During these four years, Fang Yu received as much praise as he did pressure.
The first yellow man to break the ten-second barrier, this honor even directly pushed Fang Yu to become the leading figure in Chinese track and field that year, but after that time, Fang Yu was never able to reach a new peak again.
The first time I ran under 10 meters seemed to be the only time since then.
Doesn’t he want to break the 10-second 100-meter mark again?
Of course he wants to!
But no matter how he trained or adjusted, he could never find the feeling of breaking 10 in the 100-meter race. That time, breaking 10 in the 100-meter race was like a flash of inspiration that disappeared without a trace.
Over the past few years, he has developed a strong heart. He thought that those discussions that he was lucky to run under ten seconds and that his strength was declining could no longer move him.
He also thought that he had already accepted in his heart that he could never surpass his past peak.
Until this moment, until now... when he saw the vivid numbers of 9.96 seconds, he placed his right hand on his chest, felt his heart beating violently, felt the tears flowing uncontrollably from his eyes, and then he realized how long he had been looking forward to this moment.
The camera layout at the scene was not flexible enough to capture Fang Yu's front face, but the cameras of the reporters who followed from City B were now facing Fang Yu.
Amid the sounds of countless shutter clicks, these reporters from all over the country have recorded the scene of Fang Yu placing his right hand on his chest, closing his eyes and looking up in his head in their cameras.
On the Internet, as soon as Fang Yu's results appeared, the track and field fans in the live broadcast room went crazy. For a moment, the entire live broadcast room was filled with barrages of comments, and it was impossible to see the content of each barrage. To be honest, all kinds of screams and venting sounds dominated the mainstream.
Some people cleared the comments immediately and took screenshots and posted them on the Track and Field Kingdom forum.
——【After 4 years, Fang Yu set a new personal record! ! ! 】
Beneath this short title, are the excited and boiling hearts of countless people.
"Since the 2015 World Championships, the first person to break the 10-second barrier for the yellow race in the 100-meter race was Fang Yu! The second person to break the 10-second barrier for the yellow race in the 100-meter race was still him! During these years of intensive training, Fang Yu carried the hopes of all of us, but he never backed down. From 9.99 to 9.96, he once again proved that 10 seconds for the 100-meter race is definitely not the limit for the yellow race. We can be faster and stronger! On the road to exploring the speed limit, we will never be absent!"
In the commentary booth, Shao Minyi's voice was sonorous and powerful. He had been looking forward to this day for too long... or rather, all Chinese people had been looking forward to this day for too, too long.
Far away in the field management center office in City B, Wang Zhengsheng and others watched Fang Yu cross the finish line together, and also watched the results displayed on the big screen on site.
This result made each of them excitedly shout out "good"!
"Good run! Great run!"
Wang Zhengsheng praised repeatedly, his excitement needless to say, just as Shao Minyi said in the commentary, from 2015 to 2019, China has been looking forward to this second sub-10 second 100m result for too long, and the appearance of this result is more like declaring to the world that the 9.99 seconds in the past was not an illusion, but a real thing - the Chinese can run the 100m under 10 seconds. They could do it that time in 2015, and they can do it now and in the future!
This was an outburst that people had been looking forward to for too long, and no one could suppress everyone's excitement and joy this time.
On Weibo, the major sports official accounts of the Athletics Administration Center, the National Track and Field Team, the Sports Channel, etc. have all immediately released Weibo content announcing Fang Yu's results.
The official Weibo account of the Athletics Administration Center: [#Fang Yu breaks the ten-second mark in the 100m race again# In today's Asian Track and Field Six Nations Joint Competition, my country's 100m champion Fang Yu won the championship in the men's 100m final, and with a time of 9.96, he broke his own Chinese 100m record of 9.99, pushing the yellow race's 100m limit forward by 0.03 seconds! 】
Official Weibo of the National Track and Field Team: [#方宇100m9.96# Our country’s track and field star @方宇, successfully ran a personal best of 9.96 seconds in today’s Asian Track and Field Six-Nation Joint Competition. This result is also the best result that the yellow race has been able to run so far! He proved to us that the yellow race's 100-meter limit is far more than 10 seconds. I believe that in the near future, we will be able to see Fang Yu create another miracle! 】
The official Weibo of the Sports Channel, the official Weibo of the Sports News Network, Zhalang Sports... and so on. Almost in the blink of an eye, news about Fang Yu's sub-100-meter performance had spread to every corner of the Internet.
