Chapter 68

The next day, which was the morning of June 15, the first day of the National Track and Field Grand Prix Championship and Asian Games Trials, Su Yu followed the national team and took a shuttle bus directly to the Sports Center Stadium where the Asian Games Trials were held.

Unlike the previous games that Su Yu participated in, this game, perhaps because of the presence of various famous players, there were already a large number of reporters waiting outside the stadium, all to grab the news of the Asian Games trials. Of course, some of these reporters also targeted Su Yu - because there was quite a lot of news about Naoto Takahashi the night before.

Su Yu had already known the news that Naoto Takahashi tied Suzuki's WU18B record of 10.19 the night before. Pei Dingshan had sent him the message and also left him a message, telling him not to think too much and just run as usual. He also reminded him that because the news about Naoto Takahashi came out at a coincidence, there might be reporters coming to interview him about related topics the next day.

As it turned out, Pei Dingshan's expectation was correct.

When Su Yu got off the car with Jiang Yuan and the others, a reporter saw him and handed him the microphone for the interview: "Su Yu, Su Yu, are you available for an interview?"

Su Yu glanced at the man and wanted to say "inconvenient", but Jiang Yuan beside him patted his shoulder, and then Jiang Yuan smiled and said to the man: "I'm sorry, the men's 100m preliminaries are at 9:20 in the morning. Su Yu needs to enter the venue as soon as possible to prepare. If you want to interview, please wait until after the game."

The reporter didn't know which media he was from, and he looked a little tactless. Even after Jiang Yuan said that, he looked like he wanted to ask more questions. Fortunately, Li Xiang was also present at the time, and he said directly, "Okay, okay, Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, I wish you good luck in the competition! You guys go in first!"

As soon as these words were spoken, they directly retorted what the reporter had not yet said. Jiang Yuan and Su Yu looked at each other and recognized that Li Xiang was the young reporter who interviewed them in City Z. So they nodded to him, turned around and followed the main group to the direction of the backcourt entrance.

The other reporters at the scene were not so tactless. They originally just wanted to do a simple pre-match interview with Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and others, but Jiang Yuan was right, the players' competition was more important - if there were any questions, wouldn't the players be more patient in answering them during the post-match interview?

***

After arriving at the backstage rest area, the players all breathed a sigh of relief. Gao Tianwu even shook his head and complained, "I don't know where that reporter who wanted to stop Xiaoyu just now came from."

Compared with Su Yu, famous players like Gao Tianwu have encountered too many more reporters, and the professional quality of these reporters is really uneven. Some good reporters can become friends with the players after knowing them for a long time, while some reporters who do not even have basic qualities will be scolded directly when they encounter players with bad tempers.

Obviously, the one who wanted to stop Su Yu just now was the latter.

As he spoke, Chen Peijie looked back at Su Yu and said, "Xiao Yu, judging from your expression just now, you don't want to confront that reporter directly, do you?"

Hearing this question, Su Yu paused, pursed his lips and did not answer.

Chen Peijie looked at him with amusement: "Although that reporter is unreliable, don't be so direct with those who make a living with their pens. For example, Jiang Yuan's answer just now was very good."

Su Yu certainly knew that Jiang Yuan's answer was a more appropriate one, but he really didn't like that kind of roundabout answer.

Chen Peijie glanced at Su Yu's expression and knew what he meant, then shook his head in amusement: "You, okay, it looks like our sprint group will have a few more runners who will give Director Li a headache."

Director Li is the official spokesperson for the national track and field team. He is usually responsible for dealing with media reporters. He is also responsible for training athletes in media interview skills before major competitions.

Previously, the athletes in the track and field team's sprint group who gave Director Li the most headaches were Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming. These two black-faced kings would speak their mind without any euphemisms during interviews, so if what they said fell into the hands of some less qualified media people, it would be easy for them to take it out of context.

