Chapter 121 (Four in One)
"There are a total of 8 contestants in this race, including 5 contestants including Su Yu, Li Mingzhou, and Lin Zekai, who have created their personal bests. While creating his personal best, Su Yu also broke the current U18 record of the men's 400 meters in my country. In addition, the second-ranked contestant, Zhang Mingliang from the L Province Sports Team, also ran his best result in the past year since last season!"
In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming both looked overjoyed after seeing the results on the large electronic screen.
This is really an incredible result.
They thought that in tonight's final, Su Yu would definitely be able to break his own best time in the 400 meters, which was considered "basic practice" for Su Yu. However, they did not expect that under the influence of Su Yu, the players in this competition would be able to perform so well!
Whether it's Zhang Mingliang, whose form is always fluctuating, or the well-known "old hand" Li Mingzhou, or the still reckless Lin Zekai, as well as the remaining players, almost everyone has contributed their best performance in the last one or two seasons.
In the entire 400m final, the worst performer ran 47.97 seconds.
This was an event where all the athletes ran within 48 seconds. Even the Japanese team, which has always been proud of its 400-meter performance, could not guarantee that they could run at this level in their domestic competitions - after all, there would always be athletes who made mistakes and caused their performance to decline.
For the Chinese team, this was an unprecedented situation.
Putting these factors aside, just looking at Su Yu's performance on the field is enough to shock people - 46.18 seconds! This result not only broke the domestic U18 record, but is also close to the best result among active players.
You know, currently in the 400m event, apart from Zhu Xinghua who has been shelved due to a doping incident, the one with the strongest PB among the other athletes is Zhang Mingliang who is currently on the field, and Zhang Mingliang's PB is only 46.03 seconds.
As for Su Yu's result, not to mention anything else, just by shaving 0.03 seconds off Su Yu's starting reaction time, it would already be 46.15 seconds, not to mention Su Yu's performance in the first 100-meter stage today.
He was obviously running slowly, and it was not until the second 100-meter stage that Su Yu showed a noticeable speed increase. However, because of the speed control in the first stage, Su Yu's second 100-meter stage should not have accelerated to the best state. The speed in the third and fourth stages did not seem to show any obvious signs of control.
However, even if there is not much room for improvement in the third and fourth 100-meter stages, the margin that Su Yu showed in the first two 100-meter stages is enough to make people think.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming looked at each other and silently asked each other with their eyes - has Su Yu been able to break 46 seconds for the 400 meters? !
***
"Su Yu's 400m time must have broken the 46-second mark!"
In the audience, 400-meter sprint enthusiasts like Han Yiqing quickly came to this firm guess after seeing Su Yu's results.
Before this, they originally thought that 46.25 seconds should be the limit of Su Yu's current 400-meter performance, but unexpectedly, their guess was too conservative.
Based on the state that Su Yu showed in the game just now, no one would believe it if they said that Su Yu's 400-meter strength was not less than 46 seconds!
The only problem might be the 45 seconds.
But after coming to this conclusion, Han Yiqing and his friends in the group still felt a little dazed - Su Yu only started 400-meter training after the winter training began in October last year, and it has only been 7 months so far. As a result, Su Yu was able to improve his strength to this level with just half a year of training.
"...Su Yu is not an amateur after all. It is normal for him to be able to run under 46 seconds after half a year of training..."
What a head!
If professional athletes can successfully break the 46-second barrier after half a year of training, then all the players on the field except Su Yu should have collectively banged their heads against the wall today!
But the track and field enthusiasts present understood the meaning of this sentence.
In fact, it is mainly because Su Yu is outstanding in talent.
At this point, someone finally remembered the standard formula proposed on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum for testing the talent potential of 200-meter sprinters in the 400-meter distance, which is the calculation formula of 200-meter PB*2 plus 3.5 seconds.
"If we really follow this formula, then Su Yu's 400-meter potential will definitely be able to break the 45-second mark..."
Someone at the scene tentatively asked about this possibility, and then the 400-meter enthusiasts present looked at each other in confusion.
If before tonight's final, they still felt that the result of this calculation formula was a bit too far away, then after today's 400m final, after watching Su Yu's performance in the 400m final, and confirming that Su Yu currently has the ability to break the 46-second mark...
