In the 400m preliminaries this morning, both the women's 400m and men's 400m delivered results far better than in previous years. In the women's 400m preliminaries, Chen Yada and Lin Huan both ran within 53 seconds, and the other three female 4*400m relay team members who were training with the national team also achieved remarkable results.
After the preliminaries of the men's 400m, it could be described as a melee. Li Junhao was the only one from the national team who failed to participate due to his poor individual performance this season. The remaining members, Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Guo Dun, and Lin Chuan were all present, as well as Zhou Xu and Zhang Chang who had trained with the national team but have now returned to the provincial team, and Zhang Wei and Hu Li who had been coached by Su Bai in the S Province track and field team.
The competition was full, with 8 places for the final, and not a single one was given to other contestants.
At first, the audience at the scene didn’t react to this. It was not until the show ended at noon and when people went back to rest that someone posted this message on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum.
Topic: [Summary: What do the eight athletes on the men’s 400m final list of today’s National Track and Field Championships have in common? 】
Subject content:
【Zhang Ziyi: Under Su Bai's guidance, I refreshed my personal PB.
Qiu Wen: Under Su Bai's guidance, I changed from a 100m and 200m athlete to a 400m specialist, and I broke my personal best several times during the season.
Guo Dun: I refreshed my personal PB under Su Bai's guidance.
Zhou Xu: Participated in the Asian Games training camp of the national track and field team led by Su Bai, and set a new personal record.
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Hu Li: Under Su Bai's guidance, my performance has achieved a significant breakthrough and refreshed my personal best.
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Okay, that’s the summary.
To be honest, after summarizing all this, I feel a little dizzy. Tell me, if Li Junhao could also participate in the competition today, which of these finalists would be blocked from the finals?
ps: By the way, this National Championships was the first time that the top eight in the preliminaries all ran within 47 seconds. Among them, Hu Li and Zhang Wei, who had the worst results, ran 46.89 and 46.95 respectively, while the top six all ran within 46.50 seconds.
(2017 National Championships preliminary round qualification list and results screenshot)
Here is a screenshot of last year’s preliminary results. Comparing last year’s results with this year’s, you can see for yourself... I won’t say anything more... I’m going to go drink some water to calm down.
Finally, I would like to bow to Coach Su Baisu who is here today... Thank you, thank you, thank you! ! ! 】
1l: […Shit? 】
5l: [I... I'm also slow, I knew that the results of this year's National Championships would be very good, but I didn't expect it to be this good? In last year's preliminary group, only Zhang Shuai ran under 46 seconds, and all the remaining players ran under 47 seconds. In just one year, who could have thought of this? 】
10l: [I would like to bow to Coach Xiao Su together with the OP. This result is amazing! 】
13l: [Why are only the results of the men’s 400m team posted in the building? The women's team also achieved great results, including Cui Luoheng in the 110-meter hurdles... In total, Su Bai has coached these players for less than a year, and with this result, I really want to call them gods. 】
Before this thread was posted, many people already knew that Su Bai was awesome, but they still didn't realize how awesome he was.
Until this summary post appeared.
The National Track and Field Championships, a competition that brings together the country's track and field elites, in the 400-meter event, all the members who entered the finals were coached by Su Bai.
That's a bit exaggerated.
Not to mention, another key player, Li Junhao, who, under the guidance of Su Bai, broke out in the Asian Games and helped the national team win the 4*400m silver medal, did not participate in the competition.
Just like what was said in the previous post, the 8-person qualifier list for the finals is not even enough to fill the list that Coach Su Bai has reviewed.
Of course, although this situation is surprising, the improvement in the contestants' performance is also gratifying.
Soon, someone posted a new thread on the Track and Field Kingdom forum.
Theme: [“The Forward Wave of the 400-meter Sprint Event”]
Topic content: [I just saw a post summarizing the characteristics of the 400m finalists, and I was inspired.
Before, we have been expecting a substantial improvement in the performance of the 400-meter event, expecting the athletes to break the national record that has been dormant for many years, and expecting the athletes to catch up with the top level in Asia and the world's first-class level as soon as possible.
But before this year, these ideas were like flowers in the water and the moon in the mirror. We seemed to have become accustomed to assuming that domestic players were not as talented and good as foreign players. We were happy about all the players' small breakthroughs, but we didn't feel particularly strange when they were in poor form.
Looking back now, this was a very irrational cognitive state in itself, but we all accepted its rationality.
It was not until Su Bai and the players he coached destroyed many people's cognition like a devastating blow.
We realize that the strength of these domestic players can be greatly improved, and we also clearly see that they are not incapable of going higher - after all, you see, the original achievements of these players led by Su Bai are obvious to all.