On Weibo, QQ, WeChat... many people were spreading the news at the first time. In a very short period of time, the live broadcast platform of the sports channel was flooded with a large number of new viewers. People all wanted to relive the moment when Fang Yu broke 10 in the 100-meter race!
At the scene, in the audience, Pei Jinan's eyes were already filled with tears - Fang Yu was a disciple he brought up. He had accompanied Fang Yu through the peak moment in 2015, and had also witnessed the difficulties that followed with him.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Pei Jinan knew in his heart that there was still a big gap between the concepts and results related to sprint training in China and those abroad. This gap made some problems of domestic athletes easy to be discovered in the eyes of foreign coaches, but in domestic training, even if they were the best coaching group in the country, they might need to consume a lot of the athletes' youth out of thin air to find a tiny problem.
But how long does a talented athlete’s true golden career last?
Last year, it was precisely because Fang Yu's performance had not been able to improve and even declined seriously that Pei Jinan communicated with the Athletics Management Center and sent Fang Yu abroad to participate in training with a famous coach.
However, after Fang Yu's overseas training period ended and he returned to China, he was unable to maintain the improved condition he had achieved overseas.
If it weren't for Su Bai's sudden intervention during this winter training, it is very likely that Pei Jinan would have considered arranging for Fang Yu to train abroad again.
Oh, right...Su Bai!
Pei Jinan finally remembered the biggest contributor to Fang Yu's achievement today!
He turned around and put his hands on Su Bai's shoulders: "Xiao Bai!"
Pei Jinan looked at Su Bai with excitement on his face and took a deep breath. He originally had a lot to say, but when he looked at Su Bai, he suddenly didn't know what to say.
"Thank you... Thank you, Xiaobai!" Pei Jinan hesitated for a long time and only said these few words of thank you.
Su Bai certainly understood Pei Jinan's excitement. He looked at Pei Jinan, nodded quietly, and then smiled and said, "Coach Pei, I am also a member of the national team. This is what I should do."
Pei Jinan looked at Su Bai deeply, then patted his shoulder vigorously and nodded - he certainly knew that as the head coach of the 400m event, the 400m event should be the responsibility of Su Bai. At most, there is Cui Luoheng, the 10-meter hurdler. Apart from that, just like Fang Yu, if Su Bai had not taken the initiative to propose a plan, no one would have doubted Su Bai. Instead, it was Su Bai who proposed a full training plan for Fang Yu, which was seriously questioned by him at the beginning.
Even so, Su Bai did not give up arguing. It was Su Bai's persistence and the evidence he produced that made Pei Jinan believe him and willing to let Fang Yu conduct the subsequent training attempts.
Even if Su Bai said that this was what he should do, Pei Jinan would not forget the cause and effect relationship.
He owed Su Bai an apology and also owed Su Bai a thank you.
On the field, after Fang Yu finally calmed down his excitement, he wiped his face vigorously, opened his slightly red eyes, turned his head to look in the direction of Pei Jinan and Su Bai in the audience, and then bowed deeply in the direction of the two.
Next to the stadium, flashes of light from the photographers' area went off one after another, recording Fang Yu's action, as well as the previous image of Fang Yu covering his chest with his hands and looking up at his head crying in the rain. These reporters had already come up with a title for the photo in their minds.
"Fang Yu breaks 10 again in the 100m race and sheds tears at the sky"
"Fang Yu set another PB of 9.96 seconds, and bowed to thank his teacher in excitement"
"The deep love between master and apprentice, Fang Yu sheds tears on the field"
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Headlines like these have popped up in reporters' minds one after another.
When Fang Yu finally wiped the rain off his face at the signal of the staff and prepared to return to the backstage through the mixed interview area, the reporters who had been waiting here for a long time flew in front of Fang Yu with all kinds of microphones.
"Fang Yu, congratulations, you've broken 10 meters again after 4 years. Can you describe how you feel now?"
The first person to ask questions was a reporter from the sports channel.
Fang Yu held the microphone in his hands. His excitement had subsided a lot. He smiled and faced the flashlights of the reporters, nodded and said, "Of course I am very excited now. From 2015 to now, I have been eager to break through the 100-meter penalty zone for the second time. As I got older, this hope seemed to become very slim, but this time, I succeeded. I can tell everyone loudly - we Chinese, the descendants of Yan and Huang, are no worse than blacks and whites! Our limit for the 100 meters is definitely not 10 seconds. In the battlefield of the 100 meters, which is a battle for the peak of speed, we still have room for growth!"
After hearing Fang Yu's words, the faces of the reporters present were filled with excitement.
