The IAAF Indoor World Tour has started since early February, and the domestic indoor track and field regional competitions will also kick off from late February.

The start of the indoor competition is a chance for the athletes who have been stagnant for several months to re-adapt to the competition and regain their form and rhythm in the indoor competition. It is also a test of the athletes' strength level after winter training.

After the national team's winter training ended, only a few players from the men's team, including Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Li Junhao, Lin Chuan, Guo Dun, and Zhang Wei, continued to stay in the team for training. Among them, Lin Chuan and Zhang Wei were kept in the team for the World Athletics Relays in May, allowing them to stay in the team to train as backup members of the 4*400m relay team.

As for the women's team, there were originally only 6 members in the winter training, so the 6 female players headed by Chen Yada are still training in the team and there is no change.

However, as for Su Bai, the competition arrangements for the several players who are still in the team are also different.

In the first match after winter training, Lin Chuan, Guo Dun and Zhang Wei will still represent their respective provincial teams to participate in the domestic indoor track and field division competition, while Zhang Ziyi was sent to participate in the Indoor Track and Field Tour Torun, Poland on February 16, and Qiu Wen and Li Junhao will participate in the Indoor Track and Field Tour Madrid, Spain on February 18.

In addition to Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen and Li Junhao are both participating in this level of indoor circuit for the first time, which also represents Su Bai's training direction for several 400-meter sprint men's team members.

In terms of personal performance, Qiu Wen, Li Junhao and Zhang Ziyi all have greater potential for breakthroughs. Guo Dun, Lin Chuan and Zhang Wei are already first-class in the country in terms of individual performance, but compared with higher-level opponents, Guo Dun and the other two still lack growth potential. However, the advantages of these three are their calm personalities and rich competition experience. Therefore, in the relay event, the three are still good players worthy of trust.

As for the women's team, although Chen Yada is already 27 years old after the Chinese New Year, theoretically she has completely passed the golden age for female athletes. However, since she broke through herself in the Asian Six Nations Athletics Joint Competition, her competitive state has been going uphill all the way. Whether it is the superior state she showed in training or in several team competitions, she has completely dominated.

At present, she has completely stabilized her results within 52 seconds. In the team competitions, she has run results within 52 seconds many times. Looking at the women's team, she is still the undisputed number one.

In addition to Chen Yada, the progress of the two young players Lin Huan and Lin Yao is also amazing. Judging from their current condition, they have every hope of surpassing the qualifying results for the World Championships.

The Athletics Administration Center has been 100% satisfied with the performance of the 400m team of the track and field team during this period. The previous variety show was one thing. After the variety show, the members of the track and field team had no extra thoughts about other content except the advertisements taken over by the Athletics Administration Center.

These athletes have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to improving their own performance, and their awe for competitive sports has never diminished. This is what really makes the Athletics Administration Center feel relieved.

After the show became popular during this period, the Athletics Management Center has been worried about the contestants' mentality. To be honest, if the contestants' mentality becomes unstable due to the popularity of the variety show, then this variety show will be a loss for the Athletics Management Center. Fortunately, it seems that the contestants have stabilized themselves.

After learning about Su Bai's arrangements for the athletes, the Athletics Administration Center did not have any additional comments.

Whether in teaching athletes or in controlling the cohesion and fighting spirit of athletes, Su Bai's current achievements are enough to satisfy the Athletics Management Center.

The Athletics Administration Center naturally gave the green light to the competition arrangements for each athlete submitted by Su Bai and made all the arrangements properly.

On February 15, Zhang Ziyi, Wang Shen and some members of other events of the national track and field team arrived in Torun, Poland. They will participate in the indoor tour in Torun, Poland the next day.

What is different from the past is that in the past, only the sports channel purchased the broadcasting rights for the indoor track and field tour, and it would only be broadcast on the sports channel's website. This time, the sports channel directly purchased the television broadcasting rights and will broadcast all the indoor tour stops on TV.

In addition to sports channels, several powerful domestic video platforms have also participated in the negotiations for the broadcasting rights of the indoor tour, and have also purchased online live broadcast rights from the IAAF.

When advertisements for "live broadcast of the IAAF Indoor Tour events" appeared on various video websites, track and field fans began to feel a new sense of emotion - things are really different now!

In just a month or two, the domestic public opinion on "track and field", a once unpopular sport, has almost caught up with popular sports such as football, basketball, and table tennis.

Not only is the IAAF World Indoor Tour being broadcast, but the National Indoor Track and Field Divisional Championships to be held in late February have also welcomed a number of brands interested in sponsorship. Tickets for indoor competitions, which had been completely ignored in previous years, have become extremely promising this year.

