During the men's high jump competition, the men's 400-meter sprint event was also completed in parallel.
Among the men's 400m sprinters participating in the Diamond League Qatar race this time, there is an old rival that Zhang Ziyi is already quite familiar with, Roger from Qatar. Although Roger did not have a particularly outstanding performance last season and failed to rank among the top 20 in the 19th season, as a Qatari athlete, he still got the opportunity to participate in this competition.
In this competition, there were only 7 Diamond League athletes who actually signed up to participate in the men's 400-meter sprint event, but each of them was an elite.
After all, they are all players ranked in the top 20 in the world. Even though Roger was in poor form in the 19th season, his PB was still 44.47 seconds, far exceeding Zhang Ziyi.
As for the remaining seven players, their best results in the 2019 season all surpassed Zhang Ziyi - yes, even though Zhang Ziyi ran a good result of 44.81 seconds in the 2019 season, he was only the last among all the players, and won the invitation to the Diamond League with the 20th place in the annual ranking.
Although he was standing at the starting point of the curve, with opponents in front and behind him whom Zhang Ziyi had never been able to compete with before, he was still quite at ease.
The most exciting thing for him during this winter training cycle was that Su Bai told him that his training status and physical tolerance were better than expected. Although he was still undergoing overload training, he should not worry about leaving too serious health risks.
As an athlete who has grown up on the professional sports path since childhood, he has old injuries on his body. He also knew clearly that he would need to take good care of his body after retirement. More than a year ago, when Su Bai asked him whether he was willing to accept overload training and strive for the Tokyo Olympic Games target results, he was already prepared to retire early after the Tokyo Olympics, or to continue with injuries.
However, during this year's winter training cycle, Su Bai's words gave him new expectations for his future career. Perhaps, he does not need to be forced to end his career early after this year's Tokyo Olympics!
During this year's winter training, he was actually able to feel that his physical condition was indeed better than expected. Even though the training was indeed at an overload level, his overall health condition was still maintained very well.
Good physical condition and goals, training with clear effects, and his own achievements and status over the past year or so, all of these accumulated together have become Zhang Ziyi's confidence.
Now, in addition to being the good-natured captain of the national men's 400-meter sprint team, his temperament, which has been condensed through hard training, has become more and more prominent.
In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Shao Min's eyes were full of joy when he saw Zhang Ziyi in the live broadcast monitoring.
"In last year's competition, Ziyi had already begun to show the demeanor of a famous player. In today's competition in Doha, his calmness and confidence... just like Cui Luoheng in the previous game, this kind of confident momentum and state can naturally give people a sense of security."
"Yes." Li Sen nodded affirmatively. "In fact, in the past two years, whenever Zhang Ziyi played, he never disappointed the audience. No matter what, he would always perform well. I believe that after another winter training cycle, Zhang Ziyi will definitely bring us satisfactory results in today's game!"
Domestic, national track and field team training base
Although most of the athletes in the 400-meter sprint event have been arranged by Su Bai to participate in the competition, younger athletes such as Wu Tian, Zhuo Yutang, Qiu Mingjie and athletes who have changed events such as Hou Mingye have been temporarily arranged by Su Bai to continue training in the national team. At least this year, they will not have many race schedules.
This is actually the norm. There have always been relatively few U16 track and field events in China. The largest one is the joint competition of Group A and Group B of sports schools jointly organized by sports schools across the country, and the other is the Youth Track and Field Championships.
As track and field events have become increasingly popular in the past two years, and this year is the Olympic year, the Athletics Administration Center has also stepped up the grassroots promotion of track and field and the arrangement of events. However, those are only available in the middle of the season, and it is not yet the turn of kids like Qiu Mingjie to play.
However, not having to play doesn't mean they can sit around doing nothing.
In addition to regular training, Su Bai also arranged learning tasks for them. They needed to watch all the games of all the starting players in the national team this season. At the same time, when the training volume was less on Saturdays, they also needed to watch the game and training videos of people like Qiu Wen in the past two years.
Watching the video is not just about watching it, but also about analyzing their strengths and weaknesses in each game, and determining the possible reasons that may have caused this state.
Su Bai certainly didn't expect them to have a profound understanding of the overall technique of the 400-meter sprint at this stage, or to expect them to be able to clearly see Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi's technical problems and directions for improvement.
Su Bai made such an arrangement just to let them understand the purpose of each training they are doing and gradually understand their own technical characteristics through this kind of analysis and learning besides simple obedience training...
