Chapter 151
"Captain Zheng!!"
The first person to react to the result of the competition was Liu Yu. He had been participating in track and field competitions of all sizes for more than 20 years and had watched Zheng Tianxi grow up little by little.
Zheng Tianxi can be considered a late bloomer. Although his results in the early years were good, they always hovered outside the ten-second threshold. In the 2015 season, Zheng Tianxi's season best was only 10.09 seconds - but this result was also the best among Chinese athletes in the 2015 season.
It was not until the 2016 season that the 26-year-old Zheng Tianxi successfully broke the 10-second barrier for the 100 meters at an overseas IAAF Challenge with a strong tailwind of 1.6 meters per second, improving his time to 9.96 seconds, breaking the "forbidden spell" that the yellow race cannot run under 10 seconds.
But in the following 2017 season, the 27-year-old Zheng Tianxi failed to break the 10-second mark in the 100 meters again throughout the entire season. The previous 9.96 seconds seemed to have become a result that could never be surpassed or reached again.
It was not until the 2018 season that the 28-year-old Zheng Tianxi, who had already entered the later stage of his career, seemed to have regained the second spring of his career. Not only did he run under 10 seconds many times in the 2018 season, but he also successfully ran 9.90 seconds in the Asian Games, creating one of the most brilliant results in the history of his personal career.
Throughout the 2019 season, Zheng Tianxi contributed his best form to the Asian Championships. In the final of that Asian Championships, Zheng Tianxi ran a 100-meter time of 9.97 seconds under ten seconds, while Feng Chuming ran a time of 10.04 seconds.
After that, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming competed overseas throughout the 2019 season. Feng Chuming had not fully recovered from an injury during training. Although Zheng Tianxi was not injured, his results were always hovering outside 10 seconds. He failed to find the best form of breaking 10 seconds for the 100 meters from the 2018 season to the beginning of the 2019 season.
***
On the field, Zheng Tianxi wiped his face silently when he saw his score of 10.04 seconds and the screenshot of his crossing the finish line.
Just a little bit.
Zheng Tianxi silently clenched his fists, trying to calm himself down, but it was not easy.
He originally thought that since he had successfully run the Asian record of 9.90 seconds last season, he should have a chance to enter the finals of the World Championships this season, but unfortunately, he failed.
After confirming his results and ranking, Zheng Tianxi could only bow regretfully towards the seats for Chinese athletes and the stands where Chinese track and field fans were, waved his hand, turned around helplessly and left the stadium.
***
When Zheng Tianxi left the stage, he saw Su Yu still standing in front of reporters Liu Yu and Lin Weixiong in front of the interview area.
Seeing this, Zheng Tianxi frowned: "Xiaoyu, why are you still here?" He turned to look at Liu Yu and Lin Weixiong and said, "Liu Ji, Lin Ji, Xiaoyu will have the 100-meter final later. He needs to go to the backcourt to rest first. More interviews will be done after the final."
Liu Yu smiled bitterly and was about to say something when Su Yu spoke himself.
He looked at Zheng Tianxi and asked directly: "Captain, were you injured in yesterday's preliminaries?"
When these words came out, it was simply earth-shattering.
The photographers around Liu Yu had their cameras on all the time and directly scanned Zheng Tianxi.
Zheng Tianxi frowned and waved to Liu Yu and the others, "Liu Ji, Lin Ji, don't take this photo."
Then he turned to Su Yu and said, "Xiao Yu, I'm fine, don't talk nonsense."
Su Yu was just guessing at first, but after seeing Zheng Tianxi's reaction, he pursed his lips and said affirmatively: "Captain, you were injured in yesterday's game."
This time it is not a question, but an affirmative sentence.
Zheng Tianxi was silent for a while, probably knowing that he couldn't fool her anymore, so he raised his hand and rubbed Su Yu's head helplessly: "I'm fine, it's just a small problem, it doesn't affect me."
After hearing this, Su Yu looked towards Zheng Tianxi with a stubborn face. Although he remained silent, everyone could see what the expression on Su Yu's face meant.
He was clearly saying - how could there be no impact? If it really had no impact, then why didn't you make it to the finals?
