Chapter 166
In the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, as the time approached 8:35 in the evening, the anticipation in Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming's voices became more and more overflowing.
Of course, it’s not just them who are looking forward to it, there are also the audiences who have been squatting in front of the TV or in the live broadcast room after watching Su Yu’s pre-match live broadcast.
Originally, for most people, the waiting time should be long and boring, but Su Yu's previous connection did provide the general public with a lot of memes. Some people in the live broadcast room were reviewing and talking about the memes, and some were predicting Su Yu's results.
Although Su Yu's "I'm still young" joke in the previous interview has spread throughout the live broadcast room, there are still some viewers who want to discuss the possibility of Su Yu advancing to the finals.
However, because the popular science work about the 400-meter sprint has been done quite well in the past two days, these netizens were just chatting. They didn't get angry when someone said, "Su Yu has no chance of advancing this time."
In short, the main purpose is to entertain yourself.
***
In the warm-up area behind the stadium, all the noise on the Internet could not disturb here. Su Yu was concentrating on his warm-up.
Most of the other contestants on the scene were doing the same as they were preparing for the competition.
However, compared with the beginning of the World Championships, there are now very few athletes in the same sprint event as Su Yu who do not know him. Many athletes who are preparing for the competition with Su Yu will subconsciously glance in Su Yu's direction from time to time even when they are concentrating on their warm-up preparations.
The reason for this is that over this period of time, Su Yu's popularity has not only continued to reach new highs in China, but his popularity in various countries overseas has also been constantly refreshing and expanding.
——"A talented sprinter from a mysterious oriental country!" 》
——《Guess – Will he become the WU18B double record holder for both the 100m sprint and the 200m sprint? 》
——《The young genius who is closest to the sprint king's 200m WU18B record so far! 》
——"100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters! A young genius who swept all sprint events! 》
——Experts predict that in the next ten years, the Chinese team will join the ranks of the world's sprinting powers thanks to Su Yu! 》
These overseas media are no worse than domestic gossip magazines when it comes to gossip. Moreover, these overseas media do not care about being modest and start praising people as soon as they open their mouths.
Judging from some of the headlines, it seems that Su Yu is almost linked to the legendary sprint king.
Even though these World Championship contestants knew that Su Yu could hardly pose much of a threat to them at the moment, they could not help but be curious about Su Yu - the reason for this curiosity was not purely because of the descriptions of Su Yu's talent in the media reports.
What these contestants are more curious about Su Yu is...
"Hey, it's already the sixth match day! Why does his condition seem to be no different from the first match day?"
"Oh no, I should say that his condition seems to be better than on the first match day?"
"I watched his 100m semi-finals and finals, and he was much more nervous then than he is now!"
In a corner of the warm-up scene, a contestant was discussing Su Yu's condition with his friends in amazement.
Yes, for these players, the truly magical thing about Su Yu is his super endurance.
These men's 400m sprinters on the field often also have good 200m or 100m strength, but why do most of them not choose to compete in multiple events?
Don't they want to?
It's that they can't.
For these athletes, being able to take care of both the relay event and their own individual event at the same time is already a very good state.
And Su Yu's performance in the previous five consecutive days of competition was obviously more than just "good". Based on Su Yu's sprint results before the World Championships, he would not be able to go so far in the 100m, 200m and 400m events.
This means that Su Yu has pushed himself to the limit in almost every game he played, and even made some breakthroughs.
Even though the players competing with Su Yu have their own coaching team to help them adjust their performance curves, they know that they cannot achieve the same continuous outbursts as Su Yu.
"What a terrifying little fellow! I dare say that his ability to 'fight continuously' is his most terrifying ability!"
***
In the warm-up area, many familiar players occasionally had such discussions during the warm-up breaks, or looked in the direction of Su Yu a few more times.
But as the competition time approaches, more and more players are focusing more on their warm-up preparations - after all, no matter how strong Su Yu's potential is, they will have plenty of time to study the performance of this young player after the World Championships. Now, what is more important to them is the men's 400m semi-final that is about to begin!
***
When the time reached 8:35 p.m., the official commentator at the scene immediately began to announce enthusiastically:
"Dear audience, the semi-finals of the men's 400m sprint at the World Championships are about to begin!"
