Chapter 146 (Four in One)

Before this, the Internet spectators had never imagined that Su Yu would encounter the problem of "qualifying competition" in the 400-meter sprint.

After discovering this ridiculous 'qualifying' system, some anxious netizens have already dug out the pre-made schedule for this World Athletics Championships from the Internet. This pre-made schedule is not the final schedule, just like the official schedule that was just posted online on the 25th. The schedule for each subsequent day will need to be reviewed by a meeting to determine whether there are any minor adjustments to the schedule. However, the netizens cannot wait until the official schedule comes out, so they have started searching through the pre-made schedule.

After searching hard, I got two pieces of information.

Good news: the 400m qualifying round and the 400m group match are not on the same day, so there will not be a tragic accident on the first day of the 27th where the 100m qualifying round and the 100m group match are held within two hours.

The bad news: the 400m qualifying round and the 200m semifinals are on the same day.

The crowd of spectators: "..."

It is hard to describe how they feel now.

Moreover, the spectators searched everywhere and even checked the live broadcast schedules of the Sports Channel and Jigu Video. Since the qualifying round is not even considered the main competition, there will definitely be no live broadcast of the qualifying round on the Sports Channel. Even Jigu Video has not arranged a live broadcast of the 100-meter qualifying round (preliminary) on the 27th. In the same time period, Jigu Video will broadcast the men's long jump qualifying round (main competition).

Seeing this situation, the onlookers couldn't help but become worried - they were worried that Su Yu would not be able to win the men's 400m qualifying preliminaries and qualify for the main competition, and they were also worried that Su Yu's efforts to qualify for the 400m main competition would affect his condition for the 200m semi-finals.

:)

Of course, there are also more pessimistic (optimistic) people who say that this is the World Championships, and Su Yu may not be able to successfully qualify for the semi-finals in the 200m preliminaries. Even if he successfully qualifies for the 200m semi-finals, he still has basically no hope of advancing to the finals.

So, no big problem.

Onlookers:?

Well, it’s not a big problem.

But no matter what, the 200m and 400m races are still a long way off. The day after tomorrow, the 27th, is the first competition day of the World Championships. The audience’s primary concern at this stage is not anything else, but the men’s 100m sprint group match (preliminary) on the first competition day the day after tomorrow.

There are actually more people who like to watch the show on the Internet. Although many people have gained a certain understanding of the event of sprinting because of Su Yu during this period, in fact, the degree of this understanding is still very limited.

The specific manifestation is that most people think that in the preliminaries stage of the World Championships, whether it is Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming or Su Yu, advancing to the semi-finals is not a problem.

Until a track and field fan posted the results of the men's 100m sprint preliminaries of the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, England.

——Among them, in the strongest preliminary group, the first-ranked player in the group has run less than ten seconds, the second-ranked player in the group has a score of 10.02, and the third-ranked player has a score of 10.03.

In other words, assuming Su Yu is in this preliminary group, even if he can run the qualifying time of 10.05 seconds for next year's Tokyo Olympics, he will not be able to qualify for the semifinals directly.

After seeing this data, a question mark slowly appeared in almost everyone's head.

How many?

What are the qualifying scores for the preliminaries? !

Huang Youwei is just a simple spectator who only cares about gossip. As for track and field competitions, his attention is usually limited to 'Zhan Youming broke the Asian record in 200 meters', 'Feng Chuming broke the ten-second mark in 100 meters', 'Zheng Tianxi ran 9.90 seconds in 100 meters'. At most, he would want to watch the performance of these athletes during the Olympics.

As for usual times?

I definitely won't pay attention to that.

During this period, Huang Youwei paid extra attention to Su Yu's situation because he saw on Weibo that Su Yu was being sought after by two elite classes of physics and mathematics from Q University and B University. He also learned about the World Championships in Track and Field.

It's just that for track and field fans, they know that the World Championships is one of the world's top track and field events, just like the Olympic track and field events. But for passers-by, they generally only know that "this competition looks pretty impressive" and have no more specific ideas.

Just like Huang Youwei, before seeing the 'World Championships Preliminary Qualifying Results' released by track and field fans, he had never thought that there would be a competition where in the preliminaries, athletes would need to run close to ten seconds or even less than ten seconds to qualify for the semi-finals.

