8月1日晚，东京奥运会男子100米比赛中，中国“飞人”苏炳添在半决赛和决赛中均突破10秒大关，创造了中国田径新的历史。
 

 

Dashing across the track like a bolt of red lightning, the 31-year-old burned himself out by clocking a personal best of 9.83 seconds - the fastest among all semifinalists and a new Asian record - to become the first Chinese to qualify¹ for the men's 100m finals on Sunday.

8月1日，31岁的苏炳添像一束红色的闪电一样飞速冲过跑道，拼尽全力达到了9秒83的个人最好成绩，以半决赛第一晋级决赛，同时创造了新的亚洲纪录。他是第一个冲进奥运会男子百米决赛的中国人。

 

决赛目标：突破10秒

 

In the final two hours later, Su crossed the finishing line sixth in 9.98 seconds.

在2小时之后的决赛中，苏炳添以9秒98的成绩名列第六。

 

苏炳添在赛后表示：

 

"After the semifinals, my strength had dropped significantly, I just wanted to try my best in the final," said Su.

半决赛后，我体能下降得非常厉害，决赛尽可能发挥出自己的水平就胜利了。

 

But Su set a "small" target to finish the final race within 10 seconds regardless of the ranking.

我给自己定了目标，不管第几名，我的目标就是突破10秒。

 

"If I made it, it would mean I could run two consecutive² races both within 10 seconds, that's big progress for myself," Su said of his plan on the final.

如果能做到，这么短的时间内还能两度跑进10秒，对我来说是一个非常大的进步。

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