A few people chatted as they walked into the backcourt lounge. It was already 8 o'clock in the morning, and there was still more than an hour before the men's 100m preliminaries at 9:20. But in fact, Su Yu and his team still had a lot of preparations to do, so although everyone chatted for a few more sentences, they quickly dispersed and went into the exclusive lounges of each provincial team to make final rest and preparations.

***

When entering the exclusive lounge of the S Province Sports Team, the first words Su Yu said were thank you to Jiang Yuanxian.

Jiang Yuan rubbed Su Yu's head with amusement: "Okay, what are you thanking me for."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yuan still cared about Su Yu's condition: "How are you preparing for the preliminaries this morning?"

In this morning's men's 100m preliminaries, there were a total of 21 athletes participating in the preliminaries. The 21 athletes were divided into 3 groups. The rules for advancing to the finals were the same as the previous races. The overall ranking was based on the athletes' results, and the top eight athletes advanced to the finals.

Although it seems that the number of contestants participating in the preliminaries is much less than before, the overall quality and strength of the contestants are more than one level stronger than before.

Taking the men's 100m results as an example, among the 21 participating athletes, except Zheng Tianxi who has been training and competing overseas, the remaining athletes have already fought against strong athletes from all over the country in the previous two months of April and May. Even Feng Chuming returned to China in April to participate in the sub-race in H City, J Province.

Among these 20 players, only 16 should have had the opportunity to participate in this championship - because according to a previous official announcement, only players ranked in the top 16 in the country in individual events before the registration deadline can qualify for this championship.

Coincidentally, in the final overall ranking, the season best results of the athletes from 16th to 20th were all 10.45 seconds, and they were ranked together. Therefore, after discussion, the Athletics Association finally granted these athletes the qualification to participate.

In other words, among the athletes who are qualified to advance to this championship, the weakest one has already achieved a good result of 10.45 seconds.

But at the same time, in the ranking of the top 16 (a total of 20 people), the result of 10.45 seconds seems to be the worst, but in fact, among the total of 21 contestants, 11 have results outside the 10.40 mark - such as Ye Minghao, who had stepped into the 10.40 mark with a result of 10.40 seconds in this season. His 10.40 seconds was only 0.05 seconds faster than the last few players, and his overall ranking has already reached tenth place.

In the Track and Field Kingdom forum, some people also discussed this issue after pulling out the data table:

Topic: [The biggest problem in my country's men's 100-meter event is still the lack of high-level athletes! 】

Topic content: [Regarding the contestants of this championship, I predicted at the beginning of the season that in order to qualify for the championship, the contestants must run a time of at least 10.50 seconds this season. When I saw the list of participants in the men's 100m of this championship, I was very happy to see that the result of the last player was 0.05 seconds higher than I had predicted. But at the same time, we have to focus on one issue, which is the lack of high-level athletes in our country.

Among the top 21 contestants, from Ye Minghao who was ranked tenth to the contestant who was ranked 21st, a total of 12 contestants had results between 10.40 and 10.45.

So far this season, there are only nine athletes who have truly broken the 10.40 second mark.

Of course, this is probably because several major competitions this season are concentrated in April and May, resulting in insufficient preparation for the athletes. As a result, after the end of several races of the National Athletics Grand Prix, a total of 13 athletes broke the 10.40 mark after the last race last season, while so far this season there have been only 9.

But all of the above does not actually affect the current distribution pattern and status of the performance of my country's 100-meter athletes.

Let's make a simple comparison - the overall level of the Japanese team in track and field has always been higher than that of the Chinese team, but after we had Zheng and Zhan Youming, we crushed Japan in the top athletes in the 100m and 200m.

So how many Japanese athletes have broken the 10.40 second barrier so far this season?

24 people.

The purpose of raising this point is not to boost the prestige of others and dampen my own ambition, but to warn myself - the current advantage of the Chinese team over the Japanese team is entirely due to the personal strength of Zheng Tianxi and Zhan Youming. Once Zheng Tianxi and Zhan Youming retire and there are no subsequent players to fill their positions, the Japanese team will regain the advantage.