Now, Zheng Tianxi has run the Asian record of 9.90 seconds - if it were in the past, Huang Youwei would probably think that as long as he could run under ten seconds, even 9.99 seconds, he would be at the level of a world champion.

So now, when people saw the level of the World Championships preliminaries, a large number of bystanders like Huang Youwei were stunned on the spot.

However, the preliminary group results released by the track and field fan above are the best among the six 100-meter groups in the 2017 competition. Among the remaining five groups, there are also groups with relatively average strength.

But the word "ordinary" is naturally put in double quotes - in this "ordinary" group, the first-ranked qualifier also ran a good result of 10.01 seconds, and the second and third-ranked qualifiers ran results of 10.09 and 10.17 seconds respectively.

[I feel numb.] 】

The spectators looked at the qualifying results of the so-called weakest group of athletes that the track and field fans threw out to 'comfort' them, and they felt that they were not being comforted.

It's very silent.

After all, ordinary spectators were originally dreaming that Su Yu could advance all the way in the World Championships, break into the 100m final, and finally win a medal. Now they suddenly know that in the World Championships, just to advance to the semi-finals, you need to have the ability to break the ten-second mark...

The impact and gap between them are too strong.

Track and field fans know what these spectators are thinking, but there is nothing they can do. When watching a game, they also have to pay attention to the actual situation, right?

They can expect Su Yu to make similar progress in the next and the next World Championships, but as for this competition?

It’s the same old saying - qualifying is a victory!

Besides...

Although the examples cited by track and field fans when they were explaining to the onlookers seemed to make it seem like Su Yu had basically no hope of advancing to the semi-finals... but in fact, the vast majority of track and field fans believed that Su Yu could at least advance to the semi-finals in the 100-meter preliminaries. They were just worried that the onlookers would give up their expectations too early, so these track and field fans did not dare to make empty statements.

Just when track and field fans were thinking about what to say to adjust the mood of the onlookers, the homepage of Jigu Video suddenly pushed out a piece of news, and then Weibo quickly followed up with a headline topic.

#The Chinese team submitted Su Yu's age certificate#

The onlookers:?

Track and field fans: ? ?

What's going on?

What is this topic about?

In the sports circle, the problem of athletes falsifying their ages is endless, especially in the teenage stage. If there is a one-year age difference between athletes, the various strength conditions of their bodies will change drastically.

This is because during adolescence, the development periods of strength, agility, explosive power, and muscles are all different. Therefore, unless one is gifted, it is physically difficult for younger players to compete with adult players in table tennis, tennis, football, or sprinting.

It is precisely because of this natural developmental condition that in the actual selection process of young athletes, some people often falsify their age, reporting the actual age of the athletes as one or two years younger.

There are even some provincial team coaches who would do this behind the scenes when coaching their players, so that their players can "dominate" groups younger than themselves across age groups.

For example, a player who was originally in the U18 group (16-17 years old) will participate in the U16 group (14-15 years old), or a U16 player will participate in the U14 series of a lower age group.

It is also for this reason that in many events in the country, "genius players" emerge in large numbers in the lower age groups, so much so that sports fans are somewhat tired of seeing young geniuses.

Just like when Su Yu first came out, many track and field fans had the mentality of "wait a few years and see" - the track and field fans who held this mentality at the time were all because they had been fooled by some "geniuses" in the country earlier, and later they slowly learned to "let the bullets fly for a while".

It is precisely because of this unhealthy trend in the country that many people felt a little uneasy when they saw the topic "Chinese team submits Su Yu's age certificate" on the hot search.

But after the shock, track and field fans reacted quickly.

That's not right!

Su Yu is participating in the World Championships this time, not the World Youth Championship (U20) or the World Junior Championship (U18). Moreover, at the age of 16, even if Su Yu wants to participate in the World Junior Championship, he will have to wait another two years before he is over the age limit! Even if Su Yu really lied about his age, it wouldn't be to the extent that he needed to submit proof of age so solemnly.

So what is the situation now?

Just when everyone was still confused, the first group of people who went to watch the news came back at the speed of light, and when they came back they burst into laughter.

