Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 341 The Moldy Country Team Didn't Seem to Enter?
"Set—"

"boom--!"

8月5日中午11点30分，冬京国立竞技场，男子4×100米接力项目预赛第一组的比赛刚刚开始。

There were still not many spectators at the scene. In the quiet stadium, TV viewers could clearly hear the handover commands shouted by the athletes in various languages ​​during the handover process.

Javon Minzi, the first bat of the Jamaica team, played very well. With a hard power of 10 seconds, he took the lead visible to the naked eye. After Julian Ford completed the handover with him, they were only "behind". The outsider Dutch team has less than two positions.

Julian Ford, who has a hard power of about 10 seconds, was even more unstoppable after running on the way, and Tamer Burnett, the second batter of the Dutch team, was quickly overtaken by him.

It is a pity that the third player, Yohan Blake, started too early. After waiting for a long time, he had to slow down and complete the handover with Julian Ford.

The nearly 32-year-old Yohan Blake's speed resistance ability has deteriorated very seriously, especially in the process of accelerating-decelerating-re-accelerating during the process of taking over the baton. His speed dropped very obviously after 80 meters. Fortunately, Sevilla, the fourth player, started a little later, and just formed a "complementary" with Blake, who was slowing down, and successfully completed the handover.

Many strong players in the first group of the preliminaries did not play their due strength, and the fourth bat of each team, except for Sibney, is not strong. The most funny thing is that South Africa actually dropped the bat, which made Sibini didn't even have room to play.

From the moment the handover of the third and fourth clubs is completed, until the end of the gun competition, the starting position of the players represents the final group ranking of their team.

牙买加队37秒82，英吉利队38秒02，霓虹队38秒16，法兰西队38秒18
Wu Ziyi watched the game leisurely from the audience. Both Yuan Guoqiang and Randy thought that he didn't need to play in the preliminaries, so he was also happy to be leisurely and OB in the audience with the team.

If it is true in the past, especially before 2015, the Chinese team in the relay preliminaries must have played with all their main players, because at that time, the Chinese men's relay team might not be able to enter the finals of the World Series even if they played with all their main players.

But everything is different now. In addition to Su Xie, Tang Wu, there are four substitutes, Wu Zhiqiang, Cheng Guanfeng, Sui Gaofei, and Yan Haibin. Of course, Sui Gaofei and Yan Haibin did not come to Winter Beijing with the team. Cheng Guanfeng played in this preliminaries.

Both Su Xie Tang Cheng and Su Xie Tang Qiang can easily break the 38-second mark, and the upper limit of the time is about 37 seconds.Even if there is a small mistake in the middle, it doesn't hurt. These boys of the Chinese team have basically lived together since last year's winter training, and their tacit understanding will never allow the situation of dropping sticks.

In another stand, Noah Lairs sat slumped in his seat, looking a little depressed, completely gone from his past hippie smile.

Wallace Spilmon next to him kept clenching his fists and praying, his lips kept moving and humming.

He was praying, praying for the smooth completion of the handover of the four bad boys below, Treyon Brommel, Fred Corley, Ronnie Baker, and Craven Gillespie.

This is the top four in the 10-meter race in the United States. Even Gillespie, who is the weakest, has a strength of about [-] seconds. As long as the handover is completed smoothly, it does not need to be perfect, and the advance to the preliminaries is safe.

Wallace Spilmon was under a lot of pressure. Before the Olympic trials in Beijing, the relay team coach Orrin Richberg learned that his wife had been diagnosed with cancer and decided not to go to Japan to take care of his wife.

Therefore, the Mold Country team has no relay camps and training camps, and no training opportunities. Orin Richberg has never personally guided the relay team athletes in the 2021 season.

Another of his colleagues, relay team assistant coach and Osaka World Championships relay champion Michelle Freeman, had advocated for a relay battalion but ultimately had no say in the decision and was told due to the impact of COV-19 For related reasons, no relay battalion will be set up.

Wallace Spilmon collected the relay information of all members of the relay team, excluding Lyles around him, only one member of the 2021 Beijing Winter Olympic relay team has participated in the relay recently——Trewon Bro Mel.

布罗梅尔今年春天早些时候参加了两次4x100米接力赛，分别跑出了38秒89和39秒19的成绩，相当难看。

克雷文·吉莱斯皮从2019年多哈世锦赛预赛38.03之后就没有参加过接力赛；罗尼·贝克从2018年田纳西接力赛38.08之后就没有参加过接力赛；弗雷德·科尔利从2017年NCAA接力赛38.72之后就没有参加过4×100米接力赛。

He really wants to be a responsible relay coach. If he can train this group of young people well without the head coach Olin Richberg, then he will definitely become famous and maybe be able to become a teacher like him. What about top coaches like Lance Brauman.

But it is a pity that he does not have that ability. He is not able to get the help of Justin Gatlin like he did in 2019. His prestige is not enough to suppress this group of competitive young people, let alone suppress them. coaches and sponsoring companies.

