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Subject: [Ahhh, only 0.07 seconds! ! ! 】
On the Track and Field Kingdom forum, after Li Junhao's results were announced, many posts like this popped up immediately. Everyone was lamenting and felt that this mere 0.07 second difference was really a pity. Moreover, it was normal for athletes to have ups and downs in their performance. This time Li Junhao was able to run 45.37 seconds, but in the next competition, even if there was a normal fluctuation, it was possible that his time would drop to around 45.60 seconds...
If this is true, this result is definitely not bad, but compared with everyone's expectation that Li Junhao can reach the qualifying standard for the World Championships, there is some gap.
However, some people said that there is nothing to regret or worry about. Li Junhao is in such a good state now. As long as he maintains this state and plays more games in the next two months, he still has a chance to qualify for the World Championships.
There were many different opinions in the forum. Some were celebrating Li Junhao's PB, some were looking back on the past, and some were discussing the latest running style that Li Junhao demonstrated in this competition.
[This kind of rhythm control master has never been seen in China before! I just watched the separate replay. I could only see it after watching it again. You can tell from Ah Hao's face that he was running very ferociously, but when the camera zoomed away, it felt like he was running for fun. His posture was too relaxed and unrestrained. 】
[I took a screenshot and made a comparison. Brothers can take a look. Although my comparison picture is not very professional, you should be able to see from the screenshot that Ah Hao's stride is amazing! This stride length must be two meters and seven, right? I checked and found that Iverson's height is not much different from Ah Hao's. Iverson is also 185cm tall. But look at the stride length comparison between the two in the screenshots, especially the last 100-meter sprint. Damn, it looks like Ah Hao bounced and flew over! 】
After Shao Minyi and Li Sen introduced Li Junhao's unique running style in this game, track and field fans of course reacted quickly. Among them, there was a track and field fan who suggested taking a stride length screenshot, and immediately made a comparison screenshot to demonstrate Li Junhao's latest running style and status in this game.
Hengelo, Netherlands
After watching his own results and leaving the field, Li Junhao returned to the locker room to change his clothes and relax. Then he finally took out his mobile phone from his luggage, reopened the sports channel's live broadcast room, found the replay of his recent game from the replay on demand in the live broadcast room, and watched it again.
Looking back once again and comparing it with his remaining memories on the field, Li Junhao was sure that he had indeed made a major breakthrough in his overall condition this time. However, he understood even more clearly that today's breakthrough was still a big coincidence for him - after returning, he would have to continue training well under Su Bai, the king of routines.
Thinking of this, Li Junhao received congratulatory messages from people in the 400-meter event group on his phone.
Zhang Ziyi: [^^Ahao, congratulations! ! 45.37 seconds, keep it up! 】
Guo Dun: [? Lao Zhang, how come your congratulations sound like an old cadre... Ah Hao, you ran well this time! Wait until you qualify for the World Championships! 】
Zhou Xu: [Oh, Ah Hao, we haven’t seen each other for a while. How come your running rhythm is completely different from before? Congratulations! Looks like you've found the rhythm that suits you best! 】
Li Junhao also sent a thank you expression in the group. After a while, people like Qiu Wen, Hu Li, Zhang Wei, Lin Chuan, and Zhang Chang, who had not seen the message, also popped up in the group.
Everyone might be free at the moment, so they took the opportunity to chat about Li Junhao's incident for a while. After talking about Li Junhao's achievements and his new running method, everyone reminded Li Junhao to try to maintain his form in the next race.
When the conversation was almost over, Zhou Xu suddenly said, "You know Ding Ruihan, right? He was kicked out of the provincial team of Province X."
They are all excellent athletes in the 400-meter event. Even if they don't deliberately inquire about gossip, they are still relatively well-informed about the news in the circle.
Zhang Ziyi and others who were training regularly in the national team certainly knew Ding Ruihan. They had originally discussed which players would be recruited into the national team and become reserve players.
Because of Ding Ruihan's outstanding talent, everyone in the group originally thought that Ding Ruihan's name would probably be on the list of team members in the future.
Unexpectedly, this person would be directly sent back to his original team by Su Bai.
In fact, they had not paid any attention to Ding Ruihan since he was sent back to his original team. It was only just now, after hearing what Zhou Xu said, that they realized that Ding Ruihan was not only sent back to his original team, but was also expelled from the original team.
Zhou Xu: [It is said that his parents are trying to contact provincial teams in other regions to send him in. However, Ding Ruihan has caused a lot of trouble due to his personality, and some provincial teams with good conditions are unwilling to accept him. They also had connections with the S Province Track and Field Team, but the S Province Track and Field Team is considered Coach Su’s base, right? Of course, it is even more impossible to accept him. 】
Lin Chuan: […Yeah, I heard about it too. It seems his family has also contacted our provincial team. 】
Zhou Xu: [I have heard that only the provincial team of Province E is willing to accept me. But the 400 meters of Province E... is it not an exaggeration to say that it is useless? Maybe because I saw that he had good talent, I wanted to let him stay for a trial. Maybe he could earn some extra points for the provincial team, which would be worth it. 】
Everyone in the group felt a little sad when talking about Ding Ruihan's result.
