After crossing the finish line in second place, Qiu Wen simply took two steps back and turned around to look for Hu Li's position. He rushed to Hu Li in three or two steps and glanced at Li Gu who seemed to have crossed the finish line at about the same time as Hu Li.
After Hu Li recovered from his breath, he looked at Qiu Wen, who seemed to want to ask a question but didn't dare to, and laughed, "Fourth."
Hearing these two words from Hu Li, Qiu Wen's eyes lit up, and he gave Hu Li a thumbs up: "Hey, our Brother Hu is awesome!"
Seeing Qiu Wen's flattering look, Hu Li laughed while panting. He put one hand on Qiu Wen's shoulder and also smiled and flattered Qiu Wen: "No, our little Qiu is still the best..."
While Qiu Wen and Hu Li were "praising each other", Zhang Ziyi, who was not far away, had just stopped. He put his hands on his hips and was trying to calm his breathing.
On the side, Lin Chuan also walked to Zhang Ziyi's side: "How is it?"
Although there were only three words, Zhang Ziyi understood what Lin Chuan meant. He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The pressure is even greater than last time."
What Zhang Ziyi was talking about, of course, was the feeling of competing with Qiu Wen on the track.
The last time Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen met on the track was Qiu Wen's first 400-meter race. Qiu Wen left a deep impression on Zhang Ziyi that time. Just as Lin Chuan said, this was a Husky who seemed to have been pent up and was let out to have fun. On the 400-meter track, he looked tireless.
Of course, it is impossible for Qiu Wen to be completely tireless. As he ran freely on the road, he still roughly followed the overall rhythm of the 400-meter race.
It's like someone taught a running husky how to run strategically.
At the Z City race at that time, Qiu Wen's performance put some pressure on Zhang Ziyi, but compared to today, Zhang Ziyi clearly felt that the pressure was much greater than before.
Lin Chuan also nodded and sighed: "My condition today is better than last time, but the gap between me and him is even bigger than last time."
After saying this, Lin Chuan and Zhang Ziyi looked at each other, and they both knew what the unfinished meaning of this sentence was.
The extent and speed of Qiu Wen's progress have far exceeded their expectations. Initially, they thought Qiu Wen would be a player with good talent and potential, but now it seems that his talent and potential are much deeper than they imagined.
Lin Chuan hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Do you think he... has hope?"
Zhang Ziyi frowned and said nothing for a long time.
"Let's see...it's hard to say now."
In the audience, at the seat of the S Province Track and Field Team, Hu Shaowen was also asking Su Bai the same question: "Xiaobai, Qiu Wen has only been training for a few months at 400 meters, and he is already firmly behind Zhang Ziyi... Do you think he has a chance to break 45.25 in 400 meters?"
The time of 45.25 seconds is just an ordinary result for the 400m event in Asia or around the world, but for domestic athletes, it is a national record that has been on the heads of 400m athletes across the country for more than ten years and has never been broken.
Su Bai turned his head and glanced at Hu Shaowen who was looking expectant. Suddenly he smiled slightly and said firmly, "He can."
Hu Shaowen was stunned by such a firm and direct answer, but before he could think of asking anything, the on-site broadcast had already begun to announce the final results of the first group of the 400-meter preliminaries.
In the live broadcast of the sports channel, Shao Minyi once again began to announce the results of the preliminary competitors: "Men's 400m preliminary first group, first place: Zhang Ziyi (B City Track and Field Team), 46.39 seconds (wind speed + 0.2m/s), second place: Qiu Wen (S Province Track and Field Team), 46.67 seconds (wind speed + 0.2m/s), individual PB, third place, Lin Chuan (Z Province Track and Field Team) 46.96 seconds (wind speed + 0.2m/s), fourth place, Hu Li (S Province Track and Field Team), 47.37 seconds..."