Only when the day comes that the overall number of high-level athletes in our country gradually catches up with or even surpasses Japan, then our track and field level will be truly high. 】

***

In the lounge of the S Province Sports Team, Su Yu and Jiang Yuan had no idea what the track and field fans on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum were discussing. The two were currently talking about Su Yu's preparations for the 100-meter race.

Hearing Jiang Yuan's question, Su Yu thought for a moment and said, "It should be no problem."

Compared with the previous few games, he does not feel too excited at the moment, but he can feel that his overall condition is good, including the overall elasticity and flexibility of his body.

If we were to use any standard to measure his current condition, it would probably be that he should be able to advance to the finals smoothly.

Hearing Su Yu's straightforward answer, Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "That's good."

But after Su Yu answered Jiang Yuan's question, he also asked Jiang Yuan the same question: "Brother, what about you?"

Su Yu's question made Jiang Yuan stunned for a moment, and he smiled: "I don't have any problem either."

But after hearing this answer, Su Yu frowned and pursed his lips. He probably tried to hold it back for a while, but in the end he couldn't help it and said, "You're lying."

Su Yu's direct words caught Jiang Yuan off guard. Facing Su Yu's accusing eyes, Jiang Yuan smiled and sighed, raised his hand and rubbed his head, and had to honestly admit: "Yes, our Xiao Yu is very observant, I lied."

Su Yu was not surprised to hear Jiang Yuan's answer, but there was obvious worry on his face.

Su Yu said: "You have reached a bottleneck."

Jiang Yuan nodded and did not deny it.

But after Jiang Yuan admitted it, Su Yu became a little annoyed. He found that even if he revealed the truth, there was no way he could help Jiang Yuan get through this bottleneck period better and faster.

Because Jiang Yuan is so talented, compared to him, Jiang Yuan is born with good physical conditions and even better talents. Whether it is physical conditions, talents, or even personal mentality and mind, they are perfectly adapted to the two events of long jump and high jump.

But because Jiang Yuan's conditions were so good, his level improved at an astonishing speed in the early stages, as if apart from physical problems, there were no other problems that could hinder him.

But Jiang Yuan is a human being after all, not a god.

As long as he is a human being, there will be limits.

As an athlete, he must have enough patience and willpower to fight against his bottlenecks and limits. Only in this way can he break through and improve little by little.

Su Yu knew that Jiang Yuan was a very patient person - if Jiang Yuan didn't have enough patience, it would be impossible for him to stay by his side and take care of him since he was a child.

However, no matter how patient Jiang Yuan was, he had not experienced too many setbacks and failures in his life.

In fact, the same is true for Su Yu. The biggest setback he has encountered since childhood is his physical problems. Apart from his physical condition, his brain is smart enough to allow him to easily overcome various problems when he encounters them.

That is, as his academic performance gradually improved and he reached the graduate stage, he truly felt what frustration and bottlenecks were after facing the continuous failures of various experiments in the laboratory for various reasons.

Su Yu knew that Jiang Yuan was now experiencing this state of mind when facing setbacks for the first time - it was very uncomfortable. Even if Jiang Yuan had a good mentality, he would inevitably feel irritated.

Thinking of this, Su Yu felt a long-lost irritation. He wanted to help Jiang Yuan, but he felt that he was of no use at all. He had no idea how to help his good friend at this time - clearly, when facing Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang before, he could still think of how to persuade them.

And when facing Jiang Yuan, it was precisely because he knew Jiang Yuan too well that he knew that before he comforted Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan must have already conducted a complete analysis of his own mental problems. Jiang Yuan must have known that his mentality was wrong, but he couldn't solve it. He could only wait for his mental problems to be overcome little by little.

This tacit understanding and knowledge that came from growing up together made Su Yu completely at a loss as to what to do at this moment.