According to the attitude of the E Province Track and Field Team, there will not be more training conditions or additional support for the 400-meter event, and there may be additional performance requirements for Ding Ruihan.
Seeing a talented athlete in the event end up like this, everyone couldn't help but become more alert.
Qiu Wen: [Well, but what Xiaobai said at that time... I have always been curious. 】
Hu Li: [What did Coach Su say? 】
Qiu Wen: [He said that among the 400m trial runners recruited this time, the one with the best talent is not Ding Ruihan. 】
Speaking of this, everyone immediately remembered that in the "conversation between Su Bai and Ding Ruihan" that they had heard privately, it was mentioned that Su Bai said that among the tryout players, there were those who were more talented than Ding Ruihan.
Qiu Wen: [Ahhh, I really want to ask Xiaobai, which one has the best talent! ! 】
Everyone: [……]
The next day, the national track and field team and the trial team training venue
The 60 contestants who were participating in the tryout had, of course, watched Li Junhao's competition in the Netherlands the night before. After watching it, these contestants were shocked in private.
"Pill, in the past, the threshold for joining the national team was about 46 seconds. Generally, young athletes aged 18 or 19 who could run under 46.30 seconds were guaranteed to join the national team... Now the threshold for joining the national team is under 46 seconds, right?"
Qiu Mingjie counted the times of several senior players in the national team on his fingers: "Zhang Shuai is the best now, she has run under 45 seconds. Boss Qiu is also very strong, 45.27 seconds...then there is Brother Hao from yesterday, 45.37 seconds...only Brother Guo Dunguo and Brother Lin Chuanlin are the worst, they haven't broken the 46-second mark yet, but they are veterans of the 4x400m relay, their relay techniques are very stable..."
Having figured this out, Qiu Mingjie stepped onto the floor of the indoor arena, spread his limbs wide, and revealed a face of exhaustion and despair: "Wow, Atang, the world of these top bosses is too scary!"
Zhuo Yutang saw Qiu Mingjie lying on the ground with a look of despair on his face. He thought for a moment, squatted down, and patted his head: "It's okay. We are only 15 years old. It's normal to have a gap in grades with them."
Qiu Mingjie was planning to hug his friend's thigh and howl a few times, but when he opened his eyes, he saw a face looking at him from above, with a 'kind' smile on his face.
Oh shit!
It’s Coach Gu!
This is the break before training begins. The coach usually hasn't arrived yet and the training task hasn't started yet, but there are really no players lying on the ground like Qiu Mingjie.
The training atmosphere in the trial team was quite serious these days. Qiu Mingjie immediately got scared and quickly got up from the ground, dragging up his squatting friend.
"Ahem, well, Coach Gu, the training time hasn't started yet, so I'll just relax first..."
Gu Cheng looked at Qiu Mingjie's cowardly look and felt amused, but he still suppressed his laughter and knocked on his head with a stern face: "Okay, don't be lazy during training!"
Seeing that Gu Cheng just knocked him on the head and let him go, Qiu Mingjie breathed a sigh of relief.
At the side, Wu Tian saw Gu Cheng leaving and quietly slipped over. The two began to talk about how they didn't know where the final assessment baseline for their trial contestants would be cut off.
"I have inquired about it in the past few days. In our men's team, the best individual 400m performance is Zhang Jiale, whose current PB is 46.31 seconds. However, he also has disadvantages. He is 22 years old this year and got in at the edge of the age line."
"Then there are two more runners with PBs under 46.50 seconds. They are also relatively old and were originally 400m specialists."
"Besides them, the other 18 to 20-year-olds generally have scores between 47.50 and 48.50, and then there are those of us who have scores between 47 and 50 seconds."
Wu Tian muttered to himself and repeated to Qiu Mingjie and Zhuo Yutang the situation of all the players currently on the men's team's tryouts.
Qiu Mingjie was shocked by this information: "Wow, Xiaotian, I think you shouldn't come to practice track and field, you should be a paparazzi!"
Hearing Qiu Mingjie's words, Wu Tian bared his teeth at Qiu Mingjie viciously: "You are the paparazzi! I share this information with you because I think I am your good brother!"
"Hehe, I know, Xiaotian, you are the best!"
A few of them chatted in low voices for a few words, then quickly stood up again - the training time was up, and if they continued to grumble they would probably end up getting hit on the head.
Just when everyone was gathered and ready to start training, Gu Cheng called everyone together and gave a notice.
"In three days, the first 400-meter special test will be conducted to record all of your initial 400-meter results."
Huh?
Initial score?
Someone asked in confusion: "Isn't the first round of the team competition held after one month of training?"
Gu Cheng nodded: "Yes, but this special test is not a team competition. Coach Su has explained that you have gone through a short period of 400-meter basic technical learning and various adaptive training. Now you can make a test record of your initial 400-meter results." At this point, Gu Cheng smiled and said, "In three days, do your best!"