With every announcement, a group of track and field fans would type a string of 666s on the public screen. This was because in today's first group of 400-meter preliminaries, the intensity of competition and the results between the athletes were comparable to those of the finals in the past.
Among them, the one with the most exaggerated result was Qiu Wen - in the last Z City race on June 24, Qiu Wen's final result was 47.19 seconds, but today his result has been refreshed to 46.67 seconds!
Since Qiu Wen switched to the 400m, he has participated in a total of four official competitions so far, namely the H City race on May 21, the T City race on June 9, the Z City race on June 24, and the current Grand Prix Final.
In the 4 games, Qiu Wen's results can be said to be rising at a rapid speed, from 47.47 seconds in the first final to 46.67 seconds today, a full improvement of 0.8 seconds, which is not much worse than Cui Luoheng's performance in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries today.
After seeing the results displayed on the large electronic screen in the venue, Zhang Ziyi and Lin Chuan smiled bitterly at each other - with this result, it was no wonder that they both felt exhausted today. It was not that they did not work hard, but that Qiu Wen's speed of improvement was too fast for them to suppress.
On the field, Hu Li, who was already exhausted, also had a shining look in his eyes.
47.37 seconds... Compared to the result of 47.51 seconds he just achieved on June 24, today he improved by 0.14 seconds! For Hu Li, the extent of this improvement in performance has far exceeded his expectations.
He knew clearly that he was not a talented player. After Su Bai's guidance and training, he found certain advantages in himself, but at the same time he also understood that he had very obvious shortcomings.
He originally thought that because he ran too hard at the start, his rhythm in the middle and late stages would be a little unbalanced, but the final result told him that it was meaningful to grit his teeth and persevere in the final sprint.
Qiu Wen was very happy after seeing the results. Of course, he was also very happy for Hu Li beside him. After looking at the results happily, he turned to Hu Li and said, "Let's go! Let's go find Xiao Bai and ask him to make us something delicious tonight!"
After Qiu Wen and others left the field, the stadium was slightly tidied up and the second group of preliminaries players also appeared one after another. Among the second group of preliminaries players, Guo Dun had the highest domestic ranking. Although there were players with personal PBs of more than 46 seconds among the remaining players, overall, their results were not stable.
Zhang Wei's current PB is 47.47 seconds, which is also considered mid-range among these players, but like Hu Li, his performance has improved during this period of training.
Finally, after the second group of preliminaries, Zhang Wei successfully advanced to the finals with the third place in the group.
Up to this point, all the players coached by Su Bai have entered the final stage of this selection competition.
At this time, the Track and Field Kingdom Forum
Topic: [818 The reborn ssheng track and field team’s 400m event — and the man behind the project. 】
Topic content: [I just watched today's live broadcast of the finals and the 400m preliminaries of the Jakarta trials, and I couldn't help but want to write something.
Brothers who are familiar with my username should all know that I am an old fan of the 400m event. I broke the national record in the 400m event more than ten years ago and achieved a good result of 45.25 seconds. I have been looking forward to it every year since then, but to no avail.
There is a series of posts I have opened in the forum - 'Has the national record for the 400m event been broken this year? ', I'm the guy who starts a thread at the beginning of the outdoor season every year and then leaves a message to myself at the end of the outdoor season.
To be honest, after following the 400 meters for so many years, I don't see any improvement in this event. I had already vowed not to pay attention to the 400 meters this year. But now after watching the preliminaries just now, I just want to say - 400 meters, it's really great.
Of course, this fragrance also has a source, such as our comeback team: S Province Track and Field Team.
Well, this means that the S Province Track and Field Team is not that good. After all, this team is actually a long-established strong track and field team in our country. But old and old, my brothers should all know that this team has never had much ambition in the 400-meter event. It is definitely a weak 400-meter team!
But even such a weak team has produced three players in this year's outdoor season: Qiu Wen, Zhang Wei and Hu Li. Judging from Qiu's current rate of improvement, he is about to have an impact on Zhang Shuai's position in the 400-meter event. Who could have imagined such a thing just three months ago?
