From sixth place at the start, to crossing the finish line with Mike Reed!

Regardless of who comes first or second between the two, Cui Luoheng has successfully won two direct qualifying places in the second group of the semi-finals together with McReady!

This result instantly brought the audience, who had been panicking because of Cui Luoheng's failed start a moment ago, back to normal.

In the audience seats, Jiang Wentao felt that his vest was soaked with cold sweat. From the start to the third hurdle, Cui Luoheng, who was far behind, really made them sweat.

For a few seconds, Jiang Wentao told himself that there was probably no hope of advancing this time.

However, starting from the fourth hurdle, Cui Luoheng's speed on the track became faster and faster. The feeling of watching him overtake from the back was so exciting that Jiang Wentao could even feel his scalp tingling.

Winner.

Successfully advanced!

Jiang Wentao looked at Cui Luoheng who had stopped at the end of the track and let out a long sigh.

On the track, Cui Luoheng was looking back at the track he had run on, recalling the feeling he had on the track during the previous race.

Different from the past when he controlled his perception to the minimum range, this time, he had no control over his perception at all. At the beginning of the game, he was still unfamiliar with this feeling. Fortunately, over the past year or so, his instincts in training had been engraved into his bones and blood, which enabled him to react quickly.

By the middle of the race, he had gradually adapted to this perception, and what benefited him most was not only the detailed perception of the distance to the hurdles, but a more wonderful feeling.

It was a feeling as if time had slowed down, as if in the same amount of time, the time he could feel and use had become more than before.

When this feeling appeared, he not only had more time to think on the track, but more importantly, he had more time to judge his own skills, details, and possible threats from other players around him.

It is precisely this sense of ample time that allows him to be more acutely aware that there is still room to further reduce his jumping height over the hurdle.

Cui Luoheng knew that this feeling was very mysterious, but this was not the first time he had known this perception of "time slowing down".

Normally, during training or in private, athletes will get together to talk about their status and skills in training and competition. Not only people in the same event will talk, but also people in different events will talk.

For example, 100-meter and long jump athletes will communicate some techniques with each other, and high jump athletes will also study with sprinters to find starting techniques that are more suitable for them.

When he was chatting with Qiu Wen and Wang Shen, Qiu Wen once lamented that high jump is all about exerting force in that instant, and it feels like nothing goes through the mind, and then you just jump over the bar.

At that time, Wang Shen said that, in fact, after taking off, he could still think of many things in his mind, such as what height he had reached, what method he should use to exert force to get over the bar, or whether there was any mistake in the force point when jumping, and what posture he should adopt in the air to make remedial adjustments.

After millions of times of training, athletes' familiarity and control over their bodies are beyond the reach of ordinary people. To ordinary people, during a short ten seconds of running or a split second of jumping, they probably cannot think of many things. But in fact, during the competition, athletes' minds are definitely not blank most of the time.

The short-lived competition that seems only a moment to the spectators is often a real bloody storm in the eyes of the actual athletes.

Cui Luoheng and Qiu Wen could understand the feeling of 'time slowing down' that Wang Shen talked about at the time, because they themselves felt the same way. But in today's game, Cui Luoheng dared to say that if the usual feeling of deceleration was 0.8 times the speed, what he felt in today's game was a feeling of 0.5 times the speed.

While Cui Luoheng was still in a daze, the big screen at the scene had already played a slow-motion replay of Cui Luoheng and his team's game. After watching the slow-motion replay, McReed walked over to Cui Luoheng and gave him a big hug.

"Hey, man, you're amazing!"

McReady knew that Cui Luoheng had fought back from the back and caught up. This situation was actually not uncommon, but to be able to fight back from sixth place to the top two after a failed start, the gap in between was very small. Unless the player's original strength was a crushing gap between him and the players around him, this situation would rarely occur.

Cui Luoheng is really too young. Although McReady had competed with Cui Luoheng before and lost to Cui Luoheng in that World Athletics Challenge, he still found it hard to believe that Cui Luoheng, at such a young age, could have the strength to crush the players around him.

However, this did not prevent him from sending his congratulations to the young guy.

“Wow!!!”

Just as McReady was about to say a few words to Cui Luoheng, the replay of the last scene of McReady and Cui Luoheng crossing the finish line came out - it was McReady who crossed the finish line first, and Cui Luoheng was still a little slower at the end.

McReady won first place in the semi-final group, which made the smile on his face even brighter. He smiled and waved to the audience.

After noticing McReed's gesture of goodwill, Cui Luoheng nodded to him seriously and congratulated him on winning first place in the group.

Behind them were Lepvorst and Kostaman, who were in third and fourth place respectively, with Kostaman slightly behind.

The two contestants also came to Cui Luoheng and greeted him. Not only them, but also the remaining contestants in the second group of the semi-finals such as Bilalelli came to Cui Luoheng and greeted him.