It's just a small difference in the ten thousandth place. If he hadn't been injured yesterday, would he have missed the qualification for the finals today because of this difference in the ten thousandth place?
Liu Yu, Lin Weixiong, as well as the photographers and national team staff nearby, were all stunned by the situation.
The staff member who was carrying Su Yu's things jumped up first: "Captain Zheng! Why didn't you tell me earlier that you were injured?!"
Zheng Tianxi sighed and corrected again: "I am not injured, just some minor problems caused by excessive muscle fatigue. Doctor Liao has already helped me deal with it."
It is indeed not a big problem. It is quite common in daily training and competitions. Usually, you only need to ask a massage doctor to help adjust it for a day or two or apply a muscle patch and it will get better quickly.
The only unfortunate thing was that his injury occurred the day before the World Championships semi-finals.
Su Yu looked at Zheng Tianxi stubbornly and said subconsciously: "...Captain, yesterday..."
What he actually wanted to say was, 'Captain, yesterday was just the preliminaries, you don't need to try so hard'... But after Su Yu opened his mouth, he quickly realized that he probably shouldn't ask such a question here.
Zheng Tianxi understood after seeing Su Yu's appearance. He raised his hand and rubbed Su Yu's head. Although his face still looked as dark as that of a child who could stop crying at night, his hands were very gentle.
He said to Su Yu: "That's what I should do."
Zheng Tianxi was talking about his approach to striving for first place in the preliminary group yesterday - at that time Feng Chuming failed to advance in the preliminaries, which must have had a huge impact on the morale of the Chinese team, and even this impact on morale may not only be related to the sprint group.
If he had stuck to his pre-match plan in the preliminaries last night and finished third or even fourth in the group to qualify, it would certainly be enough for him, but it would have had a huge impact on the overall morale of the Chinese team and even on the mentality of the audience in front of the TV.
So Zheng Tianxi finally chose to go all out in yesterday's preliminaries to achieve the best result and advance to the semi-finals. Fortunately, he succeeded in yesterday's preliminaries - although this success also had a small episode, which also brought regrets to today's game.
Zheng Tianxi originally thought that no one would find out, and he didn't want to bring any psychological burden to his old teammates because of this matter, but he didn't expect to be exposed by Su Yu.
Liu Yu and Lin Weixiong didn't expect that Zheng Tianxi was injured in yesterday's preliminaries. They wanted to interview him about the relevant situation, but Zheng Tianxi waved his hand and said directly not to ask about it.
The two of them hesitated for a moment, but in the end didn't say anything.
Zheng Tianxi was ready to accept the interview from Liu Yu and the others, and then turned to look at Su Yu: "Go back and have a rest."
Su Yu looked at Zheng Tianxi, not knowing what to say next.
At this moment, he was still thinking about what Zheng Tianxi had just said - "That's what I should do."
For Zheng Tianxi, the captain of the national track and field team, he carries not only his own career ambitions, but also an invisible responsibility.
Su Yu didn't know how to describe his feelings at this moment, but he suddenly remembered what Pei Dingshan had said to him about "responsibility and pressure".
Su Yu saw Zheng Tianxi say to him "Go ahead" again.
He nodded silently and turned to the backcourt lounge.
Behind him, Liu Yu and Lin Weixiong officially began to interview Zheng Tianxi. However, when Liu Yu and the others were interviewing about the content related to this event, the two reporters tried to guide Zheng Tianxi to talk about his injury in the preliminaries the day before. However, Zheng Tianxi just insisted that he failed to find a better state in the semi-finals and did not mention anything else.
It was not until the end of the interview that Liu Yu asked helplessly: "Captain Zheng, why are you doing this?"
Zheng Tianxi nodded to them and said, "Liu Ji, Lin Ji, thank you for your hard work, but I really didn't perform at my best today. This is the truth."
Liu Yu felt a little annoyed when he heard this. He wanted to pry Zheng Tianxi open his mouth, but Zheng Tianxi was not happy about it.
Faced with this stubborn player, Liu Yu and his team had no way to deal with him.
Finally, Liu Yu sighed and said, "Alright, alright, you should also go to the backcourt and rest."
