Run Out of My Life

"Congratulations on qualifying for the men's 200 semi-finals!"

"Wow, it's like you didn't make the cut, you're the champion seed now."

On the bus back to the Olympic Village, Su Zu and Yang Guangzong, who had just participated in the morning 200-meter preliminaries, were chatting with Liu Yangyu with a smile.

The first round of the men's 110-meter hurdles event also started today, August 24, but the start time in the morning was an hour earlier than the men's 200-meter sprint, so the coaching staff arranged Liu Yangyu to go to the Olympics in advance In the stadium, the time between Su Zu and Yang Guangzong was staggered.

Men's 110-meter hurdles, as a straight and short span event, also attracts attention. The venue arrangement is the same as the sprint event, and it is also a four-shot shootout for the preliminaries, semi-finals, semi-finals and finals.

However, in terms of schedule, it is more generous than the men's 100m and men's 200m events, and basically maintains the rhythm of one race a day.

At 9:35 am on August 24th, the first round of the men's 110-meter hurdles preliminaries were held, and at 22:15 on August 25th, the second round of the semi-finals, August The semi-finals will be held at 21:00 on the 26th, and the final will be held at 21:30 on August 27th.

"Where's Dashi, has he advanced?"

On the bus, another domestic competitor who participated in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries did not show up, so Yang Guangzong asked. During the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries, he and Su Zu were busy warming up and checking in, and they didn't see the entire preliminaries.

"Should go back first."

Liu Yangyu shook his head, not sure. Shi Dongpeng, the short-span player who fell in love with him and killed each other, did not perform well in the fourth group of the preliminaries.

The 110-meter hurdles are 6 preliminaries, the top four directly advance to the semi-finals, and the remaining eight are supplemented to get the best results.

Shi Dongpeng's score was 13.68 seconds, sixth in the group, and ninth in the supplementary score. He was eliminated with a gap of 0.02 seconds and missed the second round of the rematch.

"What a pity."

Yang Guangzong sighed, this is not the personal competition of athletes, but the glory of the Olympic Games for the country. If one more person can enter the semi-finals and enter the semi-finals, one more chance and guarantee.

The Olympic medal in the Chinese men's track and field sprint and sprint event is still only a bronze medal by Su Zu. Yang Guangzong is not too sure about the 200-meter hurdles, but the 110-meter hurdles are indeed more likely.

United's men's 110-meter hurdles project points, already ranked first, the absolute favorite to win.

Several people sighed and chatted about some of their opponents in the recent competition. Before they spoke, the bus returned to the Olympic Village.

Still pressed for time, eat, rest, warm up for a while in the evening, and then the masseuse from the team doctor came over to give Su Zu and Yang Guangzong a pre-match massage warm up.

At 18:30 in the evening, under the leadership of the coaching staff and related staff, Su Zu and Yang Guangzong returned to the Olympic Stadium again.

The men's 200m rematch in the evening is at 20:00. There are four groups in total, and the top three in each group will advance directly, and the rest will take the four fastest athletes in each group A total of 16 athletes will participate in the semifinals tomorrow night.

Su Zu was placed in the fourth group in the men's 200m rematch, while Yang Guangzong was in the second group.

The number of spectators at the Olympic Stadium in the evening is obviously much larger than that in the daytime. One is that the temperature is higher during the day on weekdays, while the temperature is relatively lower at night, and there are many competitions. From the men's decathlon, to the women's pole vault final, to the women's 400-meter final and the men's 1500-meter final, there have been several gold medals in track and field events.

On the other hand, in the men's 200-meter event, after the Greek star Kentris was suspended, there are still two native Greek players Anastasios Gooses and Panayotti Sceris, broke into the rematch.

At this time, in the distant United States, in a dormitory at the University of Arkansas, someone was also paying attention to the Olympic 200-meter event.

A young American with a mustache and a well-proportioned body is sitting motionless in front of the TV, watching the broadcast of the men's 200-meter rematch.

At the time of the preliminaries, it was still early in the morning in the United States, and he did not have the habit of staying up late to watch the game, but now it is 20 o'clock in the evening in Athens, and the United States has just reached noon.

Beside the young American, a middle-aged man in his 40s and 50s is sitting. Traces of being an athlete.

"Tyson, you missed a rare opportunity."

Lance Brauman leaned back on the chair and watched the TV screen in the men's 200m rematch. Germany.

"Coach, it was the judges who judged unfairly and made me miss this opportunity to participate."

The black-American man with a mustache is very stylish, and his expression is serious, but his voice is hoarse and delicate, and his tone contains anger.

Due to his special physique, he usually drinks more water than other athletes, whether in training or competition. In this year's U.S. Olympic Trials, the mineral water he prepared for himself before the competition was suddenly taken away by other athletes. It caused him to suffer leg cramps due to dehydration in the 200-meter race, and eventually missed the opportunity.

Lance Brauman shook his head and continued: "Tyson, this is competitive sports, all your competitors will use various means to restrict you. You are still an amateur Athletes, you don’t have enough fame to support you, so that all the players and referees look at you. Your talent is so outstanding, you should think about it and become a full-fledged professional athlete.”

"The coach, what about my college studies?" The young black American with a mustache still has some doubts. He entered high school and college through sports, but unlike other athletes, he In addition to the competition, majors in sociology and marketing were also chosen.

Many talented black American athletes don't care about their studies in college, but after a year of injury and silence in 2003, plus his family has been an athlete, he understands that an athlete The career is short, to be admitted to the university, it is necessary to master some knowledge.

"Trust me, Tyson, you still have a lot of room for improvement. Your specialty is 200 meters, and there are not many people who can match you at 200 meters at your current level. And , you also have huge room for improvement in the 100-meter project."

Lance Brauman said bitterly that his disciple is amazing in sprinting. He can be said to be no less than Justin Gatlin, who won the 100m gold medal for the United States again two days ago. But also because of his athlete family background, his disciple has a lot of taboos about athletes' injuries, and now he is not willing to give up his studies in college and become a professional sprinter.

"I also want to think about it, coach." The young black American hesitated, "I hope to help the school win more championships in next year's NCAA games."

"You think about it." Lance Brauman said again, "Like Veronica Campbell Brown, you and her have been training partners for a long time, you should know that becoming a What is the income of a professional sprinter? Even if it is not comparable to the NFL and MLB, and the top stars in the NBA, it is far more than the average person. It is a career worth working hard for."

The young black American was silent, and Veronica Campbell Brown was his age, a Jamaican women's sprinter, and both were athletes under coach Lance Brauman. Veronica Campbell Brown won the Olympic silver medal in the women's 4x100m relay in 2000.

After four years of training, this year she has competed in the Olympic Games as a women's 200m athlete for the Jamaican track and field team, and she will have her women's 200m semifinal this afternoon.

"If you can focus all your energy on sprinting, I believe you will become the top sprinter on the planet."

Lance Brauman pointed to the TV, the first group of the men's 200 meters rematch is about to start, "Sean Crawford, Justin Gatlin, and all of them, they are not will be your opponent."