"Su Zhe, well done!!!"
In the Chinese players' zone, Qiu Wenzhong and Zheng Wensheng could not restrain their emotions, and like the audience, they all sent their support to Su Zhe on the track.
More than ten years...
Qiu Wenzhong and Zheng Wensheng are both veterans in the sports industry, or in other words, the coaching staff of the Chinese players present here are also people who have experienced the glorious scene more than ten years ago.
The glory of those years is still fresh in our minds, and the silence of the past decade has been weighing on everyone's mind.
Whether it is the previous 100-meter event or today's 110-meter hurdles event, both have a unique position and a difficult development process in Chinese track and field.
In the men's 100m event, the difficulty lies in breakthroughs and development. In the past, this event has not achieved sufficiently excellent results, but people know that Asians, blacks and whites have different natural strengths, so more people will understand that it is more difficult for Chinese people to grow in this event.
The 110-meter hurdles are different. More than a decade ago, China produced a genius named Song Chen, whose existence had already broken the barriers of anthropology and left a strong mark for China at the peak of the world stage. After all Chinese people were proud of his existence, with his retirement, China also completely withdrew from the once glorious stage.
This disparity has caused the Chinese people to love the 110-meter Barrier project deeply but also to criticize it fiercely. Countless people who paid attention to the 110-meter Barrier project during its heyday became disappointed with the project as the reality was revealed after the tide receded, and finally turned their attention away.
Over the past decade, the 110-meter hurdles project in China has been in a relatively awkward state. When talking about this project, the only name most people can think of is Song Chen. Only true enthusiasts in the circle know names like Ye Jun.
Many people know about this project and believe that it should be China's strong point. However, the level of this project over the past decade has not actually met people's original expectations.
Some people will briefly re-focus on the project, but then give up on it again because the project no longer meets their expectations.
[Why is the result at this level...]
[The national record from more than ten years ago couldn't be broken? 】
[Athletes today can’t even make it to the semifinals of the Olympics? Isn’t that too bad? ]
Athletes in this sport often hear words like these. Many people still remember their glorious past, but rarely notice the athletes who continue to fight for this sport during their low points.
In fact, people in the sports circle all acknowledge that there is nothing right or wrong in all this. After all, most people watch competitive sports because they admire the strong. However, over the years, this kind of pressure has been a constant presence and has indeed made them feel burdened.
Fortunately, all this is in the past.
Over the past year or so, as the performance of Su Zhe, Zhou Tianjue, Ye Jun and others continued to rise, a lot of attention finally returned to this event. This time, the three of them teamed up to enter the semi-finals, and Su Zhe directly advanced to the finals with the first place in the semi-final group!
Such achievements are enough to make this project once again shine and attract everyone's attention!
In the player's booth, Lu Fei was looking at Su Zhe on the court with emotion.
If other people have only experienced the grand event more than ten years ago, then he was one of the creators of the glorious scene back then. Now, after more than a decade, he is sitting in the Olympic arena again and watching the Chinese athletes enter the final circle of the 110-meter hurdles. Lu Fei's seemingly calm face actually hides a very restrained emotion.
In the commentary room of the sports channel, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan's voices were much more relaxed at this moment - the confirmation of this final seat was enough to let people let go of their nervous emotions and face the next final set of semi-final battles with a more peaceful mindset.
"Okay, the on-site director has received the results of the second group of the semi-finals. Let's see how well Su Zhe ran in today's semi-finals!"
As soon as Zhang Jing finished speaking, the athletes' results appeared on the screen. After seeing the result of Su Zhe, who was ranked first, Zhang Jing paused, and then said in a more enthusiastic voice: "The final results of the second group of the Tokyo Olympic 110-meter hurdles semi-finals, first place, Su Zhe (China), 13.06 seconds (wind speed -0.4m/s), refreshing personal PB, second place, Elano (Brazil), 13.11 seconds (wind speed -0.4m/s), third place, Train (USA) 13.14 seconds (wind speed -0.4m/s), fourth place, Wayne (Poland) 13.31 seconds..."
After Zhang Jing finished reading the final results of the group of athletes, Wang Miaochuan smiled and said, "Congratulations to Su Zhe and Elano for advancing directly to the finals. At the same time, congratulations to Su Zhe for once again breaking his personal record and taking another solid step towards the 13-second mark!"
But while they were happy, Zhang Jingye and Wang Miaochuan also realized that in the semi-finals of this group, the third-placed Train's result was already higher than Ye Jun's. That is to say, once the third-placed athlete's result in the third group of the semi-finals exceeded 13.21 seconds, Ye Jun would completely lose the qualification to advance to the finals.
