Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 337 You, Knighton, Can You Second Me?
"Ah Yi, Ah Tang, Lao Xie, and Shi Ying, I'm going to play first, you guys work hard!"

"Come on, sister Huihui!"

"Sister Huihui, see you in the final!" Wu Ziyi and the others waved to Lu Huihui, saying goodbye temporarily.

现在是冬京时间8月3日9点10分，女子标枪资格赛第一组将在10分钟后进行, 吕慧慧先行登场。中国女子标枪的另一位名将刘诗颖才刚刚开始热身，标枪比赛的持续时间很长，等到她上场的时候至少也过了10点半了。

Wu Ziyi and others have just arrived at the warm-up field. Their men's 200-meter preliminaries will not start until 11:05. They are not in a hurry to warm up now, so they just take a leisurely walk side by side in the warm-up field.

This morning's schedule is basically the preliminaries/qualifications or semi-finals of some events. Only the women's long jump is the finals. However, there are no players in the Chinese team for this event.

Today's schedule is a test for Wu Ziyi, Xie Zhenye, and Tang Xingqiang. The men's 200-meter preliminaries start at 11:05 a.m., and the semi-finals are not placed on the second day like the previous competitions, but on the second day. It started at 20:50 that night.

For Wu Ziyi, this schedule is completely acceptable, because it is conceivable that he can easily advance to the preliminaries or semi-finals.

But for some weaker players, they have to do their best in the preliminaries, and 9 hours may not be able to fully recover them.

This is also something that can’t be helped. If the strength is sufficient, no matter what kind of schedule challenges they face, the strong will always be the strong. This is the cruelty of competitive sports.

As time went on, more and more athletes showed up on the warm-up field.

The three heroes of the Mold Country are here. This time, the 200-meter lineup of the Mold Country Team is much stronger than that of the Doha World Championships. Noah Lyles is currently ranked No. 19 in the world. As the champion of the US Championships and Olympic trials, Most of the media and track and field enthusiasts believe that he will continue his 200-year form and win a [-]-meter silver medal for the U.S. team.

Bednarek is also in very good condition this year. Before the Olympics, he ran a total of 8 shots of 200 meters, of which only two shots were outside 20 seconds, and one of these two shots was a huge headwind of -3.0m/s , One shot is the preliminaries of the US Championships.

Eliyan Knighton, No.3 in the US Championships and Olympic Trials, the growth rate is a bit jaw-dropping.

2004年1月29日出生的他现在还未满18岁，在美锦赛半决赛上第一次突破20秒大关，就是令人惊讶的19秒88（+1.1m/s），第二天的决赛他又一次刷新了自己的PB，跑出了19秒84（+0.3m/s）的好成绩夺得季军。

19秒84，这是U18世界纪录，吴子义第一次突破20秒都是18岁之后了。

不过好在U20世界纪录依旧是吴子义保持的，2016年的钻石联赛布鲁塞尔站总决赛上，吴子义跑出了19秒51（+0.8m/s）的成绩，在当时也是历史第四个人最好成绩、2013~2016这四年的世界最好成绩。

吴子义觉得这个成绩还是比较稳的，别看奈顿未满18岁就能跑出19秒84，但到了18岁、19岁的时候却未必能提升到更高的水平。

就像桐生相秀一样，18岁跑10秒01，今年26岁了, 别说10秒01，连10秒11都没跑到。

At 19 seconds, Wu Ziyi couldn't believe it anymore, could Knighton kill him in seconds? !

At 11:05 in the morning, the men's 200m preliminaries began. There were three Chinese players participating: Wu Ziyi, Xie Zhenye, and Tang Xingqiang.

There are a total of seven groups, and the promotion rules are very simple. The top three in each group will advance directly, and then the three with the best results will be replaced.

In the first group of the preliminaries, the three players who directly advanced are: Jamaica-De Dwyer, 20 seconds 31 (-0.3m/s); Nigeria-Duru, 20 seconds 36; South Africa-Soyobowana, 20 seconds 78.

Tang Xingqiang played in the second group of the men's 200-meter preliminaries. When he appeared on the track and field field, many domestic viewers who were watching the live broadcast were a little surprised: In addition to Wu Ziyi and Xie Zhenye, there is actually a third man in our country who can participate in the Olympic Games 200 event athlete?

Yes, Tang Xingqiang has "disappeared" and has been away from the audience for four years. The last time he appeared in the international arena was the 2017 World Relay Race in Nassau, Bahamas.

However, the popularity of the World Relay Competition is indeed much lower than that of the World Championships and the Olympic Games. Usually, only track and field enthusiasts will pay attention to it. At most, ordinary people just listen to it and watch the news reports that "Wu Ziyi** *" "Su Bingtian***" "Xie Zhenye***".
Ordinary audiences are forgetful, whether they are athletes or entertainment stars, if they are not legendary figures and have not appeared in the public eye for a long time, people will easily forget them.