Of course, in addition to this, there are a series of purposes to help them learn to read the game and build confidence in the game.
In short, these are all things that young players and players who change events need to study seriously.
Although it was already late at night in China, Su Bai still sat with the team members in the third conference room of the National Track and Field Team Training Base, watching the live broadcast of the Diamond League Qatar Station on the projection screen.
Qiu Mingjie and his friends are at an age where they are full of energy and are not afraid of staying up late. However, they train very hard during the day and have developed a good biological clock. After staying up all night, Qiu Mingjie is really a little sleepy at this moment.
His brain doesn't work well when he's sleepy, and I don't know how much of tonight's game he paid attention to. However, he was still happily drawing on the notebook in his hand, and he looked like he was studying very seriously and hard.
Wu Tian, who was standing beside him, turned his head and glanced at the notebook in Qiu Mingjie's hand, then smiled and said, "Qiu Xiaojie, your handwriting is so bad...what did you write?"
Hearing Wu Tian's whisper, Zhuo Yutang turned his head and glanced, then saw that although the names of Zhang Ziyi and several of his other opponents were written on Qiu Mingjie's notebook, the game had not yet started, so the part for officially recording the experience of the game was naturally blank.
In addition, there are some other random contents written on the page, such as 'Oh no, the coach took us to watch the game together. How can I pretend that I know everything? Waiting online, urgent! '
_(:3)∠)_
Qiu Mingjie knew that when he was extremely sleepy, he would just write down anything in his notebook. He originally thought it was nothing, but after Zhuo Yutang looked at it, he whispered to him, "The coach will ask you to submit the recorded content to him later. What will you do?"
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Little Qiu Mingjie, who had lost his brain due to being too sleepy, shuddered all over and turned the page obediently. After he wrote down the names of Zhang Ziyi and all the contestants in the notebook in his hand, the 400-meter sprint race that was being broadcast live was about to begin.
Qiu Mingjie secretly glanced at the direction where Su Bai was sitting. In Su Bai's row, other coaches of the team's 400-meter event were also sitting obediently behind Su Bai, doing the same homework as them.
Qiu Mingjie felt that his coach seemed to glance back at him with a smile in his eyes, but because the projector was on and the lights in the conference room were dim, he didn't know if it was his illusion.
Anyway, the game started and he focused his attention seriously on the projection screen in front of him.
The moment Zhang Ziyi heard the starting gun, he knew clearly that he was in good shape today.
In today's race, he took only 0.146 seconds to start from the curve, a speed that many players may not be able to achieve in major competitions. From the start, he could feel more clearly that his control over his body had become increasingly subtle and delicate.
In this year's winter training, in addition to increasing the load of training on physical fitness, physical strength and other qualities, Su Bai's training for him focused on "body control" and details.
After all, controlling rhythm is his strong point. He had already broken and reorganized his own rhythm last year. This year, what he needs to do is to go deeper.
Although Qiu Wen and Li Junhao could bring him pressure during the team training before, the team's competitions and his familiarity with both Qiu Wen and Li Junhao meant that he was unable to fully experience the feeling of further improving his body control ability in official competitions.
At this moment, he was running on the field, and his mind was even able to think about the subtle needs of his leg braking and muscle strength, including the fragmentary adjustments to his own rhythm, which were much more relaxed...
These thoughts briefly flashed through Zhang Ziyi's mind, and then he completely shook them off and devoted himself to immersing himself in this game, which made him feel exceptionally good.
In this game, American 400m star Barnes was also present. He originally thought that victory in this Diamond League at the beginning of the season would be in his hands, but he never expected that the Chinese player would firmly hold the starting advantage position in the fifth lane from the start, and never gave him a chance to overtake in the fourth lane.
Barnes originally thought that it might be because he did not use his full strength in the first half of the race - after all, one of his biggest advantages is his explosive pursuit of the runners in front of him during the initial stage of the race.
But until the last straight section, Barnes had already seen from the corner of his eye that the one rushing in the front on the last section was still this Chinese Zhang...
Are you kidding?
This Chinese Zhang just barely qualified for the Diamond League by ranking 20th, right? His PB is only 44.81 seconds. In this competition, whose PB is not better than that of China's Zhang?
But this guy, who was participating in the Diamond League for the first time, really maintained his lead over him until now... oh no, until the last moment? !
Domestically, on the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were still a little dazed until they saw Zhang Ziyi cross the finish line in first place.
What is happening?
Zhang Ziyi participated in the 400-meter sprint event of the Diamond League for the first time, and in the first game... he won the championship? !
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