Chapter 203
Around 7:30 p.m., since Su Yu and Zhan Youming's 200-meter semi-final did not officially start until 8:50 p.m., they did not come with the first batch of staff and athletes from the track and field team, but came to the Olympic Stadium with the second small team after six o'clock.
As we arrived late, we did not encounter the scene of reporters swarming in for interviews as in previous times.
At this point, the men's 110-meter hurdles preliminaries should have just ended not long ago, and reporters are waiting inside the stadium to conduct post-match interviews with the athletes.
When Zhan Youming saw this scene when he got off the car, he touched his chin and said with regret: "What a pity."
Su Yu got off the car behind Zhan Youming. When he heard Zhan Youming say "what a pity", he looked at Zhan Youming strangely, then prepared to enter without saying anything.
Zhan Youming took a few quick steps to catch up with Su Yu, put his arm around his shoulders and asked, "Hey, Su Xiaoyu, aren't you curious about what I'm sorry about?"
Su Yu was silent for two seconds: "Not curious."
Anyway, it's not a good thing.
Zhan Youming walked and laughed, "I regret that there are no reporters to interview you. I really want to see you say to the reporters, 'I will work hard tonight' again."
Su Yu: “…”
He knew that there was nothing good about Zhan Youming's curiosity.
Zhan Youming still looked very interested, but Su Yu in front of him was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he could only mutter to himself all the way.
"Su Xiaoyu, you are so young, don't be so mature."
Su Yu was silent for two seconds: "...So I have to be like you to not be considered old?"
Zhan Youming said confidently, "Of course! Look at me! How youthful and energetic I am! Don't become a dull person like Coach Xiao Pei just because you train with him... Your Coach Xiao Pei is obviously two years younger than me, but he looks more than two years older than me from his mature appearance...!"
Zhan Youming's words stopped abruptly here. When he and Su Yu turned the corner and were about to reach the door of the Chinese team's lounge, they saw Pei Dingshan and Zheng Sheng standing at the door of the lounge.
Su Yu: “…”
Zhan Youming: "..."
Su Yu silently raised his hand to take away the claw that Zhan Youming had hung on his shoulder, then took a step to the right, using body language to indicate that what that person said just now had nothing to do with me.
Zhan Youming: "..."
What should I do if I get caught saying bad things about my coach behind his back? Waiting online, very urgent!
When Zheng Sheng saw Zhan Youming coming towards him from the corner, he silently raised his hands to cover his face, wishing he was not there at that moment.
The awkward atmosphere spread quickly in the air around them. Finally, Pei Dingshan glanced at Zhan Youming, then turned to look at Su Yu: "Are you here? Go in and rest first."
There was less than an hour and a half left before the start of the 200-meter semi-final. Not to mention that Zhan Youming was obviously just joking, even if there was really a problem, Pei Dingshan and others would not be able to influence the players' mentality before the game.
It was a rare awkward moment for Zhan Youming. He coughed twice and wanted to invite Su Yu to go into the lounge together. However, after looking at Su Yu and then at Pei Dingshan, he did not say much. Instead, he quietly made an arc as far as possible from Pei Dingshan and quickly entered the lounge.
Zheng Sheng looked at Zhan Youming's useless appearance and shook his head helplessly.
Su Yu glanced at Pei Dingshan from the side, but he didn't see any sign of anger in Pei Dingshan. Before he could say anything more, Pei Dingshan waved his hand, motioning for him to go in and rest first.
It was not until Zhan Youming and Su Yu entered the Chinese team's lounge room that Pei Dingshan at the door frowned slightly in distress.
Zheng Sheng looked at his expression and knew that Coach Xiao Pei was troubled for a rare time.
Sure enough, Pei Dingshan was silent for a while and asked: "... Coach Zheng, am I really too old?"
Zheng Sheng looked at Pei Dingshan's rare look of distress and said with a smile: "Normally, that's true. Coach Pei looks much more reliable and steady than many of the team's assistant coaches who are in their thirties. But... you look a bit like a young man now."
Only young people in their twenties would be influenced by the nonsense of that guy Zhan Youming.
It's true, Coach Pei looks a lot younger now with his distressed look on his face.
Pei Dingshan listened to Zheng Sheng's words and was silent for a while: "...I have been like this since I was a child."