So Wallace Spilmont is handing everything over to God, hoping his Almighty Lord can help the Moldy Nation Relay Team get through this time, at least, to the finals
******
In the fourth starting area of ​​the stadium, De Grasse smiled and greeted the newcomer of the Chinese team. He remembered that this young man was next to him in the 100-meter semi-final. Although he did not advance to the final, he 9 seconds The score of 99 still surprised De Grasse a little bit.

De Grasse asked about Xu Zhouzheng's news. In the winter of 2018, this young man joined the Renault training camp of the Tumbleweed Club. He was quite impressed by the hardworking Chinese young man. Very able to endure hardships and never cry tired during training.

However, Guanfeng's answer made him a little unhappy, because he said that Xu Zhouzheng's physical injury is not optimistic, and he may have to undergo an operation after the National Games. If the effect is not good, it is very likely that he will...
It's really a pity. De Grasse seems to remember that Xu Zhou mentioned his injury when he was training. If I remember correctly, it should be a ruptured cruciate ligament. He occasionally saw Xu Zhouzheng alone in the corner after training. Hugging his knees and moaning.

De Grasse knows what injury means to an athlete, because he has also fallen into the abyss. Fortunately, his injury can be treated, but Xu Zhouzheng suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament
De Grasse could only pray for him in his heart, maybe a miracle would happen to him.

The Chinese relay team is in the fourth lane of the second group of the preliminaries. Their opponents are the Canadian team, the Italian team, the German team, the Ghana team, the German team, the Turkish team and the Danish team.

"Set—"

"boom--!"

At the beginning of the game, Su Bingtian, who was guarding the first bat, was like a red hurricane. He attracted the attention of countless spectators from the start. He was ahead visible to the naked eye. Su Bingtian used his absolute strength to directly blow up the first bat of the U.S. team on the third track. Romell.

The second handover is completed, the Chinese team has gained a huge lead, and Xie Zhenye will face the Olympic runner-up Jacobs.

Jacobs continued his super ability, his speed was much higher than that of Xie Zhenye, and he quickly widened the gap in stature after taking over.

When the first and second bats were handed over, the gap between Xie Zhenye and Jacobs was only one body position. Jacobs used his tyrannical strength to directly wipe out the advantage accumulated by Su Bingtian's first bat.

But that's all. The relay race is about the four people as a whole rather than the four individuals. Perhaps Jacobs rushed a little too fiercely, which made the third-ranked Daluso make some mistakes in judgment. So late that Jacobs had to slow down and hand over the baton.

Su Bingtian and Tang Xingqiang seized this opportunity, and their smooth handover techniques allowed them to complete the handover a little earlier than the Italian team. The first two bats of the Chinese team were still slightly better.

Tang Xingqiang's performance in the third bat was obviously better than Daluso's. His speed resistance ability is quite good, and his handover technique is also more stable, so Cheng Guanfeng can start earlier to obtain a faster initial speed with the bat.

Italy's No. 10 Filip Totu is also a late-game player, but facing Cheng Guanfeng, who ran within 10 several times this season and created a personal best of 9 seconds, he obviously couldn't recover the accumulation of the first three clubs. disadvantage.

In the two positions, Philip Totu could not narrow the gap no matter what, and on the outermost track 9, a man wearing sports sunglasses chased him up on hot wheels.

Cheats · Teleportation!

When De Grasse finished taking over, the Canadian team was in sixth place, only ahead of Turkey and Ghana, but as a late teleportation monster, his speed added up and surpassed one after another.

Moldy country team, super!
Denmark team, super!
Deutsche Bundesliga, super!

The last Italian team, and then super!
De Grasse went directly from second to last to second in the group!

中国队37秒78小组第一，加拿大队37秒92小组第二，意大利队37秒95小组第三，德意志队38秒06小组第四，加纳队38秒08小组第五，霉国队38秒10
The promotion rule for the preliminaries of the 4×100m relay event is to take the top three in each group to directly advance to the final, and then take the two best results to advance to the final. The results of the first group have already been released, so the results of the second group will be announced After that, the list of finalists was also obvious.

38 seconds 10, even if you don't look at the results of the first group, there are still two teams ahead of the Moldy Country team, so I sent it.

最终晋级的八支队伍是：中国队（37秒78）、牙买加队（37秒82）、加拿大队（37秒92）、意大利队（37秒95）、英吉利队（38秒02）、霓虹队（38秒16）、德意志队（38秒06）、加纳队（38秒08）。

The men's 2019×4m runner-up in the 100 Doha World Championships, the Uygur Relay Team, which set a national record for Uygur, fell in the preliminaries.

Near the athlete's passage, the thirsty Su Bingtian took a few bottles of water from the staff and gave them to his teammates. He didn't look carefully when the results were announced on the big screen just now. I asked Xie Zhenye:
"It seems that the bad country team didn't enter?"

Xie Zhenye sipped his saliva, waved his fingers and said meanly: "I didn't make it, the group is sixth!"

(End of this chapter)