Let's be a world champion first! [sports]

At 9:05 a.m. in Budapest, Hungary, the men's 100m qualifying competition started its competition as the second selection event at the opening of this World Championships.

According to the organizer's original plan of a total of 45 participants, 8 contestants were finally screened in the morning's play-in competition and qualified for the main competition of the World Championships.

However, there is not only a gap in strength between players who have been promoted from the play-in round and those who have directly qualified for the competition based on their personal achievement, because the time between the play-in round and the official first round of preliminaries is relatively close, so the general situation Under such circumstances, it is often difficult for the finalists to advance to the semi-finals.

In China, due to the high popularity of news about the World Athletics Championships recently, many viewers who don't know much about track and field took advantage of this moment to pay attention to today's first match day of the World Athletics Championships.

From time to time, some problems pop up on Weibo and the public screen bullet screen in the live broadcast room.

For example now.

[#Budapest Athletics World Championships# I don’t know much about track and field events, but I have paid attention to it before, and I think there is a very strange problem...I remember saying before that Su Qian’s 10 time is also in this season It can only be ranked 05th in the world, so the competition plan that only needs 45 people to participate in the competition, the standard score is still 45 seconds 10, then I checked, and the result of 06 seconds 10 can only be ranked 06th. , isn't this the number of people who have exceeded the planned competition?

Why is there still a play-in match?The number of people has exceeded, shouldn't the number of preliminaries be cut first? 】

_(:з」∠)_

Needless to say, this question has aroused doubts and resonance among many people on Weibo, not only the blogger who bravely asked the question, but also a series of passers-by who also expressed some puzzlement under the Weibo where he asked the question.

Fortunately, the official preliminaries hadn't started yet, and some track and field fans were wandering around the Internet, and happened to see this question.

After seeing this question, the track and field fan sighed faintly.

This is really a classic question.

Shaking his head, his fingers crackled on the keyboard, and quickly replied to the blogger with this question.

[Hi, friend, you can go and see, which countries are the forty or fifty runners who ran into 10 seconds from?Friendly reminder, no matter how many qualified players there are in each country, a single event can send up to 06 players to participate. 】

Eh?

Passers-by who were puzzled suddenly saw the answer to this sentence, and quickly went to watch the top 100 men's 50-meter sprinters on the IAAF website.

Oh, okay, case solved.

Among the top 50 players in the world this season, there are 13 players from the US team, which cuts off 10 players who failed to qualify for the [-]-meter individual event of the World Championships.

There are also 6 Jamaican players, 4 British players ... and so on.

If those players who have reached the standard but cannot qualify for the competition are cut off, then there will be a serious shortage of places for the remaining qualified players in the World Championships, and if they are postponed based on the results of 10 and 07, there will be immediately A group of finalists waiting to be replaced.

【ah?What the hell?How many people have reached the standard in the United States? ! = mouth =]

After getting this answer, most of the ordinary audience nodded in understanding first, and then fell into astonishment.

As ordinary non-track and field enthusiasts, the vast majority of passers-by only know that the sprinters in European and American countries are very strong, but before that, their understanding of the fact that the sprinters in European and American countries are strong is only "vaguely very strong." 'On this range.

Most people don't even know what the specific difference in strength is.

In addition, for more than a year, Su Qian and Clark, who are both athletes from Asian countries, have taken turns to hold the U100 world record in the men's 18-meter sprint in their hands and play the relay, so that the public is a little confused about the meaning of it. There is a gap in strength, and I feel that 'our country can also have U18 players who can win the world's U18 [-]-meter record'. Then the United States and other European and American countries seem to be not as strong as imagined?

Until this moment, the track and field fan's answer made these ordinary viewers suddenly realize—wait, no, how many people in the United States can run within the 100-meter World Championships qualifying range? !

You know, this time in China, only Xian Wangxing qualified for the 18-meter World Championships. On the day Su Qian reached the standard and broke the U[-] [-]-meter world record, the domestic track and field enthusiasts were running around celebrating each other. The major news media in China reported- —Following the previous generation of domestic sprint duo, my country once again has two athletes who have simultaneously qualified for the [-]-meter World Athletics Championships.