[Friends, I am laughing so hard that I am breaking down. The national team submitted Su Yu’s age certificate to the IAAF, not to prove that he is over the age limit, but to prove that Su Yu did not lie about his age (exaggerating it)! ! ! 】

Track fans: Huh? ? ?

What's the meaning? Prove that Su Yu did not lie about his age? ? ? Can you elaborate on this?

On the Internet, due to this sudden news topic, some black hot searches were brewing.

After all, although Su Yu seems to have no black spots on his body, and is both a genius student and a top domestic sprinter, there are still some dark-minded guys hidden on the Internet. Sometimes they just want to jump up and down to show their presence by "slapping" positive people in the face, making themselves seem like they are the only one sober while everyone else is drunk.

These people were originally planning to use this topic to start the dark topic of Su Yu lying about his age, and then discuss whether Su Yu should be admitted to Q University if he is already 18, 19, or 20 years old...

As a result, before these black fans could even organize their rhetoric, the Internet's spectators and track and field fans gave Su Yu a fresh 'black hot search' - #Su Yu, I'm really 16 years old#.

Haters:.

It's really a dilemma. What do you want us to say in this situation?

On the Internet, the spectators and track and field fans were already laughing at this moment, and the national track and field team also released an official statement as soon as the news and topic came out.

National Track and Field Team V: [Today, the Chinese team received a letter from the IAAF at 1:20 pm on September 25 in Doha, Qatar, 'regarding the provision of age certification for returning men's 100m sprinter Su Yu', and completed the age certification for Su Yu at 2:30 pm local time in Doha, proving that Su Yu was born on October 24, 2003, and meets the registration requirements for the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, and that Su Yu's eligibility meets the standards. 】

【puff. 】

[Thank you, thank you. I just found out our Emperor Yu’s birthday. It turns out that Emperor Yu is a Scorpio. 】

[Here I come, here I come. Where is the process now?] Is it okay for me to smile now? 】

[Never mind, I’ll just laugh here as a sign of respect, hahahahahahaha]

The cause of this Su Yu age incident was that today Su Yu went to the Khalifa Stadium with his teammates from the national track and field team to conduct field adaptation training. As a result, during the training, he met an athlete from another country who was full of justice and thought that Su Yu looked obviously less than 15 years old this year.

There are regulations in this World Championships, such as U20 athletes cannot participate in 50km race walking and marathon, and U18 athletes cannot participate in throwing events, all-around events, 10,000m, marathon, and race walking events.

Athletes under the age of 16 (born in 2004 or later) are not allowed to register for any event.

This foreign friend believes that the Chinese team is violating the rules by using athletes who do not meet the age requirements, and that participating in the World Championships is also a huge pressure and burden for young athletes of this age.

When Su Yu was stopped by this foreign friend, he was a little confused. Later, he tried hard to explain to the other party that his age met the registration requirements. The foreign friend thought that Su Yu was hiding the facts.

Su Yu didn't have his ID card with him at the time, so it was difficult for him to prove that his age was really his.

Finally, this foreign friend raised his doubts directly to the IAAF officials on the scene, and the national team received the most outrageous letter since participating in the World Championships.

At that time, the reporters from the sports channel and Jigu Video, namely Liu Yu and Lin Weixiong, were also leading their teams to interview the players who were undergoing field adaptation training. Who knew that they would capture such a dramatic scene.

After seeing Su Yu's ears turning red again, Liu Yu, Lin Weixiong and others couldn't help but laugh in an embarrassing way.

Su Yu: “…”

I'm very angry.

After sorting out the cause and effect, domestic netizens burst into laughter.

In other events, athletes need to prove that they have not reported their age too low, but in Su Yu's case, he must prove that he has 'grown up' and meets the registration requirements for the IAAF World Championships!

[Hahahahahahaha, but if you look closely at our Yu Emperor, that foreign friend thinks that Yu Emperor is not yet 15 years old this year... It seems to make sense. 】

[Speaking of which, if Yudi’s date of birth was off by two months, he really wouldn’t have met the competition criteria…]

[I am dying of laughter. I just saw the news footage of Jigu Video. That big brother is obviously Dutch. He is so tall and mighty. I am studying in the Netherlands (162cm tall). I am treated as a child when I go out everyday, but I am already 22 this year...]

