July 17th is the last day of the National Track and Field Grand Prix Finals and the Jakarta Asian Games Trials. The vast majority of contestants in the Jakarta Asian Games will be determined in today's competition, and then quickly gathered to the National Team Track and Field Training Base in City B to participate in pre-match training.
Compared to the preliminaries the day before, there are more media present today. Not only the media from Province G, but also top national sports media such as the Sports Channel have come to the scene, preparing to do a more in-depth interview and report on today's qualifying finals.
At 7:30 in the morning, at the media gathering area of the G City Stadium, the media invited to interview had just got off the bus, and many media reporters who were quite familiar with each other also exchanged ideas on possible news points in today's event.
According to the usual publicity habits, most media still focus on the men's and women's 100-meter sprints and several traditional domestic track and field strengths. Only when there is extra space will they turn their attention to less popular events such as the 400-meter and 800-meter events.
“But this year’s men’s 400 meters is quite interesting.”
A reporter said this with a smile, and other reporters around him also laughed.
"You know what? I took a look at the long article written by Teacher Jia yesterday. It was incredible. The number of readers on Weibo and the official account exceeded 10,000! Isn't this the power of gossip?"
For many ordinary gossip or fashion public accounts, if an article on the public account cannot exceed 100,000 views within 24 hours, it means that it is not popular enough. However, for the event of track and field, it actually lacks attention in China. Even for the official WeChat and public account of the national track and field team, the number of views of a long article on the public account or Weibo is often difficult to exceed 2k.
In this comparison, yesterday's long article pushed by 'Teacher Jia who loves noodles' received over 10,000 views, which can indeed be called hot news in the track and field circle.
This can be seen from the fact that all the reporters present know that there are hot spots to be explored in the men's 400m event in this competition.
"The S Province Track and Field Team has been in the limelight recently. Last time, they took the top three in the 400m event, and today all the members of the 400m event entered the finals. Their coach Su Bai has only just taken over the 400m event not long ago, right? If he coaches for another year or two, then the S Province Track and Field Team will surely take the top three in the 400m event in the National Championships?"
The person who said this was a reporter from G Province Sports Network, but as soon as he said this, a reporter nearby expressed a different opinion.
"If you ask me, it's no problem that the athletes trained by Coach Su took the top three spots in the National Championships. But... I'm not sure whether all the athletes who took the top three spots are from the S Province Track and Field Team."
The person who spoke this time was a reporter from the sports channel. Because of the platform he was on, the information he had access to was naturally the latest.
When the reporters around heard this, their expressions varied. Some were surprised and understood, while others looked as if they knew it. These reporters had a keen sense of news, and as soon as the reporter from the sports channel opened his mouth, they guessed what was going on.
"If that's the case, then Su Bai should be the fastest-rising coach in the country, right?"
"It's really fast, but it also requires real skills. Haha, everyone, let's go take pictures and interview. We'll have to wait and see what happens with this coach Su Baisu!"
At the gathering area, the reporters chatted and gossiped for a while, then said hello to each other and dispersed to start arranging their own interview schedules.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, Su Bai and his group arrived at the stadium on the bus arranged by the organizer.
In today's competition, short-distance track events will be completed in the morning. The first competitions will be the 100m, 200m and 400m events, and then the 110m and 400m hurdles finals will be held afterwards.
Because the 400m final started early, as soon as Qiu Wen, Hu Li and Zhang Wei arrived at the scene, they had to prepare to go to the venue to change into sportswear and running shoes, and then carry out various warm-up preparations.
Before they left, Qiu Wen approached Su Bai again and said to him solemnly, "Xiao Bai, I will never let you abandon me!"
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Wait, what do you mean?
Qiu Wen, this unfortunate kid, spoke in an ambiguous way, but because his train of thought was very straightforward and he had no evil thoughts at all, he spoke with confidence and in a loud voice, which immediately attracted a series of surprised glances from the people around him.
Cui Luoheng, who was standing nearby, also happened to hear these words. He frowned and was about to say something, but Qiu Wen was dragged away by Zhang Wei and Hu Li, who couldn't stand it anymore.
Su Bai watched Zhang Wei and Hu Li dragging Qiu Wen away expressionlessly, then rubbed his forehead and swallowed back the words he was going to say to scold Qiu Wen, pretending that the suddenly ambiguous gazes around him did not exist.
At this moment, even Hu Shaowen looked at Su Bai with a look of surprise. Su Bai could only sigh and said to him: "I asked him to play well before, and then he could follow me to train with the national team."
"……puff."
When Hu Shaowen heard Su Bai's explanation, he couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha, this Qiu Wen, I never realized that he is so good at being funny?"
