Almost everyone's first reaction when hearing the news that all the 400m athletes of the S Province Track and Field Team advanced to the finals was disbelief. After all, the S Province Track and Field Team is not a team with strong strength in the 400m event. The most famous athlete in the 400m event, Qiu Wen, only emerged this year.
As for the other two athletes, probably only those veteran 400-meter enthusiasts will have an impression of these two people in their minds.
Hu Li and Qiu Wen are two athletes whose individual PBs have already broken the 48-second barrier. They also have some experience in entering the Grand Prix 400m finals. However, before that, their rankings in the finals were relatively low, and they basically advanced by the skin of their teeth.
This time is different.
After Qiu Wen won the first place in the preliminaries with a score of 47.49, Hu Li and Zhang Wei ranked third and fourth respectively.
Among them, Zhang Wei ranked third with a score of 47.56, and Hu Li scored 47.60. While both advanced to the finals, they also broke their own career best results.
Before the game, those 400-meter runners who thought Zhang Wei and Hu Li were talking nonsense during the warm-up phase were now all confused - they had agreed that they were just talking nonsense, so was their coach just imagining things?
These old friends who had known Hu Li and Zhang Wei for many years almost wanted to rush up to them and ask them what kind of magical training methods their coaches had used to transform them so completely in just one month.
In the audience, many people were still saying before the game that the 400-meter coach of the S Province Track and Field Team would not be able to help Zhang Wei and Hu Li achieve good results in the short term. Now, these audience members covered their faces in a daze, feeling two loud slapping sounds and their faces were a little painful.
However, although it hurt, what arose in the minds of these spectators was not the embarrassment of being slapped in the face, but the surprise brought to them by the leap-forward improvement in the 400-meter strength of the S Province Track and Field Team.
Just one month!
Even if we make a more generous calculation and include the time that Qiu Wen's new coach took over, the total time is only three months.
Has the S Province Track and Field Team changed from last year when Hu Li and Zhang Wei could occasionally make it to the 400m finals by chance to a dominant and powerful team that can occupy 3 of the top 4 seats in the 400m finals?
In the audience, many track and field fans looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally, someone asked, "By the way, what's the name of the new coach of the S Province track and field team? I remember there seems to be a white character in his name?"
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Track and field fans in the audience looked at each other in bewilderment. On the Internet, in the Track and Field Kingdom Forum, because the result of the 400-meter preliminary round was so unexpected, this preliminary result was quickly posted on the forum.
Subject: [Does anyone remember Qiu Wen’s previous coach? This big guy is really awesome, a modern-day Bole! 】
Topic content: [I won’t say anything else. Today is the National Track and Field Grand Prix H City leg. The preliminaries for the 400m event have just ended and the list of participants for the final has been announced. I will show the list of participants for those friends who haven’t watched the competition so that they will understand what it means. (List as shown)]
In the title of this post, Qiu Wen's name has been somewhat influential in recent months. Seeing what the poster said, many people clicked in to take a look - and then couldn't leave.
3l: [……? ? ? What's the meaning? ? Is the 400m event of the S Province Track and Field Team so awesome? Three out of the top four? ? ! Then why was there no sound before Qiu Wen came out? 】
7l: [Brothers on the 3rd floor, there is no doubt that the S Province Track and Field Team is famous for their high jump event. Wang Shen came from their team. In addition, their women's hammer throw event is very good. Liu Jiaonan is from the S Province Track and Field Team. In addition, there seem to be several good seedlings in the men's and women's marathon teams and the women's javelin team. As for the 400-meter race, there was basically no such team before today. 】
10l: [What the 7th floor said is right. I have always been paying close attention to the 400m event. Originally, the S Province Track and Field Team had only two athletes, Zhang Wei and Hu Li, in the men's 400m. Before today, their individual PBs had never reached the national athlete standard of 47.60 seconds. Today, they both refreshed their individual PBs. 】
After a discussion in the forum post, everyone finally confirmed that before this, the S Province Track and Field Team did not have any famous athletes in the 400-meter event, nor did it have any outstanding talent reserves.
At this point in the discussion, the original discussion posts about Qiu Wen and Su Bai in the forum were dug up again. It had only been two or three months, and the track and field fans in the forum had an illusion that they were in another world - in just two or three months, this Su Bai not only brought out Qiu Wen, but also brought out the two original athletes from the S Province Track and Field Team?
This preliminary round... is it a reflection of their true strength, or just a strange coincidence?
