In the lounge.
Everyone had already received the notification that Chen Zhi had successfully advanced to the finals. During the limited rest time, Chen Zhi and Su Zhe could only replenish their lost energy by drinking functional drinks prepared by a nutritionist.
The team's professional masseurs have already given them full-body relaxation massages, allowing their muscles, which were tense due to intense exercise on the field, to relax to the best state.
Neither Zhang Ye nor anyone else in the team put any pressure on Su Zhe or Chen Zhi at this time. To have two athletes advance to the Olympic finals at the same time was completely beyond their expectations for the sprint team. Next, no matter what results they can achieve, it will be a historic progress.
"What's the status now?"
Seeing that the warm-up time was about to end, Zhang Ye asked the two people who were resting their eyes.
"Not bad." Chen Zhi opened his eyes first and answered with a smile.
Su Zhe also opened his eyes, felt his current condition, and then nodded: "I'm fine too."
Seeing the two guys both saying that they were in good condition, Zhang Ye shrugged and didn't say much - neither of these two guys would complain. If they really started to say that they were not in good condition, the entire sprint team would probably panic.
Glancing at Chen Zhisuzhe's answer, Zhang Ye turned to look at the masseur and asked how the two were doing. The masseur then told him that their muscles had recovered well.
Zhang Ye finally heaved a sigh of relief after receiving this answer. While he was questioning the masseur, Chen Zhi and Su Zhe had already stood up and were preparing to go to the locker room to change clothes and then go to the warm-up venue.
In the lounge, Zhang Ye and others watched Su Zhe and Chen Zhi leave, then they gathered together nervously.
"Oh my, we've reached the finals! And it's the Olympic finals!" Su Zhe's masseur was the first to sigh.
When Su Zhe and the other person were here just now, they didn't dare to discuss related topics, for fear of causing tension between the two of them in advance.
"I wonder what place I can get? Oh, look at Azhe, he advanced to the next round as the first in the group in both the preliminaries and the semi-finals. If he advances to the finals..."
The person who said this was the team's nutritionist. Before he could finish his words, Zhang Ye rolled his eyes and stopped him: "Hey, I said it's okay, the semi-finals are fine. In the last Olympic 100m finals, there were 8 people, and only two didn't run under 10 seconds. The gold and silver medalists were 9.79 and 9.86 respectively... Even if Su Zhe's semi-final results were put in four years ago, he wouldn't have made it into the top three."
On the domestic Internet, the news that Su Zhe and Chen Zhi entered the finals and that two Chinese athletes would compete in the Olympic men's 100m final became a hot topic again, so many bystanders began to expect Su and Chen to win medals for their country. Of course, it would be best if they could win gold and silver.
Faced with the public's extraordinary enthusiasm and expectations, track and field fans in the track and field kingdom had to run around and start popularizing science, talking about the gap between the current strength of my country's 100-meter athletes and the strength of the top athletes.
【Popular Science!!! The current Asian men's 100m sprint record was set by Chinese athlete Chen Zhi, and it is also Chen Zhi's best result so far, 9.90 seconds; Su Zhe's current personal best is 9.93 seconds. We can say that Su Zhe and Chen Zhi have created history and are currently the strongest 100m twin stars in China, but their current performance ceiling is still a certain distance away from other top athletes in the finals!
Evenson, the current king of the men's 100-meter sprint, has a personal PB of 9.74 seconds;
Sandy, a Nigerian 100m talent, has a personal PB of 9.80 seconds;
Gaiter, the second player of the US team, has a personal PB of 9.83 seconds...
The coaching teams of these world-class athletes must have attached great importance to adjusting their individual competitive conditions during the Olympic cycle. Similarly, these athletes must have left some room for improvement in order to ensure they can reach the finals.
The Olympic finals are the time for them to fully demonstrate their personal strengths!
We should indeed be proud of the fact that our two athletes were able to enter the Olympic finals at the same time. They broke the traditional yellow race ban in the Olympic men's 100-meter final. They are not only the pride of our country, but also the pride of Asian athletes!
