The legend of short track speed skating

Chapter 50 Just Withered
The 500-meter preliminaries are all over, and the Chinese short-track speed skating team has won a big victory!
Li Yuang's advancement was a bit thrilling, but fortunately, the result was not bad.

Originally, Li Yan was worried that Wu Da Jing would not come and that the 500-meter competition would not be enough. Unexpectedly, all three of them advanced to the semi-finals, especially Xu Hongzhi. It was a surprise!

A total of 500 people in the 8-meter semi-finals will be divided into two groups. No matter how they are divided, there will always be two Chinese players in the same group. Unfortunately, the 500-meter race is too short. Under such circumstances, it is very unlikely that Li Yuang and Ahn Hyun-soo will overtake in the 500-meter race.

The head coach, Li Yan, looked down at the score sheet. Unexpectedly, Xu Hongzhi had the best score of 40 seconds in the preliminaries!Ranked second among all contestants!From this point of view, Xu Hongzhi should be in the second group.

Seeing the results, Li Yan subconsciously arranged tactics, sacrificing Xu Hongzhi!

Soon after the women's semi-final, the men's group also appeared on the big screen.

The semi-final group, one to four are: Canada's Hamelin, South Korea's Lin Xiaojun, China's Han Tianyu and Japan's Keita Watanabe.

The second group of the semi-finals, one to four are: Chinese player Xu Hongzhi, Hungarian player Liu Shaoang, Chinese player Li Yuang, Russian player Viktor An.

The semi-final rounds are allocated according to the results of the preliminaries. Although Li Yuang was the first in the group to advance to the preliminaries, the results in the last group were indeed poor. Li Yuang only slipped 41 seconds, ranking third from the bottom among all the qualified players. Hyun Soo only slipped out 094 seconds 42, ranking first from the bottom.

At the beginning of the first group, Lin Xiaojun of Erdao was in very good condition. With his excellent reaction and explosiveness, he entered the corner before Hamelin and successfully grabbed the first place.Han Tianyu and Watanabe Keita ranked third and fourth respectively.

Lin Xiaojun led the skater and didn't give anyone a chance until he crossed the line.Watanabe Keita ran with him throughout the race, without once surpassing him.

Hamelin was still looking for an opportunity to overtake at the beginning, but he gave up after two laps and started to block Han Tianyu.

Han Tianyu tried many times but failed, and finally seized the last chance to go out of the corner and surpass Hamelin in the inner lane. The second place in the group advanced to Group A of the final.

The roster of the second group of the 500m semi-finals appeared on the big screen, and it showed the fourth track, Victor Ann DNS (retired).

is he really hurt?And it's serious enough to retire?Li Yuang turned his head in disbelief to look like a Russian resting area.

As if sensing something, An Xianzhu turned his head and nodded towards Li Yuang.

"Okay, An Hyun-soo retired, Xu Hongzhi made full use of the advantage of the pass, the two of you got stuck in the route and advanced together!" The head coach Li Yan arranged, she didn't say much, just looked up at Xu Hongzhi.

It wasn't until Xu Hongzhi nodded that Li Yan signaled them to change equipment and warm up.

Since Ahn Hyun-soo retired from the race, there were only three people on the starting line.

Standing together, Xu Hongzhi turned his head to look at Liu Shao'ang and Li Yu'ang on the right, and couldn't help feeling in his heart: Hey!It's nice to be young!
"Boom!" The game started.

Xu Hongzhi entered the corner first, followed by Liu Shao'ang and Li Yu'ang.

After exiting the corner, Xu Hongzhi did not speed up directly, but suppressed the speed, not giving Liu Shaoang room to speed up.

Liu Shaoang tried to overtake him, but Xu Hongzhi immediately blocked his way.

Li Yuang took the opportunity to overtake from the inside and came directly to the first position!
There was a flat river in front of him, and Li Yuang, who had completed the overtake, directly accelerated and sprinted!
Xu Hongzhi continued to block Liu Shaoang, buying time for Li Yuang.