In our forum, there was a post more than three months ago criticizing someone, saying that Xiao Qiu was originally a good 100m and 200m athlete with pretty good results, so how come he was forced to practice 400m?
Well, I responded to this post before, and I also criticized that inexplicable coach Su Bai at that time... The past is hard to recall, and actually I don’t want to admit it, but the Internet has memory, so I won’t make excuses for my blindness back then.
That’s right, the person I want to kneel to is our boss Su Baisu!
Please allow me to shout out three times here - Su Shuai is awesome! ! !
Without further ado, I have compiled a set of data here, including the performance data of Hu Li and Zhang Wei over the years, as well as the performance data of Qiu Wen since he changed his project (as shown in the picture).
After looking at the above data, you guys may also feel blinded. After all, I personally experienced this feeling of blindness when I was sorting out the data.
Let’s not talk about talented 400-meter athletes like Xiao Qiu for now. Let’s just talk about Hu Li and Zhang Wei. These two have also trained in the S Province Track and Field Team for more than ten years, but what were their previous results? It is basically stable at around 48 seconds, and my personal PB is even outside the line of striving to reach the 47.60 second mark.
As a result, the performance of these two has been reaching new heights since Coach Su took over the 400-meter event of the S Province Track and Field Team!
In the two most recent races, the worst result was 47.51 seconds - if this result was two months ago, even if you asked them themselves, they probably wouldn't have dared to think of it, right?
Not to mention Su Bai's brilliant move of choosing Qiu Wen!
Xiao Qiu had achieved certain results in the 100m and 200m events before. Logically speaking, he was already competing in two events, and the team would definitely not let him continue competing in two events. Who would have thought that Su Bai would take a liking to him at first sight, directly put him in the 400m event, and then train him to achieve such results?
I am a little itchy now. I wonder, under Su Bai's guidance, when will Xiao Qiu be able to break through the 46-second mark? And when will he have the chance to break through the 45.25-second mark...】
This post is very long, and it can be seen that the person who wrote it is indeed an old fan of the 400-meter event. Although the overall tone is very relaxed, the first two or three paragraphs also reveal his original disappointment with the 400-meter event.
However, it is obvious that his disappointment has now turned into new expectations for the 400m event.
3l: [Hey, isn’t this ‘Brother Xiongqi’? Are you really interested in 400 meters again? 】
The name of the poster is '400m Stand Up', and he is indeed a die-hard supporter of the 400m event as he said. Because he is very disappointed with the 400m event, he often says that he will never pay attention to the 400m again. However, every time someone runs a good result in the 400m event, he will start a post in the forum to analyze it and express his expectations.
Because he is quite famous in the forum, many forum members directly call him "Brother Xiongqi" or "Brother Zhenxiang".
7l: [+1 for the post about Xiongqi being really good, but I just watched this match as well, not to mention Brother Xiongqi, I also thought it was a bit good! Today, Zhang Shuai ran 46.39 seconds in the preliminaries, and the second place Xiao Qiu was also really awesome. According to Xiongqi's data sheet, his results have directly improved by 0.8 seconds in three months. With this kind of talent, there is a good chance that he will break the 46-second mark! 】
12l: [Check-in +1, the 400m event of the S Province Track and Field Team is amazing. I have been following them for a while, because of the 'chef coach' incident. At that time, everyone thought that Su Bai was a mediocre retired 100m athlete, who became a chef after retirement and then became a 400m coach. He also lured Qiu Wen, a very talented athlete in the 100m and 200m events, to the 400m. Who could have thought that it would be like this 3 months later? 】
17l: [I also think that Brother Zhenxiang might be right this time. In just over three months, he was able to bring the S Province Track and Field Team, a weak 400-meter team, to where it is now. It's amazing! Waiting for tomorrow's final, I feel that in tomorrow's final, Zhang Shuai will have to try her best to beat Xiao Qiu...】
19l: [Hahaha, who knows whether Zhang Shuai tried her best to overpower Xiao Qiu or Xiao Qiu was in great form and defeated Zhang Shuai? It's true, after the S Province track and field team rose to prominence, the 400-meter competition is much more exciting now than before. In the past, it felt like most of the players were a bunch of old men who just worked but didn't put in any effort. Competing with this group of old men, even if Zhang Shuai wanted to put in an effort, it would be boring, right? 】
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This post was posted because the 400-meter preliminaries had just ended, and many people were very curious about the S Province track and field team that had once again made it to the finals, so they started building a building quickly.