At this moment, I hope everyone will not place too much expectation on them. In this final, no matter what results they achieve, it will be the most glorious new chapter in the history of our country's sprinting! 】
These popular science articles from track and field enthusiasts, after being forwarded by many sports influencers and even some official blogs, calmed the originally excited crowd down a little.
But some bystanders felt that after the popular science, they realized that Su Zhe and Chen Zhi might not be able to achieve any good results in the final, so they lost interest in paying attention, until the track and field fans released another set of data.
This set of data comes from the sprint group of the national track and field team, which is trying to sprint to the Olympic Games.
From the first person in history to travel across the ocean alone to participate in the Olympics, who ultimately had poor results due to lack of physical strength; to the establishment of the sprint group of the track and field team, which has repeatedly refreshed and challenged the 100-meter results.
In this data, the document left a blank space and quoted a saying that was once widely circulated internationally - the yellow race is not suitable for running the 100 meters, and the 100-meter performance of the yellow race will never be better than that of blacks and whites.
This inference based on the muscle explosiveness and other aspects of different races has always limited Asians' expectations for the 100-meter race. Some experts even inferred that it would be difficult for yellow people to break the 10-second mark, while other experts argued that the upper limit of yellow people's 100-meter speed would always be 0.2-0.3 seconds slower than that of black people.
In this theoretical environment, the Chinese track and field team's sprint group has never given up on sprinting for the Olympic 100-meter event.
From no one being able to break the 10-second mark, to someone breaking the 10-second mark, and then to Chen Zhiyi's emergence, he has led China's sprinting events all the way, refreshing the country's 100-meter record from 10 seconds to the current 9.90 seconds.
In the last Olympics, Chen Zhi's personal PB was still at 9.97 seconds. He successfully entered the men's 100m semi-finals of the Olympics, becoming the first Chinese athlete in history to enter the 100m semi-finals of the Olympics. However, at that time, he did not live up to everyone's expectations and enter the Olympic 100m finals, which was known as the forbidden zone for the yellow race.
After the last Olympics, Chen Zhi's personal training became more intense. At that time, there was no athlete in the domestic sprint circle who was qualified to succeed Chen Zhi, and all the hopes of the sprint event were placed on him alone.
He hopes that before the end of his sports career, he can at least lead the Chinese team to successfully enter one Olympic final.
It was for these reasons that he suffered a stress fracture in his leg due to excessive pressure and the need to keep up with the training schedule during training the previous year.
After this article, which was mixed with cold data and sprinting background, was published, at this moment when the Olympics was most watched, many curious passers-by clicked in. After reading it, they couldn't help but forward it with tears in their eyes.
[There are levels of competition in competitive sports, but there is no level of competition in the spirit of competitive sports. No matter what the final result of this game will be, I will watch it carefully. This is the highest respect for these athletes who are silently challenging the impossible.]
[…I just searched and found that there are indeed experts who have proven that there is a natural racial speed difference between yellow and black people in the 100-meter event. No wonder the news and live broadcasts keep mentioning that reaching the finals means victory.]
[dbq, I also thought that if no medals were won, then the competition would be meaningless and not impressive at all... I just cried after reading this popular science data. Even though yellow people are naturally 0.2-0.3 seconds slower than black people, our athletes never give up on the field and can even compete with them on the field and achieve such results...
I'm already squatting in front of the TV. In tonight's game, I will cheer for Su Zhe and Chen Zhi! No matter what results they achieve, they will be our pride! 】
As this long article was widely forwarded by passers-by, official media also discovered the article and reposted it on their own Weibo, allowing more people to see the content of the article.
After reading this long article, many passers-by who had lost interest in the 100-meter event switched their TV channels to the live broadcast of the event on the sports channel and began waiting for the start of the 100-meter final.
Japan, Tokyo New National Stadium, 21:35
Two hours after the semi-finals, the men's 100m finals took place on the track of the Tokyo New National Stadium!
Su Zhe and Chen Zhi from China, Evanson and Gates from the United States, Sandy from Nigeria, Carlos from Spain, Hill from Jamaica and Trin from Cote d'Ivoire.
