Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 234 200 Meter Preliminaries

伦-敦时间8月7日晚点18点30分，男子200米预赛开赛。

Today's World Championships only has an evening schedule, and there are several finals to watch, so the attendance rate is much higher than yesterday.

The men's 200m competition is divided into three rounds, preliminaries, semi-finals (semi-finals), and finals.

The 200-meter event is different from the 100-meter event. In any competition, the semi-finals and finals will not be divided into the same day. The usual interval between the three rounds is one day.However, the difference in this World Championships is that the interval between the men's 200m preliminaries and the semi-finals is two days, and the semi-finals will not be held on August 8 but on August 8.

A total of 200 people participated in the men's 52m event of this World Championships. They were divided into 8 preliminary groups, of which 3 groups had eight players, 4 groups had seven players, and 1 group had one player.

Yes, you read that right, one person did the preliminaries alone.

During the current World Championships in London, a hotel officially designated by the IAAF was detected with norovirus. The virus caused 30 athletes and their staff to have symptoms of gastrointestinal infection. is one of them.

Makawala was quarantined by the IAAF for 48 hours due to vomiting and diarrhea, and automatically withdrew from the 200-meter preliminaries and the 400-meter final.To this end, the IAAF officially held a 200-meter preliminaries for him.

If the original timeline is followed, Makawara will successfully pass the preliminaries, semi-finals, and rank sixth in the final with 20 seconds.

The men's 200m preliminaries promotion rule is to take the top three in each group to directly advance to the semi-finals. Due to Makawara's reason, the replacement quota will be changed to 4, and a total of 25 players will be selected to advance to the semi-finals.

Frankly speaking, this promotion rule is somewhat unfair to replacement players. Maybe some players are assigned to a stronger group and run a good result, but they can only be replacements, and they may not be able to advance in the end.And the players assigned to the weaker group may be able to advance to the top three in the group with a mediocre result, and the actual results may not be as good as the 4 players who participated in the replacement.

It can also be seen from the gap between the World Championships and the Olympics. Fortunately, the men's 200-meter event is full of masters and the competition is fierce. The men's 20-meter event directly has more than [-] people less than last year's Rio Olympics, and the competition is not so fierce.

"Who are Xiao Wu's main opponents in the 200 meters? I heard that Van Niekerk from South Africa is very good, and Lyles, a young player who is younger than him in the country, what is their strength? "

In the auditorium, coaches such as Randy and Yuan Guoqiang accompanied several officials from the Sports Bureau and the embassy in the UK to watch the game on the field. Deputy Director Wang of the Sports Bureau asked the coaches.

"There are actually many capable athletes." Yuan Guoqiang pointed to the first group of athletes who were preparing for the starting area on the field and introduced: "That is Jamaica's Yohan Blake. He is the second person in the history of 200 meters. Although he has been injured But this year's state is very good. Next to him is the neon teenager named Sani Brown, who is the holder of the world junior 200-meter record, and the [-]-meter is also very good."

Randy and Ralphman listened to Yuan Guoqiang's words, shook their heads with a smile, forget about Blake, what the hell is Sani Brown?He can also touch Wu Ziyi?

Deputy Director Wang naturally saw the expressions of Randy and Ralphman, and asked curiously: "Mr. Randy seems to have a different opinion?"

"I know you Chinese have always been modest in price comparisons, but it's really unnecessary." Randy replied, "I can tell you responsibly that Uzi has no rivals in the 200-meter field. He is in very good physical condition now. Well, there is no injury that can affect the performance. Whether it is Blake, Lyles, or Van Niekerk, their 200-meter hard power is far behind Uzi. Instead of analyzing Uzi's opponents, it is better to analyze Let's analyze whether XIE can enter the final."

Randy just said it so straightforwardly, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"XIE's ability to enter the 200-meter final really surprised us. Of course, there are also reasons for this year's players' average strength, weather, wind speed and other issues. As for his main event, the [-]-meter, no matter whether his group in the semi-final is strong or weak, I have no reason to believe he can't make it to the final."

While everyone was talking, the first group of preliminaries was over. Yohan Blake advanced to the final in 20 seconds (-39m/s), and Sani Brown advanced to the final in 0.5 seconds. Alex Wilson of Switzerland was third in the group in 20 seconds.

随后的第二组，特立尼达和多巴哥的杰里姆·理查兹20秒05（-0.6m/s）小组第一晋级；诺亚-莱尔斯大放水跑出20秒16，小组第二晋级；牙买加的拉希德-德怀尔20秒49小组第三。

预赛第三组，南非名将范尼凯克20秒16（+0.3m/s）小放水，小组第一晋级；英吉利选手丹尼尔-塔尔伯特同样跑出20秒16的成绩排在了小组第二；斯洛伐克的沃尔科（Ján VOLKO）20秒52小组第三。

预赛第四组，原时间线的本届男子200米冠军阿米尔-古利耶夫出场，20秒16（+0.7m/s）小组第一晋级；霉国选手阿米尔-韦伯20秒22小组第二晋级；法兰西名将克里斯多夫-勒梅特20秒40，小组第三晋级。

In the fifth group of the preliminaries, Xie Zhenye finally made his debut. From the beginning of the game, he ran at his own pace. After entering the straight, he kept observing the positions of his opponents, and finally chose to follow the Kenyan player Sini, who had an obvious lead. -Sydney SIAME ran the last 20 meters in water.

西尼-赛阿密20秒29（-0.6m/s）小组第一；谢震叶20秒31，轻松放水的以小组第二晋级半决赛；特立尼达和多巴哥的选手凯尔-格雷奥20秒48小组第三。

"It's not bad, Xiaoxie's running is still pretty good, if he can release water, it means that his grades can be improved, hahaha——"

Seeing Xie Zhenye's performance, several officials smiled contentedly.

预赛第六组，霉国选手伊西亚-杨20秒19（+0.6m/s）小组第一晋级，前天还在跟吴子义出现在男子百米决赛舞台的阿卡尼-西比尼跑出20秒26的成绩排在小组第二，希腊选手萨科纳斯20秒37排在小组第三。此外东道主英吉利的选手詹内-修斯跑出20秒43小组第四，他目前还是有极大几率递补进入半决赛的。

As the biggest favorite to win the championship, Wu Ziyi was of course placed in the eighth group. With Wu Ziyi's appearance, the stadium immediately ushered in a small climax, and the number of people in the stands was much higher than before.

Perhaps it was because of too much pressure from the team with Wu Ziyi. The Ghanaian player Aaron Brown, who was originally strong and stable in the semi-finals, was sent off for a foul. Clarence, who will set a 200-meter record in South Africa in the future -Clarence MUNYAI was disqualified when he ran away during the corner.

It is indeed a pity that Aaron Brown's Diamond League matches have always been maintained within 20 seconds. Even if the start is stable, there is still a chance to make up for the promotion.In 30, Munia, a teenager, ran under 98 four times this year. This time he tried his best to run 4. If it wasn't because of that mistake that crossed the line, he was sure to be able to make up for it. Got promoted.

预赛第七组，吴子义从弯道开始就一路领先，放水近50米，20秒14（+0.7m/s）排在小组第二；英吉利选手米切尔-布雷克全力发挥跑出20秒05小组第一，霓虹的饭盅翔太20秒58排在小组第四。

The appetizer is over, and now the audience can't wait to jump to the semi-finals on August 8 and the final on August 9, looking forward to Wu Ziyi's achievement of the double crown.

　There is an event today, so 4K is guaranteed, and 8K will start tomorrow. If there is less, I will owe it!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)