The high-spirited atmosphere in the Bird's Nest has not dissipated yet.
Today, two flag-raising ceremonies were held here during the day and evening.
Twice in a row, accompanied by the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, the five-star red flag rose slowly in the center, raising everyone's patriotic enthusiasm to a peak.
Although track and field events are not our strong point, being able to achieve such results and win three heavyweight gold medals is enough to make us proud.
Among them, Liu Yuxiang's 110-meter hurdles broke his own Olympic record of 12.91 seconds.
In the original history, there were 4 Olympic Games in 17 years from the 2004 Athens Olympics to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, but Liu Yuxiang’s record of 12.91 seconds has never been broken by anyone. In the last Tokyo Olympics, Jamaica won the gold medal
Compared with Pachiment's 13.04 seconds, there is a huge gap between him and Liu Yuxiang.
Originally, in the 2008 BJ Olympics, Liu Yuxiang retired due to injury. Cuban player Dairon Robles ran a time of 12.93 seconds and finally won the championship, which was 0.02 seconds away from Liu Yuxiang's record;
At the 2012 London Olympics, American star Aris Merritt ran a time of 12.92 seconds to win the championship, only 0.01 seconds behind Liu Yuxiang's record;
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the 110-meter hurdles champion was Jamaican Omar McLeod, but he only ran 13.05 seconds; compared with the champions of the previous three Olympic Games, this result is still far behind.
It can be said that the era when Liu Yuxiang won the championship was the most intense competition in the 110-meter hurdles, with many high-level athletes.
In this life, with the influence of Su Feng, the two Chinese track and field heroes have attracted the attention of the world. The Chinese track and field team no longer only has Liu Yuxiang as a banner figure. This has greatly reduced the pressure that Liu Yuxiang cannot bear, and he has lived up to expectations.
He had the upper hand in the competition with Robles, and even won the BJ Olympic gold medal and broke the Olympic record. The tragic and heroic drama of the previous life will never be repeated again.
Needless to say, Su Feng has world records in 100 meters and 200 meters, Olympic records, Bird's Nest Stadium records, and Olympic gold medals. Although I don't know what will happen in the future, these two games have combined all kinds of honors. If not
With Bolt as a super competitor, the 100-meter king can now ascend to the throne.
The next thing to be done is the men's relay competition. Although everyone knows that the overall strength of the Chinese team is not as good as that of the United States and Jamaica, and even the Trinidad and Tobago team and the British team are also strong opponents of the Chinese team, but
With Su Feng, who was the last player, all the spectators were still full of expectations for this game.
At 9:10 pm, the competition teams began to take the stage one by one.
Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, these are the opponents that the Chinese team will face in the group stage.
Meeting one of the American and Jamaican teams was what Su Feng had expected. After all, they were obviously the two strongest teams and they must be in different preliminaries. Otherwise, the finals would probably have been staged in advance, which would have affected the audience.
There is no benefit to the participating teams.
Being able to play against the American team in this group in advance is also a good thing for the Chinese team.
And in addition to the United States team, the Trinidad and Tobago team and the British team are also traditional strong teams, especially the Trinidad and Tobago team, which has won many Olympic and World Championship medals. In this Olympics,
Even though the U.S. team was illegally eliminated from the preliminaries, they even won the relay silver medal.
As for the Japanese team, they are the bronze medalists at this Olympics.
It can be said that the competitiveness of this group is not weaker than that of the other group.
The four members of the Chinese team had separated at this time and stood in front of their respective starting lines.
Zhang Peimeng was the first, Chen Zhilong was the second, Liu Yu was the third, and Su Feng was the fourth. This was the best combination determined after long-term experiments and running-in.
Zhang Peimeng's sprinting power in the first baton was strong, second only to Su Feng.
Chen Zhilong and Liu Yu spent the longest time in relay training, and were responsible for the second and third legs, which required two steps: handing over and taking over the baton.
As the world's top flyer, Su Feng takes the last baton. He only needs to complete the steps of taking over the baton. The only thing left is the 100-meter straight. He can fully display his world-leading straight sprint ability.
Moreover, as the last stick, Su Feng can not only intimidate other teams, but also boost the confidence of the Chinese team in the first three sticks and stabilize the morale of the military. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Zhang Peimeng stood on the field. Even though he had already participated in the 100-meter race in the Olympic Games and achieved certain results, he was still nervous at this moment.
At 100 meters, although he didn't want to admit it, he was still just incidental. If he was eliminated in the first shot, it wouldn't have much impact. The people across the country would just feel sorry for it, and then they would continue to focus on Su Feng.
On the body.
Because no one has any confidence in him winning the championship or finishing second or third.
To everyone, he is just one more Olympian for the Chinese team in the men's sprint event.
Although it gets some attention, it's actually not important.
But this is also beneficial. Most of the pressure is not on him. He just needs to run out of himself. This is how he adjusted his psychology at the beginning.
But it's different now. He is an indispensable member of the Chinese team. It is difficult for Su Feng to win an Olympic medal just by relying on him.
The four players on the Chinese team are indispensable, and they all need to perform perfectly to have a chance.
In this game, he is still not the protagonist, but he is one of the protagonists!
This can be said to be the first time that he has been on his own in the Olympics. Instead of Su Feng shielding him from the wind and rain, he and Su Feng are fighting side by side as a team!
Especially after Su Feng won the men's 100-meter and 200-meter championships in succession, the Chinese people's eyes were almost entirely on the last competition that Su Feng was going to participate in, and because Su Feng and Bolt's results exceeded the limits of human cognition.
, now a huge amount of the world's attention is focused on this competition.
Even if it is a team competition, audiences around the world want to see how Su Feng and Bolt perform in it, as evidenced by the number of reporters present at the scene.
An hour before the relay started, there were only one-third as many reporters as there are now, but now there are twice as many.
The extra reporters are all reporters who were supposed to cover at other venues!
They are all Olympic sports, but they can attract so many reporters. At this time, the influence of Su Feng and Bolt is evident.
This also caused the three people, including him, to bear heavy pressure from the beginning.
Su Feng is used to these pressures, but they can't!
They have never received so much attention and have never felt such heavy pressure.
"Zhang Paimeng, you can't let go!" Zhang Paimeng said to himself fiercely in his heart.
Regarding the pressure in this area, the coaching staff did not provide timely psychological counseling, although the coaching staff had already expected the attention Su Feng brought.
However, the pressure Su Feng put on other athletes who collaborated with him was not discovered in advance by them.
Even the three athletes themselves only discovered the change in their identities after taking the field.
They have become a community with Su Feng. They both prosper and suffer, including the expectations and attention they receive!