ATPnovel Chapter 94 We are the champions
Chapter 94 We are the champions
The forest was not neglected in one aspect.
To his surprise, the South Korean stars Ahn Hyun-soo and Lee Ho-seok did not contact him.
I guess he's worried that I might do something underhanded.
Koreans are just so narrow-minded.
After all, they have a history of wrongdoing, such as the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, where they were extremely shady.
Lin Mu asked himself honestly if he would do that.
Because he is a doctor with professional ethics and integrity.
After a short rest.
The men's 1500m final has officially begun.
There were 6 contestants in the final.
If we only look at the strength on paper, the gold medal competition is actually between Chinese athletes Li Jiajun and Li Ye and South Korean stars Ahn Hyun-soo and Lee Ho-seok.
Lin Mu could feel his heart beating faster.
Unlike watching Inter Milan's matches, the two people standing on the field now are his compatriots.
The first three laps of the race.
Li Jiajun, who started from the inner lane, has consistently been in third place.
Li Ye, who started from the outside, was at the back of the group.
The two South Korean athletes ranked fourth and fifth.
On the fourth lap.
Li Ye also used the same tactic as in the semi-finals, suddenly accelerating to the front of the team.
Li Jiajun followed suit and slid to second place.
The last eight laps.
Li Ye and Li Jiajun switched places and continued to lead.
The last six laps.
Canada's Gamelin accelerated to take the lead, followed by South Korea's Lee Ho-seok.
Ahn Hyun-soo then surged to first place.
At this point, Li Jiajun and Li Ye had fallen to fourth and fifth place, respectively.
The last three laps.
Lacking stamina, Gamelin began to fall behind and was quickly overtaken by Li Jiajun and Li Ye.
Li Haoshi frowned slightly.
He didn't expect that the veteran player on the Chinese team could persist until now.
That would actually be a bit troublesome.
Ahn Hyun-soo gave Lee Ho-seok a wink.
The latter understood instantly.
Their tactics were very simple.
Ahn Hyun-soo was in charge of leading the race and controlling the pace, while he stayed in the middle and back of the track, specifically blocking other competitors.
It just needs to be kept a bit hidden.
Li Jiajun also made a hand gesture to Li Ye.
He could feel that his quadriceps, which had been strained during the semi-finals, were sore but still had some strength left.
Kinesiology tape works very well.
The mid-to-late stage sprint should be able to hold up.
If we can't hold on... we have to hold on even if we can't!
Li Ye took a deep breath, circled around to the outside again, and sprinted with all his might.
He instantly overtook Lee Ho-seok and closed in on Ahn Hyun-soo.
This made Ahn Hyun-soo hesitant to slow down or change lanes.
Seeing this, Lee Ho-seok quickly moved closer, trying to relieve Ahn Hyun-soo's pressure.
The last two laps.
Li Jiajun suddenly burst out from inside, a sharp pain shooting through his ankle, causing his face to flush red.
But he just kept his teeth clenched and wouldn't let go.
One step, two steps!
His inside cut surpassed Ahn Hyun-soo's!
Some audience members stood up abruptly.
The last half lap!
Li Jiajun glanced back out of the corner of his eye at the end of the bend.
Actually, he didn't see anything clearly.
Li Jiajun suddenly turned his head, stared straight ahead, and his eyes were fixed on the finish line!
He became a world champion through sparring.
The disappointment of the Nagano Winter Olympics, and the near miss in Salt Lake City.
Will we miss out on the gold medal again today?
Li Jiajun seemed to feel no pain anymore, and just instinctively moved forward step by step!
Wow!!!
Lee Ho-seok and Ahn Hyun-soo chased after him desperately.
The distance is getting shorter!
A glimmer of hope arose in their hearts.
But suddenly they realized that they were closing the distance between themselves and Li Jiajun at a slower pace than Li Jiajun was closing the distance between himself and the finish line.
Ahn Hyun-soo suddenly extended his ice blade!
But in that instant.
Li Jiajun has crossed the finish line.
The Paravella Stadium erupted in deafening cheers.
CCTV live broadcast room.
"Li Jiajun won! Li Jiajun won!"
"We are the gold medalists!"
"We are the champions!"
"A miracle really happened!"
"Forty-three years!"
"We've finally broken history!"
"In 1963, Luo Zhihuan won my country's first world championship in a winter sports event!"
"In 1992, Ye Qiaobo won my country's first-ever Winter Olympic speed skating medal in Albertville!"
"In 2006, Turin witnessed Li Jiajun's first gold medal in Chinese speed skating at the Winter Olympics!"
"Li Jiajun proved with his actions that life will always leave you battered and bruised, but as time goes by, you will turn those wounds into your strongest points!"
Please remember him!
"Li Jiajun!"
"He's the one who has kept China's men's short track speed skating among the world's top teams for nearly 10 years!"
The host's voice trembled with excitement.
He felt proud of Li Jiajun and Li Ye at this moment, as well as of Chinese winter sports.
In the footage that was broadcast to millions of households.
Li Jiajun slid to the sidelines using inertia.
He looked at the cheering audience, at the coach waving at him, and at Li Ye's composed smile.
He felt like he was dreaming.
During the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, he developed nephritis due to overexertion.
This illness made him give up his expectations for academic performance.
Being able to stand on the Winter Olympics stage again is already a success for him.
Fate played a cruel joke on him at that moment.
He stood out in the preliminary rounds, quarterfinals, and semifinals.
Even though he was almost at his limit.
He maintained his lead for the first nine laps of the final race, just before the last corner.
Just when he felt he was about to realize his dream.
Fate taught him what cruelty truly meant.
The South Korean fighter Kim Dong-sung behind him thrust out his knife first, ultimately using the advantage of the blade tip to defeat himself.
He narrowly lost and won the silver medal.
Four years later.
With a healthy body and consistent performance throughout the Olympic cycle, he arrived at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics at the peak of his career.
But a total of four games.
Fall short.
Missed out on the gold medal.
He originally planned to retire after the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
However, the national team was going through a period of transition and was in a slump, so he chose to persevere for another four years.
His health wasn't good, and he wasn't at his peak.
He thought he would only leave Turin with a helpless departure and tears of unfulfilled ambitions.
"Fate..."
Li Jiajun had tears in his eyes.
When he saw the five-star red flag that his coach had carefully presented to him, his complex emotions were replaced by a surge of pride and ambition.
He felt pain coming from his legs.
But he still draped the national flag over his back and circled around and around the ice rink he loved all his life.
Li Ye's laughter grew louder and louder in the distance.
In the 5000m relay final at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he fell early in the race.
This caused the Chinese team to miss out on the gold medal.
They ultimately only won a bronze medal.
He was thinking at the time... he wondered if he would ever have the chance to make up for his regrets in this lifetime.
"Hahaha."
Lee Ye was even happier to see the ashen faces of Ahn Hyun-soo and Lee Ho-seok.
"Damn it!"
Ahn Hyun-soo slammed his fist into the ice.
Before the competition, he had already considered the 1500m short track speed skating gold medal to be his for the taking.
But unexpectedly, the Chinese team snatched it away.
Li Haoshi found it even harder to accept. Suddenly, something occurred to him: "I saw them go to the medical station after the semi-final. The medical director of this venue is Chinese, and they..."