After the organizing committee adjusted the competition schedule, Wang Yi's fans and all the Chinese spectators were outraged.
Wang Yi, however, posted just four words: "Just wait and see."
At 9:00 that morning, Wang Yi finally began the 800-meter heats.
He won the race without a doubt, taking first place in the heats.
1 minute, 30.30 seconds.
That time beat the previous record by more than ten seconds.
Visually, he crossed the finish line nearly a hundred meters ahead of the runner-up.
And this was only an 800-meter race. To finish a hundred meters ahead was simply unbelievable.
Of course, he had the Stamina Card's boost. Although Wang Yi held back, he ran at almost a half-sprint pace for nearly the entire race.
He was afraid that if he ran the whole distance at a full sprint, people would drag him off to dissect him for research.
Wang Yi's record was once again seen as a breakthrough in the limits of human ability.
Unless the 800-meter rules changed significantly in the future, no one would be able to break this record.
The person who naturally felt most threatened by this result was Japan's long-distance runner, Takemura Goro.
After all, Wang Yi was about to compete against him.
The good news, though, was that Wang Yi had just finished the 800 meters.
By then, he had already expended a great deal of energy, which was a huge advantage for Takemura.
So he began to feel a little more confident.
But that confidence crumbled halfway through the 1,500 meters.
By the halfway point, Wang Yi was already more than seventy meters ahead of him.
Takemura spent the entire second half trying to catch up with Wang Yi.
That guy seemed as if he hadn't run the 800 meters at all. He looked