If most spectators viewed many previous indoor competitions at home and abroad with a "training" mentality, then when the Doha Asian Championships really came, the fans' nervousness finally emerged from their hearts.
Ever since the Tokyo Olympic qualifying results were exposed, domestic public opinion has focused on discussing these qualifying results in large quantities for a period of time. Ultimately, from the media's perspective, it is felt that the members of the national track and field team's 400-meter event, who had become popular during the winter training period thanks to variety shows, are likely to collectively fail in their qualification for the Tokyo Olympics.
On the Athletics Kingdom forum, there are fans who are actively calculating which events there are in the past year and what the points ratings of these events are.
Many people are seriously discussing whether it is possible to obtain alternative qualification for the Tokyo Olympics through the world points ranking.
As for the national team, since the announcement of the athletics qualification standards for the Tokyo Olympics, the official statement has been: "We will definitely be proactive, strengthen training, and strive to obtain more qualifications in various events. 】
However, this kind of statement is too official, which makes fans feel uneasy.
This Asian Athletics Championships, on the one hand, serves as a rehearsal for the World Championships, and on the other hand, is related to some of the qualifications for the World Championships and even the Tokyo Olympics. More importantly, this Asian Championships will be the opportunity to truly reveal the athletes' real growth in training since last year's winter training.
Only after the results are truly revealed can we see how much chance and confidence the national track and field team has in qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.
Doha, Qatar
It was already 6 pm when the national team members arrived in Doha, but the air in Doha was still warm.
Although it is only April now, the average temperature in Doha has reached 32 degrees. It is also because of the local temperature environment in Doha that in order to avoid the impact of the scorching heat on the athletes' condition, this year's Doha World Championships is not scheduled in early August like previous World Championships, but has been adjusted to the end of September to early October.
Of course, this also forces most track and field athletes to adjust their competitive state according to the schedule of the World Championships in Doha, so that their competitive state peak this year can reach its peak at the end of September.
"Is this the temperature in April..." Although Qiu Wen is usually lively and energetic, he always looks a little wilted in places that are too hot and stuffy. Now that he suddenly arrived in Doha and has not yet adapted to the local climate, he looks a little depressed.
Zhang Ziyi patted Qiu Wen on the shoulder and comforted him: "It's okay, we will be at the dormitory in the sports village soon. There are still a few days before the competition. You should adapt to the local climate and adjust your condition in these few days."
The national team arrived on April 12, and there was a three-day adaptation period before the start of the Asian Championships on April 15. During these three days, the national team members did not rest. After adapting to the environment and adjusting to the time difference, they also went to the Khalifa Stadium with players from other countries for advance adaptive training.
Domestic, Track and Field National Team Training Base Research Group
After most members of the national team left for Doha to compete, Su Bai's daily work focus shifted to the scientific research group. During this period, Ma Changping constantly asked Su Bai to fine-tune various data contents.
The data content is naturally the predictive model research on athlete training data that Su Bai had promised to conduct with Ma Changping several months ago.
Now, the predictive data model has been basically debugged. Ma Changping is currently leading researchers from the scientific research group to travel between the national team's training base and the B City Sports School, preparing to input a large number of sports school students' scores and various physical tests and data to verify the effectiveness of this data prediction model.
During the days that Su Bai stayed, Ma Changping was basically in charge of processing the verification of these data.
In addition, he is also preparing lecture content for an exchange meeting.
Over the past six months, Su Bai's work in the national team has already convinced everyone. While being impressed by Su Bai's abilities, there are more and more voices in the team hoping that Su Bai can give lessons to the coaches of the national team. Not only within the national team, but also the Athletics Management Center has relayed a large number of training and exchange course applications from various regional and provincial teams to the Athletics Management Center.
The caliber of applications for exchanges from various places is also very consistent. Apart from anything else, Su Bai's teaching methods, concepts and various policies in the 400-meter event are now recognized as the best in the country.
Compared with Su Bai's team performance, other 400-meter coaches in China always feel that they simply cannot keep up.
The only team that can probably keep up with Su Bai's pace is probably the S Province Track and Field Team where Su Bai used to be. The 400-meter sprint event of the S Province Track and Field Team made rapid progress under Su Bai's leadership. Even after Su Bai left, their 400-meter sprint event was re-selected from the S Province Sports School, and the results of these newly selected players are quite good.
The S Province Track and Field Team did not hide this fact, but said that Su Bai also helped in the screening of these students.
