Chapter 163

At the same time, in the live commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had just calmed down from the frenzy of the final men's 400-meter sprint group stage.

There is no way. Although they are indeed experienced commentators, it is precisely because of their love for track and field events that they have been working in this job until now. It is precisely because of this love that they are able to perform this job exceptionally well. It is also because of this love that sometimes they cannot avoid controlling their emotions so perfectly.

Now, after the men's 400-meter sprint group matches were over and all contestants had left the field, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming's emotions finally eased.

At this time, since it is only 5 pm, there is still a long time before the remaining events worth watching tonight. For example, the men's pole vault final will not start until 8:05.

This is the usual practice in the World Championships schedule, where the more important events on the day's schedule will be scheduled for relatively later competition times.

Therefore, at this moment, all the events on the field are not only qualifying rounds and group matches, but also except for the men's high jump, there are no Chinese athletes in other events. So at this moment, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming naturally focused their attention on the men's high jump qualifying Group A competition that was about to begin.

In fact, when the two of them introduced today's competition schedule earlier, they did not mention the men's high jump as an event "worthy of attention" - this is certainly not because the men's high jump is not worthy of attention, but more because the men's high jump AB group qualifying competition is naturally less popular than the three final events of the "Men's Pole Vault Final", "Men's 200m Final" and the "Women's Javelin Final" which is expected to win gold.

Even the men's 400m sprint, which is in the same group event as the men's high jump, has become a hot topic because of Su Yu's presence and the fact that China's men's 400m sprint is competing in the World Championships for the first time.

Compared with these more star-studded or more important competitions, the men's high jump qualifying competition seems a little mediocre.

But there is still a long time before the important competitions later, so the director of the Chinese team naturally switched more shots to the men's high jump event.

In the live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui glanced at the information in his hand and quickly began to introduce the qualifying situation in the arena.

"There are a total of 32 athletes participating in the men's high jump at the Doha World Athletics Championships. The 32 athletes will be divided into two qualifying groups, A and B, to compete for the qualification for the men's high jump final. The top six athletes in each group will be selected to qualify for the final."

For example, the men's high jump qualifying competition and the 400-meter qualifying competition that Su Yu participated in before are both qualifying competitions, but their meanings are actually different.

In the men's high jump qualifying round, all contestants are those who have met the standards or have been invited by the organizers based on their world rankings even if they have not met the standards.

The qualifying score for the men's high jump in this World Championships is 2.30 meters, and among all the 32 participating athletes, the worst performer in this season's best results has reached 2.27 meters. There are only less than 4 athletes who have qualified for the high jump in this way, that is to say, the other 28 athletes have successfully qualified for the World Championships after successfully jumping over the 2.30-meter bar.

And now, in the qualifying competition divided into two groups, these players need to rely on their own strength to win the qualification to advance to the finals. As the vast majority of players have the ability to jump over the 2.30-meter bar, it is foreseeable that the next two men's high jump qualifying group events will be particularly cruel.

"The 16 competitors in Group A of the men's high jump qualification have already arrived. Later, only the top six of them will be able to qualify for the finals."

"At the same time, our country's high jump champion Sun Yuhang and young talented athlete Jiang Yuan will both compete in this group - here, we wish them a smooth advancement in this group and an excellent result!"

As the competition scene switched from sprinting to men's high jump, the atmosphere in the entire arena seemed to ease a lot.

It's not that the men's high jump competition is not intense, but in events like men's high jump, long jump, shot put and javelin, the athletes take to the field one by one, and there is some preparation time before the game. Therefore, from the perspective of viewing, the really tense part is probably only the moment when the athlete starts to run and then crosses the bar.

After the athlete jumps over the bar, the referee has time to measure and readjust the height of the bar. In addition, the male high jump athletes have three trial jumps at each bar height... With all these factors added up, even if the athletes are professional and cooperate with the process scheduling, the overall competition can easily appear less compact.

Especially in the first few high-level stages of the qualifying round, the difficulty for these contestants is not too high, so the number of eliminations is often small, and the entire competition process appears to be more lengthy.

