Chapter 110 (Four in One)

Ever since Zhan Youming posted his feelings about Su Yu on his Weibo, in the following days, whenever Zhan Youming met familiar people in the Asian Games Village or somewhere else, these friends, coaches, and staff would sincerely "comfort him" with eyes full of "kindness" - how was Su Yu's tutoring? Has your brain grown?

Zhan Youming had a good temper and fought back against these people one by one.

——That’s enough, my brain is just not as good as Su Yu’s. You and I are both mortals, so don’t come and hurt each other!

——The tutoring results that Su Xiaoyu gave me are not good enough, can you give me one more?

——Go away, go away, go away, don’t bother me. Isn’t it enough that I have exchanged my brain for sprinting talent?

In short, anyone who dared to approach received a "cordial greeting" from Zhan Youming without exception, including his head coach of the national team, Zheng Sheng, who was scolded by him.

But Zheng Sheng didn't lose either, so he deserved to be laughed at. This is the result of speaking without thinking on the Internet.

Joking aside, Zhan Youming did not neglect his field adaptation training, and while Su Yu was "lecturing" him, Zhan Youming also passed on a lot of his personal field experience to Su Yu.

After all, Zhan Youming is 25 years old this year. As a player who is 10 years older than Su Yu and has entered the international arena earlier, he has worked hard all the way. Although Zhan Youming is now the TOP1 in the domestic men's 200 meters, he also had a bottleneck for a long time in his early years.

It should be said that none of the players who can reach the TOP level in the national team have had an easy journey. Even if the age group is lowered to the U16 level, Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, and Ye Minghao who can reach the TOP level each have their own problems.

For example, Jiang Yuan also experienced a long bottleneck period this season. Su Yu's training and dedication along the way as well as his constant adjustment also show that he is trying hard to adapt to the identity of an athlete and adapt to different competition environments. As for Ye Minghao, needless to say, he almost retired directly from the junior group of the G Province Sports Team.

Therefore, any player who can reach this level has accumulated a lot of experience that outsiders do not know about.

Zhan Youming really likes Su Yu. Although Su Yu always seems to be quiet, he can still strike up a conversation with Su Yu and thinks this kid is really smart and interesting.

So, taking advantage of the time before the Asian Games, Zhan Youming almost all shared his experience in overseas training and competition with Su Yu.

Of course, Su Yu did not just listen to him. When Zhan Youming gave an example during his explanation, Su Yu was able to give the specific data information of the example in the first time, and he could even draw inferences from it and cite the names of athletes with similar characteristics in this Asian Games.

Zhan Youming: "..."

Although this is indeed very convenient, he always feels like he is facing a scary humanoid computer.

Joking aside, Zhan Youming and Su Yu both felt that they had gained a lot in the past few days. For Zhan Youming, the only regret was probably that his brain was not as good as Su Yu's. There were some questions that he understood just one moment when Su Yu explained them, but he felt a little confused the next day.

Or, he felt that Su Yu provided quite a bit of information about some Asian Games athletes' recent performance curves, but he himself couldn't remember them clearly - after all, the data in Su Yu's mind were too trivial, and even included the altitude information of the athletes' competition venues and wind speed information of the matches.

He just couldn't understand how a human brain could grow like this.

But when he asked Su Yu: "...When Coach Pei told you this, did he remember it too?"

Su Yu nodded as a matter of course: "Yes."

Pei Dingshan's memory is about the same as his, so when Su Yu and Pei Dingshan communicate, they are both accustomed to relying on their brains to memorize the data directly - of course, Pei Dingshan will still leave a more accurate form in the computer for review and confirmation after the memory becomes blurred.

After all, although their memory is good, it does not mean that they will never forget something after seeing it once - if they do not review and recall it deliberately for a long time, even those with the best memory will gradually forget some unimportant information.

Zhan Youming: "..."

After hearing Su Yu's affirmative answer, Zhan Youming fell into a long silence again. Only after he confirmed with Su Yu again and again that Zhou Yuang did not have the same kind of brain as Su Yu and Pei Dingshan, did he finally regain some confidence that belonged to a normal person.

That’s right, a normal person!

They, ordinary humans, cannot compare with non-humans like Su Yu!