A month ago, many people originally thought that the variety show in that training camp was only beneficial to the 400-meter sprint event. However, it now seems that as long as the players in the 400-meter event participate well and continue to maintain the enthusiasm and attention, the entire track and field event will benefit from it.

After all, track and field competitions are not like football or basketball games which only have individual events. As long as the audience arrives at the scene, there will always be a chance to see events like javelin, shot put and long jump.

As more and more viewers are able to see these projects, I believe that more and more people will gradually become interested in these projects...!

February 16, Torun, Poland, indoor circuit scene

This indoor track and field arena in Torun, Poland, like all indoor track and field arenas, looks like an egg-shaped interior.

The venue for the event is a temporary indoor circular track. Not only does the indoor track have fewer lanes than the outdoor track, with only 6 lanes, but each lane is also narrower than a single outdoor track.

If you want to run 400 meters on an indoor track, not only are the rules different from those for outdoors, you can also cut in line in individual competitions because the indoor circular track is shorter than the outdoor track. Once the athletes enter the second lap, they can start the race to cut in line.

Because the indoor track is narrow, some physical friction is inevitable when the athletes overtake and confront each other in the competition. This is also a unique style of indoor competitions.

Generally speaking, in indoor track and field competitions, the world records and tournament records for most events are lower than those for outdoor events. The same is true for the 400-meter event. In the men's 400-meter sprint indoors, the world indoor record is only 44.57 seconds, which is more than 1 second lower than the outdoor record of 43.08 seconds.

At the tour site, Zhang Ziyi was still very relaxed about today's competition. For him, this indoor competition was more about finding his long-lost competition form, and he did not have any particular obsession with the final result.

However, among the 400-meter runners in this race, there was a familiar face to Zhang Ziyi—Iverson, an American athlete.

The main reason why Zhang Ziyi could remember Iverson was that this Iverson was one of the opponents that Su Bai brought from the United States to play a "practice match" with several Chinese players before the Asian Games training camp started last year.

Although half a year has passed, after seeing Iverson, the scene in which several of them, the 400-meter sprinters, were brutally beaten by the American athletes in front of the students from the sports school is still vivid in their minds.

Looking back now, the American athletes were in average shape because they had traveled across the ocean and were affected by jet lag. The best one only ran 45.56 seconds, and the worst was only 46.07 seconds.

If they were to compete again now, Zhang Ziyi was sure that the Chinese players would not lose so badly again...but at that time, none of them could outrun the American players, and that unforgettable shame still remains in their hearts.

Iverson of the American team didn't seem to remember what Zhang Ziyi looked like. When his eyes swept over Zhang Ziyi, they were completely nonchalant, as if he had never seen this player from China before.

Even a calm player like Zhang Ziyi frowned when he noticed Iverson's carelessness.

There was once a saying in China: If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

Of course he understood that for Iverson, he traveled across the ocean to China just for the generous reward, to have a crushing match with a group of opponents whose faces he didn't need to remember at all, and then leave.

In a competition like this, why does he need to remember the Chinese players whose appearances are difficult for him to recognize?

This doesn't make sense to him.

However, even though he knew this in his heart, Zhang Ziyi still felt unwilling.

He took a deep breath, looked at Iverson seriously again, and then turned his eyes away - since the former Chinese players did not leave any memories for Iverson, then... starting from today, let him remember the opponents from China in his heart, right?

It is already past 11 o'clock at night in China, but the television is still on in many houses. Many families are gathering together for the first time, waiting for a sports event that may last less than 3 minutes.

On the forum of Track and Field Kingdom, when commentators Shao Minyi and Li Sen were introducing the first group of six athletes, a post was posted on the forum.

Subject: [I am a student at the Sports School in City B. Last year, I happened to watch the practice match between the American players and the Chinese team. The Iverson on the court now seems to be one of the American players who came to China for the practice match at that time...]

As soon as this post popped up, it caused a bit of a sensation. After all, before the Asian Games training camp, the 400-meter sprint practice match between American athletes and the Chinese national team that Su Bai convened was a long-standing legend.

Everyone knows that in that game, the Chinese team lost miserably.

At that time, many people in the forum felt that Su Bai was too arrogant and dared to invite American players to abuse his national team members. They believed that his coaching style would probably not have good results.

Of course, this statement has been refuted today, but the legend of the American athletes' crushing victory over the Chinese national team still lives on in the hearts of many track and field fans.

In the forum of Track and Field Kingdom, many new people have come recently because of the variety show "Track and Field Idol Training Camp". These new people are seeing this story for the first time and are a little surprised that the national team was so miserable at that time.