Precisely because most of the track and field events have this feature, spectators who do not often watch the competition will often find when they watch the competition for the first time - eh? Isn't it time for the high jump competition now? How come the camera switched to the shot putter just after this athlete finished his high jump trial?

Just like the current stage of the competition, although because Sun Yuhang and Jiang Yuan are competing in the men's high jump qualifying round at the same time, the domestic director's main perspective will definitely be on the men's high jump event source, but when there is a gap between the athletes' competitions, or when it is the turn of less important athletes to appear on the stage, the director will still cut to the men's shot put qualifying round and the women's 400m hurdles group competition that are taking place simultaneously on the field.

In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, as the men's high jump qualifying competition Group A began, the atmosphere on the entire public screen changed from the previous excitement to the current chat mode.

[Oh, it's the men's high jump qualifying competition. So our Chinese team should have no problem, right? 】

[It’s hard to say about Zhang Xujian and Jiang Yuan, but Sun Yuhang should be fine. 】

[Yes, although Sun Yuhang has an extra mouth, his talent in high jump is really beyond doubt. I wonder if he can break the Chinese men's high jump record during his career - his current best result is 2.39 meters, right? Tied the national record. He had said in a previous interview that 2.40 meters was nothing, waiting for him to conquer it...】

【_(:зゝ∠)_Hehe, it’s a pity that two years have passed and he still hasn’t been able to conquer the 2.40-meter height. 】

The onlookers in the live broadcast room were really stunned when watching the discussion of the track and field fans.

[Oh, no, big guys, why is it that when you talk about other athletes, you always look like you want to protect them, but when you talk about Sun Yuhang, you can't wait to blacken him first? 】

_(:зゝ∠)_

The contrast is really too stark.

It's like mocking Sun Yuhang for not being able to reach a height of 2.40 meters. If it happened to other athletes, they would definitely not be mocked, and they would have to explain to people that the athlete's condition is not so easy to break through.

But here with Sun Yuhang...

That is: Come laugh with us!

Because of this question, the scrolling of the barrage of comments on the public screen of track and field fans was stuck for a moment. After a long while, someone sighed quietly - wasn't it because Sun Yuhang had grown a mouth?

So some people began to count Sun Yuhang's classic interview quotes.

For example, the reporter asked him about the big contrast between his state in the second and third height test jump stages today, and asked him which stage was his normal performance.

Another reporter asked him what he was thinking when he jumped over the pole...

Of course, track and field fans also admit that the professionalism of these reporters is somewhat questionable and the questions they ask are somewhat unreliable.

But for most contestants, they would probably just give a vague answer and get away with it. But for Sun Yuhang, being vague was impossible, so he retorted back at that time.

——Today you took your left foot first when you went out, and took your right foot first when you came home. May I ask which foot you take first first, which is normal?

All the track and field fans who have watched the interview video can still remember the urge to touch the ground with their toes at that moment - not for Sun Yuhang, but mainly for the reporter.

There is no way. Although Sun Yuhang’s answer is very impolite, the truth is there.

For Sun Yuhang, his two high jump attempts at that time might have been a failure and then success, and the other one a one-time success, but for an athlete, failure in the high jump competition is a normal thing.

If the reporter had observed that Sun Yuhang was quite nervous throughout the entire competition and had suffered consecutive failures that should not have happened, it would have been more reasonable to ask whether his condition was normal at that time, rather than asking such inexplicable questions based on two trial jumps in a competition in which Sun Yuhang actually performed very well.

As for the other question, which asked him what he was thinking about when he crossed the bar, it was even more outrageous.

So Sun Yuhang’s answer at that time seemed even more impolite. He asked him directly - Do you understand the game? If you don't understand, can you please find another reporter next time?

In fact, judging from Sun Yuhang's performance and answers, he may not really be trying to pick a fight with you on purpose, but his careless and rude personality traits were fully revealed in the interview.

Moreover, he is not only rude to reporters, but also to track and field fans. Originally, there were some track and field fans who like athletes with individuality who liked him, but after he scolded them a few times, they became Sun Yuhang's "black fans". They are not black fans in the true sense, but the kind of black fans who insult and attack Sun Yuhang.