Jiang Yuan understood the annoyance in Su Yu's eyes. It was probably at this moment that the genuine concern from his "little ancestor" suddenly made him feel happy. After rubbing Su Yu's head in a funny way, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, thank you, Xiao Yu, you have helped me a lot."

Su Yu pursed his lips in response to Jiang Yuan's sudden words, wanting to say that Jiang Yuan was lying again. But after looking up and seeing Jiang Yuan's condition, Su Yu suddenly discovered that Jiang Yuan's condition seemed to have really improved a lot.

Su Yu: “…”

Su Yu didn’t quite understand. He looked at Jiang Yuan strangely, but at least he felt relieved - although he didn’t know the situation or the reason, at least his mood improved, right?

After confirming that Jiang Yuan's condition had also improved, Su Yu did not continue to ask the reason, but confirmed with Jiang Yuan their preparations for today's game.

They both had their own events to play in this morning's race.

Among them, the men's 100m preliminaries will start at 9:20, while the men's long jump preliminaries in which Jiang Yuan will participate will start at 9:30, one step later than Su Yu.

Just like Su Yu will face a group of strong athletes in the men's 100m event, Jiang Yuan will also face off against all the domestic male long jump champions for the first time in the men's long jump event.

Because the Chinese team has many high-level male long jump athletes, most of these Chinese long jump champions trained and competed at overseas bases during the previous winter training and the competition time at the beginning of the season. Gao Xu was the only one who had real contact with Jiang Yuan in domestic competitions.

In addition to Gao Xu, there are at least four strong athletes in the men's long jump event in China, namely Chen Zexin from L Province, Yu Zhou from H Province, Liao Mingming from F Province and Wang Qi from Z Province.

Including Gao Xu and another famous athlete from Province W whom Jiang Yuan met in the competition, these six athletes all have the ability to jump 8.10 meters.

As a 15-year-old young athlete, Jiang Yuan's PB of 8.08 meters is already amazing enough, but when facing a series of Chinese men's long jump champions headed by Chen Zexin, his result seems slightly inferior.

During this period of time, Jiang Yuan encountered bottlenecks not only in high jump, but also in long jump.

Apart from jumping 8.08 meters in that competition, in subsequent training, no matter how he tried, his results were at most around 8.00 meters, as if the 8.08 meters in that competition was just a flash in the pan.

Not long ago, this was one of the reasons for Jiang Yuan's troubles.

But now, he could feel his anxiety subsiding a little.

Faced with those powerful opponents headed by Gao Xu, and faced with the extreme distance that he seemed unable to cross, the desire to win that had once been not very strong in his heart seemed to be rekindled at this moment.

Jiang Yuan thought that he must make a good sprint in this game.

***

When the time turned to 8:40, the staff of the on-site organizer came in to remind Su Yu and Jiang Yuan that they could prepare for warm-up. In addition, after Jiang Yuan finished warming up, he could go to the scene in advance to adapt to the venue and perform a simple trial jump before the game.

The warm-up areas for sprinting and long jump are in different locations, so Su Yu and Jiang Yuan encouraged each other in the lounge for the last time, and then went to their respective warm-up areas.

When Su Yu walked to the warm-up venue for the men's 100 meters, the three groups of men's 100 meters athletes had basically arrived. After seeing Su Yu, Ye Minghao greeted him with a smile, and then continued to concentrate on his warm-up preparations.

During such a tight warm-up time before the game, even friends who are very close to each other would not be in the mood to greet and chat with each other.

Su Yu looked around, took a quick look at the opponents on the field, and then began to warm up.

In this morning's preliminary round, although it was not difficult for him to advance to the finals, it was actually not easy to get a good ranking and result.

In the morning grouping, he was in the second preliminaries group. Among his opponents in the same group, except for the two players who finished at the bottom of 10.45 seconds, the remaining three players were Feng Chuming, Gao Tianwu, Yu Shaojie and Zhao Yingping.

For him, Gao Tianwu, Yu Shaojie and Zhao Yingping are all relatively familiar opponents, but before that, he had never come into contact with Feng Chuming.