Su Bai could only look indifferent: "...He is not good at being funny, he just has a missing string in his brain."
Qiu Wen, who was described by Su Bai as having a screw loose in his brain, was dragged all the way to the locker room by Hu Li and Zhang Wei. While changing clothes, he was lectured by the two, who basically told him to always be in awe of the coach and not to make jokes.
Qiu Wen felt quite aggrieved at first, but after being taught a lesson by Zhang Wei and Hu Li about the misunderstandings that his words might cause, he immediately became timid. He sighed, changed his clothes in the locker room, and went to the warm-up area to stretch his muscles.
In the preparation area, the athletes participating in the final 400-meter event had almost arrived. After seeing Qiu Wen and the others, these athletes nodded to the three of them seriously.
If the S Province Track and Field Team became famous in the last Grand Prix race in City Z, then in yesterday's competition, Qiu Wen and the other two once again made it to the finals, which once again proved the current 400-meter performance and level of the S Province Track and Field Team.
In the final 400-meter final, among the only 8 places, 3 were from the S Province Track and Field Team. In fact, this has created a new history.
Zhang Ziyi and Guo Dun from the S Province Track and Field Team and the B City Track and Field Team together took up 5 of the 8 final places. Only the 400-meter athletes from the remaining 40 track and field teams in the country could grab the remaining 3 places...
Just by looking at this ratio, you can understand the significance of this.
After seeing Qiu Wen and the others, Zhang Ziyi and Guo Dun also came over to greet them. However, they found that Qiu Wen from the S Province Track and Field Team looked at them with unfriendly eyes, as if they were robbers who had robbed them of something good. The remaining Hu Li and Zhang Wei did not look very happy either.
Zhang Ziyi and Guo Dun were confused for a moment, and then quickly put the matter behind them. After the two left, Hu Li and Zhang Wei patted Qiu Wen on the shoulder.
"Xiao Qiu, come on!"
Don't you have to cheer up? !
Qiu Wen frowned. He had to beat down these guys who came to compete for favor!
In the audience stands, today's audience was much more enthusiastic than the day before. They held some small flags and whistles in their hands, waiting to give the loudest encouragement and cheers to the players they supported in today's game.
On the Internet, the sports channel's online live broadcast room has also been opened for live broadcasts. The live competition is divided into different sections for track and field events. The track and field events have not yet started, but some of the field events are already being prepared. The two commentators, Shao Minyi and Li Sen, are also discussing the hot topics of the previous day. At the same time, they also use the process of the topic discussion to introduce some important information of this competition to some viewers.
"Perhaps the audience may not know that in today's trials, in addition to selecting outstanding athletes to join the national team to participate in the Asian Games, we will also select outstanding coaches from some events to join the national team and participate in the intensive training during the Asian Games cycle."
"Yes." Li Sen continued, "Of course, there are other criteria for selecting coaches. At present, it seems that the person most likely to be selected to join the national team for training should be Coach Su Bai of the S Province Track and Field Team."
After the live broadcast ended the day before, Shao Minyi and Li Sen also paid attention to the article pushed by Teacher Jia's official account while preparing manuscripts and relevant event materials. After communicating and verifying, the two naturally remembered this rookie coach of the S Province Track and Field Team. At the same time, they also learned from internal channels that the national team was ready to select Su Bai to be responsible for coaching the 400 meters.
In the live broadcast room, track and field fans who were watching the live broadcast also reacted strongly to the news. After all, they had just read the gossip push about Su Bai released by various big Vs the day before, and today they received the news that he was going to join the national team. They all lamented that Su Bai's upgrade process was really too fast.
While people were watching and chatting, the 100m and 200m sprint finals had already ended. Fang Yu and Wu Yi easily won the championship in these two events.
Among them, Fang Yu obviously slacked off in the final, but still won the race with a time of 10.27, 0.13 ahead of the second place. In the 200m event, Wu Yi also won the championship with a time of 20.69, easily crushing the second place's 21.28.
When Qiu Wen and other eight 400-meter finalists took to the field, the big screens on both sides of the stadium were still showing the final results of the eight athletes in the previous game.
Looking at the huge gap in performance between Wu Yi and the second-place contestant on the screen, Qiu Wen stood there and watched quietly for a few seconds, then quickly walked to the starting point of his own track.
At the starting point of the track, eight athletes have taken their positions one after another, and everyone is carefully adjusting the starting blocks to the most suitable position and angle. After adjusting his starting blocks, Qiu Wen subconsciously turned his gaze to the large screen at the narrow side of the stadium. At this time, the content displayed on the large screen has switched from the final results of the 200-meter event to the introduction of the eight athletes in the 400-meter event, listing the preliminary results of the eight athletes, the tracks they are on, the teams they belong to, and their personal historical PBs.
