Tekau was also confused at this time. He had no idea why his rhythm was suddenly disrupted at this stage. He didn't even realize that this might be because he was affected by Qiu Wen's chaotic rhythm.
You know, not long ago, he played against Qiu Wen in the same competition, in the semi-finals two days ago.
In that semi-final, Tekawu was in the fifth lane and Qiu Wen was in the seventh lane. From the start, Qiu Wen showed a starting speed that was no less than Barnes, and at the start, he had a big gap with Tekawu in the sixth and seventh lanes behind him. Jipuruto, who was closer to Qiu Wen at the time, was indeed greatly affected by Qiu Wen, but for Tekawu, he made a little mistake at the start, so he focused completely on himself.
At last year's World Championships, he failed to make it to the finals because of a small mistake in the semi-finals. So when he made another mistake in the semi-finals, the unwillingness in his heart made him immediately devote himself to controlling and adjusting his own rhythm, which made him completely unaware of the influence of Qiu Wen in front of him on Jipuruto.
When he caught up with Qiu Wen, it was already the last bend to cut into the straight. At that time, McPherson lost balance and went off the lane because he tried to get rid of Qiu Wen on the bend. After he noticed that McPherson had gone off the lane, he focused more on his own race. When he and Qiu Wen were competing for the final position on the last straight, although he had already paid attention to Qiu Wen, it was already the final sprint stage. For the players, there is no so-called rhythm control at this stage, and even because their physical strength has reached the limit, even the technical movements are usually not kept so perfect.
It was in this state and in the final sprint rhythm that Tekau confronted Qiu Wen, so much so that he actually did not feel the so-called rhythm-destroying influence of Qiu Wen.
During the review after the semi-final, Tekawu's coach and Marcher once again asked him how it felt to compete with Qiu Wen. Tekawu's response at the time was still that it didn't seem as exaggerated as other athletes said.
Therefore, after entering the curve stage today, even though Tekawu instinctively realized that Qiu Wen was still at full speed when entering the curve of the third 100-meter stage, he tried to speed up, but he lost control of his body slightly on the curve, causing his rhythm to be unbalanced...
But in fact, he himself has not yet realized why he is like this.
However, Hernandez, who was on the sixth track, understood what was happening at this moment.
As a top control flow player, Hernandez has always had a very stable control over his own rhythm. It has always been other players who imitate his rhythm in the game, and he can say that before this, he has never had his rhythm unbalanced due to the rhythm of other players.
But in today's game, Hernandez showed a rare nervousness - although the audience and most of his opponents could not see the impact on him through his still steady rhythm and speed, Hernandez himself knew that in this game, he was almost disrupted by the Chinese player in the fifth track behind him.
From the start, the speed displayed by the Chinese player who had a keen eye before the game made Hernandez think of his teammate Barnes first.
But Hernandez was familiar with Barnes' rhythm, but he could not understand the rhythm of this Chinese player.
Barnes' starting explosive power is very strong, but at the same time, his explosive power and acceleration cannot be maintained for too long. When entering the cornering stage, Barnes will still control his speed - compared to other players who need to control their speed to about 90% of their peak speed in the cornering stage, Barnes' control over the corners is much stronger. Usually at this stage, he can release 95% of his peak speed. This cornering control ability combined with the explosive power at the start makes Barnes so powerful.
But the pace that Hernandez felt from behind at the start of the race was a pace that he could almost hear with one ear - the Chinese athlete did not control his speed on the curve at all, he was running at full speed!
But how is this possible?
A player who can push his speed to nearly 100% in corners?
At that moment, Hernandez felt that his reason and worldview were challenged. If it were not for his instincts and the restraint brought by the rhythm maintained by long-term training, he would probably have been disrupted by the Chinese player behind him at that stage.
Hernandez certainly knew that his old rival McPherson failed to advance to the finals in the semi-finals because of a mistake and foul caused by this Chinese player.