This is the truth. After all, Pei Dingshan also practiced the 200-meter sprint back then. Pei Dingshan's family is a real sports family, and he has good relationships with coaches of many sports in the circle. Zheng Sheng also knew Pei Dingshan at the beginning. At that time, Zheng Sheng looked at Pei Dingshan and thought he was quite talented. Unexpectedly, although he was talented, he had no fate with the identity of an athlete.
Zheng Sheng looked at Pei Dingshan with a frown on his face, and finally said with a smile: "Okay, why do you have to be so young to be a coach? Aren't you quite authoritative now?"
Pei Dingshan was silent for a while, and finally shook his head with a wry smile.
Yes, it is indeed a question that does not need to be entangled.
When Pei Dingshan and Zheng Sheng entered the lounge together, Zhan Youming sat up straight for a moment, but when he saw that Pei Dingshan had no intention of picking a fight with him, he heaved a sigh of relief and relaxed.
However, although Zhan Youming was free to talk at this moment, his hands did not stop.
He took out his phone and sent a message to Su Yu.
Zhan Youming: [Su Xiaoyu, your eyes are like knives, your coach Xiao Pei almost killed me just now! 】
Su Yu also noticed the message alert on his phone. He silently glanced at Zhan Youming's message, and then replied to him with six points - he really wanted to tell Zhan Youming that your personality was a little broken, but after thinking about it, Zhan Youming's personality seemed to have always been like this, but it was exposed particularly thoroughly today.
On the side, Zheng Sheng glanced at the mobile phones in Su Yu and Zhan Youming's hands. Originally, the contestants were not recommended to use mobile phones before the game, for fear that these contestants would not be able to control themselves and check some online news, which would affect their state.
But what Zhan Youming and Su Yu said...
Zheng Sheng thought about their usual calm mentality and pretended not to see the mobile phones in their hands.
It was during the time when Su Yu and Zhan Youming went into the lounge to rest that cheers broke out among the Chinese team staff in another room - they advanced!
Su Yu and Zhan Youming immediately turned their heads to look in the direction of the lounge next door. There should be staff members watching the live broadcast of the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries on the field.
After hearing this, Zheng Sheng and the others also took out their phones and took a look, then smiled and said to Su Yu and Zhan Youming, "Yang Liu from the 110-meter hurdles has qualified for the semifinals directly."
This is undoubtedly a very good start for the Chinese track and field team tonight.
Zhan Youming was also very happy after hearing this, and said with a smile: "Yang Liu is a good kid! He has some of his idol's style!"
Zheng Sheng looked at Zhan Youming like this, smiled and shook his head without saying anything, but just asked Zhan Youming and Su Yu to have a good rest.
It has to be said that for Zheng Sheng, although Zhan Youming has a bit of an eccentric personality, it is indeed much less of a worry for him to have a player like him who can keep his emotions stable and be in the mood to joke before the game.
Soon, Yang Liu, who was running the 110-meter hurdles next door, also returned to the backcourt lounge after the preliminaries. After coming back, Yang Liu glanced at Su Yu and Zhan Youming, greeted them with a smile, and was soon assigned to the staff by Zheng Sheng, who arranged for him to relax and adjust.
***
In the backcourt locker room, Su Yu and Zhan Youming were still waiting for the game to start, but on the Internet today, the discussion about Su Yu's semi-final seemed a little muted.
There is no way. Su Yu's opponents in today's semi-final are too strong, including Bryce Singleton, Damarcus Collins, Elviano Ferns from South Africa, and Gavin Kovalchuk, an old friend who competes in both the 100m and 100m events from Canada...
As a result, even Stanley Novas, the only Dominican athlete whose personal best record is slightly worse than Su Yu, just broke his personal best record in the preliminary stage.
The gap between Su Yu's 20.12 and Stanley Novas' 20.17 is actually very small.
Under such circumstances, even track and field fans no longer thought about Su Yu having to successfully advance to the finals - as long as he could perform well in this semi-final, that would be all.
Of course, there are people who complain, and their main complaint is how could Su Yu's luck be so "good" in this group of semi-finals?
But thinking back, it might be a good thing if Su Yu did not advance to the 200m final - at least tomorrow, August 4, Su Yu could have a good rest, and free up a day for recovery, which would also be helpful for the high-intensity schedule of the men's 4*100m relay preliminaries and 400m finals the day after tomorrow.
In short, probably because Su Yu has been competing in such a high-intensity schedule during this period, netizens on the Internet finally felt the reality that Su Yu needs to participate in so many competitions at such a young age.