"The first to appear will be the eight contestants from the first group of the semi-finals. They are from seven countries: the United States, Kazakhstan, the United States, Kenya, Belgium, Italy, Bahrain, and South Africa...!"
In China, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming in the live broadcast room of the sports channel were also introducing the list of players appearing in the first group of the semi-finals.
In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, the onlookers were originally discussing "The first group of semi-finals has started, so how far will the third group be?" However, after hearing Tian Ruhui report the names of two players from the American team in this group, they hesitated and froze in place.
【Um? 】
[What do you mean?] 】
It should be said that due to the surge in popularity of track and field events during this period, concepts such as "full capacity participation" and "players from the same team competing in different groups" in the World Championships have become simple basic common sense among the general public.
As a result, the list that Tian Ruhui just read out seemed to be quite challenging to the common sense of the spectators. The first reaction of many people was - did the commentator read the list wrong? !
But after hearing Tian Ruhui's last sentence, '8 contestants from 7 countries', everyone confirmed that Tian Ruhui did not read the list wrong.
So the question is - what is going on? ?
The track and field fans in the Jigu video live broadcast room were actually quite happy to see the spectators asking such professional questions.
[Not bad, not bad. It seems like everyone is studying very hard! 】
The crowd of spectators: "..."
...Stop talking nonsense, just speak up!
[Actually, it is like this. The full capacity in 'full competition' refers to 3 people, and before the finals, contestants from the same national team will be arranged to compete in different groups, which is also true - but there is an exception. 】
[The exception is that the champion of the previous World Championships or the annual champion of this season's Diamond League, regardless of whether their results are within the qualifying line of this World Championships, will automatically qualify for the event in this World Championships. 】
[Well, having said that... everyone should know what's going on - yes, one of the US team's 400m runners is the champion of the Diamond League annual finals in early September. The 400m quota he got for the World Championships does not take up the original 'full' quota of the US team. In addition to him, the US team has so many players qualified for the World Championships that they can be lined up in a row, and these 4 US team players have successfully qualified for the semi-finals in the preliminaries, forming the current 2+1+1 grouping of the US team. 】
The crowd of spectators: "..."
Although we have often heard about the United States being a "track and field powerhouse" recently, it was only at this moment that the spectators felt what a true track and field powerhouse was - in the 400m event, they could produce at least four World Championship qualified athletes at one time.
Soon, a track and field fan probably saw what the spectators were thinking and quietly came out -
[…Well, it's like this. The US team can field more than four 400m World Championship qualified athletes at one time. Their World Championships and Olympics are both selected through the US Trials. According to data from the IAAF, the US team has 17 athletes who have run under 45.30 seconds this season. 】
The onlookers:?
The crowd of spectators: "..."
As spectators who have been feasting on track and field gossip during this period, many people still remember that the Chinese team had been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally waited for Su Yu to appear, which allowed them to qualify for the World Championships for the first time.
Comparing the results with the American team's situation, it is truly heart-wrenching.
But these track and field fans are very open-minded——
[It doesn’t matter, they have 17 qualified contestants, but we have Yu Di! (Dog head saves life ing)]
[Well, although this is outrageous, it is not wrong - after all, the United States has so many talented athletes, but the current world U18 best 100m athlete still belongs to Su Yu. Not only is he the world U18 best 100m athlete, but Yu Di's current 200m result of 20.21 seconds is not far from the world U18 best 200m score of 20.13 seconds...]
On the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, track and field fans gave the audience a very "stimulating" data popularization. However, before the audience in the live broadcast room could digest the stimulating remarks, the situation on the field changed suddenly...
In this group of semi-finals that brought together two American players, the spectators, after listening to the popular science, originally thought that the two players from the American team were going to win the only two places in this group to advance to the finals.
After all, just before the competition started, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming introduced the season best results of these two American athletes. One of them ran 44.28 seconds this season, and the other ran 43.60 seconds this season.
With the support of such terrifying data, it can be said that as long as they perform well, these two players from the American team will have the opportunity to qualify for the final!
But as the game progressed, the two players from the American team opened up a huge gap on the field. The player who had run under 43.60 seconds in the 2019 season fell to last place in this game...!
