Chapter 152

The World Athletics Championships is the highest-level international track and field event, and is also the competition that countless track and field athletes most desire to participate in their lives, apart from the Olympics.

In this world's top track and field arena, countless amazing records in track and field events have been set. The world's legendary sprint king has left behind legendary records of 9.58 seconds for the 100 meters and 19.19 seconds for the 200 meters in the World Championships.

Every top athlete in a sprint event is eager to leave his or her own mark on the field.

Today, this stadium that has given birth to many legends welcomed its youngest contestant on the men's 100-meter sprint final track - at the same time, this is also the first yellow athlete to appear on this stadium!

"Su-yu--!"

In the live commentary room of the sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming felt their hearts pounding wildly just by saying the name Su Yu.

At this moment, it is 10:15 pm on the second day of the Doha Athletics World Championships on September 28, 2019, Doha time, which is also 3:15 am in the morning of the local time.

Although it was already late at night, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming seemed particularly excited.

From the results of real-time monitoring of online data by the sports channel staff and Jigu Video, it can be basically determined that after the men's 100-meter sprint semi-finals, the online popularity had declined to a certain extent, but as time got closer to 3:15 in the morning, the online popularity gradually recovered.

The real-time TV data from the sports channel showed that the live broadcast data of the World Championships began to gradually recover as it approached 3:15 a.m. By the time the World Championships men's 100-meter sprint final began to introduce the contestants one by one at 3:15 a.m., the backstage ratings of the sports channel had already approached the peak of the semi-finals.

You know, these are the ratings data at 3:15 in the morning!

In previous years, even the late-night live broadcast of the Olympics could hardly achieve such viewership popularity. This shows that the popularity of the men's 100-meter sprint in this World Championships has exceeded the attention of many events in previous Olympic competitions.

Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming dare to say that the popularity of the men's 100m final of this World Championships is in no way inferior to the 100m final of the World Championships held in China in 2015.

Although they were both feeling the heat of the game, they did not forget their ongoing commentary work.

At this moment at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, the World Championships officials were introducing the eight contestants who had advanced to the men's 100-meter sprint final.

As the men's 100-meter sprint final of the World Championships, although the actual race may only last 10 seconds, as one of the most watched events of the World Championships, the men's 100-meter sprint final cannot be just this grand.

Therefore, the official specially arranged for the spotlights to be turned off, and before each player came on stage, there was a short VCR clip prepared by the official for them, which introduced the player's nationality and name, as well as the player's personal best performance so far and the performance in this World Championships.

The order in which the 8 contestants appear is related to their semi-final rankings, starting with the last-ranked contestant in the semi-finals and continuing until the first-ranked contestant.

At this moment, the official commentator in Doha, Qatar, sounded particularly loud and excited.

"The first to appear is the Italian athlete - Nicolas Artuso! This 25-year-old athlete has a personal best of 9.91 seconds. His career goal is to break the 9.80 mark and refresh the European men's 100-meter sprint record...!"

"In tonight's men's 100-meter sprint semi-final, he ranked third in the third group of the semi-finals with a time of 10.04 seconds and advanced to the final of the men's 100-meter sprint!"

Along with the loud and excited introduction of the on-site commentator, in front of the final entrance channel specially prepared for the final, the huge electronic screen flashed the wonderful scenes of Nicolas Artuso's career and the scene of him and Zheng Tianxi crossing the finish line almost side by side in the semi-finals.

When he came on stage and waved to the audience, the camera lenses were specifically aimed at him. The large electronic screens on both sides of the field were also filled with footage of Nicholas's appearance and the cheers of the audience.

After Nicolas Artuso came on stage and waved to the audience, he quickly ran towards his lane - since he was ranked last in the semi-finals among the contestants who advanced to the finals, his lane was randomly assigned to the second innermost lane.

After Nicholas came on stage, the second person to take the stage was Gavin Kovalchuk, a Canadian athlete who successfully advanced to the final with a time of 10.03 seconds and second place in the group in the second group of the semi-finals.

This athlete from Canada has a personal best of 9.90 seconds and is undoubtedly a strong competitor.

Following Gavin Kovalchuk was the Jamaican youngster Romario Ferguson, who crossed the line almost at the same time as Su Yu in the first group of the semi-finals.