***

During the pre-match time, which was a time of laughter and relaxation but also a time of training and recovery, Su Yu recovered his condition quickly.

After all, this time the flight from China to Jakarta was divided into two parts, Su Yu's condition after arriving in Jakarta was already pretty good, and after two days of rest, he has basically recovered to a better condition.

During these two days, although it was basically Zhan Youming who imparted his experience to Su Yu, in addition to imparting his experience, Pei Dingshan also took Su Yu to watch several Asian Games swimming events.

Although swimming and sprinting are respectively conducted in water and on land, they are both speed events and have different schedules for preliminaries and finals of different distances. In swimming events, athletes often compete in multiple events and distances, so the distribution of physical energy and the arrangement of competitions in preliminaries, semifinals and finals are particularly important.

Of course, Su Yu also understood Pei Dingshan's intention of bringing him to watch these games. This was to remind him to remember how to control his own competitive rhythm during the game.

On August 25, the track and field events of the Asian Games finally officially began.

On the first day of the competition, in the national track and field team's sprint group, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming naturally appeared in the preliminaries.

These two players, who look aggressive and tough to deal with in the naked eye, and have the personal ability to break the 10-second barrier for the 100 meters, only advanced to the semifinals with scores of 10.30 and 10.39 respectively in the preliminaries.

Among them, Zheng Tianxi ran a time of 10.30 seconds in the first group of preliminaries and advanced as the first in the group. Feng Chuming ran a time of 10.39 seconds in the fifth group of preliminaries and advanced as the second in the group. These two top Chinese 100-meter runners, whose faces were as fierce as wolves, let down their guard visibly in the preliminaries. But even if they advanced to the semifinals with such results, no one thought that their current state and results were bad.

On the contrary, it was precisely because of their low-key performance in the preliminaries that many players thought they were holding back on their big moves and wanted to sweep the upcoming semifinals and finals. So even though many players in other groups ran results such as 10.13 and 10.14 in the preliminaries, the ones people really feared were still Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming of the Chinese team.

"Did you see anything?"

Pei Dingshan asked Su Yu beside him.

When Su Yu heard Pei Dingshan's question, he nodded silently - he knew what Pei Dingshan meant by asking him this. He wanted to tell him that lagging behind in the preliminaries and semi-finals was not a real lag, and the athlete's results would ultimately be determined by the performance in the finals.

Not only Pei Dingshan, but also Zhan Youming reminded Su Yu to pay more attention to the field after he went to watch the game. He also knew where Su Yu's current obstacles were, so he was not reluctant to give him guidance. According to him, he could never repay the great kindness of the course tutor, and this was all he could do to help.

This was of course a joke. After all, the personal experience that Zhan Youming had passed on to Su Yu these days was no less valuable than Su Yu's "explanation".

***

After the men's 100m preliminaries on the first day, Su Yu did not go to watch the men's 100m semi-finals and finals on the second day, August 26.

Because in the audience seats at the competition site, the atmosphere among the audience is tense and exciting. At the same time, watching the game on site will easily make the players get into an excited state, which is not conducive to the players controlling their emotions and state before the game.

So when the start time of their individual events approached, neither Su Yu nor Zhan Youming went to watch the games in person. Instead, they watched the games in the Asian Games Village through the domestic Jigu Video live broadcast. After all, if they watched the games on TV in the Asian Games Village, the commentary would be entirely in Indonesian, which would not be as enjoyable as watching the Jigu Video live broadcast.

On August 26, at 6:45 pm local time in Jakarta, the first group of the men's 100m semi-finals officially began.

Although the grouping and promotion situation in the preliminary stage are different from those of the World Championships and World Youth Championships due to the different number of participants, when the competition reaches the semi-final stage, unless there are special circumstances, they will be almost the same.

In the men's 100m semi-finals, there are a total of 24 contestants in three groups. In the semi-finals, the top two contestants in each group will directly advance to the finals, and there will be two substitute qualifying places among the remaining contestants.

After Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming introduced the qualifying criteria for the semi-finals, they began to introduce the grouping situation for the men's 100m semi-finals.

In the semi-finals, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming were in the first and third groups respectively. Compared with the preliminaries where the qualifying conditions were relatively loose, the qualifying pressure on the athletes and the strength of their opponents in the men's 100m semi-finals were naturally different from those in the preliminaries.

