When Qiu Wen knew that Su Bai said he would analyze the opponent for them, he showed some excitement on his face: "Xiao Bai, can you teach us some secrets so that we can run under 45 seconds right away?!"
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Just after Su Bai finished handing out the materials, he heard Qiu Wen's voice, and then he looked at him and raised his eyebrows.
After Qiu Wen finished speaking, he also found that in the conference room, except for him, the three people all looked at him. He coughed dryly, then scratched his head with a silly smile.
"Ahem, well, Xiaobai, Lao Zhang, and Ah Hao, please don't misunderstand me. I just think the atmosphere is too tense and I want to liven it up."
Li Junhao looked at Qiu Wen expressionlessly, and wanted to tell him: The tone of your words just now was really, really, really true.
With Qiu Wen's interjection, the atmosphere, which was originally tense after taking the information from Su Bai, completely changed.
When Zhang Ziyi, Li Junhao and Qiu Wen were looking down at the information, Su Bai glanced in the direction of Qiu Wen. Soon, Qiu Wen, who was extremely perceptive at this time, raised his head curiously. After seeing Su Bai, he grinned at him.
"What's wrong, Xiaobai?"
Qiu Wen still looks full of energy.
Su Bai looked at him calmly, then shook his head: "It's okay."
It is true that Zhang Ziyi's desire to win, fighting spirit and competitive state have been rising in recent times, but each individual's control over emotions and state is limited. In Su Bai's opinion, Zhang Ziyi's state has reached the critical point of his control. The preliminaries are about to begin, and the atmosphere of this kind of competition is about to come, which makes Zhang Ziyi's state a little over the line.
It's not that this is a bad thing, but it's a little early - with Zhang Ziyi's controlled competitive state, he would be able to perform well enough in the preliminaries. If he completely explodes in the preliminaries, then in the subsequent 400m individual semi-finals, it would be much more difficult for him to regain momentum and impact the finals.
Li Junhao is in a similar situation. He has a stubborn temper and doesn't like to express his inner state. But Su Bai has a system after all, and he can still discover subtle differences in Li Junhao's expression through fluctuations in system data.
There is no doubt that he also looked a little nervous.
The reason for this is very simple. Li Junhao's current running method is not the same as in the past. He has not yet completely mastered his current controlled flow running method. If he wants to successfully run out of that controlled rhythm in the game, he needs a high degree of concentration and a certain amount of luck. Because of this, Li Junhao's state is also a little nervous.
Among the few people, Qiu Wen was the most relaxed. It was Qiu Wen's unintentional action just now that made Zhang Ziyi and Li Junhao relax before Su Bai tried to ease the atmosphere.
After observing that Zhang Ziyi and Li Junhao had relaxed, Su Bai stopped talking nonsense. He waited patiently for the three to finish reading the materials, and then analyzed the situation of the preliminary round with them.
The information distributed to the three people included the group stage information of the three people, as well as the opponents they each needed to face.
Although top events such as the World Championships and the Olympics follow the principle of free randomness when grouping, there is an additional condition intervening in the random conditions - athletes from the same country must be assigned to different preliminary groups in the preliminaries.
This intervention condition is mainly intended to prevent all the strong players of a country from being gathered in the same group, which might affect the fairness and excitement of the competition.
There are a total of 48 athletes in the men's 400m event at this World Championships, of which 42 have met the normal standards, and the other 6 have qualified by winning the Continental Athletics Championships or world rankings.
Among the 48-man roster, Zhang Ziyi and the other three, to be frank, is the only one whose PB score can be ranked in the middle, and even in the lower middle. Qiu Wen and Li Junhao can only be ranked in the bottom 15.
There are 18 qualifying spots for the 400m preliminaries. In order to squeeze into the top 18 from the 48-person list, this basically means that Zhang Ziyi and the other two need to be in the top 20 in the world - of course, this does not mean that the three of them need to really be able to run a 400m sprint result that is among the top 18 in the world, but that they need to perform their best in this preliminaries.
"I have listed all the data very clearly in the materials I gave you." Su Bai said, and then suddenly turned the materials in his hand over and placed them on the table with the back facing up: "I gave you this data not to ask you to be vigilant, but to tell you not to feel pressured."
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Su Bai's words made Qiu Wen stunned.
"This stadium is one of the world's top track and field venues. Now you have the opportunity to compete with dozens of the world's top athletes. I have also walked on this track in my dreams."
The calm content was told from Su Bai's mouth.
This time, not only Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi and Li Junhao were also stunned. Then they saw the 'Coach Su Bai' who had never shown his vulnerable side before, talking about his dream that had never been fulfilled.
Yes.
Su Bai retired from the track and field arena at the beginning of last year. In total, it has only been two years since he retired from the arena.
The World Championships track and the Olympic track have the same weight in the hearts of track and field athletes - they are both the world's top track and field venues and the dreams that countless track and field athletes cannot fulfill.