At that time, Hernandez didn't know what kind of influence would affect a player with strong self-control like McPherson. But after experiencing it himself, he finally understood why McNight had a bitter face during the warm-up.
This is indeed a powerful influence.
Or perhaps it could be said that this Chinese athlete had a unique aura of his own while running, which involuntarily affected the people around him.
When Hernandez saw Tekau lose control in the curve, he decisively rushed to the front position.
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were both stunned after seeing Hernandez's actions.
“Wait, Hernandez just accelerated in the second turn?!”
Shao Minyi exclaimed, then took a breath. "Hernandez's personal rhythm habits have been studied for a long time by countless track and field experts. Every research report shows that Hernandez's rhythm is a very standard 400-meter runner's running structure. In his speed composition, in the third 100-meter stage, which is almost at the second bend stage, in order to accumulate strength for the sprint on the last straight, Hernandez will slow down his speed at this stage."
"But just now, Hernandez accelerated at this position!"
At the moment Hernandez accelerated, Shao Minyi and Li Sen even forgot to pay attention to Tekau, who seemed to have a disordered rhythm and slightly lost control of his speed on the curve.
At this moment, a guess flashed through Shao Minyi's mind - could it be that Hernandez accelerated at this position where he would never accelerate normally because he saw Tekau stall, and in order to avoid being affected by Qiu Wen?
But……
Even if Shao Minyi and Li Sen had confidence in Qiu Wen, they still felt that they were too shameless to have such an idea...
Qiu Wen’s ability to disrupt rhythm is indeed very strong, but looking at Hernandez’s performance since the start of the game, he doesn’t seem to be affected by Qiu Wen... right?
With this suspicion in mind, Shao Minyi and Li Sen looked at the field. Although they could not tell whether Hernandez's acceleration was related to Qiu Wen, they could see that Tekau on the curve was indeed affected by Qiu Wen.
Bend!
Another bend!
Last time, McPherson was affected by Qiu Wen at the second corner, so much so that he even committed a foul and his result was cancelled.
Although Tekawu did not commit a foul like McPherson this time, his rhythm was obviously out of balance.
The rhythm was unbalanced in the third 100-meter stage, which brought about very dangerous consequences.
After being confused, Tekawu finally remembered that he felt a sense of crisis because of the speed of the Chinese player, and then he chose to speed up.
what does that mean?
This means that he was indeed influenced by the Chinese player without even realizing it, and because he was completely unprepared for Qiu Wen before, he only realized now that he had been influenced by Qiu Wen without knowing it.
At the same time that Tekawu realized it, he had already accelerated on the curve. At this stage, it was no longer possible for him to slow down and disrupt his rhythm. All he could do was to maintain the speed while accelerating onto the straight and completely prepare for a full-speed sprint for the last 100 meters.
All this will be greatly affected by his unbalanced speed, and it will be difficult, but Tekawu understands that he has no choice.
At the same time, Tekau did not dare to think that he, who was in the seventh lane, had been greatly affected by the Chinese player Qiu Wen at this stage. So what kind of state did his teammate Machal, who was in the fourth lane, maintain in the game just now?
On the field, Qiu Wen did not realize how the other athletes on the field were affected by his speed, he just ran as hard as he could.
Although everyone felt that Qiu Wen did not have a normal rhythm when running, Qiu Wen himself knew that he was not completely out of control.
Qiu Wen knew that his greatest talent was his physical recovery ability, which was even stronger than that of black players. So in his daily training, with the help of Su Bai, he kept trying to test the limits of this physical recovery ability.
With continuous training, his physical recovery ability is gradually improving.
He has a wild instinct, and his seemingly random speed and rhythm on the court are actually related to his physical recovery speed. He can instinctively feel the limit of his physical energy. When his physical recovery is slow, his instinct will make him control his speed.