For example, in the first group of the semi-finals, Zheng Tianxi was in the same group with a naturalized athlete from Qatar and Japan's top 100m champion Suzuki Ippei.

Although this 100m champion from Japan has not yet been able to break the 10-second mark in the 100m in official competitions, even though his 100m PB remains at 10.00 seconds, it definitely does not mean that his strength is inferior to Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming.

After all, for Ippei Suzuki, all he needed to break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter race was probably just an opportunity.

The athletes in the same group with Feng Chuming include naturalized athletes from Qatar and famous Indonesian athletes.

It can be said that in the semi-finals, the challenges that the players need to face to advance are much more severe than those in the preliminaries, but even so, the vast majority of the players did not fully unleash their full strength.

For example, Zheng Tianxi, who appeared in the first group of the semi-finals, successfully advanced to the finals with a score of 10.15 and ranked first in the group. Then, in the third group of the semi-finals, Feng Chuming ranked third in the group with a score of 10.27 and obtained the qualification to advance as a substitute.

Here, between Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, it can still be seen that Zheng Tianxi's ability to control himself and the stability of his strength are still higher than Feng Chuming. Feng Chuming's 10.27 seconds should not be due to his own intention to control the rhythm, but he did not perform as well as other opponents in the semi-finals.

Fortunately, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming both advanced to the finals.

At the same time, Su Yu also observed that in the preliminaries, the players who advanced to the semifinals with scores of 10.13 and 10.14 all failed in the semifinals.

The vast majority of contestants who successfully advanced to the finals had mediocre performances in the preliminaries and only advanced to the semi-finals normally.

It can be said that, unless there are major surprises, the performance of these players from the preliminaries to the semifinals and then to the finals will be progressive, including their physical fitness, competitive state, and concentration in the game, which are also progressive.

In fact, if we only talk about the point of "progressive results", Su Yu's pace is actually the same as theirs.

However, Su Yu himself knew that what he called "progressive" meant that he would put in all his strength in the preliminaries, 110% in the semi-finals, and even sprint with all his strength in the finals to the point where he seemed to be exhausted.

This kind of progression is actually a loss of control over personal abilities and states.

Can be controlled freely.

This is the ability that Su Yu lacks now, and it is also the ability he needs to further pursue and master.

***

Through constant watching of games and self-reflection, Su Yu gradually accumulated insights into his own abilities and status.

While he was thinking, time kept passing. Less than two and a half hours after the men's 100m semi-final ended that night, the men's 100m final officially began!

The tight time and rhythm between the men's 100m semi-finals and finals is also the important reason why Pei Dingshan constantly emphasizes to Su Yu the ability to "control freely".

No matter how strong Su Yu's short-term recovery ability is, as long as Su Yu is in good condition in the semi-finals, greater pressure will be waiting for him in the finals.

Therefore, as long as Su Yu wants to continue moving towards the peak, he must learn and master this ability better.

Of course, before this, Pei Dingshan said to him - just wait and see, after seeing the final stage, how to release your competitive state more correctly so that you can burst out at your peak state.

***

In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were also full of passion for tonight's men's 100m final -

"Dear audience, in tonight's men's 100m final, our country's men's 100m champions Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming will compete on the same field. The two athletes from China will compete together on the field and complement each other!"

"Of course, in addition to Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, there are also the famous Japanese athlete Ippei Suzuki and the naturalized athlete Bassem Hemeda from Qatar. In addition, there is the young athlete Zhan Chunhan from Chinese Taipei. The 21-year-old Taipei teenager is a dual-event athlete. In addition to participating in the men's 100m event, he will also appear in the men's 200m preliminaries on August 28. At the same time, there are three athletes from Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and South Korea, who will also be the athletes that Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming need to deal with carefully in this event."

If we say that in the previous World Youth Championships, Fukushima Takitaro's PB of 10.05 was already at the peak of the PBs of U20 athletes, then at the Asian Games, Fukushima Takitaro's 10.05 was nothing.

In this men's 100m final, Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Bassem Hemeda all have the ability to break ten seconds. Among them, Bassem Hemeda's PB is 9.96, which is slightly better than Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming's sub-10 seconds results.