To give an example - Zhengzhu is taking the lead in his own speech, and we are only responsible for eating spectacles and watching the show. Please do not hurt the fans by mistake with the speech of the real speaker.

For example, among those who are mocking Sun Yuhang in the Jigu video live broadcast room right now, nine out of ten are probably Sun Yuhang’s real black fans.

The crowd: ... dumbfounded.jpg

Okay, okay.

I know about the tricks you track and field fans play, but I didn't expect you to play so tricks.

Of course, some people are discussing Sun Yuhang, and naturally some are also discussing Jiang Yuan. After all, Jiang Yuan is the youngest player in the Chinese team except Su Yu. In addition, there was a period of time when Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang were bundled together in the hot searches, so many people still have some impression of Jiang Yuan.

[Wow, is Jiang Yuan only 16 years old? He looks at least one or two years older than Su Yu, right? He looks like a handsome young man, but his temperament seems a little too gentle, which is really out of place with the nonchalant look of Sun Yuhang next to him. 】

[↑Friend in front, you think Jiang Yuan is more mature...Is it because he is taller? =w= (I don’t mean to mock Yudi here. He is 16 years old and 1.77 meters tall, which is very tall!)]

【↑? My friend, if you didn't add the content in brackets, I would believe that you didn't mean to mock Su Yu_(:зゝ∠)_ Your brackets are a bit too obvious...】

Because the pace of the competition was not that fast, and this was only the first bar height trial jump stage of the men's high jump qualifying competition, the atmosphere in the entire live broadcast room was extremely relaxed, which led to all kinds of conversations in the room.

We were originally chatting about these random topics, when suddenly, someone popped up in the live broadcast room -

[Friends, don’t be curious about the difficulty of the current bar height - don’t ask me why. 】

? ? ?

As soon as these words were spoken, the members' colorful light effects flashed by, and the onlookers in the live broadcast room were confused at the time.

What does this mean?

Soon, someone took a look at the situation on the field at that time - the men's qualifying group A was conducting a trial jump at the first height stage. Just now, including Jiang Yuan and Sun Yuhang, they had successfully passed the bar in one go.

The first trial jump height experienced by the athletes in the competition was 2.17 meters.

Most of the spectators who were just watching the game hadn't figured out what was going on, but some track and field fans thought about it and started laughing.

[Friend, you are not going to try jumping, are you? ? ? 】

The group of people with colorful light-effect fonts silently left a period on the public screen, which then attracted the "hahahaha" of all the track and field fans on the screen.

However, the simple spectators did not really understand the meaning of this, so some people were asking why they were laughing.

The track and field fans in the live broadcast room did not hide it, but directly said: [Friends who don’t understand the situation can find a reference point of 2.17 meters around them, or if it really doesn’t work, don’t use 2.17 meters, do you have a friend who is just over 1.8 meters tall? Stand up and estimate whether you have the ability to jump over a height of 1.8 meters? 】

[Oh, by the way, for the convenience of those who don’t have friends who are 1.8 meters tall, you can look back at your own door - generally speaking, the height of a door is not less than two meters and not more than two meters and four. In other words, if it is 2.17 meters, the height can basically be referred to the floating height of your door. 】

The onlookers: ...Huh?

In the last second, everyone was still in a collective daze, and in the next second, these spectators suddenly sat up in shock as if they were dying.

Yes! !

2.17 meters, what height is that?

Although these spectators are usually very diligent in eating melons and have heard a lot about these data, just like it is difficult to perceive the speed of 0.01 seconds in real life, ordinary people do not have much concept of heights above 2 meters.

They just think that the standard line for the men's high jump in the World Championships is 2.30 meters, so the height of 2.17 meters doesn't seem to be a big deal.

But now that the height of 2.17 meters has been visualized, some of the onlookers have jumped three feet high on the spot, turned around and stood in front of the door of their room...

Many people looked up at the height of the door and gasped.