The eight finalists have now gathered together and are standing at the starting line of the final.
Su Zhe was scheduled to run in lane 9, with Chen Zhi on lane 2, one on the left and one on the right, occupying the two most marginal lanes.
Evenson was in lane 4, with Sandy stretching next to him.
There was no weakling in this final, whether it was Trin, who looked the most inconspicuous, or Carlos, who seemed to have made it to the final only by luck.
Each of them has his or her own absolute advantages in this arena.
Su Zhe stood at the starting point of his own 9th lane, feeling the confidence coming from Carlos beside him, feeling the condition of every athlete on the scene, and feeling the enthusiasm released by the 80,000-seat audience in this stadium.
He raised his head and glanced in the direction of Shao Xingchen. This time, what he saw was not Shao Xingchen holding the camera lens in his hand, but a face that moved the lens away and happened to look at him.
Looking away, he saw more spectators from China in the audience. These spectators were waving national flags in their hands and had national flag stickers on their faces. After noticing his gaze, they were waving flags and cheering at the top of their lungs. Even though their voices could easily be drowned out by the surrounding Japanese spectators, they did not give up voicing their support.
Su Zhe, who was watching all this, originally thought that he had reached the peak of excitement before the start of the semi-finals, but he did not expect that at this moment, standing on the finals court, he could still feel this extreme excitement.
The sound of his heartbeat was so strong that it made his ears tinnitus, but he could still clearly hear the sounds coming from the outside world.
This feeling is very strange.
He took a deep breath. This extreme excitement that made him a little dizzy brought him to an unprecedented state - he wanted to win, he wanted to defeat Evanson, Sandy, and Gates on this track... He wanted to run at the fastest speed with everyone's expectations of him.
This feeling of desire drove him on, causing his entire skin to turn red with excitement.
In the Chinese players' section of the audience seats, everyone was staring at the competition venue nervously.
Qiu Zhongwen seemed to be reassuring everyone. He whispered, "Don't be nervous. This time, the 100-meter task has been completed very successfully. Very successfully..."
Everyone knows that what Qiu Zhongwen said is correct, but everyone is also looking forward to this final. What heights can China's 100-meter athletes reach on this track?
"Everyone, take your positions."
The referee's voice sounded from the radio, and the originally noisy stadium soon fell into silence.
The eight athletes on the track all crouched on their starting blocks and made their preparations. The atmosphere of competition was on the verge of breaking out, and the spectators on the scene all looked nervous.
“It’s about to begin!”
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan also nervously watched the images sent back from the scene and secretly clenched their fists.
Not only them, but also the staff in the director's room of the sports channel, the audience in front of the TV, and the staff of the Athletics Management Center who gathered in the conference room to watch the game...
Everyone was nervously waiting for the start of the live match.
What kind of results can Su Zhe and Chen Zhi achieve in this competition?
This thought and the expectation of their performance continue to linger in people's minds.
"Be prepared."
The referee's calm and inorganic voice sounded again, and everyone watching the game felt nervous.
The game is about to start!
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, the referee fired the starting gun... "Bang!"
"The game has begun!!"
Kazuhei Ishida at the scene and Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan from the sports channel shouted this sentence at the same time.
On the track, when the gun sounded, Su Zhe's pupils trembled slightly, and then he stepped on the starting block with his left leg, pushing his body forward with the most powerful explosive force.
In the first three steps, he relied on his own powerful explosive power to give his body a strong forward momentum, and quickly made a perfect transition from starting to accelerating!
His steps were firm and powerful, and every step he took rapidly increased his speed. His starting and acceleration abilities had undergone a qualitative change compared to before, allowing him to not fall behind even among the many strong players on the field.
In this game, Evanson finally released his strongest side. From the reaction stage, he has been firmly in the first place. His explosive power is so strong that in the first 10 meters alone, his starting acceleration is enough to crush most of the people present!
Among the eight athletes present, only Chen Zhi and Carlos were able to keep up with Evanson's speed during the acceleration phase!
