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Almost neck and neck.

Just these two words almost explained everything in the end.

From the live screen of the live broadcast room of the sports channel, it can be clearly seen that the distance between Zhang Ziyi and McKnight is very close, but when McKnight crossed the line, he was still half an inch faster than Zhang Ziyi position.

The last half of the position is the division between the fourth and fifth, which is the position where I hope to end early.

At the same time as Zhang Ziyi crossed the line, both Shao Minyi and Li Sen were silent for a few seconds, as if because of the regrettable scene in front of them, they suddenly fell into a blank of speech.

On the track, because Zhang Ziyi and McKnight were in the adjacent eighth and ninth lanes, they had a clear judgment on each other's front and rear positions when they crossed the line.

Although McKnight is only in the fourth place, in the three groups of today's semi-finals, everyone knows the performance strength of the players in each group.

——As long as you can win the top four positions in the first group of the semi-finals, you are likely to qualify for the finals!

At this time, although the gap between McKnight and Zhang Ziyi is only half a body, it is a clear distance between hope and hopelessness.

After crossing the finish line, Zhang Ziyi was already aware of this. After he clearly noticed the result, he could only cover his face with his hands in the end. After a long silence, he sighed softly and let go of his hands. , turned around and hugged McKnight with a smile.

McKnight is undoubtedly pleasantly surprised. In fact, in the past two or three years, his state has been ups and downs, and his results have not been very stable, especially when facing the two players of the Chinese team, Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen. His grades and rankings often become unsatisfactory.

In tonight's game, the only thing he was thankful for was that he was not on the same field as that scary guy Qiu Wen.

Just like in tennis, where two players are always against each other, McKnight feels that Qiu Wen of the Chinese team is the guy who completely restrains himself on the court.

As long as he plays with Qiu Wen, his state, mentality, and even rhythm control will often become involuntary.

For some reason, McKnight was absolutely sure in his heart—if Qiu Wen was the one who competed with him in the semi-final just now, then he would definitely not be the one who made it to the semi-finals.

In any case, this semi-final is over.

In the auditorium, Su Bai was also standing in front of his own seat at the moment. He frowned, staring intently at Zhang Ziyi in the arena, and finally he could only sigh with a wry smile.

Pei Jin'an was also standing beside Su Bai. He patted Su Bai's shoulder and said, "It's okay. Although there are regrets, Ziyi's performance is already good enough."

Listening to Pei Jinan's words, Su Bai finally shook his head.

As a coach who is too young, no matter how calm and calm he looks, he will eventually feel sorry for the athletes he brings.

For these players in the national team's 400-meter sprint event, he has devoted countless efforts in the past two years, especially Zhang Ziyi. From Zhang Ziyi's determination that his body may be overloaded and injured, he has firmly followed him all the way to the Olympics. Since then, his attention to Zhang Ziyi has indeed climbed to the forefront of many players.

In the past two years, he knew best how much effort and price Zhang Ziyi had put in for the Olympics and the country's honor.

It's a pity that at this moment today, after all, there is still a lack of luck.

In other words, in just two years, after all, it was still too late to catch up with the talent, hard work and strength of the top players.

After a brief silence, Su Bai restrained his emotions again.

As a coach, you must show determination, confidence and firmness. The coach must be the last pillar that can be trusted by the athletes, especially because he is too young, so he must redouble his ability and determination. Let athletes and everyone around him have more trust in him.

After the brief silence and regret passed, Su Bai became that talented coach that everyone could trust wholeheartedly.

He looked at Zhang Ziyi in the direction of the field, and said, "Yes, although there are regrets, Ziyi's performance and results today are already good enough."

After a pause, Su Bai added with a smile: "Although we failed to advance to the final, our national record should be refreshed again."

only……

Su Bai didn't know whether it was a good thing that Zhang Ziyi's substantial improvement in this field collided with the final reality that he failed to advance to the Olympic final.

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Pei Jin'an and Jiang Wentao were taken aback when they heard Su Bai's words. They didn't notice Su Bai's emotions when he finished saying this, they just showed a gleam of joy on their faces.

If it is true as Su Bai said, as long as there is this new national record, then even if Zhang Ziyi fails to advance to the final, Zhang Ziyi's performance and performance will definitely not need to be criticized by anyone again!

