This online public opinion storm was discovered in time, so although it started quickly, the overall clarification and feedback were also quick. However, although the clarification was made so quickly, the previous negative public opinion had already spread.
As the saying goes, it takes only one mouth to spread a rumor, but it takes a lot of effort to refute it. Even though some people who were previously deceived angrily forwarded the rumor-refuting content and criticized Ding Ruihan, there are still many people who are unclear about the cause and effect of this matter.
The Athletics Administration Center directly called the provincial team where Ding Ruihan is currently located, severely reprimanded the team for its negligence and inaction in supervising the athletes' ideological education, and directly issued a ban penalty notice to Ding Ruihan for this year in the name of the Athletics Administration Center.
When Ding Ruihan received a call from the current coach of the team, he was angry and scared. However, the fact that he hired Internet soldiers to discredit the national team has been exposed. Even several of the Internet soldier studios he hired have been directly blocked. Now these Internet soldier studios have come back to trouble him and said that if anyone is still investigating, they will not hide anything for him and let him fend for himself.
Not only that, these water army studios are threatening to make him compensate for the losses.
In short, Ding Ruihan, who had just started an online rumor in the morning, is now in a mess.
He doesn't want to be banned. He is in excellent form this year. In the domestic Grand Prix, his best time was 45.77 seconds. If it was two or three years ago in China, Zhang Ziyi might not have been able to achieve this result several times in a year!
Ding Ruihan knew that he could achieve even better results, and after he lowered his time to 45.77 seconds, his current provincial team was planning to register him for some international competitions, in order to improve his results as much as possible and strive for greater honors in the future.
It was because he ran a result of 45.77 seconds that he felt he deserved better treatment and a better team. Thinking of the fact that he was kicked out of the trial team, he became even more indignant, so he took advantage of this incident during the Olympics.
As a result, the Athletics Administration Center has directly banned him from competing this year, and online public opinion has not been able to proceed according to his original ideas. All of this makes Ding Ruihan feel that everything is so unsatisfactory - with his talent, can Zhang Jiale compare with him? As a result, Zhang Jiale was eventually selected into the national team and directly entered the Olympic arena? !
All kinds of thoughts gathered in Ding Ruihan's mind, making his face look worse and worse. Even his parents who had been helping to keep an eye on the situation did not expect such a result, so now their whole family looked very unhappy.
Putting aside Ding Ruihan who has no longer made any waves, after several days of Olympic competitions, the attention and enthusiasm of passers-by on the Internet for the competition have declined slightly compared to the initial level. However, after this incident at noon today, a large number of netizens' attention was drawn to today's track and field events.
On the Internet, although the national team, the Athletics Management Center and Su Bai have made relevant clarifications and explanations about tonight's arrangements, as the first Olympic event of the 400-meter event, not sending the best athletes to compete will still seem a little inappropriate to some viewers.
However, after the black-hat army and other people who muddy the waters were banned, the truly unreasonable people on the Internet only accounted for a very small number. The number of reposts of science popularization posts by track and field enthusiasts that were originally drowned out by the black-hat army and other people also gradually increased at this time. Even if there are still people who don't understand, when they discuss this topic, they are simply asking questions without so much hostility.
During the exchange of questions and answers, the Olympic Games kicked off on the evening of July 30. The huge Tokyo Olympic Stadium was already filled with Japanese spectators and tourists who came to Tokyo from all over the world to watch the games.
Looking towards the audience seats, there were flags of various countries, the largest of which was of course the flag of the home country Japan. Many Japanese spectators wore headbands, had Japanese flag stickers printed on their faces, and held the national flag in their hands. Even now, before the game officially started, they were cheering for their own country at the top of their lungs.
Japan and China are very close, so the Tokyo Olympics has become an event that many Chinese sports fans cannot miss. Just like today's track and field event, there are also a large number of Chinese spectators who rushed to Tokyo from China to watch the game. Although the number of Chinese spectators is completely incomparable to the number of Japanese spectators, the enthusiasm of this part of the spectators is no less than that of the Japanese spectators.
So, the game hadn't started yet, but the atmosphere on the scene had already reached its peak.
"How is it? It's the first time that one of my athletes is going to compete in the Olympics. How does it feel?"
In the audience, Jiang Wentao and Su Bai sat together, and Jiang Wentao talked to Su Bai with a smile.
Of course Jiang Wentao also received the news about what happened in the afternoon. He didn't say much, but just told Su Bai and the members of the mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay team who were about to compete to relax.