This was a result that no one had expected before the game started.
"Dorian Govic created a huge upset in today's men's 400-meter sprint semifinal. This star from the American team is always known for his stable form. He seemed to have encountered some trouble in today's game..."
In the live commentary room of the sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, after reviewing the status and performance of Dorian Govic of the American team, quickly turned the topic to the top two players who successfully advanced.
The two are Zachary Briggs, another player from the US team, and Jeffrey Capello, a Kenyan player who was in the same group as Su Yu in the preliminaries.
The two athletes ran 44.25 and 44.37 seconds respectively in this semi-final. As for the third-placed Italian athlete, he "only" achieved 44.85 seconds in this group. Dorian Govich, a star athlete from the American team who made serious mistakes in this group, finished last with a time of 45.21 seconds.
In front of the TV, many viewers who originally held the idea that "Su Yu might have a chance to advance" finally fell silent after seeing the final results of this group of players.
[…Oh my god, 44.85 seconds is only the third place? ! 】
[Stuck in place, my friend, only scores like 44.25 and 44.37 have a chance to advance to the World Championships finals...]
[Does it feel like the average strength of 400m runners has improved in this year’s World Championships? 】
[Let’s not talk about whether there is improvement or not, let’s just talk about the group results of the semi-finalists. According to the group results of this group just now, Su Yu’s 45.03 in the preliminaries can only get... second to last in this group? ! 】
[Silence. I feel that the time when Su Yu participated in the World Championships was the time in his life when his name was most closely associated with the word "countdown"? 】
…
After seeing the group results of the semi-finals, track and field fans and spectators on the Internet couldn't help but feel more nervous about the competition that was about to begin.
At the same time, in the Chinese team's player seat, Liu Qinlong looked tense all over, and Zheng Sheng next to him wanted to ask him if he wanted to breathe oxygen.
Liu Qinlong: “…”
Zheng Sheng understood Liu Qinlong's feelings. After all, he had experienced the same situation the day before yesterday. But he also knew that no one could persuade Liu Qinlong to calm down as he was so nervous at the moment. He could only calm down after Su Yu's game was over.
So in the end he could only pat Liu Qinlong on the shoulder and stand by with Liu Qinlong waiting for the start of the third group of Su Yu's semi-final match.
But while waiting, Zheng Sheng's eyes darted around again - if anyone was really nervous in the audience seats of the Chinese players, Coach Xiao Pei should be the one who should be the most nervous, right?
But when Zheng Sheng's eyes swept to where Pei Dingshan was, he couldn't help but sigh again - he was indeed worthy of being a member of the Pei family. Even at a young age, his psychological quality was absolutely strong. Look at his calm and composed profile, look at his tense back...
etc.
Zheng Sheng:?
When Zheng Sheng's eyes swept over Pei Dingshan's hands folded in front of his chest, seemingly calmly, and when he saw Pei Dingshan's fingers grasping his arms tightly, he couldn't help laughing.
Ah, it seems that this young Coach Pei is not unaware of what being nervous is. He is indeed a little younger than Coach Pei.
***
Sitting at the scene, Pei Dingshan didn't know Zheng Sheng's evaluation of him at the moment. In fact, he was certainly not as nervous as Zheng Sheng thought, but he was also frowning and constantly calculating and reviewing the data of the previous game in his mind.
From 44.25 seconds for the first place player to 45.21 seconds for the eighth place player.
He was estimating the performance of other players in the next two groups - because for the players in the next two groups, the results of the top three in the first group were already clear. So for the players in the next two groups, what they can strive for is not only the direct qualification of the top two, but also the opportunity to advance as a substitute for the third place.
The reason why we only mention the third place and not the fourth place is that in the semi-finals of the World Championships, although theoretically the fourth place in the group still has a chance to advance, this hope is really too slim.
If you really want to get a more stable qualification for promotion, you must at least ensure that you can get third place in the group.
Especially after the results of the first group of semi-finalists have come out, the subsequent two groups of players must at least run a time of 44.85 seconds or less if they want to qualify for the next round.
With a clear goal in mind, it is foreseeable that the competition intensity among the players in the next two groups will become stronger than the previous one.
In this case, Su Yu's semi-final group is the third group.
