This time, the joint athletics competition among the six Asian nations is destined to leave behind many legends.
After the men's 400-meter final, the weather, which had been cloudy and rainy since the morning, suddenly turned sunny. Although the sun was not as scorching as in summer, the warm feeling made people feel very comfortable.
In the audience, Pei Jinan smiled and sighed: "Xiao Bai, it's really thanks to your original proposal. If you hadn't proposed to expand the publicity and publicity scale of our winter training competition, the Athletics Administration Center would not have organized the scale of this Asian Six Nations Track and Field Joint Competition."
If we follow past practice and only hold small-scale friendly competitions such as the China-Japan match during the winter training period, without the participation of the Athletics Association in organizing the competition to ensure its formality, then neither Fang Yu's 100-meter time of less than ten seconds nor the results of Chen Yada and Zhang Ziyi later on will be recognized by the Athletics Association as valid competition results.
Even an experienced coach like Pei Jinan couldn't help but feel a little scared when he thought of this possibility.
The weather turned from cloudy and rainy to sunny, and the staff on the field quickly cleaned the track again between races and made adjustments to the originally slippery track and stadium equipment.
Perhaps it was because the previous few competitions had produced unprecedented results in the country, and such results greatly inspired other track and field team members of the national track and field team.
When it was the turn of the 800-meter race, the women's 800-meter team took the stage first. Zhao Jia, a young player who was recruited into the national team for the first time in this winter training cycle, defeated the veterans of the national team in the 800-meter final and won the championship of the women's 800-meter final.
In the commentary booth, Shao Minyi and Li Sen were still immersed in the excitement of Zhang Ziyi breaking the 400-meter national record. However, as the 800-meter final approached, Shao Minyi and Li Sen became more and more anxious.
"Well done! Young athlete Zhao Jia has gained an absolute advantage. In the last 50 meters of the sprint, she was far ahead...!"
As track and field commentators, Shao Minyi and Li Sen both felt that it had been a long time since they had seen such an exciting and thrilling game like today. In today's entire final schedule, the Chinese team's players have achieved too many good results. In this 800-meter final, Zhao Jia was far ahead all the way, connected with the previous 400-meter record-breaking, which was really exciting!
When Zhao Jia was the first to cross the finish line of the 800-meter final, not only Shao Minyi and Li Sen, but also the audience in the live broadcast room cheered.
[Today’s game was really inspiring! This little girl Zhao Jia is just turning 21 this year, right? I can actually win the championship of this competition! It’s really amazing! 】
[Zhao Jia is awesome!] Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since we qualified for the World Championships in the women’s 800m race, right? Zhao Jia's performance today surpassed all the others. Will she qualify for the Women's 800m World Championships? 】
[You’re right, it’s possible!] 】
[What was the qualifying score for the women in the 800m this time? 2 minutes 00 seconds 60, right? I think it's a bit risky. Last year, our best result in the women's 800m season didn't reach this standard, right? 】
On the field, young athlete Zhao Jia seemed very excited after winning the championship. After her teammate Yang Liuqing crossed the finish line, she excitedly threw herself into Yang Liuqing's arms, and both girls smiled happily.
Unfortunately, after the final results were announced, although Zhao Jia's results were very good, they were still a little bit below people's expectations.
"Competition women's 800m final, first place: Zhao Jia (China) 2 minutes 00.89 seconds, a record high, second place..."
Zhao Jia's time of 2 minutes 00.89 seconds not only set her personal best, but was also higher than last year's domestic women's 800m season best. Unfortunately, she is still 0.29 seconds away from qualifying for the women's 800m at this year's World Championships.
This was just a gap in scores between the first and the last tier, which made the originally happy little girl instantly wilted like an eggplant hit by frost.
Shao Minyi and Li Sen also sighed, "What a pity."
Pei Jinan sighed on the sidelines, saying it was a pity, but Su Bai smiled and said, "Coach Pei, this year has just begun!"
"Oh." Pei Jinan shook his head: "Of course I know this, but I have heard Zhao Jia's coach mention that Zhao Jia is a good seedling, but her performance fluctuates a lot. She can achieve this result today, which is obviously when she is in good shape. As a result, she just missed the qualification for the World Championships with today's performance. This is really a pity."
After hearing this, Su Bai didn't think so. He thought about it and said, "Coach Pei, our ultimate goal as a team leader is not to qualify for the World Championships."
Pei Jinan was stunned when he heard Su Bai's sudden words, and then he also laughed: "Okay, I know what you mean."
