There were only two Chinese athletes participating in the men's 100-meter sprint this time. In addition to Zhao Si, the other one was the third one who was selected earlier to make up the number. The first one who was in a wheelchair and the second one who sprained his ankle eventually missed this Olympics.
Zhao Si made it to the semifinals without any suspense, and the third place finisher also failed to make it. After four months of training with Zhao Si, his performance had improved a lot, but it was still far from Olympic level. He could certainly try in the Asian Games or championships.
After the preliminaries, Zhao Si still cannot leave the team. The next two games are more important, and he needs to do some simple training to maintain his best competitive condition.
However, Gu Lingfeng called Zhao Si and talked for more than an hour. He and Su Nan and others praised Zhao Si a lot, as if Zhao Si already had the gold medal in his hands.
In Li Yilin's words, it must be as easy for Zhao Si to get the gold medal as taking something out of his bag.
Zhao Si also hoped so, but things are often not so smooth. For some reason, it seemed as if the sprinters in this Olympics had opened up their Ren and Du meridians, and their strength had improved a lot compared to what the coach had analyzed with him before.
In terms of the preliminary results, Zhao Si was the first in the first four groups, and his result was enough to win him a silver medal in the last Olympics. However, there were several athletes in the next seven groups who performed very well, three of whom even surpassed Zhao Si, and several others had results very close to his.
The competition became fierce all of a sudden. Zhao Si's original plan of competing for silver and gold immediately became a plan of competing for bronze. Although winning the bronze medal was the best result of China in a hundred years, the psychological gap was still huge when he had a chance of winning the gold medal and then had to settle for the bronze medal.
Zhao Si's mentality was okay, but netizens reacted strongly, especially the unscrupulous media. When Zhao Si just finished the race, they enthusiastically praised him and acted as if he had won the silver medal. However, as soon as all the athletes finished the preliminaries, they immediately changed their tune and started saying that Zhao Si was defeated but still won honor and should keep trying, as if Zhao Si was destined to miss out on the medal.
Netizens were already unhappy because of the huge gap in their feelings, and when the unscrupulous media sang negative words, they immediately went crazy. They slaughtered all the marketing accounts and official Weibo accounts of the unscrupulous media. Some extreme ones cursed the people's ancestors for eighteen generations. The media that were scolded either deleted the content in shame or secretly opened the featured content.
Zhao Si didn’t know about this. He didn’t like watching those things anyway, and his coaches wouldn’t let him watch them, so as not to affect his performance.
After a half-day rest, the semi-finals started again the next morning. After running two groups, Zhao Si made a little progress, with a time of 9.79 seconds, ranking third and successfully advancing to the finals.
The four athletes who advanced to the finals all had impressive times. First place was a young black man with impressive long arms and legs, who ran 9.74 seconds. Second place was a white man, about the same height as Zhao Si but a bit more built, who ran 9.77 seconds. Third place was Zhao Si. Fourth place was also a young black man, who matched Zhao Si's preliminaries time of 9.82 seconds.
Overall, it shouldn't be too difficult for Zhao Si to win a bronze medal, but it's not so easy to win a gold medal either. The right time, place, and people are all essential. When the strength is similar, it all comes down to luck.
When it comes to luck, who can compare to Zhao Si?
Although the impoverished prince is almost worse off than a chicken, his fate is destined to make him extraordinary. He has encountered such an illusory thing as traveling through time, and he has even hooked up with the handsome young man of the richest man's family. Wow, if he is not lucky, who else will be lucky?
Look, the good luck of this extremely strong destiny has also been demonstrated in the Olympics.
At this moment, Zhao Si gritted his teeth and moved his long legs like a roller coaster. He stared at the finish line and rushed forward like an arrow.
More than one! More than one! More than one!
Wow!
The whole audience burst into applause, and cheers and screams were one after another. These sounds gave him endless motivation and made him run faster and harder.
Swish!
Zhao Si crossed the red line and won the championship!
Aa ...
Zhao Si couldn't help but shout out loud. He was extremely excited. He raised his hands and rushed tirelessly towards the direction where Gu Lingfeng and the others were sitting.
Gu Lingyun was so excited that tears were streaming down his face. His heart was beating like it was being hit by a drumstick. He saw Zhao Si running over and rushed down without caring about anything, leaving his things behind. Zhao Si was in the field and he was in the stands. Gu Lingfeng bent down and hugged Zhao Si tightly across the guardrail.
The reporter's camera followed Zhao Si all the time, and naturally broadcast the scene live. The coaches were excited but also very nervous, fearing that the two young people would get too excited and do something intimate.
"Baby, I won the championship!"
"I saw it, honey, you're amazing!"
"I really want to kiss you right now!"
"I want it too!" Gu Lingfeng took a moment to glance around, "No, there are cameras here. Let's go back and kiss each other as much as we want!"
"Hmm!" Zhao Si felt a little regretful and hugged Gu Lingfeng a little tighter.
Fortunately, the cameras were far away and there were no recording devices nearby, otherwise the fact that the two were not intimate would have been exposed.
Sunan and the others also ran down and excitedly came up to hug them. The scene of several men laughing and crying with excitement should have been funny, but the netizens found them so handsome that they were extremely pleasing to the eye.
"Are all handsome guys' friends handsome guys?"
"Bullshit, I'm pretty handsome but my buddy is ugly."
"Absolutely! Your buddy said the same thing."
The excitement was overwhelming, and the coach over there was even more excitement. Several uncles hugged each other and cried even harder than Zhao Si and the others. China's century-long medalless streak had finally been broken, and it was a gold medal! They made history, and their names will be forever etched in the annals of Chinese sports.
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