There is no other reason. Most of these journalists who cover sports have real feelings about sports. They have expressed their feelings many times about the tragedy of China's sprinting when discussing it privately.
Today, in such a six-nation competition with the participation of naturalized black players from West Asia, the winners in the end were their compatriots the Chinese!
This realization alone was enough to make their hearts surge.
Moreover, Fang Yu's result of 9.96 today also surpassed Yawei's personal best of 9.97, becoming the best result achieved by Asian athletes in recent years.
Some reporters even began to imagine the Asian record of 9.92 seconds, which was also set by a naturalized black athlete from a West Asian country. Could this Asian record be set by a Chinese athlete one day in the future?
As soon as the reporters thought of this possibility, they couldn't help but get excited.
"Hello Fang Yu, we all know that your condition seemed to have declined in the previous National Championships, but in this competition, from the 10.03 seconds in yesterday's preliminaries, we can see that your results and condition are very outstanding this time. In today's finals, you also maintained this excellent condition and won the best result in history of 9.96 seconds in one fell swoop. Does this mean that it was during this winter training that the coaching staff adjusted your training plan and allowed you to achieve such excellent results during this period?"
After hearing this question, Fang Yu recalled the hesitation he felt when he first learned about the training plan Su Bai provided for him more than two months ago. He smiled and nodded seriously, "Yes, in this winter training, I got a brand new training plan tailored for me. Under the premise of this training plan, the coaching team cooperated with me to continuously train and adjust, which helped me improve my personal physical fitness and strength application skills. The problem of my left and right leg strength deviation was also well corrected in this winter training."
"I am very grateful to my coaching staff. It is with their support that I can break through myself today!"
The reporters were also curious when they heard this: "Can you briefly introduce Coach Pei's main ideas for adjusting your training plan this time? Why did you suddenly think of making this series of adjustments in this year's winter training? In the past training, these problems were not discovered and corrected?"
Fang Yu was stunned when he heard this. He finally realized that the reporters seemed to have misunderstood something. He thought about it and then smiled: "Well... Actually, this time, it was not Coach Pei who provided me with the entire winter training plan..."
Huh?
Not Pei Jinan?
The reporters looked at each other and focused their attention on Fang Yu: "So who is the coach who designed and provided the training plan for you? Is it Coach Wu Shengping?"
Fang Yu smiled and shook his head again, then spoke out the answer: "It's Coach Su."
?
Coach Su?
Is there any coach in Pei Jinan’s 100-meter team with the surname Su? How come I've never heard of it?
The reporters thought about it curiously, and then someone suddenly had an idea. He suddenly remembered that just after Fang Yu's results came out, Pei Jinan excitedly put his arm around the shoulders of someone next to him...
Who was that person?
It seems to be...Su Bai.
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etc!
Su Bai? !
Coach Su? !
The reporter suddenly asked Fang Yu in a trembling voice: "Fang, Fang Yu... The coach Su you mentioned, is it Su Bai, the head coach of the 400m team?"
After hearing this question, the reporters around subconsciously thought of the words "How is it possible?", but before they could stop the reporter's question, Fang Yu, who was holding the microphone, had already nodded with a smile, acknowledging what the reporter said.
"Yes, it's Coach Su Baisu."
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boom!
It was almost like an atomic explosion, and the reporters present felt that their heads were completely blown up.
It’s Su Bai?
How could it be Su Bai?
Isn’t he the head coach of the 400m team?
The fantastic collective PB refresh of the 400m team in the preliminaries the day before was still etched in their minds. How come even Fang Yu, who refreshed the PB of the 100m and was known as the star of Chinese track and field...had his training plan also given by Su Bai?
Some reporters immediately thought of a swear word: Is this Su Bai still a human being?
If they remember correctly, Cui Luoheng, who currently has the best performance in the 110-meter hurdles in China, was coached by Su Bai. The improvement in the performance of all players in the 400-meter event was also coached by Su Bai. Now even Fang Yu has broken the Chinese record in the 100-meter event, once again establishing his title as the pride of the yellow race and the speed of China. But Fang Yu's training plan... was also given by Su Bai?
It can be said that every reporter present was completely confused at this moment.
They remembered that when Fang Yu bowed towards Pei Jinan just now, it seemed that Su Bai was indeed standing next to Pei Jinan... In other words, Fang Yu was actually expressing his gratitude to Pei Jinan and Su Bai at the same time.
What the hell...!