Just from these reports, it can be seen that it is not easy for Chinese players to qualify for the two World Championships, just like the situation in the United States where more than a dozen people reach the standard and a large number of outstanding players cannot qualify. There is indeed a huge gap between our countries.

It was also at this moment that many passers-by and spectators suddenly understood why Li Hai and Lin Xuwen, who were the commentators, were so excited when Su Qian ran the 10 meters in 05 seconds and won the U18 [-] meters world record.

As a country in the men's 18-meter sprint event, there is still a big gap between China's strength and player reserves and European and American countries. Under such circumstances, there has appeared a genius who can crush the American U[-] players unable to fight back!

It was also at this moment that the audience, who had always known that Su Qian was a genius, suddenly realized that their original judgment of Su Qian's genius was far from enough.

Hungary, Budapest Stadium scene

After the men's 100-meter sprint qualifying competition ended in the morning, the organizer quickly entered the list of winners of the qualifying competition, and started the random selection method to group the contestants who were finally full.

The 45 contestants were randomly selected and divided into 6 preliminaries. The first three groups each consisted of 8 contestants, and the last three groups each consisted of 7 contestants. Among the remaining players, the top 6 players will be selected to advance.

In the commentary room, Li Hai and Lin Xuwen were notified that the group selection was about to be completed, and the final group list was about to be distributed, so they first explained the rules to the audience in the live broadcast room.

"From the previous introduction, you should also be able to see that the promotion from the preliminaries to the semi-finals is from 45 to 24 promotions. The number of promotions is relatively loose."

Li Hai's tone was rather relaxed. After all, judging from the usual results in the preliminaries of the World Championships, as long as they are not classified into the death group, they usually only need to run within 10 seconds to win. Qualified.

"I believe, our little Xian and Su Qian..." When Li Hai said this, his smooth speech suddenly stopped.

In the live broadcast room, Lin Xuwen and Li Hai looked at each other silently.

Seems wrong wow!

Xiao Xian is used to having no problems, but Su Qian... how do they remember that Su Qian often failed to draw any good lottery in the past?

As the saying goes, the more stable the flag stands, the louder the face is hit.

As far as Su Qian's non-chief luck is concerned, when Li Hai said this, he could only turn the subject abruptly: "As for our little Xian and Su Qian, let's first wish the two contestants a good performance in this field. Draw a good group in the game."

It was live broadcasting right now, and although Li Hai's turn was so hard that it didn't look blunt, it still caused many track and field fans who had been following the competition all year round to burst into laughter.

[Laughing to death, Li Hai forcibly braked and turned around. 】

[The screen has been recorded, Lao Li's annual live broadcast car accident scene has √]

[Laughing, Lao Li's bend couldn't be more blunt. 】

There are also people who don't know the situation, looking at the screen full of clams and clams, they are confused.

[What's the situation?Isn't it just explaining the regular mouth? 】

As soon as the barrage came out, someone immediately smiled and gave him a popular science answer.

[Track and field group draw first non-chief Su Xiaoqian to find out =w=]

[Master of death grouping, the eternal law of black hands. 】

On the bullet screen of the public screen, there were quite a lot of people answering the questions and they were quite happy. The bewildered passers-by got the answer, but the next moment, a question full of doubts floated on the public screen in the live broadcast room.

[?You guys are so happy, do you want Su Qian to also get into the death group match in today's World Championship preliminaries? (Black question mark.jpg)]

ah?

As soon as the barrage came out, the track and field fans in the live broadcast room who were happily flying suddenly froze in the audience.

Yeah, what are they so happy about?

Qian Zai's hands are so dark, what if he draws a death group in the [-]-meter preliminaries?

After being reminded by this barrage, the live broadcast room, which was still full of laughter before, suddenly became very nervous. The previous public screen barrage had already been washed away, replaced by a series of various Pray for blessings.

【Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm sorry, Young Master Qian, I'll give you all my good luck today, please, let's get a good lottery! 】

There are many nervous blessings like this, but unfortunately, these blessings seem to have come a bit too late.

In the backcourt lounge, Xing Yuanzhi and You Yun frowned tightly after seeing Xian Wangxing and Su Qian's [-]-meter grouping.

Xian Wangxing is not bad, he can be regarded as a lucky group, but Su Qian is different, he is in the fifth group of the preliminaries, although there are only 7 players in total, but Japan's Kitagawa Hiroaki, Brazil's Gabriel, Jamaica's Romario and Team USA's Emmanuel...