Liu Shaoang knew that he had to make a quick decision, the longer it took, the worse it would be for him.

Turning into the corner, Liu Shaoang slowed down obviously. He was betting that there was a gap on the inside of Xu Hongzhi when he was going out of the corner.

He bet right!When Xu Hongzhi came out of the corner, in order to accelerate better, he slid to the outside with the help of centrifugal force.Liu Shaoang took the opportunity to seize the inside route.

In a straight line, Xu Hongzhi is more forward, but he is outside!
At the next corner, Liu Shaoang took advantage of the inner lane of the corner and stuck Xu Hongzhi behind him.

Out of the corner, Liu Shaoang accelerated with all his strength and went straight to Li Yuang.

That's all for now, the rest is up to you Li Yuang!
Just when Xu Hongzhi was about to give up, his eyes suddenly widened!

What? !Li Yuang did not choose to continue sprinting, but blocked Liu Shaoang at the bend!

Is this buying me time?

That's right, he could have sprinted directly, there is no way Liu Shao'ang could catch up with him!

But Li Yuang chose to slow down to block Liu Shaoang!

"Come on! Li Yuang! Go!" the head coach Li Yan shouted loudly.

Why?Why?
Why did Li Yuang do this?
He didn't want the semi-final results!Did he lose the advantage of the final pass?

Inadvertently, Xu Hongzhi glimpsed the national flag on Li Yuang's helmet!
Team?So it is!
teammate!We are brothers in the same trench!
Xu Hongzhi, who has contributed countless times to the team and sacrificed himself to cover for others, felt the help of the team for the first time!
A warm current rose from the bottom of Xu Hongzhi's heart, and he only felt that his legs were full of strength.

Xu Hongzhi accelerated, pulled the speed to the highest, passed the two on the outside in one breath, and came in front of Li Yuang.

Xu Hongzhi gestured with his hands behind his back, signaling to change positions with Li Yuang, and he came to stop Liu Shaoang.

Immediately, Xu Hongzhi pulled the side to give way to the inner channel again, and wanted to change positions with Li Yuang.

Three seconds later, Li Yuang did not step forward, but blocked Liu Shaoang's route behind Xu Hongzhi.

"What is Li Yuang doing? Why didn't you go up just now? Why don't you go up now?" Li Yan asked Wang Meng.

"Didn't you say join forces to advance? He is helping Xu Hongzhi!"

When setting up before the game, Wang Meng noticed Li Yan's hints.She knew that Li Yan's plan was to let Xu Hongzhi take the lead and Li Yu strive for the best results. It would be best to get the best results in the two groups, so as to determine the track advantage in the finals, and it would be more sure to hit the gold medal!
As for Xu Hongzhi, if he can advance to the second place in the group, he still cannot escape the fate of being a wedding dress for others in the final.

From a coaching point of view, there is nothing wrong with doing that.Just lacking a little warmth...

On the ice rink, Liu Shaoang continued to attack, but was stopped by Li Yuang and Xu Hongzhi!

In the end, Xu Hongzhi first and Li Yuang second joined hands to advance to Group A of the final.

At the end of the race, Xu Hongzhi asked Li Yuang why he didn't sprint just now?

Li Yuang replied: "Didn't the coach say, let's advance together!"

Is Li Yuang such a person who listens to the coach?Xu Hongzhi expressed doubts about this.

In fact, what Li Yuang thought was very simple. Brother Tianyu has already decided to advance. It doesn’t matter how many times the rest will advance. Wouldn’t it be better for the three of them to participate in Group A of the 500m final at the same time like now?
Back in the rest area of ​​the Chinese team, Li Yuang saw that Li Yan's expression was not good, and said directly: "Coach, all three of us have advanced! This time the medals are secured!"

Li Yan was taken aback, yes!Three people participated in Group A of the final at the same time, which has never happened before!
Thinking of this, Li Yan's complexion improved a lot in an instant.

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