[Foreigners tend to think that Asians look younger, but our Yudi has a cold baby face. (Whisper quietly. Besides, our Yudi is less than 180cm tall, right? This height is probably just that of a child in the eyes of the Dutch...) So... Su·less than 180cm tall·baby face·on the verge of 16·Yu, met a Dutch brother with an overflowing sense of justice...hahahahahahahahaha]

[I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt. My friend in front, are you making fun of our Emperor Yu’s height? 177cm at 16 years old, not short anymore! Although he can’t compare to Yudi’s two good friends Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang, who are over 190cm tall…】

[That’s right, it’s so funny. If our Yu Di grows to 190+cm tall, he will definitely not be misunderstood. Look at Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang, they have never been misunderstood! 】

That's right, in this World Championships, Jiang Yuan qualified for the men's high jump event, and Zhou Yuang also came to Doha, Qatar as a substitute for the men's 4*100m sprint relay team.

They all followed the national team to the site today for field adaptation training, and as a result, they witnessed the series of exciting events with their own eyes.

After understanding the explanation from the translator beside him, Zhou Yuang laughed so hard that he fell to his knees. He almost hugged Su Yu, hahaha.

If it was just simple embarrassment at the beginning, after seeing Zhou Yuang laughing so hard that he almost fell to the ground and rolled around, Su Yu now just wanted to beat Zhou Yuang viciously.

After he shifted his gaze to Jiang Yuan's face next to Zhou Yuan, and saw the smile in Jiang Yuan's eyes that could not be hidden, Su Yu groaned and turned around and ran away.

Su Yu: ...I’m very angry.

Zhou Yuang is the ultimate representative of the belief that happiness is better shared than enjoyed alone. Although Su Yu had already left in shame, he still posted the wonderful events on the scene directly to the group with a "hahaha" voice to share this wonderful story with Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui who were unable to come to Doha.

Su Yu: [Xiao Yu's rage gif]

Loser Zhou Yuang, I don’t want friends like him anymore!

***

In fact, regarding the incident that day, the national track and field team originally did not want to make it public, but there was no way. The IAAF had sent a letter and the General Administration of Sport had also received the news. For various considerations, the national team released the news using its official account.

On that day, Su Yu not only received a lot of "hahahaha" from the netizens who were watching the fun, but also received "concern" from his parents and Jiang Yuan's parents.

Su Yu: ...Forget it, let’s just destroy it.

On the other hand, on the Internet, because of the "age controversy" caused by Su Yu, the mentality of the onlookers suddenly calmed down.

Look at it, Su Yu barely meets the age requirement for the World Championships this year, but at Su Yu's age, he has qualified for three events at once...

That's it, what else do you want a bicycle for?

So no one expected that a negative online public opinion crisis that might have arisen due to the large gap between expectations and reality would be resolved so suddenly.

Although, as the person involved, Su Yu seemed to have been "hurt" in this incident?

_(:зゝ∠)_ But it doesn’t matter, it’s not a big problem (?)

***

The day after Su Yu’s age controversy, the Dutch brother went to the Chinese team to apologize, but the Chinese team leader said it didn’t matter.

But it was obvious that this elder brother still looked incredible when he saw Su Yu's appearance.

"You look so young..."

Terence Gallia, the 193cm tall Dutch guy scratched his head and looked at Su Yu embarrassedly. He tried to gesture with his hands while speaking: "After all, you only look this short..."

Su Yu: “…”

Su Yu was a little confused as to whether Terrence Gallia came to apologize or to continue the feud.

But Terrence Gallia still apologized to Su Yu seriously: "I'm sorry... But I heard from the official staff that you are indeed only two months older than the official minimum age limit for participating. At such a young age, you can actually qualify for the three sprint events..."

When Terence Gallia said this, his eyes were full of surprise. He even circled around Su Yu, as if he wanted to see if there was anything different about Su Yu that was different from ordinary people.

"It's a pity that I'm not a sprinter, otherwise I would really look forward to competing with you in person on the track."

***

After Terrence apologized, the age controversy was finally over.