As a result, when everyone was talking about the 400-meter event, someone suddenly interrupted and said:
57l: [This Su Bai is really awesome. Cui Luoheng was also taught by him recently. 】
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As soon as the reply on the 57th floor came out, the post board, which was originally booming, suddenly became quiet for 3 minutes.
After an eerie 3-minute silence, someone tentatively responded.
58l: [Brother upstairs, are you kidding? 】
If we say that the most eye-catching event in the entire trial today was not the 400-meter preliminaries, but the first group of preliminaries in the 110-meter hurdles, the match in which Cui Luoheng raised his personal PB by nearly 1 second.
After Cui Luoheng finished the competition, because his performance improved too dramatically, he was taken away by the WADA staff on the scene for doping testing. The results of the test were submitted very quickly, and the final results of the 110-meter hurdles and the list of qualified players were officially announced on the official website and Weibo of the selection competition.
Among them, the person ranked first is Cui Luoheng and his latest 110m pb: 13.57 seconds.
This fully proves that Cui Luoheng performed normally in today's game, and the results he achieved are also the result of his personal strength.
Including the official Weibo account of the S Province Track and Field Team, after the officials of the selection competition said that everything was normal, they quickly posted Cui Luoheng's results and the news that he advanced to the 110-meter hurdles final on their official Weibo and official account.
Compared with Cui Luoheng's disappointing results in previous games, Cui Luoheng's performance this time made everyone blush.
Although 13.57 seconds is just a mediocre result internationally, it is an absolute top-notch result in Asia.
What's more, Cui Luoheng has an even more powerful advantage - youth.
As a track and field athlete who is not yet 20 years old, he still has a long way to go in his golden years. As he gets older, his muscle strength increases, and possibly his height grows, coupled with proper training, his performance will only improve further, and it is entirely possible that he will even approach or reach world-class levels.
The emergence of such an athlete will certainly attract more attention than the 400-meter event, which has made great progress but whose results are still hovering around the domestic level.
But……
The big brother on the 57th floor said that a player like Cui Luoheng was also trained by Su Bai? !
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This is not possible?
Many people who were posting in the thread had the same reaction as the forum users on the 58th floor when they saw the news on the 57th floor.
The forum member on the 57th floor was not vague and directly threw out an address link, which was a Weibo link. After the forum members clicked on it hesitantly, they found that the user of this Weibo homepage was Zhou Wen, the head coach of the hurdles group of the S Province Track and Field Team, and also Cui Luoheng's direct coach.
The first post on Zhou Wen’s Weibo homepage was a repost of a message from the S Province Track and Field Team that said Cui Luoheng had won first place in the Grand Prix Final and Trials preliminaries with a time of 13.57 seconds.
There is nothing special about this. What is special is that he wrote a paragraph while forwarding it.
Zhou Wen: For a long time, as the head coach of @崔洛恒, I felt very guilty. Ah Heng is very talented and trains very hard, but due to some special physical reasons, Ah Heng has never been able to achieve excellent results in the competition. It was Coach @苏白苏 who discovered the difficulties and problems encountered by Ah Heng in time and provided us with a complete training plan. It was precisely because of Coach Su's help and full guidance that Ah Heng was able to display his full potential in this competition.