This series of strong generals are all in the same group as Su Qian.

All of these players are within 10 seconds, and Gabriel, Romario, and Emanuel are all within 9 seconds.

Apart from this series of players, it doesn't mean that other players have no threat to Su Qian at all.

From the moment they got this group, Xing Yuanzhi, You Yun...including Su Qian himself, they clearly realized that unless there is an accident, if Su Qian wants to win the 100-meter preliminaries in this group To be eligible for promotion, one can only get better results as much as possible, and by virtue of their ranking among the remaining players, they can obtain the qualification for supplementary promotion.

But for Su Qian, whether this approach is necessary or not is still a bit debatable.

After all, in this event, Su Qian will focus on the 200-meter race. If he puts too much attention, physical fitness, and state into the 100-meter race, it will not be worth the candle.

According to the plan, Su Qian will not put too much physical effort into the preliminaries. He will take this World Championships as an extremely rare practice match of the highest standard in the world. After adapting to the rhythm of the World Championships and the strength of his opponents Under such circumstances, it is guaranteed that Su Qian can achieve an excellent performance in the 200-meter event.

Xing Yuanzhi looked at the grouping table in his hand, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but he stopped and didn't speak.

You Yun patted Su Qian's shoulder, just smiled and said to Su Qian: "Make your decision."

Su Qian looked up at You Yun and Xing Yuanzhi. He quickly realized that Xing Yuanzhi was obviously worried about his thoughts, so he scratched his head and smiled: "Coach Xing, don't worry! The previous decision is my decision." I haven't forgotten!"

Of course he still remembers his previous decision to focus on the 200-meter event in the World Championships, and he has no intention of changing this decision.

Even in this competition, if he focuses on the 100 meters, he may be able to have a match with Clark of the highest standard so far, but with the current level of strength of him and Clark, even if they can really compete on the field Face off...

Su Qian thought about it, and always felt that there seemed to be something missing.

If possible……

He hopes that one day, he will meet Clark in the finals of the world's top competitions and compete for the highest glory of the finals together.

Such thoughts flashed across Su Qian's mind, and then he temporarily put them aside, and began to look at the grouping form in his hand, showing an expectant look.

Is this the World Championships?

Just in the preliminaries, there is a chance to meet such an opponent lineup!

On the side, Xing Yuanzhi was still a little worried. When facing such an opponent lineup, would Su Qian be unable to show his strength because of nervousness?

As a result, looking at Su Qian's look of anticipation from the sidelines at this moment, he knew that his worries were for nothing.

As for Su Qian, he probably never thought about being afraid of such a thing.

Xing Yuanzhi felt that what he really had to worry about was actually what to do if Su Qian got too excited and exhausted his energy before the 200-meter race?

From the finalists of the men's 100-meter sprint to the official first preliminaries, there is only an interval of 1 hour and 20 minutes.

After Su Qian confirmed his grouping, the staff came to guide him and Xian Wangxing before he had a long rest, guiding him and Xian Wangxing to the preparation venue for registration and warm-up.

While Su Qian and Xian Wangxing were warming up, the track and field national team also released the group information table for the men's 100-meter sprint competition.

The track and field fans who were already quite nervous, after seeing the grouping of Su Qian's group, deeply realized what it means to be unconscious and suffocate on the spot.

[...God, why is our young master's lottery so awesome? 】

[Gabriel, Emmanuel, Romario... As long as these three great gods are here, I don't want to mention Hiroaki Kitagawa's name. 】

[Suffocation, I suspect that if it weren’t for the grouping rules, players from the same country in the preliminaries and semi-finals would not be assigned to the same group by default. We might be able to face the Big Three of the US team in the preliminaries. . 】

[…… Those who doubted before, silently 1]

Although track and field fans like to play tricks on Su Qian's unofficial luck, but this kind of luck is really confirmed in the grouping of the World Championships, no one can easily face it.

In the warm-up venue in Budapest, Su Qian didn't think too much about it. Whether his luck in the [-]-meter race is good or bad will not affect his attitude towards the race.

However, after Gabriel and the three were gathered in the preliminaries, their group of preliminaries vaguely had a taste of the semi-finals of the World Championships.

