Domestically, this was the first time that a sports channel purchased the television broadcasting rights for the World Athletics Relays, and it was also the first time for many domestic viewers to watch the World Athletics Relays.
In many people's impressions, there may only be concepts such as the 4x100m relay sprint. However, at the World Athletics Relay Championships, through the schedule, many spectators discovered that in addition to the 4x100m, there are many other ways of playing in the relay that they have never come into contact with.
Take for example the mixed men's and women's obstacle relay that's going on right now - the male and female team members start in relay at both ends of the obstacle course and need to keep crossing hurdles throughout the race.
Obstacles are the hurdles on the track.
There are not many teams participating in the mixed obstacle relay, only 6. However, due to the different starting directions of the round-trip relay, each team needs to occupy 2 tracks. Therefore, these 6 teams are also divided into 1 or 2 groups to conduct group competitions separately.
At this moment, the runners on the track are trying their best to cross the hurdles, fighting for the victory on the track.
In front of the TV, many domestic viewers also found this new relay event quite interesting.
In the live studio of Yokohama TV, Su Bai and Arakawa Ryunosuke had just written down their predictions for the performance of the two groups before the game.
In fact, since there are only six teams participating in the mixed obstacle relay, including teams like the United States and Jamaica, the so-called prediction this time, to select four qualifying teams from the six teams, is not really that difficult.
Before the group stage began, both Su Bai and Arakawa revealed their predictions: the United States, Jamaica, Australia and Japan.
The two sides at most have different opinions on the rankings among the four teams, but there is no dispute about which country's team will be on the qualifying list.
The reason is simple. Although there is a team from France on the track, the performance of the French athletes participating in the obstacle relay is just average. It is obvious that participating in the competition is just a training for those athletes.
Apart from the French team that came to make up the numbers, the last relay team from Papua New Guinea had an even more obvious gap in player strength compared to other teams.
Simply eliminate the options to get the final correct answer.
After the two mixed obstacle relay group matches, Arakawa and Su Bai smiled at each other in a friendly manner. During the competition just now, Arakawa also served as a commentator and explained a lot of the game situation on the field. Next to Su Bai, the translator sent by the Japan Athletics Association was of very good level and could basically quickly explain Arakawa's explanation to Su Bai.
Yokohama TV, Arakawa and Su Bai had already reached a tacit understanding before the live broadcast began. Everyone would leave a certain amount of time for Su Bai to give a simple commentary, and the translator would also be on the scene to provide simultaneous interpretation.
In the first mixed obstacle relay preliminaries, Arakawa and Su Bai also tried this approach. Although Su Bai did not speak much, he also left a lot of concise comments and explanations.
However, due to language barriers, many Japanese audiences' attention is still on Arakawa Ryunosuke for the time being. The most common impressions left on Su Bai are "cold", "quiet" and "young".
[Ahhh, up to this point, Coach Arakawa is still the one that makes me excited! But Coach Su from China is indeed amazingly young. Even now, I am still surprised by his age. 】
[While this is true, when discussing coaches, shouldn’t we talk about their professionalism? Feeling moved always makes people feel that it is impolite and a bad thing! 】
Of course, Arakawa and Su Bai in the live broadcast room had no idea what was being discussed on the Internet. The live broadcast was still going on. Just now, the final results of the two mixed obstacle relay group competitions had been announced, including the qualifying rankings of the four groups.
The competition on the field has come to a temporary end, and the staff are quickly tidying up the track. In the live broadcast room, the host Hirotoshi Uchimura also smiled and turned the topic to the predictions made by Arakawa and Su Bai about the team's results in the previous game.
"Sure enough, both coaches have amazingly accurate foresight! Both Arakawa-kun and Su-kun accurately predicted which four teams would successfully advance." At this point, Uchimura Hirotoshi said with emotion: "It seems that the first round of the matchup ended in a tie between the two coaches."
"No." Arakawa Ryunosuke frowned and rejected the host's words: "In the final prediction of the ranking of the qualifying teams, the winner should be Su."
Arakawa Ryunosuke's remarks stunned the host for a moment. On this side, the translator was quickly relaying the situation on the field to Su Bai.
After hearing Ryunosuke Arakawa's insistence, Su Bai turned his head to look in the direction of Arakawa, and nodded to him frankly.
As early as the day before, after Su Bai heard a series of actions taken by Arakawa Ryunosuke, he already had some understanding of the character of this Japanese coach.
This is a proud, stubborn person who pursues absolute victory. He has a strong desire to win and has strong self-confidence.