Not only that, before Su Bai left the S Province Track and Field Team, he basically brought out his then assistant coach Jiang Dongjian. Moreover, the various ideas, teaching concepts, and program analyses he gave to the coaches of the S Province Track and Field Team during that period also brought subsequent results to the S Province Track and Field Team.
What's more, the S Province Track and Field Team has Su Bai's master Zhao Heping. If there is any problem in the team, it's just a matter of making a phone call to him.
With the help of these scattered ones, the performance of the S Province Track and Field Team has also improved significantly in the past six months. In addition, there are Zhang Wei and Hu Li, two athletes who were personally trained by Su Bai.
When the track and field teams from other provinces saw the improvement in performance of the track and field team from Province S, how could they just sit there and do nothing?
It was clear that Su Bai's teaching method was indeed advanced and effective, and it seemed that his teaching method could obviously be promoted and applied. If they didn't quickly apply for Su Bai to give an exchange lecture, would their provincial team's 400-meter event be abandoned in the future?
It is for this reason that the track and field teams in various provinces, seeing that the winter training is coming to an end and the coaches' work is about to enter a relatively slow period, have flocked to apply to the national team and the Track and Field Management Center, hoping that Su Bai can hold a lecture, no matter where it is, and they will definitely send the core coaching members of their respective provincial teams to study hard!
The truth is that there are too many applications, and the applications from these provincial teams do make sense - now, the 400-meter event has been revitalized under the leadership of Su Bai, but for the national 400-meter event, it cannot be said that having these players led by Su Bai is enough.
If we want to continuously have outstanding athletes to join the national team, there must be sufficient talent reserves in the 400-meter event across the country. Otherwise, after Zhang Ziyi retires, and then after Qiu Wen, Li Junhao and other athletes retire, will the 400-meter event return to its previous predicament?
Therefore, during the training period for the Asian Championships, the Athletics Administration Center contacted Su Bai and explained to him the plan. They asked him to organize his experience after the training, start a special series of courses for the 400-meter event, and give him a training lecture for coaches from all over the country.
Of course, although Su Bai said that he would not care about the players going to the Asian Championships, in fact it was impossible for him to completely let go.
After the national team members arrived in Doha, Su Bai maintained remote contact with Wang Ting every day, and learned from Wang Ting about the players' adaptation at any time. He also made some simple adjustment suggestions to some players who might be affected by the local climate in Doha.
Before, when he was giving a collective speech to the players, although he spoke lightly, what he did not tell the players was that he was telling the truth - he did make a guarantee with the team and the Track and Field Management Center that this time, the players he was responsible for would definitely get a passing score.
The so-called passing line is to win a medal in the men's 400m sprint, enter the top half of the women's 400m sprint finals, win a medal in the men's 4*400m relay, and enter the top half of the women's 4*400m finals...
In addition, he also made commitments with the coaches of the corresponding events for Cui Luoheng's hurdles, Fang Yu's 100 meters and Wang Shen's high jump.
In this Asian Championships, the General Administration of Sport has given a clear task, hoping that the track and field team can win first place in both the total number of gold medals and the total number of medals. Precisely because of this, the pressure on each event within the track and field team is actually quite heavy.
In the past few days, when Wang Ting was communicating with him remotely, there was always a look of worry on his face. Compared with last year's Asian Games, their Chinese team has been improving over the past six months. However, as a track and field powerhouse in Asia, Japan's sprint team is superior to China in terms of the reserve of top athletes. During this period, Japan's advantage has unexpectedly expanded to a considerable extent.
Wang Ting had heard that in Japan's previous domestic competitions, several young talents had emerged in the 100m and 400m events. However, these talented players had no international competition experience for the time being. They came to the fore in last year's Japan National High School Track and Field Competition.
Although this sounds like a competition for high school students, this kind of student-level track and field competition in Japan has always been a breeding ground for their potential seed players. In fact, some of the results of the players in the finals of this kind of high school track and field competition in Japan can be compared with those of the domestic track and field grand prix finalists.
This time, this is the case with these young track and field athletes who suddenly emerged in Japan.
Since they emerged last year, they have received corporate sponsorship in Japan and have become professional athletes in Japan's specialized track and field team. After selection and competition in Japan, they have even qualified for this Asian Championships. This shows that these young Japanese players are coming in with great momentum.
As a coach, Wang Ting certainly knew how heavy the task pressure of the team was this time. He was a little worried that the performance pressure on Su Bai would be affected by these young Japanese players.