On September 26, the officials of the World Athletics Championships held a technical meeting to once again clarify the various rules and competition-related matters of the event, and also made the final confirmation of the list of participants. Technical representatives and referees from various countries also attended the meeting.

Finally, on September 27th when everything was ready, the 2019 Qatar Doha World Athletics Championships was officially announced to start!

“It’s finally started!”

At 4 p.m. local time in Doha, Qatar, Han Yiqing and more than a dozen other members of the 400-meter sprint enthusiasts group had already successfully met in Doha. Then, before the start of the first day of the World Championships, they took a bus together to the Khalifa Stadium, the host venue of the World Championships and the previous host venue of the Asian Championships.

Lao Hu in the group looked at the temperature in Doha and wiped his sweat: "My goodness, the World Championships this section, with this temperature, the marathon and race walking athletes, no wonder the competitions have to be scheduled until midnight."

As a typical tropical country, the daytime temperature in Doha, Qatar can still soar to over 35 degrees in late September and early October, and it is not much cooler even at night.

Athletes like Su Yu, who participated in the Asian Championships at the beginning of the year, felt it was quite hot when they came to Doha in April. Now that they have arrived in Doha at the end of September, many people understand why the competition time of this World Championships was pushed to this point.

If the competition were to start according to the time of previous World Championships, even if it started in the evening, the temperature would soar to over 30 degrees, which is not a very suitable time for the competition.

Even though Qatar is wealthy and has installed the latest circulating air-conditioning system in the audience seats and venues of the Khalifa Stadium, an open outdoor stadium, marathon and long-distance race walkers still have to face the harsh out-of-city competition environment.

Han Yiqing also complained: "Qatar has pushed the start time of this World Championships to the point where it can't be postponed any further. If it is pushed back any further, the athletes will lose their competitive form."

"Fortunately, the sprint races are all held in the Caliphate, so this doesn't have much impact on the runners..."

***

As Han Yiqing and other track and field fans and spectators entered the stadium one after another, Su Yu and his team had already arrived at the competition site and were preparing for the competition in the lounges of each country in the backcourt.

For the Chinese team, there are quite a few events in which China has an advantage in today's first day of the World Championships.

Just like the men's long jump qualification competition that started first after the start of the game, the Chinese team also had a full team in this event - among China's five male long jumpers, the five long jumpers headed by Chen Zexin were almost full, three of them officially participated in the competition, and Wang Qi, as the fourth substitute, also came to Doha with the team.

In addition to the men's long jump, the women's shot put qualifying (main competition) Group AB competition will also be held tonight.

These two events are the Chinese team's gold medal opportunities. Of course, in addition to these two events, what actually attracts more attention from the audience is the men's 100-meter sprint group competition in which Su Yu, Feng Chuming and Zheng Tianxi will compete.

At 4:30 p.m., after the men's long jump qualifying round as the first official event of the World Championships started, just 5 minutes later, the men's 100-meter sprint (preliminary) qualifying round also officially kicked off.

There are a total of 4 competition groups in the men's 100m sprint (preliminary) qualifying round, with 8 athletes in each group, and a total of 32 athletes competing for 8 qualifications to advance to the main competition.

Just as the spectators had observed before, neither the domestic sports channels nor Jigu Video broadcast the qualifying rounds, so only Han Yiqing and other track and field fans who came to the scene could see the qualifying rounds with their own eyes.

Fortunately, Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Su Yu from the Chinese team had already taken up all the places for the Chinese team. Therefore, there were no players from the Chinese team participating in the qualifying stage, and the domestic spectators were not very curious about the competition at this stage.

Han Yiqing and his friends who were watching the game on site were quite interested, but in the qualifying rounds, the athletes who would participate in this stage of the qualifiers were all from national teams with relatively ordinary or even backward track and field levels. Han Yiqing and his friends thought that the strongest ones might be several athletes from the Netherlands, South Korea, Gambia and Norway.

The reason why they were able to figure this out is not because these players are famous, but simply because they saw it from the data pushed by the official.

After the qualifying round actually started, Han Yiqing and the others finally understood why the sports channel and Jigu Video did not plan to broadcast the qualifying round live.

