The final results of the third day of competition at the Doha World Athletics Championships excited countless track and field fans who stayed up late, so much so that they completely forgot that they had not slept all night.
Many forums and small groups related to track and field events, as well as various sports self-media are all busy, with no intention of stopping at all.
After 8 a.m. local time, passers-by who had just woken up from their sleep continued the excitement of a few hours ago. The video clip of Fang Yu taking third place in the 100-meter race had already spread across the Internet by this time. Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi's 400-meter results were also discussed. The women's 20-kilometer race walking team that swept the top three places made people exclaim that the young ladies were amazing.
——"Big news on the third day of the Doha Athletics World Championships, Fang Yu broke the Asian record in the 100m!" 》
——《Historic breakthrough in men's 400m sprint, Zhang Ziyi breaks the national record again with 44.81 seconds! 》
——《Women's 20km race walking won gold, silver and bronze medals, dominating the Doha track and field arena! 》
Although the news releases of various sports media are slower than those of flexible and free self-media, their news content is more detailed, with video and photo records sent back from the scene, and they also interviewed members of the Chinese National Track and Field Team after the game. Therefore, even after the delayed release, these news still have a large audience.
The competition the night before was so crazy and magical that there were many passers-by who did not understand the competition and were just excited. Now, while the media are publishing reports, they are also explaining the results of the competition. This also allows the audience who did not quite understand the competition and the results to have a clearer understanding of the achievements of the national track and field team the day before.
In the forum of the Track and Field Kingdom, in addition to the exciting review of the previous day, people were also discussing the events that will be held today, the fourth day of competition.
Subject: [After a quick look, the focus of today's schedule should be the 110m hurdles preliminaries and the women's 400m semi-finals? 】
Topic content: [I went to the official website of the IAAF to check the schedule. The specific grouping table has not yet been released, but the evening competitions related to the Chinese team are probably the women's javelin qualifying round, the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries and the women's 400-meter semi-finals. 】
Running 400 meters at full speed consumes a lot of the athletes' physical strength and competitive state. Therefore, the men's 400-meter sprint competition was suspended for one day after two consecutive days of competition. The men's 400-meter final was scheduled for the fifth day of competition. The same was true for the women's 400-meter final, which was scheduled for the sixth day of competition.
However, unlike the men's 400m, in the women's 400m sprint, most spectators knew that Chen Yada had little hope of making it to the finals. But this did not prevent everyone from listing the semi-finals of the women's 400m sprint as a must-see event.
There is no need to mention the 110-meter hurdles, which is an event that holds a special place in the eyes of Chinese track and field fans. Moreover, this is the first time that the 110-meter hurdles have entered the World Athletics Championships since the emergence of Cui Luoheng.
Track and field fans are gearing up for the competition, expecting China's 110-meter hurdlers to once again compete with the world's top 110-meter hurdlers.
If Fang Yu's entry into the finals and winning the bronze medal was something that was completely unexpected to the audience, then with Cui Luoheng's current strength, he is fully qualified to compete for the medal in the 110-meter hurdles!
The start of the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries tonight is just the starting point for Cui Luoheng's campaign in the World Athletics Championships for track and field fans. Cui Luoheng's journey is bound to be the journey for the Chinese 110-meter hurdles to shine again in the world.
With such expectations, track and field fans are naturally very excited, waiting for Cui Luoheng to shine in the competition tonight.
In addition to these events, tonight's competition also includes the finals of the women's 3000m and men's 5000m, as well as preliminaries for the 400m hurdles and 800m. However, no athletes have qualified for these events except the women's 3000m, and the two athletes in the women's 3000m have already been eliminated in the preliminaries. Therefore, except for the die-hard fans of the related events, the attention paid to these events is naturally much lower than that of the events related to the Chinese team.
In the forum, track and field fans were chatting about the evening's competition, when suddenly someone posted a new thread -
Subject: [Hahahaha, friends, Erha deleted the donation information! ! ! 】
Subject content: [Screenshot 1.jpg, Screenshot 2.jpg, just saw on Weibo, Erha deleted the automatically verified Weibo he posted when he made a donation early this morning, and then posted a string of crazy expressions with no text. I bet he got his phone back after the game and finally saw what stupid thing he had done!
But everyone was excited about Xiaoyu's game before, so few people noticed that he deleted the donation information...