There is no doubt that the Athletics Management Center definitely supports Su Bai. Of course, it is impossible for such inexplicable reasons to turn around and affect the mentality of the players and coaches.
Although he had consoled them, Jiang Wentao was still unsure whether Su Bai and several other members of the mixed relay team would be affected.
The purpose of his question at this moment was to indirectly understand Su Bai's thoughts and his assessment of the status of the players in the relay team.
Su Bai smiled and said, "Le Le and Ah Hao both came to me individually this afternoon and said that they would go all out tonight to let the national audience see their strength."
The national team had originally given up on this mixed relay, which was only intended to provide training for the athletes, but Zhang Jiale and Li Junhao wanted to sprint for a good result with all their strength. They are also willing to support it. There is still some time before the men's 4x400m relay. At least if it is just Zhang Jiale and Li Junhao, they still have enough time to recover.
Domestically, the sports channel broadcasts all track and field competitions live in the evening as there are no other major events at the same time. At this moment, Shao Minyi and Li Sen are already sitting in the live broadcast room, introducing the mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay race that will start shortly.
"Many viewers may not know that the mixed 4x400m sprint relay was added to the Olympic Games for the first time in this Tokyo Olympics, so tonight's mixed 4x400m preliminaries are also the first time we have seen this event in the Olympic Games."
Shao Min started by briefly introducing the particularities of the mixed relay event, and then Li Sen took over and briefly explained the topic that was hotly debated in the afternoon.
"Tonight's match actually caused a heated discussion this afternoon. The core of the discussion was that the Chinese team did not send out the best lineup of players in tonight's preliminaries. Some viewers thought this was disrespectful to the Olympic Games, but in fact, it was just the opposite. Coach Su Bai made this arrangement out of his emphasis on the Olympic Games and out of his hope that our players could achieve good results in the entire schedule."
Li Sen and Shao Minyi used the pre-match preparation time to briefly review what happened in the afternoon, and once again clarified and corrected the views expressed by some radical groups in the afternoon's public opinion chaos. This was also the request the two received before the live broadcast started.
Now, two people’s explanations have thrown the most direct reasons into the ears of the audience, which marks the end of the final wave of clarification.
Shao Minyi and Li Sen are both experienced. After clarifying the competition, the Group A team of the mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay preliminaries had already appeared on the stage, and the two quickly shifted their attention to the commentary of the Group A competition.
The Chinese team's preliminaries are in Group B. The players have not yet appeared on the stage. Shao Minyi and others gave corresponding commentaries on the current group of players.
"The mixed 4x400m relay is a huge test for a country's average 400m sprint performance. In this competition, both male and female athletes need to be at the world's leading level. With such a combination of athletes, as long as they have a period of tacit training, they are likely to achieve excellent results."
"Yes, since the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee announced the addition of this event, countries have quickly formed mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay teams. Apart from the initial period, by the time of the World Championships, we can already see that teams like the United States and Poland have easily achieved a significant improvement in their performance with their deep accumulation of athletes."
At this point, Shao Min paused and said, "From this point of view, although my country's 400-meter sprint project has risen rapidly in the past two years, it is still a certain distance away from the world's top teams. One of the reasons is that our talent accumulation is far from enough."
"That's right." Li Sen also nodded in agreement, and then said: "But as the saying goes, bite back a stutter, and the road must be taken step by step. Anyone who pays attention to track and field events and the 400-meter sprint event must know that in the past two or three years, China's 400-meter sprint has made miraculous progress. At the beginning of this year, the head coach of the 400-meter event, Su Bai, also recruited many outstanding young athletes to join the national 400-meter sprint team. These are the future hopes of the Chinese team in the 400-meter sprint."
After a pause, Li Sen smiled and said, "Of course, everyone should already know that Zhang Jiale, the mixed 4x400m athlete who will be on the field later, is the new athlete that Su Bai recruited into the national team."
At this moment, in China, at Zhang Jiale's home
Zhang's father, Zhang's mother, Zhang Jiale's grandparents, and others all gathered together and sat in front of the 85-inch TV at home, waiting for the game to start.
This 85-inch super-large screen TV was specially bought by Zhang Jiale's father so that he could see his son's performance more clearly during the live broadcast of the Olympics.
The whole Zhang family is now sitting in the living room in front of the TV, with nervous expressions on their faces. It's not for anything else, but because of the incident that happened this afternoon. Everyone in the family knows about it. Zhang Jiale's grandfather is also an elderly internet addict who likes to check the news and current affairs on Weibo.