After all, they were already a little out of breath from chasing the game, let alone Su Yu who was in the last game.
So although the public opinion on the Internet is not very optimistic about Su Yu's upcoming semi-final, there are no overly negative emotions and public opinions.
Time passed little by little, and finally around 8:15 a.m. local time in Tokyo, the staff on site knocked on the door of the Chinese team's lounge and informed Su Yu and Zhan Youming that they could go to the onsite warm-up venue to prepare for the game.
Su Yu and Zhan Youming stood up at the same time, picked up their bags, waved to Pei Dingshan and Zheng Sheng, and walked out of the door of the Chinese team's backcourt lounge together.
***
"Dear viewers, this is the live broadcast of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on China Sports Channel. The men's 200m sprint semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympic track and field competition is about to begin. I am Tian Ruhui, the commentator of this competition."
"I am Zhou Jiming, the commentator for this game."
"Good evening, everyone."
In the live commentary room of the sports channel, when the time turned to 7:50 local time, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming greeted the audience on time at the director's prompt.
Ever since the 100-meter track and field sprint event became extremely popular this season, the live broadcasts of the subsequent 200-meter and 400-meter events have also skyrocketed in popularity. This is due to Su Yu's feat of winning three events at the same time, and of course, the natural attention that the audience has paid to the sprinting event.
For Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, the fact that track and field events account for an increasingly higher proportion of live broadcast time in this Olympics is of course a very exciting thing for them - after all, for them, this is good news that the events they love and their careers are receiving more and more attention.
However, no matter what the specific situation is, it does not affect their work at the moment.
As the men's 200m sprint semi-final race started, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming simply greeted the audience and then quickly began to introduce the qualifying requirements for the semi-finals and the grouping of China's Su Yu and Zhan Youming.
"The men's 200m sprint semi-finals are the same as the 100m and 400m. They are divided into three semi-final groups, each with eight runners. The top two runners in each group will qualify directly for the finals. The top two runners in the remaining three semi-final groups will qualify for the finals by replacement."
"Yes." Zhou Jiming nodded and said, "Based on past experience, for example, the semi-finals of the last Rio Olympics, even the players who made the cut would have a time of around 20.10 seconds, and the vast majority of players who made it to the finals would have broken the 20-second barrier in the semi-finals."
“For these semi-finalists, whether they can run a time as close to or even above 20 seconds will be an important factor in determining their chances of advancing to the finals.”
As the responsible and experienced commentators, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming always do a lot of homework before the game. They have already understood the grouping situation early on.
Therefore, Tian Ruhui quickly talked about the grouping issue: "I believe that many viewers should have noticed the grouping list for today's semi-finals. Among them, the second group of the semi-finals, which is the group where our player Su Yu is in... Many people have noticed that this is a 'death group' in the traditional sense."
In fact, from the organizer's perspective, before the final, the more balanced the strength of each group is, the better, so that the better players can be kept in the final to compete.
It is also for this reason that the group draw procedure actually has some hidden clauses - in addition to the public rule that players from the same country will not be assigned to the same group before the final, there will usually be some proportional distribution of each group based on the players' scores and rankings.
But a program is a program after all. It can complete these requirements according to the conditions set by the organizer, but there will be a "death group" in every major competition. This is because every player may not be able to sprint according to his or her actual strength in the preliminary stage.
Just like the situation in the second group of today's semi-finals - let’s not talk about others, let’s just talk about Su Yu.
In the preliminary round, Su Yu obviously let his guard down and got a time of 20.64 seconds to advance directly.
Although he advanced directly, his performance was ranked third from the bottom among the 24 players who advanced from the preliminaries.
So for the system's random program, it seems to be a very reasonable thing to randomly assign a third-to-last player to a stronger group to "neutralize the average strength."
Coincidentally, in the second group of the semi-finals, the players who were randomly selected to "neutralize the average strength" had actual scores that were somewhat outrageous.
For example, the South African star Alviano. Although he is not young anymore and his performance has declined seriously in the past two years, his personal best in the 200 meters has already broken the 19.70 second mark.
By the way, Elviano's preliminary result was 20.80 seconds - he was the last direct qualifier in the first group of preliminaries, and also the one with the lowest result among the 24 qualified players in the preliminaries.