Hahahahahahahahahaha, I can't take it anymore, I'll just laugh first to show my respect, Qiu Erha is really my source of happiness, this unlucky child is really stupid. 】
The poster of this thread was browsing Weibo when he saw someone laughing. After posting two comparison pictures of Qiu Wen's Weibo before and after, he found out that Qiu Wen had deleted the donation information and was pretending to be an ostrich.
At this moment, the hot search list on Weibo, topics related to the national track and field team, are either exciting topics like Fang Yu and Zhang Ziyi, or the awesome topic of the women's 20km race walking. But there was also a topic about Qiu Erha mixed in. The topic content was #Qiu Wen secretly deleted the donation information#, which can be said to be very direct and rude.
Anyone who came across the topic about Qiu Wen the day before would have seen Qiu Erha’s stupid follow-up if they followed the topic today. So the donation meme, which Qiu Erha could have gotten away with by just pretending to deny it and pretending nothing had happened, was happily all over Weibo today.
#Erha is indeed Erha#
This thought flashed through the minds of many people, and then they followed the topic #Qiu Wen secretly deleted the donation information# and quietly followed Qiu Wen’s Weibo.
Nowadays, various cute pet bloggers have received a lot of attention on the Internet. The pets posted by these cute pet bloggers can often give social animals who are overwhelmed by their studies or ravaged by work a good moment to relax.
As for Qiu Wen...
Those passers-by or zoologists who happily followed Qiu Wen all felt very confident that following Qiu Wen had the same effect as following those cute pet bloggers. Now, whenever they saw Qiu Wen’s Weibo and all the content he posted, they would automatically imagine the image of a Husky in their minds, and then simulate the content posted by Qiu Wen from the perspective of a Husky...
Ah ha, this feeling is very refreshing, and there is a subtle joyful feeling as if I have a human-shaped husky pet.
After Qiu Wen's "continuous efforts", the number of fans on Weibo has jumped to the highest level in the national track and field team. Even in the domestic sports circle, Qiu Wen's number of fans is definitely one of the best. It seems that his Weibo data is even approaching the inflated data of some second-tier stars.
This crazy data also attracted the attention of some domestic entertainment companies, but faced with Qiu Wen's unique image, these entertainment companies could only give up.
In China, the aftermath of the previous day’s incident has not yet subsided on the Internet, but in the Chinese Athletes’ Village in Doha, the track and field teammates are much calmer today.
On the fourth competition day on September 30, there were only three or five players who really had important competition tasks. The rest of the players were mostly recuperating, or their competition tasks had simply ended and they were preparing to return to China early to continue training.
Cui Luoheng got up very early today. He was not nervous, but was looking forward to what Su Bai would say to him today - in the previous few days, every sprint contestant was able to chat with Su Bai alone for a while.
After holding it in for so long, Cui Luoheng has been looking forward to the long-awaited alone time with Su Bai.
However, even though he was thinking this in his heart, Cui Luoheng still had an expressionless look on his face as if he was being cool.
Ever since the "I have poor psychological quality" incident, Cui Luoheng has been very obedient in front of Su Bai and dared not step on Su Bai's sore spots again. However, he was not as lively as Qiu Wen, and did not dare to pester Su Bai with the excuse of poor psychological quality. He only dared to watch carefully from a distance, like a pitiful puppy who had just made his owner happy. He always looked at his master from a distance, watching his master having fun with other dogs, and then he was reluctant to leave and dared not get close to annoy his master again.
His most daring action recently was probably when he took the lead and sat next to Su Bai in the car, right?
Apart from that time, Cui Luoheng racked his brains but could not figure out how to get close to Su Bai. He could only devote all his energy to training - only when he was good enough, would he have the courage and opportunity to confess to Su Bai.
After Cui Luoheng walked to the restaurant on the second floor of the China Building in the Athletes' Village set up by the Chinese team, the fragrance wafting in the air suddenly perked up Cui Luoheng. He sniffed, and then his eyes immediately lit up - it was the seafood porridge cooked by Xiaobai!
In the restaurant, Su Bai thanked the kitchen staff who had given him a place to cook porridge, and then asked them to help deliver two casserole pots of seafood porridge to the table. At this moment, Cui Luoheng had already come over following the smell, staring eagerly at the porridge in Su Bai's hand and the person holding the porridge.
"A Luo." Su Bai smiled and said, "You came at the right time. This is the seafood porridge prepared for you and Yadan."