The commentator's tone was equally excited when he introduced Romario, introducing Romario's personal best of 9.96 seconds and his qualifying result of 10.02 seconds in the semi-finals.

After introducing Romario's achievements, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming in the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel were excited -

"Su Yu is coming!"

Not to mention them, even in the live commentary room of Jigu Video, the barrage on the public screen had already been flooded with the words "Come on Su Yu".

On the field, as Su Yu appeared, anyone could hear how excited the official commentator from Qatar was when he introduced Su Yu. However, anyone who knew Su Yu's resume would definitely understand where the official commentator's excitement came from.

"Dear audience members, what you are about to see is the youngest participant in the 100m final of the World Championships in the history of the men's 100m sprint!"

"He was born in 2003, a 16-year-old athlete who just barely meets the age limit for the World Championships - of course, he is also the first yellow athlete in history to stand in the World Championships finals!"

"Let us welcome this legendary Asian teenager. He is also the only Asian player in this game! He is the 16-year-old from China——"

"Su-Yu!!!"

Even though Su Yu is not a local player from Qatar, as an Asian player, the audience from Qatar certainly did not hesitate to give the warmest applause to this young Asian player who created a miracle.

In the Chinese player area of ​​the audience seats, the Chinese team staff naturally gave Su Yu extremely enthusiastic and crazy applause.

"Su Yu! Su Yu!!"

"Come on, Su Yu!!"

Although Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming from China were still introducing Su Yu's personal best of 10.02 seconds in the men's 100m sprint and his semi-final qualification result to the audience step by step, their excitement was undoubtedly in sync with that of the audience.

While they were excited, they did not forget to reduce the public pressure on Su Yu.

"This is Su Yu, a player from the Chinese team. What's more, this is the first time that a yellow-skinned player in the world has competed in a 100-meter final of this level at the World Championships."

"The moment when Su Yu stands on this field is a miracle in itself - for the subsequent games, I hope Su Yu can play to his best as much as possible. As long as he can play to his best and leave no regrets, it will be the best performance!"

Regarding what Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming said, although there were still people on the public screen of the live broadcast room of Jigu Video teasing that the two teachers had started to "stack armor" for Su Yu again, the vast majority of the audience and even the onlookers agreed with what they said.

There was no other way. After all, in this final, the audience was already numb just by listening to teachers Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming announcing the results of the previous contestants.

Including the other four players who will compete later, among the total of 8 players, Su Yu is the last in personal best history. Of course, with the semi-finals of the World Championships before, Su Yu's PB being last is nothing new, but in this game, except for Su Yu, all the remaining players have personal bests in history and personal bests in the season within 10 seconds...

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In other words, this group of athletes are either already famous for a long time and are in their prime, and can still run the 100 meters within 10 seconds every year, or even within 9.90 or 9.80 seconds, and are in their golden age, ready to create new personal bests at any time; or they are young but have already begun to break the 10-second mark for the 100 meters and are preparing to enter the rising stage of their careers.

Compared with these people, Su Yu, who is only 16 years old and barely relies on top talent, technical ability and speed to run the 100 meters in 10.02 seconds, is like a little lamb that has strayed into a pack of wolves.

At this time, even the Japanese live broadcaster who gave Su Yu the title of "Wolf Son" and was obviously a fan of Su Yu, Matsumoto Kohei, said after a brief silence: "Wolf Son already has enough talent, so he now needs a little patience and time to allow him to grow step by step, and in one or two years, or three or four years, he will reach the peak of his career."

…

At the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, the on-site commentator's introduction to the players will certainly not stop there. The next players to appear are Miguel Talbot from the British team, Emil Erasmus from South Africa, and two players from the American team, Alex Thomas and Maxwell Williams.

The worst personal best among these four athletes is 9.95 seconds, while the remaining three have all broken the 9.90 second mark in the 100 meters. Among them, the one with the best personal best is Maxwell Williams from the US team, who broke the 9.80 second mark last season, raising his personal best to 9.74 seconds.

On the field, these four players were in lanes 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively. Among the remaining players, Nicolas Artuso and Gavin Kovalchuk were in lanes 2 and 3, while Romario Ferguson and Su Yu were in lanes 8 and 9.

