Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 119 Thrilling Relay Preliminaries

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-"

The alarm clock in the room rang, and Elena suddenly woke up from her sleep.

There seemed to be a charming aura lingering in the air, a big hand that had been causing chaos all night was still resting on her waist, and her head was arched into a broad chest.
  (Omit 200 words)

Thinking of the scenes she had experienced all night, Elena was in a daze for a moment.

She tweeted with some embarrassment: "Wake up!"

"Huh?" Wen Hao opened his eyes in a daze and looked blankly at the window sill. A beam of sunlight passed through the gap in the curtains and shone into the room.

It should be a sunny day.

Wen Hao just glanced at it, and immediately hugged Elena again and shrank back into bed: "No, it's okay, I don't have a game today."

"You don't have a competition, but I do!"

"Well, it doesn't matter. Isn't that about night? Come sleep with me for a while~"

"No, I'm going to the gym!"

Looking down at the rippling scene of Elena struggling in his arms, Wen Hao's eyes suddenly became hot again, and his big hands immediately began to explore under the quilt.

"Which gym you go to, it's the same as doing morning exercises under the covers."

"Oh, stop making trouble!"

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After a while of fun, Wen Hao gave up the idea of ​​doing morning exercises.

Elena has to prepare for the high jump final today, so naturally she can't delay. Although she doesn't have a competition today, she still has to do cooperative training with her teammates.

The two got up, washed up, left the room, and started a new day.

16:30 p.m.

The men's 4×100m relay preliminaries of the Yanjing World Youth Championships were held on time. Although it was a team event, there were many participating teams.

A total of 22 national and regional teams from Australia, Neon, Italy, China, the United States, and Canada were divided into three preliminary groups to compete.

After winning the men's 200-meter championship yesterday, Feng Shuyong discussed with several coaches of the relay team and decided not to send him to the relay preliminaries today.

In four days, there were a total of 6 gun competitions, and one of them was tied and one of them broke the Asian record. The consumption of physical energy can be imagined.

If he is allowed to participate in the relay preliminaries and the Chinese team reaches the finals, the total will be 8 shots.

None of the donkeys in the production team are used like this!
  Today, Wen Hao, in the eyes of the leaders of the Track and Field Management Center, has long been the "No. 2 baby" after Liu Xiang, so he still cherishes his feathers after all.

However, although he did not need to participate in the preliminaries as planned, Wen Hao still warmed up with his teammates to prevent any unexpected situations before the game so that he could be ready at any time.

After all, in last year's National Games, when he was still in the Guangxi team, he temporarily replaced Gong Wei.

After confirming that nothing unexpected happened, he followed Li Qing and other relay team coaches to the field to watch the game.

In the absence of Wen Hao, the order of the first three legs of the relay remained unchanged. The first leg was Yin Hualong, the second leg was Liang Jiahong, and the third leg was Zhang Peimeng.

The person responsible for the fourth leg is Chen Yibo, the substitute for the first leg. In fact, the original substitute for the fourth leg was Li Yong. His top speed and speed endurance are stronger than Chen Yibo, so he is more suitable for the fourth leg.

It is a pity that Li Yong withdrew from this World Youth Championship due to injury, so in this preliminary round, Chen Yibo can only take the fourth leg.

Regarding the Chinese relay team's practice of putting its strongest combat power on the bench, several competitors in the same group naturally maintained a high degree of vigilance.

And judging from the strength on paper alone, the strength of this Chinese relay team should not be underestimated.

Liang Jiahong, who guarded the second leg, was the bronze medalist in the men's 100 meters with a personal best time of 10 seconds.

镇守第三棒的章培萌，男子200米的第四名，个人最好成绩10秒36/20米秒89。

The other two team members, Yin Hualong and Chen Yibo, did not participate in individual events, but after checking the information, they found that their strength is not weak, and they are at the level that can advance to the second round of the 100m or 200m.

With such a lineup configuration, as long as there are no major mistakes during the handover process, advancing to the finals should be a sure thing.

The Chinese team was placed in the second group of the preliminaries. Among the competitors in the same group were the United States, a well-established and strong team, as well as the powerful Canadian team, as well as the Polish team and the Thai team. The competition was quite fierce.

The first group in the preliminaries felt a bit like novice chickens pecking each other.

俄罗斯队40秒06排在第一，德国队40秒07排在第二，澳大利亚队40秒11排在第三，霓虹队40秒17排在第四。

According to this situation, the Neon team has almost no chance of advancing to the finals.

The second group of games follows soon.

"Bang——!" With the sound of the starting gun, the eight players on the field who served as the first battalion started one after another.

