While the Chinese team's translator was helping the players deal with various matters before the competition, the players waited with me for a while and chatted casually.

Ye Wenhao had just recovered from the injury he suffered in the Asian Championships. This time he came to participate in the competition just to find his form in international competitions and adapt to the atmosphere.

Wang Shen came here for a serious competition. He and Ye Wenhao also had some experience in participating in international competitions. At the moment, both of them were in good condition. Ye Wenhao looked around at the competition environment, then glanced at Cui Luoheng who seemed expressionless not far away, and secretly turned his head to Wang Shen and said, "Old Wang, Ah Heng, it seems that he has never participated in a formal international competition, right? Isn't he easily nervous? Do you want to have a good chat with him and comfort him?"

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Wang Shen glanced at Ye Wenhao with a smile, then glanced at Cui Luoheng not far away with a smile, and then said, "No need."

"Oh, why not?" Ye Wenhao didn't quite understand: "If his mental quality is not good, as a team member, we should also help him, right?"

After hearing what Ye Wenhao said, Wang Shen raised his eyebrows and glanced at his teammate. He understood Su Bai's complicated feelings when facing Qiu Wen.

"It's okay. He just has Schrödinger's poor psychological quality."

"ha?"

As a representative of pure-blood athletes, Ye Wenhao really didn't understand what Wang Shen meant by this sentence, but that didn't prevent him from understanding the deeper meaning behind Wang Shen's words. In short, it can be summed up in five words - no comfort needed.

Cui·Poor psychological quality·Eager to try·Luo Heng, at this moment, was unaware of the discussion about him going on among his teammates behind him.

Although not only the game hadn't started yet, they hadn't even started warming up, but beneath Cui Luoheng's calm face, the slightly tingling excitement that gradually spread from his heart had already made his eyes sparkle.

If a camera could be pointed at his face at this moment, capturing his pupils shrinking due to the hidden excitement in his heart, then from these detailed micro-expressions, no one would believe that a person with such an expression would be a player with 'poor psychological quality'.

Regarding this Jamaica Challenge, Su Bai had already done a lot of analysis with him before the game, including the registered players for this event, etc. Cui Luoheng could be said to have all this information in mind.

The IAAF Challenge is one of the higher-level track and field competitions in the world. Although the threshold for participants is not as high as that of the Diamond League, it is definitely not bad.

Just like today's race, among the registered runners in the 110-meter hurdles, there are many world-class 110-meter hurdle champions.

Since the competition is hosted in Jamaica, three of the contestants are from Jamaica. The strongest among them is a world-class 110-meter hurdles athlete named Tanui. His current personal PB is 12.96 seconds, and he is an international star who has run under 13 seconds many times.

In addition to Tanui, among the remaining Jamaican contestants, there is another athlete named McCready who also has the ability to run within 13.05 seconds. McCready's personal regular results also fluctuate between 13.10 and 13.30 seconds. He is a player with a very stable personal state.

In addition to the three Jamaican contestants and Cui Luoheng, there are five other contestants in this competition, from the United States, Germany, France, Cyprus and Barbados. Among them, Fabregas from France and Aubrey from Barbados, their results fluctuated between 13.20 and 13.40. Their personal PBs are 13.11 and 13.14 respectively. For Cui Luoheng, they are both extremely strong opponents.

This time, all the opponents Cui Luoheng faced were at least at the top three level of the Asian Championships. Every athlete participating in this event had a personal PB within 13.40 seconds.

After Su Bai and Cui Luoheng sorted out the technical characteristics of these players, Su Bai once told Cui Luoheng that although this game was just an IAAF Challenge, the opponents he would face were definitely the strongest group in history.

Su Bai said this to Cui Luoheng mainly to warn him in advance - this game will be very difficult. Perhaps, for Cui Luoheng, only by trying his best can he compete with these top players.

In fact, Cui Luoheng did not dare to tell Su Bai at that time. Just hearing about such a confrontational lineup made his heart pound. When he arrived at the competition site in Jamaica, he had to clench his fists to barely suppress the excitement in his body.