Especially since the start of the Olympics, because his own children also went to the Olympic Games, Mr. Zhang has been checking Weibo more frequently.
When the Olympic track and field events began, the Zhang family was very excited. However, before they could get excited for a while, the incident that afternoon happened.
Looking at all the chaos in the comments at the beginning, Mr. Zhang was so angry that his head hurt. He even took the trouble to type and reason with those people, but who would reason with those water army studios and black fans?
At the end of the speech, Mr. Zhang became more and more angry, saying that it was impossible to reason with people nowadays.
On the one hand, the logic didn't make sense, and on the other hand, they were worried that their grandson's competitive state would be affected after knowing this in Japan. However, the Zhang family didn't dare to contact Zhang Jiale at this moment, and could only worry as a whole. They didn't feel relieved until the national team, the Athletics Administration Center and Su Bai all issued clarification statements.
After they and others breathed a sigh of relief, they were also worried that Zhang Jiale in Japan might still be affected by what happened in the afternoon. However, they still didn't dare to contact Zhang Jiale at this moment. It was not until Zhang Jiale guessed that his family would also be concerned and called home that they reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief.
On the phone, they certainly did not dare to let Zhang Jiale, who was far away in Japan, feel their worry. They just said that he was fine. He hadn't even noticed the public opinion in the afternoon, but he saw the clarification from the national team first. Then they just told him to play well and prove his strength, and he didn't need to worry about home.
At this moment, the whole family is sitting in front of the TV, nervously waiting for the game to start later, hoping that their children can perform well and bring glory to the country.
Compared to the previous World Championships, the men's and women's mixed 4x400m competition in the Olympics was even more intense than the preliminaries of the World Championships.
When the eight teams crossed the finish line without giving up an inch, the final results displayed on the big screen on site made the domestic audience gasp.
First place: Team USA, 3 minutes 11.43 seconds, Q (directly qualified);
Second place: British team, 3 minutes 11 seconds 80, q;
Third place: Jamaica, 3 minutes 12 seconds 01, q;
Fourth place: Poland, 3 minutes 13 seconds 08...
…
The top three teams that advanced directly achieved a final result that was much higher than the direct qualification result in the World Championships preliminaries. In contrast, the Chinese team's mixed relay nr still achieved a record of 3 minutes 16.02 seconds in the World Championships preliminaries.
In China, countless viewers posted various emojis such as "nervous to the point of tingling scalps" and "dumbfounded" on the fair comment board of online live broadcast rooms.
【=口=Oh my god, I just heard the commentator introduce the performance of the Chinese team. How can we compare? 】
[The Chinese team’s national record is only 3 minutes 16 seconds 02. They really can’t make it to the finals…]
[…Compared with this kind of results, I feel that the American teams are really terrible. Sigh. 】
Some were so scared that they didn't know what to say, while others were still looking forward to it.
[Don't be afraid!] In today's preliminaries, teams such as the United States, Jamaica, Britain, and Poland are all squeezed into Group A. This is a death group, so it looks so scary! 】
[That's right. Look at the list of participating teams in Group B. Bahrain is the strongest among them. The results of the other national teams are actually not much different from that of the Chinese team! As long as the Chinese team can maintain their performance in the previous World Championships, there is still hope of advancing! 】
However, this sentence seemed to have the opposite effect at this moment.
【? Maintain the performance we had in the World Championships...but our lineup is different this time! ! 】
After seeing this sentence, the previously expectant speeches seemed to suddenly become quiet - yes, this time the mixed relay team does not have Zhang Ziyi or Qiu Erha.
Although the online audiences were poured a bucket of cold water, the hot atmosphere on the scene did not diminish at all. In particular, when the participating teams from Group B came on stage, the Chinese audiences on the scene were completely excited.
"China team!!! Come on!!!"
“Come on Sister Dan, come on Sister Yao, come on Lele, come on Ahao!!”
"Go! Make it to the finals, you can do it!!"
The Chinese audience's voices were loud, and the Japanese audience's cheers were even crazier - yes, Japan's mixed 4x400m relay team was also in Group B this time, and as the home team, the scene was already in complete frenzy when these Japanese players came on stage.
At this point, the madness of the audience had reached its peak, and their emotions had been completely ignited.
In China, on the commentary stand of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were first excited about the Chinese team's appearance, but then they quickly calmed down and expressed concern for the contestants on the scene.
"The players in this group will face the Japanese team. Although the Japanese team is not very strong in Group B, this is their home game. Before the Olympics, the Japanese team declared that they would keep the glory on Japanese soil. In this game, there are so many Japanese spectators cheering for them. They will definitely try their best and run like crazy... Our players not only have to face the crazy fighting of the Japanese team, but also the cheering of at least half of the Japanese spectators at the scene. This is a great mental pressure for the players."