"...It can be said that Ye Jun's qualification for the semi-finals is now in great danger."
Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan watched the live broadcast, and there was a hint of solemnity in their voices.
Zheng Wensheng also expressed the same sentiment in the audience of the Chinese region. He then frowned and said in a deep voice: "What a pity for Ye Jun..."
Ye Jun's situation is similar to Chen Zhi's. Both of them, one is 28 and the other is 29 years old, have passed the golden age for athletes in their respective events. Although their current performance is still good, if nothing unexpected happens, this Olympics will be the last Olympics they will participate in.
In this competition, Chen Zhi at least managed to make it to the finals, but Ye Jun... was likely to be defeated.
Thinking of Ye Jun's difficult growth over the past decade, Zheng Wensheng couldn't help but show his pity.
Sitting on Zheng Wensheng's left, Lu Fei glanced at Zheng Wensheng's complicated expression, sighed, and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, Ye Jun has already made corresponding preparations in his heart. Competitive sports have always been cruel. I think you should understand the meaning of this sentence."
"Who doesn't know?" Zheng Wensheng shook his head: "But I really feel sorry for Ye Jun... He is a good kid and an excellent athlete, but he was born at the wrong time."
Among the current famous athletes in the 100m and 110m hurdles, Ye Jun is definitely the one with the lowest presence.
Before Su Zhe came along, the 100m event was dominated by Chen Zhi alone. Even those in China who don’t know much about sports have often heard of Chen Zhi. However, Ye Jun, who had dominated the 110m hurdles for more than a decade, was almost unknown to anyone except those in the sports circle and sports enthusiasts until last year.
Over the past year or so, with the breakthroughs in the performance of Su Zhe, Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun himself, people's attention has been more focused on Su Zhe and Zhou Tianjue. Even though Ye Jun's performance has improved significantly compared to the past, he still receives the least attention among the three.
It is difficult to say why such a comparison result occurred, but as a leader in the 110-meter hurdles event for many years, Ye Jun's contributions are indeed far greater than the fame and fortune he has gained.
This topic was a bit too heavy, and everyone in the Chinese players' booth was silent for a moment until the members of the last group of the semi-finals began to enter the competition field.
Zhou Tianjue is in this group. In this group, the strongest opponent he has to face is undoubtedly the famous American general Lister.
Before Holness appeared, Lister was recognized worldwide as the strongest 110-meter hurdles athlete. Whether it was his result of 12.95 last year or his personal best of 12.93 this year, they were the best results in the 110-meter hurdles worldwide in recent years.
Until Holness came out of nowhere, many people shifted their attention to this player who was only a little over 180 cm tall, had a eccentric and exaggerated personality, and called himself the King of Shorty.
This talented athlete from Jamaica lived up to the attention people paid to him. He had only appeared in the official arena for less than a year, but he had already easily broken the 13-second barrier, refreshing his personal best to 12.97 seconds.
Many people are speculating when Holness's personal PB will surpass Lister. It seems that the title of world's number one on Lister's head has already been reserved for Holness.
But if you underestimate Lister for this reason, then this 110-meter hurdles powerhouse, who is still the world's number one, will let you see what it means to be overwhelmed by sheer strength.
In addition, the performance of Brazilian star Gomez this year is also remarkable. During the European season, Gomez has run under 13.20 seconds many times, which is a commendable achievement.
As for British athlete Andre, his season sb this year is currently at 13.24, the same as Zhou Tianjue, and he is also an opponent that should not be taken lightly.
In the Athletics Kingdom forum, everyone is analyzing the situation of Zhou Tianjue's opponents in this group, and at the same time they are nervously calculating whether these athletes have the possibility of surpassing Ye Jun's results and eliminating Ye Jun's qualification for the finals.
Topic: [Try to analyze the possibility of Jun Ye and Jue Ge Er entering the finals...]
Content: [We currently know that Jun Ye's semi-final result is 13.21 seconds. Train from the second group has surpassed Jun Ye with a result of 13.14 seconds. There is no margin for error. Once the third place winner of the third group in the semi-final surpasses Jun Ye, Jun Ye will be declared GG.
In the third group, it is expected that Lister may be the clear winner, and the rest will be a battle between Gomez, Juer and Andre. Among these three, only Gomez has ever surpassed the historical record of 13.21 seconds, but Juer and Andre's PBs are not far from this record. No one knows whether they will surpass Junye after their breakthrough. 】
There are so many possibilities that it is difficult to list them all. The author of this thread originally intended to make a detailed list of the final possibilities for everyone's reference, but as I was writing, I found that the possibilities of the competition are really ever-changing, from Lister and Gomez not making any mistakes, Zhou Tianjue third with a score of more than 13.21 seconds, to everyone in this group of competitions collapsing...