But just looking at Elviano's past record, who can say that he is not strong enough and has no chance of reaching the finals?
In addition to Elviano and Su Yu, Siegfried Nagy from Switzerland and Alexander Edward from Panama were also beyond the system calculations.
Of these two, the former is Switzerland's No. 1 200m sprinter, and Siegfried's personal best in 200m is 19.84 seconds, which he ran just last season - but his preliminary result was only 20.58 seconds.
the latter, Alexander Edward of Panama.
His personal best in history is 19.81 seconds - his preliminary result is 20.60 seconds, which is also very "superior".
It can be imagined that the grouping process obviously believes that after these four players with the lowest preliminaries rankings are stuffed into this semi-final group, there will be no major problems even if this group also includes players with top preliminaries rankings such as Bryce Singleton, DaMarcus Collins, Gavin Kovalchuk, and Stanley Novas.
But unfortunately, the program can't beat the human brain_(:зゝ∠)_
The sad grouping app didn't expect these preliminary contestants to play dirty, and its limited inherent conditions could not help it better screen the contestants, resulting in the "tragedy" of the second group of the semi-finals.
At this point, it is too late for the players to regret. They must compete with the current "luxurious" lineup and have an exciting semi-final battle that is not inferior to the final.
***
At this moment, in the audience, Guo Debiao, Han Yiqing and other die-hard fans of Su Yu's 400m race were watching the end of the first group of the semi-finals and the second group of players about to appear. They were all speechless at the luxurious lineup list of the second group of the semi-finals.
Guo Debiao hesitated for a long time before suddenly saying, "...Our Yudi is lucky in this group. How about we find a place to pay respect to Yudi before the next competition?"
Han Yiqing: “…”
Han Yiqing really wanted to say that we should believe in science, but after looking at the grouping of Su Yu's group on the field, Han Yiqing suddenly felt that it would be a good idea to go back and pay a visit to seek peace of mind.
***
On the court, Su Yu didn't know that his fans had even come up with the idea of burning incense and praying for him because of his luck in the group.
He is now on the court with his semi-final opponents, and compared to his opponents, he looks a little too relaxed.
Just after the warm-up, Zhan Youming patted his chest from a distance.
Su Yu knew that it was Zhan Youming who was telling him - remember, your brother is here!
Zhan Youming didn't want him to go on stage with too heavy a psychological burden, so he waved to Zhan Youming and made a thumbs-up gesture to reassure him.
For Su Yu, at least the promise given to him by Zhan Youming allowed him to completely let go of the pressure of advancing to the finals, and thus treat this game as a "high-quality practice match".
He once told Zhan Youming today that he would "try his best" in this game.
However, from the preliminaries in the morning to the semi-finals tonight, although they were all "high-quality practice matches" that required "hard work" for him, the actual feelings of the two games were different.
***
At this time, in the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had already begun to introduce the lane situation of this semi-final after seeing Su Yu appear on the stage.
Among them, Bryce Singleton and DaMarcus Collins, who are sworn enemies, are in adjacent lanes, the fifth and sixth lanes respectively, while Stanley Novus, who broke the national record in the preliminaries, is in the fourth lane. In addition, Canada's 100m and 200m champion Gavin Kovalchuk is in the seventh lane.
Compared with these people, Su Yu's lane is the ninth lane on the outermost lane, and is not adjacent to these core players in this field.
At this moment, on the ninth lane, Su Yu, after entering the stage, had been concentrating on adjusting the angle and position of his starting block, and then jumping easily on the spot, while patting his arm and thigh muscles in a relaxing manner.
Su Yu could feel that he was in a very good condition at the moment, so when the camera on the scene turned its lens towards him again, he rarely smiled and waved in the direction of the camera lens.
In the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were originally worried that Su Yu was under too much pressure in this game, but after seeing Su Yu's performance, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It looks like Su Yu is in good condition right now."
"Yes, I hope he can have a good performance in this game with many strong opponents and try to run at his best level and style!"
Even though Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming could see that Su Yu was in good shape, they definitely didn't dare to say that they expected Su Yu to advance to the finals.
After all, the strength of the players in tonight's semi-finals has indeed reached an outrageous level, coupled with the personal grudge between Bryce Singleton and DaMarcus Collins.
I'm afraid these two players won't let up in this game.
Driven by these two people, the other contestants will never relax as long as they want to qualify for the finals.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had a vague guess in their hearts - perhaps all the substitute qualifications for this semi-final would be decided in this group of semi-finals.