Shao Minyi's worries were completely correct. At the preliminaries, the first runner of the Japanese team was holding the baton, looking crazy for the competition. From the determination on his face and the tension in his body, one could feel that he was determined to win this game.
Zhang Jiale is already waiting on the field, preparing. In this preliminary round, he will be the first runner and compete against the top players present. At this moment, his face shows nervousness, excitement and determination.
In fact, when he first joined the national team, he never thought that he would really be able to appear in this Olympics. It was not until today, until now, until he actually stood on the Olympic arena, that he felt that he had already stepped onto the Olympic arena.
The shouts of the Japanese audiences at the scene did bring him a lot of pressure, but at the same time, he could also feel that the Chinese audiences at the scene were also cheering them on at the top of their lungs.
It was the first time that Zhang Jiale truly stood on such a top battlefield in a foreign country, feeling all the audience in the stands screaming for their country. The boiling emotions that had been suppressed in his heart finally surged to the top of his head.
Come on... He must cheer with all his might to be worthy of such passionate and pure support. These track and field enthusiasts waving the Chinese flag in a foreign country, feeling the attention and support of the whole country behind them, make the pride and belonging to their country, as well as the strong sense of mission, completely erupt in his heart!
Zhang Jiale, come on!
When the first runners of all the teams squatted at the starting point of the bend with batons in hand, the cheers from the scene instantly turned from boiling to stagnant calm at the signal from the staff.
Cannot affect the players on the field!
This was the consensus of every audience member, and the tension it brought instantly filled the entire stadium.
The competition is about to officially begin!
"Everyone, take your positions."
The starter's voice came calmly over the radio.
All the contestants made their preparations, and then...
"preparation."
"Bang!"
A crisp sound of the starting gun was followed by the contestants on the eight tracks responding and drawing eight sharp curves on the curved track.
“The game begins!”
Shao Min shouted loudly, and at the same time, the cheers from the audience reached a climax again.
come on!
The moment Zhang Jiale started running, he mobilized the explosive power of his whole body, then accelerated himself to the fullest and launched the initial sprint on the track.
He knew that his speed was not as good as Zhang Ziyi's, and he could not bring much advantage to Chen Yada and Lin Yao who followed in the first leg. However, he still ran as hard as he could. He had to at least prevent his teammates from making up for the lag and losses caused by him on the field!
"Zhang Jiale... Zhang Jiale is very fast! Completely beyond our expectations!" Shao Minyi's eyes lit up after seeing Zhang Jiale start. He certainly knew that Zhang Jiale must have enough strength to be selected by Su Bai into the national team, but the PB Zhang Jiale left in the country was indeed not impressive enough.
This time, Zhang Jiale replaced Zhang Ziyi as the first runner of the mixed relay. Most people, including Shao Minyi, thought that it would be good enough as long as he could run at a standard speed. However, what they didn't expect was that the sense of speed Zhang Jiale brought in the first leg and the distance difference between him and other national athletes on the track, all told people that his speed... was not slow!
even……
Looks fast!
On the track, from the start, Zhang Jiale got rid of all thoughts in his mind. He only remembered the speed, rhythm and beat that Su Bai had taught him that was most suitable for him.
Zhang Jiale used to be a self-taught player, and he did not have a good control over the rhythm, but in fact, he has a strong ability to grasp the learning rhythm.
In other words, he had a strong memory for the rhythm that Su Bai instilled in him.
When Su Bai instilled in him the 400-meter rhythm that was most suitable for his current situation for the first time, he was able to quickly remember this rhythm and try his best to maintain this rhythm during training.
And this ability of his was fully demonstrated in today's game - in this hot arena, he had forgotten everything else in his mind, and the only thing that remained in his mind was his sense of rhythm.
He is an extremely talented athlete with a high pace, which is not an advantage in the 400-meter race. But after he mastered the correct rhythm and pace, he firmly occupied the top three positions in this race...!
"Good! Very good! Keep it up!"
When Shao Min saw Zhang Jiale on the track, he felt his scalp tingling. Zhang Jiale's performance had completely exceeded his expectations, or rather, it had exceeded everyone's expectations!
He actually ran into the top three in the first leg? !
So……
What if this result can be maintained until the end? !
As soon as they thought of this result, both Shao Minyi and the audience watching the game began to beat their hearts violently and excitedly...!
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