In the pb column, Qiu Wen took a look at his own pb of 46.67 seconds. Not to mention Zhang Ziyi's 45.57 seconds, even Guo Dun, Lin Chuan and several other players had personal pb data that surpassed him or were similar to him.
Qiu Wen certainly understood that he had only really started training for the 400-meter event for more than three months. Even if he was talented, he still had to take one step at a time. But he understood even more how important Su Bai's presence was to his 400-meter training.
No matter what, he must win the Asian Games quota in the 400m event as Su Bai said, follow Su Bai's footsteps to join the national team, and continue to train with him.
Qiu Wen took a deep breath and adjusted himself to the best condition - facing these players on the same field with him, whether it was Zhang Ziyi, Guo Dun, or anyone else, he could not relax at all!
Underestimating any opponent may lead to disastrous consequences.
Just like Su Bai said, he must give it his all.
On the track, Qiu Wen was not the only one trying to adjust his condition. Zhang Ziyi, who was on the fourth track, was also taking deep breaths, jumping on the spot, and patting his muscles to prevent himself from being too tense.
In yesterday's competition, Zhang Ziyi had already felt that Qiu Wen was even stronger than before. He could deeply feel that if he let down his guard, the championship position of the 400-meter event might be lost at any time.
Zhang Ziyi looked firmly at Qiu Wen's back on the fifth track ahead - he could accept failure, but he could not accept failure due to carelessness after not running at full strength.
Facing Qiu Wen, a monster newcomer in the 400-meter event, he absolutely would not allow himself to take it lightly!
Guo Dun, Zhang Wei, Lin Chuan, Hu Li... and two other veterans in the 400m event, each of them has made preparations to fight with all their strength. The state of fatigue of all players in the 400m event has magically disappeared, and instead, every player is unwilling to admit defeat in the arena.
The live camera swept across every athlete on the eight tracks. In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, track and field fans on the barrage were also surprised by the athletes' performance.
[Zhang Shuai, Lao Guo, Xiao Qiu... everyone is full of energy and spirit! 】
[It seems that today's final is worth looking forward to!] 】
Shao Minyi and Li Sen also praised the players' individual performances. At the same time, the on-site broadcast also reminded that the competition was about to begin!
"Everyone, take your positions."
The athletes squatted on their starting blocks and got into ready position.
"preparation."
"Bang!"
The crisp sound of the starting gun rang out, and the athletes on the starting line of the curve had already held their breath. At the moment the starting gun sounded, they quickly stepped on their starting blocks, bursting with power from their feet, and ignited their starting speed!
Starting on a curve is naturally slower than starting on a straight road, but the eight runners on the track, including Qiu Wen, have already mastered the technique of starting on a curve.
Qiu Wen's reaction at the start was as quick as ever. After the burst of power lifted his body's center of gravity, his body's center of gravity tilted slightly toward the inner circle, and he ran in a beautiful arc on the starting curve.
Like Hu Li, he has a great advantage in the starting phase. What he needs to do is to maintain his advantage and control his own speed to run at his own rhythm on this track!
Zhang Ziyi's starting position was later than Qiu Wen, but this had no effect on him - as the current number one in the domestic 400m event, Zhang Ziyi's curve start technique is enough to crush 99% of the domestic players.
At the start of the curve, Zhang Ziyi was in a very stable state. After completing the explosive increase in initial speed, he increased his pace and reduced his stride frequency to retain enough physical energy for himself. However, even with the reduced stride frequency, he still maintained good speed control.
In the process of entering the straight from the first bend, Zhang Ziyi quickly adjusted his pace, and after entering the straight, he fine-tuned his pace again, speeding up his speed on the straight.
Compared to Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi is definitely a player who has mastered the speed rhythm control and the whole-course technique of 400 meters very well. The ups and downs of his performance are more due to different factors such as his personal competitive state, current physical condition, etc. At least, on the current track, Zhang Ziyi has great confidence that he can maintain a good enough state on this track to meet the challenge of Qiu Wen, the monster newcomer!
Compared to his contempt for the members of the S Province Track and Field Team during the Z City Challenge, Guo Dun had already adjusted his mentality at this time and did not dare to be careless on the track. However, he also noticed that Hu Li's explosive power and control in the starting stage were even longer than during the Z City race. Zhang Wei, who looked mediocre at the start, also made Guo Dun feel threatened on the track today.
