In addition to the crown, there were Jamaican Fratt and Netherlands Antilles Martina in the fifth group, both of whom have the ability to run within 10 seconds. In addition, Japanese athlete Naoki Tsukahara is also in this group.
In general, the strength of this group of athletes can be said to be strong and weak. The three athletes Zhang Guan, Flatt, and Martina have basically taken three places for promotion. The best results of others are also within seconds, even if they want to get the best result, it would be very difficult.
Eight athletes stood on the track and were ready to start. With a gunshot, the race officially began.
The strength of the semi-finals is not as severe as the preliminary rounds. Most of the athletes who can enter the semi-finals are those who meet the Olympic A standard. Therefore, at the beginning of the competition, the competition is very fierce. After the athletes start, they will catch up with each other, and not give each other any space.
This time Zhang Guan's start was relatively ordinary, and the starting reaction time was only moderate. After the start, he did not take the lead in the first 30 meters like in the morning preliminary.
Zhang Guan has already participated in the 100-meter preliminaries and the semi-finals of tennis today, and just finished the 1500-meter preliminaries. Although there is a potion of physical strength to recover, the continuous high-intensity competition still consumes a lot of energy, especially in concentration. In terms of degree, Zhang Guan is not in the best condition.
This is a kind of inertia of people. When people do the same thing continuously, the freshness will gradually disappear without a trace. Instead, there will be more and more numbness, and the degree of concentration will naturally decrease.
After thirty meters, the leading position turned out to belong to Japanese athlete Naoki Tsukahara. But his lead ends here, and Martina behind him has caught up.
In just one second, Martina has gone hand in hand with Naoki Tsukahara, and at 50 meters, Martina has surpassed Tsukahara Naoki and was ranked first.
There were some Japanese spectators on the scene, waving the Japanese flag and cheering loudly for Naoki Tsukahara. So far, Naoki Tsukahara has a very good start. At 50 meters, the race is over halfway and he is still in the second position. , It looks promising to advance.
On the sidelines, Kei Lin and the coach clenched their fists, his face looked hideous, like a dormant beast.
"Come on, Tsukahara-kun, Xuanzhi is doomed to be unable to qualify. You are now our only hope for the Japanese team!"
Not far from the side, Yu Zhizhi still has a calm expression. Although Zhang Guan still lives in the middle reaches, he always believes that Zhang Guan can successfully qualify.
"Zhang Guan's performance seems to be worse than in the morning!" Bol who was on the sidelines said.
"That's natural. After all, the morning is the first track and field game. Now Zhang Guan has just participated in the 1500-meter preliminary round, and I heard that he also participated in the tennis match in the afternoon, and all aspects of his body will be exhausted. If he can still keep up after all that intensity then I don't know what to say."
As the two spoke, the situation on the field also changed. First of all, the Jamaican athlete Flatt caught up with Tsukahara in less than 60 meters and then surpassed Tsukahara without any suspense. At this time, the Jamaican athletes showed their explosive power in the middle and late stages, and Tsukhara was unable to parry.
The lack of explosive power in the late stage is a common problem for Asian athletes, and the strongest part of the Jamaican athlete is precisely the sustained explosive ability in the middle and late stages.
"I was overtaken by Flatt. Tsukahara-kun is now third. No matter the third, he can go to the next round!" Kobayashi's fists tightened and his nails pierced into the flesh, but he didn't seem to notice the pain, but the next second, he suddenly screamed.
Not because of the pain, but because Naoki Tsukahara was overtaken by a third person.
The one who surpassed Naoki Tsukahara is naturally Zhang Guan.
Insufficient explosive power is a common problem among Asian athletes, but Zhang Guan is an exception. Zhang Guan's late sprint is obviously the most powerful in the world.
The absolute speed of the crown is faster than other athletes, but it takes a process to increase the speed to the extreme, and once the crown increases the speed, he can crush all opponents.
At this time, on the field, after nearly 70 meters of the race, the speed of Zhang Guan has reached the extreme, in just a blink of an eye, he has surpassed Naoki Tsukahara.
For Zhang Guan, this is just the beginning, there are two athletes in front of him, Martina and Flatt.
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"Martina has become stronger again!" Flatt looked ahead, he was already desperately chasing after him, but it was still difficult to catch up with Martina.
Martina is from the Netherlands Antilles, and Frat is from Jamaica. Both of them are athletes from the Caribbean, so they know each other better and have competed many times. It can be said that they have won against each other many times. Today's Martina is clearly a bit stronger than Flatt.
"It's almost the end. Martina is in very good condition today. It seems that he can't catch up, but if he is second in the group, he can qualify." Flatt thought of this, and just wanted to slow down, but suddenly thought of Zhang Guan.
"By the way, what about Zhang Guan? Why didn't I see him!"
At the same time, Zhang Guan overtook Flatt.
"Uh, just thinking about Zhang Guan, he came and surpassed me!" Flatt was full of depression, but it is normal to be surpassed by Zhang Guan. But at this moment Flatt realized that he had become the third in the group and was on the verge of being eliminated. He did not dare to slow down anymore but sprinted forward with all his strength.
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"Awesome, the team crossed the line first!"
Only fifteen meters from the finish line, Martina's face was already showing the winner's smile.
Martina took the next step, and Zhang Guan had chased to Martina's side and rear.
"It's Zhang Guan! He has caught up!" Martina was shocked, Zhang Guan rushed to him faster, and Martina was completely unprepared.
Martina took another step. This time, Zhang Guan was on par with Martina, and it seemed to be a little bit ahead.
At this time Martina finally realized that it was not good, the speed of Zhang Guan was much faster than him, the previous step was still behind him, and within the next step, he was already by his side. According to this calculation, the next step is that Zhang Guan will surpass him.
Sure enough, Martina took another step, but Zhang Guan had already appeared in front of Martina.
"Zhang Guan! This is Zhang Guan! Is this the strength of the world record holder? He only needs three steps to surpass me!"
Martina knows that there is a huge gap between the strengths of the two sides and it is impossible for him to complete the overtake.
Martina's final result is very good, 9.96 seconds much faster than other athletes. After all, it is a rematch, and the result within ten seconds is enough to outstrip the crowd.
But Zhang Guan was faster than him, he ran within 9.90 seconds, the first in the rematch!