When the old people in the track and field kingdom saw this statement, they also sighed in their hearts - being crushed by American athletes is one thing, but you haven't seen anything worse.

However, these old fans of track and field also know that the new fans are more fragile, so they didn't say much.

However, these new fans quickly forwarded the post in the forum to Weibo and created a topic called #RevengeBattle#, which frightened the old fans of track and field in the forum.

How is this a battle of revenge? !

It’s true that the competition was quite miserable at the beginning, but now... can we definitely win?

Although these old fans of track and field have seen great progress in the 400-meter sprint event within the past year, they are now feeling a little scared as the event is now attended by athletes from Asia, Europe and the United States.

That's a player from the American team!

It is true that Zhang Shuai’s current results are very good, but can she be better than these American players?

Among the athletes present, in addition to Iverson from the United States, there are athletes from Costa Rica, Slovenia, Kenya and other countries. The worst outdoor PB of these athletes is 45.31 seconds. It can be said that among the remaining five athletes, the worst one is on par with Zhang Ziyi in strength.

Faced with such a group of strong opponents, these new fans started talking about "battle of revenge"... Of course, old fans understand that if this game can be a successful "revenge", it will consolidate the popularity and heat of the track and field events that have been continued from the previous variety show.

But……

If Zhang Ziyi fails to outrun Iverson in this game, perhaps many new fans who came to watch the variety show will be lost.

However, perhaps the hype of the "battle of revenge" was too loud, or perhaps it was because the popularity of the track and field team was really booming during this period. Even though the old fans of track and field were worried, the topic of "battle of revenge" quickly became a hot search.

Because of this topic, the game, which already had a large number of viewers, attracted a lot of new viewers.

People were a little skeptical about the term "battle of revenge" at first, but after seeing the way Zhang Ziyi occasionally looked at Iverson, everyone confirmed the term "revenge" in their hearts.

All of a sudden, the game, which was originally just the "first indoor game after winter training", was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, making the audience waiting in front of the TV excited.

"Ahhh! Zhang Shuai will definitely win, right?!"

Zheng Xiaoya sat cross-legged on the sofa and turned to look at her parents. It was the first time for the three of them to wait for a track and field event. Not to mention her, even her parents had anticipation on their faces.

Father Zheng thought about it for a moment and said, "This is only the first game after winter training. It's hard to say what the players are doing. Let's not talk about revenge for now. As long as we can run in good shape, that's fine."

Zheng Xiaoya and Zheng's mother nodded at Zheng's father's words, but in fact, just looking at the expressions of the three of them, it can be seen that they obviously still hope that Zhang Ziyi can win.

At the competition site in Torun, Poland, Zhang Ziyi did not know that many people in the country have defined his match as a "revenge" battle.

Perhaps, even if he knew it, he would not have much objection to such a definition.

Because in his heart, he did have some extra expectations for this game.

When the staff on site signaled the athletes to stand in front of their respective starting blocks, Zhang Ziyi calmly stood in front of the starting block of Track 1. In front of him to the right, on Track 3, was Allen Iverson from the American team.

Among the 6 tracks, only Iverson and Kenya are black athletes, and the remaining three are white athletes and the lone Asian athlete, Zhang Ziyi.

In fact, not only Iverson, but the remaining players did not pay special attention to Zhang Ziyi.

On the field, everyone stood on their starting blocks and simply stretched their bodies so that they could face the first stop of the 2019 season in a more positive state.

About 1 minute later, the on-site commentator had already introduced all 6 players present, including their nationality, pb, sb and other results.

The starter on the scene was ready at this time. During the broadcast, the referee also issued instructions to the contestants on the scene - "Everyone, take your positions."

Zhang Ziyi shook his head, supported himself with his hands, jumped lightly, and stepped his feet onto the starting blocks. The remaining five runners also moved very quickly. In just a moment, all six runners present were ready.

Soon, the signal that the competition was about to begin came over the radio.

"preparation."

After this short preparatory sound, with a "bang", the starter fired the starting gun in his hand.

After a gunshot, the competition officially begins!

“Let’s run!”

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were commenting on track and field events again after several months. They were both very surprised at the surge in popularity of track and field events during the winter training, but they were also very happy for them.

Isn’t it because of the skyrocketing popularity of the track and field team that they can commentate on this indoor tournament here today?

"Well, after a winter training period, Zhang Ziyi's condition looks very good. His start response was very quick and he ran very beautifully at the first corner!"

