At 7 a.m. on July 24, the qualifying round of the men's 10-meter pistol had already begun. In the Olympic Village, the athletes of the track and field team did not go to watch the game. Instead, after ensuring adequate sleep and rest, they went to the training venues prepared by the Japanese organizers for athletes of various events to carry out daily training.
On the 24th, the Chinese shooting team maintained their usual excellent form and stable mentality. Facing the world's top players, they defeated their opponents in the final two shots and successfully won the first Olympic gold medal for China!
The Chinese team won the first game with great success, and this successful start made all Chinese audiences happy and proud.
Compared with the 2016 Rio Olympics, the distance between the venue of the Tokyo Olympics and China can be said to be an Olympics at home. Perhaps because of this, the athletes have adapted well to the overall environment of Tokyo. With this foundation, the athletes in various events have also performed very well.
During the competition schedule from July 24 to July 29, the Chinese team has temporarily and relatively stably occupied the second place in the medal table. However, the gap between the Chinese team and the third-placed British team is not very obvious. The British team may overtake the Chinese team at any time. It is the existence of this possibility that makes the Chinese audience and the Chinese team's players always feel a sense of crisis.
The track and field schedule will officially begin from July 30. A total of 43 gold medals will be awarded in the entire track and field schedule, of which the Chinese team can be truly confident of winning no more than 3.
Judging from the competition between China and Britain in the track and field events in the last Olympics, the Chinese team won two golds, two silvers and two bronzes, while the British team won two golds, one silver and four bronzes. The strength of both sides in track and field events seems to be equal. It is difficult to say who is stronger between China and Britain in this event.
"In general, although the British team's chances of winning gold medals and medal-winning strength are similar to ours, we must not take it lightly. In order to maintain China's current position in the gold medal table, at least in track and field events, we must ensure that the number of medals does not lose to the British team!"
At noon on July 29, Jiang Wentao held a small meeting with the track and field team. The main topic was this: China and Britain are very close in the medal table. Although the track and field team cannot help China significantly widen its ranking in the medal table, it must at least ensure that it will not be the one lagging behind.
Upon hearing this, the players and coaches of the national team all nodded carefully and seriously - of course, even if Jiang Wentao didn't say so, they would still try their best to compete. After all, this is the Olympic arena they have dreamed of for a long time, and who doesn't want to leave a successful mark in this arena?
After this meeting, Jiang Wentao kept Su Bai alone again and asked him how the mixed 4x400m relay team of Chen Yada, Lin Yao, Zhang Jiale and Li Junhao were doing.
When Su Bai decided to give up the men's and women's 4x400m events, Pei Jinan also reported the final decision. After reading the reasons for the report, the Athletics Management Center also agreed with Su Bai's decision.
Su Bai can now be said to be an authority on the 400-meter sprint in China. Even the General Administration of Sports will seriously respect his suggestion - and if the mixed 4x400-meter relay affects the long series of subsequent competitions, everyone knows that it will not be worth the loss.
After Jiang Wentao's questioning, Su Bai briefly reported to him the emergency training of the mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay team in the past few days. In fact, as early as this year's winter training cycle, the mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay team had tried to replace multiple players for training. Zhang Jiale and Li Junhao already had a certain tacit understanding in the training of the men's 4x400m relay, so it was not too difficult to switch to the men's and women's 4x400m relay.
The main training among the few people was on the tacit understanding of passing the baton, and the rest depended on everyone's performance.
In fact, for people who don’t understand the situation, it seems that there is no impact after the relay team changes players, except for the speed. But in fact, how could there be no impact after the teammates who originally had tacit understanding and mutual trust in training changed players? In particular, the two people who were replaced, Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen, are both core figures in the relay. Just talking about Zhang Ziyi, with his presence, the cohesion and confidence of the entire team are different from what they are now.
If the original team can not only maximize its strength, but also have the opportunity to perform above its level because of its full confidence.
So, without the original core members and confidence, the entire team's performance in the game can at best barely maintain its previous state, and it is basically impossible to perform above its level.
The content of Su Bai's report was very simple and straightforward. Jiang Wentao already understood the situation, so he didn't say much and just nodded to show that he understood.
The next day, on the morning of July 30, the track and field series of the Olympic Games finally officially began.
On the first day of the track and field schedule, there were a total of 11 competitions in the morning and afternoon. The morning session included the men's high jump qualifying, men's 3000m steeplechase preliminaries, men's discus qualifying, women's 800m and 100m competitions.