Huff, huff.
Qiu Wen tried hard to increase his pace on the track - after completing the first 200 meters of the advantageous track, he began to enter his third 100-meter stage.
No matter who you are, the beginning of the third 100-meter stage is the most difficult stage for 400-meter athletes. At this stage, the retaliatory side effects brought about by long-term hypoxia in the body have been completely fed back to the athletes. Every athlete endures the muscle soreness and stimulation fed back from the body, and then tries hard to control it all so as not to let his or her overall rhythm get out of control.
From the moment he entered the third bend, Zhang Ziyi, who was originally behind Qiu Wen, was already side by side with him, and gradually surpassed Qiu Wen in the inner circle.
Zhang Ziyi is still better than Qiu Wen in terms of cornering technique and rhythm control, and he is Qiu Wen's number one opponent!
After noticing that Zhang Ziyi had overtaken him, Qiu Wen subconsciously wanted to chase Zhang Ziyi on the bend, but after the thought of chasing came to his mind, Qiu Wen controlled himself with the strongest willpower.
no!
Not now!
He must control his rhythm and not get it chaotic - a disrupted rhythm during the third 100-meter track may very likely lead to a collapse of the overall rhythm!
In the audience, the audience has already seen Zhang Ziyi surpassing Qiu Wen. The surpassing at this stage may very likely mean the final ranking.
"Come on!! Come on!!! Come on, Xiao Qiu!!"
"Zhang Shuai is awesome, go for him!!!"
In the audience stands, the shouts of track and field fans were deafening. They waved flags to cheer for the athletes and blew sharp whistles, adding fuel to the already intense competition on the field.
After the second bend, all that’s left for the contestants is the last 100-meter straight!
No matter how exhausted I feel, no matter how painful it is to feel my trachea being torn apart when I breathe, the pain of breathing in my chest and the fatigue of lactic acid accumulation in my body, the track in front of me, and the roars from the audience...
Everything is stimulating the contestants to sprint forward desperately!
Qiu Wen understood that his advantage was in the last 100 meters - in this last 100 meters, no one needed to control the rhythm, everyone was trying their best to rush to the finish line!
But at this stage, how many people have sufficient physical strength and endurance to gain the power for a new round of sprint? Everyone has almost exhausted 90% of their physical energy, with only the last bit of strength left. They use their own skills and strongest perseverance to sprint forward continuously!
This is true for Guo Dun, Hu Li, and Zhang Ziyi.
Qiu Wen's advantage lies in his extremely strong speed. At this stage of the 400-meter race, his physical function can still allow him to squeeze out much more physical energy than other players in the final 100-meter section, allowing him to make the final sprint!
Zhang Ziyi, who was originally running in first place, soon discovered that Qiu Wen behind him was approaching him at a speed that did not seem like a final sprint of the 400 meters.
The audience in the auditorium obviously noticed this as well.
In the live broadcast room, Shao Minyi also said in surprise: "Qiu Wen's sprint speed looks more like the sprint rhythm of a 200-meter runner in the final stage...! At this stage, his physical reserves are still so abundant?!"
Qiu Wen's sprint aroused even more enthusiasm among countless audiences.
"Come on!!! Come on Qiu Wen!!!"
"Zhang Shuai, charge!"
In the athlete area of the S Province Track and Field Team, the staff of the S Province Track and Field Team, led by Hu Shaowen and others, were shouting for Qiu Wen. Around them, there were also fans of Zhang Ziyi, who were also cheering for Zhang Ziyi at the top of their lungs.
On the track, the distance between Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen was getting closer and closer, but they were also getting closer and closer to the 400-meter finish line!
Was it Zhang Ziyi who crossed the finish line first thanks to his previous advantage?
Or will Qiu Wen rely on his final sprint energy to gradually narrow the distance between him and Zhang Ziyi and eventually overtake him? !
The intense battle in the last 100 meters made the audience in the stands so nervous that their blood boiled and they could only cheer for the athletes loudly and desperately.
“Come on! Come on!!!”
Finally, after a few seconds that passed in the blink of an eye, Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen both rushed to within 10 meters of the finish line. At this time, Qiu Wen was very close to Zhang Ziyi, but Zhang Ziyi had also tried his best. He sprinted forward desperately. When he was about to reach the finish line, his body rushed forward suddenly, and finally he was one step ahead of Qiu Wen and reached the finish line first!
In the live broadcast room, Li Sen shouted loudly: "Good! The champion of this 400m final is Zhang Ziyi from the B City Track and Field Team! The one who also qualified for this Asian Games is Qiu Wen from the S Province Track and Field Team!!!"
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