"Day 2 of the Doha Asian Athletics Championships - Tonight, the crown of glory belongs to China"
The next day, the report was directly published on the front page of the sports daily.
Even for Chinese track and field, which has been making continuous achievements in the past year, this evening's results are enough to inspire people. Not only the Sports Daily, but other domestic current affairs newspapers and periodicals also reprinted the relevant news reports. In the TV morning news on April 17, the host also reported the good news brought by the Chinese national track and field team with a happy face.
On that day, the coaches and staff who stayed at the domestic track and field base and did not travel with the team to Doha, after seeing Su Bai, all smiled and congratulated him.
The truth is, in the good news from the night before, the 400-meter sprint accounted for too large a proportion. And not only the 400-meter sprint, but also Fang Yu's current state of easily running under 10 seconds, has a lot to do with Su Bai.
"Coach Xiao Su, we are all waiting for your training!"
There were coaches who had a good relationship with Su Bai and knew that Su Bai was currently preparing for his series of course lectures. They all smiled and asked Su Bai to save a seat for them.
Of course, as coaches of the national team, it is very easy for them to get the qualification to attend a lecture. When they talk about this matter now, they are actually just chatting with Su Bai.
On the contrary, for the provincial teams outside the national team, the places for exchange and learning are limited, so the coaches of the provincial teams are scrambling for them. The reason is that the topic of Su Bai's lecture this time is not focused on the single event of the 400-meter sprint.
The theme of Su Bai's lecture this time is "The Coach's Thoughts in Track and Field Training", which includes chapters such as "How to effectively improve technology scientifically", "Technical analysis of athletes", "How to control and design athletes' pre-match training load", etc. Of course, it also includes some research results that he recently discussed with Ma Changping's research team and can be made public in advance.
That is, 'how to plan training more effectively based on the athletes' own qualities'.
This series of courses will form an exchange lecture with a total duration of about one week. In the morning, Su Bai will teach the course, and in the afternoon, coaches and students from various provincial teams will summarize ideas, discuss, and provide feedback and answers to questions regarding the course.
When the topic of this lecture was distributed to various provincial teams, each team originally agreed that the coach of the 400-meter sprint would attend the class. However, as soon as the leaders of the provincial teams revealed this intention, the coaches of the 100-meter sprint, 110-meter hurdles and even the high jump events refused to do it.
Su Bai is indeed the head coach of the 400-meter event, but didn’t you see that he also brought Fang Yu’s performance to a new height? Besides, the people he personally brought from the S Province Track and Field Team to the national team were not just Qiu Wen. Isn’t Cui Luoheng Su Bai’s direct disciple?
Now that we have mentioned Qiu Wen and Cui Luoheng, can we forget Wang Shen?
Wang Shen broke through his original personal best and reached a new height. Who brought about this achievement?
Isn't it Su Bai that he is also thanking?
Well, if the coaches of various projects are counted together, the national team will not have enough places for training and exchanges for various provincial teams.
First is the 400-meter sprint event. For this event, athletes from the national team and the S Province track and field team are leading the way. If teams from other provinces want to keep up, the coaches of this event must be sent to learn.
Then, in the 100-meter, 110-meter hurdles and high jump events, Su Bai still coached the same team members as before, but he brought them to better results. Who wouldn't be envious of such skills? In addition, the theme of Su Bai's course this time is obviously related to how he trains athletes, which makes them even more reluctant to miss it.
In addition, the national team's performance in the Asian Championships also caused the coaches of various provincial teams in the country to feel a great sense of pressure in their hearts.
Due to these multiple factors, Su Bai's week-long training seminar suddenly became so popular that it was hard to get a seat.
Domestically, with the results of the Asian Championships on April 16, the domestic audience, who were already paying close attention to the game, became even more interested this time.
At around 1 p.m. on April 17th, local time, the third day of the Asian Track and Field Championships in Doha finally kicked off.
Among the races on this morning, the most noteworthy ones in China are the men's 110m hurdles preliminaries and the men's 4*400m relay preliminaries.
Among them, the preliminaries of the 110-meter hurdles will start at 8:50 a.m. Doha time, and the preliminaries of the men's 4*400m will be scheduled at 11 a.m.
Although there were not many local spectators in Doha watching the game because it was a weekday, those who came were all very loyal track and field enthusiasts, which made the atmosphere very warm.
In the audience, in the viewing area for Chinese athletes, the coaches who came with the team and the athletes who had already finished the game all sat in their seats early, ready to cheer for their country's contestants.
Because all the matches in the morning were preliminaries, and they were all preliminaries that the Chinese team was relatively confident in, the viewing atmosphere in the Chinese player area seemed very relaxed.
