After the World Athletics Challenge schedule ended on May 4, Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen both won their respective qualifications for the Tokyo Olympics in their first battle.
Among the team of less than ten people, two people have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics at one time. This is good news that cannot be better for the national track and field team. Even for the athletes who are still a little distance away from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen are an example that can make them feel excited.
After all, before last year, both of them were still some distance away from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, but now, this standard, which is known as the "strictest in history", can no longer stump them.
After the Jamaica leg of the challenge ended, the domestic news channel's reporter stationed in Jamaica also conducted a brief interview with the team as soon as possible, and congratulated Cui Luoheng, Wang Shen, Wu Yi and others who achieved excellent results.
In China, in the morning news on May 5, Wang Shen and others had not yet returned home, but the news had already reported everyone's achievements.
Of course, the official Weibo accounts of the National Track and Field Team and the Athletics Administration Center were the first to congratulate Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen on their qualification for the Olympics.
As an authoritative newspaper in domestic competitive sports, "Sports Daily" also wrote articles to express its appreciation for Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen at the first opportunity. At the same time, the newspaper also reported and analyzed Cui Luoheng's potential, changes and development in the project in a large article on the front page of track and field.
This analytical article, titled "The Birth of Cui Luoheng, the Future King of 110-meter Hurdles", was actually a manuscript that the Sports Daily had prepared for about half a month. The reason for choosing to write this article was also because of Cui Luoheng's crushing victory over other players in the previous Asian Championships.
At that time, although there were already various overwhelming discussions on the Internet in China, no one had made a detailed and complete analysis of Cui Luoheng. The reporter from the Sports Daily drafted this topic and spent less than half a month collecting information about Cui Luoheng's past. He also made a special trip to the track and field team of Province S and interviewed Cui Luoheng's former coach Zhou Wen and his teammates. He even found Cui Luoheng's early teacher in the sports school, and sorted out Cui Luoheng's growth trajectory from beginning to end.
This reporter named Zheng Rang even went to the national team training base and interviewed Su Bai, Lu Shengbin and some of Cui Luoheng's teammates.
During the interview with Zheng Rang, the manuscript gradually took shape and was in the repeated polishing stage. Then the news came back that Cui Luoheng had run under 13.20 seconds and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
Zheng Rang's leader immediately made the decision to publish this report, which was considered as a way to grab the current hot spot of the track and field team.
This report did catch the best opportunity. After all, the Jamaica race started too late the night before. Even if some die-hard fans were following the race, for the general public, the celebration enthusiasm brought about by the achievements of Cui Luoheng, Wang Shen and others only really started today.
For a moment, people on the Internet, people who saw the news, and people who saw related reports all looked excited.
In the country, people from sports teams in different provinces are of course the ones who pay the most attention to these things at the first time.
Many coaches from various provincial teams would also get together privately to chat, expressing their feelings that track and field is now really gaining momentum. Every ten days or half a month, any competition would always spark a certain amount of heated discussion. Compared with the past, this situation is really a world of difference.
S Province Track and Field Team
Since Su Bai took Qiu Wen, Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen to train in the national team for a long time last year, the S Province Track and Field Team has also added a lot of new talents, especially some in the 400-meter event. When Su Bai first joined the national team, Zhao Heping sent their information to Su Bai and asked Su Bai to help screen them.
Now, for these newcomers, Su Bai, Qiu Wen, Zhang Wei, Hu Li, Cui Luoheng, Wang Shen and others have become legendary names in the S Province Track and Field Team.
They only know that the current head coach of the 400m event of the track and field team was also an assistant coach with Su Bai last year. He was taught by Su Bai himself. There are also Hu Li and Zhang Wei in the 400m event. These two senior brothers who are now top 400m athletes in the country also experienced a long period of slump.
"Ah, I wonder when Coach Su Baisu will come back to our track and field team to pick people?"
"Hehe, don't think about it for now. Try to get a spot on the third floor of our cafeteria! The set meals there are the recipes that Coach Su left behind himself. They are so delicious!"
It's not just the S Province Track and Field Team. Now, perhaps because many athletes in the national track and field team have a stronger and stronger presence, and with the achievements and breakthroughs made by the national track and field team again and again, various sports teams or students in sports schools who specialize in track and field training are much more motivated than before.