The atmosphere in the stadium became enthusiastic immediately after the gunshot, with cheers and cheers coming one after another.

In the spectator seats, Wen Hao calmly watched the game on the field, while Li Qing, Yin Hualong's coach Li Tao, and Chen Yibo's coach Tang Shusheng looked nervously at the field.

"Hurry up, Yin Hualong, hurry up and catch up!"

Li Tao shouted in a low voice, cheering for Yin Hualong from afar.

Among the top players, Yin Hualong is definitely ranked in the top three in terms of personal best performance, second only to Justin Warner of the Canadian team.

The situation in the competition venue was just as he expected. Yin Hualong, who was in lane 7, had already caught up with the Thai team player in lane 80 when he reached the 8-meter position.

From this point of view alone, Yin Hualong's performance in the first baton was still very good.

The handover between the first and second poles was relatively smooth. Liang Jiahong's start was a little late, which caused a slight loss of speed, but it was not harmful.

Coming to the second leg, Liang Jiahong's performance was also very impressive.

Among the opponents in the second leg, only Gordon McKenzie of the US team had a PB of 10 seconds, but his strength was very unstable. He only ran 30 seconds in the 100m preliminaries and missed the semifinals. .

However, in the relay event, Gordon McKenzie actually performed well. Although he was still slightly behind Liang Jiahong, he also suppressed the players from other teams, which can be regarded as "avenging shame".

"Oops, it's broken!"

An exclamation came out of Li Qing's mouth, and Wen Hao couldn't help but frown.

In the stadium, the Chinese team has entered the handover phase of the second and third batons.

But Zhang Peimeng made an obvious mistake. Before Liang Jiahong reached the set point, he started accelerating in advance.

After running ten meters away and seeing that Liang Jiahong had not yet handed over the baton, Zhang Peimeng reacted and turned around to take a look, then reluctantly slowed down to hand over to Liang Jiahong.

During the time lost caused by this handover error, the American team and the Canadian team, which were still slightly behind, instantly recovered their previous disadvantage and overtook the Chinese team.

The situation faced by the Chinese team suddenly became serious.

Due to a mistake in the handover, Zhang Peimeng had to work hard to catch up.

His strength is much stronger than the third stick of the Canadian team, and slightly better than the third stick of the American team by one point, so he still managed to regain some of the gap.

When entering the handover area for the third and fourth baseballs, although Zhang Peimeng's position was still behind the US team, it was already on par with the Canadian team.

However, a team event such as the 4×100-meter relay, which places great emphasis on overall coordination, will cause a series of chain reactions if any link goes awry.

Because Zhang Peimeng started too early, he had to slow down to hand over to Liang Jiahong. Later, he had to use all his body's potential to try to recover the gap. At this time, his physical strength had reached the limit and he was weak in the later stages.

But Chen Yibo didn't know this situation and still started according to the originally set point. As a result, Zhang Peimeng had to yell at him loudly: "Slow down! Slow down!"

Chen Yibo, who was already in an accelerating state, had to slow down to hand over to Zhang Peimeng after hearing Zhang Peimeng's angry shout. After this back and forth, the gap between the American team and the Canadian team was widened.

Although Chen Yibo also tried his best to catch up, even though the two fourth-best players in the American team and the Canadian team were not much better than him.

But in the end, Chen Yibo failed to recover the gap that had been widened before. He tried his best and only finished third in the group.

"Ouch. It's so suspenseful!"

Seeing such a result on the field, the three coaches all let out sighs of annoyance.

The promotion rules for the men's 4×100 meter relay event are that the top two in each group advance directly to the finals, and then the two best results advance to the finals.

Now that we have not won the top two in the group, we can only wait passively for the third group of games to end, and then look at the situation of supplementary promotion.

Soon, the results of the second group were released.

小组第一美国队，39秒51；小组第二加拿大队，39秒63；小组第三中国队，39秒80
  After seeing this result, the coaches finally felt a little more relaxed.

Although the results of the third group are not yet known, at least they have suppressed the bench results of the first group and are temporarily ranked first on the bench.

Soon the third group of games arrived.

The Jamaican team performed well and advanced to the final with the best time in the preliminaries of 39 seconds.

The British team also performed well and advanced to the final with the second best time in the preliminaries of 39 seconds.

Next came the Nigerian team, which beat the Chinese team with a time of 39 seconds and advanced to the finals as the first substitute.

Fortunately, the French team, ranked fourth in the third group, did not perform well and only ran a time of 40 seconds.

Therefore, the Chinese team's preliminaries trip was a close one, and they finally advanced to the men's 4×100m final tomorrow night as the second place on the bench.

(End of this chapter)