The meaning of this announcement makes people even more excited.
At this time, one of these track and field fans said quietly: "...Friends, have you forgotten something?"
Everyone:?
The voice continued: "...20.48 seconds, this is only Su Yu's personal best in the 200m last season. Su Yu is only 16 years old now. Do you think Su Yu's 200m PB will stay at 20.48 seconds from now on?"
Everyone:! ! !
Shit, yes!
The result of 20.48 seconds is the PB created by Su Yu last season. To be more precise, Su Yu, who was only 15 years old last season, had a potential performance of 44.46 seconds in the 400-meter event? !
After a whole winter training cycle, in the new season, although Su Yu only ran 400 meters in the first game of the season, don’t forget that Su Yu’s name is also on the men’s 200-meter sprint list of the Asian Championships just announced today!
Will Su Yu give up the 200-meter event?
This is definitely impossible.
Even if Su Yu agreed, Zheng Sheng in the national team would never agree to such a thing.
Therefore, Su Yu's 200-meter result can definitely continue to improve, and Su Yu's 400-meter "potential" is unlikely to remain at 44.46 seconds forever.
After being in a daze for a long time, a track and field fan said with emotion: "Oh my god, I finally know what it feels like to have a star fall from the sky."
Who isn't?
Although Su Yu has had the aura of a Purple Star since the first day of his debut, that was only in the two individual events of 100 meters and 200 meters.
For these 400-meter enthusiasts, they were equally happy about Su Yu's appearance, but this joy was mixed with some envy and bitterness.
Under the influence of such envy and sour emotions, that kind of happiness seems a little impure.
But this time is different.
This time, Su Yu truly became the Purple Star of their 400-meter event. Even in the first final of his career, he had the temperament to lead the 400-meter event.
Such a possibility made all the 400-meter enthusiasts present couldn't help but feel excited.
"Will Su Yu continue to participate in the 400-meter event?"
"Ahhh, I hope Su Yu can participate in more competitions and lead guys like Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang!"
"Don't mention it. This is the first time I've seen Li Mingzhou run so hard in a race. When he participated in Asian competitions a few years ago, he didn't have such momentum today, right?"
"Don't even mention Li Mingzhou. Zhang Mingliang was also completely stunned today! 46.36 seconds! How long has it been since he ran such a result?"
"And Lin Zekai! Although he was still running recklessly today, he must have been really stimulated. He actually set a new PB even though he was running recklessly! This Lin Zekai is really good. His speed and endurance are actually very good. Otherwise, with his running style, he would not be able to hold on to the end. If he could learn to control his pace a little bit, he would not be able to stay at the current level..."
The audience in the audience were talking to each other, discussing the players who broke their PB tonight.
Even they themselves couldn't tell how long it had been since they had been able to get such pure joy from watching a game.
In their 400-meter running group, those who did not choose to watch the race in person were now regretting and beating their chests and stamping their feet.
[Ahhh, when Lao Han proposed it that day, I hesitated and finally didn’t go. I should have signed up immediately! ! 】
[I want to see the scene I want to see the scene I want to see the scene (infinite looping)]
[I shed tears. I regretted it when I watched the preliminaries this morning, but I didn’t expect that the finals tonight would let me know what true regret is…]
[@韩一清, Lao Han, please keep an eye out for Su Yu’s next domestic 400m event. When there are people signing up for a spectator group, please @ me in the group. I will definitely go next time even if it’s not a weekend! ! 】
Those 400-meter enthusiasts who had not chosen to sign up to watch the race for various reasons left messages in the group and made reservations with Han Yiqing for the next round of spectator qualifications.
All the 400-meter enthusiasts who were unable to attend the event today gritted their teeth and swore - next time! I'll be there next time!
As for those group members who were already at the scene, after being shocked, they all turned into conspicuous people and enthusiastically spread in the group the joy of watching the game on site, and also spread the news that today was the most powerful Chinese men's 400-meter sprint event in history.
In a nutshell: awesome!
***
In addition to these 400-meter enthusiasts, there are also many new discussion posts related to Su Yu on the Track and Field Kingdom forum. The content of the discussions is all related to Su Yu, and the most discussed is Su Yu's 400-meter limit.
