Abroad, players from the national team are participating in various races, striving to achieve good results.
At the World Athletics Challenge in Finland on June 12, Fang Yu of the Chinese team won the gold medal with a time of 9.99 seconds, while Cui Luoheng ran a time of 13.17 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles, breaking his best time and winning the silver medal.
Fang Yu once again ran under 10 seconds, showing his excellent form this season and making many people feel particularly happy about his current state.
Cui Luoheng's breaking of the 13.20 second barrier also means that this young 21-year-old has officially entered the top circle of 110-meter hurdlers - from this moment on, there will be no more than 10 110-meter hurdlers in the world who can truly stand in Cui Luoheng's way.
When Cui Luoheng's performance improved rapidly and he easily ran 13.20 seconds in the Asian Championships, domestic track and field fans knew that 13.20 seconds was definitely not Cui Luoheng's limit in the 110-meter hurdles.
However, track and field fans did not expect that Cui Luoheng would easily refresh his own PB again in such an ordinary World Athletics Challenge race and break into the 13.20 world for the first time.
This relaxed and casual feeling made many track and field fans feel dazed and unable to react.
[I originally thought that this kind of moment of breaking 13.20 seconds should at least appear in a major competition, with huge expectations. Then Ah Heng, carrying everyone's expectations, broke the 13.20 mark with great difficulty... After today's result came out, why do I feel a little confused? It just doesn't feel like reality. 】
[…Brother, it’s not just you who is a little confused, I am a little confused too. But I think you may have watched too many TV dramas, so you have this illusion. In fact, many good results are achieved in such inconspicuous competitions. The athlete’s state is not constant, and sometimes they just catch up. 】
[What the brother said before is right. Although coaches and athletes will try their best to adjust the peak of their competitive state to the period of major competitions, it is normal to achieve such good results occasionally when they are playing games to adjust their competitive state during the season. Didn’t you watch Haoge’s game two days ago and he also said that in the subsequent interview? He was in particularly good shape that day. 】
Although Cui Luoheng's results have created a sensation among veteran track and field fans on the Internet, to be honest, most ordinary viewers still do not have a clear and concrete concept of this result.
So, although people in the national team, the Athletics Management Center and the Track and Field Kingdom Forum praised Cui Luoheng's achievements, on the more popular Weibo, although the bystanders also knew that Cui Luoheng had achieved good results, they did not know that this result was enough to make Cui Luoheng enter the top ten in the world this year.
Whether this kind of online discussion was hot or not, neither Su Bai nor Cui Luoheng himself cared. On the contrary, the domestic media seemed to be even more anxious than Cui Luoheng and Su Bai. When they got the news that Cui Luoheng ran 13.17 seconds, they quickly launched one commentary article after another.
"After 10 years, another 110-meter hurdler from the Chinese team ran under 13.20 seconds!" ! 》
《In the restricted area of 110-meter hurdles, Chinese people appeared again!》 》
"The birth of China's new generation hurdle king—he is only 21 years old this year! The future is promising! 》
"From the lowest point to the highest point, the new king of the 110-meter hurdles track, can he reach the legendary heights of his past? 》
These hotly debated topics in various media outlets, as well as the special news reports on sports channels, finally made a large number of ordinary people in the country realize: Huh? This result of 13.17 seconds seems very impressive?
On June 13, the day after the World Athletics Challenge Finland Station ended, these reports and heated discussions among netizens on the Internet once again increased the hit rate of Cui Luoheng's 110-meter hurdles race replay the previous day by millions. Even the hot topic #Cui Luoheng 13.17# was pushed to the forefront.
In the national team, Su Bai did not pay attention to the information on the Internet. Instead, he took his own data and went to one of the outdoor fields in the training base.
Before that, Su Bai asked Gu Cheng to inform the members of the trial team that the first round of 400-meter individual tests would be conducted in three days, and today was the official time for the test.
This batch of trial players included a total of 60 male and female players, who were tested in two rounds at 8:30 and 10 o'clock. Su Bai did not let the players take the test in the same field, but divided them into groups of 5, warmed up, and then took turns to take the test.
Although this takes a lot of time, in addition to the athlete's 400-meter individual results, it can also reveal many different details about the athlete's skills, mentality, sense of rhythm, control, and so on.