Then Liu Yu reminded him: "I will tell Coach Sun about your injury. You are not allowed to hide it anymore. There is still a 4*100m race to come!"
Zheng Tianxi nodded: "It's okay, Doctor Liao confirmed it with me yesterday, and Coach Sun and the others also know about it, it's really a small problem."
Liu Yu agreed when he heard it - after all, it was about the physical condition of an athlete of Zheng Tianxi's level. Even if he, Liao Yongming, was the team leader of the national team's masseur group, he would not dare to hide it from Sun Gaoshu and the others.
Finally, Zheng Tianxi also said: "The men's 4*100m group competition is on the eighth day of the schedule. It will not be affected, don't worry."
Liu Yu was so angry at what Zheng Tianxi said - was he worried that Zheng Tianxi's injury would affect the 4*100m race? He is worried about Zheng Tianxi himself!
Liu Yu was so angry at Zheng Tianxi that he waved his hand and drove everyone inside, then worried about the interview materials in his hand.
Lin Weixiong next to him usually mainly runs table tennis competitions, but since last year, he has also started running in more track and field events. However, he and Zheng Tianxi are definitely not as familiar with them as Liu Yu.
At this moment, he looked at Zheng Tianxi's back as he left and said to Liu Yu, "I never thought that Captain Zheng would have this kind of personality."
Liu Yu sighed helplessly: "Him, him and Feng Chuming, both of them look ferocious. When they went abroad to participate in competitions, the security personnel had to be extra careful when checking them."
"In fact, don't be fooled by the two guys who usually look fierce and taciturn. You don't know that Feng Chuming is a chatterbox in private and worries about his teammates all the time. Zheng Tianxi is the same. He looks like a stern-faced god, but he is actually a hard-working and good-natured person."
Liu Yu shook his head helplessly: "To be honest, sometimes I would rather they were not like this. They would not say a word about the things they have worked hard for, and would not let others see them."
"He never mentioned his injuries. His fans contacted me privately on WeChat many times, saying that Captain Zheng was injured many times. It was only after Zheng Tianxi recovered from his injuries and saw me occasionally mention it on my live broadcasts that they knew that Captain Zheng was injured during that period."
With this kind of personality, as the captain of the national team's sprint group, he is indeed very capable of taking on responsibilities, but he is also prone to suffering losses.
Liu Yu sighed and shook his head as he said this: "Fortunately, Su Yu advanced to the finals this time, otherwise the focus of public opinion would definitely be on Zheng Tianxi, and passers-by who don't know the situation would scold him together."
What about 'fear of big competitions', 'how come you can run 9.97 seconds in the Asian Championships, but can't even get a result under 10 seconds in the World Championships', and 'why didn't you prepare well for the World Championships and end up losing your form'...
Liu Yu can find hundreds of different questions of this kind with his eyes closed. You will never know how picky the mouths of some passers-by who don't usually watch the competitions but specialize in nitpicking the results after the competition results are announced are.
In fact, for example, in the case of Feng Chuming this time, if it weren't for the fact that the discussion about this World Championships was so loud, a large number of bystanders had read the pre-match roster and watched the game themselves, and had a clearer concept of how fleeting a few tenths of a second was on the field. In addition, Zheng Tianxi and Su Yu advanced to the semi-finals in succession... I'm afraid Feng Chuming would have been scolded to the sky yesterday.
Although Lin Weixiong is not a dedicated track and field reporter for Jigu Video, he also covers the sport of table tennis and knows something about the public opinion ecology in the domestic competitive sports circle.
It should be said that the vast majority of passers-by are ordinary passers-by who follow along and leave comments on Q's Weibo to watch the fun, but you can't stop a small group of "righteous passers-by" who always criticize the players when they are in mediocre form, and then lead to a wave of righteous rebukes.
Thinking of this, Lin Weixiong smiled and said, "Okay, at least it's okay this time, right? Besides, the popularity of sprinting is getting higher and higher now, and netizens have a deeper understanding of many rules and knowledge of sprinting and the meaning of different data. Things like what you are worried about will become less and less in the future."
