The gunshots sounded again, Zhang Guan and Powell rushed out of the starting line at the same time. From the starting reaction, there is almost no gap between the two, and no one has taken advantage yet.
Next, Zhang Guan and Powell went hand in hand, competing with each other very fiercely, especially after the forty meters, the two had already led the other athletes. And this is exactly the script that everyone wants to see. The two fastest runners in the world are competing in the same field, and they are in the same position. They are fighting and fighting, and then they either win or lose in a few seconds.
"Zhang! Zhang! Zhang!"
"Powell! Powell! Powell!"
The audience shouted the names of the two people. The audience, both men, women, and children, fell into a frenzy. The crazy cries around them made Sharapova a little uncomfortable. She did not expect that the top track and field events would look like this.
On the tennis court, the audience will also cheer, but it is more of gentleman-like applause, and after the end of a ball, the tennis player is often quiet in the process of receiving the ball. But the 100-meter sprint is different. The whole game takes less than ten seconds, but the stimulus brought by these ten seconds is enough to make a weak person hormone burst instantly. For the spectators of the 100-meter dash, they need to shout, catharsis requires excitement and exaggerated performance to relieve tension in the heart.
Afterward, Sharapova focused her attention on the track. The race was close to half and Zhang Guan and Powell were still tied with each other. At this moment, Sharapova also felt the tension and excitement. She did not need to join to be among the shouting ranks.
"Zhang Guan! Powell! Powell! Zhang Guan!" The relatively neutral commentators in front of the TV began to wonder who's the name they should call because the two of them now seem to be inseparable.
However, the domestic CCTV narrator is different. His explanation shows a little bias. At this moment, even if it is late in the country, this narrator is excited like a miner who dug into a gold mine.
"Zhang Guan's starting is very good! He is accelerating and cheering! Okay, surpassing other athletes! And Powell too! They are fighting for the first, but Zhang Guan is slightly ahead! Zhang Guan has an advantage!" The commentator pointed at the microphone and shouted.
In the guide room, the originally distressed director has been awakened by the passionate commentary of the narrator. He looked up at the screen, and Zhang Guan and Powell were clearly in the same position. Where did the commentator see that Zhang Guan was leading? What is "and Powell too"? The bias of this explanation is too obvious. But then the director shook his head, not biasing his compatriots, but also favoring those big black athletes?
The commentator in the studio did not realize this at all. He sincerely hoped that Zhang Guan would win, and he did bring his emotions to the game.
"Come on! Go over! Go over!" The commentator lifted his chest excitedly, and his arms started to wave unconsciously. This is rare for a person who eats by mouth.
The commentator's commentary is very cool and passionate, and the atmosphere on the field is very hot and tense. Although the athletes have just run 50 meters, the coaches of the two teams seem to feel that it has been so long.
The media has been hype for the competition of "the world's first trapeze". Athletes are under tremendous pressure, and the coaches are also under tremendous pressure. Powell's coach Suerebo may be better because Powell is a challenger after all. The one who is the weaker one is naturally happy since it is normal to lose. However, the pressure of Yu Gui is much greater than that of Suerebo. He knows that this is the biggest challenge Zhang Guan has faced since his career, and also the biggest challenge he has faced since his vocational education career. Yu Gui guessed that Zhang Guan may lose this game. Coach Yu also knows that Powell is unlikely to break the world record in this game. As long as Powell does not break the world record, then Zhang Guan is still the world record holder.
Yu Gui does not want Zhang Guan to lose. Zhang Guan's rise is too fast and too young. Since Zhang Guan's debut, he has never lost. Every game, whether it is the preliminary, semi-final, or final, Zhang Guan is always the first. First, along the way, Zhang Guan was too smooth. Coach Yu was very worried that Zhang Guan would not be able to bear the blow of failure.
"Come on! Zhang Guan, you are the strongest!" A shout rang from Yu Gui's side. This was Liu Feiren's voice, but Yu Gui could feel that Liu Feiren is not just cheering, that voice contains more of a kind of trust in Zhang Guan!
"Trust!" Yu Gui suddenly realized that he was wrong! In the past two years, Zhang Guan has never failed. He won first place in all the competitions he participated in. In this case, why worry about him, why not choose to trust him!
"He believes in himself, and I should also believe in him! Even if you are still falling behind in the last second, I should believe in you! You will be able to defeat Powell! I believe in you!" Yu Gui felt a lot easier and then stood up to shout.
At the next moment, the track finally changed.
Fifty meters is only half of the 100-meter race, but it is also a watershed for the world 's top athletes and top athletes. In the first 50 meters, the gap between top athletes and top athletes is not that big, but after the 50 meters, The top athletes will gradually show an absolute advantage. Zhang Guan and Powell are also the world's top athletes, and their game has just started at the 50m.