In addition to these three people, Japan's Ippei Suzuki has broken the ten-second mark during training, and his current record is also ten seconds equal to the Japanese national record.

In other words, if we only talk about PB, 4 people in this final already had a PB of 10 seconds or more.

Not only now, although Zhan Chunhan from Taipei's official PB is only 10.11 seconds, Taiwan's gossip media has also reported the news that Zhan Chunhan broke 10 seconds in the 100 meters during training. However, the news was not reported by Taiwan's serious media but by a gossip magazine, which is known for its big mouth and exaggeration, so this news was not believed.

But if you look at Zhan Chunhan's performance in the preliminaries and semifinals, you can find that this young player from Taipei is indeed very strong - it is hard to say whether he can break 10 seconds for the 100 meters, but breaking the PB of 10.11 should be no problem.

Because Zhan Chunhan himself said in an interview with the media that he would represent the Chinese Taipei team to qualify for next year's Doha World Championships - and the qualifying line for the men's 100m in next year's World Championships is 10.10 seconds, and the 200m qualifying line is 20.40 seconds.

The fact that Zhan Chunhan was able to give such a confident answer in an interview with Taiwanese media means that he should be fully confident of breaking the 10.10 mark in the 100 meters.

Therefore, looking at the Asian Games men's 100m final, although the contestants are limited to the Asian region, there are still many strong players among all the contestants.

It can be said that if Su Yu were allowed to participate in the men's 100m event of this Asian Games, even if he could successfully advance to the finals, he would probably not be able to make it to the top four in the finals.

As everyone was watching nervously, Su Yu was also concentrating on observing the conditions of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming - it could be seen that compared with their conditions in the preliminaries and semi-finals, the conditions of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming... or in other words, the conditions of all the contestants in this final were different from those in the preliminaries and semi-finals.

Everyone is waiting for the starter's command behind the starting line. Some of them simply adjust their status at the last minute, some watch each other, alert to their opponents, and some just focus on their own status.

It was not until the official starter on site gave the command "on your marks" that the athletes quickly squatted in front of their respective starting blocks and prepared for the race.

Just like what Pei Dingshan said to Su Yu - watch carefully the men's 100m final of the Asian Games and see how the athletes try their best. This will be a very exciting event.

The men's 100m final of the Asian Games was exactly as Pei Dingshan predicted.

The moment the starting gun sounded, Ippei Suzuki and other players such as Bassem Hemeda, Feng Chuming, and Zhan Chunhan started immediately.

But even though these players have performed at their best, Su Yu can still clearly see that the player in the best condition in this game is Zheng Tianxi from the Chinese team!

This famous athlete, who was the first in Chinese track and field history to break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter race, has once again begun to challenge his personal limit after years of accumulation!

Even if he is surrounded by a group of fierce tigers who are eyeing the gold medal in the men's 100m final of the Asian Games, he will definitely be the most ferocious one among them!

In this race, from the moment the starting gun sounded, Zheng Tianxi did not leave any chance for his opponent, from his strong reaction to his burst at the start and even his mid-run and final sprint!

In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming no longer had the energy to explain Zheng Tianxi's performance in the second half of the race. At the last moment, they watched Zheng Tianxi cross the finish line with an absolute lead. At that moment, all the voices turned into a carnival of victory.

"Champions!!! We are the champions!!"

"Congratulations to Zheng Tianxi and the Chinese team!!"

"This is the first Asian Games gold medal won by the Chinese team in the men's 100-meter sprint!"

The sound of carnival resounded throughout the live broadcast room, and when Zheng Tianxi's score of 9.90 seconds, breaking the Asian record and the Asian Games record, appeared on the large electronic screen, the entire live broadcast room turned into a sea of ​​carnival, and even the entire Gelora Bung Karno Sports Stadium became a world of carnival.

Everyone is celebrating the birth of this incredible miracle achievement and legendary record!

After all, only a few years ago, sports critics around the world were still affirming the argument that "the limit of the yellow race is 10 seconds", and before this moment, the original Asian men's 100-meter record was created by a naturalized athlete.

The person who created this Asian record is not of Asian nationality, nor is his skin color Asian.

But before the record of 9.91 seconds, no Asian had the opportunity or possibility to break this record.

Until now, until this moment - Zheng Tianxi created a miracle in the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium!