***
In fact, as Lin Weixiong said, the Internet's spectators now have a deeper understanding of data.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the blink of an eye as 0.1 to 0.15 seconds as a reference base - Zheng Tianxi missed the chance to advance this time, and the gap between his performance and his opponent was only a few ten-thousandths of a second, and the time difference is not even enough for you to blink.
For example, you don't even have enough time to close your eyelids, let alone blink.
Chinese people are always used to using "blink of an eye" to describe speed, and the time difference between Zheng Tianxi and his opponent even requires dividing the speed of "blink of an eye" by 100.
Not to mention anything else, any normal person can feel the speed of his or her own blinking, or even worse, take out your mobile phone timer and click it twice. You don’t need to click on the ten thousandths, just click on the single-digit data on the percentile of the stopwatch, which is already an amazing hand speed.
As long as you try these first and then watch Zheng Tianxi's game, few people will condemn Zheng Tianxi's failure.
Moreover, the "righteous bystander" who likes to stir up trouble is a bystander, and the bystander who just likes to watch the show is also a bystander!
Normally, the bystanders just don’t care, but now that they care, their fighting power is fully increased.
Just like the issue of blinking frequency and double-clicking the mobile phone timer, it was recycled and reused by bystanders from track and field fans and past hot searches.
For a moment, both the national track and field team and the sports general association's public opinion supervision group breathed a sigh of relief - OK, as long as the online reputation is fine.
It’s not that the national team cares particularly about online reputation, but it’s mainly because these online opinions will indeed affect the players’ mood and state.
Therefore, they usually do not recommend players to pay too much attention to their own news on the Internet. However, today's players are getting younger and younger, and are becoming more and more active on the Internet. They are forced to pay more and more attention to information on the Internet.
***
At this moment, the negative public opinion on the Internet has not had time to ferment, but has already been dominated by such ridiculous topics as #Q大数院换标文# and #Double-click秒挑战#.
At the same time, three players from the Chinese team, represented by Su Yu, successfully advanced to the finals later.
Under the influence of these factors, the tolerance towards Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming on the Internet has reached its highest level.
At this time, Sun Gaoshu and others had of course rushed to the backcourt locker room as soon as possible.
At this moment, Su Yu was receiving a simple relaxing massage from Dr. Liao in the lounge. In three hours, Su Yu would need to participate in the final of the World Championships. Even Liao Yongming did not dare to relax Su Yu too much, otherwise it might affect Su Yu's competitive state later.
Zheng Tianxi had already returned to the lounge, and Feng Chuming also followed Sun Gaoshu and the others back to the lounge. After seeing Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming didn't say anything else, just patted him on the shoulder.
As old teammates and old opponents for so many years, although Zheng Tianxi did not tell anyone about his situation, Feng Chuming could actually see it. He was not feeling very good at the moment. He blamed himself for his performance yesterday, but he also knew that he had done his best yesterday.
Zheng Tianxi didn't say much, just patted his old partner on the shoulder.
After more than ten years of friendship, there was no need for the two to say much, as everything was implied.
Of course, Sun Gaoshu and the others would not blame Zheng Tianxi for anything. They just patted him on the shoulder and told him to take good care of himself and control the amount of training.
Until Su Yu finished his brief massage, a staff member handed Su Yu the energy-replenishing drink prepared by the national team nutritionist. During the whole process, no one else in the lounge said a word. When Su Yu was having a massage, in order to give him a better massage and relaxation environment, Zheng Tianxi took the initiative to lead everyone out of the lounge and left the space in the lounge for Su Yu.
For the Chinese team, Su Yu, who has successfully advanced to the men's 100-meter sprint final, is undoubtedly the only hope on the field.
As for this only seedling, the only requirement of the Chinese team is... actually no requirement.
In other words, Sun Gaoshu didn't even need Su Yu to react very quickly in the final later - as long as Su Yu finished the race smoothly, even if the result was beyond 10.30 seconds, it would mean that the Chinese team had left an official result in the World Championships final.
Su Yu had no reaction to Sun Gaoshu's words.
He was still remembering what Zheng Tianxi said about "responsibility".