However, since Su Yu currently participates in fewer 400-meter events, it is difficult for these track and field fans to judge Su Yu's specific 400-meter strength at this stage. The only thing that can be confirmed is that Su Yu definitely has the strength to break the 46-second mark in 400 meters at this stage.
In other words, in reality, Su Yu has become the number one in the 400-meter event in China.
In a building in the kingdom of track and field, someone left such a sigh: [Currently ranked third in the domestic men's 100-meter sprint, second in the domestic 200-meter sprint, and the hidden king of the domestic 400-meter sprint. Who would believe that such a player is only 16 years old? When reviewing these data, I can’t help but feel that perhaps we are fortunate enough to witness the growth and birth of a legendary king! 】
The growth and birth of a legendary king?
When many people saw this comment, they couldn't help but stare at the screen in amazement, wondering if this statement was a bit too exaggerated.
But after a brief hesitation, many people couldn't help but have more expectations for Su Yu's future from the bottom of their hearts.
***
That evening, Su Yu successfully won the men's 400m individual championship for the S Province Sports Team in the National Track and Field Grand Prix G Province Z City leg, and broke the domestic U18 record for the men's 400m sprint twice in one day. At the same time, he also completed all his competition tasks in this National Track and Field Grand Prix leg.
In order to ensure that he could devote all his energy to the first 400-meter race in his career, Su Yu did not participate in the 100-meter and 200-meter events, almost giving up the two individual championships that were within his grasp. However, the coaches and leaders of the S Province Sports Team had no objection to Su Yu's choice.
Over the past two years, the S Province Sports Team has treated Su Yu, a player who almost dropped from the sky, as their own treasure and protected him. Although Su Yu basically does not train in the S Province Sports Team, he, Jiang Yuan, and Zhou Yuang have always reserved dormitory 303 for the three of them, so that Su Yu and the others can stay there whenever they need to return to the S Province Sports Team.
In addition, various basic certifications for Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, Zhou Yuang and others are also being followed up anytime and anywhere. For example, Su Yu's 100m and 200m events have reached the standards of international athletes last season. The relevant qualification reviews and submissions have also been actively followed up and initiated by the S Province Sports Team.
In this men's 400-meter sprint, Su Yu has successfully reached the master's standard in just the two races today.
The grade standards of these athletes are linked to the monthly subsidies that each athlete can receive. The S Province Sports Team is willing to actively follow up on Su Yu's qualification applications, which is equivalent to actively giving money to Su Yu.
In their words - we have hardly put much effort into training players like Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, but they have brought huge rewards to our team with their talent and performance. Our provincial team can't do anything else, but at least we can't let the players who have won honors for the team suffer, right?
Therefore, the S Province Sports Team is extremely proactive in applying for various qualifications and honors for Su Yu and his team. Whenever Su Yu and his team finish domestic and international competitions, they will never hesitate to give them the bonuses they deserve.
Not only the S Province Sports Team, but also the S Province Sports Bureau, Education Bureau and S City's No. 12 Middle School have been bragging about it to everyone they meet over the past year or so.
——Huh? How do you know that Su Yu, the athlete who represented the Chinese team and won the gold medal in the men's 100m at the World Youth Championships, is a athlete from our S Province/a student of S City No. 12 Middle School?
——Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't expect you also knew that the first Chinese men's 100m WU18B record holder in history was an athlete from our S Province/a student from S City No. 12 Middle School/a native of S Province!
In short, with the active performance of young players such as Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang in track and field events, the S Province Sports Team is now very proud of its performance in short-distance running, long jump and high jump. Since the leaders of S Province always mention Su Yu and Jiang Yuan when they go out, many leaders who often meet with them in various meetings are almost able to recite Su Yu and Jiang Yuan's achievements.
To sum it up in one sentence - the S Province Sports Team unconditionally and fully supports all arrangements of the national team and Su Yu!
What does it matter if I just didn’t participate in the 100m and 200m in the first race of this year?
Didn’t you see that there was a new champion and national record in the 400 meters?
***
Of course, the S Province Sports Team won more than just Su Yu's 400-meter championship and the national U18 record in this competition.