The night before, the athletes of the national track and field team brought the Chinese team a victory that they still talk about with great relish to this day.
"Oh, I'm not worried about anything else, but Zhang Ziyi is a little stubborn. He consumed so much energy yesterday. It won't have a big impact on the 4*400m preliminaries this morning if we replace him..."
Jiang Wentao sat in his seat and couldn't help nagging to Wang Ting.
When people talk about these officials in the management of various sports centers on the Internet, they always say that they are officials who don’t understand the projects. However, they have basically made their living from sports. Many of them are veterans in track and field projects. Although they are now mainly responsible for management matters and are separated from the basic work of the projects, who says they don’t care about the athletes?
Wang Ting smiled and shook his head: "He wants to test how well he can distribute his physical energy. He wants to use this Asian Championships as an experiment so that he can have a better idea of what he can achieve. This will prevent him from getting nervous when he returns to the World Championships." Wang Ting added: "Don't worry, the other members of the relay team have been told about it. Ziyi will try to run as much as possible in this relay preliminaries. If you want to do well, you have to rely on the other little guys who have enough physical energy."
In the audience, Jiang Wentao and Wang Ting were chatting about the content of the game. In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were talking about another topic.
"What is about to begin is the 110m hurdles preliminaries of this year's Doha Asian Athletics Championships. In this 110m hurdles event, my country will still send our famous athlete Lu Mengfan and Cui Luoheng, the gold medalist who won the Asian Games 110m hurdles championship last year."
"Not bad." Li Sen's voice was also filled with a relaxed smile: "Last year, at the Asian Games, Lu Mengfan and Cui Luoheng teamed up to win the championship and third place in the 110-meter hurdles. This time, Lu Mengfan and Cui Luoheng will compete together again. I wonder what kind of good results they can achieve?"
"Audience members who have watched Cui Luoheng's solo performance during the winter training should know that during this winter training, Cui Luoheng, under the guidance of Su Bai, began to improve his technique of changing his eight-to-seven steps before the hurdles. Because the training of changing from eight to seven is quite difficult, Su Bai did not arrange for Cui Luoheng to participate in any indoor competitions even when the indoor season started at the beginning of this year."
"Yes." Li Sen glanced at the information in his hand and confirmed again: "This Asian Track and Field Championships is Cui Luoheng's first competition after completing the eight-to-seven technical transformation. We are also looking forward to what kind of performance he can bring to us in this competition."
On the Internet, the audience waiting for the competition did not feel nervous about this morning's preliminaries. The preliminaries of the 110-meter hurdles were divided into 3 groups. The top two in each group would advance directly to the finals, and then the two with the best results would be selected from the remaining players.
Not to mention anything else, according to the usual results of the Asian Games and Asian Championships in previous years, the top eight players who qualified usually had scores above 13.80 seconds.
What about the results of Lu Mengfan and Cui Luoheng? At least in last year's season, it was stable at around 13.50 seconds. This result will fluctuate, but the fluctuation is definitely not large.
For netizens, the only variable they need to consider is whether Cui Luoheng's eight-to-seven change is technically mature. However, compared with the situation where Su Bai did not allow Cui Luoheng to participate in indoor competitions before, Cui Luoheng, who is now allowed to participate in outdoor competitions, must have met Su Bai's basic requirements.
Furthermore, in the interview before the national team set off, Cui Luoheng said in person that the goal was to win the championship!
With such confidence, wouldn’t it be a joke if we were eliminated in the preliminary round?
With this mentality, the audience was very relaxed and started to place bets on the results of Lu Mengfan and Cui Luoheng in the preliminaries.
8:40 AM, local time in Doha
As the events scheduled for an earlier time ended, the organizers' staff set up the hurdles on the track and made corresponding adjustments and preparations for the competition site.
Although the 110-meter hurdles competition is divided into three groups, the number of participants is actually not that large, only 21 people, with only 7 people in each group.
Lu Mengfan and Cui Luoheng were arranged in the first and third groups of the preliminaries respectively.
When the venue was ready, Lu Mengfan and other contestants in the same group went onto the field under the guidance of the staff. However, there were originally 7 contestants in the first group, but for some reason, one of them withdrew, and in the end, only 6 contestants actually took part in the competition.
The preliminary groups for the 110-meter hurdles did not encounter the same devilish grouping as before. The only special thing was that in the 110-meter hurdles, in addition to Cui Luoheng and Lu Mengfan of the Chinese national team, there were actually... other Chinese athletes whose results were good enough to advance to the finals.
In this competition, both the Taipei team and the Hong Kong team had two full players participating in the 110-meter hurdles event. The two athletes from the Hong Kong team were slightly weaker, but the two athletes from the Taipei team were both capable of running under 13.80 seconds.