To be honest, although his recovery ability is very strong, in the previous semi-final, he really used up all his strength and tried his best to successfully cross the finish line and win.
In this game, his PB was only 0.02 seconds higher than in the preliminaries, just like his 100-meter PB in the preliminaries was only 0.01 seconds higher than his original PB.
Su Yu himself could also feel that it would be difficult for him to make a bigger breakthrough in the 100-meter race at the current stage.
From last year to this year, after winter training, he broke his own record to 10.06 at the beginning of the season. He then spent several months competing in competitions to accumulate a little "foundation" for himself, giving himself a little room for improvement.
But going further would still be very difficult with his current abilities.
And now, he is about to face the world's highest level track and field 100-meter sprint competition in this inadequate state.
Although the team had been telling him that it was okay and that it was okay to rank last in this final - Su Yu's heart would not allow himself to really fall to the bottom.
He hopes that he can at least perform at his usual level, even if he doesn't compete for rankings that he can't even imagine, but as he said in a previous interview - he can't wait until hope arrives before working hard.
He wanted to try, to live up to the title of "national team player", to live up to the expectations of the Chinese audiences in front of the TV and in the stadium, and he also wanted to try how far he could go with another effort.
This was his first real journey of "carrying a heavy burden".
Su Yu, who had rarely felt pressure in the past, felt for the first time this heavy burden that had once only been on Zheng Tianxi.
Sun Gaoshu looked at Su Yu who was silent and understood what he meant. He wanted to persuade the child in front of him, but he didn't know how to say it.
After all, Su Yu obviously wanted to try his best to move forward, and as the leader of the national team's sprint group, didn't he also hope that his athletes could have such a spirit?
In the end, Sun Gaoshu, who was full of contradictions, could only pat Su Yu on the shoulder again.
"Don't be too stressed. No matter what your final result is, you are the hero of our national team!"
Of course, Pei Dingshan also saw what Su Yu was thinking. He silently wondered in his heart whether Su Yu had such a huge burden in his heart now, in addition to the fact that he unexpectedly advanced to the World Championships alone ahead of time, was also affected by the plans he had made for Su Yu in advance.
Looking at the child in front of him, although Pei Dingshan's face remained calm, he felt a little proud and distressed in his heart.
What makes us proud is that Su Yu is not only gradually improving and growing in his performance, but his inner self is also gradually developing into an outstanding leader in China's sprinting events.
What's heartbreaking is that Su Yu is only a 16-year-old boy this year. At such an age, he has to face such world-class pressure. In addition to the 100-meter event, he also has the 200-meter and 400-meter events waiting for him.
Although "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", Pei Dingshan fell into a long silence when he saw the future that Su Yu faced.
He had thought about this question before - Zheng Tianxi has Feng Chuming by his side, Sun Yuhang has Zhang Xujian by his side, there are five generals in long jump, and in addition to Jiang Yuan, there are other good seedlings who are growing rapidly in the high jump event.
But what about sprinting here?
In Pei Dingshan’s eyes, the only player who can partner with Su Yu or support each other is Zhou Yuang.
There is still a high degree of talent shortage in the 100m and 400m events.
In fact, during this period of time, in addition to being busy with Su Yu's affairs and the training of some domestic coaches, Pei Dingshan has also been watching the game videos provided by various provincial teams, trying to screen out some potential seedlings.
However, there are too many teams and players across the country, and his time is limited, so it is difficult to speed up the screening of these fresh talents.
Pei Dingshan glanced at Su Yu in front of him and decided in his heart that he needed to screen out more good seedlings as soon as possible.
The Chinese team's sprinting event may be supported by Su Yu alone in the short term, but if Su Yu is the only one supporting it forever, and no one else grows up under him, then the day when Su Yu retires may be the day when the Chinese sprinting program collapses.
Pei Dingshan has always been very clear in his mind that the emergence of Su Yu, in addition to his own genius and the various new records he can create for China, Su Yu's greater significance is that after Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Zhan Youming, he has given China's sprinting program at least ten more years of "life extension time".
During the past decade, what the national team needs to do is to find as many good seedlings as possible, train them, and then take on the "post-Su Yu era" that may appear in the future.