As soon as Shao Min saw Zhang Ziyi on the screen, he felt quite enlightened - of course he had watched all the variety shows during the national team's winter training without missing a single one, but that was still training after all, and was different from a formal competition.

Before, when he was watching the show, he felt that Zhang Ziyi's winter training condition and results seemed good, but there was no comparison at that time, so he really couldn't see much. Sometimes he even doubted whether Zhang Ziyi was a training-type player whose training condition was better than his competition condition. But until today's indoor competition, he really felt that Zhang Ziyi was definitely a competitive player, no doubt about it!

On the track, compared to other players who were a little lacking in momentum at the beginning of the season, perhaps because he had the thought of "revenge" in his heart, Zhang Ziyi looked very imposing on the narrow indoor track!

Although he was on Lane 1 and had a considerable distance gap from the runners in front of him, he had a fierce forward momentum from the start. After passing the first bend and approaching the second bend, Zhang Ziyi's pace was visibly faster than that of the runners on the other five tracks.

On track No. 2, to the right front of Zhang Ziyi, is a contestant from Slovenia.

Since the indoor track was temporarily built, the vibration amplitude of the ground was much more obvious than the sound of the outdoor athletes stepping on the ground. He could clearly feel that the stride frequency of the athlete coming from behind was completely different from his own.

How could it be so fast? !

The Slovenian runner was a little frightened by the floor vibration frequency of "tap tap tap" - he remembered that the 400-meter sprinter on the No. 1 track behind was a 400-meter sprinter from China. He knew that there was a Chinese 100-meter sprinter named "Fang Yu" who ran under ten seconds, but the Chinese 400-meter sprint results were very poor...

How could a player from China give him such a terrible sense of threat?

But before he could think about it, when he passed the second bend in the first lap, a yellow figure had already sped past him...!

Oh, damn! How is that possible? !

Zhang Ziyi's speed and surpassing were much faster than he expected.

In front of the domestic TV screens, many viewers who were watching the competition for the first time showed excitement when they saw Zhang Ziyi start to overtake the player in front of him.

——Well done Zhang Shuai! ! !

——Ahhh, Zhang Ziyi is so awesome, come on, keep surpassing others!

——Go Zhang Shuai! That annoying American player is in front! ! !

The domestic audience was excited, and Zhang Ziyi was in an unprecedented state of excitement - he had never felt so extraordinary in the first game of the season. Perhaps it was because of Iverson's presence that reminded him of his past unwillingness and ignited the fire in his heart.

In the commentary booth of the sports channel, although Shao Minyi and Li Sen were surprised, they were still happy for Zhang Ziyi's performance.

"Zhang Ziyi is in great shape! His speed is still increasing! We are about to enter the second lap and the race will start soon..."

"Compared to the past, after last year's Asian Games, Zhang Ziyi began to show a kind of 'ferocity'. This 'ferocity' made him more positive about winning and competing, which is definitely a major factor in his improved performance!"

On the track, Zhang Ziyi naturally had no idea how Shao Minyi and the others interpreted his all-out competition. He only felt that there was indeed a burning flame in his chest, and he could indeed feel the increase in his strength after a winter training period.

Faster, he wants it faster!

After gaining an advantageous position in the lane grabbing...he wanted to run faster, he wanted...to win!

When the players entered the stage of scrambling for the lane, the only ones standing in Zhang Ziyi's way were Iverson and a player from Kenya. Iverson had never expected that in today's game, in addition to the Kenyan player, there would be someone else who could pose a threat to him.

And the threat actually comes from a player from China!

He still vaguely remembered the match he had played against the Chinese team. How could anyone in that team, which was completely crushed by a team in poor form, pose a threat to him?

But……

That's the truth.

When Zhang Ziyi would rather give up the advantage of the innermost lane to fight for the position in front of him, he could only guard his own lane tightly, and the battle between him and Zhang Ziyi would only take a moment!

Iverson originally thought that he could maintain his second place or even compete for first place, but due to Zhang Ziyi's harassment, he had no energy left to attack the Kenyan player in front of him...!

Hurry up.

Faster! ! !

Zhang Ziyi didn't care what Iverson was thinking. He sprinted forward with all his might. His body felt tired and his breathing felt painful, but his heart was filled with heat and boiling!

When the race entered its final moments, when Zhang Ziyi ran side by side with Iverson in the final sprint and successfully overtook Iverson and crossed the finish line in the final 10 meters, there was an uproar in the audience area, and on the Chinese TV broadcast, the two Chinese commentators cheered excitedly!

“Success!!!”

"Zhang Ziyi successfully overtook the American athlete Allen Iverson in the last ten meters!!!"