At this time, domestic

The time in China is 13 hours faster than that in Jamaica. The sports channel has purchased the television and online live broadcast rights for the World Athletics Challenge and the Diamond League this year. Although it is already the early morning of May 5, there are still many die-hard track and field fans who want to see the results of the competitions as soon as possible. So they set alarms, wake up in the early morning, turn on the TV or the Internet, and watch the live broadcast.

At this moment in the online live broadcast room, there are actually quite a few people who have stayed up late greeting each other in the barrage.

In the coaching dormitory of the national track and field team, Su Bai was of course waiting for the live broadcast of the game. Before the live broadcast of the game began, Su Bai still habitually opened the system dynamic panel of Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen.

Wang Shen's attribute panel showed a calm mental state as usual, and then when Su Bai turned his gaze to Cui Luoheng's dynamic tracking panel, he saw that Cui Luoheng's state was obviously fluctuating violently.

In Cui Luoheng's attribute panel, one can see that the attributes related to tension and excitement are fluctuating violently, and the current state is definitely not stable.

Among these, an excited mood is necessary for athletes to present a good competitive state in the competition, but a tense state has both advantages and disadvantages.

When Su Bai saw Cui Luoheng's panel status fluctuating so drastically, and thought of Cui Luoheng who always said that he had "poor psychological quality", he couldn't help but feel a little worried. After all, judging from the drastic fluctuations in the data on the panel, it was really difficult to praise Cui Luoheng for his good psychological quality.

Jamaica, competition site, warm-up field

After the team translator completed the registration and other related work for the players according to the game schedule, everyone dispersed according to the different game times, changed their clothes in the locker room one after another, and then went on stage to compete or prepared for the game in the warm-up venue.

Cui Luoheng's 110-meter hurdles race was scheduled in the middle of the race. After he arrived at the warm-up venue, he only needed to compare the skin colors of the athletes on the scene to clearly find that black people accounted for the vast majority of the athletes present, followed by white people, while the number of yellow athletes seemed pitifully small.

The 110-meter hurdlers all warmed up at the same warm-up point. Among the 9 athletes present, except Cui Luoheng, Fabregas from France and Ludwig from Germany, the remaining 6 athletes all had dark skin.

Among these eight players, Fabregas and Ludwig originally belonged to the minority group, but after Cui Luoheng arrived, these players turned their heads with some curiosity.

After all, compared with the two white players, Cui Luoheng, who is the only one, is a rare species in such a competition.

However, despite their curiosity, Cui Luoheng had never officially appeared in the world 110-meter hurdles before. These athletes just looked at Cui Luoheng curiously, or at most nodded to him friendly, and then turned to focus on their own warm-ups.

Although the IAAF World Challenge is not a very important event, there are many strong athletes present this time. Tanui, McReady, Fabregas and others are competing on the same field for the first time this year. For them, it is also a good opportunity to inspire each other and achieve excellent personal results of the year.

Therefore, everyone at the warm-up point was seriously preparing for the later competition and did not have much interest in paying attention to a strange face from Asia.

Cui Luoheng didn't care about everyone's indifference. In fact, although he looked expressionless, he was actually trying his best to control his emotions.

He could feel his excitement, but he needed to try his best to stabilize this excited state before the game, and then let this emotion out completely when the game started.

While Cui Luoheng was warming up in preparation for the game, on the domestic sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen had already sat in the live broadcast room, explaining several previous events.

"As we all know, Jamaica is a well-known sprint kingdom. This competition is held in Jamaica. In the several competitions that have been completed today, in the sprint events, it can be said that the overall quality, level and performance of the athletes are above the average level of the track and field challenge."

"That's right." Li Sen also agreed, "From the men's 100m and 200m sprint races that just ended, we can see that in this competition, two runners ran under 10 seconds in the men's 100m, and in the 200m race, two runners also ran under 20 seconds. In addition, five runners, including Wu Yi, set their personal bests of the season."

At this point, Shao Minyi's voice was slightly regretful: "my country's 200m champion Wu Yi ran a good time of 20.31 seconds in today's race and won the bronze medal. This result has already reached the entry standard for this year's World Track and Field Championships. Of course, before this, Wu Yi had already obtained a ticket to the World Championships. Today, he just easily proved once again that he has the personal superiority to run into the World Championships."