This is a strong athlete whose PB is 10.03 seconds and he is currently trying to break the ten-second mark.

In addition to Feng Chuming, Gao Tianwu, Yu Shaojie and Zhao Yingping all broke their own PBs this season. Gao Tianwu's PB reached 10.21 seconds, Yu Shaojie ran a good result of 10.23 seconds, and Zhao Yingping finally broke the 10.40 level that had troubled him for a long time, pushing his PB to 10.33 seconds.

These data flashed through Su Yu's mind one by one, and these data were also telling him that while he was growing, other players were not stagnant either.

Everyone is working hard to grow and improve. If anyone slacks off or stops in the process, he or she will most likely be surpassed by the opponent.

While Su Yu was thinking about all this in his mind, he was also doing his warm-up preparations.

Unlike his opponents, in addition to the regular warm-up exercises, Pei Dingshan also added a small number of stretching exercises to Su Yu's warm-up preparations - usually stretching exercises are considered to hinder the athlete's speed performance in the warm-up preparations for sprint events, so the national team coaches initially did not understand Pei Dingshan's arrangement for Su Yu. But just like Pei Dingshan also arranged aerobic training for Su Yu, such an arrangement was also attributed by Pei Dingshan to the individual differences of the athletes.

To use Zheng Sheng's words to criticize Pei Dingshan's training and warm-up arrangements: some coaches formulate training plans that look like metaphysical plans.

You don't understand the mystery behind it, and he may not be able to fully explain it. It may have no effect on others or may even have a counterproductive effect, but it is a panacea for certain players.

Anyway, at this moment, many contestants had surprised expressions on their faces when they saw Su Yu stretching. Just at this moment, Zheng Tianxi also started stretching after completing other warm-up movements.

?

After seeing Zheng Tianxi's stretching movements, the other dozen or so contestants present fell silent again.

What's going on?

It’s okay for Su Yu, but why did Zheng Tianxi also stretch?

Zheng Tianxi has been training overseas for some time, right? Is stretching before a game some new fad among overseas athletes and coaches?

If Feng Chuming had not done the stretching as well, the players present would probably have wanted to try it right then and there. Fortunately, the remaining rationality in their brains made them restrain their actions. But apart from the players from the national team, many of the remaining players have already considered discussing the feasibility of pre-match stretching with their coaches after returning to the team after the game.

***

Although Su Yu and Zheng Tianxi's warm-up and stretching preparations caused some commotion among the athletes, after all, those present were still the country's elite men's 100-meter athletes. Everyone quickly readjusted their status and continued to devote themselves to their warm-up preparations.

The warm-up time passed quickly, and when the time came to 9:10, the staff on site began to remind the players that the competition was about to begin. Everyone began to put on their coats, carrying their water bottles and other things and walked to the preparation channel to wait for the game.

The scene was already very lively at this time. Before Su Yu and his team's men's 100m preliminaries, the men's hammer throw final was already underway on the field, and in the track events, the women's 100m preliminaries were in progress, so the cheers and shouts of encouragement at this time were also very intense.

***

In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were quite satisfied with the quality of this morning's competition after they finished attentively explaining the women's 100m preliminaries in front of them.

After all, as commentators, they are also senior track and field enthusiasts. Although they will seriously comment on even ordinary events from a professional perspective, they will of course feel more happy when they are commenting on some exciting competitions and seeing the outstanding performances of some athletes.

"The performances of the two groups of preliminaries in the women's 100m race were truly spectacular!"

Tian Ruhui smiled and praised: "Especially our Chen Yunfei from H Province. In the preliminaries just now, she won the first place in the overall ranking of the preliminaries with a gap of 11.28 seconds. If I remember correctly, she just broke her 200m PB in the National Track and Field Grand Prix not long ago, breaking the 23-second mark with a score of 22.96 seconds. I didn't expect that she would perform so well in today's 100m preliminaries."

