"You!" The color on Park Tae-an"s face disappeared. He didn"t expect anyone in the Chinese team to understand Korean, and they were significantly more proficient than him with his mandarin.If Tang Yan really went to the organizing committee with them, then they would be sacrificing themselves just to take down their enemy. It wasn"t worthwhile.
"Hahaha, fine just one more team to beat. Wait till the finals, you can watch us win the champions.h.i.+p!" Park Tae-an said whilst backing down.
"You can also rest a.s.sured that you don"t have to watch our victory from the audience stands." Tang Yan said faintly.
"Good! Good!" Park Tae-an said then turned and left with the two other Koreans.
"Haha, you were acting all big now look at you scrambling away!" Li Haoze looked at the three figures leaving and shouted.
Park Tae-an"s body stopped temporarily, but then he carried on walking.
Li Haoze and Zheng Zhun burst into laughter.
"Let"s go back, and prepare." said Tang Yan seeing that half of the venue was already empty.
Li Haoze and Zheng Zhun nodded and followed after Tang Yan.
This was just a small episode in the scheme of things. Although they won the argument, all three people including Tang Yan knew that it wouldn"t be an easy fight with the South Korean team.
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When they came back in the afternoon, the audience had increased a lot compared to earlier in the morning.
The afternoon game was also a lot more intense than in the morning, archers from all over the world were competing for positions in the team compet.i.tion.
When the 15th group finished, the top 64 rankings were basically out.
The strongest was the South Korean team. Park Tae-an ranked first among all the players with an absolute score of 670 points. Kim Chung-gi ranked seventh with 649. The worst score of the three was obtained by Quan Zhiping with 640 points ranking 26th among all the archers so far.
In addition, Italy, Germany, the United States, Russia and other strong archery nations were in the top 16.
After the end of the 15th group, Tang Yan got up from his seat and stretched, he had been sat down for almost a whole day. It was finally his turn to shoot.
"You"ve got this, just take your time." Tian Zhenzhe couldn"t help but say when he saw Tang Yan.
Tang Yan smiled and nodded, then went up to the field.
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Tian Zhenzhe"s anxiousness wasn"t without reason. After the 15th match, the results of each group was basically out. The South Korean team ranked first with a score of 1962 points, they were 30 points ahead of the USA team, in third was the German team followed by the Russian team.
Of the 16 teams currently qualifying the j.a.panese team was currently ranked 16th with 1886 points. If the Chinese team wanted to squeeze into the top 16, Tang Yan must score 650+ points.
Although Tang Yan had shot 661 points in the previous national champions.h.i.+p, this wasn"t exactly a reliable difference.
"It seems that we have overestimated our opponents. They can"t even make it into the knockout stages." When Tang Yan got up, Park Tae-an next door deliberately said in Chinese.
Tang Yan smiled at him and went to the archery field.
The organizing committee used past achievements as a reference when conducting personnel arrangements. Li Haoze and Zheng Zhun had partic.i.p.ated in the Global Youth Champions.h.i.+ps before, so they had a relatively high order of appearance but for athletes like Tang Yan who had no international achievements, they were placed last.
In fact, the head coaches of each team focused their attention on tomorrow"s knockouts and began to discuss the next match.
Even the referee showed signs of fatigue after working for a day.
It can be said that the appearance of Tang Yan and the five other archers received the least attention.
In fact, it was true. Except for Tang Yan, the other archers looked nervous and tender. They were the weaker archers of the bunch.
After the referee started the game, he then stood aside and yawned.
In the entire arena, the most concerned people were the Chinese team and the j.a.panese team but even they were beginning to relax discussing how to deal with the other team in the knockout stages.
Tang Yan looked around the stadium then refocused his gaze. The audience didn"t seem to be paying attention, but that made him feel a lot easier at mind.
He did all his preparations, took out the recurve bow and took an arrow from the arrow pot.
He nocked his arrow, after the arrow was wound, he drew back the bowstring and aimed.
This time, his movements were obviously slower than in the national champions.h.i.+ps.
There were already archers on their next arrow. As expected, the results were very disappointing and average at best. The best arrow was from Senegal with only 8 points. Two archers even missed the target crumbling at the first hurdle.
Seeing this result, the audience couldn"t help but shake their heads and some of the viewers who stayed to watch till the end sighed.
Some teams began to pack up in order to leave early to prepare for tomorrow"s game.
After starting to aim, he could clearly feel his progress.
After gaining 70% of the strength of Li Guang and after many training sessions, his level had improved significantly compared with the national champions.h.i.+ps.
Controlling freely both bow and arrow, he had reached a state of integration to some extent.
He slightly raised the arrow a bit, after the parabola reached the expected level, he loosened his hand.
"Tw.a.n.g!
Boom!"
10 points!
When Tang Yan shot the first arrow, the entire stadium suddenly quietened.
After seeing the results area updated with the archer"s scores, the scene was followed by discussion.
The j.a.panese team flinched seeing the score.
Tian Zhenzhe released out a sigh of relaxation, with Tang Yan"s 10 pointer his mind was finally at ease. With his ace at work what was there to worry about.