9.90 seconds, at this moment, Zheng Tianxi's result is legendary!

Similarly, at this moment, Su Yu was also stunned after seeing Zheng Tianxi's results - he was not surprised by Zheng Tianxi's outstanding results, but the result of 9.90 seconds did not match the results of Zheng Tianxi that Su Yu had remembered.

In Su Yu's past memory, Zheng Tianxi was accused of "deserting the battlefield" by some media at the time because he was injured before the Tokyo Olympics. Feng Chuming replaced Zheng Tianxi but the result was not ideal, and eventually he disappeared after the game.

In Su Yu's memory at that time, although Zheng Tianxi also had the title of "No. 1 in Asia", his PB was only 9.96 seconds - in his memory, Zheng Tianxi had never broken the Asian Games record and the Asian record, and it happened that one year before the Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese star Suzuki Ippei broke Zheng Tianxi's "yellow race 100-meter record" with a score of 9.95 seconds.

Therefore, domestic track and field fans and the media at that time would hype up the hope that Zheng Tianxi could regain the glory of the "yellow race record" in the Tokyo Olympics.

If Zheng Tianxi had run 9.90 seconds at that time, a miracle for the yellow race, then he thought, even if Zheng Tianxi was injured and unable to participate before the Tokyo Olympics, the media would not have thrown such dirty water on him.

The current situation is different from what he once remembered.

Su Yu was looking at the final result of the men's 100m final with a complex mixture of shock, surprise and joy.

"What's wrong?"

Pei Dingshan noticed that something was wrong with Su Yu's condition and raised his hand to rub his head.

Su Yu thought about it and said, "I'm very happy."

This result of 9.90 seconds almost single-handedly carries the road to world-class results for Chinese men's 100 meters.

It brought Zheng Tianxi, who was originally ranked outside the top 20 in the world in terms of annual results, into the top five of the season!

It also made Zheng Tianxi the new holder of the Asian Games men's 100m record and the Asian record!

When the result of 9.90 seconds came out, the Chinese team could finally truly declare that China now has the world's top male 100m athlete!

Su Yu thought, after Zheng Tianxi achieved this result, before the start of the Tokyo Olympics two years later, the tragedy that happened in his memory would definitely be avoided, right?

So he was really happy. After seeing Zheng Tianxi's final result officially given on the electronic screen, he seemed to relax, and at the same time, there was some expectation and desire in his relaxation.

9.90 seconds.

This is a world that is too far away from him now, but he also longs for the day when he can break into this world.

Pei Dingshan turned his head and glanced at Su Yu beside him. He saw that he was sincerely happy for Zheng Tianxi's achievement, and he also saw the desire for the world within ten seconds in his eyes.

After thinking about it, Pei Dingshan raised his hand and rubbed Su Yu's head: "There will be such a day."

Although Su Yu did not express his inner desire, he knew that Pei Dingshan saw his expectations, so he let Pei Dingshan rub his head, then looked at the picture on the computer screen and said "hmm" seriously.

In this race, in addition to Zheng Tianxi's crushing victory with a time of 9.90 seconds, Bassem Hemeda from Qatar and Ippei Suzuki from Japan both ran a time of ten seconds. In the end, Bassem Hemeda was slightly better in the thousandth place and won the silver medal in this race.

Ippei Suzuki won the bronze medal with a score that tied his PB, but anyone could see that at that moment, Ippei Suzuki was no longer concerned about his silver medal.

He never thought that in this Asian Games, he once again missed the chance to break the ten-second mark, and while missing this opportunity, he only got a bronze medal!

In addition to Bassem Hemeda and Ippin Suzuki, another Chinese athlete, Feng Chuming, finished fourth in the district with a time of 10.02 seconds.

After Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming came to their senses and paid attention to the final ranking again, they were once again shocked by the results of the finalists in front of them.

The top four players all ran within 10.05 seconds, and the champion even ran 9.90 seconds...!

Such an achievement is also legendary in the history of the Asian Games.

After all, in the men's 100-meter sprint at the last Asian Games, a score of 10.10 was enough to win the silver medal, and the bronze medal was only 10.15.

But in this Asian Games, not only did the champion crush the champion of the previous session, but the runner-up and third place both got stuck at the ten-second mark.