As athletes who also have a strong advantage in the starting phase, Chen Zhi and Carlos are almost as fast as Evenson in this phase. Both of them have the same explosive power at the start and the ability to accelerate in the acceleration phase, but there is a subtle difference in their peak speed.
Chen Zhi's speed peaks at around 40 meters, and he can maintain this speed for the next 20 meters, while Carlos' speed peaks at around 30 meters, and his speed will gradually decline at around 50 meters.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that Carlos has always found it difficult to achieve better results in the 100-meter race, because his peak speed comes too early and the speed decline period is too long.
At this moment in the competition, Evenson is undoubtedly in the first echelon. Not far behind him, Chen Zhi and Carlos are chasing closely behind. The three of them form the first echelon group in the first 30 meters.
Behind the three, Su Zhe and Sandy were in a stalemate with each other and were also closely following the first group of teams in front, forming the second echelon on the track.
Behind the two, Gate, Hilm and Trin were chasing after them. In the reaction phase, Gate and Hilm made some minor mistakes. Their reaction times were 0.156 and 0.148 respectively. These two times seemed to have reached the standard of ordinary professional players' reaction times, but in the Olympic finals, they were already the biggest proof of their mistakes.
Trin, who was chasing at the end, actually performed well in the reaction stage after hearing the gun, with a reaction time of only 0.132 seconds. However, compared with other athletes in the field, his starting explosiveness was insufficient, and his speed after the start and acceleration was also insufficient. These disadvantages in the early stage of the race basically made him lose the qualification to compete in this event.
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan were cheering loudly!
"Very good! Chen Zhi maintained his usual forward advantage! He is closely behind Evanson!"
In the first half of the race, Chen Zhi's performance was enough to excite any Chinese spectators watching the race - he was in second place! If he could keep up, the Olympic 100m medal would be within reach!!
The audience was watching the real-time race on TV and were extremely excited. However, before their excitement lasted too long, they saw Chen Zhi's speed drop for a moment...
At this point, the race section had just reached 50 meters, which should have been the moment when Chen Zhi usually maintained his highest speed, but his speed had already shown a downward trend!
On the court, Chen Zhi was gritting his teeth to maintain his speed. In the last semi-final, not only Su Zhe, but also his physical energy consumption exceeded his original expectations.
Especially at the last moment of the stage, he controlled the downward trend of his speed with willpower and even recovered some of his speed. This speed recovery consumed his reserved physical energy.
At this time, after only one hour of rest, his physical strength had not recovered to its best condition, so that when he started the 50-meter stage, he felt the fatigue brought about by the massive loss of physical strength. This feeling made his hands and feet heavy and his steps difficult to move forward. His body, which was like being filled with lead, was no longer as full of strength as usual.
But even so, Chen Zhi did not have any intention of giving up. He gritted his teeth, slowed down for a moment, and then forced himself to increase his speed. Even though his lead-filled body made him feel heavy, he still relied on his tenacious will to regain the speed he lost when he slowed down before.
As an athlete, Chen Zhi is undoubtedly a veteran at the age of 29.
Among sprinters, his age would not allow him to continue to the next Olympics.
For him, this final is the last Olympic Games in his lifetime... No matter how difficult or tiring it is, he does not want to leave any regrets in this competition!
On the other side of the track, Su Zhe also felt the rapid drain of his physical strength, but the physical reserve plan customized for him by the coaching staff during this period and the training he did in the training space gave him enough experience and ability to deal with this situation.
He maintained his breathing frequency, adjusting his breathing, heartbeat and even pace to the optimal rhythm.
Then, he looked forward - there, Evanson was in the leading position, occupying the first position.
I really want to catch up...
I really want to overtake everyone, stand in the front, and rush across the finish line!
This burning thought in his heart urged Su Zhe.
Plop, plop.
He wants to win - who in this arena doesn't want to win?
Su Zhe took his own steps, rejecting the feeling of fatigue coming from every inch of his muscles. He swung his arms quickly, increasing his pace as much as possible, allowing his speed to become faster and faster in this arena!
Catch up!