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The meaning of Zhou Wen's words was very simple and clear, but after reading the news, almost everyone in the Track and Field Kingdom forum who came to watch the fun was confused.
ha?
What's the meaning?
Cui Luoheng’s head coach said that Cui Luoheng had encountered difficulties in previous training and competitions, and it was Su Bai who discovered Cui Luoheng’s problem and provided him with a training plan, so Cui Luoheng completely broke out in this competition and directly increased his personal pb result by nearly 1 second?
Many people couldn’t help but complain in their hearts - Coach Zhou, wake up, isn’t Su Bai the coach of the 400-meter event? How could he be able to specify a training plan for Cui Luoheng in the 110-meter hurdles event?
Perhaps because there are too many people who have nothing to say, someone actually asked this question directly under Zhou Wen’s Weibo, and Zhou Wen actually answered it...
[Coach Su was entrusted with the management and training of Qiu Wen and the team's 400-meter event only because he was the first to discover Qiu Wen's potential in the 400-meter event. This does not mean that Coach Su is only good at training athletes in the 400-meter event. 】
Seeing Zhou Wen's reply, more people were confused, but this reply made too much sense for them to refute - indeed, no one had really said that Su Bai was only good at teaching the 400-meter event.
After everyone read Zhou Wen’s Weibo in a daze, the forum users of the Track and Field Kingdom returned to their own forums, and soon someone opened a post on the forum.
Subject: […A 400m coach who doesn’t want to be a 110m hurdles coach is not a good retired 100m athlete? 】
Topic content: [The author of the post just finished reading Coach Zhou’s Weibo, and now I feel a little dazed... Can someone wake me up? So, Su Bai was not only so awesome that he led the originally weak 400m team to the final round of the trials, he even took advantage of this time to give some "micro-guidance" to Cui Luoheng, whose original PB was only 14.53, and directly improved Cui Luoheng's result from 14.53 to 13.57? ! 】
3l: [Huh? What did you say, sir? 】
5l: [Friend on the 3rd floor, the village network is not connected yet? Check out this link...】
9l: [I just saw Coach Zhou’s Weibo post, and I was thinking, what Coach Zhou meant was that if it weren’t for Su Bai, Cui Luoheng’s performance this time would probably still be very bad? 】
12l: […That’s probably what I meant. Shit, so this means that Su Bai single-handedly led the S Province Track and Field Team in both the 400m and 110m hurdles events? 】
15l: [It’s not that I don’t understand, it’s that the world of geniuses is too strange? Oh my god, Cui Luoheng just reposted that Weibo post, and directly tagged Zhou Wen and Su Bai to thank them for their guidance, so this matter should be true...】
19l: [I heard from a friend before that due to Su Bai’s teaching achievements in the 400-meter event, many track and field teams wanted to invite Su Bai for exchanges and guidance. Now that the 110-meter hurdles event has been added, I think these track and field teams are probably going to have to start trying to poach him, right? 】
On the Internet, the topic about Su Bai and the S Province Track and Field Team was hotly discussed. In the hotel where the B City Track and Field Team was staying, Zhang Ziyi, Guo Dun and others had just received the news. They were originally certain to be called up to the national team for the 400m event. Now that they knew that Su Bai might be able to enter the national team, they were originally summarizing their own 400m problems and wanted to ask Su Bai for advice in the national team when the time comes. As a result, they saw this news.
Guo Dun looked at the screen of his mobile phone in his hand, was silent for a few seconds, and turned to look at Zhang Ziyi: "Old Zhang, if this is really the case... when Su Bai joins the national team, he will also be in charge of the 110-meter hurdles, right?"
After hearing Guo Dun's question, Zhang Ziyi was silent for a moment, and finally said with difficulty: "This... is really hard to say."
Guo Dun's expression was complicated: "... Then, will we have to compete with the 110-meter hurdles for coaches?"
Hearing this, Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but feel a pain on his face: "Who knows?"
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