From June to August, there were no major events during these months. The most anticipated event in July and August was probably the Diamond League. However, among the national team, only a few top female players such as Liu Jiaonan were eligible to participate in the Diamond League this year. As for the male players, both Fang Yu and Wang Shen have entered the top 20 in the world rankings with their results this year, but they still have to wait until next season to qualify for the Diamond League.

Of course, although there are no major competitions, the national team members have not stopped their efforts to fight abroad. After all, the deadline for the World Championships qualifying performance assessment period on August 31 is getting closer and closer.

For the players in the national team who have not yet obtained the qualification to participate in the competition, it is naturally impossible for them to stop refreshing their own records. If they have already obtained the qualification to participate in the competition, they will try to play as many games as possible, use games as training, maintain their competitive state, and strive to gradually bring their condition to the peak.

Therefore, during this period, the coaching staff of the national team also tried their best to arrange a series of European training matches for the athletes in their events.

For a while, the team members traveled to a series of European training match hosting countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, and experienced a wave of high-intensity schedules.

It should be said that this wave of high-density schedule does have its benefits. In these two months, there are people like Wang Shen who simply treat the competition as a practice match, purely to adapt to different competition conditions, and there are also guys like Qiu Wen who run happily in every game.

Compared to Zhang Ziyi, who also restrained himself a little in accordance with Su Bai's request, the reputations of the two athletes, 'China Qiu' and 'China Li', have become more well-known among international 400m athletes in the 400m event during this period.

The former is because Qiu Wen is full of energy in every game, which makes many players doubt whether he is adjusting his competitive state well - or his competitive state is indeed not at its peak?

No matter which one it is, Qiu Wen's energy and the destructive rhythm when he is on the outside lane have left many international players who have competed with him with lingering fears.

Many players have said privately: "This guy should not appear on any track except the innermost lane! 】

Moreover, this guy, who made many opponents feel scared, managed to refresh his own PB once again by running in a way that disrupted the rhythm of others, and refreshed his personal best from 45.27 seconds to 45.17 seconds. While successfully refreshing his own PB, he also made the athletes competing with him feel particularly tired.

The latter...

Li Junhao participated in a total of 4 games during this period. Just like what Su Bai said when he first ran the control flow, he has not been able to truly master the rhythm of this running style. If he wants to truly run the control flow in the game, it still depends on luck in most cases.

His luck was pretty good. There were two games where he failed to run in a controlled flow state and his results dropped to around 45.70 seconds. However, in the two games where he successfully ran in a controlled flow rhythm, his PB was finally successfully refreshed to 45.28 seconds, and he won the qualification for this World Athletics Championships.

On the women's team, Lin Huan and Lin Yao have not given up on sprinting towards the 400m qualifying line for the World Championships. After the World Athletics Relays, Lin Huan and Lin Yao re-entered the 400m individual event, and their results are slowly improving.

During this period, Su Bai's arrangements for several players on the women's team were different from his laissez-faire arrangements for Qiu Wen, Li Junhao and others. He arranged more competitions for Lin Huan and Lin Yao in China to minimize their time traveling abroad. At the same time, he arranged a series of performance sprint plans for them to help them get the chance to reach the qualifying range for the World Championships as much as possible.

However, perhaps it is because domestic competitions do not provide enough challenges for Lin Huan and Lin Yao. Every game is like an intra-team competition between the two of them, and the champion and runner-up will be decided between the two of them. If only one of them participates, then with a lack of opponents, Lin Huan and Lin Yao's results will inevitably decline.

By the middle of August, when the deadline for the standard performance assessment period was approaching, Lin Huan and Lin Yao became more and more nervous. At this stage, their PBs had actually been hovering around 52 seconds, but they had never been able to break below 52 seconds, and they were still some distance away from the standard of 51.80 seconds.

The two of them originally wanted to find Su Bai and request to go to Europe to participate in the last two training matches, hoping to see if they would have the opportunity to break through their limits in the atmosphere of the European training matches, but Su Bai found them first.

"In the last two games, the chances are in your hands, so do your best to seize them."

When Su Bai handed the latest schedule of the two to Lin Huan and Lin Yao, they both nodded excitedly: "Coach, don't worry, we will definitely do it!"

Up to this point, Su Bai has actually achieved the goal he set at the beginning - a full field of participants in the men's 400m event. As for the women's team, Chen Yada has also qualified early on. This result, which far exceeds any previous results, has actually made the national team and the Athletics Management Center very satisfied.

