"Oh, our game is about to begin. Michael, do you think who will win or lose this game, Su Feng or Bolt? Is it possible to break your previous record? And I heard that Bolt is still yours.
Fans, have you been practicing sprinting with you as your example since childhood?"
nTV sports program.
Because of the amazing contest between Su Feng and Bolt, and both running a time of 9.6 seconds, this caused a huge sensation in the United States, which is a powerful country in track and field.
According to surveys, the American people's expectations for the 200-meter race between Su Feng and Usain Bolt have reached a record high, and N's program manager has also made the decision to start broadcasting the 200-meter preliminaries.
In addition to host Felt, who showed his ace, n also invited Michael Johnson, who has held the men's 200m record of 19.32 seconds for 12 consecutive years, as a live guest to provide commentary.
At this time, Felt turned the topic to Michael Johnson. After all, he was hired for 20,000 US dollars per show, and as an ace host, he naturally knew that sometimes as a host, the more active the better,
When facing a professional field, what the host has to do is not to make meaningless interpretations based on the information he has read temporarily, but to provide lubricant for the explanation and help professionals mobilize the emotions of the audience.
Michael Johnson shrugged his shoulders, "When n invited me, it was after the 100 meters. If you had asked me this before the 100 meters, I would have told you that no one could have broken my world record.
Even at last year's World Championships, Su Feng and Bolt ran 19.42 seconds and 19.52 seconds respectively.
At that time, Bolt was still far behind, especially since his skills were already mature and could not be improved. If he only relied on his body at the time, he would not be able to run 19 seconds 32 seconds.
As for Su Feng, his skills at that time were only excellent and needed to be improved, but I don’t think yellow people can have my speed and endurance. Of course, I am black myself. This is not racial discrimination, but an objective fact.
Even among blacks, the vast majority of those who break 10 seconds in 100 meters and 20 seconds in 200 meters are of West African ethnicity.
So at that time, I thought Su Feng did not have the ability to improve his performance by 0.1 seconds again.
But now, it’s really hard to say. These two people had not reached their talent ceiling at the last World Championships. Even I was surprised by the results they achieved in the 100 meters this time.
God, when I saw the results, I jumped up on the sofa at home."
"So you think they can beat your 200-meter record?"
"Who knows, but I think there is a possibility. As for who will win or lose, I think Bolt is more likely. After all, he is black and taller."
"And Bolt is still a fan of yours, right?"
"Isn't Su Feng a fan of mine? You know, given their age, they probably grew up watching my games."
"As a senior, aren't you very pleased to see your fans surpass yourself?"
"I'm pleased, but also unhappy. After all, it's my own world record. But fortunately, I still have a 400-meter world record. I don't think anyone will break it for a long time."
"Okay, I also hope your world record can be kept for more time. After all, it always feels wrong to talk about the records of two non-Americans here.
We saw that the first group of athletes in the 200 meters had already entered, and we saw that Tyson Gay, a runner who used to specialize in the 200 meters, had already begun to enter."
In distant China, at 10:05 a.m. on August 19, the men's 200-meter preliminaries officially began.
A total of 71 athletes participated in the men's 200-meter preliminaries, divided into nine preliminary groups. The first eight groups had eight people in each group, and the final group had a total of seven people.
The top three in each group will advance to the semi-finals, and the remaining players will advance to the top five based on their results.
The total number of people entering the semi-finals is 32.
In such large-scale competitions, the organizers usually assign some seed players to different groups in the first round. This is beneficial to the excitement and ratings of the competition, and is also beneficial to other players.
After all, if a group accumulates too many famous players, it will lead to the famous players being eliminated early. For other players, the hope of advancement will be very slim.
The star of this first group is Tyson Gay.
After losing to Su Feng and Usain Bolt in the men's 100m final, Tyson Gay looked expressionless even in the 200m preliminaries, making it hard to tell what he was thinking. Maybe he was disappointed with his final 200m result.
It's quite stressful.
However, in the preliminaries, Tyson Gay's performance was still very stable. He lived up to expectations and won the first place in the group with a time of 20.15 seconds and successfully advanced.
Then in the second and third groups, Powell, Walter Disco and others also advanced.
Su Feng was placed in the fourth group and finally advanced with a time of 19.99 seconds.
Yang Wei, also a Chinese athlete, ran a personal best of 20.42 seconds in the sixth group and entered the semi-finals in third place in the group.
Next, there is the seventh group where Bolt belongs.
The men's sprint competition, even the preliminaries, is very exciting. The pace is fast and the competition is fierce. One group follows another, and each group has famous athletes whom they know.
Especially when there is a sense of immersion, the audience's enthusiasm can be easily mobilized.
After the game started, the cheers never stopped.
Bolt's appearance was the second peak of cheers after Su Feng.
Bolt followed the queue of athletes out of the tunnel. He was in fifth place and looked unhappy.
He was originally very confident about the men's 100 meters this time. Even his coach told him before the game that no one could beat him.
And before setting off from Jamaica, he told reporters in his hometown that he would definitely win the men's 100-meter gold medal.
But I didn't expect that I would lose to Su Feng in the end, and only by a few thousandths of a second.
And this was on the premise that he had broken the world record and greatly improved it.
This undoubtedly made him very unhappy.
He knew that he couldn't hold on at the last moment, and this feeling of annoyance had been irritating him for several days.
He vowed that he must take away the 200-meter gold medal from China. Only in this way can he feel better.
It was with this feeling of revenge that Bolt stepped onto the field.
After the game started, he had long forgotten the coach's instructions to stay focused in the preliminaries and sprinted with all his strength from the beginning. He didn't think about anything else but to vent his frustration through running.
During the competition, he did not even pay attention to the positions of other players, did not care or even heard the cheers of the audience. It was not until he crossed the finish line that he realized from the gasp caused by his excessive consumption that he seemed to Running too hard.
But soon, he felt something was wrong. He found that the cheers that should have been heard by the audience did not appear, and there was an extremely quiet and strange scene on the field.
"Shouldn't it be?" Bolt was a little surprised. The Chinese audience has always been very friendly to him. It's impossible that they didn't even cheer at all. What's going on with this weird silence?
Bolt subconsciously looked at the big screen. He couldn't see the small screen from his position, and it took him a long time to slow down after crossing the finish line. Now it's time for the results to appear on the big screen.
Sure enough, within two seconds after Bolt looked up, the results of the eight athletes in the seventh group were displayed one by one on the big screen.
Number one above is naturally Bolt.
The first line reads, first place, Usain Bolt, reaction time 0.135 seconds, score 19 seconds 29!
The on-site wind speed is 0.5, and the result is valid.
"World record!" Bolt's head also shut down for a moment, and he just muttered and repeated this sentence.