The result of 22.96 seconds may not seem like a big deal for the men's 200 meters, but for the women's 200 meters, this result is enough to break into the top five in Asia this season. At the same time, the result of 11.28 seconds is also a good result that is enough to break into the top five in Asia.

Zhou Jiming also had a big smile on his face: "Speaking of which, Chen Yunfei's progress this season is indeed quite a leap forward. Last season, Chen Yunfei's 200m time was only around 23.30 seconds. It seems that last season's winter training should have provided Chen Yunfei with excellent technical and physical reserves to improve her performance."

After talking about Chen Yunfei, who performed very well in the women's 100m preliminaries, as the first group of players in the men's 100m preliminaries appeared, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming naturally turned the topic from Chen Yunfei to Zheng Tianxi who had already appeared.

"Here we go, dear audience friends. Now on the stage are the first group of athletes for the men's 100m preliminary round of the championship and Asian Games trials. The first to appear is our famous men's 100m athlete Zheng Tianxi. He is the first Asian athlete in my country to break the 10-second barrier for the 100m. In the men's 100m sprint, he proved to us that yellow people can also break the 10-second barrier for the 100m!"

"Today's men's 100m preliminary round should not be a very stressful competition for Zheng Tianxi. He just needs to relax and compete. For Zheng Tianxi, this trial competition is more suitable as a conditioning event before the Asian Games. But I also believe that even if it is just a conditioning event, Zheng Tianxi's performance will definitely be very exciting."

After introducing Zheng Tianxi, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming introduced the other six athletes who appeared in succession. Among them, Ye Minghao and Chen Peijie were familiar faces. The remaining four athletes also had a certain degree of fame in the men's 100m event, but compared with Zheng Tianxi, they were obviously much dimmer.

If you were there, you would have known from the screams of the audience when Zheng Tianxi came on stage that at least 80% of the audience in the entire stadium were screaming for Zheng Tianxi.

As the current number one in the men's 100-meter event, this is the time when Zheng Tianxi is most famous and popular.

But Zheng Tianxi's expression did not change because of the audience's performance. He always maintained a face that looked like a black god. After entering the court, he immediately adjusted his starting block and completed his preparations. Then he took off his coat and threw it into the storage box behind the track where the athletes placed their personal belongings, and began some final warm-up exercises before the race on the spot.

While Zheng Tianxi was making his final preparations before the game, Su Yu was also waiting to appear in the preparation channel. At the same time, on the live TV screen in the preparation channel, he saw that in the long jump competition area, Jiang Yuan had finished warming up and came to the scene to make final preparations for adapting to the venue with other athletes.

On the screen, Jiang Yuan began to run tentatively from the starting line of the run-up area, probably estimating the distance between himself and the taking-off board - although he now had a clear scale memory of each step in his mind, Jiang Yuan still had the habit of reconfirming the specific situation on site before the competition.

In such a pre-match field adaptation test jump, Jiang Yuan certainly would not jump with full strength. After a simple run-up to the take-off board, he slowed down his pace, and finally stepped lightly on the take-off board. He turned and left the sand pit almost without jumping, leaving the field for other players to continue their adaptation training.

While Su Yu was watching Jiang Yuan's trial jump, the first group of runners in the men's 100m preliminaries had already squatted on the starting blocks. Immediately after the starter gave the command "ready" and the starting gun sounded, the runners in the first group of men's preliminaries immediately responded.

The game begins!

As the first group of men's preliminaries officially started, the cheers and shouts from the audience in the venue surged like a tsunami.

The vast majority of people were cheering for Zheng Tianxi, and the country's number one men's 100-meter runner did not disappoint the audience.

Through the live broadcast screen, Su Yu could see that Zheng Tianxi's overall running was actually very relaxed, but this relaxed state was enough to allow him to lead the entire game.

