"Li Junhao took fourth place in the fourth group of the preliminary round!" Shao Minyi quickly thought about it after seeing this result: "The rules of the group stage are that the top three players in the group will advance directly, but this does not mean that Li Junhao has no hope of advancing. In addition to the quota for direct promotion in all groups, the top six players among the remaining players will also be qualified to advance as substitutes."
"According to the current available data, the first group of preliminaries, starting from the fourth place, had scores of 45.34, 45.45 and 45.65 respectively. Compared with the second and third groups, the first group was affected by the rhythm, so there was a certain gap in the scores between them and the following two groups. The fourth, fifth and sixth players in the second and third groups had scores of 45.12, 45.19, 45.47, 45.20, 45.25 and 45.68 respectively. If we only count the first six remaining players in the first three groups, the sixth place currently has a score of 45.45."
"The results of the fourth group of preliminaries have not been announced yet, but because there is Amesfar ahead of Li Junhao, that means that if Li Junhao wants to enter the semi-finals, he must at least squeeze out the first two players. The fifth and sixth groups of players are also full of strong players. If we want to ensure that the players behind do not squeeze out the quota, then Li Junhao's results should be ranked in the top three among the remaining players."
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, after Shao Minyi and Li Sen determined Li Junhao's ranking, they directly pulled out the results of the first few groups and started calculating. The director of the sports channel was also very cooperative and directly cut out the results of the first few groups of players on the screen, allowing the audience to easily and intuitively see the results of the first three groups.
At the same time, the fourth group that Li Junhao was in was also on the screen, but the positions of their results were temporarily marked with question marks.
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, track and field fans were all nervous when they saw this part - what was Ah Hao's score? Can Ah Hao make it to the semi-finals?
[I checked and found that the third place among the remaining players had a score of 45.20 seconds...]
[I saw it too. With this result, Ah Hao is in danger? His PB is only 45.25 seconds, right? 】
[Ah Hao is in good shape today. If he can refresh his PB, there is still hope...]
[Wait, guys, what are you thinking about? If Ah Hao wants to grab the third place, there is still an Amestel in front of him! In other words, Ameister can take the second place, and Ah Hao's result must be better than the current second place, so that he can occupy the remaining top three! 】
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[In that case... the current second place score is 45.19, so Ah Hao needs to run at least under 45.18? 】
Although the performance of the three 400-meter sprinters led by Zhang Ziyi has indeed been greatly improved, no one can really say for sure whether Li Junhao can refresh his PB in the previous game when these track and field fans are asked to say.
What's more, what we are pursuing now is not only to refresh the pb, but also to refresh the pb to 45 seconds 18.
A year or two ago, this sentence meant: Li Junhao is going to participate in the competition today, and we hope that he can break the 400-meter national record in the preliminary group competition and push this record forward by 0.07 seconds.
This thought flashed through everyone's mind, making all track and field fans sober up for a moment, but no one would really give up until the final result came out.
In the audience, Pei Jinan and Jiang Wentao did not have real-time screen data to view. Just after the ranking came out, they were also calculating what result Li Junhao needed to achieve to be considered safe, but they could not remember the previous data and could not calculate it accurately.
Just when they were frowning, Su Bai reported the performance data of the top three groups and the top six to them directly.
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Yes, they actually forgot that they had such a humanoid supercomputer plug-in around them.
But after hearing the results reported by Su Bai, Jiang Wentao and the others felt gloomy - it seemed very dangerous for Li Junhao to get into the top six.
After everyone's nervous wait, the big screen on site finally flashed, and the final results of the fourth group of preliminaries came out!
World Athletics Championships Men's 400m sprint preliminaries Group 4:
First place: Barnes (USA), 44.98 seconds;
Second place: Fraser (Jamaica), 45.01 seconds;
Third place: Walcott (Botswana), 45.10 seconds;
Fourth place: Amesfar (Kuwait), 45.17 seconds;
Fifth place: Li Junhao (China), 45.22 seconds (pb);
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45.22 seconds!
Li Junhao did refresh his PB in this group preliminaries, but unfortunately, the improvement was not high, only from 45.25 seconds to 45.22 seconds.
All the Chinese audience who followed Li Junhao's competition had not had time to get excited about Li Junhao's PB refresh before they immediately realized that although his result could indeed rank him in the top six of the remaining players, there were still challenges from the fifth and sixth groups of players behind him...