If it's real strength...
The same thought flashed through everyone’s mind – in the 400-meter event, perhaps an epoch-making coach will make his debut!
In the S Province Track and Field Team, when the H City preliminaries ended, He Yishen and Zhao Heping also received the news at the first time. After answering the phone and listening to the report from the team leader of this competition, the expressions on He Yishen and Zhao Heping's faces were not very calm.
They already knew that Qiu Wen would achieve good results, but to be honest, they still felt that the competition goals set by Su Bai for Hu Li and Zhang Wei were a bit unrealistic. After all, if Hu Li and Zhang Wei wanted to consistently achieve results above 47.60 seconds, then their personal PBs must have already surpassed 47.60 seconds and reached a higher level.
Although the stage report test Su Bai gave them half a month ago showed that they both had the ability to run close to 47.60 seconds at that time, but in the following half month, can Hu Li and Zhang Wei really make the same progress as in the previous half month?
As experienced coaches, He Yishen and Zhao Heping both have their own experience-based judgment on the extent of improvement in athletes' performance.
From their experience, they all believe that it is almost impossible to achieve significant performance improvements for sprinters in a short period of time.
But now, this impossible thing was happening nakedly before their eyes.
Zhao Heping thought about it and came up with only one possibility: "...sufficient accumulation leads to a sudden explosion."
When He Yishen heard these four words, he also nodded.
An athlete's performance improvement will follow a certain trajectory.
For example, Qiu Wen's performance improved rapidly because he already had a training foundation in 100 meters and 200 meters, plus his own talent in the 400-meter event. After Su Bai taught him rhythm control techniques and training, his 400-meter results continued to break through rapidly in the early stages.
As for Hu Li and Zhang Wei... He Yishen and Zhao Heping guessed that the two of them had actually laid a good foundation for themselves during their years of training, but they both must have significant flaws in the 400-meter event, either from a technical point of view or in terms of their personal physical characteristics. Su Bai must have discovered these flaws of theirs, and over the past month, he improved these flaws through continuous training and adjustments, which allowed the two of them to usher in a period of rapid performance improvement.
Only such reasons and justifications can reasonably explain why Hu Li and Zhang Wei, whose previous performance had been stagnant, have achieved such great progress in just one month.
After thinking this through, Zhao Heping couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "I am sorry for these two players."
Hearing Zhao Heping's sigh, He Yishen patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, Lao Zhao, the domestic coaching experience in the 400-meter event is insufficient. Not to mention you, when Wu Shengping and the others came before, didn't anyone notice anything wrong?"
At this point, He Yishen said with emotion: "Now they just met Xiaobai, so they are lucky."
Zhao Heping did not refute He Yishen's words - yes, if they were not lucky, how could they have met Su Bai and then been reborn in the 400-meter event?
"I don't know what kind of results they can achieve in the 400m final this afternoon." He Yishen thought about the afternoon race and said, "It's a pity that the Grand Prix in China is not broadcast live, so I won't be able to see their performance live."
Zhao Heping thought of the goal Su Bai had set for Qiu Wen, and also thought of the final rankings of Qiu Wen and the other two in the morning preliminaries. He said, "I think 1st, 3rd, and 4th place doesn't sound very satisfying. Who knows, maybe our team can also take the top three in the 400-meter event this afternoon?"
"Hahahaha, that's a great idea! If I really get this result, once the rankings are announced, I'll turn around and apply for extra bonuses for Xiaobai and the others!"
In the office, He Yishen and Zhao Heping burst into laughter. They both knew that this was just a joke at the moment. Even though this was just a domestic track and field Grand Prix race, it was not so easy to take the top three.
In H City, during the lunch break at noon, in order to reward the three players who performed well in the preliminaries, Su Bai once again borrowed the kitchen of the designated hotel and personally prepared nutritious meals for Qiu Wen, Hu Li, and Zhang Wei.
When Su Bai brought the nutritious meal to the restaurant, two old friends, Hu Li and Zhang Wei, were sitting with them. They were amazed at the rapid improvement in their grades and also got to know Qiu Wen.
When Su Bai came out with lunch for four people, Zhang Wei, Hu Li and Qiu Wen's eyes immediately lit up, while the other two 400-meter athletes sitting opposite them didn't know what was going on for a while.
"Huh? What's that smell? It smells so good?"
Because several people were chatting, they occupied a round table. When Su Bai came out, he asked the hotel waiter to put the prepared nutritious meals directly on the round table.