This is really a less than ideal grouping situation in this case.
Pei Dingshan frowned as he thought about the situation in front of him. After the second group of contestants in the semi-finals came on stage, he silently watched the performance of the second group of contestants in the semi-finals - the performance of these contestants basically confirmed his guess.
In this group, the top three athletes were from the Bahamas, Grenada and Jamaica, and their final scores in this group were 44.12, 44.21 and 44.55 respectively.
In other words, judging from this result, if the player who ranked first in the first group of the semi-finals was compared with these players in the second group, his result of 44.25 seconds would not even allow him to directly advance to the finals.
With the release of the two results of 44.55 seconds for the third place player in this group and 44.78 seconds for the fourth place player, it has been directly announced that the third place player in the first group of the semi-finals has completely lost the qualification to advance to the men's 400m sprint final of this World Championships.
"A thrilling race, with each race getting better than the last - this is the world's top men's 400m event!"
In the live commentary room of the sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming could not help but express such emotion after the final results of the second group of the semi-finals came out.
After sighing, the two of them quickly became serious: "Dear audience, the first two groups of the men's semi-finals have all ended. Now we are going to compete in the third group of the men's 400m sprint semi-finals of the World Championships that we have been looking forward to for a long time - the young player Su Yu from the Chinese team will also officially debut in this competition group!!"
With the introduction of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, the spectators and track and field fans who were still squatting in front of the TV woke up in an instant.
At the scene, Han Yiqing and other 400-meter enthusiasts once again gave him enthusiastic cheers as soon as they saw Su Yu appear on the field. The loud and passionate cheers could be heard clearly even in the huge Khalifa Stadium.
Su Yu, who had already arrived at the stadium, smiled and waved towards the audience after hearing the cheers of Han Yiqing and others.
The director of the sports channel also immediately cut the camera to a position that could capture Su Yu's face.
After seeing Su Yu's condition, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming both breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Our young player Su Yu has arrived at the stadium. He is waving to the Chinese audience. It seems that he is in good condition before this game."
There was no way. Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were worried about the same things as Pei Dingshan, except that Pei Dingshan was already worried at the end of the first group of the semi-finals, while Tian Ruhui and others started to worry after the results of the second group of the semi-finals came out.
But fortunately, Su Yu's psychological quality is really strong.
Zhou Jiming joked: "Su Yu's psychological quality has been tempered through the 100m semi-finals, finals and 200m semi-finals."
This may sound like a joke, but if you think about it carefully - hey, it's really true!
The 400m semi-final is stressful, so are the 100m and 200m semi-finals and the 100m final not stressful too?
At this moment, everyone suddenly had a feeling of "sudden enlightenment". After seeing Su Yu's condition, many people felt relieved.
Even Zheng Sheng, who was sitting in the Chinese contestant zone, couldn't help but praise him: "Su Yu really has the ability to stabilize the sea."
It was obvious that many people were quite nervous before, but then Su Yu came out and waved towards the audience and the Chinese team - Hey, what do you think? Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Zheng Sheng looked and even Liu Qinlong seemed less nervous.
After seeing this situation, Zheng Sheng couldn't help but feel emotional.
***
But Su Yu on the field did not think so much. After he came on the field, he simply waved towards the audience and the Chinese team's seats, and then came to the eighth lane - this was his lane in tonight's semi-final.
It’s still not an ideal ranking, but it seems slightly better than the ninth ranking in the preliminary round?
Su Yu thought casually in his mind, then leaned over and began to adjust the position and front and back angle of his starting block.
The official commentator on the scene continued to introduce the contestants of this game——
"From the second to the ninth lane, they are Evans Mutua from Kenya, Yax Brooks from the United States, Hiroki Ishikawa from Japan, Elvado Carpenter from Jamaica, Joshua Holder from Trinidad and Tobago, Clovis Stans from the United Kingdom, Su Yu from China...! And Jersin Robledo from Colombia!"
While the official commentator on the scene was introducing the situation of these eight players, Tian Ruhui from the domestic sports channel was also introducing the further connection between these players and Su Yu. For example, Hiroki Ishikawa from the Japanese team is Su Yu's old rival, and Jersin Robledo from Colombia was in the eighth lane in the preliminaries of the previous game. At noon in this game, Jersin and Su Yu swapped lanes compared to the preliminaries.
