In the second preliminaries group where the Chinese team is located, in addition to the Chinese team, the remaining five participating teams are from Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland and the Bahamas. Among the six teams, the team with the best performance this season is the Chinese men's 4x400m relay team.
The time of 3 minutes 01.67 seconds achieved by the Chinese team in the Asian Championships is still the world's best result in this event this season.
Of course, this does not mean that the Chinese team will be able to easily dominate this game. In this group, the team with the best historical performance should be the team from Trinidad and Tobago. This team has the ability to run under 3 minutes, is a regular in the finals of the World Championships men's 4x400m sprint relay, and is the world champion in this event at the 2017 World Championships.
At this time, on the track, the first runners of the six teams were already squatting on the starting blocks. After the starting gun sounded, six figures shot out on the curved track like flying, and began to compete for the final two qualifying places on this track.
“The game begins!”
On the sports channel commentary booth, Shao Minyi said calmly: "In this game, apart from Trinidad and Tobago, the strength of teams like South Africa and Poland cannot be underestimated. Although the Chinese team has made rapid progress and rise in the past year or so, it still needs to be cautious in dealing with these veteran strong teams that often enter the World Championships and Olympic finals."
What Shao Minyi said was correct, but from his calmness, composure and objectivity, one could sense that he was not as nervous about this preliminary round as he expressed.
Even many people in front of the TV were the same. Compared with the nervousness when watching the women's team's competition before, many track and field fans realized that they were still nervous and expectant about the result when looking at Zhang Ziyi on the track. However, this kind of nervousness and expectation did not seem like a castle in the air without a foundation.
Just looking at Zhang Ziyi running on the track, for some reason, I had a vague sense of security that I could trust.
Zhang Ziyi on the track is no longer the man who used to run at a regular rhythm stubbornly. Now, he has integrated his ambitious sense of speed into his inherent rhythm. His explosive power at the start is much stronger than before, but he can maintain an extreme rhythm that he can control.
Possessing both speed and strength, and being able to most efficiently match his physical speed throughout the entire process, Zhang Ziyi's strength has indeed quietly changed over the past year, and has made a completely different leap from the past.
In this race, the Chinese relay team was arranged in the fifth track. To the right front of Zhang Ziyi were the Polish and Bahamian teams.
The first runner from the Bahamas seemed to be particularly nervous because he was in the outermost lane. From the moment the starting gun sounded, his reaction speed was drastically slow - his starting reaction time was a full 0.263 seconds.
As for Trinidad and Tobago, the team that is theoretically the strongest, their first runner seemed to perform mediocrely, or even a little mediocre, with a reaction time of only 0.207 seconds, which is not really excellent.
However, among the six teams on the entire track, the one with the fastest starting reaction speed was not the Chinese team, but the first runner from South Africa. With a reaction time of 0.142 seconds, it can be seen that the first runner from South Africa had a very strong starting performance. Not only in the explosive stage of the start, but also in the following corners, the first runner from South Africa performed very well. Obviously, he has a very strong ambition and desire for the two qualifying places in this group.
When the top runners from each country entered the final 100-meter stage, the strengths and weaknesses of each runner had already become very clear.
On the track, running in the first group were Zhang Ziyi and the first runner from Trinidad and Tobago. The first runner from Trinidad and Tobago seemed to be taking a steady approach. Although he was not particularly fast in the reaction phase at the start, in the next lap, he relied on his steady rhythm and his own speed foundation, and rushed to the first group almost without anyone noticing.
Behind the two was South Africa's first runner. When he entered the last 100 meters of the 400-meter lap, his physical strength was almost exhausted. Although he still lagged behind Zhang Ziyi and the first runner of Trinidad and Tobago, he no longer had enough physical strength to overtake at this stage.
When Zhang Ziyi passed the baton to Qiu Wen, who was the second runner, this guy who had so much energy but nowhere to vent it became excited almost instantly, and started running forward quickly.
In the commentary booth of Yokohama TV, Hirotoshi Uchimura was also stunned when he saw Qiu Wen's condition: "Ah, Qiu, the second runner of the Chinese team, is really like a legend!"
When the translator relayed Uchimura Hirotoki's words to Su Bai, Su Bai also showed a relaxed smile, which was rare in such an occasion: "Although I don't know what the legend Mr. Uchimura heard is, Qiu Wen is indeed a player who is full of infinite passion for the track. The energy he can burst out on the track is also his most unique charm."