According to the current schedule, there will be the men's 100-meter sprint preliminaries this morning, and tomorrow's second competition day will have the semi-finals and finals of the 100-meter sprint.

The 200-meter preliminaries will be held on the morning of the third race day.

Su Qian has estimated his physical fitness distribution. As the race gets closer to the 200-meter race, even if he successfully advances to the semi-finals of the [-]-meter race, he must be more cautious in displaying his state in the semi-finals.

In comparison, he was more free in the preliminaries.

If this is the case... let's try our best to run as much as possible in the preliminaries!

In this preliminaries stage, experience for yourself the opponents who are so strong and exciting that you are eager to try in the world's top arena!

During the warm-up, Clark was also near Su Qian, just like every time in the past in the training ground of the dream space, they have become accustomed to the tacit understanding between each other, even if they don't need to say anything, they can feel it from looking at each other to encouragement from each other.

Together in the warm-up venue, they focused on completing their respective warm-up preparations. Occasionally, when they looked at each other, they could feel their respective seriousness.

Su Qian is serious about focusing on the 200-meter event at this World Championships, but he is also serious about his challenge to Clark.

10 seconds 02.

Of course, Su Qian knew that every 0.01 second improvement in the [-]-meter sprint represented great difficulties the more he reached the top stage.

But he has a vague self-confidence—he can achieve it!

Su Qian wants to have a try. In today's preliminaries, can he successfully challenge this number without exceeding the physical load?

Su Qian, who was warming up and preparing for the match in the field, felt his heart beating violently and excited blood flowing through his body as long as he wanted the thought in his mind.

Track and field fans on the Internet don't know what Su Qian is thinking.

In fact, no one could have imagined that Su Qian actually planned to sprint for his best result in the preliminaries.

This plan is bold and unreasonable, completely out of the range of everyone's predictions. Most of the audience are still nervously worried about Su Qian's preliminaries results, fearing that he will be directly defeated in the preliminaries because of this death group. .

From the announcement of the preliminaries grouping to the start of the first group of preliminaries, there was very little time left for track and field fans to be nervous. Almost in the blink of an eye, the first group of events officially started.

In the first group of the preliminaries, the most familiar face to domestic audiences should probably be Shuhei Yasawa, the second man in the men's [-] meters from Japan.

In this season, Yasuzawa Shuhei has not yet broken the 10-meter mark of his dream, but his season-best time of 01 seconds also allowed him to easily qualify for the [-]-meter World Championships.

Although Yasuzawa Shuhei is considered outstanding in Asia, he is actually not outstanding among the players in the World Championships.

In the preliminaries of this group, it can be seen that Yasuzawa Shuhei is already doing his best, but maybe it is the reason for his debut in the first group or the pressure from other top players. These pressures make Yasuzawa Shuhei's performance mediocre. He only won the fourth place in the group in the preliminaries, with a time of 10 seconds and the identity of the first group of preliminaries, making him temporarily ranked first among the remaining players.

In the next second group of competitions, in addition to the top three advanced players, the No.4 Dutch player ran at 10 seconds, and the No.16 player in this group also ran at 5 seconds. Yasuzawa Osamu of the first group tied for the third place among the rest of the players.

"It can be clearly seen that this time the world championships, the results of the players in the preliminaries stage, compared with the previous one, the difficulty of competition has increased to a certain extent."

In the commentary room, Lin Xuwen frowned, introducing the current situation on the field.

As he said, in this preliminaries, at the end of the preliminaries of the first two groups, the ranking of the top six of the remaining players, No.6's time has reached 10 seconds.

This is just the end of the second group of preliminaries!

In the last World Championships, the top six scores of the remaining players were from 10 to 18. As long as the players can run to 10, they can securely qualify for the semi-finals .

But looking at it now, the death group competition in Su Qian's group has not yet started, only the first two groups, Shuhei Yasawa's time of 10 seconds has already ranked third among the remaining players.

In other words, it is very likely that Shuhei Yasawa, who only ran 6 seconds after the end of the 10 group competitions, will lose the qualification to advance to the semi-finals.