There are so many possibilities that can be listed, and finally he gave up on posting the post titled "Analysis" and left a message at the end saying "Let's just watch the game" before leaving.
After clicking on this analysis post, many forum users laughed a few times, and then turned their attention to the live broadcast of the competition, waiting for the tense competition of the last group of the semi-finals.
In the rest area for the off-field athletes, Holness clung to Su Zhe again, rubbed against him, and began to talk about the glorious feat of the dwarf king combination dominating the two semi-finals again.
Su Zhe didn't pay much attention to him, but fixed his eyes on the live TV screen.
From the live broadcast on the screen, it can be seen that Zhou Tianjue still looked cool and domineering. After adjusting his starting blocks, he jumped up on the spot, hopping around to relax his muscles, then put his hands on his waist, twisted his head, and patted his shoulders, neck and arms.
In a shot that suddenly zoomed in on the ugly face, the on-site commentator Ishida Kappei was introducing something in Japanese that Su Zhe could not understand. After noticing the ugly face camera, Zhou Tianjue raised his right hand without hesitation and pointed at himself with his right thumb, declaring his confidence to the people of the world in an extremely childish manner.
"Wow, the big guys are so cool!" Holness praised exaggeratedly, and then changed the subject and said: "But the coolest combination is definitely our dwarf king combination!"
Su Zhe had already given up on this combination name. He just rubbed his forehead and continued to watch the live broadcast on the court.
From the live broadcast, we can see that Kappei Ishida seems to be introducing every athlete on the field. When the introduction screen turns to Lister, the current world No. 1 110-meter hurdles athlete from the United States raises his right hand high and raises his index finger in front of the big screen.
While making this movement, he was stretching his neck left and right, and the expression on his face looked murderous.
This is a provocative movement and gesture, from which one can easily read that he is telling people all over the world: "I, Lister, am the world's number one in this project."
"Wow..." Holness looked at Lister's actions, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly laughed: "Dear Su, I'm already looking forward to the finals!"
Su Zhe glanced at Holness. He certainly understood why Holness suddenly said this.
Lister's gesture on the court should be a challenge to Holness, who is challenging his position. He is confident that he is the real world number one, so he expressed such an attitude.
No. 1 in the world...
Su Zhe looked at Lister on the court and couldn't help but smile - there were more people who wanted to challenge this position than just Holness.
In fact, he also wanted to stand at this highest position and enjoy the scenery at the top.
Under everyone's attention, on the field, the final group of the semi-finals has been fully prepared.
The athletes have already squatted on their starting blocks, waiting for the referee's order.
The referee's calm voice finally rang out during the broadcast: "Get on your feet, get ready."
The eight runners at the starting point of the race had already taken their respective ready positions. Then, they heard the sound of a starting gun: "Bang."
The last semi-final of the 110-meter hurdles has begun!
Perhaps it was because of Lister's provocative attitude before the game and Gomez's fierce momentum before the start of the game, the smell of gunpowder in the last group of games today was a bit more intense than in other groups.
In this group, several players who ranked lower and entered the semi-finals were overwhelmed by the momentum of Lister, Gomez and even Zhou Tianjue and Andre before the start of the game.
When the starting gun sounded, the players' reactions were a little slow, with the average reaction time reaching 0.237 seconds, far exceeding the standard of professional players.
In contrast to them, the four people led by Lister were incredibly sharp and powerful in their reaction to the gunshots!
Lister's reaction time was only 0.117 seconds, followed closely by Andre from Britain, who took only 0.122 seconds to react. Gomez and Zhou Tianjue took 0.126 seconds and 0.124 seconds respectively.
Just from the reaction phase of listening to the gunshots, you can feel how intense this battle is!
Compared with the other three players present, Zhou Tianjue did not have any advantage in his footwork in front of the hurdles - the training plan designated by Lu Fei for him did not yet involve the improvement of his footwork in front of the hurdles, which made him the only player among the four who still used the eight-step technique to get to the hurdles.
With his height and long legs, it would be a bit awkward for him to use the eight-step technique in front of the hurdles. Although he has strong explosive power and excellent starting technique, he temporarily fell to the last place among the four in the stage in front of the hurdles.