"A very strange coincidence."
When Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were describing the situation before their eyes, they also felt it was quite magical, but they did not focus on this. Instead, they emphasized the personal best historical results of the players on the field.
As many people knew before the game, in this group of semi-finals, only Su Yu and Japan's Hiroki Ishikawa's results were not under 45 seconds.
In this game, if you really want to talk about it, Ishikawa Hiroki's pressure may be much greater than Su Yu's.
After all, in the previous preliminary stage, Su Yu had already refreshed his personal best to 45.03 seconds, while Ishikawa Hiroki was still stuck at 45.13 seconds.
Just like the Japanese athletes want to break the ten-second mark, Japan, as the holder of the 400-meter record for the yellow race, has always been obsessed with breaking the 45-second mark in the 400 meters, and then further refreshing the record of 44.78 seconds held by their predecessors.
And now, just like the 10-second mark in 100 meters and the 20-second mark in 200 meters were broken by the Chinese team's athletes, for Japan, Su Yu, who has already run 45.03 seconds in the preliminaries of this World Championships, is already closer to the 45-second mark than their current athletes!
During the live broadcast of the World Championships in Japan, the expression of Japan's famous track and field commentator Hirohei Matsumoto also became serious.
Before this, he had been praising Su Yu's performance from the perspective of a Su Yu fan for a long time, but in today's game, if Su Yu continued to perform well...
Then the title of the second yellow man to break the 45-second mark will go to this terrible Chinese wolf son.
Therefore, even Matsumoto Hirohei, who is a fan of Su Yu, was very cautious in his commentary: "In the preliminaries, Wolf Son has already used up all his strength. After the game, experts analyzed that Wolf Son's performance should have reached the limit of his current stage, especially in the semi-finals. Due to the continuous outbreaks during this period, Wolf Son may stop early and find it difficult to achieve an ideal result."
…
Although Matsumoto Kohei did not agree with this statement in his heart, at the critical moment of the game, he could only introduce it in this restrained way.
Soon after Matsumoto Hirohei finished speaking, the audience stopped cheering. After the scene became quiet, the official commentator gave the first command of "get ready".
"The game is about to begin! Ishikawa, please do your best!"
After sending his blessings to Hiroki Ishikawa, Matsumoto Hirohei's eyes swept very honestly towards Su Yu on the eighth lane - Come on, son of the wolf!
***
At the Khalifa Stadium, on lane nine, Jersin Robledo from Colombia felt even worse than he had been on lane eight in the preliminaries the day before.
He should have been considered a player who was relatively good at controlling his own rhythm, but it happened that in the preliminaries the day before, because of his misjudgment of Su Yu's rhythm in the ninth lane, Jersin's mentality underwent some bad changes.
After today's group list and lane table came out, Jersin has been in a state of anxiety.
Originally, Jersin's PB of 44.83 was on the verge of a result where he had almost no hope of advancing to the finals. Coupled with this anxious state, Jersin Robledo felt that his situation was extremely bad.
Even before the game, his coach kept telling him that the young player from the Chinese team was a little guy who couldn't even run under 45 seconds, and he didn't need to be afraid of him.
But Jersin still couldn't relieve the tension in his heart.
Su Yu in the eighth lane had no idea that just because of yesterday's preliminary round, his friend from Colombia had suffered psychological trauma because of his performance.
At this time, Su Yu was squatting on the starting block, waiting for the second command from the official starter.
Just like what he had said to Liu Yu and the others before the game - in this semi-final, no matter what his final result would be, he would go all out and not allow himself to leave any regrets that he would feel remorseful after thinking about the game.
Therefore, when the game was about to begin, he took a deep breath and focused his attention, no longer paying attention to how the other opponents performed.
In this game, the only person he needs to focus on is himself.
In this arena, there are only two kinds of people, him - and his opponent.
Just as Su Yu took a deep breath and adjusted his state, the starter on the scene also gave the second command at this time - ready!
As soon as this command was given, all the contestants on the scene immediately put their hands on the ground and raised their hips, bent their knees slightly and leaned their body forward slightly...
The moment everyone was ready, there was a loud bang...!