This nutritious meal was prepared for four people, because Qiu Wen and other two players would play in the afternoon match, Su Bai did not prepare pork rib soup like last time. This time, Su Bai prepared a large portion of fresh fish soup for each person. The soup was milky white and mellow, and the staple food was freshly steamed sweet and soft corn. It was also served with a bowl of handmade fish noodles prepared in the kitchen. In addition, kiwi fruit and separate fresh orange juice were prepared on the table as nutritional supplements after the meal.
Because athletes should not eat too much before the game, the food prepared by Su Bai was really ordinary in portion compared to the athletes' big appetite. He did not expect that after he came out, there would be other athletes at the table.
Looking at the other two athletes at the table, Su Bai was stunned for a moment, then apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you had friends here, so I didn't prepare more food."
The two athletes present also felt embarrassed: "No, no, we just came here to chat, now it's time to go back to our seats and eat."
As they spoke, the two old friends of Hu Li and Zhang Wei stood up from their seats reluctantly and left the area shrouded in fragrance with great reluctance.
[Ahhhhh!] What’s the matter with the food on Lao Hu and Lao Zhang’s table? Why does it smell so good? ! 】
[When the three guys saw the food on the table, their eyes turned green! That bowl of fish soup smelled so intoxicating, its flavor was drilling into my nose! It smells so damn good. Coach, I want to drink fish soup too! 】
【……】
[Oh, wait, that guy who looks younger than them seems to be Lao Hu and his team’s coach, the one called Su Bai? 】
[I seem to have heard that Su Bai is also the kitchen chef of their S Province Track and Field Team. He just said that he prepared these meals... So did he prepare these side dishes specifically for Lao Hu and the other three? 】
[…That’s it, we can’t have that soup anymore.] 】
The two athletes who were reluctant to leave Su Bai's table whispered to each other, then smelled the delicious smell of fish soup wafting from the direction of Su Bai's table. After listening to the athletes from other tables asking the waiter in vain, they finally confirmed that the food on that table was indeed prepared by Su Bai for Hu Li and the others.
One of the athletes sighed: "Damn, Lao Hu and the others are so lucky, right? Not only can the new coach help them improve their performance, but he can also cook such delicious food for them?"
"Hey, such a good coach, I want to play with him too."
Hu Li, Zhang Wei and the others didn't know that in just a lunch time, the three of them and their coach Su Bai became famous among the athletes again.
But even if they knew, they didn't have the time to pay attention to it for the time being.
At the dinner table, Hu Li, Zhang Wei and Qiu Wen happily ate the nutritious meal prepared by Su Bai for them. After digesting the delicious meal, Su Bai gently put down his chopsticks.
The three people who felt Su Bai's gaze quickly raised their heads and looked in the direction of Su Bai.
Looking at the three players in front of him, Su Bai did not put any extra pressure on them this time. He just said in a calm tone: "Remember the feeling of training during this period of time. Work hard and don't let your efforts go to waste."
Hearing Su Bai's words, Qiu Wen and the other two straightened their backs solemnly and nodded: "Yes, we understand!"
At 4:20 p.m., with about 20 minutes left before the men's 400-meter sprint final, all the athletes participating in the final were doing their final warm-ups.
On the Internet, in the Track and Field Kingdom Forum, because of the outstanding performance of Qiu Wen and other three people from the S Province Track and Field Team in the 400m event in the morning, the attention of many people in the forum was drawn to the upcoming 400m final event.
Topic: [After the preliminaries, in this afternoon's final, can the three-man team of the S Province Track and Field Team in the 400m event create another miracle? 】
Topic post: [I’ll make a 50-cent bet. I think the afternoon finals might be more amazing than the morning ones? Hahahaha. 】
The author of this topic post is obviously joking. After all, in the morning, Qiu Wen and three other players entered the finals at the same time, and three players from the same team occupied the top four places in the 400m preliminaries. This was already amazing enough. How much more amazing could the final in the afternoon be?
