The starter signaled the athletes to get ready to start, and the venue instantly fell into silence. The audience held their breath and waited for the moment the starting gun sounded.
The starter raised his gun, and the athletes focused their attention on their ears, waiting for the sound of the gun.
When it comes to this level of competition, starting is very critical. Naturally, world-class athletes will not have too bad starts. It is basically impossible for each other to gain an advantage through starting. But if there is a mistake at the start, the disadvantage will be certain. Yes, it's like sailing against the current, not advancing but retreating.
"Bang!"
The starting gun sounds!
Immediately afterwards, the referee blew the whistle to pause the game, and someone jumped the gun!
"Morris Green! Morris Green jumped the gun!" the host's voice sounded from the TV.
"I don't think this is surprising!" Eriksson next to the host continued: "Green consumed too much energy in the semifinals, so he chose to use the gun-pressing method to gain an advantage. It seems that Green Still haven’t given up the fight for the championship!”
Maurice Green walked slowly back to the starting line. As Eriksen said, the main reason why he ran with the gun was because he consumed too much energy in the semifinals, but ultimately failed.
After another minute of preparation, the athletes stepped onto the starting block again.
Morris Green closed his eyes and carefully recalled the situation when he just started running.
Gatlin secretly looked at Green, and he could feel that Green had become very focused at this time. In the false start, Green almost succeeded, which also showed that Green was extremely focused.
"Set..." The starter raised the gun again and then pulled the trigger.
The gun sounds and the athletes start!
"Grimm!"
Maurice Green had a great start, he was the first to start. Subsequently, the starting reaction time showed that Morris Green's starting reaction time was 0.127 seconds, a starting reaction time of less than 0.13 seconds, which was obviously another pressure run!
"As expected of Maurice Green, he dared to use the gun to run twice at the start! And he succeeded the second time, what a strong psychological quality!" the audience thought one after another.
Among the other athletes, Powell's start was very poor, but other athletes also started relatively conservatively. It can be said that the biggest profiteer from this start was Green. But starting is only part of the race, the real competition has just begun.
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"The race started, Zhang Guan made a good start!" the CCTV commentator said. In fact, with his current mental state of exhaustion, he didn't see the athletes' starting situation clearly at all, but he just felt that Zhang Guan was not lagging behind, so he casually said, "The start was good."
The rhythm and pace of the athletes in the first three steps were almost the same, basically on the same plane. In the next few meters, Portuguese Obikwelu clearly had a slight advantage, and Jamaican flyer Powell also caught up. As for the three American athletes , but did not rush to the front.
It seems that the three American athletes are not very good at this kind of extremely short-distance acceleration, but everyone knows that the advantage in the first thirty meters cannot be called an advantage at all. The reason why the American is strong is because of his follow-up ability. After ten meters, the American advantage will become apparent.
"Come on Zhang Guan, keep the momentum!" Seeing that Zhang Guan was not lagging behind, the commentator's voice became a little louder.
At thirty meters, American Gatlin had already caught up with Portuguese athlete Obikveru. Judging from the speed, Gatlin was obviously faster than Obikveru.
At the same time, Powell slowed down and was surpassed by Morris Green beside him.
Zhang Guan, who is next to Morris Green, is slightly more than half a body than Green, and is almost on par with Gatlin.
Gatlin has clearly surpassed Obikwelu, and another American player, Crawford, has also caught up with Obikwelu and is keeping pace with him.
However, it was not Gatlin who was leading the race, but a red figure on the outermost track. That's Zhang Guan!
At 40 meters, Ghanaian Ariza may have sprained his foot or suffered a sudden cramp. He slowed down and was obviously preparing to retire. However, this did not harm the overall situation. Ariza was already in the last position, and the athletes running in front had no idea that Ariza had retired.
At this time, the U.S. team's period of dominance finally came.
Gatlin is already about half a meter ahead of Crawford, and Crawford is still on par with Obikweru. As for Maurice Green, he was obviously affected by the semifinals and his speed was affected. Influence.
Maurice Green clearly felt that he was a little out of his depth. He had tried hard, hoping to go faster, but his body told him that he had reached the limit of speed.
"Damn, the semifinals took too much effort! I can't pick up the speed now." Maurice Green thought to himself, but the next moment, he found that Zhang Guan on his right was already one meter ahead of him.
"Why is this Chinese so fast? He must have consumed more energy in the semifinals than me, but why does he seem so full of energy now? Did he recover in two hours? No, he was faster than he was in the semifinals. Got it!" Maurice Green looked at Zhang Guan in shock. He was the closest to Zhang Guan, and he could clearly feel that Zhang Guan's speed was much faster than in the semifinals.
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"Beyond! Zhang Guan is ahead, he is ahead! Zhang Guan! Zhang Guan!" the commentator began to roar. Even though Zhang Guan was only vaguely on par with Gatlin at this time, it was enough to stimulate the commentator's emotions. .
After another ten meters, Zhang Guan and Maurice Green not only did not shrink, but grew larger and larger, and were about to surpass Gatlin in the first place.