Including Su Bai.
"I know that since last year's Asian Games, in the previous competitions, in addition to your own pursuits, you also had tasks from the General Administration of Sport and the Athletics Center. But this time is different. I hope you can put aside such burdens, enjoy this competition more purely, integrate yourself into the competition better, and enjoy a pure pursuit of speed and dreams."
Su Bai has never been the type to give people chicken soup for the soul. No matter whether it was Zhang Ziyi, Li Junhao or Qiu Wen, when facing Su Bai as a coach, all they heard were his various data and technical analysis. This was the first time they heard such un-"coach" words from him.
These words sounded a little inappropriate coming from Su Bai's mouth, but the feeling they gave to Zhang Ziyi and others undoubtedly touched them.
The stadium and track.
This is what they are exposed to day after day. They carry the halo of genius, the eager expectations of the national team and track and field fans, and all kinds of honors and responsibilities to win glory for the country.
But, apart from the halos and responsibilities, they love this track.
Just as Su Bai said, putting aside all other thoughts and simply thinking about being able to compete with the world's top players in this game, the excitement and passion in their hearts naturally surged.
“Run this race well and don’t let yourself regret it afterward.”
This is the last sentence of Su’s Chicken Soup.
Soon, Su Bai changed the topic and said, "Of course, telling you not to participate in the competition under pressure does not mean that you should ignore your opponents." As he spoke, Su Bai turned over the materials in front of him again and began to explain to the three people in front of him about the opponents they would encounter in the group preliminaries.
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Zhang Ziyi and the other three had not yet recovered from their previous daze and excitement, and as a result, Chicken Soup Master Su Bai quickly turned back into 'Coach Su Bai' mode.
But just as Su Bai said - their strength in this game is hovering on the edge of being eliminated in the first round of the preliminaries, so of course they have to observe their opponents carefully.
In the 400m group competition, Qiu Wen, Li Junhao, Zhang Ziyi and three others were arranged in the 1st, 4th and 6th preliminary groups respectively. Among them, Qiu Wen's first preliminary group had many opponents who could be called "old acquaintances".
Roger, a player from Qatar, and Mike Knight, a player from Bahrain, were assigned to the first group of preliminaries and will compete with Qiu Wen for the qualification to advance to the first group of the 400m preliminaries of this World Championships.
Although Roger and Mike Knight have both suffered at the hands of Qiu Wen, Qiu Wen cannot catch up with them in terms of PB results. Roger and Mike Knight's PBs are 44.47 and 44.62 respectively. However, Roger has been injured and in poor condition in the past two seasons, and Mike Knight has not performed particularly well, so his SBs are only 45.01 and 45.29.
Perhaps Qiu Wen really has a kind of lucky halo around him. Compared with the group of Zhang Ziyi and Li Junhao, in the first preliminaries group where Qiu Wen is located, although the best player of the season sb also reached 44.40 seconds, among the remaining 6 opponents, only one had an sb within 45 seconds. Qiu Wen's sb of 45.17 seconds can actually rank fifth in this group.
Not only that, the players who are stronger than him only have 0.0x seconds more than Qiu Wen. At least judging from the status of this season, the gap in strength between these players and Qiu Wen is not that big.
The most exaggerated thing is that Qiu Wen was arranged to be in the ninth lane in the first group of preliminaries.
In the morning, when Su Bai received the group list and lane arrangement from Jiang Wentao, he couldn't help but ask, how much magic potion did Qiu Wen feed the computer responsible for grouping?
Compared with the grouping of Li Junhao and Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen's group and his order can be said to be quite friendly.
Taking Li Junhao's group as an example, the strongest American athlete had a time of 43.45 seconds, and the second-ranked Jamaican athlete also had a time of 44.83 seconds.
Although there are two negligible substitutes in this group of players, all the remaining players have a SB that exceeds Li Junhao. His PB of 45.25 seconds can only suppress the two substitutes in this group.
The sixth group of the preliminaries where Zhang Ziyi was located was also not easy. Counting by sb, his time of 44.93 could rank among the top three in the group, but if counted by pb, his result could only fall to sixth. However, among the three players in the group, according to his performance this season, Zhang Ziyi should be the one with the best hope of advancing among the three.
Among the three, the most dangerous one is obviously Li Junhao, while the most difficult to judge is Qiu Wen, who does not play by the rules on the court and can disrupt the opponent's rhythm and imbalance in minutes.
After clarifying the names of the players in the three groups, Su Bai directly pulled out the performance status icons of these players, and told Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi, and Li Junhao one by one about the players he had marked as dangerous and in need of attention.
At the same time, Mike Knight from the Bahrain team also received his preliminary group. After seeing the name of a player in the same group, he felt dizzy - damn it, why was he put in the same group with that 'Qiu'?
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