The starting gun sounds!
“The game has begun!!!”
In the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming opened their eyes wide at this moment. Although the top-ranked players are more important on the field, in this semi-final with Su Yu present, everyone knows that for the Chinese audience, this game has only one protagonist, and that is their...Su Yu!
"Very good! A very good explosive start!"
"Su Yu maintained the explosive rhythm of the preliminaries, showing excellent reaction speed and explosive acceleration at the start!!"
Tian Ruhui quickly introduced Su Yu's situation on the field. Although even though Su Yu had such an outstanding performance, he did not have much advantage in the initial stage, but at least people knew that Su Yu was still in good shape in this semi-final.
Zhou Jiming even directly reported Su Yu's reaction speed in this game - 0.122 seconds.
It was indeed Su Yu's usual excellent reaction speed!
At the same time, Su Yu on the field focused his eyes on the track in front of him from the moment the starting gun sounded.
His body was lifted up quickly and smoothly during the explosive acceleration at the start, and he quickly entered the process of accelerating in the curve.
In the eighth lane, although it is close to the outermost lane, the influence of centripetal force is not as serious as that of the innermost lane. However, theoretically, since the tangent angle of the outer lane is larger, the outer lane still has a certain influence on the initial acceleration of the player when the influence of centripetal force is smaller.
But at this moment, Su Yu, who was on the eighth lane, seemed to have perfectly integrated his body into this curved track. His body was slightly tilted towards the center of the circle, and each of his steps always maintained the most suitable tilt angle when touching the ground.
Step, step, step, step...
At this moment, the cheers from the audience seemed to have disappeared from Su Yu's ears, replaced by his own breathing, heartbeat and footsteps.
The close integration of every breath, heartbeat and footstep allows Su Yu to control his limbs more easily on the track.
He swung his arms vigorously, and at this bend, he looked like an arcing meteor across the night sky.
"So fast! Su Yu showed an excellent speed performance in the first corner stage... Now the corner merges into the straight road, here it comes! Su Yu has reached the second 100-meter stage, which is also the fastest speed stage of this game...!"
As Su Yu entered the first straight section from the first bend, everyone could see that Su Yu on the field had actually widened the distance between him and the British player in the seventh lane at this stage.
Even Clovis, the British player in the seventh lane, was shocked at this moment by the speed gap between Su Yu and himself.
In addition to the change in the distance between Clovis and Su Yu, at the same time, the distance between Su Yu and Jersin Robledo on the ninth path was getting closer and closer.
Almost everyone could see that in this game, the Colombian player in lane nine did not perform very well.
Including the reaction stage at the start, the Colombian athlete showed obvious delay, probably because he was worried that he would start too early. After the explosive start, Jersin seemed completely absent-minded, or maybe he wanted to perform well in this game, but his body shook continuously during the explosive acceleration stage.
In the eyes of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, this obvious mistake meant that the Colombian player had completely lost his competitiveness in this semi-final.
So the two of them simply said "what a pity" and no longer paid attention to Jersin on the ninth path.
It was not until now that Su Yu was getting closer and closer to Jersin in the second 100-meter stage that Tian Ruhui and the others turned their attention back to the Colombian athlete.
Perhaps because of the pressure from Su Yu, the Colombian player's form seemed to have finally returned a little, but due to his distraction in the first half, even if Jersin has now regained his form, it is difficult for him to distance himself from Su Yu again.
However, Su Yu on the eighth lane did not notice any of this. In this game, his eyes were always focused on the front!
At this moment on the track, he focused on the delivery and intersection of each of his steps. Almost every time, his footsteps just touched the ground very quickly and then flew forward. In each limited touch of the ground, he tried his best to absorb and accumulate the power from the feedback of the ground.
Inhale, exhale, exhale, inhale...
On the track, as the speed increased and the rhythm changed, Su Yu could feel his physical strength quickly disappearing, but in his mind it seemed as if a second was ticking away to remind him what second it was. His brain was also controlling his body functions to the limit, and his rapid calculations controlled his speed of progress every second...!
On the track, the race had already entered the third 100-meter stage. During this bend, the leading player in the inner lane had already begun to overtake quickly. Su Yu, who was in the eighth lane, could feel the approach of the player behind him on the left, but he still maintained his own rhythm and did not lose balance in rhythm because of the approach of his opponent.