After hearing the news, Su Bai was very calm: "It's okay. In a competition, there are all kinds of unexpected situations. If we don't have the ability to resist risks and are easily defeated by unexpected enemies that suddenly appear, it means that our own strength is not enough. We should reflect on ourselves instead of blaming the powerful enemies that suddenly appear."
When Wang Ting heard Su Bai's words, he understood that this was indeed the truth, but it was not so easy to stop worrying about this matter.
Amid Wang Ting's worries and the expectations of netizens and track and field enthusiasts on the Internet, this seemingly inconspicuous Asian Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar officially kicked off on April 15.
There are a total of 10 match days in this Asian Championships. Domestic sports channels have already made preparations for broadcasting the entire event, and the sports channel’s live broadcast network has also started live broadcast simultaneously.
On the first day of competition, among all the events related to Su Bai, only the men's 100m and 400m qualifying and preliminaries were held on that day.
In the men's 100m sprint, Fang Yu's condition has indeed entered a very stable performance area after several months of adjustment. He does not need to participate in the qualifying round. In the preliminaries, Fang Yu and Zhao Shu appeared in the third and fifth groups respectively. Fang Yu easily advanced as the first in the group with a score of 10.22 (wind speed +0.2m/sec), while Zhao Shu ranked third in the group with a score of 10.41 (wind speed +0.5m/sec), and also successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
After the men's 100-meter sprint, the men's 400-meter sprint preliminaries, in which Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi and others participated, was the most anticipated and tense race for domestic audiences!
In this Asian Championships in Doha, the men's 400m preliminaries are divided into 4 groups, with 7 people in each group. Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen are in the second and third groups respectively. In these two groups, the two only need to win the top three in the group, or the top four among the remaining players in addition to the top three in each group, to advance to the semifinals.
For Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen, this request was not difficult given their strength.
However, there is a saying that nothing is absolute in this world.
In the third group where Zhang Ziyi is located, I don’t know if it is due to luck, but this group has gathered strong players from Qatar, Doha, Bahrain, Kazakhstan and other countries, including many good players that Zhang Ziyi met in the previous Asian Games.
This is a group where almost everyone can make it to the finals based on personal strength. Among the seven players, only one from Kyrgyzstan is slightly weaker than the others around him. In front of the remaining six strong players, he is almost like a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
At 11:10 p.m. local time in Doha, Qatar, it was just after 6 p.m., and the second group of preliminaries of the 400-meter event was about to begin.
Qiu Wen is in this preliminary group, and among the players in his group is the young Japanese player, Shiraishi Tsururo, who Wang Ting had previously noticed.
Before the game, Wang Ting gave Qiu Wen a special warning, asking him not to be careless, as the other Asian players in the competition were all quite strong.
Although Qiu Wen is usually a bit silly, he is very serious about the competition. Wang Ting asked him to be more serious, so he released a little more of his originally reserved attitude.
On the Internet, when the audience saw Qiu Wen come on the court, their interest was piqued for a moment. They all stared at Qiu Wen on the field and began to look forward to his performance.
Of course, this expectation does not mean that Qiu Wen will refresh his personal best in the preliminaries as soon as he comes on the court. The main thing is to see what kind of results Qiu Wen can achieve in the preliminaries when he is relaxed.
During the live broadcast of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were discussing Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi who was about to play.
"After all, the indoor competitions are different from the outdoor competitions. After such a long wait, we can finally see the performances of the national team's 400m athletes in the outdoor competitions."
"Yes." Li Sen nodded with a smile and said, "Unfortunately, there are only two places for the Asian Championships. This time we can only see the 400m individual performance of Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen. As for Li Junhao's current performance, we need to wait until he has an individual event to get the final answer."
Shao Minyi and Li Sen chatted for a few minutes before the game started. After waiting for the players to come on stage, they also briefly introduced the players on the field to the audience in front of the TV.
The situation in Zhang Ziyi's group is different. Perhaps because most of the strong players are gathered in the third group, the group where Qiu Wen is located, when it comes to strong players, is actually mostly composed of pure Asian players.
In the entire group, apart from Qiu Wen, according to Wang Ting, the only players worth paying attention to, besides the young Japanese player, is a player from South Korea. As for the remaining players, their individual PBs may not even be less than 46.50 seconds. For Qiu Wen, it is not difficult to advance in this group.
Before the starting gun for the second group of preliminaries sounded, everyone thought that there would be no surprises in this group of competitions. However, what was unexpected was that when the starting gun sounded, a player from Lebanon actually jumped the gun.