Although the S Province Sports Team did not achieve any good results in the 100-meter event on the first day due to the absence of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, Jiang Yuan still successfully won the men's high jump championship in the men's high jump event on the second day of the competition.
However, in this competition, there were neither Sun Yuhang nor Zhang Xujian. Jiang Yuan lacked a player who could stimulate him enough. After jumping over a height of 2.22 meters, he had already secured his championship qualification. After securing his championship qualification, Jiang Yuan tried to challenge a height of 2.30 meters, but unfortunately ended in failure.
At last season's World Youth Championship, although Jiang Yuan successfully jumped over a height of 2.29 meters, he always seemed to lack a suitable opportunity in the challenge of 2.30 meters.
During the winter training phase, Pei Yongsheng always told Jiang Yuan not to be anxious. Both Su Yu and Jiang Yuan were still players in their developmental stage. With changes in their height, body muscles, strength and other conditions, their training and competition would bring some new changes that they would need to adapt to.
For example, as Jiang Yuan grows taller, he may need to adapt to the angle of the pole that he was used to before because his physical condition changes.
The physical condition after growth may help Jiang Yuan achieve better results in the future, but before that, he first needs to re-tame his limbs.
For high jumpers, every centimeter of height breakthrough is like every millisecond pursued by 100-meter runners. Only by constantly working hard and challenging themselves can they achieve new success.
In addition to the championships won by Su Yu and Jiang Yuan in their respective events, Zhou Yuang also successfully won the gold medal in the men's 200m event with a score of 20.99. This is also the first Grand Prix championship won by Zhou Yuang in his career. Although there were not many famous athletes participating in the 200m event in this Grand Prix, Zhang Zaihui from Y Province and Zhang Lei from J Province also appeared. In the end, these two famous veterans of the 200m in China were defeated by Zhou Yuang, giving Zhou Yuang the first gold medal in his career.
3 summer camp players, 3 individual champions.
When the results of the National Track and Field Grand Prix in G Province and Z City came out, the leaders of the provincial teams across the country once again emphasized the importance of summer camps within the teams, and asked each team to make sure to grasp the summer camp work and strive to better select good talents in track and field events in the province.
Not to mention anything else, at least for this matter, the presence of Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang has greatly promoted the deepening of the work of track and field projects in provinces across the country to penetrate into campuses and young people.
***
Because of Su Yu and others, the domestic track and field circle has begun to cultivate more talents from pure sports schools, and has gradually expanded the talent selection to ordinary schools, giving talent selection more directions and possibilities.
These things are now changing little by little, imperceptibly, and after Su Yu and his team finished the National Athletics Grand Prix schedule, they quickly returned to the national team on April 10.
At the same time as Su Yu returned to the team, members of the national team for the Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar also responded to the national team's call-up and all of them have arrived at the training base of the national track and field team.
The Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar will kick off on April 21, and the national team is expected to arrive in Doha on April 18 to give the contestants time to adjust, adapt and rest.
Therefore, the national team's training time for the Asian Championships is only half a month. However, since it is the beginning of the season after all, the players have just come out of winter training, and the physical reserves and technical training requirements are not too high, so this half-month training time is relatively sufficient.
Of course - this only applies to some of the players.
Since the official players of the Asian Championships were called up, the national team has conducted a round of high-intensity targeted training for Lin Zekai in the 400m event.
This kind of targeted training is certainly not aimed at anything else, but at Lin Zekai's rhythm control.
Lin Zekai also knew about his problems in speed control, so when Liu Qinlong and Pei Dingshan from the national team talked about making changes and increasing training, he obediently nodded and agreed to the additional training. It can be said that Lin Zekai did whatever Liu Qinlong and the others said.
It's just that Lin Zekai is simply the max version of Zhou Yuang in terms of rhythm control. At first, Zhou Yuang couldn't control his 200-meter rhythm well, but under Pei Dingshan's timer training, he gradually mastered the rhythm control skills. But with Lin Zekai, you can see that he is trying hard to be obedient, but once he starts training and practicing, he gives up.
The timer is useless to Lin Zekai, but you can see that he really regrets every time he makes a mistake in training.
After keeping an eye on Lin Zekai for two days, Liu Qinlong couldn't help but feel a headache.