[Oh my god, 2.17 meters. I just measured the door of my house, it’s 2.05 meters. Does this mean that the height of those athletes jumping just now has exceeded my door by 12 centimeters? ! 】

[…The door of my house is 2.20 meters, or about 2.17 meters high. Now when I look up at it, I feel very stiff. To be honest, I just tried to jump by myself. Even if I jump, my head can't reach the height of my door... let alone jump over it. 】

[Even if I jump up, my head can’t reach the height of the door +1. Silence is the Cambridge tonight... The water of Cambridge tonight is filled with the silent me. 】

It can be said that many spectators did not understand the difficulty of high jump at all. All they could hear was a series of data.

As for data, it seems very powerful when it appears on the surface, but it is not real to many people.

Therefore, many people only have a more accurate understanding of the level of the World Championships after they have learned to use things like door panels or bookcases at home to make an accurate analogy of the height of the athletes' high jump.

【Silence. This height, no wonder... I thought it was a little strange before, why there are so many high jump competitions in China, and contestants can win by jumping 2.20 meters or so. It seems that contestants who can jump 2.20 meters can jump over this height comparable to a door with their own flesh...

Given this height, it would be difficult for me to jump over it after a run-up, let alone climb over it even if I were given a scaffolding. 】

In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, many people nodded in sympathy after seeing this statement - isn't it? Given the height of their own door, it would be difficult for them to climb up even if they tried their best, let alone jump.

This terrifying jump is only the "lowest difficulty" starting height test jump for the athletes in the World Championships qualifying round.

At this moment, the spectators in the live broadcast room suddenly felt the athletes' talents of "explosive power" and "jumping ability", and at the same time they felt extremely ashamed of themselves for thinking that "a trial jump of 2.17 meters is no big deal, and it is normal to clear the bar in one go" a few minutes ago.

In short, such talent and ability are truly terrifying.

***

At the same time, in the backcourt lounge of the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Su Yu and Zhan Youming were watching the men's high jump qualifying competition together.

Currently, all test jumps at a height of 2.17 meters have been completed.

It must be said that the trial jump at this height is not too difficult for the contestants in the World Championships.

Among the 16 contestants, 14 successfully reached this height in one attempt. Among the remaining contestants, one succeeded in two attempts and another succeeded in three attempts.

But in the end, at least at the height of 2.17 meters, no contestant was eliminated.

Soon, after all the athletes had cleared the bar at a height of 2.17 meters, the referee on site gave the order to adjust the height of the bar from 2.17 meters to 2.22 meters. After the bar referee adjusted and measured it accurately, a new round of trial jumps began.

In the backcourt lounge, Su Yu was lying on the massage bed. Doctor Liao was giving him a massage to relax him. He was watching the game on TV while chatting with Zhan Youming.

"Brother Youming, your game today is at 10:40 tonight, why don't you rest more in the hotel?"

Zhan Youming sat on a stool in the lounge, watching the live broadcast on TV leisurely, and said in a relaxed manner: "Need I say that? It's so boring to stay alone in the hotel. My schedule is not as tight as yours. You can withstand so many shots for so many consecutive days. Can my condition be worse than yours?"

After saying all this with a smile, Zhan Youming clenched his fists again and said with a smile: "Of course, the real reason is... the lounge of the Caliph is much more atmospheric than the hotel. Waiting in the hotel until 8 o'clock in the evening before coming to the Caliph? I'm worried that I will be bored and fall asleep in the hotel."

Of course, what Zhan Youming said was a bit exaggerated, but after Su Yu thought about it, he felt that it did make sense.

Even if they were in the backcourt lounge at this time, they could occasionally feel the excitement and vibration of the audience. In this environment of the lounge, they could clearly feel that the game was approaching little by little, and they were about to take the stage at any time...

It does have certain benefits in improving the players' pre-match condition.

Just as the two of them were chatting casually, the official commentator's exaggerated exclamation suddenly came from the big TV in the lounge -

"disuse!"

"Dear audience, this is the first competitor to be eliminated in this men's high jump competition. In three consecutive attempts, he failed to jump over a height of 2.22 meters. Unfortunately, he will now leave the World Championships..."

The first athlete to be eliminated from the men's high jump competition at the World Championships was a Kenyan athlete. With the failure of this Kenyan athlete, the curse of "elimination" seemed to begin to spread at a height of 2.22 meters.