“It’s a legendary achievement…”

This is the sentiment that Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming constantly expressed in their subsequent commentary.

In the post-match online interview with the sports channel, when on-site reporter Liu Yu asked Zheng Tianxi about his feelings today, Zheng Tianxi's answer was not only full of joy but also gratitude.

But the people he thanked were somewhat surprising. In addition to the national team's coaching staff, various support staff and his overseas head coach, he also thanked Su Yu.

"...This is a very talented and capable young player. His focus on games and training is worth learning from."

"During the training period before the Asian Games, his concentration in training and his scientific understanding of training gave Chu Ming and me a lot of inspiration. At the same time, we also reviewed Su Yu's performance in the World Youth Championship during the training period. His state on the court also gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation."

Su Yu:?

To be honest, Su Yu was very confused when he saw this interview. After all, during the two days of the race, he was still observing and learning how Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming could control the competition. But after Zheng Tianxi ran a new Asian record of 9.90 seconds, Zheng Tianxi said in an interview that he was inspired and motivated by him...

Pei Dingshan couldn't help laughing when he saw the tangled look on Su Yu's face. He said, "Is enlightenment and motivation only allowed to be one-way?"

Su Yu: ...

Of course not.

Since he embarked on the path of an athlete, many people have helped him, and he also tries his best to give help to his teammates and friends to the best of his ability.

This help is never just one-way.

He just felt vaguely that he seemed to have changed some bad things without knowing it - at least he was very happy with the result.

Pei Dingshan saw that Su Yu didn't continue speaking. Although he didn't know what he was thinking, he could see that Su Yu's eyes seemed to be a little brighter than before - he looked happy.

The next morning, when Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming got up early to eat and met Su Yu, the ferocious duo even went around to Su Yu and said to him, "Good luck in tomorrow's competition."

Su Yu looked up at the new Asian record holder in front of him and nodded to him seriously: "Thank you, I will do my best!"

***

Soon, the time turned to the next morning, August 28, the morning of the fourth day of the Jakarta Asian Games track and field schedule.

That morning, Su Yu woke up very early, but it was not because he was too nervous to continue sleeping, but because he restored his most accustomed biological clock. He woke up at 5:50 in the morning, then did some simple exercises. After eating breakfast prepared by the national team chef who came from China in the Asian Games Village, he packed his sports bag and followed the national team's bus to the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium at 8 am.

This morning, the men's 200m preliminaries started at 10 am.

When Su Yu and Zhan Youming arrived at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, there was still plenty of time. After putting their luggage in the backcourt lounge, they had plenty of time to rest.

After putting down the luggage in his hands, Zhan Youming smiled and asked Su Yu, "How do you feel today?"

Su Yu nodded very seriously: "I think it's great."

Hearing Su Yu say this, Zhan Youming was also very happy, then patted his chest and said to Su Yu: "Hey, brother also feels that he is in a good state!"

Zhan Youming said with a smile: "In the men's 100m final the day before yesterday, Zheng Tianxi, the poker-faced guy, was in the limelight. We must not lose to him in the men's 200m event next!"

After all, for Zhan Youming, he and Zheng Tianxi, one is the TOP player in the men's 100 meters, and the other is the TOP player in the men's 200 meters. Now that the other men's 100 meters players have taken back the Asian record for the men's 100 meters from the naturalized players, if he, the TOP player in the men's 200 meters of the Chinese team, does not have any performance, won't he lose?

Although this statement may sound childish and a joke, for athletes, the desire to win is reflected in all aspects. Zheng Tianxi has set the Asian record for men's 100 meters, and Zhan Youming also wants to break the Asian record for men's 200 meters. This is a healthy expectation and competition for them.

While Zhan Youming was talking to Su Yu in the backcourt lounge, the door of the backcourt lounge was knocked open.

The person who came in was Liu Yu, a reporter from CCTV Sports Channel.

"Youming, Xiaoyu, sorry to bother you, is it convenient for us to do a pre-match interview right now?"

Pre-match live interviews are what make the Sports Channel different from the previous Jigu videos. In major competitions such as the Asian Games, World Championships and Olympics, the Sports Channel often conducts live interviews with players before and after the games to interview them about their status before and after the games.