This rhythm of running at the limit as one's physical strength recovers is a rhythm that countless athletes feel extremely awkward and difficult to accept. That is why, coupled with Qiu Wen's own influence that can release his emotional state infinitely, makes him like a destroyer of the stadium, causing almost every athlete on the field to have a headache because of his existence.
At this time in the race, the only ones who had not been affected by Qiu Wen were perhaps Barnes in the ninth track and Morris in the eighth track, who were still unaware of the huge impact Qiu Wen had on the ones behind them.
Even a top control player like Le Clos in the second lane, like his old rival Hernandez, was affected to some extent by Qiu Wen when entering the curve.
If Qiu Wen's ability is merely to disrupt the rhythm of others, then even if the rhythm of others is affected by him to a certain extent and slows down, they only need to achieve better results than Qiu Wen in the end.
But the scary thing about Qiu Wen is that he is a stubborn person who is full of "I want to surpass you" on the track, and is completely focused on the field. He completely ignores the speed and rhythm of other players, and only tries to go all out and try his best to surpass one opponent after another. He is a completely bestial instinct creature.
Just like him at this moment on the track, his eyes were fixed on Hernandez who was accelerating on the curve trying to leave him behind, and then his wolf eyes stared at the front and refused to relax, biting Hernandez in front of him tightly, and his emotions, at the moment when the curve was about to cut into the straight road, became even more excited because of the acceleration of Hernandez in front of him!
Macquart, who was chasing after Qiu Wen, discovered that Qiu Wen actually accelerated again when he was cutting from the curve to the straight. The speed he had just barely readjusted was lost due to Qiu Wen's acceleration again.
At this stage of the competition, it has entered the final stage. The first three quarters of the race have already consumed most of the athletes' physical energy. In the final sprint stage, every point of physical energy is extremely important and precious. Because of the influence of Qiu Wen in the first half, Macer had already consumed a lot of physical energy that should not have been wasted. At this stage, his rhythm was disrupted because of Qiu Wen.
Even though Marcher tried his best to adjust to this chaotic rhythm and pace, his physical fitness still could not allow him to run at the expected speed in the final stage.
On the contrary, McNight, who was very cautious from the beginning, relied on his speed and rhythm that he tried his best to control, and easily surpassed Marcher when he cut into the straight line at the second turn.
Although the competition had entered the final 100-meter sprint stage, the rankings of the athletes were still not very clear.
Currently, the first group on the field are Barnes of the American team and Morris of Grenada. Between the two, Barnes barely maintains a slight advantage, but Morris's ability in the later stages is stronger than Barnes, and he is currently waiting for an opportunity to overtake Barnes at any time.
In third, fourth and fifth place were Hernandez, Qiu Wen and Le Clos respectively.
Although Le Clos was also affected by Qiu Wen to a certain extent in the first half of the race, he was in the second track after all, and the distance between him and Qiu Wen was quite far. He was really affected by Qiu Wen in the second corner. However, he has a strong self-control ability and the overall rhythm can be said to be still under his control.
However, at the moment when the rhythm changed slightly, Le Clos was startled. He knew clearly that perhaps just because of the imbalance in rhythm just now, his performance in this game would be greatly affected.
For example, now, in the final sprint stage, he is still chasing after the Chinese player? !
“Fourth place!!! After entering the straight from the second bend, Qiu Wen has already reached the fourth place!!”
Just before a turn, Qiu Wen seemed completely unable to make it into the top half, but just after a turn, Qiu Wen had actually caught up to the top four? !
Hernandez is still ahead of Qiu Wen, and the gap between Le Clos and Qiu Wen is only about half a body length. Tekawu, who originally had a great advantage in the first half of the game, has now fallen to sixth place, and there is still a big gap between him and Le Clos...!
The audience watching the live broadcast on TV in China seemed completely unable to believe what was happening before their eyes.
They were completely excited to the point of being beside themselves!
fourth! ! !
Their ErhaTeMo has already rushed to fourth place! ! !