In the Agricultural Management Center, Wang Zhengsheng was holding in his hands the recent relevant reports from various provinces. These reports alone made Wang Zhengsheng feel very gratified.
“This is thriving!”
Wang Zhengsheng pointed at the report in his hand with a satisfied smile on his face.
"Isn't it?" Jiang Wentao had naturally also looked at these data, and a smile of satisfaction was on his face.
During this year, they have been happy many more times than in the past. Even though some projects are still in a weak position, there have been so many revolutionary changes in this year, which is enough for them.
"As long as we keep up the momentum, there will be more and more talented people in our track and field events sooner or later. Then, we will have a real harvest!"
After Wang Zhengsheng sighed like this, he turned the topic back to the Jamaica stop of the World Challenge the day before: "Yesterday's competition, the players performed very well, not just Wang Shen and Cui Luoheng, all the players who went out this time were very energetic!"
Although they did not get as outstanding results as Cui Luoheng and Wang Shen, the players had to travel to Jamaica and had very little time to recover and adjust there. It can be said that they did not actually compete in their best condition.
However, every player has given their best in the competition. Even if some results are not ideal, for the players, the goals of trying to find the competition form, getting familiar with the opponents, getting familiar with the feeling of fighting in a foreign country, etc., have been achieved. Among these players, every one of them is not afraid of fighting. Such a state is already satisfactory enough.
"By the way, how is the national team's relay team preparing?"
After praising everyone who was going to Jamaica, Wang Zhengsheng thought of the Yokohama battle that would start soon. Compared with individual events with more opportunities, if the relay team wants to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, it only has this chance, the World Athletics Relays in Yokohama.
This World Athletics Relay Championships has two major purposes. One is to screen teams. The top 12 teams in each event of this competition will directly qualify for the World Athletics Championships in September. Second, the eight teams that enter the finals in some events can directly qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
Apart from this opportunity, if the relay team wants to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, it can only win the top four in an individual event at the World Athletics Championships, or actively participate in the competition in the future, accumulate team points through the relay team's participation, and compete for the final remaining places in the rankings.
Compared with the latter two ways to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, the best opportunity for the national track and field team is naturally the upcoming World Athletics Relays.
"Pei Jinan and Su Bai have arranged corresponding training for the players during this period, but now the competition is about to start, so it is not a good idea to overtrain."
Wang Zhengsheng nodded: "Okay, the coaching staff will take care of these situations..."
Afterwards, the two turned the topic to preparations for other events and other related work.
On the morning of May 7, all the participants who had gone to the Jamaica Track and Field Challenge finally returned to China. Going to Jamaica and returning to China in a short period of time was a big test for all the participants. After finally returning to China, everyone received instructions to rest and adjust.
Cui Luoheng, Wang Shen, Ye Wenhao and others were walking together with their luggage. During the past two days, on the way back, Cui Luoheng had been very depressed and Wang Shen didn't say much.
Now back at the track and field team training base, Wang Shen saw that Cui Luoheng still had a frown on his brow and looked absent-minded, and he finally couldn't stand it anymore.
He patted Cui Luoheng on the shoulder, and in Cui Luoheng's puzzled eyes, he said to him helplessly: "If you want to apologize, go quickly."
“…”
Cui Luoheng frowned. He didn't expect Wang Shen to say something like this, but this was indeed the issue that had been worrying him for the past two days.
He knew that with his performance in this challenge, Su Bai would definitely not believe his previous excuse of "poor mental quality", but how should he apologize... or why should he apologize...
Two days passed, but this question still lingered in his mind, without a clear answer.
Wang Shen smiled and looked at Cui Luoheng who was still silent, then said: "Of course, if you don't want to look for Su Bai again in the future, it doesn't matter if you don't apologize."
Hearing Wang Shen’s words, Cui Luoheng was stunned.
Wang Shen saw Cui Luoheng was stunned and didn't reply. He just patted his shoulder again and said, "Why do you always want to get close to Xiaobai?"
Yeah, why?
Cui Luoheng was stunned. This was also the question he had been asking himself for the past two days.
"Could it be that you really want to compete with Qiu Wen for favor?"
Wang Shen shook his head and asked this question again, then waved to Cui Luoheng, turned around and left with his luggage.
Cui Luoheng stayed where he was, thinking about Wang Shen's last question. His originally gloomy expression finally calmed down after several twists and turns.
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