This top six position, or to be more precise, Li Junhao, who is currently ranked fifth, will definitely not be able to advance to the semi-finals as long as two of the remaining players in the next two groups surpass his results.
On the field, Li Junhao also saw his own results. He frowned tightly and was calculating the results of the previous groups of players in his mind. However, his mind was not as clear as it was on the field.
He knew that this was because he was nervous and looking forward to it...
But the feeling of pinning one's hopes on the mistakes of others is too torturous and too uneasy.
As this thought arose in his mind, Li Junhao silently clenched his fists - strength, his strength is far from enough, he needs to work harder to improve his performance before he can stand on this field without fear.
If he had enough strength to advance directly into the top three, why would he be so anxious and tormented now?
Thinking of this, Li Junhao took another look at the group results on the big screen, then followed the guiding staff to the exit passage.
"The results of the fourth group are out. All we can do now is pray and hope that Li Junhao can have good enough luck." Shao Min said this and then stopped talking, turning the topic to the contestants who are about to appear in the fifth group of preliminaries.
This time, the fourth, fifth and sixth groups of the preliminaries unexpectedly gathered a large number of top players. The competition in the last three groups was like a large Shura field, with a large number of top players competing for the qualification to advance to the next round in the top three of each group.
Because of this reason, people originally thought that the mystery of whether Li Junhao could advance would not last too long. However, surprisingly, the fifth group of the preliminaries, which originally had famous players from Jamaica, the United States, the Bahamas and other countries, had such poor results that it seemed like a joke.
The top three players who advanced directly had scores of 45.48, 45.59 and 45.81 respectively. The Jamaican star in the group, Borut, whose PB was 43.91, couldn't even make it into the top three in such a group match. His score of 46+ seconds stunned everyone.
Shao Minyi and Li Sen both laughed after seeing the result: "This... the results of this group match are really unexpected. I don't know what happened to the players in this group. Every player's results are unexpectedly poor."
In this situation where there are so many famous athletes in the same group, the top three results would not even make it into the top five if placed in other groups...let alone the top five, the first place in the fifth preliminaries group, with a score of 45.48 seconds, would not even be ranked sixth if placed in the fourth preliminaries group where Li Junhao is, but in the fifth group, this result can directly qualify for the next round.
"...The wonder of competitive sports was also fully demonstrated in today's competition." Li Sen sighed, and then suddenly cheered up: "However, under the influence of this special situation, Li Junhao still maintains the fifth place among the remaining players... As long as the fourth and fifth place players in the sixth group of preliminaries do not run less than 45.22 seconds, Li Junhao can advance to the semi-finals based on his ranking among the remaining players!"
If Li Junhao's hope of advancing was still slim when the fourth group of preliminaries just ended, now this hope has suddenly risen again.
This ups and downs in hope made Pei Jinan, Jiang Wentao and a group of Chinese athletes in the audience feel anxious, and also made the domestic audience who were waiting for the game feel anxious.
[Ahhhhhh, my God, this is too tiring, right? I originally thought that after watching the fifth group's competition, I would have a rough idea of whether I could advance. However, after the fifth group's competition, the ranking of the top six remaining players did not change at all? 】
[Damn, my head hurts too. Aren’t the results of the fifth group a bit too low? If Ah Hao was competing in the fifth group, he would have directly advanced as the first in the group! 】
[Don’t talk about Ah Hao. If Xiao Qiu was in the fifth group, wouldn’t he also be first? 】
[Oh my god, I was shocked when I saw Borut run 46.22 seconds. You can't paddle like this, right? Doesn't this mean you don't want to advance to the semi-finals? 】
[It’s not just Borut. I was so amazed by the match of Group 5 just now... The Asian Championships were much more exciting and thrilling than this group of matches...]
Many viewers were complaining about the results of the fifth group and the good luck of the top three players in the fifth group who advanced directly. However, this luck is really something that others cannot envy, so they could only watch the players in the fifth group easily advance to the semi-finals with very casual results.
In the contestant channel, Zhang Ziyi, who was waiting to go on stage, also watched the fifth group of preliminaries in the contestant channel. The other contestants in his group raised their eyebrows and showed surprise when they saw the fifth group's match, but other than that, Zhang Ziyi could see that his opponents did not have any envy of the fifth group's contestants.
After seeing the results of the fifth group of contestants, most of them turned their heads calmly and stood in the aisle, waiting for guidance from the staff.
Zhang Ziyi glanced at the live TV screen, then turned his head calmly, waiting quietly for the staff's instructions.