After all, given the seniority and age of Jiang Wentao and Pei Jin'an, they both know in their hearts that there is never a shortage of talkative tricks in this world. In the general environment, it is inevitable that there will be these guys. Although the existence of such people cannot affect the overall situation, it is uncomfortable to always have disgusting people.

As long as Zhang Ziyi is really what Su Bai said, even if he just pushes the national record from 44 seconds to 76 seconds, it will be enough to silence these people!

Just as Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan were refreshed, the final results of the first group of the men's 400-meter sprint semi-final were finally displayed on the big screens on both sides of the field.

The final results of the first group of the men's 400-meter sprint semi-final at the Tokyo Olympics:

No.1: Morris (Grenada), 44 seconds 02, q (direct promotion);

No.2: Hernandez (USA), 44 seconds 19, q;

No.3: Le Clos (South Africa), 44 seconds 46;

No.4: McKnight (Bahrain), 44 seconds 56;

No.5: Zhang Ziyi (China), 44 seconds (nr national record);

No. 6: ...

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In the auditorium, Jiang Wentao, Pei Jin'an and many other staff and athletes of the Chinese team were a little confused when they saw Zhang Ziyi's results for the first time. Rubbing my eyes, I thought I was dazzled.

Zhang Ziyi was in the same state at the key position of the field. He had already adjusted his mood and waited to see the results before leaving the field.

Zhang Ziyi knew that today's state was very good. He could guess that he should refresh his pb again today, but he didn't expect that in today's game, his pb would jump from 44 seconds to 76 seconds!

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen did not expect this result at all. They mentioned in the previous game commentary that Zhang Ziyi was in a very good state tonight.

But they didn't expect that Zhang Ziyi's performance tonight would be so outstanding.

“44秒59！！！张子义在今晚的男子400米半决赛中，拿下了44秒59的绝佳成绩！！！他不仅一举打开了44秒70的关卡，甚至闯进了44秒60以内！！！”

Shao Minyi's voice became hoarse with excitement at this moment: "Zhang Ziyi has never let us down. He is still the runner who carries the Chinese men's 400-meter sprint banner on his shoulders and makes all Chinese track and field fans proud of him!"

"In the past three years, Zhang Ziyi has pushed China's national record for the 400-meter dash from the era of 45 seconds to less than 25 seconds. Now, China's national record for the 45-meter dash is even more impressive. Entered the field of less than 400 in 44 seconds!"

"We can proudly say that this is definitely in the world-class performance range. In the men's 400-meter sprint event, the Chinese team has achieved a world-class performance based on Zhang Ziyi alone!"

"With tonight's result, Zhang Ziyi also raised the record of the yellow race in the men's 400-meter sprint to a height that we could not have imagined in the past!"

"Higher, faster and stronger. Even though Zhang Ziyi did not make it to the final in tonight's semi-final, the result he gave is enough to make each of us feel proud and honored!"

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, the mood of the barrage, which was still somewhat depressed, quickly exploded when seeing this result.

All the sports fans in the live broadcast room were celebrating Zhang Ziyi's achievements like crazy.

【Ahhh, Zhang Shuai, you are so handsome! ! 】

[Can't believe my eyes, 44 seconds 59? !A new national record! ! ! 】

[Oh my god, Zhang Shuai's pb was 45 seconds three years ago, right? In 57 years, pb has risen by almost 3 second! ! ! 】

[I can't believe it, the changes in Zhang Shuai in the past three years are really terrible...]

Everyone screamed and celebrated Zhang Ziyi's achievement and brand-new glory. Only Zhang Ziyi himself fell into a daze after seeing this achievement on the field.

He originally thought that even if his grades improve, the improvement will not be particularly large. After all, at this stage, his grades have been improved to the limit.

He did not expect that his time would suddenly increase from 44 seconds to 76 seconds.

Of course, this is an exciting enough thing, but he couldn't help being dazed when he was excited—even if he improved his time to an unimaginable 44 seconds, he still failed to make it to the Olympic Games. final circle.