In addition, the Japanese team also has strong strength in the 110-meter hurdles. For example, Koichi Komatsu in the previous Asian Games was a famous 110-meter hurdles champion of the Japanese team.
In the first group of preliminaries where Lu Mengfan is, the one who poses the greatest threat to Lu Mengfan in terms of strength is Sun Youchen from the Taipei team. Sun Youchen's pb results have always been similar to Lu Mengfan's, and the two can be considered old rivals who have known each other for a long time.
Just before that, when doing warm-up training in the warm-up venue, Sun Youchen chatted with Lu Mengfan for a while, and also brought Cui Luoheng along.
At last year's Asian Games, Sun Youchen lost to Cui Luoheng and Lu Mengfan and did not make it into the top three. At that time, he was quite amazed at Cui Luoheng's sudden appearance at the Asian Games.
"I have been following your training. I have also watched Ah Heng's extra video."
Sun Youchen, who had just finished warming up, looked at Cui Luoheng curiously: "Ah Heng, have you completed your seven-step hurdle training?"
Cui Luoheng nodded calmly and responded.
"What a shame. I can't compete with you until the finals."
In the commentary booth, Shao Minyi and Li Sen brought the topic, which had already gone off topic for a long time, back to the competition scene as the players came on stage.
"Sun Youchen's personal PB is 13.41 seconds. Although he has not yet broken through the 13.40 mark, I believe he is not far from breaking this barrier..."
Shao Minyi and Li Sen are old partners. They introduced the six players on the field one by one. They also looked at the information of the only player who withdrew from the competition.
"In fact, the Kazakhstan player who failed to participate in the competition is also very strong. It is said that the reason why he failed to participate in the competition tonight is that he had a stomachache yesterday and is currently receiving treatment. He is unable to come to the competition."
The audience in front of the TV was originally wondering why this contestant withdrew from the competition, but it turned out to be this reason. They were quite speechless for a moment.
However, having a stomach upset is nothing new. At a previous World Athletics Championships, an international 400-meter sprint star missed the final of the World Championships because of a stomach upset. He was originally a strong contender for the top three in the World Championships.
Just after Shao Minyi and Li Sen finished their introductions, the noise at the scene quieted down and the competition was about to officially begin!
Although it was only a preliminary round with only 6 participants, no athlete dared to let down their guard. In an event like the 110-meter hurdles where milliseconds matter, even if one's reaction was 0.01 seconds slower than others at the start, it could lead to ultimate failure.
When the starting gun sounded, the race started immediately. Lu Mengfan, who was in the fourth track, was in excellent condition.
It can be said that since Cui Luoheng appeared last year, the burden that Lu Mengfan originally carried alone has been much lighter. Not only that, after that, the various auxiliary training programs provided by Su Bai to Lu Shengbin also put his personal condition into an increasingly outstanding cycle.
In today's match, let alone the preliminaries, even if it was the final, he believed that he could go into the match lightly and fight hard.
On the field, after the six athletes arrived at the hurdles, they started their hurdle attack battle without hesitation. The ups and downs of the rhythm between each athlete were so fast that it was dazzling.
Ordinary spectators simply cannot see clearly the movements of so many athletes in the hurdles. Only the athletes on the track can feel the opponents around them. The superposition of their hurdle rhythms often produces a certain impact. Whether they can restrain this impact and maintain their own hurdle rhythm is also an important part of the game.
Ten hurdles may seem like a lot, but for these athletes, it only takes a little over ten seconds to clear them.
In the final stage, it was a contest between Lu Mengfan and Sun Youchen from the same group. The two were deadlocked in the last three hurdles. Until the last hurdle, Lu Mengfan was slightly faster than Sun Youchen. In the final stage, Lu Mengfan's sprint speed was comparable to that of Sun Youchen. It was with the advantage of gaining a slight advantage at the end of the last hurdle that Lu Mengfan successfully crossed the finish line with the first place.
In the first group of preliminaries, Lu Mengfan's final score was 13.47 seconds and Sun Youchen's was 13.48 seconds. The gap between the two was indeed only a hair's breadth.
After the results came out, Sun Youchen sighed and turned to look at Lu Mengfan: "I still can't beat you."
Lu Mengfan just smiled and said, "There's still the finals."
When Sun Youchen heard Lu Mengfan say this, he just curled his lips and said, "Be honest. I can feel that you are in better shape. Besides, there is not only you in the finals, but also Ah Heng."
Lu Mengfan and Sun Youchen left the arena while talking. Soon after them, the second group of preliminaries also entered the arena. This group consisted of 7 players. The strongest player among them should be Koichi Komatsu from the Japanese team. In addition, there was also a newcomer from Kuwait, Abdullah.