Powell enjoys this feeling now. He listened to the sound of air flying over his ears and felt the kind of tremor caused by muscle contraction. He finally found the feeling from a week ago when he ran out of 9.77 seconds in Athens.
"Yes, that's how it feels! Great! What I need is this feeling. This speed, this sense of rhythm, come on, let me hurry up! Hurry up!" Powell constantly encouraged himself in his heart Although he found this feeling only when the distance was over half of the schedule, he did not feel late because the contest between him and Zhang Guan started.
Powell began to think, "At this speed, although I can't break my score, the final speed must be about 9.80 seconds! I won this game! Zhang Guan, I won this time, but this is just the beginning, and I will win again... wait for what!"
The moment before, Powell was still cheering because he found "that feeling", and he was still thinking about winning against Zhang Guan.
But, the next moment, Zhang Guan slowly, and slowly surpassed Powell.
This process is a bit slow, in the eyes of others, it is just a blink of an eye, but in Powell's eyes, the whole process of transcendence is so long, he can even see Zhang Guan waving his arms every time. Stepping forward every time he stepped on the ground, he seemed to hear the sound of nail shoes stepping on the runway.
"How could this be? He surpassed me, how could he run so fast!" Powell's surprised pupil stared at Zhang Guan's back.
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"More than gone! More than gone! More than gone!" Yu Gui suddenly roared, his clenched fists raised high, the entire coach seat was shocked by him. But no one is to blame for the excitement. At this moment, he should have this performance. Any coach standing in the coach position will probably have this performance.
Not far from the side, Powell's coach Suerebo opened his mouth halfway, and he could be sure that this was the fastest speed he had witnessed; he could be sure that Powell would never be able to run at this speed; he had already understood that Powell had no chance of winning.
"Is this the speed of the world's first trapeze? It's terrible!" Suerebo also had to admit that Zhang Guan's name of the world's first trapeze was veritable and then came the guidance of the crazy roar, and then Suerebo suddenly felt a little jealous of Yu Gui.
"It is probably the greatest honor of a coach to have a genius disciple! This bald head has really good luck..." Suerebo sighed quietly as he was ready to accept the reality of failure. However, the game continued, Powell did not give up, he is still working hard, even now these efforts seem to have been in vain.
There are still 20 meters left from the finish line, but the overall situation is set. As long as Zhang Guan maintains his current speed, Powell obviously cannot catch up. The audience in the stadium broke out with more intense cheers than just now, this time they are not cheering for the athletes, but paying tribute to the upcoming champion!
Sharapova has been infected by the surrounding atmosphere, and she, like other audiences, stood up and shouted for Zhang Guan. Then, she witnessed Zhang Guan rushing to the line, followed by others applauding the champion.
"This is the track and field!" Sharapova sighed with emotion, which is completely different from tennis.
In tennis, the average tennis court can accommodate between 3,000 and 6,000 people. 6,000 people are already considered to be a large-scale tennis competition venue. The main tennis stadium for the Olympics is generally around 12,000 people. The center of the four Grand Slams The venue can accommodate about 15,000 spectators, of which the US Open is slightly more, and the other Wimbledon, French Open and Australian Open are similar.
But on the track and field, there are far more spectators than tennis. Generally, the medium-sized stadiums in Europe can accommodate 30,000 to 40,000 spectators, and the slightly larger ones can accommodate 50,000 to 60,000 people. World-class venues such as the Bird's Nest can accommodate 100,000 people to watch the game at the same time. Imagine cheering and applauding at the same time by 50,000 or 60,000 spectators. The warm atmosphere is completely different from 15,000 spectators.
What's more, the 100-meter sprint is about explosive power. Athletes will maximize the explosive power in the body in just ten seconds, and the audience will give the athletes explosive support in these ten seconds. As for tennis, it may take a few hours to play a game. Audiences will also applaud some good shots, but they will not be as crazy as track and field spectators.
Sharapova looked at the fanatical audience around her. At this moment she finally understood why someone would spend hundreds or even thousands of euros to buy a ticket to see an athlete running for just 10 seconds. The atmosphere, that this kind of passion, that kind of catharsis is that after the end, you can still have a long aftertaste.
"Zhang, Zhang, Zhang, Zhang, Zhang..."
The audience in the field suddenly started to shout Zhang Guan's name. At first, only a few people shouted, but it quickly spread throughout the whole land. Tens of thousands of the audience in the audience shouted Zhang Guan's name in unison.
Sharapova didn't know why this happened, but then, the huge shouting of the DJ on the scene made her understand the reason.
"New world record!"