The only final of the day's competition was the men's 10,000m final, which started at 19:30. This race was where the first gold medal would be awarded in track and field events - unfortunately, this event was also where the British team had an absolute advantage.
Of course, there will be more than just track and field events on this day's competition. The Chinese team also has many opportunities to win gold medals. For example, the swimming genius girl who emerged as a dark horse in this Tokyo Olympics, her final will also be held today. In addition, there will be a series of finals including the women's singles table tennis final and the fencing final.
But for track and field athletes, if the first gold medal in a track and field event is won by the British team, it will always create more pressure.
However, no matter what kind of pressure the athletes of the track and field team may be under, the schedule has already been set and cannot be changed.
In the morning competition, the Chinese team focused on the men's high jump qualifying round and the women's 100m preliminaries. In these two events, the Chinese team had two athletes in each event. In the men's high jump competition, Wang Shen was in qualifying group a and Ye Wenhao was in group b.
At 10 a.m., the men's high jump qualifying round officially opened. There were a total of 43 male athletes participating in the qualifying round in the two groups. The initial height of the bar in the qualifying round was slightly "friendly" than that of the World Athletics Championships and the Diamond League. It was not 2.19 meters, but 2.17 meters.
At this point in time, it is only 9 a.m. here in China, but there are still many people watching the game in the sports channel's online live broadcast room.
Some viewers who had previously followed the World Athletics Championships and the Diamond League laughed when they saw this initial height.
[Not bad. Although the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has set the most stringent entry requirements in history, they are actually quite kind during the actual competition! (Three consecutive dog heads)]
The qualifying round is to select players to enter the finals. As for the standard line for advancement, it mainly depends on the overall performance of the players present today.
During the entire qualifying round, the players will jump to the end as if they were in a normal competition. After all the players in groups A and B have finished the competition, the referee team will combine the scores of the two groups and finally select the top 13 players to advance to the finals.
The process of screening from 43 to 13 is a very cruel one. So even though this is a qualifying round, some players who are not particularly sure about their own abilities dare not relax too much, but try their best to get a good result to ensure that they can successfully advance to the finals.
As for Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao, Wang Shen is known as the "constant intelligent AI". For him, this kind of qualifying competition does not put any special pressure on him. As for the other Ye Wenhao, after he jumped over 2.33 meters in the previous Olympic trials, his overall condition seems to have improved. In addition, he was not a very sensitive and delicate person, so the pressure of the competition was more like motivation for him.
Therefore, in the men's high jump qualifying competition in the morning, Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao both jumped a good score of 2.29 meters, and in the end, the final qualifying line for the two groups was cut at 2.26 meters - the two naturally advanced easily without any pressure.
There were some rather confused viewers in the online live broadcast room.
[Hey, why is it that after jumping to 2.29 meters, no one continues to jump down? 】
[Well...you do the math. There are 5 people in Group A who can jump over 2.29 meters, and a little more in Group B, 6. There are 13 qualifying spots in total. You can definitely advance in the qualifying round, so of course an extra centimeter is a waste! 】
While everyone was rejoicing over the Chinese team's twin stars in the men's high jump advancing together, the women's 100m preliminaries were also completed at the same time. The two female athletes from the Chinese team who had qualified for the Olympics also qualified in their respective preliminaries groups in this competition.
In the two events in the morning, all four contestants from the Chinese team advanced!
The audience was delighted to see this good news, and many people on Weibo were happily discussing and forwarding this news - since the start of the Olympics on July 24, a bunch of new Internet celebrities have emerged on the domestic Internet. Most of these Internet celebrities are related to the Olympics, and they became popular by discussing Olympic-related topics.
The birth of these internet celebrities is enough to show how hot the topic of the Olympics is right now.
However, before people had time to be happy about the good news that all athletes advanced in the morning track and field competition, a new Weibo post began to be forwarded crazily by many people.
——[#Tokyo Olympic Track and Field Schedule# I just saw that the track and field team announced the men's and women's mixed 4x400m relay. The contestants on the list are Chen Yada, Lin Yao, Zhang Jiale and Li Junhao. It's a bit strange. Why are the members of the relay team not the top Chen Yada, Lin Yao, Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen? Is Su Bai so confident that even without sending Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen, these members of the mixed relay team can still advance to the finals? 】
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