"Just judging from the current two preliminaries, it seems that the smell of gunpowder in this World Athletics Championships is about to come out..." Li Hai continued: "It can be seen that in just two years, the world Athletics is constantly speeding up. I think we must not be satisfied with Xian Wangxing's 9-meter sprint of 93 seconds. Apart from Xian Wangxing and Su Qian, Chinese track and field must keep up with the pace of world track and field as much as possible. , don’t think that the level of Chinese track and field has gradually risen and take it lightly!”

Not only Li Hai and Lin Xuwen noticed this point, but also Xing Yuanzhi and You Yun in the Chinese team's backcourt lounge.

In the various IAAF Challenges and Diamond Leagues that are usually scattered, there are indeed some players who can create exceptionally outstanding results from time to time, but because the data is scattered, the standards for data collection by the national team vary. There is no obvious overall improvement in the world sprint data.

But in today's preliminaries of the World Championships, in the first two games of the preliminaries, the most direct performance and results of players from various countries, as well as the difference in semi-final promotion results between the previous World Championships, have surprised many people. , Worldwide, the strength of men's [-]-meter sprinters has been greatly improved.

This discovery made many track and field fans both happy and nervous. What is gratifying is that the overall improvement in the world's [-]-meter sprint level allows them to have better and more exciting events to watch when watching the game.

What is tense is, under such circumstances, can the progress and improvement of Chinese players successfully catch up with the pace of the world?

Amid everyone's tension, the third group of the preliminaries officially started, and this is also the preliminaries group that Xian Wangxing belongs to.

In this group, although it can't be called a death group like Su Qian's, there are quite a few strong opponents. McBride and British star Grant are both in this group.

However, Xian Wangxing's performance did not disappoint the domestic audience. Although he failed to win the first place in the group, he also successfully won the place to directly advance to the semi-finals with a time of 10 seconds in the third place in the group.

After the third group of preliminaries, Yasuzawa Shuhei's time of 10 seconds has fallen to the fifth place among the remaining players.

"Ah, Yasawa Shuhei's current ranking... If there is no accident, it can already be said that he has lost the qualification to advance to the semi-finals." Li Hai said in a deep voice. He and Lin Xuwen did not expect that Yasawa Shuhei was 10 seconds 19 His grades would actually get him out so quickly.

After the end of the third group, Clark was one step ahead of Su Qian and entered the arena in the fourth group of the preliminaries.

Compared with Su Qian's bad luck, Clark is a full-fledged European emperor. In the fourth group of the preliminaries, although his opponent is not weak, but compared to the previous three groups, it seems easy. A lot.

Just like people's judgment on the strength of Clark's group, the players in this group did perform well, but the final results were mediocre compared with the first three groups.

In this group, Clark easily won the second place in the group with a time of 10 seconds, and Shuhei Yasawa's precarious No.15 ranking was temporarily maintained at the end of the fourth group.

"Ah, it's time to play!"

In the waiting corridor of the contestants, the contestants in the fifth group are already ready to go.

Compared with the previous three groups, the contestants in the fifth group of preliminaries are very different in terms of momentum.

Emmanuel can almost be called the current stage. Among the top 1 active players, Brazil's Gabriel and Jamaica's Romario also have the strength of less than 9 seconds 90.

In the entire group, apart from Su Qian and his five members, there was also Effah from Canada with a PB of 5 seconds, and a player from St. Kitts and Nevis who advanced through the play-in round.

At this moment, just in the waiting hallway, the player from St. Kitts and Nevis already seemed a little stiff.

He never expected that after he successfully advanced to the main match with his outstanding performance in the play-in match, he would be selected for such a match group. Even though he kept warning himself to relax during the warm-up stage, he still couldn't let himself feel tired. The muscles really relax.

Su Qian also noticed this player before his appearance, but at this stage, even if it is just a friendly reminder, it may not necessarily bring positive results.

After the staff reminded the players that they could come on stage, Su Qian took a slight breath. Although he was not sure if it would be useful, he made a cheering gesture to the St. Kitts and Nevis player, then turned and walked towards The direction of the field.

"Su Qian is here!"

In the commentary room, after Li Hai and Lin Xuwen saw Su Qian coming on stage, their voices became more cautious.

In today's arena, in such a death group, can Su Qian successfully qualify for the semifinals?

"Just now we estimated that if Su Qian wants to steadily qualify for the semi-finals, then he must at least score within 10 seconds and 17."