Of course, Su Yu is only 16 years old now, and it is too early to talk about the future. But after seeing Su Yu at this moment, Pei Dingshan has developed a new sense of urgency in his heart about "finding reliable teammates for Su Yu."
***
In the following time, considering that Su Yu's game was late at night, the national team's nutritionist also prepared some simple food for Su Yu to ensure his physical fitness for the game later at 10:15 in the evening.
Of course, because the time from now to 10:15 is too short, and we also have to consider not adding digestive burden to Su Yu's stomach and intestines and affecting his body functions at that time, the food prepared by the nutritionist for Su Yu is also very simple.
In the following period of time, in addition to having a simple meal, Su Yu also took time to sleep for half an hour.
For athletes, sleep is the best way to recover physically, but some athletes find it difficult to fall asleep before a game because they are too excited.
This time, when Su Yu expressed that he was going to rest for half an hour, all the members of the national team immediately evacuated from the lounge, leaving Su Yu with a quiet sleeping environment.
As a result, when Pei Dingshan was about to leave, Su Yu thought about it and suddenly called him: "Coach."
Pei Dingshan immediately stopped and looked back at Su Yu: "What's wrong?"
Su Yu said: "Can you stay?"
Pei Dingshan was stunned for a moment, then immediately said: "Of course."
After Su Yu got Pei Dingshan's reply, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed. From Pei Dingshan's perspective, he could see that Su Yu's ears were a little red.
He thought about it and quickly understood what Su Yu meant. He asked him, "I brought my notebook with me. Can I take care of something on the side?"
After hearing Pei Dingshan's words, Su Yu blinked, then nodded and said, "Okay."
Perhaps it was because Pei Dingshan had always been by his side in so many international competitions, Su Yu now had a different kind of dependence on Pei Dingshan, so much so that when he faced this kind of stressful situation for the first time, he couldn't help but make this somewhat strange request during the break.
Fortunately, Pei Dingshan agreed directly without saying anything. He took out his backpack and laptop from the lounge cabinet, sat aside, and turned off the lights in the lounge.
"Go to sleep, I'll take care of some things."
In the dim environment, Su Yu closed his eyes unconsciously when he heard Pei Dingshan's words.
It was not until more than half an hour later that Su Yu opened his eyes naturally under the light, and then saw Pei Dingshan in the lounge and his laptop screen which was always on as usual.
"woke up?"
Pei Dingshan asked him.
Su Yu nodded, and then asked him as usual: "Is there any new news?"
Pei Dingshan hummed, "The organizer sent us the final list of the men's 100-meter sprint finalists and the lane table."
At this point, Pei Dingshan said: "In the finals, you were still in lane nine."
Su Yu's result of 10.02 seconds in the semi-finals was obviously not enough to rank in the top four in the final. After ranking in the last four, he was naturally randomized to the ninth lane.
Su Yu seemed to have some mysterious connection with the ninth lane, but fortunately, his performance in the ninth lane had been pretty good so far.
When Su Yu heard that he was still in the ninth lane in the final, he didn't have any special reaction. He just said "hmm" and nodded.
Then, as Su Yu nodded, Pei Dingshan said, "Romario, who is in the same group with you, has successfully advanced to the finals. This time, his lane is on your left, which is lane 8."
Su Yu was not surprised by this result.
After all, as to who would advance, after the results of the third group in the men's 100-meter sprint semi-finals came out, we already knew everything we needed to know. The only thing that was a bit surprising was Romario's lane number.
But considering that Romario had the same semi-final result of 10.02 seconds as him, this lane situation actually seems very reasonable.
However, although Romario ran the same time of 10.02 seconds as him in the semi-finals, Romario is actually a runner who can run under 10 seconds. For him, he will never take the final stage lightly.
So from Su Yu's perspective, although Romario in the final stage is an old opponent, he will actually be a "brand new opponent".
In the lounge, Pei Dingshan was introducing the seven finalists to Su Yu one by one, and Su Yu was listening calmly on the massage bed.
It was not until Pei Dingshan finished explaining the situation that Su Yu finally came to his senses.
Pei Dingshan saw Su Yu getting off the massage bed, so he looked up at Su Yu and asked him, "How is your condition now?"