It seemed that just a blink of an eye ago, the players in front still had a great advantage, and just a blink of an eye later, Erha occupied the position on the track where he has the opportunity to sprint forward and chase the medal at any time!
Yes, chase the medals!
This position, which no one dared to think about before the game, now appeared before their eyes like a dream.
In the audience, the Chinese audience's throats were almost hoarse from continuous excited shouting, but they had no intention of giving up and continued to cheer.
Not far behind the Chinese players' seats was Huang Yiluan, who was staring at the scene on the field. His throat was already engorged with blood from shouting, and his eyes were now as big as copper bells.
He didn't even have the energy to think about the significance of Qiu Wen's current position. He just watched Qiu Wen rush to the front. This performance alone made his brain lose the energy to think.
It’s almost there, it’s almost there!
It’s almost the final sprint stage! !
In the last 50 meters of the race, in the first group at the front of the field, Barnes, who was originally in the first place, was successfully overtaken by Morris in the last 50 meters. Barnes obviously did not want to lose his previous advantage in this stage. He began to try his best to speed up, hoping to overtake Morris in the final stage.
The ranking of the second group has not changed for the time being, but Le Clos found that the energy he had reserved was not enough in the final sprint.
Hernandez and Qiu Wen in front are still speeding up in the final sprint!
Le Clos had never expected that the Chinese player could run to such a crazy level. He could clearly see that his old rival Hernandez's speed and stamina were a little out of control in the final sprint.
It is an extremely incredible thing to maintain control throughout the 400-meter sprint. Hernandez and Le Clos are known as the top masters of control flow because of this ability.
But these two top control masters both lost their perfect control in front of Qiu Wen today.
On the track, Qiu Wen was not aware of all this. He just stared at the finish line in front of him like a hungry wolf, and the corner of his eyes was always fixed on Hernandez.
At this stage, he was like a wild wolf on the hunt. Even though his body was tired and in pain due to the hunting instinct, he still maintained the highest speed to chase the prey in front of him.
——For wild wolves, failure to hunt for food is equivalent to death.
While locking onto his prey with the corner of his eye, he continued to push his physical strength to the limit. He fully opened up his wild instincts, intending to overtake the 'prey' in front of him in the final 50 meters.
"Speed up!!! Qiu Wen is still speeding up!!!"
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Min pressed one hand on the table. He was so excited that he needed to use his body movements to maintain his posture sitting in front of the live microphone.
At this moment, the live broadcast of the Olympic men's 400-meter sprint final was still in front of his eyes, and the impact of this incredible scene on him and Li Sen was so strong that it was difficult for them to calm down their emotions.
"There's a chance!! Qiu Wen is trying to overtake Hernandez!"
Stimulated by the scene before them, the voices of Shao Minyi and Li Sen both sounded extremely excited. At this stage, they could only shout heart-wrenching cheers of encouragement.
What seemed even more excited than them were the viewers on the sports channel's live broadcast room.
[Ahhhhhhhhhh!] ! ! ! ! Charge! ! ! 】
[Oh my god!] ! ! Erha, go to him! ! ! 】
[Help, ahhhhh!] 】
On the public screen of this live broadcast room, after Qiu Wen overtook Tekau at the second corner, the entire screen was filled with all kinds of crazy "Ahhh" screams.
When Qiu Wen officially caught up to the fourth place, if you opened the barrage, you could see that the public screen was completely drowned out by the screams of "Ahhhhhhhhh".
The audience seemed to be cheering for Qiu Wen with such screams, hoping that Qiu Wen could sense their enthusiasm and encouragement, and in the final stage... surpass Hernandez!
“The last 40 meters!!!”
“30 meters!!”
"Qiu Wen!! Qiu Wen is approaching Hernandez!"
Through the live broadcast footage in front of them, everyone could clearly see Qiu Wen approaching Hernandez little by little, and then in the final 20 meters, Qiu Wen and Hernandez were almost neck and neck!