They guide their team members conscientiously, and what they pursue is certainly not an empty qualification for the World Championships, but a real improvement in the players' strength and overall progress in each event.
Qualifying for the World Championships is mostly just a kind of evidence to confirm the current performance and training effects of athletes. If the athlete's strength is not actually up to that level, and he just happened to reach that line once in an ups and downs state, then this kind of evidence will instead lead people to misjudge the actual performance of the athlete and the event.
As the saying goes, there is no happiness in forcing things.
To be honest, this does not do any good, but some coaches do not take these into consideration and just focus on completing the task. This style of coaching and practice is irresponsible to the athletes.
Pei Jinan looked at Zhao Jia's results displayed on the large electronic screen at the scene, and he did not feel so sorry at this moment. He turned his head and glanced at Su Bai again, thinking that it was the most correct decision for the Athletics Management Center to make up its mind to recruit Su Bai to the national team.
Su Bai is not only young, has a good vision and strong coaching ability, but also can control his own mentality when the players under his leadership achieve rapid progress, and remain neither impatient nor reckless.
Just like his evaluation of Zhao Jia just now, it was enough to show that he always had a steady scale in his heart when it came to athletes' training, competition results, and facing certain temptations.
Although he had already thought that Su Bai was a good person, at this moment, Pei Jinan couldn't help but sigh. Every time he thought Su Bai was good, this treasure-like guy would always show better performance than he expected.
The national team made a real profit by transferring him to the team!
"This Su Bai has joined the national team. This old guy Pei Jinan has made a fortune!"
In the Field Management Center, Jiang Wentao was also chatting with Wang Zhengsheng and others.
Whether it is the promotion of this Asian six-nation track and field joint competition, or the several breakthroughs the track and field team has made in the short-distance running so far in the competition, it is more or less related to Su Bai.
Among the several directors of the Field Management Center, Liao Jie is in charge of the Marketing and Activities Department, so he has a better understanding of media information and overall fluctuations.
After today's competitions, Liao Jie thought about the few games with particularly outstanding results. Su Bai's shadow was indispensable behind them. In addition, the Athletics Management Center has been asking the media to cooperate and increase publicity efforts during this period.
Liao Jie took a look at his WeChat account. Some reporters had already started to invite Su Bai to lead the team for an interview through him. At the same time, some reporters were contacting him, asking for some information related to Su Bai. There were also some who wanted to apply to join the track and field team and personally broadcast live to interview the "top 5 competition" in the 400-meter event.
Just from these signs, we can see that the success of the national team this time will also make Su Bai famous.
Hearing the conversation between Jiang Wentao and Wang Zhengsheng, Liao Jie also smiled and said, "That's right. I think that in the future, our national track and field team will not only produce a series of famous players... but also a coveted coach."
When Wang Zhengsheng and Jiang Wentao heard this, they also laughed.
H City, the scene of the Asian Six Nations Track and Field Joint Competition
After a series of short-distance and middle-distance running events, the scene was temporarily cleared and adjusted again.
After a series of eye-popping results starting with the men's 100 meters, starting with the men's 800 meters, the members of the national track and field team no longer had the brilliant record they had in the previous sprint stage. They did not even make the top three in the men's 800 meters, and the same results were achieved in the women's 1500 meters and men's 1500 meters.
In the eyes of the audience who had been excited almost the entire day, this originally exciting Six Nations Joint Competition finally began to become a little boring at this stage.
After all, for most spectators who don't know much about athletics, what they pursue when watching competitions is the ten-second sprint and excitement like the 100-meter race. The boiling changes in just a few seconds are enough to make people's adrenaline surge.
If in such a competition there happens to be a comeback, or if the person who wins the championship and breaks the limit is a player from your own country, then that feeling of excitement and thrill, coupled with a sense of pride as a fellow countryman, will make one's heart boil.
On the contrary, when the race reaches the 800-meter or 1500-meter stage, a race starts to be counted in minutes. Different athletes fight in groups, lead, follow and overtake each other in the race. If you don't understand the changes and the subtle competition on the field, it may seem a little boring.
At the same time, if their fellow athletes cannot always seize the initiative and win better results in such competitions, then the viewing experience of such competitions will obviously not be so friendly to ordinary audiences who are not track and field enthusiasts.
The difference can be seen from the emotional changes in the barrage of comments in the live broadcast room of the sports channel.
Compared to the excitement of the audience when Chen Yada qualified for the World Championships in the 400m, and the excitement when Zhang Ziyi broke the national record in the 400m, the atmosphere in the live broadcast room at this moment seemed much more depressing.