"Hey, brother, are you envious of those guys in the fifth group?" Just as Zhang Ziyi turned his head and prepared to wait quietly for the game, an English voice with a strange accent sounded in Zhang Ziyi's ears. He turned around and saw that it was the Colombian player in the sixth group.
Although this guy has dark skin, it can be seen that he is not very old. He just looks a bit annoying because of his ostentatious face.
Without waiting for Zhang Ziyi to reply, he started to talk nonstop: "You are a Chinese athlete, right? I know that China's 400-meter national record is 45.25 seconds... This result is a bit bad in our group, but you are still much better than Gibraltar. The 400-meter record of Gibraltar is more than 47 seconds. Hey, this result is simply too funny. You know, when I practiced 400 meters for two years, I could already run 47 seconds. The 400-meter athletes of this country are too bad..."
I don't know where this Colombian player got his confidence from. Perhaps he believed that Zhang Ziyi's performance was not as good as his, so he treated Zhang Ziyi as a player from the weaker team who needed to look up to him.
In the player channel, the Gibraltar player who was also in the sixth group heard his words. When he humiliated Gibraltar's results, the smell of gunpowder between the two sides was already emerging.
Zhang Ziyi didn't say much, but when the Colombian player was about to continue speaking, he responded coldly: "You are too noisy."
"Hey! What did you say?"
Zhang Ziyi was not in the mood to pay too much attention to this guy. At this moment, the staff appeared and began to guide them onto the track. Perhaps because his desire to show off was not satisfied, the Colombian athlete turned around to look at Zhang Ziyi and gave him a thumbs-down gesture of contempt.
After all the contestants arrived at the stadium, they stood on their respective tracks, began to adjust their starting blocks and did a simple test run.
In this group of competitions, Zhang Ziyi was in the fifth lane, while the Colombian player Martins, who had been spitting garbage and mocking Zhang Ziyi, was placed in the ninth lane.
According to the implicit rules of lane arrangement, those who can be randomly arranged in the middle track are basically the strongest players in the group. After Martins arrived at his lane, he looked back and saw that the Gibraltar player was arranged in the second lane as expected, but he soon saw that the Chinese player who he had just ridiculed was in the fifth lane.
This was basically a golden lane in the group. Martins looked in the direction of Zhang Ziyi with an incredible expression, and then turned into indifference and contempt again - he felt that this preliminaries might not follow the usual lane division principles, but was randomly decided by a computer.
Zhang Ziyi, who was standing on the track, didn't pay attention to what Martins was thinking. After adjusting his starting blocks and taking a simple test run with them, he stood back at the starting point, simply stretched his limbs, and waited for the race to begin.
Zhang Ziyi looked around. In this huge stadium, the seats were almost full of spectators. Every audience member was very enthusiastic. Even before the game started, some audience members gathered together to cheer for the game. These enthusiastic voices echoed in the stadium, making the audience more excited.
Around him are the famous American athlete, Christensen with a PB of 43.87 seconds, and Kenya's rising star in the men's 400m event in the past two years, Gipluto, who once ran under 44.30 seconds, and the Colombian Martins who was shouting at him. Although he is too arrogant, his PB is also 44.88 seconds, making him a young player with excellent talent.
Standing on such a track and looking around at these strong opponents, Zhang Ziyi had a momentary impulse to go all out in this race and see what kind of results he could achieve - fortunately, he remembered in time that it was only the preliminaries.
His goal was not to give up in the semi-finals after such a preliminary round.
He wanted to take a look, take a look at the scenery at the top position, and then stand in the top circle of the finals, so that more people can see him and see...what heights the players from China can reach!
Although Su Bai said that he hoped they could enjoy the track more purely, Zhang Ziyi knew that this honor for his country and family had long been engraved in his bones and blood, and he would not abandon it. He would carry this honor and responsibility and run on the track he loved.
Inhale, inhale, inhale, inhale...
With a subtle breathing rhythm, Zhang Ziyi gradually let himself enter a more devoted state. He stood calmly on his own track, feeling the soles of his feet touching the ground through the soft running shoes, feeling the cheers from the audience, feeling everything that made him hot...
Then, as the "get ready" prompt sounded in the broadcast, I walked to the starting blocks, bent over and squatted, ready to start.
"The men's 400m group six preliminaries, the competition for Zhang Ziyi's group is about to begin!!"