However, Zhou Tianjue has become accustomed to this feeling of being frustrated in front of the hurdles in recent times. Isn't it just the difference between seven steps in front of the hurdles and eight steps in front of the hurdles? Different steps in front of the hurdles do not represent an absolute advantage. He is not the kind of person who will give up because of this disadvantage!
After a brief period in front of the hurdles, Lister took the lead in attacking the hurdles.
It should be said that in this game with a strong smell of gunpowder, this intense smell of gunpowder brought strong stimulation to the top four players on the field at that time, making them more crazy about the game than before.
Lister's attacking movements at this time were full of an unstoppable spirit. On his right, Gomez was also rushing forward in a beast-like manner.
The starting leg pushes off the ground, the swinging leg swings to attack the fence, the body leans forward and flies over the fence, and at the same time the starting leg is quickly pulled up, and the swinging leg is quickly pressed down to touch the ground...
This whole set of movements, performed by Lister and others present at the scene at that time, was full of wildness. Their superb individual attacking skills ensured that even in such a wild and unbridled state, their movements would not move the railings, but would pass through them in a state close to the limit.
At this moment, Lister on the field is like the king of this track. His will dominates this track. Even these railings blocking the road can't stop his progress!
Following closely behind him was Gomez, who also had a beastly demeanor. His momentum was comparable to Lister's. Although he hit the hurdles slightly during the attack, this level of hitting the hurdles did not affect his speed.
List and Gomez are currently firmly occupying the first and second positions on the field. The speed relationship between the two is almost unbreakable. Their wild and smooth attacking posture and momentum are leading the overall atmosphere and rhythm of the game.
From the beginning of the attacking phase, Zhou Tianjue's speed and rhythm have been increasing step by step. The atmosphere of gunpowder created by Lister and Gomez is certainly stimulating him, but he still tries his best to control every movement and speed.
During the attack, the player behind can of course choose to let himself be led by the rhythm of the player in front, but this situation is actually somewhat dangerous. Once the rhythm of the player in front becomes erratic, or there is a deviation between the player's personal rhythm habits and the player behind, it is easy for the player behind to be disrupted in rhythm, and ultimately lead to his own overall collapse.
He knew very well what the final result would be if his rhythm collapsed during the attack.
Of course, he was not immune to the excitement brought by the fast pace of the players ahead and the desire to pursue that made him soar.
Zhou Tianjue's eyes were fixed on Lister and Gomez in front of him. Their speed and pace of pursuit kept burning the fighting spirit and blood in his body, and also drove him to break through the limit of his pace.
Faster... He can be faster!
Relying on his own experience, Zhou Tianjue further accelerated his attacking rhythm in this exciting environment, allowing himself to continue chasing the strongest person in front of him!
The one who has almost the same speed as Zhou Tianjue is Andre from the UK. In today's game, he also showed his unprecedented competitive state.
Andre even thought that he could once again refresh his personal PB which had not changed for a long time in today's semi-final!
When the race reached the last three hurdles, Lister's advantage was already very obvious. He had opened up a gap of almost one hurdle between him and Gomez behind him, and there was also a distance of half a hurdle between Gomez and Zhou Tianjue and Andre behind him.
When Lister took the lead in breaking through 10 hurdles and sprinting towards the finish line, Gomez had also reached the final sprint track, followed closely by Andre and Zhou Tianjue!
In the seats of the Chinese players' area, Zheng Wensheng and others could no longer hold back and stood up, nervously watching the final moments and the outcome of the game!
In the commentary room of the sports channel, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan's voices were also filled with tension.
"Come on! Zhou Tianjue, go ahead!!"
The two commentators' voices were filled with anticipation and expectation for Zhou Tianjue's final speed.
In full view of everyone, Lister was the first to cross the finish line, followed closely by Gomez. Behind Gomez, Andre and Zhou Tianjue crossed the finish line almost at the same time. From the audience area and the live broadcast, it was difficult for everyone to tell with the naked eye which of the two players finished first or last!
This result made everyone nervous. In the commentary room, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan didn't know for a moment whether to announce Zhou Tianjue's place in the semi-final group.
Fortunately, the director's team was very aware of everyone's anxiety, and after quickly communicating with the referee team, they quickly obtained the final screenshot from the end-point monitor.
From the screenshots, we can see that the person who finally crossed the finish line in third place... was Zhou Tianjue from the Chinese team!
After seeing this result, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, everyone was worried... If Zhou Tianjue was also in third place, then in the end, would anyone between him and Ye Jun be able to get a spot in the finals?
The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_ Today, I am lying down and automatically accepting the beating (silently covering my face, I really can’t catch up with the results QAQ kneeling down ing)
I will try to write more tomorrow QAQ!!!
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