In addition to Su Bai, all the coaching staff members of the 400-meter event, such as Gu Cheng, Wang Ting, Zheng Xingguo, etc., were also present, including the assistant coaches who were also sitting in the spectator seats at the sidelines - the assistant coaches in charge of assisting in arranging the competition were all borrowed by Su Bai from Pei Jinan's staff.
Now, everyone is waiting to give their professional evaluations of each of the tryout contestants according to Su Bai's request.
The 400-meter special test at 8:30 a.m. was for the men's 400-meter trial athletes. The trial team members, who originally thought they were just here to run and get an initial result, were stunned for a moment when they arrived at the scene and saw this scene.
"Mom, this doesn't seem to be the same as the 400-meter special test I imagined?"
Qiu Mingjie looked at Su Bai and others in the audience seats, and then looked at the track and the various sports video equipment. It was obvious how unreliable Gu Cheng's previous casual words of "run a bit, leave a result and have an initial record" were.
Qiu Mingjie swallowed his saliva and turned to look at Wu Tian: "Wu Xiaotian, don't you claim to be a gossiper? How come you can't find out anything about today's incident?"
Wu Tian also looked at Qiu Mingjie with a melancholy face: "...When there is something going on, it's Xiaotian and Tian Ge, and when there is nothing going on, it's Wu Xiaotian. Am I just a tool in your eyes?"
The two of them stared at each other fiercely for a few seconds, and then backed off at the same time.
To be honest, Qiu Mingjie is certainly confident. After all, he and Zhuo Yutang are two capable young players in the F Province team, and they were selected to try out with the national team. It is understandable that Qiu Mingjie is overflowing with confidence.
Even though his self-confidence was overflowing, he also knew that among the contestants present, the average talent per player in their respective age groups was among the top 30 in the country.
Everyone was awesome, and in the audience was Su Bai, the most awesome 400-meter athlete in the country...
Qiu Mingjie looked back at his good friend Zhuo Yutang with a miserable face: "...Atang, what should I do? I feel a little scared."
Zhuo Yutang was silent for a few seconds when he saw his cowardly look, then he raised his hand and stroked Qiu Mingjie's head: "Just run as you should. Since Coach Gu said that it is to record the initial results, then it is to record the initial results. Don't panic."
“…”
"oh."
Qiu Mingjie looked at the scene in front of him. Although he had been comforted, he was still very panicked.
Of course Qiu Mingjie was not the only one among the tryout contestants who felt nervous after seeing this scene. However, unlike Qiu Mingjie, they were young and had a calm and steady buddy by their side. So even though they felt a little nervous, they still tried their best to keep calm.
After seeing that the players of the men's team had expired, Su Bai didn't say much. He asked everyone to draw lots to form groups, and then each group took turns warming up and preparing to go on stage.
Compared with the current members of the national team, those players who were called up to the national team for trial training, even Zhang Jiale’s group who is the oldest and has the most competition experience, can actually participate in very few competitions each year. They often train for several months and then go out for a few days to participate in a competition.
When I suddenly saw a test that was different from what I expected, I couldn't help but feel a little panicked.
When the first wave of athletes were warming up, Pei Jinan knew that Su Bai was going to test the 400-meter performance of this group of trial athletes, so he also came to the scene to take a look. He sat in the audience and started chatting with Su Bai in the audience.
"How is it? It's been 10 days. Have you seen any good seedlings?" Pei Jinan looked at the trial athletes on the scene, as if he saw the future pillars of the national team's 400-meter event, with smiles in his eyes.
"Of course." Su Bai said with a smile: "Those who can be selected into the national team are actually good seedlings in the 400-meter event. What we need to do now is to select the best among the best."
Pei Jinan looked at Su Bai, then at the other players on the field: "Come to think of it, when I first heard that your goal was to have all the selected players run 45.30 seconds, my first reaction was not to believe it."
Pei Jinan smiled and shook his head: "But then I thought about it again. Even in our current team, the standard is not too far away from yours. But my mind is still stuck on the 400-meter race last year and the year before."
"I won't say anything else. I am now full of expectations for this group of tryout athletes. I am just waiting for you, Su Bai, to bring me a new group of 400-meter strong athletes!"
After Pei Jinan finished speaking, he glanced at the record books in Su Bai and the coaches' hands, and then he said no more. He just sat in the audience, watching the tryout players who had finished warming up, waiting for them to go on stage and take their respective tests one by one.
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