"Unfortunately, although 20.31 is an excellent result, it is still 0.7 seconds away from the Tokyo Olympic qualifying line of 20.24 for the men's 200m sprint."

Both Shao Minyi and Li Sen felt that Wu Yi played well today, but seemed a little tired. It was probably because he had traveled a long distance to Jamaica to participate in the competition and did not have enough time to rest and adjust.

Thinking of this, the two felt regretful and at the same time a little worried about Cui Luoheng who was about to compete later - after all, in the 110-meter hurdles event, the athletes' performance would be more affected by their competitive state.

Just when Shao Minyi and Li Sen were feeling nervous for Cui Luoheng, on the track, the staff had already set up the hurdles for the 110-meter hurdles. With the completion of the on-site layout work and the warm-up, the athletes waiting in the athlete channel had already arrived at the competition venue under the guidance of the staff.

When the nine contestants of the 110-meter hurdles took the stage, tens of thousands of spectators at the scene were the first to cheer and applaud - Tanui, the famous 110-meter hurdles athlete, is also very popular in Jamaica. Many spectators at the scene sat in the stands just to catch a glimpse of him on the field.

Even among the track and field fans in China who are waiting for Cui Luoheng's competition, many of them are fans of Tanui, Fabregas and others.

In the live broadcast room, domestic track and field fans were a little surprised after seeing the faces of the athletes on the scene.

[Damn, Tanui, McReady, Aubrey, Fabregas... Is this 110-meter hurdles race so exciting? 】

[Yeah, brother, didn’t you look at the list of participants before watching tonight’s game? There are many famous athletes in tonight’s 110-meter hurdles race! 】

[Oh shit, with this lineup, isn’t Xiao Cui a bit dangerous? 】

[…It’s hard to say. It depends on whether the big guys can be waterproof today. After all, it’s a challenge match. Maybe the big guys will tacitly agree to let it go. Who knows, Xiao Cui might be able to bring back the championship! 】

[……?] Come on, look at the previous 100 meters and 200 meters, we had to take off from the spot, okay? That result would be top-notch even in the Diamond League. 】

While track and field fans were chattering on the live broadcast, the nine contestants had already arrived on the field.

In this game, Cui Luoheng drew the ninth track, Tanui was in the fifth track, Fabregas was in the seventh track, and McReady was in the third track.

Cui Luoheng adjusted his starting blocks in front of the starting line, and after a simple test run, he stood behind the starting blocks and stopped moving - it was just a simple test run, but he felt that he could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart, so after confirming that there was no problem with the starting blocks, he simply stood behind the starting blocks alone, with his hands on his waist, his head lowered and his eyes closed, trying to control his slightly restless heart in the noisy environment.

In the eighth lane on Cui Luoheng's left is Kalinic, a Cypriot athlete. Although Kalinic's personal strength is not as good as several famous athletes, his personal best result is 13.30 seconds, and he is a very strong athlete.

Because of today's match, half of the players on the field have world-class strength, so even Kalinic feels a little nervous about the upcoming games.

After completing his preparations, Kalinic was nervously waiting for the start of the game. He turned his head inadvertently and found that the Asian player on his right seemed to have closed his eyes for a long time.

Seeing Cui Luoheng with his eyes closed expressionlessly, Kalinic showed some sympathy on his face - this poor Asian player was probably very nervous as it was his first time participating in a competition of this level.

Perhaps because he realized that there were other players who were more nervous than himself, Kalinic's expression became a little relaxed.

In the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were a little worried when they saw Cui Luoheng's condition.

"Cui Luoheng is closing his eyes and preparing, waiting for the official start of the game later. It can be seen that he is trying to calm himself down and try to avoid being nervous and get into good shape."

On-site, preparation area for the men's high jump event

The high jump competition was already underway. Ye Wenhao and Wang Shen had both applied to be exempted from the first two heights. At this moment, the horizontal bar was being adjusted, so they had enough time to see Cui Luoheng closing his eyes and waiting for the competition to start on the 110-meter hurdles track not far from them.