Things like false starts usually happen more often in events such as the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles. After all, for these two events, every 0.01 second is a critical moment for the athletes. So in some competitions, in order to achieve the best results, athletes will try to run with the gun pressed - that is, according to the referee's starting rhythm, predict the starting time, and react in advance to false start.
However, in the 400-meter race, the athletes will be relatively stable when starting from the bend, so it is unnecessary to hold the gun low in the 400-meter race.
The Lebanese athlete's accident was obviously due to nervousness. Therefore, under the current false start penalty rules, the Lebanese athlete who falsely started due to excessive nervousness lost his qualification to participate in the competition and was directly penalized and kicked off the race.
After the Lebanese player left the field, the remaining players on the field became a little nervous. Originally, they did not have much pressure on this preliminary round, but under the influence of the Lebanese player, they were afraid that they would make mistakes and be sent off.
Perhaps because of this, when the referee fired the starting gun for the second time, many runners hesitated in their reaction to the start, which affected their starting speed.
Among the remaining 6 players on the entire track, only Qiu Wen and the Japanese player Bai Shihei were not affected by the previous shot at all.
Qiu Wen was a carefree person to begin with. After he squatted on the starting blocks again, he had already forgotten the impact of the Lebanese athlete in the first shot. So when the starting gun sounded, he moved immediately, reacting very quickly and fiercely.
His reaction speed at the start is fast, and Bai Shihei is not much behind!
This young 400-meter runner from Japan also had the ferocity of a 100-meter sprinter when he started. His starting position was behind Qiu Wen. Although he was unable to catch up with Qiu Wen quickly after the start, the distance between him and the Korean player on Lane 4 was obviously narrowing!
The audience in front of the TV were all shocked after seeing this scene.
Didn’t everyone say that there was no danger in this preliminary round? Why do you think the Japanese player behind Qiu Wen is chasing him so fiercely?
In the commentary booth, Shao Minyi and Li Sen also noticed the young Japanese player Shiraishi Tsururang. They both had information on each player on the field. After reading Shiraishi Tsururang's information, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were also amazed.
"The athlete Shiraishi Tsurugi on track 2 is only 19 years old this year. His personal experience is very similar to Qiu Wen. He was also a well-known 100-meter sprinter in Japan when he was in junior high school. It was only after high school that he accidentally switched to the 400-meter sprint. His personal advantage lies in his strong explosive power. He is currently a very promising future star in the 400-meter race in Japan."
In China, because of Wang Ting's reminder, Su Bai was also sitting in front of the TV watching this preliminary round. From the performance on the field, it can be seen that the Japanese Shiraishi Tsururang is indeed very similar to Qiu Wen in type. However, Su Bai can see that although Shiraishi Tsururang has strong explosive power, he still lacks speed and endurance in the second half. Compared with Qiu Wen, his advantage is that he has a stronger natural sense of rhythm than Qiu Wen.
Su Bai watched the situation on the field. After Qiu Wen got on the track, even if he was restrained, his emotions were completely immersed in the competition. He became very excited and did not care about the players behind him.
Normally, his excited running style would make the runners behind him feel some pressure. After all, facing such a seemingly tireless runner, the runners chasing behind would feel tired.
Halfway through the race, Qiu Wen had already surpassed the runner in lane five and was almost running side by side with the Korean runner in lane four. Behind him, Bai Shihei was also chasing him.
In the second half of the race, Qiu Wen's advantages in speed and endurance were fully demonstrated, while Bai Shiherang's speed showed a significant decline.
However, Bai Shiherang was still very tenacious. Although his speed declined, he maintained a good overall rhythm. When it came to the final sprint, he rushed forward with all his strength and regained some of his speed.
In the end, when crossing the finish line, Qiu Wen easily crossed the line in first place. Behind him, the Korean player and Bai Shihe were running at similar speeds. The Korean player was slightly behind by one point, but he also advanced smoothly with the third place.
After crossing the line, Qiu Wen turned around and took another look at Bai Shi Herang. He happened to see Bai Shi Herang also looking at him with a challenging look in his eyes. Then Qiu Wen grinned and gave him a bright smile.
After seeing Qiu Wen successfully cross the line and easily take first place in the group with a time of 45.89 seconds, the audience in front of the TV naturally gave encouraging applause, and then turned their attention to the 'death group' event where Zhang Ziyi was about to take place.
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