They were planning to use the same timer training and pyramid model training on Liu Qinlong, but a very important point in these two training programs is that the players must at least be able to control their own speed.
In fact, it is not right to say that Lin Zekai cannot control his speed at all, but the range of his speed control is very limited. For example, when Pei Dingshan asked Lin Zekai to run 200 meters at a speed of 30 seconds, after trying several times, Lin Zekai was still able to control his rhythm. But the problem is, if Lin Zekai really runs 200 meters in 30 seconds on the field, then even if he can successfully control his rhythm, it will actually have no application significance on the field.
However, when Pei Dingshan asked Lin Zekai to control himself at speeds of 29 seconds and 28 seconds, the difficulty began to increase exponentially, and both the time to adapt to the rhythm and the time to master the rhythm became longer and longer.
Not only that, even if he mastered it on the same day, Lin Zekai would lose his familiarity with this time on the next day and would need to relearn it - although the speed of relearning would be faster, it could not change the fact that he needed to relearn it.
Therefore, by the fifth day of the Asian Championships training camp, Liu Qinlong had basically given up on getting Lin Zekai to quickly master the pyramid training model.
Actually, there are methods to train a player like Lin Zekai. The main thing is to constantly consolidate and adapt, repeat the training every day, and let Lin Zekai thoroughly adapt to this rhythm in the gradual training and nail this rhythm in his mind.
However, this kind of training method of grinding an iron rod into a needle is not suitable for current short-term training.
Liu Qinlong is feeling a little regretful now - of course, the regret is not about recruiting Lin Zekai into the team. Lin Zekai is a really hard-working player. He will train however you ask him to. Except for the fact that he really can't keep up with the pace, Lin Zekai's training in other aspects is not compromised at all.
This is indeed a very honest and very good player, both in his attitude towards training and competition.
What Liu Qinlong regrets is that he did not call Lin Zekai into the team for training during the winter training period to give him a good training and adjustment. Who knows, his results might have had more room for improvement now.
At this time in the training ground, Lin Zekai made another big mistake in the 200-meter run within 28 seconds. After finishing the run, this seemingly honest athlete returned to the coaches in frustration and apologized: "I'm sorry, coach, I made a mistake again..."
Pei Dingshan frowned as he looked at the data in his hand, then looked up at Lin Zekai in front of him, and finally frowned again, turned around and suddenly said to Su Yu beside him: "Su Yu, you come and take care of him."
Su Yu had originally been training in turns with Lin Zekai. After hearing Pei Dingshan's words, he blinked and immediately understood what Pei Dingshan meant.
——Since listening to the time signal directly doesn’t work, let’s try watching it.
So, when a new round of training started, Lin Zekai and Su Yu were ready for training in the fourth and fifth lanes respectively. Lin Zekai was in the fourth lane, and according to the regular 200-meter race position, he was behind Su Yu's starting position.
This time, when Liu Qinlong ordered the training to begin, Lin Zekai no longer needed to pay attention to the time prompts of the on-site segment timer - Pei Dingshan had simply turned off this gem prompt.
Lin Zekai just needs to follow Su Yu's rhythm!
When the training started, Liu Qinlong couldn't help feeling uneasy - would this method work?
As a result, this time, Lin Zekai followed Su Yu's rhythm and actually finished the whole course steadily!
Liu Qinlong took a look at the data from the time signal device tied to Lin Zekai - it was basically correct!
"this……!"
Liu Qinlong was really surprised by the result. He thought that the method of using a segmented timer would not work, and that this method would not be possible. Unexpectedly, it seemed to actually work... ?
Moreover, in this training session, Su Yu did not run according to Lin Zekai's previous pace of 28 seconds for 200 meters. Instead, at the suggestion of Pei Dingshan, he ran according to a pace of 26 seconds. However, Lin Zekai completed the whole course without any problem.
After seeing this result, Pei Dingshan nodded in the direction of Su Yu from a distance, indicating that Su Yu could continue with the regular pyramid training mode.
So in the following time, after Su Yu finished his rest according to the pyramid training mode, he immediately started a new round of 200-meter running. Lin Zekai also followed Su Yu obediently and replicated Su Yu's rhythm according to Su Yu's speed.