In addition to this Kenyan athlete, four athletes from Japan, Australia, the United States and Germany were also eliminated at the same height of 2.22 meters.

In an instant, the original 16 contestants on the field were quickly reduced to 11.

At this point, five more players need to be eliminated to reach the final six qualifying spots.

***

In the rest area on the field, since there is a long interval between each player's rotation, many players will put on their trousers and sports jackets directly after leaving the field to ensure that their body temperature does not dissipate easily.

At this moment, in the rest area, Sun Yuhang looked at Jiang Yuan and said to him with a smile: "Five people have been eliminated. Not bad, brother. You are still alive and well? Congratulations on escaping the bottom five!"

Jiang Yuan had originally pulled up the zipper of his coat to the highest point, buried half of his face in the collar and closed his eyes to rest. After hearing Sun Yuhang's voice, he slightly opened his eyes, glanced at Sun Yuhang, and smiled faintly: "Don't worry, brother, you should first worry about not "playing badly" in the competition. After all, a height of less than 2.40 meters is as easy as eating and drinking, right?"

Sun Yuhang: “…”

:)

Damn, this smiling little fox.

In his life, Sun Yuhang had never met a ruthless person who could take his classic interview jokes and then throw them back in front of him.

At this moment, Sun Yuhang felt deeply that if his junior brother's skin was cut open, the blood that would flow out would probably be as black as Zhang Xujian's.

I don’t know what happened to their high jump group. Why did they recruit these black-hearted guys?

Sun Yuhang didn't think that he was a freak at all. He felt deeply that the other two black-hearted guys in the high jump group, except for him, were really no good - they should be put into the same group to fight it out in the end to see who had a darker heart.

Sun Yuhang was too lazy to pay attention to Jiang Yuan's speech, and Jiang Yuan was too lazy to continue speaking, so he closed his eyes slightly and continued to sit in his seat with his eyes closed to rest.

However, at this point in the competition, with the elimination of five players at a height of 2.22 meters, the progress of the remaining competitions became much faster.

After the five eliminated players left the field, the referee gave an order to the crossbar referee to adjust the height of the crossbar to 2.26 meters - the height of the crossbar was 1 centimeter less than before.

From the changes in the bar lifting data, many experienced track and field fans have already seen that this time the men's high jump qualification will ultimately be stuck at a height of 2.29 meters to 2.31 meters.

Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, who were in the commentary room of the domestic sports channel, had also made similar judgments.

"The current screening of players is basically based on their hard power. Players' tactical thinking and other abilities are unlikely to play a big role at this stage. This situation is actually a disadvantage for Jiang Yuan."

"Because we know that in many past competitions, Jiang Yuan usually relied on his big heart and his excellent tactical mind to engage in a kind of 'fight' with his opponent in the final stage of the game. But now, the game is far from reaching the stage of entering a 'fight'. The contestants are competing with each other in a pure hard power competition..."

In the live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were still sorting out the situation of the remaining players on the field.

Among the remaining 11 players on the field, there was no player whose personal best result this season was lower than 2.30 meters.

In other words, Jiang Yuan is the weakest among the remaining players on the field. The current situation on the field is extremely unfavorable to him, and the pressure on him must be enormous.

After all, facing so many strong opponents - among the other opponents, there are opponents who have jumped over 2.40 meters this season, and there are also players who have jumped over 2.38 meters and 2.37 meters.

In this case, if he wants to advance successfully, he must ensure that his current ability limit is around 2.30 meters, and he can at least successfully jump over a height of 2.26 meters and a height of 2.29 meters later - and he needs to try not to make mistakes.

This difficulty is a very high challenge even for Jiang Yuan, who has always been in a very stable state.

But there was no way, this was the qualifying arena for the World Championships - although he had tried his best to qualify for this arena, if he wanted to go further, he would have to face such difficult challenges.

Soon, the first round of trial jumps at a height of 2.26 meters officially began.

Among the remaining 11 contestants, Sun Yuhang's number is 6th and Jiang Yuan's number is 9th.

When the first few contestants finished their first round of trial jumps, Sun Yuhang had already taken off his trousers and jacket and prepared for warm-up.