[The 800m and 1500m races didn’t seem as exciting as they were at the beginning…]
[I feel that the most exciting time is when I watch the 100 meters, and the next 400 meters are also great, but now it seems a bit boring? 】
[Why did I hear that our country is relatively weak in short-distance running? I seem to often see news about marathon awards, so why do our runners seem to be not doing so well in 800m and 1500m? 】
It can be said that due to the vigorous publicity arranged by the relevant parties of the Track and Field Administration Center for this competition, this competition has received unprecedented attention. In this case, track and field fans themselves also know how many non-track and field enthusiasts will also be watching the competition in the live broadcast room. When the competition is intense and the national team athletes perform well, these ordinary audiences, like all track and field fans, only need to provide excitement and encouragement.
However, when the competition reaches the stage where ordinary track and field fans are relatively worried or angry, the mentality of these ordinary spectators will certainly change.
[So boring, I can’t watch any more…]
Occasionally, such comments will fly across the public screen, and track and field fans can do nothing about them - track and field knowledge, love for track and field, or the ability to appreciate track and field events all require a certain amount of time to accumulate.
It is unrealistic to expect ordinary audiences to feel the strength and beauty of track and field events from the very beginning, and to see many competitions that ordinary people cannot perceive at a glance.
Some anxious track and field fans will explain to these ordinary viewers in the barrage the differences between 800 meters, 1500 meters and marathon, and will also explain earnestly that my country has the strength to be among the top eight in the world in track and field events, but even as a strong country as the United States, it is impossible for them to win gold medals in every event - there is no need to be afraid of shortcomings, such as sprinting, haven't we made a leap forward this time?
Amid the earnest advice of track and field fans, some ordinary viewers left the live broadcast room, but quite a few stayed. Just as the track and field fans said, they began to try seriously to understand the track and field competitions.
In this atmosphere, two competitions started simultaneously on the field, they were the final of the 110-meter hurdles and the high jump.
There are a total of 13 male high jump athletes from six countries participating in this joint competition. There is no separate qualifying competition, but the high jump final will be held directly today.
The high jump team members sent by the national team are naturally Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao. Among the other five countries, the strongest individuals are Yamashita Tomoaki from Japan and Abdullah from Qatar.
The strength between these two people and Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao is almost the same. Yamashita Tomoaki and Abdullah both have successfully jumped over 2.28 meters in past competitions. It is difficult to tell who has the better result among the four.
When the high jump competition was about to begin, Wang Shen bumped into Cui Luoheng, who was also ready in the athlete preparation area and was about to go to the competition field.
"Hey, Ah Heng." Wang Shen saw Cui Luoheng and patted his shoulder with a smile.
Ever since he came back from his hometown before the winter training started, the three of them have rarely had time to get together. In the 400-meter event, Qiu Wen was trained so hard that she cried every day. She would often complain to them in the group about how brutal the women's team members were and how cruel Xiao Bai was.
Cui Luoheng's training was normal, but Cui Luoheng himself was a taciturn person, and Wang Shen also discovered that in addition to training, Cui Luoheng had other things to do - for example, after training, he often went to the 400-meter training ground, with all kinds of puzzles encountered in training, and opened his eyes full of curiosity, and then silently handed the questions to Su Bai.
Wang Shen discovered this when he encountered a problem during training and ran to find Su Bai.
In short, after the winter training began, not only was Su Bai too busy to prepare midnight snacks for them every day, the three of them were also immersed in training and rarely had extra energy to get together.
However, despite this, the brotherhood between the three of them has not diminished in the slightest. When they met before the game started and the two of them happened to be playing at the same time, Wang Shen patted Cui Luoheng on the shoulder and encouraged him with a smile to do his best.
Cui Luoheng had not expected that he and Wang Shen would be on the field at the same time. He nodded to Wang Shen and said solemnly, "Come on."
Before the winter training, the night when Wang Shen just came back, he still remembered the feeling of helplessness and confusion he and Su Bai had when they watched Wang Shen try jumping again and again outside the high jump training hall and then collapsed on the cushion.
During this period, Cui Luoheng would always find Su Bai with some of his own questions about the 110-meter hurdles technique and training. Occasionally, he would ask Su Bai about Wang Shen's situation. Although Su Bai did not go into details, he also said that Wang Shen's current condition was indeed getting better. This result made Cui Luoheng feel slightly relieved when he saw that Wang Shen was still in the same style as always during the chat in their small group of three.
