Among this group of male athletes on trial, the number of those in the 20 to 22 year old age group and those in the 15 to 17 year old age group are the smallest. The reason for the smaller number of the former is not mainly because the athletes are older, but the more important reason is that athletes in this age group have more or less been influenced by the habits of the original 400-meter sprinters in the country.
In fact, when Su Bai was screening, he found that some of the originally talented contestants had no advantage in performance at all. It was obvious that they also had significant problems in their daily training and their own personal will.
After eliminating these players, and then selecting from the remaining talented players those who are both talented enough and passionate about training and competition, the number will naturally be smaller.
As for the trial players aged 15 to 17, they are not the main target group for this selection, so only the most talented players have been screened for now.
After the 400-meter individual test began, the first to go on stage was Zhang Jiale, who was drawn as the first number in the first group. He was also the oldest player selected for the trial team this time, and was close to the upper age limit stipulated by Su Bai. Compared with Li Junhao, the youngest member of the 400-meter team, he was a few days older.
"Oh, I know this Zhang Jiale." Pei Jinan saw that it was Zhang Jiale who took the stage first, and smiled: "The main force of the 400m runner in Province Y was not originally from a professional sports school, and he started formal training relatively late. As a result, he ran better than the players in Group B of the sports school in the Youth Championship."
"The coach at his school is not professional. He is just an amateur with good talent. I wanted to recruit him to the national team, but he got injured last year or the year before last and took a long break, so I put it on hold."
Su Bai listened to Pei Jinan's words, nodded, and turned his attention to Zhang Jiale who was about to start a test run. On the field, Zhang Jiale had already made his ready position, the starter also shouted the ready command, and then the starting gun sounded, and the test run began!
From the moment Zhang Jiale pushed off the starting blocks and started to accelerate forward, Su Bai casually wrote down a string of symbols in the notebook in his hand to facilitate his memory.
When he was memorizing quickly, he would first use these symbol strings to sort them out, and then when he was sorting and entering them later, he would change these symbol strings into normal text.
Looking at Zhang Jiale's condition on the court, Su Bai nodded.
On the track, although there was only one athlete doing the trial run at the same time, and he was the first athlete on the field to do the trial run, and there were so many people around him staring at him nervously and analyzing his condition, Zhang Jiale's condition on the track did not seem to be affected at all.
Although Zhang Jiale is a few days older than Li Junhao, he is not tall, only 1.76cm, 11cm shorter than Li Junhao. Among all the trial team members, his height is also shorter.
However, this does not prevent him from having good performance, speed and endurance.
From his height, we can tell that Zhang Jiale is a cadence-type athlete. His stride is smaller than that of most 400-meter athletes, which is actually a disadvantage on the 400-meter track. A high cadence means that physical energy consumption is greater than other athletes, but he has a high talent for physical endurance. Although his level of intensity is not as extreme as Qiu Wen, he can control his physical energy distribution very well. He rushes when he should, and is not afraid to stop when he should. For Su Bai, Zhang Jiale was originally one of the pre-selected talents he wanted to select into the team.
In general, his original 100-meter foundation was not strong, and there were some problems with his own rhythm. The direction he needed to adjust was also very clear. As long as he could maintain training well, there would be no problem in improving his performance.
In the end, Zhang Jiale's test score was 46.49 seconds, which is considered one of his best personal performance levels.
After Zhang Jiale finished running, Wu Tian had come up to him without knowing when, and asked quietly, "Brother Le, Brother Le, how do you feel?"
Zhang Jiale had just finished running and was panting when he saw Wu Tian. He reached out and stroked Wu Tian's head without hesitation: "Don't be afraid, you are definitely the best paparazzi in our tryout team."
"Wow, Brother Le, why do you call me a paparazzi? Besides, what's there to be proud of being the number one paparazzi?" Wu Tian pried Zhang Jiale's hands apart and wrinkled his nose.
Hearing Wu Tian's question, Zhang Jiale bared his teeth and smiled wickedly: "The paparazzi run fast! Isn't this good?"
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Wu Tian rolled his eyes viciously.
But even though he was talking nonsense, Zhang Jiale still told Wu Tian about his experience on the track: "You are the only one on the track, so it is difficult to control your speed. You don't know if your rhythm is too fast or too slow. And if there is no opponent, it is not easy for you to get into good competitive shape."
"Plus, there are so many big guys watching over us. I'm definitely going to be nervous. The only way is to treat them all as big watermelons in the field and pretend that you are a wild civet running freely in the watermelon field..."
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Wu Tian listened. It seemed quite serious at the beginning, but what about the badger running freely in the watermelon field at the end?
Seeing his confused look, Zhang Jiale chuckled and said, "Anyway, don't take yourself too seriously. Just run hard! I just want you to not panic."