One reporter couldn't help but quickly called back to check his own photos. After seeing that Su Bai was also in the photo, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Even after Fang Yu finished the interview and headed towards the backcourt, the reporters in the mixed interview area were still a little confused - tell me, what is going on?
If Su Bai's experience was not too shallow, reporters would have given him the title of "famous coach". His coaching ability, level, and achievements...
This is a track and field coach who has been coaching for less than a year!
If the facts were not laid before people's eyes, who would dare to believe this statement?
It is not easy for track and field athletes to achieve good results, and it is even more difficult for track and field coaches to achieve good results. To be honest, before Su Bai, which famous coach did not work hard to train his disciples for five, six, seven or eight years before gradually building up his own reputation?
However, even though Su Bai has little experience, no one can deny Su Bai's ability!
Although Su Bai has been coaching athletes with sufficient foundation over the past year, who can say that the improvement and breakthrough in these students' performance is not due to Su Bai's efforts?
Since discovering Qiu Wen, in just one year, Su Bai has brought so many miracles and changes to the entire track and field world.
“This is incredible…”
A reporter sighed like this.
The people around also nodded. Before, everyone tended to talk more about talented athletes, but the reporters present all had a vague guess in their hearts - perhaps, in the near future, when track and field fans discuss the event of track and field, Su Bai will also be a name that no one can avoid.
In the backcourt, Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi and Li Junhao, who had just finished warming up, as well as Chen Yada, Lin Huan, Lin Yao and others from the women's team, were gathered in front of the screen in the backcourt, watching the replay of Fang Yu's 100-meter decisive race.
No matter how many times it is replayed, the moment when Fang Yu crossed the finish line and the moment the results were displayed on the big screen are still so exciting.
"Oh my, Brother Yu is awesome!" Qiu Wen sighed for the nth time as he looked at the final result of 9.96 seconds.
"9.96 seconds! I wish I could run to this time..."
"Then can you still run 400 meters?" Li Junhao suddenly interjected from the side.
Qiu Wen was choked by this, but he still insisted, "Hey, Ah Hao, you can't say that. Look, there are also 400m athletes in foreign countries who can run under 10 in 100m and under 20 in 200m..."
Li Junhao didn't say anything after hearing what Qiu Wen said.
After a while, Li Junhao asked, "Fang Yu's training plan was also given by Su Bai, right?"
Qiu Wen nodded.
Although people outside the national team were not aware of this matter, the sprint group had a general understanding of it. After all, Pei Jinan had conducted a special test on this matter, and Ma Changping's people from the research team had been following Su Bai since then, helping Su Bai with various data work.
Li Junhao pursed his lips. After a while, he frowned and suddenly said, "We can't lose."
? ? ?
Qiu Wen was stunned for a moment, then nodded as a matter of course: "Of course we can't lose! Otherwise, when the top 5 rankings are released at the end of the month, we will be hung on the pillar of shame!"
Li Junhao glanced at Qiu Wen, and the word "stupid" was almost clearly written in his eyes.
Qiu Wen scratched his head, then turned to look at the playback of Yu on the screen. His eyes were shining, full of eagerness to challenge: "Hey, okay, I know what you mean. Brother Yu is so awesome, and we are Xiaobai's 'direct troops'. How can we lose to him?"
Not only Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi was also watching the pictures on TV intently. His eyes were filled with suppressed excitement and desire - Fang Yu had realized his dream and once again ran into the 100-second mark for the 100 meters, once again setting a national record.
So what about him?
Can he realize his dream?
45.25 seconds...
This number flashed through Zhang Ziyi's mind again. He clenched his fists and the expression on his face became more determined.
When the staff on the scene came to call the female team players to come on stage first, Chen Yada, Lin Huan and Lin Yao looked back at Zhang Ziyi and the other two as they turned to go to the competition venue.
"Fang Yu has already achieved his own results and proved his achievements in this winter training. Now it's our turn." Chen Yadan's heroic face was written with the word "perseverance". "We will also let everyone see how far we have come during this period of winter training. I hope you will not disappoint us!"
After saying that, Chen Yada turned around and walked towards the athlete's passage with Lin Huan and Lin Yao.
Qiu Wen scratched his head: "Oh, Sister Dan is so handsome... Lao Zhang, Ah Hao, we can't let Sister Dan look down on us!"
Li Junhao snorted indifferently: "Do you need to tell me that?"
Zhang Ziyi also smiled and said, "Xiao Qiu, Ah Hao, we wish them a successful start. Of course, we also wish us a successful outcome - as Xiao Bai's direct troops, come on!"
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