Such a thought flashed through the two people's minds, and soon after the official commentator on the scene introduced all the players on the field, the audience on the scene quieted down under the guidance of the official commentator and the on-site subtitles.
The game is about to start!
On the field, the eight athletes stopped moving at the official starter's whistle. Then, at the official starter's command of "on your positions," everyone quickly walked to their respective starting blocks, supported themselves with their hands, and squatted on the starting blocks.
Su Yu on the ninth lane did the same. At this moment, he looked intently at the track in front of him. His posture, which had seemed a little too relaxed, became restrained again. He squatted calmly on his starting block, quietly waiting for the starter's next command.
As the eight players took their positions, the official starter quickly gave the second command: "Ready!"
As the command 'set' sounded, the eight players on the field quickly supported themselves on the ground with their hands, and assumed a ready position with their hips raised and their center of gravity slightly leaning forward. Then, in just a moment - a crisp "bang" sound of the starting signal rang out!
“The game has begun!!”
In the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming's eyes have never left the split screen in front of them since the starter gave the first command.
Tian Ruhui looked at Su Yu's condition in lane nine on the track and quickly praised him, "Su Yu's starting performance was good." Then, Zhou Jiming on the side also quickly gave Su Yu's starting reaction speed in this semi-final - 0.131 seconds.
A very good result for starting reaction speed!
In this semi-final grouping, Su Yu's starting reaction time is undoubtedly ranked first, while the second and third places in starting reaction speed are Damarcus Collins of Liberia and Stanley Novas of Dominica.
For both of them, the former Damarcus obviously came with the goal of hitting the first place in the semi-final group. His series of performances from starting reaction speed to his starting explosiveness and acceleration in corners were all very outstanding.
And the talented American player Bryce Singleton in the fifth lane had no intention of giving up this group's chance of advancing or winning.
Whether it is the starting burst or the acceleration in the corners, Bryce Singleton's condition is no worse than DaMarcus's. The two's performances in the starting burst and cornering acceleration stages are almost at the same frequency - at least from the perspective of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, the distance between the two did not change very obviously during the starting burst stage.
If it was on a straight track, the speeds of the two people in the starting burst and acceleration phases would probably not be much different at all.
At the same time, Canadian athlete Gavin Kovalchuk in lane seven was no pushover either. As a player who unfortunately lost to Zheng Tianxi in the 100m final and only won fourth place in the final, Gavin Kovalchuk not only knew the strengths of the two players behind him on his left, but also knew the strengths of Su Yu in lane nine in front of him on his right.
After all, in the men's 100-meter sprint final two days ago, he and Su Yu crossed the finish line almost at the same time. Both of them had a score of 9.93 seconds. In the end, he only managed to get fourth place in the final with a slight advantage in the ten-thousandth place.
It is precisely because of this experience that Gavin Kovalchuk, like the previous 100m champion Federico Segli, is wary of Su Yu's performance.
Gavin Kovalchuk's goal is to successfully enter the 200m final - he doesn't want to lose the final qualification because of some inexplicable relaxation of vigilance in the semi-finals!
In addition to Gavin Kovalchuk, Dominican athlete Stanley in the fourth lane hoped that he could continue the miracle in the preliminaries - so he almost used up all his strength when he started. At the same time, after feeling the strong impact of his opponents in the fifth, sixth and seventh lanes in front of him, Stanley burst out with all his strength in the sprint!
Except for the contestants in lanes 4, 5, 6 and 7, the contestants in the other lanes, although they slacked off in the preliminaries and their performance in the semifinals was not ideal, it does not mean that they do not want to advance to the finals.
Therefore, this 200-meter sprint semi-final was destined to be filled with the smell of gunpowder from the moment the starting gun sounded!
In the live commentary room of the sports channel, although Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming both felt that Su Yu's starting burst and acceleration performance in this semi-final were very good, but now compared with his opponents on the field, Su Yu's starting burst seems to be difficult to gain an advantage over his opponents in this game.
This thought only flashed through the minds of the two men briefly, and they quickly began to further explain the situation on the field.
"The players in lanes 5, 6 and 7 are currently leading the way. The three are in evenly matched form. Meanwhile, Panamanian star Alexander Edward in lane 3 and Swiss player Siegfried in lane 8 are also catching up quickly...!"