When Wang Shen, Ye Wenhao, Cui Luoheng, Lu Mengfan, Zhao Yankai and others stepped onto the field together, the atmosphere in the live broadcast room of the sports channel, which had been dull for a long time, finally became hot again.
[110 meter hurdles!] Xiao Cui and Xiao Lu are finally going to perform! 】
[Oh, Wang Shen and Ye Wenhao, these two life and death rivals are going to be on the same field again today. I wonder if Wang Shen can break the curse today? 】
With the appearance of the four of them, the comments in the live broadcast room regained some vitality, and some ordinary viewers also regained their interest after watching the 110-meter hurdles.
[Ah, 110-meter hurdles, I still like this event very much! Our country’s 110-meter hurdles were very strong back then. I remember they all performed well in the Olympic Games! 】
More than a decade ago, the glory of the 110-meter hurdles event left a deep impression on people across the country. The impression that "the Chinese team is very strong in the 110-meter hurdles event" seems to have never changed in many people's memories.
B City, Agricultural Management Center Office
When Wang Zhengsheng and his friends were watching the competition, they did not block the barrage of comments, so at this moment, they could also very directly see the audience's expectations for the upcoming 110-meter hurdles event on the live broadcast screen.
Seeing this situation, Wang Zhengsheng couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"Look at this. This is the driving effect that star athletes and top results have on the entire project."
More than ten years ago, a generation of domestic hurdle kings brought the then unknown 110-meter hurdles event to a world-class level. Because of the appearance of that generation of hurdle kings, Chinese people achieved world-astonishing results in the short-distance event for the first time. At the same time, it also led to countless athletes and outstanding talents to flock to the 110-meter hurdles event.
Not only that, because of the existence of the sample of the hurdle king, the domestic scientific research results on the 110-meter hurdles project have been fruitful, which has also brought great help to the overall improvement of the subsequent domestic 110-meter hurdles coaching level.
It can be said that if it were not for the existence of this hurdle king in the 110-meter hurdles, the 110-meter hurdles event might still be struggling like the current domestic sprint.
It is precisely because of the accumulation of the original foundation that the 110-meter hurdles event can always maintain the top level in Asia and has never lost any medals in every Asian Games.
Let’s not talk about the distant past, just look at Lu Mengfan, Cui Luoheng and Zhao Yankai, this generation of 110-meter hurdlers. The reason they chose the 110-meter hurdles event is more or less due to the influence of the former hurdles king.
Although track and field fans today are lamenting that after the hurdles king, there was a lack of talent in the country and the former glory could not be continued, the fact is that the 110-meter hurdles event in the country still has a huge number of fans in track and field events and still has enough attention across the country. These are all "treasures" left over from the past.
In the audience seats, because the 110-meter hurdles event was about to begin, Su Bai's attention was once again focused on the stadium. During this period of winter training, it can be said that in addition to managing the men's and women's teams in the 400-meter event, the athlete he paid the most attention to was Cui Luoheng.
Since winning the championship in the Asian Games, Cui Luoheng has maintained a good form, but he rarely performs as well as he did in the Asian Games.
Su Bai also gave Cui Luoheng a heads-up in advance, telling him that the current decline in condition was completely normal. He just needed to accumulate well, make enough adjustments according to the training plan and improve his overall quality, and he would be able to accumulate strength again and achieve a breakthrough.
However, Su Bai discovered that although Cui Luoheng did take his words to heart, in terms of the study and accumulation of overall technology, it seemed that he had gradually shifted from concentrating on listening to the coach's arrangements to a technical flow that also began to carefully study technical adjustments and the effectiveness of various training sessions.
Cui Luoheng's transformation was a good thing, so Su Bai was not stingy with his time. Whenever Cui Luoheng had any questions, he would answer them seriously.
Over the past two months, Cui Luoheng occasionally noticed some of his shortcomings in training, and would make suggestions to Su Bai and make improvements.
Today's competition is Cui Luoheng's first competition after more than two months of research and adjustment. Su Bai can't help but look forward to it.
On the field, after Cui Luoheng adjusted his starting blocks, he stood up and looked up at Su Bai's position in the audience - when he just came on the field, he looked around and accurately found Su Bai's position.
In the audience, Su Bai noticed Cui Luoheng's gaze, smiled at him from a distance, and silently said "Come on".
It was not known whether Cui Luoheng noticed Su Bai's silent encouragement. Soon, following the instructions of the starter on the scene, Cui Luoheng withdrew his gaze and put his attention back on the track.
The 110-meter hurdles final is about to begin!
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