Of course, reporters like Liu Yu are more sensible. For example, today is before the men's 200m preliminaries. With the strength of Zhan Youming and Su Yu, there is basically no problem for them to advance to the men's 200m semifinals from the men's 200m preliminaries.

It was precisely because he had sufficient confidence and judgment that Liu Yu dared to knock on the door of the Chinese team's backcourt lounge at this time to interview Zhan Youming and Su Yu.

If I hadn't been so sure, I would have been blocked outside by the coaches and national team staff before I could even get close to the Chinese team's backcourt lounge, let alone enter for an interview.

For Zhan Youming and Su Yu, Liu Yu is an old acquaintance, and he has conducted online interviews with Zhan Youming many times. Only Su Yu rarely accepts this form of real-time interview.

But Liu Yu is not the kind of reporter who would make things difficult for others. As a veteran reporter in the field of athletics, he is quite experienced in interviews. Therefore, in the following interview, the communication between the few people went quite smoothly.

In order to liven up the atmosphere, Liu Yu also mentioned the anecdote of "Su Yu helping Zhan Youming with his studies": "Is it true?"

Zhan Youming said with an exaggerated expression: "It's true. To be honest, Su Yu's lectures are pretty good."

Perhaps Zhan Youming's praise was too exaggerated. Although Su Yu's expression did not change, his ears turned slightly red. After a moment, he said to Liu Yu: "...Brother Youming also taught me a lot."

Liu Yu asked, "For example?"

Su Yu thought for a moment: "For example, how can I perform better in the game...?"

In fact, to be precise, it is 'how to paddle better in the preliminaries', but if he really dared to say that, his 'famous sayings' would probably spread all over the Internet before the competition even started.

Zhan Youming, who was standing next to him, of course understood what Su Yu meant and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

After seeing Zhan Youming's smile, Liu Yu was silent for two seconds, and immediately understood that Su Yu's "better performance" might have other meanings, but even if he understood something, he couldn't cause trouble during the live broadcast.

Finally, after wishing Zhan Youming and Su Yu good luck in the preliminary round, Liu Yu smiled and asked Zhan Youming why he was laughing like that, but Zhan Youming did not answer him, but just said, "You will know when you watch the game later." '

After hearing what Zhan Youming said, Liu Yu did not ask any more questions. He just shook his head with amusement, then left the backcourt lounge with his photographer, leaving more space and time for Zhan Youming and Su Yu to rest.

Soon after Liu Yu left, the Chinese team's staff came in to inform Zhan Youming and Su Yu to go for registration and prepare to start warming up.

It was also at this moment that Su Yu truly felt that he would soon compete in the men's 200m event at the Asian Games.

This feeling was a little too wonderful for him. He felt vaguely that he was a little excited, but he still remembered what his mission was in today's game, so he took a deep breath and relaxed himself, telling himself that he didn't need to get excited so much in advance.

Relax, relax, and while maintaining a certain sense of tension, use a more relaxed state to control your own rhythm throughout the whole process!

Su Yu kept reminding himself of this in his heart, and then he began to leave the locker room in this state, followed the national team staff to the registration office to complete the registration work, and went to the sprint warm-up venue in the backcourt.

When Su Yu arrived at the warm-up venue, many people were already warming up. When Su Yu arrived at the warm-up venue, the players on the scene naturally noticed this young player from the Chinese team.

Although this young player of the Chinese team has only shown his prowess in the World Youth Championships so far, his 200m result of 20.59 seconds is already considered outstanding in Asia - at least this season, the result of 20.59 seconds is already ranked among the top ten in Asia.

However, Su Yu only ran 20.59 once. Although the athletes present would notice him, more attention was still on China's Zhan Youming.

For example, the naturalized Bahraini athlete Andrew Hames took a special look at Zhan Youming after he came to the warm-up field. There is no doubt that in this men's 200m event, Zhan Youming is one of the most important opponents in Andrew Hames' eyes.

In addition to Andrew Hammes, two Japanese players, Akechi Takagi and Yuki Kobayashi, as well as Zhan Chunhan from Taipei are all very concerned about the appearance of Zhan Youming.

The only difference among these people was that Zhan Chunhan not only paid attention to Zhan Youming, but also paid extra attention to Su Yu - probably because Su Yu was not only young, but also a dual-event athlete of 100 meters and 200 meters like him.