However, Zheng Xingguo, when he heard that Su Bai had arranged for Lin Huan and Lin Yao to participate in the last two European training matches to sprint for the PB, he specially found him and wanted to ask Su Bai how confident he was that Lin Huan and Lin Yao would qualify for the World Championships.

Su Bai did not try to evade the question, but told Zheng Xingguo directly, "Only 50%."

This number is the most uncertain answer Su Bai has given since he joined the national team. However, Zheng Xingguo also understands that the girls on the women's team are not as talented as Qiu Wen and Li Junhao on the men's team. Su Bai has been able to bring Lin Huan and Lin Yao, who originally had a PB of more than 53 seconds, to a position where they have a chance to break the 52-second mark and a 50% chance of sprinting to the World Championships qualifying standard of 51.80 seconds in just over a year. This ability is already terrifying enough.

The national team did not put too much pressure on Lin Huan and Lin Yao. In the last ten days of August, they traveled lightly to Europe to participate in the last two European training matches before the end of the standard performance assessment period.

While training competitions abroad are still ongoing, the domestic trials for the Chinese zone of the World Athletics Championships will be held in the final stage of August. This trial has two main purposes.

Firstly, out of the total 49 events in the World Athletics Championships, the Chinese team has only qualified for 29 events. Therefore, the Athletics Administration Center arranged this event in the hope of gathering high-level domestic athletes and allowing those who have not yet reached the World Championships qualifying line to challenge the qualifying results with the gathering of high-level athletes.

Secondly, although Chinese athletes have only qualified for 29 of the 49 events so far, the qualifications for some of these events are over-capacity. The Athletics Administration Center also needs to use this event to allow these events with over-capacity athletes to compete for the top three, and have these top three register to participate in the Doha World Championships.

Of course, there is no chance of overcrowding in the 100m, 400m, 110m hurdles, high jump and other events that Su Bai is involved in.

In the 400m event, Su Bai only submitted exemption applications for Lin Huan and Lin Yao, while Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Li Junhao and others were called back to China to participate in the World Championships together.

Before the World Championships qualifiers, Zhang Ziyi's results in several training matches were around 45.30 seconds. It seems that his results are not as outstanding as those of Qiu Wen and Li Junhao. In the past two months, there has been constant speculation on the Internet about Zhang Ziyi's results and status.

Many track and field fans are worried that Zhang Ziyi's condition will enter a slump after breaking the 45-second mark. After all, this situation has happened in the past. Just like Fang Yu, after he broke the ten-second mark for the first time, he was in a slump for two years. It was not until Su Bai took over Fang Yu's training that Fang Yu's condition completely recovered and he reopened the world of ten seconds.

Now that Zhang Ziyi is like this, it is inevitable that people will have such associations again.

However, this association was soon shattered by Zhang Ziyi's performance in the World Championship qualifiers - after more than two months, Zhang Ziyi once again gave full play to his strength in the competition, suppressing Qiu Wen and Li Junhao, who were in the limelight during this period.

The spectators at the scene were so excited that they shouted at the top of their lungs after seeing Zhang Ziyi's performance. When Zhang Ziyi crushed Qiu Wen and Li Junhao and crossed the finish line first, the atmosphere at the scene also reached its peak at that moment!

44.93 seconds!

In this game, Zhang Ziyi also pushed his PB forward by another 0.03 seconds!

Up to this point, Zhang Ziyi's 400m pb result was only 0.03 seconds away from the qualifying result for the men's 400m at the Tokyo Olympics.

After seeing Zhang Ziyi's result, the track and field fans who were originally worried about Zhang Ziyi's condition breathed a sigh of relief.

44.93 seconds! This is 44.93 seconds!

Even though Qiu Wen and Li Junhao both ran under 45.30 seconds in this game, and Li Junhao once again broke his own PB, all this could not stop Zhang Ziyi from shining brightly in the game!

If there is one thing that makes people feel regretful, it is that Lin Huan and Lin Yao, who went to Europe, did not sprint to the qualifying results of the World Championships in these two training matches. Especially Lin Yao, in the latter game, she broke the 52-second mark and pushed her PB to 51.89, but she was still 0.09 seconds away from the qualifying line of 51.80.

Although they feel some regrets, Lin Yao and Lin Huan have already understood that they have tried their best - although they cannot participate in this year's World Championships, they will never miss the 2021 World Championships again in two years!