"Among the eight contestants on the field, except for the three contestants in lanes five, six, and seven, the gap between the remaining contestants is very small..."
But while Tian Ruhui was speaking, Stanley Novus, a Dominican athlete in the fourth lane, seemed to have tried his best to burst out all his strength and speed, and actually slightly closed the gap with Bryce Singleton in the fifth lane in front of him during the acceleration phase of the curve.
Although the distance between the two was shortened, it did not mean that Stanley had successfully reached the first group led by Bryce.
Stanley just managed to narrow the distance between himself and the three people in front of him. Soon, as the speed of the three people in front of him increased further, the distance that Stanley had barely managed to close with the people in front was widened again.
At this time, perhaps because he was sprinting forward at full speed in the curve to close the distance with Bryce and the others, Stanley's physical energy was greatly consumed. When approaching the end of the curve, Stanley's speed dropped slightly.
Although the speed drop was very small, with all the opponents in full swing, Stanley quickly lost the little advantage he had just gained and soon fell to the last place!
At the same time, as they entered the stage where the end of the curve connected to the straight, Alexander Edward and Siegfried quickly emerged and quickly widened the gap between them and their opponents in the part where the curve connected to the straight.
Stanley, who fell to the last two places due to excessive physical exhaustion, was not willing to accept his defeat. Even though his physical energy had been greatly depleted at this stage, he still tried his best to overtake and counterattack his opponents in front of him through a sprint on the next straight!
At the same time, in the ninth lane, although Su Yu had an advantage in starting reaction speed, facing these opponents who basically all broke the 20-second mark, when these opponents were giving their all and in outstanding condition, Su Yu really could not compete with them in the explosive acceleration phase.
In today's semi-final, although Su Yu performed well in the initial stage, he even fell to the last place in the cornering stage, which was unprecedented!
This situation made the hearts of the audience at the scene and in front of the TV involuntarily tighten!
But as Stanley slowed down due to excessive consumption of energy in the curve, the distance between Su Yu and Stanley became closer and closer. Finally, in the stage of cutting into the straight road from the curve, Su Yu completed his first overtaking in this race!
Su Yu first surpassed Stanley and came to seventh place.
At this time, the athletes on the field have entered the sprint stage on the last 80 meters of the straight track!
The situation on the field is now very clear. Bryce, DaMarcus and Gavin in the front are almost neck and neck, and none of them is willing to relax - after all, there are only two direct qualifications for the semi-finals. Whoever relaxes at this stage means giving up the direct qualification and instead strive for the unstable substitute qualification!
No one wants to lose, and no one wants to relax!
Behind the three of them are Alexander and Siegfried, who are also running side by side. These two players from Panama and Switzerland are also moving forward side by side at this time, obviously trying to fight for the last chance to get fourth place in the group.
About a body length behind the two of them was the South African runner Elviano in the second lane!
On the field, every player was sprinting with all his might, and on the ninth lane, Su Yu was also rushing forward with all his might with excitement and anticipation!
"Su Yu is speeding up!!"
In the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had obviously seen Su Yu's acceleration.
In this semi-final, Su Yu's teleportation-like acceleration reappeared. Stanley, who was originally only half a body length away from Su Yu, found in the blink of an eye that Su Yu had opened up a gap of almost two body lengths between him.
Elviano, who originally had a gap of almost three body lengths between him and Su Yu, was almost caught up by Su Yu in the blink of an eye!
The audience at the scene saw this change on the field most clearly. They looked at Su Yu's miraculous burst of acceleration in the late stage, and soon a huge burst of exclamations broke out at the scene.
But unfortunately, the gap between Su Yu and his opponent in front of him was too big, and the three players in front of him did not slow down at all even in the final stage of the sprint. No matter who the winner among them was, no one could shake their position in the first group in this game.
Behind them, Su Yu quickly surpassed Elviano in the second lane and began to approach Alexander and Siegfried in front.
However, in this game, Alexander and Siegfried's performance was not bad at all. In the final sprint stage, they were sprinting for the last fourth place to advance. Although Su Yu was also approaching them quickly, he was still half a body length away from them when he crossed the finish line...
In the end, in this semi-final which could definitely be called a 'death group', Su Yu unfortunately crossed the finish line with sixth place in the group.
But at the same time, when the results were released, the audience from China were surprised to find that Su Yu had broken his personal best in this game - 20.09 seconds!
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