In ancient times, archery was mostly used for warfare. Because of the suddenness and variability of warfare, the rate of fire was a vital component for an archer.In the event of a cavalry charge, being able to shoot one more wave of arrows would increase your survival rate tremendously.
As a top tier archer naturally Li Guang didn"t suffer in this aspect either.
After a month of intensive training, Tang Yan had made immense progress in this aspect. This rate of fire was far from the peak he could reach.
He didn"t move not because he deliberately wanted to attract attention but in order to observe and adjust, just like on the battlefield, to integrate himself into the environment and then launch continuous and effective attacks on the target.
This was normal for Tang Yan, but for other seeing this for the first time they were completely shocked.
What the f*ck.... who the h.e.l.l shoots like this in an archery compet.i.tion!
You have to know that the specified time for the round was 4 minutes!
But Tang Yan only spent 20 seconds to adjust, 30 seconds to shoot, what was he gonna do the remaining 3 minutes....just sit down and take a break, like seriously.
But that"s exactly what Tang Yan did, the audience just had to watch him sit and rest.
Tang Yan himself was without a care in the world, in fact for him all he considered was the faster he shot the more time he had to rest and recover.
For the other archers in his group this was the most stressful thing that could happen.
The round started less than a minute ago and someone had already finished well ahead of schedule with a perfect score at that.
Like seriously way to heap on the pressure.
Tang Yan"s actions placed visible pressure on the archers.
Danilo Amelyia, who had been stably shooting ten pointers before failed to shoot another 10-pointer in the remaining four arrows.
At the end of the first round, Ameliya looked over at Tang Yan unconsciously.
There were 12 rounds and in the next round, Tang Yan increased his rate of fire constantly stunning the other archers and the audience.
At his fastest, he only spent 24 seconds in a round, so an arrow every four-seconds.
Everyone"s expression was like that of seeing a ghost.
Although his rate of fire slowed down after the sixth round due to physical exertion, most of the time, when the audience looked over, he was sitting down resting and waiting.
By the end of the final round, his score was 696 points, which was 5 more points than Im Dong-hyun. This score was only 2 points away from the world record score for qualifiers!
At the end of the game, the entire venue was at boiling point.
In the past hour, they had witnessed not only an archery compet.i.tion, but the revival of another aspect of archery.
When Tang Yan came off the court, he shook his head unconsciously.
According to his current level, he should have obtained 700 points but because he drove for a rapid rate of fire, his score fell short.
At the end of the match, Tang Yan was greeted warmly by Qiu Tian and Ning Ze.
Tian Zhenzhe was also excited at this time. He didn"t know how Tang Yan did it but he didn"t care as long as he could keep it up.
When they came out of the compet.i.tion venue, a large swarm of reporters were outside waiting.
As soon as he went out, the reporters fired off questions like a chain of sh.e.l.ls.
"Tang Yan, can you share with us how and why you are shooting so fast?"
"Tang Yan, can you share with us how you can maintain such a high level of archery whilst still practicing boxing?"
"Tang Yan, we heard rumors that you had a conflict with the Korean archery team. Now you have clinched first place in qualifying. Do you have anything to say to the Koreans?"
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"Well..." Tang Yan opened his mouth and the reporters below all calmed down.
"I"m hopeful for this year, this was a good start but I still could have done better. I wanna keep striving ahead and see what this compet.i.tion holds for me." Tang Yan said.
There was a moment of pause as they took down and recorded his words but then they were back at it.
"Tang Yan, can you tell us your personal best?"
"Do you believe China has a chance of winning the team event? Any predictions on how you think you"ll place?"
"Will you be striving for the London Olympics two years later?"
"Is it true you got in a heated argument with the South Korean Team at the opening ceremony?"
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When Tang Yan heard the endless questions from the reporters and saw the rapidly increasing crowd, he frowned and gestured to Tian Zhenzhe and then rushed out.
With the escort of security guards, they quickly left the reportes behind.
The qualifying compet.i.tion was a total of 2 days. After the end of the next day"s compet.i.tion, the ranks of the teams in the team compet.i.tion were out.
The South Korean team was still the undisputed number one team but the Chinese team, with the outstanding performance of Tang Yan, squeezed out the Singapore team and ranked second which made them very hopeful to reach the finals.
Since they were in different brackets the only way to run into South Korea was in the finals.
Of course, before that, they needed to beat three countries.
The overall archery strength of Asia wasn"t too strong. They faced Azerbaijan and then j.a.pan. Their strength was superior and they didn"t give their opponents any opportunities. In the game against Azerbaijan, it ended with all six rounds going to China.
They directly swept aside their opponents to advance.
In the semi-finals, the Chinese team finally met their first difficult opponent in this Asian Games, the Singapore team.
They became the last obstacle in the Chinese teams path to the finals.