Although 10 seconds does not seem to be difficult for Su Qian, you must know that before Su Qian and Clark, the U17 world record in the 18 meters is only 10 seconds.

As of last year's Asian Games, Su Qian's PB was only 10 seconds.

For a U18 player, a time of less than 10 seconds 17 is by no means as simple as saying it verbally.

On the domestic Internet, track and field fans hold the idea that '10 is no problem', and on the other hand, they are thinking that if Su Qian is required to run under 17 in the preliminaries, what will happen to Su Qian in the next round? Will the physical impact of the series be great?

But under the nervous gaze of all walks of life, on the field, at the moment when the competition is about to start, Su Qian's state seems to have calmed down.

In this race, he is on the eighth lane, which is already the outermost lane for this race without the 1st and 9th lanes.

On the seventh lane to his left is the famous Japanese general Hiroaki Kitagawa.

At the moment when the players were adjusting the starting blocks, and at the same time doing the test run and the final warm-up and relaxation, Hiroaki Beichuan couldn't help but put his eyes on Su Qian for a short time.

Hiroaki Kitagawa still remembers that his first confrontation with Su Qian was at the IAAF Challenge in Japan, but the opponent Su Qian could match at that time was not him at all, but the young Japanese player Yoshijima at that time Cool too.

But time passed quickly, and after less than two years, this Chinese boy, who was not in his eyes at all, was already standing on the same starting line as him in the World Championships.

Of course, Hiroaki Kitagawa knew about the INS incident that occurred during this period, but he had never paid attention to Su Qian’s INS account in the past. The impact of Su Qian’s INS incident on him was not as good as seeing Su Qian standing next to him at this very moment. on the track around you.

Check it out then.

Let's see what kind of speed this 17-year-old prodigy can achieve!

After taking a last look at Su Qian, Hiroaki Kitagawa turned his attention back to the track in front of him.

Before the same starting line, Gabriel, Emmanuel and Romario are all in a relatively relaxed state. Even if this group is called a death group, for them, unless they make a mistake or foul, they have absolute confidence. With confidence, there is absolutely no way to lose the qualification to advance to the semi-finals.

The three of them had crossed paths with Su Qian on INS, and they felt that they were in the same arena with Su Qian at this time, and they also felt that it was extremely strange, but the professionalism of the athletes made them suppress this feeling in their hearts. He also focused on the track in front of him.

After all the contestants had made their respective preparations, the voice of "take your place" had already been issued. Su Qian didn't seem to feel the pressure of the thousands of eyes staring at him at this moment, he jumped up and down easily, He quickly came to his own starting block, put his hands on the ground, and easily squatted on the starting block.

No one could tell that Su Qian, who was in a relaxed posture at this time, was thinking of hitting his best [-]-meter score.

Su Qian closed his eyes slightly, and took a breath.

The idea of ​​excitement during the warm-up has been temporarily suppressed in his heart. At this time, he is squatting on the starting block, his body is slightly relaxed, and at the moment the sound of "ready" is heard, he puts his hands on the ground, his feet Stepping on the pedals of the starting block one after the other, the rear hips are raised, the strength of the whole body is contracted, and it is slightly tensed. target cubs.

The 7 figures on the starting block of the track were lined up. The first thing everyone noticed was the Big Three of the death group headed by Emmanuel. Except for the Chinese audience who were all focused on Su Qian, they couldn't help it. No one noticed that the young man who was hiding on the edge and ready to go——

In the waiting room at the backcourt, Xing Yuanzhi and You Yun saw Su Qian's appearance, and their eyes lit up slightly. They clearly felt that Su Qian's state seemed very strange.

In front of the TV and before the webcast, there were quite a few keen track and field fans, because their attention was on Su Qian, and they also faintly noticed that Su Qian's posture seemed to be different from his previous ones. The game is different, and it is evoking some unimaginable expectations in their hearts.

"Su Qian's state..."

In the commentary room of the live broadcast, Li Hai and Lin Xuwen were of course also keenly aware of the difference in Su Qian's state. This difference made Li Hai couldn't help but say something, but he quickly stopped talking.

Because at this time, the preparatory sound on the field had already sounded, and then, after a breath, there was a "bang" and the starting gun fired-the competition of this group officially started!