However, in this final, the lane position does not represent the true strength of the athlete. For example, Gavin Kovalchuk, with his personal best of 9.90 seconds, has already surpassed Miguel Talbot in the fourth lane.

In the previous semi-finals, although there were players like Su Yu who had already exerted their abilities to the limit and were lucky enough to advance to the finals, there were also many players who retained enough strength in the semi-finals.

It can be said that for these players, the real competition of this World Championships has just begun...

***

On the field, Su Yu had already adjusted the position and angle of his starting blocks, and began to stand behind the starting blocks to simply adjust his final position.

The live broadcast of the domestic sports channel scanned the eight finalists on the field one by one, using the language of the camera to interpret the silent and tense atmosphere of the final on the field.

After watching the eight contestants on the field, the netizens on Jigu Video started discussing another topic from a strange angle:

[Wow, there are only two white players and one Yu Di on the field, and the remaining five players are all black? 】

[Among the two white contestants, one of them looks like a mixed-race? 】

Although people have always known that a large number of events in track and field are dominated by blacks, after seeing the pitch-black final of the World Championships, many people have truly realized what the "racial advantage" of certain events is, and have also more deeply realized the significance of Zheng Tianxi as the first yellow person to break the 10-second mark in the 100-meter race, and the difficulty for Su Yu, a Chinese and yellow person, to enter this arena.

Just like what many track and field fans have learned before - the athletes who can make it to the finals of the World Championships and the Olympic Games 100m sprint are basically those who can achieve a time of 9.90 seconds for the 100m.

This data is not a random assessment by track and field fans, because the performance of 100-meter sprinters has a reasonable fluctuation range, and this reasonable fluctuation range is approximately within 0.2 seconds. For example, an athlete with a PB of 9.90 seconds and who can run to 9.95 seconds many times, as long as his performance fluctuation range is between 9.95 seconds and 10.15 seconds, it is considered a good performance.

For a runner who has the ability to run 9.90 seconds many times, his score between 9.90 and 10.10 is already an excellent performance - and being able to stabilize the score within 10.10 is basically the basic qualifying threshold for the World Championships finals.

In fact, from this perspective, we should know that in tonight's 100-meter semi-final, Zheng Tianxi's performance was actually not bad at all, and it was even very outstanding.

After all, Zheng Tianxi has only run 9.90 seconds once so far, and his hard power should still be around 9.96 seconds. In other words, if he runs within 10.16 seconds, it is already a very good performance, not to mention that he was affected by muscle stress injury at that time.

However, such knowledge points are too fragmented, and track and field fans did not mention it specifically because they saw that there were not many discussions and posts attacking Zheng Tianxi on the Internet, for fear of attracting the attention of public opinion and worsening the situation.

From these data, we can see how difficult it is for Asian athletes to enter the finals of the World Championships. After all, so far, only Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming have successfully broken the 10-second mark for the 100 meters. Feng Chuming has only had this experience once, and Zheng Tianxi is also the first athlete to run 9.90 seconds for the 100 meters.

Therefore, compared with those black athletes who have unique genetic and muscular talents, the yellow athletes standing on such a field are constantly called "miracles".

In fact, before the final officially started tonight, some track and field fans on the Track and Field Kingdom forum had a special thread to discuss the stability of Su Yu's performance. As an athlete who is still some distance away from breaking 10 in the 100 meters, Su Yu's ability to stand on this field has attracted countless people's attention.

However, no matter how impressive the performance is, the competitors on the field will only pay attention to top players such as Maxwell, Alex, Emil, etc. whose results have already broken the 9.90 second mark.

Everyone knew that Su Yu's "miracle" in the men's 100-meter sprint at this World Championships had come to an end, and all he could do was to try his best not to fall last place.

Even Su Yu himself knows it.

But so what?

Even if there is no hope, he will fight with all his strength, because - this is what he should do.

Following the guidance of the on-site commentator, the audience in the stands gradually quieted down. The lights in the stadium had not yet been turned on. While the athletes came to their respective starting blocks to adjust them, a dazzling light show was being staged on the 400-meter circular track surrounding the entire stadium to welcome the men's 100-meter sprint battle.