After Lin Zekai finished running with Su Yu, he asked Su Yu in confusion: "Xiao Yu, are you done running?"
Su Yu looked at Lin Zekai and nodded: "I'm done."
Lin Zekai was a little confused: "But shouldn't the 28-second training be 8 times?"
Su Yu glanced at Lin Zekai, nodded seriously again, and replied: "Yes, the 28-second training requires eight runs, but we just did the 26-second pyramid mode training."
Lin Zekai's pupils almost shook at this moment. He just felt that Su Yu's running speed seemed a little fast. In the last two trips, he was completely gritting his teeth to follow Su Yu's pace. He still felt that he was too useless. How could he be so tired after the fifth and sixth trips?
He almost thought that he would not be able to complete the eight shuttle runs in 28 seconds, but in the end he realized that he was actually doing the pyramid mode training in 26 seconds.
After learning the answer, Lin Zekai was completely confused - could he actually run in 26 seconds?
After thinking about this, Lin Zekai quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of the two coaches on the sidelines. He wanted to confirm with the coaches whether he had made any mistakes in his rhythm in the training just now. As a result, he heard Pei Dingshan say: "Very good, the rhythm of 26 seconds is acceptable. From now on, all your pyramid mode training must follow Su Yu's rhythm, but Su Yu's training may be more difficult. Can you do it?"
After being in a daze for a while, Lin Zekai quickly gritted his teeth and nodded, "I can do it! Coach, I can do it!!"
It was as if he was afraid that if he answered too late, Pei Dingshan, Liu Qinlong and others would change their minds.
After seeing Lin Zekai's reply and attitude, Pei Dingshan also nodded: "Very good, you should follow the state just now in the next training. You have good talent and there is still enough room for growth. Next, you should grasp it well."
After hearing Pei Dingshan's words, Lin Zekai's eyes instantly turned red, and then he nodded vigorously: "Okay! Coach, I understand! Thank you, coach!"
This was the first positive affirmation and praise Lin Zekai received after entering the Asian Championships training camp. Before this, he always thought that the national team coach could not do anything about his problem, so would his career come to an end here?
But now, he feels as if he has successfully broken through the haze and seen a glimmer of new hope in the difficulties of his career.
In the following period of time, Lin Zekai continued to follow Su Yu's training progress in rhythm training - although this meant that he had to follow Su Yu's training progress, he had no regrets.
Because if he trains according to his own pace, he may not be able to get the accurate rhythm after running 10 times, but if he trains according to Su Yu's rhythm, although it is still a bit difficult for him, he can achieve the accurate rhythm every time he trains according to Su Yu.
With more and more successes, he gradually gained his own understanding of this speed and rhythm.
Although his comprehension in this area may be a little poor, he believes that perseverance will eventually lead to him successfully mastering his own rhythm!
***
Beside the stadium, Liu Qinlong looked at Lin Zekai, who had finally gotten into the normal training rhythm, with deep emotion in his eyes.
He never expected that Lin Zekai's training could be achieved through such a tortuous way.
Thinking of this, he sighed, "No wonder Lin Zekai's coach can't do anything to him. Generally speaking, athletes can use segment timers to train and master rhythm. However, Lin Zekai's control in this regard is really too poor."
"If he trained and understood it by himself, it would take him a lot of time - and he would forget what he learned the next day. I guess in the end, his coach gave up and simply started to improve Lin Zekai's speed and endurance so that he could perform better in the later stages."
"Lao Wang... Oh, that's Lin Zekai's coach. He has expressed his admiration to me many times before, saying that this kid is honest and likes this event. His only problem is rhythm control and physical energy distribution. He happens to be one of the dead ends of the 400-meter event."
"I helped Lao Wang think of many solutions at the beginning, but I didn't expect that it would be solved like this in the end."
Pei Dingshan nodded and explained, "Some people are not very sensitive to time, speed, and rhythm. Lin Zekai is one of them. If you want him to master the rhythm, you have to let him master the time first. And controlling time while running is more difficult than mastering time in normal conditions."
"If he puts a lot of energy into doing these things during training, it will drag down his progress in other aspects of training. If he just maintains a certain pace and training volume, then in each training session, he first needs to gradually find the feeling, and then try repeatedly - in ten training sessions, truly accurate and effective training may be less than one."
