematch, he entered the rematch!

20.59, his personal best time of the season.

7 preliminaries for 200 meters, the top four in each group can directly advance to the semi-finals, and the remaining four athletes with the best results, a total of 32 athletes, will participate in the semi-finals.

After finishing this group, Yang Guangzong saw that he was the fourth in the group, 0.01 seconds faster than the Swedish player John Wiseman, who was fifth in the group.

In his group, the first in the group is Stefan Buckland, 20 seconds 29, the second in the group is Obi Keweilu and Juan Pedro Toledo tied, All in 20.40.

At this time, in the audience, the Chinese audience cheered and applauded when they saw Yang Guangzong successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

Yu Liwei, Li Zhizhong, Yuan Guohua and other coaches who were on the sidelines also breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Guangzong's smooth promotion did not have to be the same as Chen Jian. .

Athletes in the first preliminaries of the 200m on the field are over, and the athletes in the second preliminaries are on the field.

At this time, on the warm-up track in the third group of preliminaries, Su Zu casually ran back and forth twice, and all that appeared in his mind was the figure he just saw.