Zhang Ziyi, Roger, and Annans.

The top three players in last year's Asian Games finals gave the audience a preview of a wonderful event in today's men's 400m sprint preliminaries.

However, compared with the rankings in last year's Asian Games, there were slight changes in the ranking of the top three this time. Zhang Ziyi, who had won third place in the Asian Games finals, swapped positions with last year's Asian Games champion Anans in this event.

In China, when the audience saw the result of this game in front of the TV, they all showed excited smiles on their faces - after all, this was a preliminary round with a lineup that was not inferior to the final.

After the third group of preliminaries finished, the fourth group of preliminaries that came on stage began to show nervous expressions on their faces. After comparing the results with the third group of preliminaries, the fourth group of preliminaries knew that if they wanted to qualify for the semi-finals, they could no longer expect to advance by way of replacement.

Under such a sense of crisis, the fourth group of players in the preliminaries fought extremely hard on the field, even going so far as to use all their strength - although this would affect their physical fitness and condition in subsequent competitions, all this would be in vain if they could not advance.

After the four groups of preliminaries ended, except for the third group of preliminaries, the group with the highest average score was the fourth group of preliminaries. The fourth place in the group also scored 46.16 seconds. This player in the fourth group of preliminaries also successfully advanced to the semifinals after McNight, Amankur and Mustafa, ranking fourth in the total score among all the remaining players.

On that day, on the first day of the Asian Athletics Championships, in the men's and women's 100m, 200m and 400m sprints, Chinese athletes had athletes who advanced to the semi-finals. Among them, the best results were naturally in the men's 100m, 200m and 400m events. Fang Yu, Wu Yi, Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen all successfully entered the semi-finals by ranking first in their preliminaries group.

In the women's sprint events, due to the smaller number of participants, the overall competition arrangement only has two rounds: preliminaries and finals.

In the three women's sprint events, it can be said that it is unprecedented that there are athletes advancing to the finals in all three events!

Among them, the one who advanced to the women's 100m and 200m sprint is a dual-event athlete named Xu Ling. She is only 22 years old this year, but she has extraordinary talent in the 100m and 200m sprints. Xu Ling missed the competition in the previous Asian Games due to injury, but in this Asian Championships, Xu Ling competed in both events and reached the finals of both events, which was one of the eye-catching moments today.

In the women's 400m sprint event, Chen Yada and Lin Yao both advanced to the finals. Although Lin Yao was only the last player to advance, compared with the situation in the Asian Games when no one could advance to the women's 400m finals, now Chen Yada and Lin Yao can advance to the women's 400m finals at the same time. This improvement in performance has made many old track and field fans feel very relieved.

For the majority of new track and field fans, they do not yet understand the subtle differences between the many results in track and field events. They tend to judge the performance of athletes based on the specific rankings they see at the moment.

Seeing that Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi both advanced as first in their groups, these new track and field enthusiasts were particularly happy.

However, some sharp-eyed viewers noticed that although Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi both won first place, the other second and third place contestants were often better than Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi in terms of personal PB.

With such doubts, many "newcomer posts" appeared on Weibo and in the track and field kingdom. Old track and field fans were very understanding of the appearance of these posts. Many old track and field fans happily stood up at this time and made various explanations for everyone, explaining to these newcomers why athletes need to conserve their energy and retain their strength.

The fact that they have such questions shows that these new track and field enthusiasts who came from variety shows really want to start gaining a deeper understanding of track and field events, and this is exactly what they expect.

After the first day of competition, in addition to the sprint events that successfully advanced to the semifinals and finals, the women's javelin and shot put took the lead in winning gold medals in the first day of competition. In the men's pole vault event, Chinese athletes also won medals. The overall results can be said to be very ideal.

Although the athletes' results seemed very ideal, Qiu Wen's face was filled with worry on the bus back to the Sports Village.

After watching the competition of Zhang Ziyi's group, he kept thinking in his mind that with his result of 45.89 seconds in the preliminary round, he could only rank fourth in Zhang Ziyi's group.

Qiu Wen was thinking about this not because he felt that he had won unfairly or anything else, but because he was worried about Zhang Ziyi's subsequent games.