7l: [I bet 50 cents. The overall ranking probably won’t be able to go higher than the preliminaries. Zhang Wei and Hu Li’s results have improved, but the stability of their condition is still unknown. Considering their previous results, there may be a wave of fluctuations. But to be honest, after one month of training, it is already very good to have a result like the preliminaries. 】
10l: [What the brother on the 7th floor said makes sense. Although I also want to see a miracle happen, isn’t it true that miracles are only called miracles when they rarely happen? However, I am now very optimistic about the future performance of the S Province Track and Field Team in the 400m event. Coach Su Bai seems to be really capable. As long as they maintain this state, Qiu Wen can be expected to run under 47 seconds at any time in the afternoon. The results of Zhang Wei and Hu Li should also have considerable improvement. 】
17l: [Hahaha, the brothers in front have discussed it very seriously, so I won’t say much. It’s just a 50-cent bet, right? I followed the original poster's note and hope that in the final soon, the S Province Track and Field Team can create another miracle! 】
Not only on the Internet, but also in the audience seats at the finals, the audience was eagerly waiting for the start of the game, feeling nervous and expectant.
Many forum users were also chatting and discussing the final later, and whether the S Province Track and Field Team could once again achieve the record of having three members enter the top four at the same time.
For those track and field enthusiasts who rushed to the scene to watch the game, they are all loyal track and field fans, and of course they have a pure love for the event of sprinting in their hearts.
The results of the preliminaries in the morning have already given them a big miracle with the S Province Track and Field Team. It would be a lie to say that anyone does not expect a miracle to happen again. However, they all have a string called "reason" in their minds, which tells them that it is normal for athletes' performance to fluctuate according to the status of each game. No athlete can guarantee that they will run in their best condition and best results in every game.
So, if the three members of the S Province Track and Field Team performed well in the morning, it would be normal for the results of the afternoon final to fluctuate within a healthy range...
While these track and field enthusiasts were desperately telling themselves to stay calm, they were actually secretly looking forward to seeing a fantastic performance from the athletes in the final later.
When the time came to 4:30, all the finalists of the 400-meter event appeared on the stage. Among them, Qiu Wen, as the overall ranking first in the morning preliminaries, was arranged in the 5th track in the final. Hu Li and Zhang Wei were in the 3rd and 6th tracks respectively.
In the fourth track is Guo Dun, a member of the B City Track and Field Team like Zhang Ziyi. In the preliminaries this morning, he won the second place in the overall ranking with a time of 47.52 seconds.
During the morning preliminaries, he thought that Zhang Ziyi was not there, and with his strength, it would be a piece of cake for him to get the first place in the preliminaries. However, he did not expect Qiu Wen to show up halfway through.
He had never met Qiu Wen in the previous competitions. He only knew that he was a new 400-meter athlete who had recently emerged in China, so he didn't take him too seriously.
After missing out on the first place in the preliminaries by just 0.03 seconds, Guo Dun did not take it too seriously. In his opinion, Qiu Wen, whose personal PB has not yet broken 47 seconds, would not be his opponent. As for Zhang Wei and Hu Li, who ranked after him, he cared even less.
After all the contestants came on the field, each of them carefully adjusted their starting blocks. Qiu Wen and others also twisted their bodies and patted the muscles on their legs to make themselves as tight and tense as possible.
In the audience seats, Su Bai was calmly watching everything on the field. For today's game, actually, the preliminary results of Hu Li and Zhang Wei in the morning had allowed him to successfully complete his assessment. However, after a month of training, for Su Bai, it was already expected that Hu Li and Zhang Wei could run out results that would allow him to pass the assessment. For now, it was more important for them to give full play to their abilities in the actual competition.
On the side, the leader of the S Province Track and Field Team was also staring at the track. He smiled and asked Su Bai, "Xiao Bai, what do you think the three of them will achieve in a while?"
Hearing this, Su Bai thought carefully about the contestants in this final that he had studied, and then said seriously: "If everything goes well, they should be in the top three."
"Oh... the top three..." Upon hearing this, the team leader Hu Shaowen nodded calmly. Then, after realizing what Su Bai said, he looked at Su Bai in shock: "Huh?! Wait... Xiaobai, what did you say?!"
After seeing Hu Shaowen's reaction, Su Bai still nodded very seriously: "If everything goes well, the three of them should be in the top three."
Before Hu Shaowen could say anything else, the on-site broadcast announced that the competition was about to begin.
On the track, all the athletes squatted on their starting blocks. When the voice of "on your marks" sounded in the broadcast, the athletes quickly supported themselves with their hands on the ground, raised their hips, and got into the standard ready posture.
When the preparation sounded, the athletes' spirits were already focused to the peak, and then, soon there was a "bang" of a gunshot - the starting gun had been fired, and the competition officially began!