There’s nothing I can do, my level really isn’t high enough.

After four qualifying rounds, the strongest athlete ran a time of 10.23 seconds, and the athlete who advanced by ranking eighth ran a time of 10.64 seconds, which was his PB.

Such a level of strength and competition is indeed inconsistent with the overall standard of the World Championships. No wonder the sports channel and Jigu Video only broadcast the long jump and women's shot put events.

However, Han Yiqing and other track and field fans who came to watch the game in person did not mind such competitions. After all, they had not seen such qualifying competitions in the live broadcasts of the games on TV and the Internet in the past. Watching the games from a live perspective was a fresh experience.

However, after the experience, what Han Yiqing and his team are really looking forward to is the men's 100m group competition later, which is the main competition part of the men's 100m sprint event.

After watching the qualifying round, Han Yiqing and the others discussed it - if the players in the qualifying round were at this level, then Su Yu should be able to win the 400m qualifying round.

***

At 4:55 pm Qatar time, after the men's 100m sprint qualifying round officially ended, the list of 8 athletes who advanced to the main competition was determined, and the official group list for the men's 100m sprint group stage was finally finalized 1 hour and 10 minutes before the game.

Domestic track and field fans and spectators have been waiting for a long time and finally saw the official group list pushed simultaneously by the national track and field team.

From this official group list, we can see that the total number of participants in the men's 100m sprint preliminaries of this World Championships remains the same as the previous one, which is 48.

The 48 preliminary contestants were divided into 6 preliminary groups, among which Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Su Yu of the Chinese team were in the third preliminary group (Zheng Tianxi), the first preliminary group (Feng Chuming) and the fourth preliminary group (Su Yu) respectively.

After seeing this official roster, domestic audiences first breathed a sigh of relief - fortunately, the death groups for the men's 100m sprint preliminaries were the second and sixth groups, and the three Chinese players successfully avoided these two death groups, so they were quite lucky.

But among Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Su Yu, Su Yu's luck was a little worse. In the fourth group of the preliminaries where he was, his opponents were from Jamaica, the United States, Côte d'Ivoire, Japan, Brazil, South Korea and Norway.

Among them, except for the two players from South Korea and Norway who advanced to the main competition through the qualifying round, the remaining opponents are all stronger than Su Yu.

The Japanese player in the same group with Su Yu is none other than Ippei Suzuki, an old acquaintance of the Chinese team.

As the athlete who came in last at the World Athletics Challenge in Osaka, Japan, Ippei Suzuki seemed to have received a huge stimulus after the race. He announced to the Japanese media that he would definitely break the 10-second mark in the 100 meters this season, otherwise he would officially announce his retirement after the end of the season.

But after the Osaka race, from June to September, Ippei Suzuki participated in a large number of competitions in Japan and abroad. Although he ran a good result of 10.01 seconds during the season, he still failed to break the 10-second mark in the 100 meters.

For Ippei Suzuki, this World Championships is his last chance. He can only succeed, not fail.

In addition to Ippei Suzuki, the other two athletes from Jamaica and the United States have achieved season best results of 9.96 and 9.97 respectively. The athlete from Côte d'Ivoire even ran a good result of 9.93 this season.

Looking around, among all Su Yu's opponents, except for the two players from South Korea and Norway who advanced as substitutes, the only ones who failed to break the ten-second mark this season are Ippei Suzuki and the Brazilian player.

But among these two, Ippei Suzuki's season best is 10.01, and the Brazilian athlete's season best is 10.02.

So looking at the overall situation, Su Yu's season best result of 10.06 seconds seems a bit shabby.

After reading the group list, the domestic spectators were stunned by the data compiled by track and field fans.

[What the hell… 10.06 seconds is the best result of the season, but I’m still third from the bottom in the preliminary group? In other words, apart from the two who advanced as substitutes... he would be the last one? 】

[I'm stunned. You're telling me that this is a group with 'relatively less competition'? ? ? 】

[Help! What is the level of the death squad...]

The spectators were stunned as they looked at these data, and the track and field fans did not disappoint them by directly bringing them the data of the death group.

In the second group of preliminaries, all players’ average PB broke the ten-second mark, and the best result of the season was broken by four players.