It was not until the two-minute light show ended that the lights on the scene were suddenly turned on, illuminating the entire stadium as bright as day.

It was also at this moment that the starter on the scene finally blew the whistle and issued his first command - take your positions!

The eight contestants followed the instructions and went to their respective starting blocks. Su Yu did the same. After he went to the starting block, he quickly squatted on the starting block with his hands on the ground. After making sure that his pedaling was stable enough, he touched the ground with one knee and lowered his head slightly, waiting for the start of the final.

During this period, Su Yu only looked up at the track ahead once.

That is the end of his goal, but he thinks that his current strength is not enough... However, this game in front of him will definitely not be the end of his journey in the World Championships!

In the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, although Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were very concerned about Su Yu's performance, as a dedicated commentator, it was impossible for them to keep the topic entirely focused on Su Yu.

For example, at this moment, they are introducing several players who are expected to win the championship, namely Maxwell and Alex from the American team and Emil Erasmus from South Africa.

"Among these players, the most stable performers this season are Maxwell from the US team and Emil Erasmus from South Africa - but friends who follow the international track and field world should know one thing better."

Tian Ruhui's words were passed here, and Zhou Jiming naturally took over the topic: "Teacher Tian is also very humorous now. Yes, among these two players, Emil is in a relatively stable individual state, while Maxwell Williams of the American team is... very stable in false starts."

"In total, Maxwell has been disqualified for false starts in four of the three IAAF Challenge and four Diamond League events this season."

There are also various levels of competitions in the United States, and Maxwell has had many experiences of being penalized for false starts.

But he has a 'unique' ability. In important events such as the World Championships and the Olympics, the number of false starts he commits will drop significantly.

"Of course, even so, some track and field enthusiasts in China still jokingly call him the 'sprinter'."

Although Maxwell always makes false starts, he does have extremely strong personal strength. For example, in the 7 games this season, although he was sent off for false starts in 4 games, he still finished 3 games smoothly and won all 3 games.

In other words, in tonight's World Championship final, if Maxwell had not made a false start, he might have had a great chance of winning the World Championship!

"Dear audience, the competition is about to begin. Let's wait and see who will be the champion of tonight's World Championships!"

As Tian Ruhui and his team finished their words, the starter on site confirmed that the contestants were ready and gave the command "Ready".

And right after the sound of "ready", there was the sound of "bang" of the starting gun - with the sound of the starting gun, the final of this World Championship officially kicked off!

In China, because Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had just introduced the "sprinter" Maxwell, the first subconscious reaction of the domestic audience after the starting gun sounded was to confirm whether the starter blew the whistle to recall the contestants.

No recall!

Tian Ruhui also responded quickly at the first moment: "The race begins! Maxwell did not start falsely!"

At the same time, Zhou Jiming had quickly reported Maxwell's starting reaction time - 0.125 seconds!

An extremely outstanding starting reaction time, but at the same time, there are actually three other players on the field whose starting reaction times are even better than Maxwell. They are Jamaican teenager Romario, South African player Emile Erasmus and from China... Su Yu!

What is even more amazing is that the starting reaction times of these three people were all within 0.120 seconds, among which Su Yu gave an amazing reaction speed of 0.117 seconds, and Emil from South Africa and Jamaican teenager Romario also had a reaction speed of 0.119 seconds.

Although Zhou Jiming wanted to introduce the athletes' amazing reaction speed, the World Championships 100m final was changing rapidly, leaving him with no time to introduce the starting reaction time data related only to the starting stage.

But although Zhou Jiming did not have time to introduce, there were still track and field fans and ordinary viewers in front of the TV and in the online live broadcast room who saw the data flashing by on the live broadcast screen.

In this game, the situation in the semi-finals where the average starting reaction of the players was more than 0.150 seconds has completely disappeared. Among the 8 players, the one with the slowest starting reaction speed is Nicholas from Italy. Although the starting reaction speed of 0.158 seconds cannot represent his final result, it has basically announced that he has no chance of winning or even the front row.