Seeing Cui Luoheng with his eyes closed, Ye Wenhao hesitated for a moment and was about to turn around to see what Wang Shen said. However, before long, the on-site broadcast announced the start of the 110-meter hurdles race. Ye Wenhao looked at Cui Luoheng, who had opened his eyes and turned his neck, and his face suddenly changed.

"…Fuck, Lao Wang, is that Xiao Cui learning how to change his face? Why do I feel like he's so excited right now?"

When the command was given at the scene, Cui Luoheng opened his eyes immediately. After stretching his muscles, Cui Luoheng supported himself with his hands and squatted on the starting blocks as the broadcast gave the command of "get ready".

Plop.

Plop.

At this point, Cui Luoheng felt that the anticipation and excitement for the game in his heart could no longer be suppressed... Of course, it was now time for him to no longer suppress these emotions.

Kalinic, the player closest to Cui Luoheng, also made the ready posture and suddenly felt an inexplicably strong momentum coming from the right side. However, when he thought of the nervous Asian player he had seen before, Kalinic put this strange feeling behind him.

"Everyone, get ready."

After the referee's calm command, there was an equally calm and crisp sound of the starting gun - "bang"!

With the sound of the gunshot, the 110-meter hurdles event of the World Athletics Challenge Jamaica Station officially kicked off!

At the starting point of the track, at the moment the gun went off, the nine athletes all accumulated their strength and burst out at the first possible moment. The 110-meter hurdlers' strong explosive power and sharp reaction ability at the starting stage were clearly revealed at this stage.

The 9 contestants on the scene had an average reaction time of around 0.13 seconds. Among them, one whose reaction speed of 0.116 stood out - it was the Chinese contestant, Cui Luoheng!

The referee in the referee team who was paying attention to the reaction time at the start thought that it belonged to Tanui after seeing this reaction speed. However, after seeing the name of the athlete, the referee was stunned for a moment. When he looked up, the athletes on the scene had already passed the halfway point in front of the hurdles, and Tanui, who was the fastest, was already preparing to attack the first hurdle!

So fast!

From the starting reaction, to the starting burst stage and the connection between the starting acceleration, when the explosive force pushed Kalinic forward, he also saw from the corner of his eye that the Chinese player on his right side flashed past him almost like light and quickly completed the acceleration action. Every step and explosive force was like the fuel of a rocket, pushing him forward like flying.

How come this Chinese player is so fast? !

Although Kalinic had prepared himself mentally for the fact that his opponent would be extremely strong, the impact from the Chinese player on his right at the starting stage made him hesitate for a moment, and then he lost his best speed at the starting stage.

This is impossible!

Kalinic still wanted to try to catch up, but he found that this athlete from China, like Tanui, Fabregas and McReady, was actually a seven-step hurdle athlete!

After making this discovery, Kalinic's first reaction was that things were bad - in the 110-meter hurdles, athletes need to focus on their own rhythm and maintain it with all their strength. He is an eight-step hurdler, and before the race began, he warned himself to be careful about his rhythm and not be carried away by those seven-step hurdlers. However, he did not expect that he avoided the rhythm of Tanui and others, but was carried away by this Chinese athlete!

In this game of just over ten seconds, everyone was fighting against time, against wind speed, and against their own limits. When Kalinic's mind initially wavered, it meant that he had lost the qualification to win this game.

From the first step, Cui Luoheng felt that his condition today was exceptionally good - whether it was the explosive power released when stepping on the starting blocks, or the technical movement connection from the start to the acceleration afterwards, every movement link had a smoother dynamic than before.

At the start, it can be felt that among all the athletes present, the ones with the strongest explosive power are still Tanui and McReady from Jamaica. However, even though he lacks the explosive talent compared to athletes like Tanui and McReady, the excitement and excitement that constantly flows from Cui Luoheng's blood on the track today have made up for this lack of explosiveness for him.

The stage before the hurdles was only a short distance of 7 steps. Cui Luoheng leaned forward and shifted his center of gravity forward, just like the feeling he gave to Kalinic. In the outermost lane of the track, he was like a flash of lightning, breaking through the wind and moving forward!

“So fast!!”