This is not a bad thing. He does have strong abilities. This ability has allowed him to hold his current position at such a young age in Japan, an environment that places great emphasis on seniority and hierarchy in the workplace. This ability alone is worthy of respect.
But respect does not mean that Su Bai intends to be lenient towards Arakawa Ryunosuke in today's "duel".
Su Bai could see that this was a person who would go crazy once he set his eyes on someone, and had the absolute belief in surpassing the goal. The Chinese team and he, Su Bai, were currently Ryunosuke Arakawa's "goals". He wanted to use the Chinese team's achievements and progress to set a goal for his team to challenge, and let his players chase the Chinese team all the way forward.
This is not a bad thing in itself - having opponents and goals are good things for the growth of the team.
However, the way he attacked the Chinese team was quite vigorous and it was easy to get out of control if one was not careful.
Su Bai did not intend to let his team be targeted by such an opponent for a long time, so what he had to do was to take advantage of the opportunity of this World Athletics Championships to completely defeat Ryunosuke Arakawa's idea, both at the team level and at his own level.
Let Ryunosuke Arakawa change his target.
After meeting Su Bai's calm and distant gaze, Arakawa also noticed Su Bai's resistance to him. He did not care about it, but shifted his attention to the next event that was about to begin - the women's 4x400m relay.
In this relay race, there are a total of 21 participating teams, divided into 3 preliminary groups. The top two teams in each group match will advance directly, and finally the top two teams will be selected from the remaining teams to advance as substitutes.
At this time, the first group of preliminaries have officially appeared on the field. The Chinese women's 4x400m relay team was assigned to Group 1. However, the Chinese team was competing with top teams in this event such as the United States, the Netherlands, and France.
This preliminary grouping can be considered a terrible death group for the Chinese team.
On the field, members of the Chinese women's 4x400m relay team, led by Chen Yada, have already entered the field. As the first runner, Chen Yada has arrived at the outermost eighth track - this is the track position of the Chinese team this time.
A terrible death preliminaries group, coupled with a terrible preliminaries outermost track position.
From the moment they knew the location of the track, Chen Yada and her teammates felt their hearts sink to the bottom.
The audience watching the live broadcast in front of the TV knew the preliminary grouping for the first time, and also knew the position of the Chinese team on the track for the first time. Immediately, many track and field fans felt a little nervous.
They already knew that the women's 4x400m relay team might not be as skilled as others. Many track and field fans were speculating in private that the only thing Su Bai was not sure about when it came to 'maintaining second place and striving for third place' might be the women's relay.
However, even though they knew it in their hearts, track and field fans actually still had some implicit expectations in their hearts - for example, if they were lucky in the preliminaries and were assigned to a group with poor results, then if they could grab a top two spot... maybe they would have a chance?
There were quite a few people who had this expectation, but at this moment, after seeing the preliminary groups and track positions on the track, the hearts of these track and field fans were instantly shattered into pieces.
Take a look at what teams are in the same preliminary round in the same group on the field?
Team USA? Germany?
And the Netherlands, Italy, France, Chile...
After looking at this list of countries, track and field fans who are familiar with the performance of these national teams all turned green in the face.
The public screen in the live broadcast room of the sports channel fell silent for a moment because of the sight of all the team members of this preliminary group.
After a while, a line of words suddenly appeared on the public screen.
[…With this team configuration, we’re still ranked at the very outside… I just hope we don’t end up last.] 】
After this sentence was uttered, several +1, +1 quickly appeared on the barrage.
Indeed, for the girls of the Chinese team, today's preliminary grouping was a bit too cruel.
Chen Yada had already adjusted her position on the starting block. After two simple trial runs, she returned to the back of her starting block and stood still. Now she had her hands on her waist and her head lowered, obviously trying to adjust her emotional state.
In the preparation area, players from different countries stood behind the referee table according to the order in which they would appear on stage. Lin Yao and others also had gloomy expressions on their faces.
Even though they had already had a bad prediction about the game after being scolded by Su Bai, they had never thought that the situation they were facing would be so bad.
Facing the encirclement and suppression from these teams, are they really going to get the last place? !
No……
They are unwilling to accept!
In the live broadcast room of Yokohama TV, after seeing the Chinese women's relay team taking to the field, Arakawa Ryunosuke suddenly turned to Su Bai and said, "Mr. Su, the team you lead is about to start the battle. Perhaps, we can guess what kind of results your team can achieve?"
Facing Arakawa's obviously provocative proposal, Su Bai looked at him calmly, then suddenly smiled and replied, "Okay."
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