The excitement of such a substantial improvement in grades collides with the disappointment of not being able to advance even though the grades have improved to this level. Rao Zhang Ziyi, a veteran with a stable mind, also has a complicated difficulty at this moment. speech emotion.

After staring at the score for tens of seconds, Zhang Ziyi finally let out a long sigh.

Victory is victory, and defeat is failure.

Even if he broke the 44-second mark today, as long as there are still other winners in front of him, this result cannot be changed.

After Zhang Ziyi glanced at the results on the big screen for the last time, he turned his head and glanced at the huge arena and the excited audience in the auditorium. The last men's 400-meter individual Olympic competition.

On Weibo, the track and field management center and the track and field national team were the first to announce the news that Zhang Ziyi broke the national record again. At the same time, it was pushed into the hot search topics, namely #张子义400米半级冲恨负败# and #张子义大The magnitude refreshes the national record for the 400-meter sprint# These two topics.

The popularity of these two topics is one after the other, because the distance is too close, so that many people who don't know about it are confused.

This……

The two topics of losing hatred and breaking the national record by a large margin, how could it be won by the same person?

Many passers-by clicked on related topics because of the contrast. After browsing through all of them, they finally realized that it is true that the loss of hatred is true, and it is also true that the national record has been greatly broken.

For a long time, people only know that China's sprint strength is not enough, but where is the gap with the world's top strength?Most people won't know this.

Zhang Ziyi's performance tonight made many people suddenly have a clear understanding of the distance between them.

In these two topics, some track and field fans made a popular science.

[#张子义400米跑跑饮恨负败#, #张子义大创新400米跑国际历史#, the latest national record set by Zhang Ziyi in the competition is 44 seconds. Before that, the national record still set by him was 59 seconds 44. At present, Qiu Wen, who ranks second in domestic 76-meter strength, has a pb of 400 seconds.

If you want to participate in the men's 400-meter sprint in the Tokyo Olympics, the test result is 44 seconds. Only Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen in my country have qualified for the 90-meter sprint in the Tokyo Olympics. my country's current performance in this event ranks The third player, Li Junhao, has a pb of 400 seconds and has yet to break through the 45-second mark.

At the same time, in this competition, there are many countries such as the United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, etc., all of which are full participants-note that full participation does not mean that they only have 3 players who can reach this standard The assessment results, but their qualified players have reached the upper limit, and the current participating players are all selected from the best.

Going back in time, two years ago, Zhang Ziyi at that time broke the men's 15-meter sprint record that had been in China for 400 years for the first time, from 45 seconds to 25 seconds.

In three years, his personal best time in the 400-meter sprint has improved by almost a full second, which is an incredible result for a relatively mature athlete.

And this nearly 1-second result is also the Chinese 400-meter sprint, which has been pushed from an unknown state in Asia to the era of the current record holder of the yellow race.

In the past three years, Zhang Ziyi, or in other words, China's 400-meter sprint has progressed fast enough, and Zhang Ziyi's performance tonight has also improved amazingly enough.

As long as you have seen the history of these results, then I believe you will be able to agree with my argument-China Athletics is making great progress, and Zhang Ziyi's results tonight are enough to make people feel proud! 】

This popular science long Weibo, as more and more people clicked into the topic, more and more people saw it, and finally it became a popular Weibo with tens of thousands of reposts, appearing on The Weibo homepage of countless people.

It should be said that it did not disappoint the original blogger’s intentions in popularizing science. After reading it, many passers-by could clearly understand the significance of each of the achievements and Zhang Ziyi’s achievement tonight.

[Kneeling, I finally understand where Zhang Ziyi is awesome]

[=口= The track and field national team has been quite popular in the past two years, and I have always known that Zhang Ziyi is the captain of the national team's 400-meter men's team, but I really only found out today what Zhang Ziyi's strength and his results represent. . 】

[Zhang Shuai is worthy of being Zhang Shuai?I went to track and field forums and Chaohua out of curiosity before, and many people there highly praised Zhang Ziyi. At that time, I didn’t really understand what Zhang Shuai was really good at. Thank you for the popular science. 】

While people on the Internet were discussing the significance of Zhang Ziyi's achievement, the second group of men's 400-meter sprint semi-finals also officially started.

