"First in the preliminaries, first in the semifinals..."

In the Chinese contestant section of the audience, Jiang Wentao smiled and joked, "It would be amazing if Ziyi could get first place in the final again!"

When the coaching staff members present heard Jiang Wentao's words, they all laughed. The track and field team's short-distance running results are getting better and better. Everyone in the track and field team is very happy, and they didn't take Jiang Wentao's joke too seriously.

Among the crowd, only Wang Ting, who was sitting aside, showed a worried look on his face after hearing this - these guys all thought that Jiang Wentao was joking, but he knew that Zhang Ziyi really had this idea in his mind.

Last night Zhang Ziyi asked him if he had any hope of winning the championship.

For athletes, even the most stable ones will have a desire for victory in their hearts. The desire to win is a necessary condition to become a top player.

Although before this game, Wang Ting rarely heard Zhang Ziyi mention the outcome of a game, he was more concerned about the overall situation of the team.

But last night, Wang Ting really saw in Zhang Ziyi's eyes his desire for the championship position.

In any case, track and field fans were very happy that Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen both advanced to the men's 400m final.

But at the same time, the semi-finals of the men's 100m event were also completed in the afternoon of the second day of competition. Fang Yu still advanced smoothly in the semi-finals as the first in the group, while Zhao Shu only got fourth place in his semi-final group.

Although Zhao Shu performed well, his result of 10.34 seconds still did not allow him to enter the final list, so he had to stop there regretfully.

There are no semi-finals in the women's 100m, 200m and 400m. The finals are scheduled in the evening and will be held at the same time as the finals of the three men's sprint events.

In this day's competition, in addition to the sprint events, there were also men's high jump qualifying rounds and men's javelin finals in the field events. Although the men's team's players performed mediocrely in the men's javelin final, in the men's high jump event, both Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao were in excellent condition.

After Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao easily passed the height of 2.24 meters, the qualifying round was no longer a suspense for the two of them, and the final qualifying line for the men's high jump final was cut at a height of 2.16 meters.

Due to the high outdoor temperature during the midday period, the matches at the Asian Championships in Doha were scheduled from 8:30 to 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m.

After the morning schedule was over, the national team members took the bus back to the Sports Village. After lunch, there were still events in the evening. Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi were both dropped off in the lobby of the logistics and medical team, where the masseurs relaxed their muscles and helped them recover their strength as soon as possible.

Perhaps it was because Qiu Wen was very young after all. Although he had just run a very physically demanding semi-final in the morning, at this moment, he was full of energy again. He lay on the massage bed and started chattering non-stop.

"That girl called Ah Mei ran really fiercely. In the second half of the race, she was like she was running at full speed. It looked like she didn't even try to control her pace and slow down!"

Of course, Zhang Ziyi also noticed Amesfar, who was in the same group with Qiu Wen in the morning. Zhang Ziyi had met this Kuwaiti player before, but at that time Amesfar was not particularly outstanding, and his results were only slightly better than his. He did not show the same momentum as in this competition.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Ziyi reviewed the players who were in the same group with him in the morning: "The Japanese young player Shiraishi Tsurou, his style in the early stage is very similar to yours, and he is also a player worth paying attention to."

Of course Qiu Wen also remembered Bai Shiherang. When he heard Zhang Ziyi's words, he just grinned. Before he could say anything, the masseur pressed on a certain acupuncture point on his body. He screamed: "Ah, it hurts, it hurts, Master Liu, please be gentler!"

Liu Ping, the masseur who was massaging Qiu Wen, slapped Qiu Wen in anger and said, "Alright, kid, every time I press an acupoint, you are the loudest one to make ghosts howl and wolves howl."

Qiu Wen howled, then laughed heartlessly: "Master Liu, just be gentle!" Then, Qiu Wen turned to Zhang Ziyi and said, "I have a feeling that Bai Shiherang will become very strong. I also told Xiaobai about it, and Xiaobai also said that he is very talented. He will probably be an opponent that Ah Hao and I have to be careful of in the future."

Hearing Qiu Wen's words, Zhang Ziyi nodded silently.

Over the past six months, the Chinese track and field team has been making rapid progress, but in the event of track and field, it is definitely not just the Chinese track and field team that has made progress.

Like Amesfat from Kuwait and Tsuru Shiraishi from the Japanese team. In this event, this newcomer has surpassed the Japanese team's 400m veteran Aso Yota and successfully entered the final of the 400m event.

After thinking about this, Zhang Ziyi closed his eyes.

In fact, the night before, when he and Wang Ting mentioned their desire for the championship, he really had the urge to pursue the championship in his heart, but he also clearly remembered that in this event, he still had the heavy responsibility of the men's and mixed 4*400m relay.