In the eighth lane, the Jamaican teenager Romario, who was caught up and surpassed by Su Yu in the last 10 meters in the semi-finals, showed an extremely fast reaction speed of 0.119 seconds in tonight's final. The powerful reaction speed matched his strong forward speed ability, allowing him to lag only behind Maxwell and Emil in the first 40 meters, occupying the third place in the forward stage...!

Behind Romario, Gavin Kovalchuk from Canada is also chasing closely, and the distance between him and Romario is very close!

Most of the audience were nervous about the top four contestants, but a small number of them were still looking at the young contestant from the Chinese team, Su Yu, in the ninth lane.

The 16-year-old young player seemed so weak in figure and strength compared with those opponents around him. Even in this game, he had done his best with his ability in the starting reaction stage, but compared with these world-class players, his explosiveness and power were still too weak.

This difference in strength caused him to lag behind significantly in the initial burst stage. Even Nicholas, the Italian runner who had the slowest reaction speed in the initial reaction stage, was slightly ahead of Su Yu in the ninth lane in the first thirty meters.

In the first thirty meters, he was the last in the field.

In the Chinese team's player area, Sun Gaoshu and his team nervously clenched their fists and looked at Su Yu on the field, worried that Su Yu, who had never faced such a predicament on the field, would collapse because he could not face such a situation...

For a moment, Sun Gaoshu even had the idea that 'maybe it would be better for Su Yu not to advance to the World Championships finals', but this thought only flashed through his mind. He knew that the players of the Chinese team would eventually face such difficulties in their professional careers.

However, some players have already encountered such difficulties in Asian-level competitions, while Su Yu did not experience the powerlessness of falling to last place in the face of strong opponents until the finals of the World Championships, the world's top competition.

Sun Gaoshu knew clearly that facing the current situation, Su Yu had no choice but to grit his teeth and hold on, and to cross the threshold in front of him with a firm heart, which could truly prove that he had grown up.

And Su Yu...can he do it?

***

The last person in the first 30 meters of the race...

Su Yu actually didn't know that he was in last place. His lane was too far away. On the ninth lane, the number of opponents he could observe out of the corner of his eye was limited.

But even so, he knew he was in a very disadvantageous position.

Facing the game in front of him, it is just like what he said - even if he sees no hope, he will definitely go all out, because this is the responsibility he should shoulder at this moment.

So even though he knew it was difficult, he was still working hard to move forward step by step.

Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale.

Every step is the most precise movement and footstep controlled by himself, every arm swing, every hip thrust, every footstep that touches the ground track and receives feedback from the track.

He did his best to make the best of it.

He couldn't stop his opponent's strength. All he could do at this moment was to get closer to his opponent to the best of his ability.

Even if it's just a little bit, he hopes that he can run a better result - this is for his own desire for victory, for his own dream of running on the track, and for the countless expectant eyes cast on him at this moment.

Dreams and responsibilities are intertwined at this moment.

All he can do is to do his best step by step with all his strength...!

Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale.

Two consecutive days of competition, especially the semi-final three hours ago, even after more than two hours of rest, even if he has good enough recovery ability, but the sprint in the semi-final three hours ago still made his physical skills state exhausted.

After a short rest, his physical function may have recovered to 70% or 80%, but if he wants to face such a group of opponents in such an arena, only recovering 70% or 80% of his physical function is not enough to cope with such an arena.

After the 50-meter race, Su Yu could feel that the lactic acid in his body was accumulating at a very fast rate and affecting his muscle condition.

The soreness of his muscles made him feel even more tired and difficult while controlling his limbs. He could even feel the hot air cutting his throat and trachea with every breath he took.

But perhaps it was this painful reaction from the body that stimulated his will even more and made his mind clearer.

Even though it was painful and difficult, Su Yu never wanted to give up and go faster.

His eyes were always fixed firmly on the destination ahead.

Faster, he wanted faster!

One step, two steps, three steps...

As Su Yu gradually reached the middle and late stages, even though his body was very tired, he still entered the late-stage explosive stage well.

In just a short moment, Su Yu had reversed the positions between him and the famous Italian general Nicholas!

In the Chinese player zone seat at the scene, Sun Gaoshu excitedly shouted "good" after seeing Su Yu's condition and performance!

Even though Su Yu's overtaking only brought him from eighth place to seventh place, for Su Yu, this was a performance that showed that even when facing the dilemma of being in last place, he was still able to maintain a stable and firm mentality, and to gather strength to continue to overtake!