Kuwait's national track and field team has seen a number of newcomers this year, such as Amesfar in the 400-meter sprint and Abdullah in the 110-meter hurdles.
Originally, everyone thought that in the second group of preliminaries, Japan's Koichi Komatsu would be enough to dominate the entire field. However, what was unexpected was that the first place in this group of preliminaries would be the young Kuwaiti player Abdullah.
This Abdullah not only defeated Koichi Komatsu in the preliminaries, but his result of 13.45 seconds also surpassed Lu Mengfan's 13.47 seconds, temporarily ranking first in the entire field.
"This young Kuwaiti player is incredible."
In the audience, Lu Shengbin made a rare sigh.
When Jiang Wentao and others heard this, they all nodded.
This kind of posture that suddenly appeared at the Asian Athletics Championships is no worse than Cui Luoheng at last year's Asian Games. Moreover, he is very young, just the same age as Cui Luoheng. Such speed and results show that his talent and strength are quite remarkable.
The people in the audience were a little worried because of Abdullah's appearance. After all, last year, two strong athletes, Cui Luoheng and Lu Mengfan, won two medals in the 110-meter hurdles at the Asian Games. So this year, the 110-meter hurdles event also accounts for a considerable weight in the medal-winning mission of the Asian Championships.
It's not that there can be no room for error, but everyone felt a little uneasy when they thought about Cui Luoheng's change from eight to seven techniques before he even played.
If we just won the gold medal at the Asian Games last year, we lost it again at this year's Asian Championships...
Even if you know there is a reason for it, you will still feel unhappy.
It was with this somewhat uneasy mood that everyone waited for Cui Luoheng to play in the third group of the preliminaries.
While waiting in the waiting room just now, Cui Luoheng had already seen the second game on the live TV broadcast in the waiting area. He of course also noticed Abdullah of Kuwait, but he did not pay any special attention to Abdullah's performance. He just retracted his gaze after carefully observing Abdullah's entire game.
At home, the audience didn’t know what the Chinese team coaches and leaders were worried about, nor did they know whether Cui Luoheng paid attention to Abdullah. Everyone just looked excited after seeing Cui Luoheng come on the court.
Just as Zhang Ziyi is the reassurance of the 400-meter sprint, the 110-meter hurdles also have such a reassurance, that is Lu Mengfan. And after Cui Luoheng won the Asian Games gold medal in last year's Asian Games, Cui Luoheng has now also joined this reassurance package.
Even though some people had been a little worried about Cui Luoheng's performance because his score was changed from eight to seven, this worry completely disappeared after Cui Luoheng calmly appeared on the stage - there was no other reason, just look at the calm face of our A Luo, that's it!
Shao Minyi and Li Sen in the commentary booth are now very familiar with Cui Luoheng. They have just praised Abdullah, but now when they talk about Cui Luoheng, there is a hint of "Chinese modesty", but this "modest" tone actually reveals an alternative tone of pride.
"As for Cui Luoheng, he is the same age as Kuwait's young player Abdullah. In terms of age, he should also be classified as a young player. However, due to Cui Luoheng's achievements in the Asian Games last year, many people forget that Cui Luoheng is actually just a young player who just turned 21 this year."
Look, look at what you said?
Without saying anything else, Cui Luoheng should also be a young player.
However, Cui Luoheng has already achieved some results in last year's Asian Games... I won't say what the specific results are, but Chinese audiences who follow the games know it anyway.
I wonder how Abdullah would react if he heard this kind of childish display of "humility".
Of course, if this kind of "showing off" continues to the end and Cui Luoheng's results are not very good, it will inevitably be boring. However, since Cui Luoheng came under Su Bai's command last year, he has never disappointed anyone every time he appeared in the competition.
Just like this time, just like this game.
After making the technical adjustment from eight to seven, this was Cui Luoheng's first appearance on the field. Then, amid the amazement of everyone at the scene and in front of the TV, he easily crushed the second place with a speed that was a full hurdle ahead of the second place and won the first place in this group of preliminaries.
Finally, when the results came out, he was still very calm. He just turned his head and looked at the big screen on site where the scores were announced. It clearly showed: Preliminary third group, first place: Cui Luoheng (China), 13.30 seconds. (wind speed 0.7 m/s)
All the spectators who were watching the game were first dazzled by the time - 13.30 seconds! With this result, we will definitely take first place in the group!
Afterwards, Shao Minyi and Li Sen in the commentary booth were the first to react - no, 13.30 seconds... Isn't this the qualifying score for the 110-meter hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics? !
But before those who remembered this could feel happy, someone else remembered that the assessment period for Olympic qualifying results only officially began on May 1.
In an instant, from joy to ecstasy, and then to the excitement being extinguished, this is how many emotions change.
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