“10 meters!!!”
"Qiu Wen!!! Come on!!!"
Shao Minyi's voice had become completely hoarse, and the cheers from the audience poured into the stadium like boiling oil, making everyone in the stadium feel that the atmosphere of this game was so hot that it made them sweat profusely.
Finally, at the last moment, Qiu Wen and Hernandez both crossed the finish line, and not far behind them was Le Clos, who also intended to overtake but failed.
Cross the finish line, success!
In the audience and in front of the TV, everyone was so excited that they wanted to howl out, but the shouting stopped abruptly halfway through.
On the contrary, Qiu Wen and Hernandez crossed the finish line at the same time, but even the audience watching the live broadcast on TV could not see clearly who of the two crossed the finish line first.
The feeling of being strangled halfway through the excitement was too difficult. Everyone at the scene immediately turned their attention to the big screen, waiting for the referee team to capture the final crossing of the finish line.
Behind Qiu Wen and others, McNight, Te Kau and Macer also crossed the finish line one after another. After McNight got rid of Qiu Wen's influence in the final sprint stage, he overtook Te Kau on the last straight track. In the end, Te Kau and Macer, the two brothers in distress from Trinidad and Tobago, were left as the last two.
When the two crossed the finish line, Tekawu and Machal were still a little dazed. They both turned their eyes to the direction of Qiu Wen at the same time, looking at the guy who was lying on the ground with a silly smile on his face because of exhaustion after crossing the finish line. The word "devil" flashed through their minds at the same time.
How could there be such a scary guy?
They have participated in countless games, but have never seen anyone who can influence the rhythm of the surrounding players like him.
It's so scary.
It’s really… so scary.
On the field, except for Tekawu and Machel who looked miserable, everyone else turned their eyes to the direction of the big screen. Finally, as everyone waited, the referee team projected the final judgment image onto the big screen. After finally seeing the image on the big screen clearly...
All the Chinese audiences at the scene and in front of the TV screamed after a brief pause!
"Bronze medal!!! Congratulations to Qiu Wen!!!"
Shao Minyi's hoarse voice was filled with excitement. He announced loudly and proudly: "According to the final image judgment of the referee team, the first player whose effective torso crossed the line was our player Qiu Wen!!!"
"Congratulations to Qiu Wen for winning the bronze medal in this competition!!!"
In the audience, Jiang Wentao, Pei Jinan and others were still frozen in place after seeing the final image judgment results. They pointed at the large screen not far away, as if they wanted to confirm with the people around them, did Qiu Wen... actually win the Olympic men's 400m bronze medal?
How is that possible?
How is that possible? !
These four words were still echoing in their minds, but the excited cheers of other staff and contestants around them were telling them - this was real! ! !
Men's 400m bronze medal!
Got it from Qiu Wen! !
After they really digested the truth of the news, the feeling of excitement to the point of brain congestion knocked them down completely again. Jiang Wentao's body shook before he stabilized himself again, and the same was true for Pei Jinan.
How could they have thought of that?
Even in their dreams, they could never have imagined that a Chinese athlete would be able to win a medal in the men's 400-meter sprint at this Tokyo Olympics.
When they finally breathed a sigh of relief, the big screen on the scene flashed again, and the final results of the competition were about to come out! Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan immediately looked towards the big screen with their faces flushed red!
Final results of the men's 400m sprint final at the Tokyo Olympics:
First place: Morris (Grenada), 43.43, sb;
Second place: Barnes (USA), 44.03 seconds;
Third place: Qiu Wen (China), 44.49, nr;
Fourth place: Hernandez (USA), 44.50 seconds;
Fifth place: Le Clos (South Africa), 44.57 seconds;
6th: Mike Knight (Bahrain), 45.11 seconds;
7th place: …
In today's final, Qiu Wen not only won the bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 44.49 seconds, but also once again broke the 400-meter national record he had previously set!
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