For Bilalelli and others, Cui Luoheng, who has just risen in the international arena this year, is a complete newcomer. However, this newcomer is a bit "fierce". His strength has won him the respect of every player.

"Oh, what a pity! Cui Luoheng failed to overtake McReady at the last moment. Otherwise, he could have advanced to the finals as the first in the preliminary group and the first in the semifinal group."

In the live broadcast room, Shao Minyi's voice was very relaxed, and it was obvious that he was just joking.

Li Sen stopped him mercilessly: "Alright, Cui Luoheng's direct advancement in this game is indeed a bit dangerous, but the final result and result of direct advancement is still very gratifying and worth celebrating."

"I hope Cui Luoheng can maintain his good form and achieve an excellent result in the 110m hurdles final in two hours!"

As he was speaking, the picture on the big screen flashed again, and the final results of the second group of the semi-finals were revealed.

Final results of the second group of the 110m hurdles semi-finals at the Doha World Athletics Championships:

First place: Mike Reed (Jamaica) 13.18 seconds, wind speed -0.4m/s, q (direct qualification);

Second place: Cui Luoheng (China) 13.19 seconds, wind speed -0.4m/s, q;

Third place: Lepvost (France) 13.27 seconds, wind speed -0.4m/s;

Fourth place: Kostaman (Bahrain) 13.31 seconds, wind speed -0.4m/s;

Fifth place: …

…

After seeing the final results, the audience was also very pleased. You know, Cui Luoheng's reaction speed was 0.04-0.05 seconds slower than usual when he started. Under such circumstances, he could still run to 13.19 seconds, which is almost the same as the pb just refreshed in yesterday's preliminaries.

Cui Luoheng has achieved such results and maintained such an excellent form, what are they dissatisfied with?

Now, everyone's only hope is that Cui Luoheng can maintain this performance and keep it in the 110-meter hurdles final two hours later.

Thinking of this, everyone remembered the bold statement Cui Luoheng had made before - the goal is to win a medal!

Now, Cui Luoheng has successfully made it to the finals, does that mean... they can really expect Cui Luoheng to win a medal?

A...long-lost 110-meter hurdles medal!

Thinking of this, many people felt warm in their hearts.

How many years have passed since the era of the hurdle king came to an end? How many years has it been since we had this hope?

On the Athletics Kingdom forum, someone posted a message after the semi-final.

Topic: [In today's game, I feel that Xiao Cui's skills have become more delicate. Is it my illusion? 】

Topic content: [I just watched the replay video of the game carefully several times. It feels that whether it is the time to stay in the air when going over the hurdles, the height, the timing of the swing leg pressing down after going over the hurdles, or the rhythm from the forefoot of the swing leg touching the ground to the whole body going over the hurdles and then connecting the three steps between the hurdles, compared with yesterday's preliminary round, there are some subtle differences. It really makes me say that the technical details still feel the same, but there is something different. It feels like there is more room for technical processing? 】

3l: [? It's true, it seems like something is a little different, but it's just from yesterday to today. If there is any real progress, it can't be called progress. It has to be called enlightenment, right? 】

8l: […Why can’t I see any difference? Brothers who can see the difference, are you so perceptive? 】

13l: [Hahahaha, is enlightenment or something like that okay? In fact, I can't tell how good Xiao Cui's technique is, but looking at it as a whole, I think that in a horizontal comparison, Xiao Cui's hurdle-clearing technique is really beautiful, clean and neat without any drag. Even if he failed at the beginning, his finishing was completely flawless throughout the entire race, which is beautiful. 】

17l: [Yes, compared to the other players around him, Xiao Cui’s technique is indeed very beautiful. I don’t know what happened in recent years, but it feels like the players’ techniques on the hurdles have become much looser, and their overall techniques are relatively rough. Most of those who can achieve good results rely on their physical fitness to get to the top. I just watched Xiao Cui’s hurdles several times, and suddenly I had a little bit of the feeling of the golden age back then…]

This post went completely off topic after the 17th floor. Track and field fans began to recall the representative figures of the 110-meter hurdles in the golden age, and the topic shifted away from Cui Luoheng.

There have always been many such seemingly plausible technical discussion posts on the Track and Field Kingdom forum. They did not expect that their opening discussion this time really hit the point. In Cui Luoheng's current state, his technique has indeed become much more sophisticated than before.

In the audience, Su Bai nodded with satisfaction - A Luo had finally managed to stabilize his mentality and was able to withstand the negative impact of his ability.

Thinking of this, looking in the direction of Cui Luoheng, Su Bai couldn't help but touch his chin and thought: Perhaps, we can consider adding some more detailed technical adjustments to A Luo's training?

On the field, Cui Luoheng, who was about to leave, looked back in the direction of Su Bai. He seemed to realize that Su Bai's gaze was still following his position, so his originally tense brows relaxed slightly.

What a beautiful misunderstanding. ^^