Cui Luoheng's eyes lit up at first, then he pursed his lips, and there seemed to be a hint of disappointment in his eyes. From Su Bai's perspective, it was like a dog that had its ears erect and was wagging its tail madly at its owner, but suddenly its tail drooped.
Su Bai blinked and deleted the original imagination from his mind. Then after putting down the porridge, he couldn't help but ruffle Cui Luoheng's slightly curly hair again.
"Okay, let's eat. The preliminary group information for the 110-meter hurdles is out. I'll tell you about your preliminary group later."
Su Bai watched as Cui Luoheng, who had been a little dispirited, nodded seriously after he said this, then stared at him for a few seconds, as if he became extremely satisfied.
Su Bai looked at the series of changes in Cui Luoheng in front of him, rubbed his head with amusement, and walked away. He also told the same thing to Chen Yada who walked into the restaurant.
After breakfast, according to Su Bai's prior instructions, Cui Luoheng and Chen Yada took turns to go into the conference room with Su Bai to discuss the game that would take place that evening.
Compared with Chen Yada's women's 400m semi-final, Cui Luoheng's preliminaries were much simpler.
"You know the number of participants in the 110-meter hurdles. There are 5 groups of 40 participants in the 110-meter hurdles today. The final promotion rule is that the top four in each group will advance directly, and the top four of the remaining participants will be selected to advance as replacements."
"According to past statistics, it won't be a problem for either you or Lu Mengfan to advance to the semifinals. As long as you can run under 13.60 seconds, you can basically advance to the semifinals."
"For you, your real test will come tomorrow."
Tomorrow, October 1st, is National Day, and it is also an important moment for the 110m hurdles semi-finals and finals, as well as the men's 400m final.
The semi-finals and finals of the 110-meter hurdles were scheduled on the same competition day, with only about 2 hours between them. The athletes not only had to perform well in the semi-finals to qualify for the finals, but also had to compete with a group of strong opponents in the finals for the final victory.
It can be said that tomorrow's race will be a rather tough test for the 110-meter hurdlers.
Cui Luoheng pursed his lips, and after listening to Su Bai's words, he nodded seriously: "Yes, I know."
After saying this, he didn't seem to know what to say next, but he was reluctant to end the conversation directly, so after a pause, Cui Luoheng forced himself to add: "In tomorrow's game, I will definitely make it to the finals!"
After a pause, Cui Luoheng seemed to realize that this sentence didn't seem quite right, then he pursed his lips and added: "I won't let my guard down in today's game."
After waiting for Cui Luoheng to finish his words, Su Bai couldn't help laughing. He rubbed Cui Luoheng's hair, and looked at Cui Luoheng who was obediently lowering his head to be rubbed by him. Finally, he softened his voice and said, "Don't be nervous. I will be watching you in the audience."
Just this one sentence injected Cui Luoheng with full energy. He nodded with bright eyes, and then left the meeting room with his tail shaking wildly, which was almost visible to the naked eye, looking back every few steps.
Su Bai looked at him as he was reluctant to leave and finally couldn't help laughing.
After Cui Luoheng left the meeting room, Chen Yada came in. Chen Yada's face was still serious today. Although she knew that she was about to face a game that would be difficult for her to win, she still accumulated all her fighting spirit and did not intend to give up easily.
In tonight's women's 400m semi-finals, Chen Yada was placed in the third group of the semi-finals. Similar to the 400m semi-finals the day before, there were also four American players in the women's 400m semi-finals. In the third group of the semi-finals, Chen Yada had to face two strong players from the American team at the same time.
Not only that, this semi-final group also includes strong women's 400m athletes from Poland, Jamaica and Kenya, which is not really a friendly group.
Of course, Chen Yada knew in her heart that no matter which group she was in, it didn’t really make much difference.
Based on past experience, in order to advance from the semifinals to the finals of the women's 400m sprint, she would have to break the 51-second mark at least, and the PB she refreshed in the preliminaries the day before was only 51.47 seconds.
Of course she can try her best, and of course she can do her best to try to break through herself, but this does not mean that she can, within her current strength range, increase her time from 51.47 seconds to under 51 seconds with just one outburst.
Chen Yadan's resolute expression had already explained all her thoughts to Su Bai. She looked at Su Bai seriously and said, "Coach, I know today's game will be difficult, but I will still try and do my best to fight for the hope I want."
Even if this hope is very slim.
Su Bai did not stop Chen Yadan from saying what she wanted to say, and then he said to Chen Yadan seriously: "I know." Then he smiled and said: "Come on, as long as you shed your sweat on this track and do everything you want to do, regardless of the results, all you have to do is to make sure you don't regret it."