"Under these circumstances, the training is difficult, time-consuming and ineffective, so it is understandable that his coach would choose to give up training him in this area."
"But the situation is different now. With Su Yu here, he only needs to follow Su Yu's rhythm in training. Every training on rhythm is accurate and effective. His control over rhythm will definitely be improved to a certain level in the future."
After hearing what Pei Dingshan said, Liu Qinlong nodded frequently, but he soon thought of something and asked, "Coach Pei, I'll talk to Lao Wang about this training method and ask him to continue to train Lin Zekai according to this plan in the provincial team. Do you think it will work?"
After hearing this question, Pei Dingshan shook his head: "I suggest not."
Liu Qinlong was a little surprised: "Why?"
Pei Dingshan said: "Su Yu is stronger than Lin Zekai, and his ability to control rhythm is almost perfect. Although Lin Zekai is a little reluctant to follow his training, it is an effective upward training."
"When returning to the provincial team, Lin Zekai will most likely face players who are not as strong as him, and his ability to control rhythm is unknown. It is possible that he found some sense of rhythm control during the short period of training with Su Yu, but after returning to the provincial team's training, he fell into the quagmire again."
After a pause, Pei Dingshan added: "By then, the confidence that Lin Zekai has accumulated in the current training phase may be shattered again in the provincial team's training, which may not be very friendly to his career."
Liu Qinlong did not expect this result, but he knew that what Pei Dingshan said was right.
He also understood the implication in Pei Dingshan's words, so he gritted his teeth and asked, "Coach Pei, do you mean that Lin Zekai's 400 meters still has a lot of potential for improvement?"
In fact, the reason why Lin Zekai was chosen as the 400m runner for the Asian Championships this time was mainly because of his positive attitude. Liu Qinlong always felt that Lin Zekai's talent was not as good as Zhang Mingliang and Li Mingzhou, but now Pei Dingshan's words seemed to mean otherwise?
As the only coach in the national team who has obtained Lyles certification, even though Pei Dingshan is young, he is one of the most authoritative coaches in the national team's sprint group.
Pei Dingshan had no intention of hiding it. He nodded confidently: "Lin Zekai's overall talent in the 400-meter event is no worse than Zhang Mingliang's."
After hearing what Pei Dingshan said, Liu Qinlong simply gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, I know what you mean, Coach Pei. I will report to the team. Based on the results of this Asian Championships, if Lin Zekai can reach a certain benchmark in this Asian Championships, after the Asian Championships, I will directly ask the team to transfer him to the national team for a trial training for a period of time."
***
After making this decision, Liu Qinlong paid more attention to Lin Zekai's training in the following period. Fortunately, Lin Zekai is indeed a very hard-working player. Even if Liu Qinlong did not tell him that he might be recruited into the national team, Lin Zekai always treated training meticulously.
Not only was he meticulous in training, but he also wanted to help Su Yu in some way every day - Lin Zekai knew that the reason he could train so smoothly in the remaining ten days was because he could follow Su Yu's training rhythm, so he always wanted to help Su Yu in some way.
However, they are now training with the national team, and their daily life and diet are taken care of by the national team staff, so he scratched his head and wanted to help, but didn't know how he could help. He could only say "thank you" to Su Yu seriously after the training every day.
Although Su Yu felt that there was no need to thank him every day, he also saw Lin Zekai's seriousness, so he did not stop Lin Zekai from thanking him in the end.
With only a few days left in the Asian Championships training camp, the schedule and group arrangements for the Qatar Asian Championships have also been announced.
The Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar will start on April 20 and end on April 23, with a total schedule of 4 days. On the first day of competition, events such as 100m, 400m, 800m, 10,000m, and 400m hurdles will be held. The preliminaries of the 100m event will be held on the first day of competition, but the semi-finals and finals will be scheduled on the second day of competition.
The preliminaries and semifinals of the 400m event will be held on the first day of competition. After the preliminaries and semifinals on the first day of competition, the 400m final will be scheduled in the evening of the second day of competition to give the 400m runners a break.
For Su Yu, the best news is that the 400m and 200m races are staggered and not scheduled on the same day. However, after he finishes the 400m, he will strive for the 200m result, so the overall pressure is actually not small.