Rather than trying his best to win a slim chance of a gold medal in an individual event, it is more important for him to control his physical condition and try to see how far he can run in this Asian Championships.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ziyi didn't say anything more. After the massage, he patted Qiu Wen on the shoulder, smiled and said to him, "Come on!"

"Don't forget the promise you made to Xiaobai."

Qiu Wen was stunned for a moment, then with a bitter face he remembered what he had boasted to Su Bai before, that he would win the first place in this year's World Track and Field Championships in Haikou at the outdoor season's first stop.

After the semi-finals of the Doha Asian Championships this morning, topics related to Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi's results were actually being discussed on the domestic Internet.

Subject: [Place a bet, Xiao Qiu will finish in 45.36 seconds in the semi-finals...! Let’s bet on tonight’s final and see if Xiao Qiu can break 45.30 seconds and qualify for the World Championships! 】

5l: [You can bet on one. After all, it was the semi-finals this morning, and the players should have held back a little. But this time the preliminaries and semi-finals were both amazing. How did they manage to have death groups in the preliminaries and the semi-finals as well? 】

7l: [During the preliminaries, Ater from Kyrgyzstan... was so miserable, he was crushed the whole time. During the semi-finals, I was scared watching Xiao Qiu's group, because I was afraid that Xiao Qiu couldn't make it. Fortunately, although he didn't qualify directly in the top three, he still made it into the finals with a score of 45.36. 】

10l: [I was stunned by the semi-finals this morning. I just realized now that Xiaoqiu’s score of 45.36 seconds is Xiaoqiu’s new best, right? Damn, by this calculation, this result is not far from the World Championship standard of 45.30 seconds! 】

15l: [Come to think of it, Zhang Shuai hasn’t reached her full form yet, right? If Zhang Shuai gives her all, is there a chance she can win the championship? 】

18l: [To be the champion you have to run at least within 45 seconds, right? It feels a bit difficult...】

It was already around 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening in China when Su Bai received another call from Wang Ting. However, Wang Ting on the other end of the phone hesitated for a long time and was unable to say what he wanted to say.

After listening to Wang Ting talking in circles for a long time, Su Bai sighed silently: "Old Wang, do you want to talk about Ziyi's matter?"

As Zhang Ziyi's head coach, although Su Bai only watched these two games on TV, he was able to see some clues about Zhang Ziyi's mental ups and downs in the two games.

The athletes' pursuit of personal achievements, as well as their coordination and sacrifice in individual and team events, are problems that members of the national team often have to face.

Zhang Ziyi is currently the captain of the national men's 400m team. Coupled with his rising personal performance, the pressure and responsibility he has to bear in some major competitions makes it difficult for him to overdraw his physical strength and pursue the limit in individual events.

Wang Ting replied "yes" on the other end of the phone, but as the former head coach of the national team's 400m event, he actually knew that even if he called Su Bai now, Su Bai would not be able to make better coordination.

He also knew that before the Asian Championships, the team had set corresponding performance tasks for each event based on the situation of each event. The fact that Su Bai did not seriously mention it to the team members did not mean that Su Bai did not have the pressure of this task.

In the 4*400m relay, the men's team has the medals from last year's Asian Games for comparison, so the goal of this Asian Championships is, of course, to win medals. As for the mixed relay, although they can consider giving up because of past results, the team must at least try to reach the finals and strive to get a result that is an improvement over the past.

If this is to be done, Zhang Ziyi, who is almost the team's reassurance, is indispensable in these relay events.

Although Qiu Wen's performance is not much worse than Zhang Ziyi's now, to be honest, Zhang Ziyi is still the only core of the relay team. Before Qiu Wen really grows up to be able to replace Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Ziyi's position is irreplaceable.

On the one hand, there is Zhang Ziyi's desire for victory in personal events, and on the other hand, there is his irreplaceable position of responsibility.

It was because of this concern that Wang Ting was unable to give Zhang Ziyi any real response or promise the night before. Now that he called Su Bai, he couldn't say anything because he clearly understood that he could not push a problem that he himself knew was difficult to decide onto Su Bai.

On the other end of the phone, Su Bai was actually watching the discussion on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum. He looked at the discussion content on the screen, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally spoke.

"Let's give it a try." Su Bai said.

On the other end of the phone, Wang Ting was stunned after hearing this.

"Let him try his best." Su Bai calculated the team's configuration in his mind and said, "Since we are a team, we can't let one person take all the responsibility and compromise. Qiu Wen and Li Junhao are in good shape now. When it comes to the relay race, we can let them try to take more responsibility."

Wang Ting was silent for a moment after hearing this, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll go talk to him. If the team has any objections later, Xiaobai, you can say that it was my decision!"