After hearing Su Bai's praise for Qiu Wen, Uchimura Hirotoshi and others nodded in agreement. A contestant with Qiu Wen's personality would easily make people feel good about him, but they obviously only heard the superficial side of Su Bai's praise for Qiu Wen.
In the audience, Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan were also watching Qiu Wen's state. Seeing that he was as excited as ever, they couldn't help but smile.
Pei Jinan was the first to express his feelings: "Qiu Wen is a child with great potential, good personality, and passion for the game. It's really not easy."
"Yes, since I followed Su Bai to the national team, his performance, training, and condition have never been a problem for me. Su Bai said that his biggest problem is that he doesn't have a good control over his own rhythm, but after long-term training, it can be corrected."
"Your rhythm control ability is not good enough?" Jiang Wentao smiled and pointed at Qiu Wen on the track: "Is it that the current situation is not good enough?"
On the track, Qiu Wen was already in the first place when he received the baton. In the first half of the race, he was not afraid of anything. After he passed the first corner and the merging line, he easily grabbed the innermost lane.
The second runner from Trinidad and Tobago followed behind Qiu Wen. The South African runner was running in the second lane and did not try to seize the innermost lane. It looked like he wanted to cut into the first lane at any time.
If that were all, it would just be a normal track competition. In the 4x400m relay, when the strength gap between the runners is not big, there will often be a scene where one group of runners cannot find the opportunity to overtake or overtake, and everyone runs on the two innermost tracks until the last sprint stage.
And this time, with the presence of Qiu Wen, everything became different.
Qiu Wen's speed in the first half came from his original basic training in the event. Since switching to the 400-meter sprint, Su Bai has never fallen behind in Qiu Wen's absolute speed ability training, which is itself one of Qiu Wen's greatest assets.
A runner who has strong absolute speed ability, but sometimes loses control of his own speed and rhythm. When he is running on the track, someone is chasing him from behind, and there is no one in front of him who can guide his speed...
There is no need to describe what will happen at this time.
"Haha, it appears, 'Qiu Wen's rhythm' time."
In the live broadcast room of Ku Ku Zi, the sports commentator named Jiang Chao had an obvious smile in his voice, and the barrage of the live broadcast was filled with a whole row of "Hahahaha".
The so-called "Qiu Wen's rhythm" time is actually a saying that has only been officially circulated since the last Asian Championships. It says that Qiu Wen has a problem that Su Bai once publicly commented on, that is, his ability to control speed and rhythm is poor. Many track and field fans can also see this problem when watching the replays of some of Qiu Wen's earlier competition videos.
Especially some of the competition videos before Qiu Wen switched to the 400m event, in which Qiu Wen's performance was even more obvious.
But the reason why everyone laughed was certainly not because of this.
The reason why everyone is so laughing is because Qiu Wen's problem not only affects himself but also others.
In the words of track and field fans, Qiu Wen has a special temperament, and his personal characteristics determine that his state can infect many athletes on the same field with him.
And his own rhythm will also affect the players on the same field with him.
It has happened before that any athlete behind Qiu Wen would be involuntarily affected by Qiu Wen during the competition. What is more obvious is that when there is no athlete in front of Qiu Wen, Qiu Wen's tendency to lose control of his rhythm will increase, just like the situation in the men's 400m sprint final of the Asian Championships when Qiu Wen was placed in the ninth track.
There was no player in front of him, and Qiu Wen obviously lost control immediately, causing the entire rhythm of the players behind him to collapse. This can be said to be a large-scale lethal weapon.
At this moment, Qiu Wen on the track showed such a feeling - there was no player in front of him, and someone was chasing him from behind, and was very close to him.
Qiu Wen's first instinctive reaction was: run fast!
Lao Zhang must not lose the advantage he gained in the first leg in the second leg!
Qiu Wen thought so sincerely in his heart, so he glared, and one could almost see two burning flames in his eyes.
Ahhh, the current rhythm seems to be fine, but why is the pursuit so close later?
This thought just flashed through Qiu Wen's mind, and then he increased his speed even faster.