In the sixth group of preliminaries, although not all players broke the ten-second mark for their PB, four of the eight players broke the ten-second mark. It seems that the number of people who broke the ten-second mark is not as many as in the second group of preliminaries, but these four players have all broken the ten-second mark for the 100 meters this season.

After seeing this data, the onlookers fell into a long silence.

I'm sorry, we thought we had set very high standards and strict requirements for the World Championships, but we didn't expect that we still underestimated the severity of our world opponents.

Those bystanders who had expected Su Yu to advance all the way to the finals, now all became quiet.

Okay, let’s not think about rushing into the finals. Let’s set a small goal first - work hard to qualify for the semi-finals, right?

The rules for the 100m group stage of this World Championships are not much different from those of ordinary competitions.

In the preliminary round, the top three players in each of the six groups will qualify directly for the semi-finals, and the top six players among the remaining players will qualify as substitutes.

That is to say, out of the 48 contestants, 24 will eventually qualify to advance to the semi-finals.

After hearing this data, the onlookers felt a little relieved.

In Su Yu's preliminary group, if we really can't beat those players from the United States, Jamaica and Cote d'Ivoire, then aren't the remaining players Ippei Suzuki from Japan and the player from Brazil?

In short, if we try our best, there shouldn't be any problem in striving for fifth place or fourth place, right?

The once ambitious spectators have finally learned to take one step at a time under the increasing pressure of reality (?)

***

However, in the Chinese team's backcourt lounge, no one, whether coach or staff, would pour cold water on the players on their team at this moment.

Sun Gaoshu and Pei Dingshan were in the backcourt lounge at the moment. They didn't say anything to Su Yu and the others. They just quietly accompanied the players in their team. When the staff on site came to inform the players that they could prepare for warm-up, Sun Gaoshu and Pei Dingshan stood up and simply patted the players on the shoulders.

"come on."

Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Su Yu all nodded. None of them were cheerful people, especially Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming. When they went abroad, people would misunderstand that they were shopping for free. Now the three of them stood together and nodded, as if they were going to carry out some death mission.

Sun Gaoshu looked at the three of them and felt quite amused.

"Alright, alright, warm up and get ready for the game."

Only after he sent the three people away did Sun Gaoshu's face show a bit of nervousness.

After all, this is the preliminaries of the World Championships!

Even though Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming have both broken the ten-second mark, and Zheng Tianxi has even run a time of 9.90 seconds, that was last season.

This season, Zheng Tianxi's personal best is 9.97 seconds, and Feng Chuming's personal best this season is actually 10.04 seconds, which is only slightly better than Su Yu. As for these two results, they were created in the men's 100m final of the Asian Championships, which is not within the qualifying period for the Tokyo Olympics.

In other words, after the Asian Championships, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming have not achieved ideal results - of course, this is not a very special situation for athletes.

In fact, those domestic netizens who were watching the fun were all focused on Su Yu, so they didn't notice these details, while domestic track and field fans were well aware of these data.

In short, translating Sun Gaoshu's concerns, it means that - in fact, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming's advancement to the semi-finals is not as sure as many people think.

Thinking of this, Sun Gaoshu rubbed his head with a headache.

"Now that we're awake, let's go to the audience seats."

The Chinese team has its own viewing seats in the audience. At this moment, Sun Gaoshu and others have accompanied Su Yu and others in the backcourt lounge. Now it is time to move to the on-site viewing seats to wait for the next preliminaries to begin.

***

In the warm-up preparation area in the backcourt, after Su Yu, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming arrived at the warm-up area together, they dispersed tacitly.

After all, they each have their own warm-up habits, and the big competition is approaching, so there is no need to get together at this time. The three of them staying together at this moment will not improve their warm-up efficiency and effectiveness.

However, when they were dispersing, Su Yu could sense that many people's eyes stayed on him briefly.

He actually knew what was going on.

After all, yesterday's "age incident" was quite famous among the participating teams from various countries, especially since there was a Dutch player on the scene, who was tall and strong and was obviously Terrence's teammate. It was obvious that they looked at him for a while longer.