This transcendence truly reflects the determination and tenacity that Su Yu possesses, which should belong to a top athlete!

Han Yiqing's fans at the scene were shouting excitedly after seeing Su Yu successfully surpass Nicholas.

"Come on, come on!!! Come on Su Yu!!!"

Like all track and field fans who are aware of the value of this game, Han Yiqing and others know that Su Yu will have a tough battle in this 100-meter final. But as long as Su Yu can still maintain such a firm heart and a courageous attitude, they can expect a better future for Su Yu!

Come on, come on! ! !

At this moment, fans like Han Yiqing and Guo Debiao looked at Su Yu on the field with tears of excitement in their eyes.

Su Yu! you can! You can definitely become stronger! ! !

***

On the field, as Su Yu successfully surpassed Nicholas, there was only one other opponent left before him who he still had hope of surpassing.

Miguel Talbot from the British team was in sixth place at this time. He was unaware that Su Yu had overtaken him. For Miguel, what he hoped now was that he could run a better result as much as possible.

In the last 40 meters, there was still about 1.5 body lengths between Miguel and Gavin Kovalchuk, who was in fifth place in front of him. However, at this stage, their current speeds were very close to each other. He could only maintain the distance between himself and Gavin, but could not overtake Gavin in front of him.

It was at this moment that Miguel unexpectedly realized that there was a figure rapidly approaching him on the ninth lane - or maybe someone, the young player from the Chinese team on the ninth lane was almost on par with him...!

How is this possible? !

Miguel also paid attention to Su Yu's performance before the game. He knew that the young Chinese player's personal best result so far was 10.02 seconds.

After this young player from the Chinese team performed 10.04 in the preliminaries and 10.02 in the semifinals, does he still have the ability to run under 10.10 in the finals? !

Miguel simply couldn't understand such a stable performance... With such a stable state and performance, isn't this young player of the Chinese team a player capable of running 100 meters in 9.90 seconds? !

Perhaps it was because he was distracted by the accident that Su Yu brought to him, or maybe he was no longer able to maintain his maximum speed. In short, in the 80-meter stage of the race, Su Yu successfully surpassed Miguel of the British team and came to the sixth place...!

Sixth place! !

After seeing Su Yu's performance, Sun Gaoshu and others in the audience had tears of excitement in their eyes.

This excitement comes not only from Su Yu's achievements, but also from the inspiration from his tenacious spirit.

The last 20 meters, the last 10 meters...!

Even though Su Yu was still narrowing the gap with the fifth player Gavin Kovalchuk in the final stage, the distance was already very small.

Finally, Su Yu crossed the finish line in sixth place in the finals...

In the sports channel live commentary room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming finally turned their attention to Su Yu excitedly.

“Sixth place!!”

"Congratulations to Su Yu for winning the sixth place for the Chinese team in the men's 100m sprint finals of the World Championships surrounded by strong opponents! This is also the best result achieved by Asian athletes in the World Championships so far!!"

On the field, Su Yu, who successfully crossed the finish line again, finally sat on the track again. The staff of the Chinese team had already rushed forward quickly, began to observe Su Yu's condition, and helped to support him up.

At this moment, the picture on the large electronic screen at the scene changed - the final results of the men's 100m in this World Championships have all been released!

Among them, Maxwell, who ranked first, ran the world's best men's 100m result of 9.75 seconds this season. After Maxwell and before Su Yu, the players from second to fifth place all broke the ten-second mark.

Su Yu, who ranked sixth, ran a time of 10.05 seconds (wind speed -0.3m/s) in this race.

Su Yu, who was helped up by the staff, silently looked at the series of results on the large electronic screen on site without saying a word - in this game, he was ultimately unable to surpass his own limits again.

The staff around him were still comforting Su Yu - Xiaoyu, you've been great!

Su Yu nodded and said nothing.

In the eyes of many people, he may be great, but he is definitely not strong enough.

However, one day, in the final of the World Championships, he will no longer be so tired and powerless.

Su Yu’s eyes were silently looking at the top position - one day, he would challenge the top position...!

One day, he firmly believed!