It is foreseeable that if these domestic athletes continue to maintain this state, the domestic 400-meter sprint arena will be occupied by Su Bai and the athletes he has coached for a long time in the future.
If they want to break the dominance of Su Bai and his athletes in the 400m event, then other provincial 400m teams and coaches in the country will definitely increase their research efforts on the 400m event, and the athletes must make further progress in training and also in competitions.
This is the meaning of my theme title. The 400-meter sprint event in China has now reached a crossroads. If other provincial teams do not choose to become stronger, then Su Bai's world will be dominated in the end. And if other provincial teams also pursue progress, then the domestic 400-meter sprint event may embark on a path of rapid development starting from this year.
In short, I am now personally full of expectations for the future of the 400-meter event. I hope that Su Bai and the athletes he leads, or other 400-meter sprinters in our country can bring us more new surprises in the coming era of the 400-meter event! 】
This post obviously touched the hearts of many people. It was quickly marked as a featured post by the forum administrator and was manually pinned to the top by countless other posts that also replied with "looking forward to it".
The circulation of these two posts was not limited to the Track and Field Kingdom Forum. Soon after they were posted, they were also moved to Weibo, where they sparked a small-scale discussion.
Su Bai did not pay attention to these things. After recording the statistics in the morning, he returned to the hotel and reorganized what he had written down in shorthand in the morning. Then, after a short rest in the afternoon, he came to the stadium before the evening game started and found his seat and sat down as usual.
Tickets for the National Championships are divided into individual tickets sold separately in the morning and evening, as well as single-day and multi-day packages. Su Bai's ticket is naturally one of the packages given to the national team by the organizer, so his seat is still the same as in the morning. Brother Da Xiong, who was live streaming next to him in the morning, also seemed to have bought a package ticket. He had already sat down in his seat nervously at this moment. After seeing Su Bai sit down, the tension on Da Xiong's face relaxed, and then he made a promise to Su Bai, telling him to observe the players carefully, and he would not do live streaming in the evening so as not to affect his thinking.
Su Bai didn't mind it. He smiled and said to Da Xiong, "It's okay. Just broadcast your content. Your live broadcast does have a live atmosphere. It's a pity that friends in the forum can't hear it."
"Ah... Well, to be honest, I feel the same way." Da Xiong smiled innocently when he heard Su Bai's words, and then said cautiously, "Then, Coach Su, I will start the live broadcast?"
With the voice of Daxiong, which was honest but also a little cautious, the evening preliminaries officially began.
In tonight's preliminaries, Su Bai's main focus, apart from Cui Luoheng's 110-meter hurdles, was Wang Shen's men's high jump.
However, before the preliminaries of the 110-meter hurdles and men's high jump, there are also men's and women's 100-meter and 200-meter competitions. Fang Yu and Wu Yi, two domestic stars, also participated in tonight's preliminaries.
The first event to open was the 100-meter sprint. After two groups of women's 100-meter teams competed, the first group of men's preliminaries also officially appeared.
In this 100-meter event, a total of 18 athletes ranked in the top 16 in the country. They were still divided into two groups, but 9 lanes were used on the field.
Fang Yu's group was the first group in the preliminaries.
The 100-meter sprint, as an event that represents the pursuit of absolute speed, is a source of fascination for countless sports fans due to its excitement and sense of speed. Similarly, as one of the most exciting and exciting events, it is also the most popular event in track and field.
Fang Yu is the first Chinese athlete to break the 10-second barrier in this most popular track and field event. The moment he ran into the 10-second mark, he proved to all Asians that "10 seconds is definitely not the limit for the yellow race."
It’s a pity that, so far, only Fang Yu has broken the 10-second mark, and Fang Yu only had that one glorious record of breaking the 10-second mark.
With Fang Yu's declining form in the past two years, the "10-second limit theory" has resurfaced, and countless people are looking forward to Fang Yu being able to break the 10-second mark again. In fact, Fang Yu is about to turn 28 this year. For some players who cannot break through their results or are in poor form, this is an age that has passed their golden age and is about to retire.
"Brother Fang will compete in the first group of the 100-meter preliminaries today! The first place in this group is beyond doubt. Can we guess who can take the second place in this preliminaries besides Brother Fang?"
Daxiong was talking freely during his live broadcast, and his tone was full of trust in Fang Yu.
Indeed, so far, although Fang Yu’s performance in the past two years has not been good, there is currently no athlete in the country who can pose a threat to him in the 100-meter event.
Apart from Fang Yu, there are only seven active athletes in China who are capable of running under 10.30 seconds, and apart from him, there is only one athlete who is capable of running under 10.20 seconds.