Su Yu thought for a moment and said, "Much better."
Although I definitely haven't recovered to my best condition, it is much better than before the break.
For Su Yu, before he fell asleep for half an hour, he seemed a little anxious because of the sudden pressure, but after half an hour of quiet rest, not only did he recover physically, but he also gradually adapted to facing this kind of pressure.
***
At 9:30 p.m., the on-site staff knocked on the door of the Chinese team's lounge and came in to inform Su Yu that he could go to prepare for the final registration and warm-up.
This time, after Su Yu stood up with his sports bag, he saw Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Sun Gaoshu coming in and hugging him one by one.
“Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”
“Just run normally.”
"That's right, the fact that you can stand on this finals field is a miracle in itself!"
Su Yu listened to the comfort given to him by his coach and his teammates who were not good at speaking, and nodded seriously: "I understand."
Seeing him nod, Pei Dingshan finally raised his hand and rubbed his head: "Okay, go prepare for the game."
***
Until he watched Su Yu disappear with the staff, Sun Gaoshu, who was present, looked at Su Yu in the distance, then at Zheng Tianxi beside him. He wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.
Zheng Tianxi knew what Sun Gaoshu wanted to say, but Sun Gaoshu was hesitant to say it, but he could.
"The future of the Chinese team lies in him."
He, Feng Chuming, Zhan Youming and the previous contestants are all the previous waves that have passed or are about to pass away, while Su Yu is the rising sun among the waves.
Zheng Tianxi said: "He is only 16 years old this year. How lucky is the Chinese team?"
How lucky we are to have a player whose career has been so long and who will apparently remain world-class for a long time.
On the side, Pei Dingshan suddenly said after hearing what Zheng Tianxi said: "We need to speed up the selection of young players."
Pei Dingshan said, "Perhaps during this winter training, we should invite the Olympic reserve talent training base to once again select young athletes from across the country for a longer training period?"
Sun Gaoshu was stunned when he heard Pei Dingshan's words, but he quickly understood what Pei Dingshan meant.
In fact, Pei Dingshan did not hide the selection of young players from the team during this period. He reported to the team and used the team's resources. It's just that Sun Gaoshu did not expect Pei Dingshan to become so anxious suddenly.
But soon, he thought about it - Su Yu had already entered the World Championships final. If he wanted to form the next generation of the national team's sprint core team more quickly, then the members of the future core team could not be unable to run under 10.30 seconds, right?
It will take at least one or two years of training to go from a young athlete to a future core member of the national team who can run under 10.30 seconds for the 100 meters. After the Tokyo Olympics, Zheng Tianxi will only run in one more World Championships before retiring...
In this case, time is really running out.
***
Of course, time is short and no matter how anxious Pei Dingshan is, it is impossible for him to complete the follow-up work now. He just mentioned the urgent time point, and then after Su Yu went to the warm-up training ground, he went to the Chinese team's player area seat with Sun Gaoshu and others to watch the game.
After seeing Sun Gaoshu and his team come back, the Chinese team staff at the scene saw Zheng Tianxi. Although many of them did not dare to hug him because of his "ferocious" face, they all gave him a thumbs up to express their respect for Zheng Tianxi.
Zheng Tianxi nodded to them, then sat down with Feng Chuming. The two ferocious guys whose photos were printed out to ward off evil sat there, and no one dared to touch the seats around them.
But Zheng Tianxi knew his old partner well. Feng Chuming must have a lot of things to say and worries to express at this moment. However, this guy was too proud to show his image in public, so his face became even more ferocious.
At this point in the competition, the women's 10,000m race had reached its final stage. In this race, the Dutchwoman finally reached the finish line successfully with the first place. She also ran the current best result in the world for the women's 10,000m this season in this race.
After the match, in the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming not only introduced the Dutch women's player who set a new world record this season, but also naturally turned the topic to the next one, which is also the topic that domestic audiences are most concerned about now -
The World Championships final of the men's 100m sprint is coming!
Next, the Chinese team's athlete, Su Yu, the first yellow athlete in history to enter the men's 100m final of the World Championships, will also appear! ! !
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