The second runners from Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa behind Qiu Wen were competing against Qiu Wen on the track for the first time. They did not know Qiu Wen's technical characteristics. Only after seeing Qiu Wen accelerate, the South African runners immediately thought that if they could not overtake the first runner, they would seize the position of the second runner first - after all, there was already a gap in front of the second runner from Trinidad and Tobago where they could force their way in.
The second runner from Trinidad and Tobago also keenly sensed the South African's intention, and Qiu Wen's acceleration in front of him also caused a slight disruption in his original rhythm.
Soon, the athletes who had originally maintained the pace of a 400-meter run, led by Qiu Wen in front, ran at the speed and style of a 200-meter run on the 400-meter track.
This is the so-called 'Qiu Wen's rhythm time'.
Qiu Wen had no idea what the audience watching the game were feeling at the moment. Once he started running like crazy, he completely forgot about the rhythm. In addition, Su Bai not only enhanced his absolute speed training, but also enhanced his endurance and physical training. His original speed and endurance talents were far beyond ordinary people.
Under such combined effects, on the 400-meter track, it was almost only Qiu Wen who set the pace and killed others, and no one else could force Qiu Wen to death by setting the pace.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the players of other teams behind Qiu Wen lost their composure. Among them, the second runner of Trinidad and Tobago was the first to realize that the rhythm was wrong, but when he tried to readjust the rhythm, he was no longer able to catch up with the Chinese player in front of him.
In the commentary booth of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen both laughed.
"Qiu Wen is a very inspiring athlete. On the track, he can be considered a 'secret weapon'."
Many of the Hahaha fans on the barrage also laughed when they saw this, and some people happily played jokes on the barrage -
[23333, will we be able to see a famous scene in the future? It's called 'We promise that we will never use Qiu Wen first'? ? ? 】
[Pfft, brother in front, please stop kidding. Hi, but it’s really funny when I think about it. 】
[At present, we don't know the extent of Qiu Wen's destructive power. Qiu Wen is currently in the second position, and his opponent's strength is not top-notch. If he is placed in the first position or the last and strongest position and can still have this effect, then it would be amazing! 】
[The most amazing thing about Xiao Qiu is that he has his own core rhythm. He runs like this, and while others crash, he doesn't. I really don't know how he trained it. 】
On the track, Qiu Wen rushed forward quickly. Except for a brief drop in speed in the second corner, his speed picked up again in the final straight section.
When Qiu Wen's speed dropped in the second corner, the Trinidad and Tobago and South African players behind him thought they had a chance to take advantage. However, when they tried to speed up and overtake Qiu Wen in the third lane, they found that Qiu Wen quickly stabilized his speed. After cutting through the straight road, Qiu Wen's speed quickly climbed up again...
When Qiu Wen entered the sprint mode again in the last 100-meter race, the Trinidad and Tobago and South African athletes, who realized that they seemed to have been 'cheated', felt a pang in their hearts.
When they tried to overtake Qiu Wen, their physical strength was further consumed, and as a result, in the final sprint, they did not have much energy left.
The Dutch and Bahamian runners following behind them were also very desperate - why did the second lap of today's 400-meter relay make them feel so tired?
When the baton was finally handed to the third runner, Qiu Wen was still full of energy. He was still shouting to Guo Dun in front of him - Come on, Old Guo! ! ! !
After catching their breath, several players behind Qiu Wen looked up at the number plate and name on Qiu Wen's clothes, and remembered this player named "Qiu Wen" from the Chinese team in their hearts.
On the track, after Guo Dun, who was the third runner, received the baton, he was already quite far away from the players behind him. Because of the strong support of Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen in front of him, he was naturally in the innermost lane and did not need to worry about overtaking others.
In the 400-meter event, Guo Dun's current strength is not as good as Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen, but after training under Su Bai for such a long time, Guo Dun's strength has improved and is no longer at the level of 46.68 seconds.
Guo Dun understood that his absolute speed ability was not good, and he was not like Zhang Ziyi who suddenly got the hang of things. So he was definitely not the most important baton in this relay team, but he also had his own advantage, which was stability.
His stability lies not only in his mentality, but also in his rhythm. When facing an unfavorable situation, he can remain stable. When facing an advantageous situation, even if there is no one in front of him to refer to, he can still maintain his speed without the slightest panic or deformation.
Guo Dun knew that the athletes from Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa behind him were likely to have better 400-meter single-lap speed than him, but even so, he did not force himself to change his rhythm.