In the face of Su Bai's frank support, Chen Yada nodded gratefully - in fact, if she gave her all again in today's competition, it would be very likely that she would over-consume her physical energy. In this World Championships, in addition to the women's 400m event, she also had the mixed men's and women's 4x400m competition task.
Chen Yada knew in her heart that facing a hopeless women's 400m semi-final, the right thing for her to do was to try to run as relaxed as possible in today's race, and then conserve her energy to run an excellent result in the subsequent mixed men's and women's 4x400m relay.
But she was not willing to completely give up the fight with those top opponents in this one game.
And Su Bai did not stop her from doing this...
After taking a deep breath, Chen Yada bowed slightly to Su Bai, and then left the meeting room silently.
As to whether or not to let Chen Yada run freely in today's competition, Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan actually discussed it with Su Bai as soon as they got the grouping list in the morning.
They were also worried that Chen Yada would consume too much energy in the semi-finals today, which would affect the performance of the mixed relay afterwards. After all, from the perspective of coaches, they need to take into account not only the performance of the athletes in individual events, but also the gains and losses in team events.
The balance between the individual competitive interests of the athletes and the interests of team events such as relay races is something that coaches and leaders of the track and field management center must consider.
However, Su Bai still gave them both a reassurance - the national team's sprinters have greatly improved their physical fitness and competitive state compared to the past. It is just a semi-final and will not have much impact on the final relay race.
It was also under Su Bai's consolation that Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan agreed to Chen Yada's approach.
At 4 pm, the national team staff and today's participating players once again took the bus to the Doha Stadium, ready to start participating in the day's competition.
After everyone arrived at the stadium and got off the bus, Cui Luoheng looked back at Su Bai before following the staff to the backcourt athletes' lounge.
Su Bai smiled and waved at him, saying, "A Luo, come on."
"Haha, this kid Cui Luoheng looks tall and strong, and has a very cold demeanor, but I didn't expect that he would stick to you so unexpectedly?" Jiang Wentao watched Cui Luoheng's back as he left and teased with a smile.
Su Bai smiled and nodded: "Well, his mental quality in the previous competition was not very good, I counseled him."
Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan had also heard about this. They smiled and followed Su Bai into the stadium and went around to the Chinese players' seats.
After arriving at the venue, Jiang Wentao said with emotion: "Ah, after so many years, I finally saw two athletes from our Chinese team enter the 110-meter hurdles event of the World Championships."
Once upon a time, in the era of the last generation of hurdle kings, not only the last generation of hurdle kings, but also many 110-meter hurdlers with international standards emerged in China at the same time. Although they failed to reach the level of the hurdle king, at that time, they were all athletes capable of entering the World Championships in the 110-meter hurdles event.
However, for some reason, after the era of the hurdle king came to an end, the once heyday of the 110-meter hurdles also came to an abrupt end without any warning, causing a gap in the level of China's 110-meter hurdles that is hard to recall.
Before Cui Luoheng's sudden emergence, China's 110-meter hurdles had only been independently supported by Lu Mengfan in recent years. Although Zhao Yankai had good qualifications, his results had always been difficult to achieve better breakthroughs.
Just like this World Championships, Zhao Yankai was never able to qualify for the World Championships, but the fact that Cui Luoheng and Lu Mengfan were able to participate in the competition at the same time has already surprised many people for the domestic 110-meter hurdles event.
"This time, it shouldn't be a problem for Xiaolu and Ah Heng to advance to the semi-finals at the same time, right?"
Before the game started, Jiang Wentao, Pei Jinan and Su Bai were chatting and laughing.
Su Bai didn't need to answer this question, Pei Jinan nodded first: "This preliminaries will not be a problem for Xiaolu and Ah Heng."
Although Lu Mengfan's PB is now far behind Cui Luoheng, his condition is actually very stable. Usually, his results are around 13.50 seconds and rarely fall below 13.60 seconds.
Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan were aware of Lu Mengfan's performance, so they were not too worried.
Although Lu Mengfan was coached by Lu Shengbin himself, many of the training plans had been discussed between Lu Shengbin and Su Bai, so he had a good idea of Lu Mengfan's results.
With this relatively relaxed mood, Su Bai and others sat in the audience, waiting calmly for the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries to begin.
In front of the TV, the audience is already in their seats, also looking forward to the exciting events tonight!
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