Although Tang Xingqiang lost twice to Xie Zhenye in the 20th National Athletics Championships and the 21st Olympic Trials, but in terms of popularity, he is actually not as good as Cheng Guanfeng. Athletes like him who are neither too old nor too young, with neither high nor low grades, are the best. It is easy to become a "marginal" character.

"The 8th track, this is Tang Xingqiang, a Chinese player. He was a core member of the Chinese men's relay team from 2016 to the first half of 2017. Together with Wu Ziyi, Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye, he won the silver medal in the 4×100m relay at the Rio Olympics and the 2017 Nassau, Bahamas Gold medal in the World Relay Championship. He also returned to the relay team in this Olympic Games, and should be serving as the third pole at present."

"Track 5 is Neon's Sani Brown, track 4 is the strongest player in this group, the only one who has ever run under 20 seconds - Jeremy Richards, from Trinity Da and Tobago”

The contestant introduction session is over. Although most of the shots focus on the host Sani Brown and the most powerful Jeremy Richards, Yang Jian doesn’t care about these and continues to “add drama” to Tang Xingqiang:
"After three or four years of sinking, Tang Xingqiang announced his return at last year's National Track and Field Championships, and then showed a very good competitive state, and also won the men's 200-meter ticket for the Beijing Winter Olympics through his own efforts. During the period Perhaps only he himself can understand the difficulties and obstacles. Seeing him standing on the Olympic field is gratifying and moving.”

During Yang Jian's commentary, the eight contestants had already prepared on the starting block according to their respective instructions, and the battle was about to start.

"Set—"

"boom--!"

"At the beginning of the race, judging from the start of the players, the suspense of this group's competition should be revealed so quickly. There is not much difference in everyone's cornering performance."

"Tang Xingqiang performed well in the corner. After 80 meters, he overtook Cameroon's Esem."

"Curve into the straight, Tang Xingqiang, start exerting strength and speed up!"

"Beyond South Africa's Maswanjani, Tang Xingqiang should have come to the first position in the group, come on, keep it!"

"The last 20 meters, sprint! 20 seconds 49, first in the group, very good performance!"

At 20 seconds 49 (+0.9m/s), Tang Xingqiang did not use his full strength, and he still had reservations.

Jerem Richards did not catch up with Tang Xingqiang at the end, he ranked second in the group with a time of 20 seconds; third in the group was Maswanjani of South Africa with a time of 52 seconds.

Sani Brown ranked seventh in the group with 21 seconds. This Jamaican neon mixed race dubbed "Neon Bolt" by some groups fell into a real trough after a serious injury.

男子200米预赛第三组，费米·奥古诺德20秒37（-0.6m/s）小组第一，拉米尔·古利耶夫20秒54排在第二。

The most interesting thing is De Grasse, who was assigned to the second lane. He ran wildly in the first 2 meters, and then went directly to relax in order to save his energy. After entering the straight, he directly pretended to be dead. The score of 60 seconds 20 really put a Pacific Ocean.
预赛第四组，奈顿20秒55（+0.6m/s）小组第一，阿隆索·爱德华20秒60小组第二，比利时的罗宾·范德本登20秒70排在第三。

预赛第五组，诺亚·莱尔斯20秒20（-0.7m/s）小组第一，亚伦·布朗20秒38小组第二，利比亚的约瑟夫·法恩布勒20秒46小组第二。

The sixth group of the preliminaries was recognized as the most competitive group before the competition. Although only Xie Zhenye and Bednarek ran past the 20-second mark, Martinez of Dominia and Daluso of Italy , England's Mitchell Blake are also players in good form this season.

In the end, Bednarek won the first place in the group with 20 seconds (-01m/s), which is also the best result in the preliminaries so far.

In the 8th lane, Martinez made great efforts in the last 50 meters relying on the advantages of the lanes, surpassed from the fourth in the group to the second in the group in an instant, and ranked second with a time of 20 seconds.

Xie Zhenye was at a disadvantage in the corner in the second track, but he still surpassed Daluso in the fourth track by virtue of his back-end ability, and ranked third in the group with a time of 2 seconds.

Although Italy's Daluso is fourth in the group, his time is 20 seconds. He is currently the best among the substitute players, and he is basically in the semi-finals.

In the seventh group of the preliminaries, the organizer put Wu Ziyi in this group for the sake of ratings, and let him play in the finale.

At 20 seconds 16 (+0.4m/s), Wu Ziyi completely swung his stride after entering the straight, and took the first place in the group like a walk.

The second in the group is Sibusiso MATSENJWA from Swaziland with a score of 20 seconds; the third in the group is Joseph Paul Amoa from Ghana with a score of 34 seconds.

In the men's 200 meters, all three players of the Chinese Army successfully entered the semi-finals!
　There is an event at night, I don’t know if it can be finished before 9 o’clock, if it is not posted at 9 o’clock, then wait until the early morning to finish coding today’s Chapter 3, brothers who can’t stay up late suggest watching it tomorrow

　　
　
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