Su Zhe's eyes were fixed straight ahead. He could no longer hear any sound from the outside world. Only the sound of wind whistled past his ears, forming a layer of wind film around him, which seemed to isolate him from the surrounding world.
He listened to the thumping of his own heart, his own breathing, and the sound of his feet tapping on the track.
Hurry up.
You can go even faster!
His wild heart was beating wildly. As the race progressed, a fierce aura suddenly appeared in Su Zhe's body, and the voice in his heart kept urging him to move forward.
Go ahead! As fast as you can!
Tear apart the wind barrier, tear apart everything and dash forward!
At this moment, Su Zhe felt that he was no longer a human being, but rather a hunting beast, chasing something forward based on his own instincts.
However, beasts chase prey.
What he is pursuing is his desire and opportunity to win!
From the audience, it can be clearly seen that as the stage approached 70 meters, Carlos had already fallen behind.
This time, in the final, he did not continue the glory of the semi-finals. Instead, like in his usual competitions, his speed kept declining from the 50-meter stage.
Chen Zhi was still gritting his teeth and trying his best to maintain his speed, but even from the audience's perspective, it could be seen that he was struggling to maintain it and had reached his limit.
Starting from the 50-meter stage, Sandy surpassed Su Zhe first, then surpassed Carlos who was slowing down, and caught up with Chen Zhi who was also slowing down. At this moment, he was already in second place.
At the 60-meter mark, everyone felt that Su Zhe's momentum suddenly changed. He also surpassed Carlos, then Chen Zhi, and began to catch up with Sandy.
The most amazing thing is that Gate, who was originally in the last group, started to overtake others at the beginning of the mid-run stage, and by about 70 meters, he had caught up with Su Zhe and Sandy.
At this time, the situation on the field was still led by Evanson, with Sandy, Suzhe and Gates following closely behind.
In the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan could no longer control their voices.
"There is hope!!! Su Zhe is in the second echelon of the team!"
"Come on Su Zhe!!!"
As the race entered the final sprint phase, the cheers from the spectators became more intense.
Su Zhe was already oblivious to everything around him. He could only hear the violent beating of his own heart and the strong desire in his heart.
Sprint!
Sprint forward with all your might!
"Ah! Su Zhe!! Come on, Su Zhe!!"
In the live broadcast room, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan were so nervous that they were speechless. At this moment, the competition field could not allow them to explain easily. In the last 30 meters of the race, they could only maintain the same voice until the end, when Evanson was the first to cross the finish line...
And then there was Sandy…
And then there is...Su Zhe!
"Ah!!! Su Zhe!!!" Zhang Jing yelled, "Bronze medal! It's a bronze medal!!! Su Zhe was the third to cross the finish line!!! Olympic bronze medal!!"
This voice was like thunder, and Wang Miaochuan beside him also shouted excitedly: "Congratulations to Su Zhe!!! This is the most brilliant achievement ever achieved by a Chinese athlete... no, this is the most brilliant achievement ever achieved by an Asian athlete in the Olympic sprint competition!! This is the pride of us Chinese, this is the pride of the whole of Asia!!!"
"Congratulations!! Su Zhe!!! This is a day that is destined to be remembered in the history of Asian track and field!!"
In the Chinese players' area, when Su Zhe crossed the finish line, everyone stood up suddenly, whether it was Qiu Zhongwen, Zheng Wensheng, Su Yinsheng, Tian Fangzheng...
Everyone stood in his or her own position, looking at the end point.
"This is a bronze medal, right?" Qiu Zhongwen murmured.
"That's right!" Zheng Wensheng said excitedly: "It's a bronze medal, it belongs to China, the bronze medal in the 100-meter event!! I said, we can do it, the Chinese can do it! There is no forbidden area that cannot be broken, this bronze medal belongs to us, China!!"
The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_ quietly passed by with my face covered
The 100m finals are over! Su Zhe's ranking is out! Mo Youka... (Ahem, as for the results, see you all tomorrow!!)
(Ahem, please don’t let the ball break my head. I’m just lying down and pretending to be dead. I’m giving you a heart. I love you guys! =w=)
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