He maintained his position steadily. He knew that the player behind him was approaching, but he also knew that if he couldn't even maintain this word "stable", if he tried to forcibly change the rhythm and increase the speed at this time, the only result would be a loss.
On the commentary stand of the sports channel, Li Sen couldn't help but sigh when he saw Guo Dun's condition: "Guo Dun's rhythm is really 'steady'. On the court, with the enemy behind him so close, he can still maintain his speed and rhythm, meticulously. This is a huge difficulty and test for any player."
Guo Dun withstood the test and successfully maintained his first position. Although the third runner of the Trinidad and Tobago team behind him was very close to him, he did not lose his composure, causing an imbalance in his rhythm and ultimately leading to defeat. This was already a victory.
When Guo Dun left the court, Zhang Ziyi gave him a thumbs up, and Qiu Wen said to him happily, "Old Guo, well done!"
In the fourth lane, after receiving the baton, Li Junhao started to rush forward at full speed.
Ever since his glass heart was healed after being stimulated by Su Bai, he seemed to have gone too far, changing from a glass heart to a heart of steel, and on the track he was full of an aura of "who else but me".
Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen will be running the mixed 4x400m race later. In the first two legs, they both tried their best, but they definitely did not try their best.
In the last two bats, what Guo Dun needs to do is "steady", while what Li Junhao needs to do is "charge"!
You know, the fourth runners of each country are basically the strongest runners of each team. These runners behind Li Junhao, not to mention that they all have the strength to run into the 400-meter qualifying result for the Tokyo Olympics, but they definitely all have the strength to run into the 400-meter individual qualifying result for this year's World Athletics Championships.
This means that all of these athletes have achieved results within 45.30 seconds in the 400m event.
If this result were achieved in China last year, no active athlete could have surpassed it!
After these thoughts flashed through his mind, Li Junhao frowned again, and his state on the track seemed even more powerful. No matter what the results of the players behind him were, or whether they crushed him, there was only one thought in his mind - charge!
Of course, as a player with enough talent in the 400-meter sprint, Li Junhao's charge is not a mindless one. He does not have the speed endurance as strong as Qiu Wen. What he can do is to combine his speed, explosive power and rhythm to the best state, and do his best in each stage while maintaining a core rhythm... Then, on the basis of the 'best', he can burst out selectively.
Maybe just "best" seems easy, but to make every link perfect is almost a fantasy.
But Li Junhao did it. He used to be dissatisfied with Su Bai, but now he already knew what kind of "magic" Su Bai possessed. However, even so, his proud self-esteem and stubbornness still did not allow him to admit his mistakes in front of Su Bai in a nice and gentle manner.
All he can do is to give his best performance in every game. He wants Su Bai to see his strength and ability.
It was with this stubborn mentality that he had done his best in almost all the training contents assigned by Su Bai, whether it was the training of his absolute speed, speed endurance, speed explosiveness, flexibility, rhythm control... and so on. His training was a bit like a kind of "gour" between him and Su Bai, but this "gour" state had already benefited him a lot.
Sometimes, Li Junhao felt that the longest road he had ever walked was probably Su Bai's routine.
But he still did not break the tacit understanding of this "routine" and continued to train meticulously.
In a game like today, he certainly would not allow any possibility of failure to occur because of himself when the team is in an advantageous position.
When the race entered the final straight, the only competitors were Li Junhao, Trinidad and Tobago and the fourth runner from South Africa.
None of them gave up the so-called control of speed in this final stage - increasing arm swing, pressing down the body, and speeding up the pace.
Sprint!
There are only two spots available for the Tokyo Olympics, and none of them want to lose! !
The wheezing sound is the sound of breathing, and also the pain that feels like the air is tearing the trachea and chest when it passes through the throat and is inhaled into the lungs. But no one cares about this. They all push their speed to the limit - until they finally cross the finish line.
“Win!”
In the audience, Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan both laughed out loud. Jiang Wentao clapped his hands on the railing in front of him, his eyes full of satisfaction and excitement.
“Win!”
In the commentary room of the sports channel, Shao Min's eyes lit up: "Congratulations!!! China's 4x400m men's sprint relay team has successfully advanced to the finals of this World Athletics Relay Championships with the first place in the group. At the same time, it has basically won the qualification for the Tokyo Olympics!"
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