After Su Yu noticed these gazes, he put on a stern face and pretended not to notice. However, the players around him soon stopped paying attention to him. However, there were still a few eyes on him. When Su Yu looked up, he saw some familiar faces - some opponents he had met when he was frantically playing games between June and August.

This season, because of his crazy competition, he made quite a few friends, but not many of them qualified for the World Championships. After all, the level of the competitions he played in was not always very high.

When he noticed his friends' gazes, he nodded in a friendly manner, and then everyone went back to their own warm-up preparations for the competition.

However, some contestants, after noticing that some familiar contestants were greeting Su Yu, curiously asked the contestants around them: "Hey, do you know that kid from the Chinese team?"

"Uh-huh, yes, I've faced him in three games this season."

"So what do you think of his strength?"

The contestant who was asked this question showed a subtle expression on his face: "Emm, well... I can't say."

"?"

"Why?"

The contestant who asked the question thought this was odd: "Is it difficult just to describe his strength?"

For these players, not everyone will be like Su Yu, who will memorize all of their opponents' performance data and analyze them before the game. Even if they pay attention to their opponents, they will only focus on a few emerging dark horses.

At the World Championship level, the standard for a so-called "dark horse" is to at least break the 10-second mark in the 100 meters.

After all, in the World Championships, if you want to enter the final of the men's 100-meter sprint, unless there are some luck factors, you basically have to have the ability to break 9.90 seconds for the 100 meters.

In competitions of this level, athletes whose personal best times are outside of 10 seconds will hardly be noticed by these athletes and their teams.

Even if you notice that this athlete is exceptionally young, you will only know that he is the current world U18 men's 100m sprint best record holder, and more data will be difficult to understand.

The contestant who had three races with Su Yu spread his hands when he heard this and said, "Well, let me put it this way. In the three races he and I ran together, he ran between 10.10 and 10.30."

After hearing this result, the contestant who asked the question found it difficult to analyze any specific information from it.

Of course, the player who has played with Su Yu would not say that Su Yu has maintained a performance in this range during the three consecutive months of crazy competition.

An astonishing level of performance stability that can be maintained even under high-intensity combat.

What he had no doubt about was that a player who could maintain such stability in continuous long-term cross-border operations would definitely not show his top strength in these competitions.

Now, after his high-intensity combat, he has had enough rest and adjustment.

Now, one month later, his friend Su from the Chinese team...what level of performance can he achieve now?

This is really an exciting question!

***

At the warm-up venue, after greeting a few players he knew, Su Yu no longer paid attention to the surrounding eyes, but devoted himself to his warm-up preparations.

Facing this competition that he had been preparing for almost a whole season, even in the past few months, Su Yu had already gone through a crazy training schedule that could be described as "hell mode". For other players, this kind of training schedule might even wear out their real enthusiasm and expectations for the competition.

But for Su Yu, every previous game, through accumulation little by little, made his expectations for the competition grow deeper and deeper.

Finally, this accumulation of competitions has accumulated to this moment.

Plop, plop.

Even though it was just a preliminary round, standing in the atmosphere at this moment, standing in the competition venue where strong players from all over the world gathered...

At this moment, Su Yu could already feel the anticipation for the game gradually overflowing from his body.

It’s almost there. It’s almost there.

***

Finally, the time on site slowly turned to 6:05!

The first group of athletes in the much-anticipated World Championships men's 100m sprint preliminaries have finally arrived!

In the domestic Jigu video live broadcast room, when Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming saw Feng Chuming entering the arena, both of them had looks of anticipation on their faces.

"Dear viewers, it is now September 27, 2019, 6:05 pm Doha time, 23:05 pm B city time!"

"I am Tian Ruhui/Zhou Jiming. Next, we will explain the men's 100-meter sprint group stage of the World Track and Field Championships that is about to begin!"

"Now, the one who has entered the arena is our country's famous male 100-meter runner Feng Chuming. Later, our country's 100-meter record holder Zheng Tianxi, who is also the Asian men's 100-meter sprint record holder Zheng Tianxi, and our country's male sprinter Su Yu will also appear in the third and fourth groups of the preliminaries later--"

"Let us look forward to their performance together!"

"Now - the first group of men's preliminaries has officially begun!!"