The better news may be that the number of participants in the men's 400m Asian Championships is relatively small, so there are only 4 groups in total, with 7 participants in each group, for a total of 28 people.
In the men's 400m preliminaries, the top three players in each group will qualify directly, and the top four among the remaining players will qualify as substitutes. That is to say, out of a total of 28 players, 16 will qualify for the semifinals.
This ratio is already quite large. For a national team with decent 400m performance, it is not difficult to advance to the semi-finals. Unfortunately, the Chinese team's overall 400m level is not considered very good among Asian countries. Therefore, even with such a large proportion of qualifying opportunities, there have been cases in the past where Chinese team players have failed to advance to the semi-finals.
Fortunately, according to the national team coach, Su Yu is here this time, and based on his current strength, it should not be a problem for him to qualify for the semi-finals.
The real pressure to advance is actually on Lin Zekai.
Although Lin Zekai didn't know, in the report Liu Qinlong submitted to the national team to "recruit Lin Zekai to join the national team for trial training", one of the criteria given was "successfully qualifying for the semi-finals in the Asian Championships."
In order not to put too much pressure on Lin Zekai, Liu Qinlong did not tell Lin Zekai about this.
However, there were some disputes in the team over the allocation of Su Yu's physical energy for the two events of 400m and 200m. Liu Qinlong hoped that Su Yu could try to qualify for the 400m final, but Zheng Sheng hoped that Su Yu could retain more physical energy to cope with the 200m final and strive to sprint to the 200m World Championships qualifying line.
The debate between the two in this regard ultimately ended with Liu Qinlong's defeat - there was no way, after all, the situation of 400 meters in China has remained the same for so many years, and it doesn't make much difference whether or not to advance to the finals, but in terms of 200 meters, Su Yu has a chance to hit the World Championships qualifying line!
There is only one letter difference between the Qatar World Championships and the Qatar Asian Championships, but their importance is worlds apart.
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After the national team's meeting, Pei Dingshan relayed the team's decision to Su Yu, but after relaying it, he paused and said, "This is the team's opinion, not my personal opinion."
Hearing Pei Dingshan say this, Su Yu looked up at the now increasingly familiar Pei Dingshan. Although he already vaguely knew what Pei Dingshan meant, he still asked, "Why?"
Pei Dingshan glanced at Su Yu. Although he knew that Su Yu was asking questions knowing the answer, he did not mind repeating his thoughts to Su Yu: "This is the situation you must face in future competitions."
Su Yu is extremely talented in sprinting. He competes in not two but three events.
Although it may not be the case now, but in an important competition one day in the future, Su Yu will most likely need to take part in two or even three events, and he will need to strive for better results as much as possible.
Now, in the 100m and 200m events, Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Zhan Youming are ahead to protect Su Yu from the wind and rain. However, among these players, the youngest Zhan Youming is already 26 years old, and Feng Chuming and Zheng Tianxi are even older.
Domestic sprinters are not as good as overseas ones in terms of scientific maintenance, especially Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming. They trained a lot when they were young and now they all have injuries. Not to mention them, Zhan Youming's injuries are not light either. The reason why Zhan Youming met Su Yu first in China last season was because he was injured in the season before winter training and stayed in China to recuperate during the winter training. Otherwise, he should have flown to the national team's overseas training base for training during the winter training.
Under such circumstances, Zhan Youming may be able to barely hold on until the Paris Olympic cycle, but Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming will most likely gradually prepare to retire after the Tokyo Olympic cycle.
Once Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming retire, the short-lived glory of the domestic 100-meter race may return to a state where no active athlete can break the ten-second mark.
By then, Su Yu will no longer be shouldering just the 200m and 400m burden like he does now, but may need to take on all three events alone.
Even though players like Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang are growing rapidly, it will still take some time for them to truly grow to the point where they can share the pressure.
Therefore, Pei Dingshan did not want Su Yu to keep growing in a greenhouse environment.
“You will face many challenges. You will have time and space to grow, but you won’t have too much time and space to grow.”
"So for you, every game will be a training ground for you to accumulate experience."
Pei Dingshan looked at Su Yu and said calmly: "I think you understand that you need more training to grow better."
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