"Old Zhang..." Qiu Wen scratched his head and counted the schedule they needed to participate in this Asian Championships with his fingers: "We only have 4 days for this competition. Today is the first day of the competition. You have to run one shot. Tomorrow there are two more shots in the semi-finals and finals. After that, the day after tomorrow there will be the men's 4*400m relay preliminaries and the men's and women's mixed 4*400m relay preliminaries... You have a part in all of these. The day after tomorrow there will be the men's 4*400m relay finals and the men's and women's 4*400m relay finals..."

Qiu Wen had been thinking about all this in his mind after seeing the end of the preliminaries of Zhang Ziyi's group. Compared with Zhang Ziyi, not only did he run easily in the preliminaries, but he also had one less mixed relay race in the relay event than Zhang Ziyi. In four days, he had to run two fewer times than Zhang Ziyi, and the two times Zhang Ziyi had to run were definitely high-intensity races.

"7 shots in 4 days..." Qiu Wen was not very good at comforting people, and he didn't quite know how to advise Zhang Ziyi to take care of his health at a time like this. He just remembered that after the conversation between Zhang Ziyi and Su Bai, Zhang Ziyi's current daily training was overdrawing his future sports career. Now he suddenly realized how many projects and pressures Zhang Ziyi had on him, and he felt a little flustered.

"Old Zhang..." Qiu Wen hesitated for a moment and said to Zhang Ziyi, "You better run slowly and don't rush too hard."

After saying that, Qiu Wen thought for a while and said, "Also, how about, when I return to the team, I will go find Xiao Bai and tell him that I can be included in the mixed relay team?" After a pause, Qiu Wen added, "I'm not trying to take your place, Lao Zhang..."

Looking at the gentle smile on Zhang Ziyi's face, Qiu Wen muttered a little embarrassedly: "I just saw that you were running too fast."

Zhang Ziyi smiled and rubbed Qiu Wen's head, the smile on his face became even more intense: "Okay, I know what you mean, but since my performance has improved, of course I have to make the best use of it. Don't worry, Xiaobai also told me about the allocation of physical energy before we set off. I will make adjustments based on the situation. If the physical energy can't keep up, I will arrange Guo Dun or Zhang Wei to replace me in the preliminaries of the men's 400m relay and the men's and women's 400m mixed relay."

In fact, before the game, Su Bai did not originally arrange for Zhang Ziyi to participate in the preliminaries of the men's 4*400m relay and the mixed 4*400m relay. It was Zhang Ziyi who raised objections and asked to try the extreme allocation of physical energy.

The reason why he made this suggestion is that if the Chinese team wants to make achievements in the 400-meter relay in this year's World Championships and next year's Tokyo Olympics, with his current performance, he will definitely be an extremely important part of the relay event.

He can miss the current Asian Championships preliminaries, but he cannot miss the World Championships and Tokyo Olympics relay preliminaries.

It is precisely because of this that, taking into account that the importance and intensity of the Asian Championships are necessarily lower than those of the World Championships and the Olympics, Zhang Ziyi proposed to use the Asian Championships to attempt to allocate his physical strength to the limit, to see how much strength he can retain under such extreme physical allocation conditions.

Only after considering the necessity did Su Bai agree to Zhang Ziyi's request. However, he also made it clear that after finishing the individual event, he must make flexible adjustments to the competition based on actual conditions. If he feels that his body cannot bear the two relay preliminaries, he will let Zhang Wei or Guo Dun replace him.

After hearing Zhang Ziyi's explanation, Qiu Wencai said "Oh" with some concern. Li Junhao beside him glanced at Zhang Ziyi and snorted unhappily: "Can you believe his lies? This guy is old and the most amazing thing he can do is to show off his ability!"

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Hearing Li Junhao's comments, Zhang Ziyi flicked his forehead with a smile and said, "I'm only 25 years old, who says I'm old?"

Although Zhang Ziyi did not admit that he was old, Wang Ting, who was in the same car with him, was well aware of the heavy pressure he was under in this competition.

Before leaving, Su Bai met him alone and reminded him to remember to pay attention to Zhang Ziyi's physical condition.