However, Su Bai, holding a notebook and a pen in his hands, looked at the stadium but his gaze was not as optimistic as Daxiong's.
In the previous Asian Games, Fang Yu was in good shape, running under 10.04 seconds to win the bronze medal, but in the subsequent Intercontinental Cup, Su Bai noticed that Fang Yu's overall condition was not satisfactory.
In the Intercontinental Cup, Fang Yu only ran a time of 10.16 seconds and barely made it to the finals. In the finals, his performance was not particularly outstanding.
Obviously, Pei Jinan and his team had done a very good job in adjusting Fang Yu's condition. During the Asian Games, Fang Yu was at his peak, but this peak was very short-lived. After the Asian Games, he was unable to maintain Fang Yu's condition well in the Intercontinental Cup.
As for today's National Championships...I'm afraid it will be even more difficult.
Su Bai narrowed his eyes and looked at Fang Yu who was preparing on the track, frowning slightly - Fang Yu on the track also looked very cautious, and it was obvious that he did not treat this preliminaries as an ordinary preliminaries. He was ready to relax his condition and easily win the first place.
Su Bai turned around and saw the contestant next to Fang Yu - Zhao Shu.
He is one of only two athletes in the domestic arena who can run under 10.20 seconds.
Seeing this, Su Bai rubbed his forehead and sighed slightly.
I'm afraid this 100-meter preliminaries won't be very exciting...
The fact was just as Su Bai expected. This 100-meter preliminaries was far more intense than many people imagined. This intensity was not because everyone's speed increased, but because Fang Yu's condition declined.
From the start reaction, Fang Yu's reaction speed reached 0.193 seconds, which is definitely not the reaction speed that Fang Yu should have when he is in good condition.
In the subsequent starting phase, Fang Yu's burst of acceleration was not as decisive as before. Zhao Shu, who had always been suppressed by Fang Yu, was even in the lead in the first half of the game.
Seeing this scene, the big bear brothers beside Su Bai were all stunned. He shouted at the top of his lungs for several times, "Come on, Brother Yu!"
Fang Yu did work hard.
After falling behind in the first half, when it came to the middle stage of the race, Fang Yu relied on his rich racing experience and superb skills to increase his arm and hip swinging movements, forcibly increased his sprint speed, and reversed the disadvantage in the first half with his own ability, and even surpassed Zhao Shu in the middle part.
However, this advantage did not last long. Fang Yu and Zhao Shu both tried their best to sprint in the final 30-meter sprint. At this stage, Fang Yu's physical reserves were insufficient. The decline in physical fitness directly led to his difficulty in maintaining the accuracy of his technical movements, which had the most obvious impact on his sprint speed.
At this stage, Zhao Shu's technical movements were actually a little distorted, but his physical reserves were better than Fang Yu's. Therefore, at the final moment, Zhao Shu actually crossed the finish line before Fang Yu, and Fang Yu only qualified for the finals with second place.
This result was almost shocking.
Su Bai noticed that after the results of the game came out, the Big Bear brothers beside him were stunned for a long time.
"Fuck... Zhao Shu is the first?!"
Su Bai glanced at the comments in Daxiong's live broadcast room, and there were indeed many comments of disbelief from many people. Everyone was expressing their surprise at the result in unison.
It’s not that track and field fans don’t like Zhao Shu. Before this, Zhao Shu did get first place in some competitions. But everyone could see at the time that Fang Yu slowed down and paddled to maintain his physical strength.
Not so today.
Anyone who often watches games can see that Fang Yu did not let up in today's game. He was truly overtaken by Zhao Shu.
This result can be said to be the first time in history.
So was it Zhao Shu who was in great shape today and cleared the PB?
Not really.
The final preliminary results were: with a wind speed of +0.5m/s, Zhao Shu ran 10.19 seconds and Fang Yu ran 10.25 seconds.
When the preliminary results were announced, there was only sparse applause from the audience, and more people had worried looks on their faces.
Obviously, Fang Yu doesn't look very well.
In previous competitions, Fang Yu hadn't let his speed drop below 10.20 seconds for a long time, and the 10.25 seconds in tonight's preliminaries was obviously not the result Fang Yu wanted.
Da Xiong, who was standing next to him, probably felt nervous. He glanced at Su Bai cautiously, then said hesitantly, "Su, that Coach Su...Is Brother Yu okay?"
Su Bai looked back at Da Xiong, then looked back at Fang Yu, who was walking towards the backcourt with his hands on his hips and his head down.
Su Bai looked at Fang Yu's depressed back as he walked towards the backcourt, sighed, and then said seriously: "Don't worry, he will be fine."