Before he went to the runway, he turned around and looked at Jiang Yuan with a grin, waving at him: "Junior brother, I'm waiting for you."

The current No. 1 high jumper of the Chinese team did not give people any chance to worry about him. In the first round of trial jumps at a height of 2.26 meters, he easily crossed the height of 2.26 meters.

In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, the spectators who already understood the significance of the height of 2.26 meters were now looking at the always talkative Sun Yuhang, and the unrestrained grin on his face when he successfully cleared the pole and stood up. Many people suddenly understood why Sun Yuhang still had so many fans despite his talkative nature.

It was really because his performance in the high jump competition was too eye-catching, the explosive power and strength that seemed as if there was a spring hidden in his body, and the unrestrained posture when he crossed the bar - when he easily turned over on the sponge bag, the feeling of casualness and freedom really made it hard for people not to be attracted to him.

After Sun Yuhang's trial jump, many people noticed that Jiang Yuan in the contestant rest area had already stood up and taken off his coat and trousers, and was warming up before his trial jump.

Compared to Sun Yuhang's ease, the height of 2.26 meters is already a bar height that would leave Jiang Yuan with a chance of failure.

But if Sun Yuhang had not competed in the same group with him in this game, Jiang Yuan might have been careless at this altitude.

But when being in the same group with Sun Yuhang, Jiang Yuan would never allow himself to fail to clear the bar at a height of 2.26 meters due to any mistake when there was a high probability that he could clear the bar...!

Facing Sun Yuhang's smiling face, Jiang Yuan had already put away his usual smile.

In such a competition, he and Sun Yuhang are teammates of the Chinese team, so he naturally cannot expect Sun Yuhang to make any mistakes.

But he didn't want to lose to Sun Yuhang.

In this case, he only has one last option - that is, after every successful shot by Sun Yuhang, he should try his best to maintain a 100% success rate in one shot...!

With this belief, Jiang Yuan stood in front of the starting line of his own running area.

In front of him, after the referee signaled that he could jump, the timekeeper had already started to keep an eye on the stopwatch on the side.

“Tick, tick.”

The hands of the stopwatch were moving bit by bit, and just when the timer was about to raise the flag to remind him of the final countdown, the young man standing behind the starting line took a deep breath and started his run-up step.

When he started his run-up and jumped, each of his steps was "step, step" with an accurate rhythm. As he got closer to the crossbar, his speed began to get faster and faster.

It was not until the last two steps that Jiang Yuan's pace showed some changes.

The last two steps began to transform the lateral force brought by his running start into vertical upward force, until his last step on the ground - his power leg stepped down rapidly, and then his two arms swung downward vigorously at the same time...!

Push off the ground - jump - fly into the air! !

When Jiang Yuan's body was lifted into the air by the force of his push, he began to feel the extent of his lift. Then, before he felt that he was about to reach the highest point, his body twisted in mid-air. His arms had already crossed the horizontal bar before he jumped up, followed by his head, shoulders, chest, waist...

His body position in mid-air still relies on the strength of his hips to allow his legs to rise over the bar while his upper body has sunk over the bar...

When his legs also used this power to perfectly cross the 2.26-meter horizontal bar, Jiang Yuan, whose shoulders had touched the ground first, quickly turned over after touching the ground. After standing up, he quickly raised his head and looked in the direction of the horizontal bar.

The horizontal bar does not move at all!

"Great!!! Very beautiful one-shot pass!!"

In the live commentary room of the sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming both shouted excitedly "Great!" after seeing Jiang Yuan's one-time pass.

No matter what happens in the future, at least now, when the remaining 11 players are competing for the last 6 final qualifying places, Sun Yuhang and Jiang Yuan of the Chinese team have both maintained their one-shot pass rates in this crucial battle.

This is basically equivalent to maintaining their current ranking position.

When Jiang Yuan successfully cleared the bar and returned to his rest area, Sun Yuhang raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "Hey, not bad, junior brother, but the next round of 2.29 meters won't be so easy, huh?"

Jiang Yuan also glanced at Sun Yuhang and said, "Same here - in the next 2.29-meter jump test, I hope you don't make a mistake before me, Brother Sun."