At this moment, Zhang Guan was in a clear leading position.
"Overtaken! Leading! Come on!" Director Yu suddenly roared. At this moment, Director Yu suddenly smelled a hint of the Olympic champion. An inexplicable sense of tension suddenly rose in his heart, and then spread throughout his body in an instant.
Gatlin was in the third lane, and his sight had been blocked by the Portuguese Obi Kwelu in the fifth lane. When he gradually gained the lead, he discovered that Zhang Guan was in the eighth lane on the edge. The position seems to be slightly ahead of me.
"How is it possible! It's the Chinese, he's ahead of me! Why can he still run so fast! How can he recover his physical fitness so quickly?" Gatlin was shocked. He was not surprised by Zhang Guan's speed. After all, he had been so fast before. Zhang Guan also ran at the top speed in the world, and Gatlin was surprised by Zhang Guan's physical fitness.
"Even Green was affected by such a fierce semi-final two hours ago. The Chinese should obviously be more affected. He must have consumed a lot of energy. Why is he still performing so well now? How do you feel? Is he in better physical condition now than in the semi-finals? This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! No one can fully recover to peak physical condition in just two hours after such intense exertion. This is human Physiological limitations!" Gatlin seemed to have suddenly grasped a life-saving straw. He kept comforting himself: "Believe in science. Although the Chinese are very fast now, they must be at the end of their efforts and will definitely be slow in the second half. Come down! And for me, the second half is when I really start to exert my strength.”
Thinking of this, Gatlin instantly became confident. The most powerful thing about American sprinters is not the acceleration in the first half, but the continuous explosive ability in the second half. This is a technical characteristic of American sprinters. Therefore, in the first half of the competition, the Americans may not lead, but in the second half, the Americans will definitely surpass other players and take first place.
In the 100-meter dash, maintaining high speed and explosive power in the second half of the race has a professional term in kinematics called "speed endurance." For world-class coaches, athletes' starting reflexes, running skills, explosive power, etc. can all be improved through targeted training, but speed and endurance alone are the biggest problem for sprint coaches in various countries. Only Americans can train extremely effectively for speed endurance.
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"Zhang Guan is already ahead!" Maurice Green's eyes flashed with an incredible look. In the semi-finals not long ago, he and Zhang Guan fought to the death. As a person involved, he could best feel the physical impact of the semi-finals. Consumption, that level of consumption is impossible to recover in just two hours, not to mention that Zhang Guan seems to have made further progress than in the semi-finals.
At the same time, Morris Green felt tired.
As the game entered the second half, the problem of Green's excessive physical exertion finally gradually emerged.
"No! I have to hold on! If a Chinese can do it, I can do it too! I am the world's number one! I am the world's number one Maurice Green! I want the championship!" At this moment, Green was proud His self-esteem turned into the belief that he must win, and his body seemed to be under self-hypnosis and began to show powerful explosive power!
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Fast enough!
Very simple and fast!
Nothing fancy fast!
This is Zhang Guan now.
He's very fast and he's already in the lead.
But he still needs to be faster!
He wants more than just the Olympic gold medal.
He also wants a world record!
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The first chapter has been delivered. Thank you in advance for the reward of 10,000 points for feeding the sheep. Ask for a recommendation vote!
Today's early update is mainly to explain the path of the previous chapter. The passes in my plot are based on the real passes of athletes in the Athens Olympics. Because Zhang Guan replaced Collins, track 128 has changed, and track 34567 is the same as the real Olympic track.
Then some readers said that they should follow the rules. The first rule explanation is to sort according to the results of the semi-finals. The four people with the best results are in lane 3456, and the first place in the semi-finals should be in lane 4. Before I wrote this paragraph, I applied this statement to the actual passes of the Athens Olympics and found that the passes of Green, Powell, Crawford, Gatlin, and Collins did not conform to the above statement. Powell's actual semi-final score was first. But the final was in lane 6. Green and Collins were ranked second and fourth in the real semi-finals, and then were ranked in lanes 7 and 1. Crawford and Gatlin were fifth and sixth in the real semi-finals, and were ranked 4 in the final. , 3 ways. Therefore, this rule interpretation is inconsistent with the reality.
Yesterday, a reader gave me another explanation of the rules. He said that the ranking is not based on the semi-final results, but the best results among all the results in the preliminary round, semi-finals and semi-finals. The top four are also in lane 3456, first. The name is in lane 4, so the real Crawford is in lane 4. I once again applied this statement to reality and found that Green and Gatlin did not comply with this rule. In reality, Green's best result is still second. According to the above statement, the final should be in lane 5, at least in one of 3456. , but it was actually in lane 7; Gatlin's best result was fifth, which according to the above statement should be 1278, but he was in lane 3. This explanation is inconsistent with the reality.
When I wrote this paragraph, I considered the pass order, but it just couldn't fit in the actual pass of the Athens Olympics, so I simply wrote it according to the actual pass. There is no need for you to dwell on these things, and there is no need to argue about the rules. Just read them as I wrote them, and just treat them as if they were live.
(End of chapter)