In the second group of the semi-finals, the strongest players were the young teenager Machel from Trinidad and Tobago, the famous 400-meter sprinter Barnes from the United States, and the 400-meter sprinter from Jamaica. M sprinter Fraser.

These three can be said to be the absolute favorable contenders for the second group of semi-finals.

在这场比赛中，这三位选手的表现都十分地优秀，也确实如人们所想象的一样，这3位选手分别跑出了44秒34、44秒57和44秒60的成绩。

But all Chinese track and field fans fell into silence after seeing this result.

Machel, who ran No.3 in the semi-final, with his time of 44 seconds, even ranked No.60 in the first group of the semi-final.

The final results of the contestants in the second group of the semi-finals more intuitively told people how outstanding Zhang Ziyi's performance was today.

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, both Shao Minyi and Li Sen sighed again.

"Ziyi's achievement today is really a pity."

Shao Min took a look at the results of the second group, then shook his head and said, "If Zhang Ziyi is placed in the second group in the semi-finals, then in the end he may even be able to directly qualify for the spot. I can only say that this time In the game, he still lacked a little bit of luck."

After Li Sen sighed, he also expressed the same meaning. In fact, Zhang Ziyi's performance and final results in the first group made them obsessed with it.

Finally, amidst everyone's sighs, the second group of men's 400-meter sprint semi-finalists also withdrew, followed by the appearance of the third group of semi-finalists, and Qiu Wen's group was just It's the third group of tonight's semi-final.

When Shao Minyi and Li Sen thought of this, they immediately adjusted their mentality, revived their spirits, cut off the previous topic, and turned the topic to Qiu Wen.

"Friends from the audience! The last group of men's 400-meter sprint semi-final will be on stage soon, and Chinese player Qiu Wen is also in this group. He will sprint for the final 400-meter final in this group. , no matter what the result is, I hope he can also play his best in this game and don't leave any regrets!"

At the same time that Shao Minyi and Li Sen's voices fell, the final 400 contestants of the men's 8-meter sprint semi-finals also entered the field one after another in the runner's channel.

It can be said that compared with Zhang Ziyi's previous group, or even compared with the second group of the semi-final just now, Qiu Wen's group has fewer objects that make track and field fans tremble as soon as they say their names. a lot.

But this by no means means that the opponents in this group will be easy to deal with.

Tekau from Trinidad and Tobago, Jipluto from Kenya, Ruka from the Czech Republic, Maipherson from Jamaica...these are all personal bests of 44 seconds or even close to 50 seconds terrible players.

Especially Maipherson and Tekau, the former pb43 seconds 94, the latter pb44 seconds 01.

Looking around, among these players, the one with the last place in personal time is undoubtedly Qiu Wen with a pb of only 44 seconds.

This is not really good news.

In front of the TV, the audience listened to Shao Minyi and Li Sen's introduction, mentioning that most of the players in this group are new stars, and many audiences were delighted, wondering if Qiu Wen was in this competition Can hope to advance?

But after hearing clearly what kind of rising stars these guys were, the flame of hope that had been ignited in the hearts of the audience was instantly extinguished.

特卡乌44秒01、迈弗森43秒94、吉浦路托44秒23……

If you compare PB with these guys, let alone Qiu Wen, if you throw Zhang Shuai's 44, it won't work!

On the public screen of the live broadcast room of the sports channel, there are also track and field fans comforting ordinary viewers who feel hopeless.

[Then what, pb belongs to pb, in the end it depends on the final score! 】

[That is, in Zhang Shuai's previous game, pb was better than him, but the final score was behind him, that's true! 】

[Yes, yes, the specifics still depend on the individual performance of the players on the spot! 】

[Speaking of which, the matter of my personal performance on the spot... I feel that once Erha started to run, at least in terms of state, there are many players who can't match him! 】

At the scene, the eight semi-finalists in the final group had all come to their respective starting blocks and adjusted their respective starting block settings.

However, at this time, Qiu Wen, who had never experienced the imbalance of his pre-match state before the game, seemed not as active as his previous pre-match state...

In the auditorium, when Su Bai looked at Qiu Wen's status prompted by the system in front of him, he couldn't help showing a trace of worry in his eyes.