In the sixth lane to the right of Zheng Tianxi is Su Yu's good friend Ye Minghao. This 16-year-old genius is a player who has already stepped on the edge of 10.40 seconds. Even though he couldn't break 10.40 in today's preliminaries, Su Yu could see that Ye Minghao was in good shape today.

On the field, Ye Minghao's face looked a little ferocious while running, which represented that he was running with all his strength and effort.

But even so, he was still unable to catch up with Zheng Tianxi's rhythm, and was even somewhat led astray by Zheng Tianxi's speed and rhythm.

For sprinters, facing strong opponents is a dangerous situation - if you are lucky, your opponent's rhythm can lead you to break your personal best, but in most cases, facing an opponent who is too strong, the result is that you will lose your own rhythm.

In the final sprint of the race, Ye Minghao had obviously noticed that something was wrong with him, but he had no choice but to sprint with all his strength. Fortunately, the final result was not too bad - fourth in the group.

This was a result that basically meant he would miss the finals. Ye Minghao originally even thought that his result might drop below 10.60 seconds. But after the results were shown on the electronic screen, Ye Minghao was surprised to find that he still managed 10.46 seconds, a not bad result.

Zheng Tianxi, who was in the first place, ran relatively relaxed in this race with a result of 10.21 seconds. But even in a relatively relaxed state, this result has already swept all his opponents in the same group.

At the same time, another athlete from the national men's 4*100m relay team, Chen Peijie, won the second place in the group with a time of 10.30 seconds.

The third-placed athlete was a domestic star from Province H, whose time of 10.42 seconds was only 0.04 seconds faster than Ye Minghao.

Soon, when the first group of athletes in the men's 100m preliminaries left the field, Su Yu and his group of athletes in the second group of preliminaries had also arrived at the stadium.

When seeing Su Yu appear on the stage, Li Xiang, who was sitting in the press area and was originally filming Zheng Tianxi's back as he left the stage, moved his ears and quickly turned the camera lens in his hand towards Su Yu's direction.

At Li Xiang's suggestion, the photographer of his team also turned his camera to Su Yu who had already appeared in the men's 100m race - anyway, Li Xiang had already given him the list of athletes who needed special attention before the game started. Although the photographer didn't know if there was anything wrong with Li Xiang's idea, in any case, in Li Xiang's focus list, the first ranked athlete was Zheng Tianxi, and the second was Su Yu.

In fact, the photographer also asked Li Xiang privately at the time: Aren’t you going to focus on Feng Chuming?

But Li Xiang gritted his teeth and decided to focus his attention on Su Yu.

He was not planning to use yesterday's result of Japanese player Naoto Takahashi to put pressure on Su Yu like those bad media, but after watching all of Su Yu's game videos during this period, he simply had a hunch in his heart - this young player named Su Yu might be able to bring new surprises from other angles.

It was with such thoughts and ideas that Li Xiang gritted his teeth and asked the photographers in his team to focus their lens resources on Su Yu.

***

On the court, Su Yu had no idea that this reporter, who theoretically had only met him once, would actually dare to bet on him like this.

At this time, Su Yu, standing in front of the starting line, adjusted his starting blocks, and then began his final warm-up preparations with concentration - and the other players in his group would more or less pay attention to Feng Chuming, who was standing in the sixth lane, during their preparations.

After all, he is the only other athlete in the country besides Zheng Tianxi who can run under 10.05 seconds.

As the second best man in the domestic men's 100m race, he is almost the only one in the country who is capable of challenging Zheng Tianxi, and he has actually defeated Zheng Tianxi in the competition after Zheng Tianxi broke the ten-second mark.

Facing such an opponent, even if he is not Zheng Tianxi, it is enough to make many players nervous.

Even if they were not nervous, most people could not ignore Zheng Tianxi as an invisible person - but Su Yu, who was on the fifth path, was clearly next to Feng Chuming, but he was able to do this.

At this time, in the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were also somewhat surprised after seeing Su Yu's performance.

Tian Ruhui couldn't help but praise: "Su Yu's high concentration on the game before the game is really amazing."