Daxiong was stunned. Although he looked stupid, he was not really such a fool. He understood what Su Bai meant by "he will be fine".
"Ah, this..." Big Bear stared, and suddenly felt a little excited, but he quickly suppressed his excitement.
In Daxiong's live broadcast room, viewers from the Track and Field Kingdom Forum also heard the conversation between Daxiong and Su Bai. Suddenly, a string of exclamation marks representing excitement floated through the room.
Perhaps because of the implicit guarantee he received from Su Bai, Da Xiong became very excited during the following live broadcast of the game. Whether he was watching the men's high jump final or the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries, he seemed completely excited.
In the men's high jump event, there is no distinction between qualifying rounds and finals in the National Championships. Tonight's competition is basically a duel between Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao.
This has been the norm in the domestic high jump event in the past one or two years.
In the competition, there were only two athletes who set the trial jump height above 2.25 meters and were successful. In the end, tonight's high jump still ended with Ye Wenhao's victory. Wang Shen jumped a good result of 2.27 meters, but was still slightly inferior to Ye Wenhao.
Judging from the footage captured by the on-site cameras, Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao had a very harmonious comradeship. After the final results came out, Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao hugged each other to celebrate.
However, from Su Bai's point of view, Wang Shen's smile was obviously not a sign of true happiness. Behind his steady but difficult-to-breakthrough performance, what played a role was Wang Shen's strong psychological self-control and his always cautious attitude.
Seeing this, Su Bai frowned and wrote something down in his notes, then added an emphasis mark after the names of Wang Shen and Fang Yu.
By the time the second group of athletes in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries, including Cui Luoheng, came on stage, it was already the last game of the evening. When the audience saw Cui Luoheng step onto the field, they all burst into warm applause.
After the Asian Games, Cui Luoheng has completely achieved an equal status with Lu Mengfan in the hearts of track and field fans, or even a higher status than Lu Mengfan.
This young athlete brought the 110-meter hurdles gold medal back to the Chinese team after it had been lost for nearly 12 years in the Asian Games. This alone is enough for track and field fans to cheer for him.
Cui Luoheng's goal for today's event is very clear - all he has to do is maintain a similar state to before, without any obvious decline in form, and be able to stabilize his results at around 13.60 seconds, which is within the acceptable range for his current condition.
Su Bai told him not to be anxious, so he did not worry. He trained with peace of mind, accumulated his own strength foundation with peace of mind, and waited for the opportunity to improve his performance again.
Although Cui Luoheng was not in a hurry, Zhao Yankai, who was in the second group of the preliminaries, was not the case.
Before this season, or in other words, before Cui Luoheng's rise, he had always been the second in the domestic 110-meter hurdles event. Although his results were not as good as Lu Mengfan, compared with other players, he was more than enough to crush and win.
But after Cui Luoheng appeared, no matter how hard he tried to catch up, he could not catch up with Cui Luoheng who seemed to have a cheat code.
This situation made Zhao Yankai very upset. Even though he had devoted all his efforts to the training of the national team, the feeling that no matter how hard he tried, he could not catch up with the flash of inspiration of a genius made Zhao Yankai completely fall into anxiety.
Recently, his coach Lu Shengbin asked him to relax a little, but the more he was advised, the worse Zhao Yankai's condition became, especially in today's game.
After the start of the race, Cui Luoheng was as stable as ever. Although Zhao Yankai tried hard to control himself for a while, at the beginning of the fourth hurdle, his desire to overtake Cui Luoheng completely overwhelmed him, causing his overall rhythm and movements to be unbalanced. After two consecutive serious hits, he finally knocked over the hurdle in front of him and fell to the ground.
Because of this accident, there was chaos in the audience again. The audience looked at Zhao Yankai on the track nervously. The contestants on the track next to him were also affected by Zhao Yankai's serious hit on the hurdle. In the end, only 5 contestants finished the race successfully. Zhao Yankai was also injured because of hitting the hurdle. He was urgently put on a stretcher by medical staff and taken away for detailed examination.
In this game, Cui Luoheng easily won first place, but after the race, he also frowned as he looked in the direction where Zhao Yankai was sent away.
Fortunately, Su Bai contacted Lu Shengbin directly that night and learned from Lu Shengbin that Zhao Yankai's injury was not too serious. After breathing a sigh of relief, Lu Shengbin hesitantly made a request to Su Bai.
"Coach Xiao Su, if it's convenient, during the winter training, can you also help me discuss the training plans for my two players, Meng Fan and Yan Kai?"
Su Bai heard this, thought about it, and agreed: "Okay."
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