Jersin in the ninth lane also wanted to maintain his rhythm. After all, he was also a player with an advantage in the late stage. However, due to the difference in state in the early stage, at this point, Jersin was basically powerless to turn the situation around.
The British athlete Clovis in the seventh lane had never expected that even at the end of the third 100-meter stage, he still couldn't overtake Su Yu? !
In the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming's voices were gradually getting excited.
"Fifth place. Up to now, Su Yu has always maintained the fifth place!"
The fifth position is certainly not a very good result for a game, but as Su Yu himself said - even in this game where everyone thought he had no hope of qualifying for the finals, he still faced the game with all his strength and did not leave any regrets for himself.
Obviously, Su Yu is moving forward on this track with this firm belief and spirit!
At this time in the arena, Hiroki Ishikawa from Japan in the fourth lane showed great willpower in the first half of the game. He stuck to the rhythm of Elvado, a Jamaican player in the fifth lane, throughout the whole process, as if he wanted to challenge his own limits by following Elvado's rhythm - at least, to break the 45-second mark before the Wolf Son of the Chinese team!
However, Hiroki Ishikawa still overestimated his physical fitness and condition. Although he kept to Elvado's rhythm in the early stage, by the third 100-meter stage, which was the end of the second bend, because he kept to Elvado's rhythm in the early stage, Hiroki Ishikawa's physical fitness had been basically exhausted at this stage.
Even if Hiroki Ishikawa still wants to rely on his willpower to maintain his speed at this stage, willpower is not omnipotent in this kind of competition.
In the last 100-meter stage, Hiroki Ishikawa's speed began to drop significantly. At the same time, Su Yu in the eighth lane had already successfully overtaken him as soon as his speed dropped.
Following closely was the British player Clovis in the seventh lane, who also surpassed Hiroki Ishikawa in the fourth lane...!
In the audience seats, the 400-meter enthusiasts from China had already shouted themselves hoarse.
“Come on!! Ahhhhh, Su Yu, come on!!!”
"Emperor Yu, Emperor Yu, forever invincible!!"
Guo Debiao and Han Yiqing waved the flags and banners in their hands frantically, wishing they could lend all their strength to Su Yu.
At this time in the competition, Su Yu had already reached the fourth position, and following closely behind him was the British player Clovis in the seventh lane.
However, the British athlete was unable to surpass Su Yu's final acceleration in the last 50 meters.
The voices of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming from the sports channel had also reached their highest point at this time -
“The last 50 meters!!”
“The last 30 meters!!”
“20 meters!!”
On the field, the top two runners have already crossed the finish line, but the Jamaican runner Elvado in lane five is still making his final push...!
Even at this stage, Su Yu had no intention of giving up completely, and his speed was still increasing little by little...!
In the final 10-meter sprint, the distance between Su Yu and Elvado was shortened a little bit...!
Unfortunately, by this time, Elvado had finally completed his sprint to the finish line!
“The last 10 meters!!! Cross the finish line!!”
Even though there was still a little regret and dissatisfaction, facing the competition in front of him, Su Yu stuck to his attitude and promise - to give his all.
At the same time when Su Yu crossed the finish line, there were violent cheers and screams from the Chinese players' seats at the scene.
"Su Yu, well done!!!"
Also in the audience, 400m enthusiasts from China were cheering loudly:
"Su Yu is awesome!!!"
"Ahhhh, Su Yu, we love you!!!"
The voices of the grown men pierced the stadium, and what burst out in the voices of these track and field fans was not only excitement but also the tears that they could no longer hold back.
Guo Debiao almost took out a loudspeaker. He held up the small flag representing the Chinese team and shouted towards the end of the track without caring whether Su Yu could hear him or not.
"Su Yu!! See you in Tokyo next year!!!"
The next second after Guo Debiao's voice burst out, the picture on the electronic screen at the scene flashed, and the results of Su Yu's group appeared -
At this moment, everyone turned their attention to the electronic screen at the scene, and saw the name of China's Su Yu clearly displayed in the fourth position -
Fourth place: Su Yu (China), 44.96 seconds, NR!
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