Although Su Yu did not compete in the 100-meter event in this Asian Games, this does not hinder Su Yu's status as a multi-event athlete.

Equally young - no, or rather, because Su Yu was too young, Zhan Chunhan could not even call himself a 'young player' in front of Su Yu.

Facing such an opponent, it is normal for Zhan Chunhan to pay extra attention. What's more, in the third group of preliminaries later, Zhan Chunhan, Kobayashi Yuki will be in the same preliminaries group as Su Yu.

However, after noticing Zhan Chunhan's gaze, Zhan Youming patted Su Yu on the shoulder, signaling him not to be aroused by his opponent and to not consume too much energy in the preliminary round.

Su Yu nodded to Zhan Youming, indicating that he understood.

***

While Su Yu was warming up in the backcourt, Zhou Yuang and others had already been waiting in his WeChat group, chattering about whether Su Yu could fulfill his pre-match expectations in this game.

Zhou Yuang: [Come on, come on, whether you can or not, buy it and leave it! 】

Ye Minghao: [^^ I can suppress energy (Xiaoyu Thai cool and spicy gif)]

Jiang Ruohui: [Yes (Xiaoyu Thai cool gif)]

Jiang Yuan: [^^ Xiaoyu, of course, can (Xiaoyu Thai cool gif)]

Zhou Yuang: [? ? ? 】

Zhou Yuang: [Wait, betting, of course it’s interesting if some people bet on success and some don’t! If all of you press "yes", who will press "no"? 】

Ye Minghao: [? 】

Ye Minghao: [^^Isn’t it you? 】

puff.

I don't know when it started, but Zhou Yuang's position in this group has firmly remained at the bottom, and the same result occurred in the betting 'contest' at this moment.

Zhou Yuang was originally very excited, but he saw the boomerang he threw out hit him. In the end, he could only accept the "no" bet with tears in his eyes, and felt deeply that he had lost a lot.

After all, among the people in their group, if we had to say who knows Su Yu's 200-meter ability best, it would be him. He knows Su Yu's condition and ability. Since learning that Pei Dingshan wanted Su Yu to learn to control his condition freely, Zhou Yuang was the first person who felt that Su Yu could definitely do it.

As a result, he had to be so rude and ask everyone to place a bet together at this time, but in the end he still took out his small wallet with hatred.

Fortunately, whatever betting they said in the group was just a game for everyone in the group, and it was impossible for him to really empty his wallet.

However, netizens on the Internet did not know the situation and began to speculate whether Su Yu could advance to the semi-finals in this men's 200m preliminaries with the first place in the group.

After all, these track and field fans on the Internet have become accustomed to Su Yu's previous rhythm. Whether in the preliminaries, semifinals or finals, Su Yu will sprint with all his strength.

Under such circumstances, the majority of track and field fans will naturally think that Su Yu will still maintain this style of competition in this Asian Games.

Moreover, you see, in the men's 100m final, Zheng Tianxi was just inspired and motivated by Su Yu's performance. Su Yu was interviewed before leaving for the Asian Games and said that his coach had assigned him a task and he would work hard to complete the coach's task.

During the Asian Games live broadcast just now, he also said that he learned from Zhan Youming how to perform better in the game!

Doesn't all of this mean that Su Yu will give his all in today's game? !

For track and field fans, Su Yu's all-out effort in the preliminaries may affect his physical condition in the semifinals or even the finals. However, the burden of this competition is not on Su Yu anyway, so it is not a bad thing to make a push in the preliminaries.

In short, track and field fans maintained their mysterious confidence that Su Yu would "go all out to fight for first place in the group in the preliminaries" until the beginning of the third group of the men's 200m preliminaries.

After the on-site starter of the third group of the men's 200m preliminaries gave the preparatory instructions and fired the starting gun, in the Jigu video live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming still subconsciously glanced at Su Yu's reaction to the gun.

But after seeing Su Yu's results, they were both stunned.

0.147 seconds? !

Although the reaction time of 0.147 seconds was still the fastest in the whole venue, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming's first reaction was still - wait, Su Yu, you were slacking in this preliminaries... No, I was relaxing. Aren't you relaxing a bit too much? !