Wu Tian glanced at Zhang Jiale, who was looking serious, with a half-believing look, and then replied "Oh".
When he returned to Qiu Mingjie and Zhuo Yutang, Qiu Mingjie and Zhuo Yutang had complicated expressions on their faces after listening to him and Zhang Jiale's theory about watermelons and badger - do you regard... Boss Su as a watermelon?
Qiu Mingjie blinked, his expression complicated: "Then... Boss Su must be the one with the best-looking watermelon in the watermelon field."
Wu Tian nodded in agreement.
Zhang Jiale, who also rubbed shoulders with Qiu Mingjie and the other person, showed a speechless expression on his face after hearing such a conversation. He deeply felt that there must be a huge gap between his thinking circuits and those of these post-00 players.
Zhang Jiale's test is over, but the other four players in his group are still being tested.
The remaining four players originally saw that Zhang Jiale seemed to be running quite easily, and thought that there was no problem for him to be the first to go on the court. So perhaps they were just a little nervous watching from the sidelines, and everything would be fine once he got on the court.
So, with this mentality, the athletes waited one by one, and then they realized how difficult it was to run in such a field where there was no one cheering, the atmosphere was serious, and there were no opponents to refer to... This feeling was different from the usual 400-meter special training.
Anyway…
The four runners who came on next were all a little bit mentally broken after finishing the race - how different was this from what they had imagined? ? ?
The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th runners after Zhang Jiale ran times of 47.79 seconds, 48.13 seconds, 47.98 seconds and 47.66 seconds respectively. Not to mention the gap between them and Zhang Jiale, even compared with their daily training and test results, there is still a certain distance.
After this series of results came out, the runners who had originally thought that there was nothing too scary about Zhang Jiale after the race started to feel nervous again.
After the first group of contestants finished the test, Wu Tian took the stage in the second group. Before the test began, he tried hard to close his eyes at the starting position, and then kept muttering: "They are all watermelons, they are all watermelons... I am a civet, I am a civet..."
In the audience, Pei Jinan looked at Wu Tian's expression and said with a smile: "This kid seems quite nervous. I don't know what he is mumbling about."
Su Bai opened his eyes and glanced at Wu Tian standing in front of the starting blocks. The distance was too far, so he couldn't hear Wu Tian's muttering, but he smiled and said, "Coach Pei, you can also take a look at this Wu Tian."
"Oh?" Pei Jinan's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard Su Bai's words.
"This Wu Tian is a long jumper by training. He has strong explosive power and has an advantage in absolute speed. Even if he can't run 400 meters, he won't be bad at running 100 meters."
"Hmm? Okay, let's see." Pei Jinan nodded: "But he also has an advantage in running 400 meters, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have chosen him?"
Su Bai smiled when he heard this: "Well, Coach Pei, you will know after you take a look."
As they were talking, Wu Tian on the track had already heard the starting gun and started running. Just as Su Bai said, Wu Tian's starting burst was very strong, but he was originally a long jumper after all, and it had only been 10 days. Although he had mastered the technique of starting on a curve, it was not proficient, and he seemed to be slightly unable to control his body on the curve.
Because of this problem, his original explosive power was lost during the curve running.
However, this explosive power was not completely removed. After entering the straight stage, Wu Tian's previous explosive power was completely released. On the second 100-meter track, he ran with the momentum of a 100-meter sprint.
"Wow, this kid looks a bit like Qiu Wen?" Pei Jinan was surprised when he looked at the track.
Su Bai shook his head: "The one who really looks like Qiu Wen is still behind."
Then, Su Bai said: "In fact, Wu Tian's characteristics are more similar to Zi Yi's."
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Zhang Ziyi?
Pei Jinan looked at Wu Tian who was rushing like a whirlwind on the track in front of him, and really couldn't see how he was similar to Zhang Ziyi. Although Zhang Ziyi was also running very fiercely in the starting stage, he was very strong in rhythm control, and the overall rhythm ups and downs were all very standard 400-meter rhythm control and release.
Su Bai pointed to the track. It was obvious that Wu Tian's physical energy was obviously consumed quickly after his excessive burst because he was not familiar with the 400 meters. However, his state of trial running on the track did not collapse instantly. He was obviously not as relaxed as before, but he stabilized his rhythm. Even though his physical energy was quickly dissipating, he still gritted his teeth and insisted on running the whole course until the final finish line. He made it steadily.
Pei Jinan finally understood what Su Bai meant. Wu Tian did have great explosive power, but his control over his body, including the balance he displayed in the final sprint, was very similar to Zhang Ziyi.
To be honest, this is a contestant who combines the characteristics of Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi... No wonder Su Bai chose this kid!
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