The World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and the World Cup are different in that each person has a maximum of two individual events. Players participating in individual events must participate in all individual events, and there is no limit on the number of entries in relay races. Each country’s individual entry quotas are related to last season’s all-around ranking.
In the last World Championships, there were three places for those ranked 1st to 3rd, two places for those ranked 4th to 6th, and only one place for those ranked 7th to 14th.
The three teams that have qualified for this World Championship are South Korea, China and Russia.
Arrive at Morris Richard Stadium at 7pm. Today is the first competition day of the World Championships. Li Yuang will participate in the men's 1500m semi-finals and 500m preliminaries.
A total of 24 athletes in the 1500-meter semi-finals were divided into three groups. The first and third groups had 8 athletes competing at the same time, and the second group had 7 athletes. Li Yuang was assigned to the second group.
Li Yuang glanced at the list. The three South Korean contestants were Lin Xiaojun, Seo Yila and Huang Daheng. Among them, Xu Yila was assigned to one group, Huang Daheng was assigned to the second group, and Lin Xiaojun was assigned to the third group.
What a fate! Seeing Huang Daheng in a group with him, Li Yuang suddenly became excited. This time he can have revenge and complain. Camilla ignored him because of you and Xiaofenmao. Little Pink Hair is just a relay team member. You can't touch him in individual events, so I'll start with you first.
Just when Li Yuang was thinking wildly, Wang Meng came over.
"Little carp, you like to be the last to exert force in the middle and long distances, but the World Championships is different from other competitions. Seven players start together. If you keep following behind, you will be easily affected by accidents. You must determine the lead as early as possible. You The strength of the team is average, there is only one Hamelin, it doesn’t matter even if it leads.”
Before the game, Wang Meng came here specifically to give instructions. She knew that it was Li Yuang's first time participating in the World Championships, and she was worried about his lack of experience.
Li Yuang only started to achieve results in the World Cup in the 17-18 season. He had never participated in the World Championships before. As the end of a season, he hopes that Li Yuang can end his 17-18 season with a gold medal.
Although Li Yuang nodded in agreement, he still had to be patient! Wang Meng's judgment of Li Yuang's physical strength is based on the physical strength when the "Backhand Heel Slide" skill bonus is turned on during training. Now Li Yuang is quite competitive in the 1,000 meters even without skill bonus, but his physical strength is still a bit poor in the 1,500 meters.
When training for 1,500 meters before, Li Yuang found that the scene was stretched out in the final sprint. If you use "back hand and slide" for the first 12 laps and sprint for the last lap and a half, it will often be too late.
Since there are only two rounds in the 1500m World Championships, the top two in each group will advance to Group A of the finals, and the third and fourth place will advance to Group B of the finals. If you can't finish in the top two in the group, you'll miss out on the medal. Coupled with the reminder from his aunt, Li Yuang decided to only follow 8 laps for 1,500 meters to leave enough sprint time and distance.
Soon, the first group of games began. This group included two Hungarian brothers. At this point in time, the two Hungarian brothers have not fully grown up and their strength has not yet reached its peak. The overall speed of their leading skates is not very fast. In the end, Hungary's Liu Shaolin and Kazakhstan's Nikisha advanced to final A, while Liu Shao'ang and Xu Yila advanced to final B. Liu Shaolin, who ranked first, only managed a time of 2 minutes, 14 seconds and 435 seconds.
The second group of players is preparing. All players are sitting on small benches in the aisle, changing skates. Li Yuang tied it very carefully and practiced with his aunt for a while. His biggest experience was to pay attention to details. Only by paying attention to every link and every technical movement can he perform better.
Next to him, Huang Daheng changed the number of his skates, and then one of them muttered something in his ear.
Li Yuang knows that Huang Daheng likes to make small moves, and he is likely to mess with his mentality before the game and disrupt his game rhythm.
So Li Yuang was prepared. He changed his skates, looked at Huang Daheng with a smile, took off the Bluetooth headsets from his ears, and showed his hands to Huang Daheng.
What? The clown is myself!
Instead of getting rid of Li Yuang's mentality, Huang Daheng was killed instead. He decided to make Li Yuang look good soon!
After a simple warm-up on the ice, the seven players stood on the starting line.
Lanes 1-5 of the second group are Canadian player Hamelin, Russian players Yeris Stratov and Shuginov, Israeli player Bekanov, and South Korean player Huang Daheng.
Li Yuang and Belgian player Peter could only stand in the second row
"Bang!" The game started.
Hamelin entered the first corner first, Huang Daheng entered second. Li Yuang was in seventh place, following the Belgian player Peter into the corner.
Seeing this, Wang Meng frowned and thought: This brat has made a fool of himself at the beginning again! You must go up quickly!
On the first lap, Hamelin took the lead and the others followed.
On the second lap, Yerisratov suddenly accelerated and overtook Huang Daheng and Hamelin to seize the first position when entering the corner. Another Russian player also took the opportunity to change positions and followed closely behind Huang Daheng.
Huang Daheng looked back and forth, but didn't seem to see Li Yuang.
It seems that you don’t need to pay too much attention to him, let’s go now! Huang Daheng accelerated and passed the corner to directly reach the first position.
Since it was just the beginning of the 1,500-meter watch race, no one stood in the way. It was basically a stage where acceleration would allow the overtaking to be completed. Everyone knew that the real decisive battle was yet to come!
Hamelin, who plays at home, has fallen to the fourth position. The 34-year-old knows that he must establish his leading position in the early stage. After thinking about it, amidst the cheers of the home audience, Hamelin accelerated and passed Yeristratov directly in the straight line. When entering the corner, he got ahead of Huang Daheng and entered the corner from the outside to the inside.
After another lap, Russia's Yeris Rattov, who was in fifth place, suddenly accelerated and passed all the players on the outside. He did not intend to lead the slide but rushed out in a single stroke.
Rabbit tactics?
Li Yuang suddenly felt uneasy. Two Russian players were present. One used the rabbit tactic to follow the team at the end, and the other led the skate. It is easy for the players to have memory confusion and forget the fact that they are about to be trapped.
Sure enough, when Yerisratov was half a lap ahead of Hamelin, another Russian player quickly moved from the middle of the team to the first position to lead the skate.
Yerisratov came behind Li Yuang and slipped. This is a routine operation of the rabbit tactic.
Li Yuang was a little confused when he encountered such a tactic for the first time, especially when he was using the skill "back hand and heel slide", there was a person following behind him, which made him feel very awkward.
Obviously you are in the last place, but the first place is still staring at you from behind. It's like there's a hungry wolf behind you that's ready to attack you at any time.
"Ding dong! Physical strength +1, burst +1, speed +1."
The system prompt sounded for the first time, and at this moment Li Yuang's originally uneasy heart gradually calmed down.
That's right, don't worry about the rabbit tactic, the system will not calculate the wrong number of laps, don't care about the Russian behind you at all, just sprint with all your strength after the second reminder sound!
The vanguard seemed to have forgotten that there was Yeris Stratov who used rabbit tactics. Huang Daheng, Hamelin and another Russian began to take the lead alternately, competing for the leading position.
"Carp! Come on! Come on!"
It was already the fifth lap, and Li Yuang was still following behind. Wang Meng, who was standing on the sidelines, was a little anxious and shouted loudly on the sidelines. Wang Meng's voice echoed throughout the stadium.
At this time, the referee on the sidelines walked up to Wang Meng and reminded her to keep her voice down so as not to affect other contestants.
When Li Yuang passed by Wang Meng, he quickly nodded to her to indicate that he understood.
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