On the side, Zhou Jiming also laughed and said, "It can be seen that Feng Chuming is a little curious about Su Yu."

Perhaps because Su Yu treated him as a transparent person throughout the whole process, Feng Chuming looked at Su Yu with some curiosity. But after seeing that Su Yu was really focused on the preliminary race in front of him, Feng Chuming also turned his attention to the track in front of him.

Soon, the starter on site gave the first command of "Get on your positions".

After the contestants were in position, the command "ready" came soon. All the contestants present quickly supported themselves with their hands on the ground, bent their legs, and leaned forward slightly, ready to start running - then, with a "bang", the starting gun sounded, and the race began!

Until today, many people thought that if they wanted to surpass Su Yu in terms of starting reaction time, it would probably be possible only when Su Yu competed with top athletes like Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming.

But at this moment.

In the Jigu live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were the first to see the starting reaction time data fed back from the scene. They saw that in the sixth lane, Feng Chuming's starting reaction time was 0.137 seconds, which was indeed a very good response data.

But following Su Yu’s name in the fifth lane was still a reaction time that surpassed Feng Chuming - 0.125 seconds.

After seeing Su Yu's reaction time data, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming couldn't help but be amazed in their hearts - no matter what the final result of this preliminary round is, at least from the results of the reaction time when hearing the gun, it can be seen that Su Yu, this kid, is really too stable in his mentality. He really doesn't care who the players around him are, he just focuses on the game.

Otherwise, if he was distracted in any way, he would not be able to produce such reaction data!

With Su Yu in such a focused state, even if his results are not as good as Feng Chuming's, they will not be much worse!

Just as Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming expected, the ten seconds of the preliminaries passed in a flash. In the final twenty-meter sprint, Su Yu once again demonstrated his strong explosive power in the latter stages. Even though Feng Chuming had slowed down a bit in the sprint stage, he actually shortened the distance between him and Feng Chuming in the end!

In the end, Su Yu crossed the finish line as the second in the group. Even though his opponents in the second group of preliminaries included Gao Tianwu, Yu Shaojie, who were also from the national team, and Zhao Yingping, who had also been recruited into the national team for winter training, these players were unable to defeat the 15-year-old young player in this preliminaries!

After finally crossing the line successfully, even Feng Chuming showed an obvious look of surprise on his face.

Looking at the child in front of him, Feng Chuming said to him quite seriously: "Su Yu, this is the first time I play against you, you are very strong."

Facing the compliments from Feng Chuming, Su Yu blinked slightly and said "thank you".

After this thank you, the electronic screen showing the overall ranking results flashed slightly, and the names of Feng Chuming and Su Yu replaced the previous two players in the second and third place in the overall ranking.

After their names, their respective achievements are listed:

Second place overall: Feng Chuming (H Province Sports Team), 10.23 seconds (wind speed -0.3m/s);

Third place overall: Su Yu (S Province Sports Team), 10.27 seconds (wind speed -0.3m/s).

In the audience, some viewers didn't realize what this result meant after seeing it - after all, neither Feng Chuming nor Su Yu had the abbreviations of PB or SB representing new records after their names. To some viewers who didn't understand the situation, this meant that Su Yu and Feng Chuming had not made any breakthroughs in their performance this season. So although they thought that Su Yu and Feng Chuming's results were okay, most of the audience didn't think there was anything remarkable about this result.

But among the people sitting in the audience at this moment, there are still people who are very familiar with Su Yu's achievements.

For example, Wang Yangming and Sui Pengfei, who traveled thousands of miles to watch the competition between Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, had already widened their eyes when they saw the results on the electronic screen - 10.27 seconds, which tied Su Yu's previous PB.

But the point is not this, but the wind speed -0.3m/s.

"against the wind……!"

After looking at the wind speed data, Wang Yangming almost jumped up on the spot: "Su Yu ran 10.27 seconds against the wind!?"