The sound of the starting gun made all the athletes in front of the starting line step on the starting blocks and rush forward like an arrow!
Among the eight finalists, Qiu Wen had the fastest reaction time to the gunshot, with a reaction time of only 0.138 seconds. His right foot stepped on the starting block with a powerful force, which quickly sent him onto the track.
In the process of pushing off the ground forcefully in the first three steps, the powerful ground pushing action will provide the athletes with the driving force for the starting phase, allowing them to quickly enter a fast forward sprint state from a stationary speed of 0.
During this period of time, Qiu Wen has added a lot of strength application techniques and ground-pushing techniques to his training, which has made him better at mastering and exerting the explosive power in his body than before.
With strong explosive power, excellent reaction speed and good curve starting technique, Qiu Wen's body tilted slightly towards the center of gravity of the inner circle, but his speed was not much slower than his previous straight start speed.
His sharp speed was like an arrow that could draw an arc. At the starting curve, he cut through all obstacles and rushed forward like an arrow!
Hu Li, who was in the third track, gave an excellent starting reaction at this stage because of his excellent cornering skills and equally outstanding explosive power. Although the centrifugal force on the curve would have a certain impact on him, he relied on his excellent cornering skills, like a scimitar, and attacked quickly in an arc on this track!
Guo Dun, who was sandwiched between Qiu Wen and Hu Li, also had a fast reaction at the start. He was not an absolutely fast athlete, but as one of the better 400m athletes in China, his performance at the start has always been remarkable. But today, on the track at this moment, from the moment he started, he clearly felt the pressure from both sides.
Especially Qiu Wen on his right. The wind-like starting speed, the sharp impact that broke through everything, and the feeling of moving forward on the track all made his mind stagnate and also suffered a certain impact on the starting speed.
And it was not just Qiu Wen. Hu Li on his left, the athlete whom he had originally ignored, also felt a sense of pressure approaching him after starting from the bend.
Guo Dun had not felt this kind of oppressive feeling for a long time. He even felt that this was not a game in which he could have an absolute advantage. He seemed to be competing with two Zhang Ziyi who were at full strength!
How is this possible? !
Among all the players present, he should be the one with the highest personal PB!
He should be the strongest among all the contestants here!
But what is the situation now?
Why is the distance between Qiu Wen and him widening, while the distance between him and the player behind him is shortening? !
Guo Dun's spirit was somewhat impacted, which made his performance in the first 200 meters not very good. Hu Li even gradually surpassed him, and he could only start a tug of war with Hu Li on the track.
What really made him lose his temper was that while he and Hu Li were fighting, another player on the sixth track was controlling the pace and closing the distance between them.
The runners on the sixth, seventh and eighth tracks had fallen behind in the 200-meter track ahead, but at this moment, Zhang Wei on the sixth track had surpassed them without them noticing!
This discovery made Guo Dun's mind collapse. He began to try to claw back his advantageous ranking in the third 100-meter track. However, in the third 100-meter stage, the high-speed running had already made his body exhausted. The hypoxia and fatigue caused by the accumulation of lactic acid are difficult even for athletes to resist. With his mentality collapsed, he forced to speed up, which made the lactic acid accumulate faster and the fatigue became stronger.
For athletes in a sprint race, once their rhythm starts to break down, it means the race is out of control.
Guo Dun failed to maintain his advantage from the beginning. In the end, he watched Zhang Wei in the sixth track completely surpass him, and Hu Li, who was originally in a tug of war with him, turned around and surpassed him by one body length. In the last 100-meter stage, even if he sprinted with all his strength, his physical fatigue and the collapse of his rhythm made it impossible for him to overtake...
In the audience, Guo Shaowen, who was sitting next to Su Bai, stared blankly at the finish line of the track. Qiu Wen, Zhang Wei, and Hu Li crossed the line one after another as the top three. Then he rubbed his eyes hard, unable to believe what he saw.
In the audience, the track and field fans initially just cheered enthusiastically for the athletes. When the race entered the third 100-meter stage, the crazy shouts of these track and field fans in the audience were enough to almost knock over the pedestrians outside the stadium.
"Ahhhhhh! Come on! Fuck! S Province Track and Field Team, come on!!!"
"Wow wow wow wow, top three! They really took the top three!"
After seeing the final result, all the track and field fans in the entire audience area stood up, waved their arms vigorously, and vented the shock in their hearts with their voices.
For a moment, the entire stadium was filled with crazy cheers for Qiu Wen and the other two.
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