Shao Minyi's voice trembled slightly, revealing an irrepressible nervousness.
Not only him, but also Li Sen, the staff in the director's room of the sports channel who were also watching the game, the millions of viewers in front of the TV, and Jiang Wentao and others in the Chinese player area at the competition site...
Everyone is looking forward to the upcoming game nervously.
"Ready...bang!"
Almost in an instant, after the ready sound, the starting gun sounded immediately - the last set of preliminaries of the men's 400-meter sprint began!
The moment the gun went off, Zhang Ziyi's strength exploded at the right time, and then he stepped on the starting blocks and accelerated forward quickly!
This preliminary round was not as relaxed as the fifth group's preliminary round. On the contrary, perhaps because of the negative example in the fifth group's preliminary round, every player in this game was in extraordinary shape, and they showed an unshakable momentum at the start.
"Zhang Ziyi's start was very good! His explosive power was excellent, and his explosive power was not inferior to that of the American runner Christensen behind him!"
"Zhang Ziyi relied on his explosive start to quickly close the gap with the British player in lane 6 in front of him!"
"Great! Keep it up!!"
On the track, the British runner in lane 6 was unaware that the Chinese runner was approaching him quickly behind him on the left. And behind Zhang Ziyi on the left, the runner from Iraq in lane 4 had a look of shock on his face after seeing Zhang Ziyi's explosive start and acceleration speed.
So fast!
The Chinese athlete accelerated so quickly at the start!
Although Zhang Ziyi did not fully unleash his form, but in such a top-level arena, when facing these top players, even if he just maintained the same intensity as in the previous World Championships qualifiers, he would have an extraordinary performance in such an arena.
I blocked out all the surrounding environment and sounds in my mind, and the only sounds I could hear in my ears seemed to be my own heartbeat, footsteps, and the boiling sound of my blood.
The hot feeling made Zhang Ziyi feel refreshed.
He can run faster!
Even if he controls his physical strength, he can still run faster...! This light feeling as if there was a force dragging him forward on the track allowed Zhang Ziyi to run quickly on this 400-meter track.
Now, not only the Iraqi player behind him noticed him, but even Christensen from the American team further behind him discovered the Chinese player on the fifth track in front of him, whose speed was so fast that it was completely beyond his expectations.
Christensen almost subconsciously began to chase forward - he could feel that the Chinese player in front of him had a very steady rhythm, but even with this steady rhythm, his running speed was still very fast.
This is not his limit!
Christensen came to this conclusion immediately.
He had to go faster. He didn't want to be like those guys in the fifth group and run a ridiculous result.
Compared with the fifth group, the competition between the contestants in the sixth group's preliminaries was so exciting that people thought it was not a preliminaries but a semi-finals.
After the first bend, Zhang Ziyi gradually caught up with the British player in the sixth lane ahead. When he was about to enter the second bend, after a brief stalemate, he overtook the British player in the sixth lane.
Then there is the Belgian contestant in lane seven.
After the second bend, whether in the audience seats in the Chinese athlete area, in the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, or in front of the TV, the supporters of the Chinese team began to cheer and shout at the top of their lungs.
"Ahhh! Zhang Shuai, go for it! Come on!!!"
"Overtake! Overtake!"
At the last straight track, the competition was already between Christensen, Gippluto and Zhang Ziyi. Martins, who was in the ninth track, originally thought that his direct advancement was a sure thing. However, after getting on the straight track, he found himself in fourth place in a blink of an eye. Among the three players in front of him, one was the Chinese player whom he had despised before the game.
This is impossible? !
When Martins saw Zhang Ziyi's back, the expression on his face was obviously shocked. After a moment of shock, he no longer cared about his physical strength and sprinted forward with all his strength, trying to overtake the third-place Chinese player. However, before he successfully overtaken the Chinese player, he found that the Chinese player had overtaken Christensen of the American team and was closely following Kenya's Gipruto...!
Jipuruto was in excellent condition throughout the whole race today. Even in this excellent condition, he felt the threat from behind in the last 50 meters of the sprint. Fortunately, this threat did not eventually surpass his ranking.
In the last 50 meters, Zhang Ziyi had the idea of sprinting forward with all his strength to overtake Jipuruto, but his rationality also came to his mind and he restrained this idea.
In the end, in the sixth group of the men's 400m sprint preliminaries, Zhang Ziyi successfully advanced to the semifinals with the second place in the group!
So far, two players from the Chinese team have obtained direct qualifying spots.
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