During this period of time, Wang Ting has been watching Zhang Ziyi's daily training. Wang Ting also understands the agreement between Zhang Ziyi and Su Bai. Wang Ting feels distressed for this disciple who is ready to do everything to exchange for the qualification to participate in the Olympics, but he also understands that the Olympics is indeed the pinnacle dream of every athlete, and he should support Zhang Ziyi's dream.

On Zhang Ziyi's road to pursuing his dreams, all he can do as a coach is to do his best to ensure Zhang Ziyi's logistical support as much as possible.

Just like this Asian Championships.

After the bus arrived at the Sports Village, the athletes got off one after another, but Zhang Ziyi was caught by Wang Ting, who took him directly to the hall where the national team's logistics and medical team was located.

Before this competition, Su Bai also specially found the national team's masseur and gave special instructions about Zhang Ziyi's physical recovery and some muscle groups that must be paid special attention to massage and relax. Now that the first day of competition is over, Wang Ting directly carried him to the masseur and asked him to give him a good massage to relax him.

Seeing Zhang Ziyi lying on the massage bed and being turned over and over by the masseur, Wang Ting frowned and taught him: "You are already a very mature player in our team. Why are you so reckless in today's competition?"

Wang Ting was talking about Zhang Ziyi's physical energy allocation.

"You know yourself that you were going to run 7 shots in this competition, but what happened? You used too much force in the first shot!"

Zhang Ziyi lay on the massage bed, listening to the scolding obediently.

He also knew that he had consumed a lot of energy in today's race. Although the opponents in his group were relatively strong, logically speaking, he could have saved a little energy and just finished third or fourth in the race.

However, when I really started running, I still felt competitive.

After Wang Ting had been nagging Zhang Ziyi for the entire massage treatment, he suddenly realized that Zhang Ziyi had been listening to him obediently the entire time but had not given him any response.

Seeing that Zhang Ziyi's massage was about to end, Wang Ting lost his temper. He looked at Zhang Ziyi and said, "What are you thinking about? I talked to you for a long time, but you didn't respond at all?"

Zhang Ziyi's massage was over. He sat up and stretched his limbs, thanked the masseur, and then looked at Wang Ting, smiled sheepishly, and was silent for a few seconds before saying, "I was wondering... Is it possible for me to win the championship in this Asian Championship?"

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Zhang Ziyi's words made Wang Ting's eyes flash. He really didn't expect that this was what Zhang Ziyi was thinking.

The Asian Championships champion of the men's 400m...

According to the previous Asian Games and Asian Championships 400m men's individual results, the champion's results were all within 45 seconds, and Zhang Ziyi's previous personal best was still 0.24 seconds away from the 45-second mark.

As a member of the coaching team, Wang Ting certainly knew Zhang Ziyi's training improvement data during the winter training. This data loss was enough to allow Zhang Ziyi's performance to achieve a qualitative leap. However, in the last training match during the winter training, Zhang Ziyi had not yet shown enough performance foundation to break the 45-second mark.

Wang Ting was a little dazed. After looking at Zhang Ziyi, he didn't know whether he should agree with his expectations, or advise him to carefully control his physical energy distribution.

That night, Wang Ting was unable to respond to Zhang Ziyi's question until 9:20 the next morning, when the men's 400m semi-final began.

Compared with the preliminaries, the semi-finals are naturally more difficult.

The men's 400m semi-finals are divided into two groups, with 8 athletes in each group. The top three in each group will advance directly, and the top two of the remaining athletes will also qualify as substitutes.

In contrast to the preliminaries of the previous day, Qiu Wen was placed in the 'death group' in today's semifinals. Under the pursuit of Anans, Roger and a Kuwaiti athlete named Amesfar, Qiu Wen ran a good time of 45.36 seconds but only finished fourth in the group.

From first in the preliminary group the day before, to fourth in the semifinal group today, the new fans of track and field in front of the TV were a little confused - they had also seen the Kuwaiti athlete in the competition the day before, and his result was just over 46 seconds, but today he was so strong that he even surpassed Qiu Wen's result of 45.36 seconds.

Before the audience could come to a conclusion, the second group of semi-finals had already ended.

This time, the audience was not disappointed. Zhang Ziyi easily won first place in this group of competitions with a score of 45.72. The results of the two semi-finals made the audience, who had become new fans of track and field events after following the variety show, finally realize the unpredictability of track and field events.