In the live broadcast of the domestic sports channel, Shao Minyi only had time to say these two words. Before the game, he and Li Sen were still worried about Cui Luoheng's condition. But at this moment, looking at the figure sprinting forward like the wind in the outermost lane of the track, Shao Minyi and Li Sen's eyes lit up - how could this be the case that he was so nervous that he performed poorly? !

"Okay, now it's time to enter the hurdle attack phase!"

Li Sen shouted at the sidelines, for no other reason than that it could be seen from the live broadcast at that moment that after reaching the hurdles stage, in addition to Tanui and Fabregas, Cui Luoheng had also entered the first group on the track at this stage after entering the hurdles rhythm!

The taking-off leg pushes off the ground with explosive force, the swinging leg lifts and swings forward to cross the hurdle. After the body takes off for a short time, the taking-off leg also whips and pulls over the hurdle quickly, and the swinging leg presses down quickly after crossing the hurdle. After the front foot touches the ground, immediately use the strength of the ankle to drive the body to quickly move forward to the next hurdle in a three-step rhythm!

This series of movements has been engraved into Cui Luoheng's bones through long-term training. These almost instinctive movements no longer require his brain to remember.

At this moment, the only thought in Cui Luoheng's mind on the track was - hurry up! I can be faster!

In the audience, from the moment the starting gun sounded, deafening cheers resounded throughout the Jamaica Stadium. The audience here is passionate and crazy. They are shouting loudly to cheer for the players they support.

In this crazy and almost insane enthusiasm, it was not only Tanui who was encouraged and stimulated. Cui Luoheng, who was already extremely excited, gradually entered a cycle of increasingly faster speeds in the rhythm of attacking the hurdles in this exciting environment!

Cui Luoheng's body was very excited, but his brain was still awake and clear. He tried hard to control his breathing, rhythm, and every movement, making his movements, which were already smooth and perfect like instinct, even more refined!

The more excited he was, the better Cui Luoheng controlled his body. He could almost feel every slight contraction of his muscles. When jumping over the hurdles, the feeling of his body brushing against the limit of the hurdles made him even more excited!

Step, step, step, is the rhythm of each step, and they are getting faster and faster.

As the athletes conquered one hurdle after another, more and more spectators noticed the figure from track nine. His speed was incredibly fast. Not only was he firmly in the first group on the track, he was even at the front of the first group!

At the front of the track, the gap between Tanui and Cui Luoheng was large, and he did not notice the threat from Cui Luoheng. However, Fabregas, who was on the seventh track, had already noticed that on his right, on the outermost ninth track, the Chinese player was gradually overtaking him at an incredibly fast speed!

At this time, Tanui, Fabregas, McReady and Cui Luoheng from the first group had all reached the last three hurdles. Even though Fabregas had already felt the threat from Cui Luoheng, he still forced his attention back to the track in front of him!

3 hurdles, two hurdles, one hurdle...!

These athletes who are challenging the extreme speed in the 110-meter hurdles track have poured all their energy and attention into the track and hurdles in front of them. And when they have broken through all the hurdles in front of them, in the end, there is only a 14-meter sprint section left!

At this stage, the only one with a clear advantage on the track is Tanui, but his advantage is also very limited. Behind him, Fabregas, Cui Luoheng and McReady are almost neck and neck, sprinting in this last short track!

Thump, thump, the heartbeat was almost bursting through the throat. Cui Luoheng's eyes were fixed on the finish line in front of him. Not only him, but also Fabregas and McReady were the same!

No one thought that in this competition, at the final stage, there would be three players competing side by side, and one of them was an Asian player that no one had ever heard of before!

In the live broadcast room, the audience began to be stunned from the moment Cui Luoheng took the lead. Until this moment, a few seconds had passed in a trance, and many viewers were still in a daze, while those who had reacted had already started typing Cui Luoheng's name on the barrage, as if they were venting their excitement and cheering for Cui Luoheng on the public screen.

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen had already shouted Cui Luoheng's name: "Cui Luoheng!!! Come on!! Come on!!!"

The hoarseness in their voices is enough to feel the surging emotions in their hearts!

Amidst such cheers and shouts, three figures crossed the finish line of the 110-meter hurdles on the blue track of the Jamaica Stadium almost at the same time!