Chapter 19
Wang Pengfei at the finish line repeatedly recalled the image he had just seen, but the 100-meter finish line happened in a flash, and he did not realize that Su Yu and Zhou Yuang crossed the finish line almost at the same time, so he was unable to observe the results of the two people crossing the finish line at the first time, and only a rough and vague impression remained in his mind.
Beside him, Wang Changan knocked on his nephew's head speechlessly: "It looks like a ghost, go adjust the end image!"
“Oh…oh!” Wang Pengfei rubbed his head, jumped up from where he was, and shouted to a place not far away: “People from the data group, adjust the data quickly! Adjust the image of the recorder at the finish line of the 100-meter mark!”
At this moment, all the students who were watching the game in the entire stadium cheered loudly, and then started chattering about it.
"Oh my god, who would have thought that in the end, Su Yu would actually compete with Zhou Yuang for the victory?!"
"To be honest, I'm totally confused after watching the game... No, who knows what's going on? Didn't everyone say that Su Yu was picked up by that coach to make up the numbers?"
"Forget about picking them up to make up the numbers. Just when the preliminaries ended, didn't someone swear that Su Yu's physical fitness was not good and he would kneel down after the preliminaries? I don't think he knelt down yet!"
When the students around heard this, they seemed to be hesitant to speak.
It's more than just not kneeling, they directly fought for second place and first place in the final, okay?
"What's going on...Did Su Yu really become so strong that even Zhou Yuang couldn't beat him in just one summer camp?"
"Well, it doesn't feel like that. After all, didn't Zhou Yuang change his power leg this time? Didn't you just listen to the discussion of those coaches? This is no different from learning to run all over again. So Zhou Yuang's performance now is definitely not his best."
After this man finished speaking, he received the silent gazes of the people around him.
"???"
"What's wrong?"
The man patted him on the shoulder and pointed at Xu Ziqi, who finally crossed the line in fifth place, and Liao Weiwei, who crossed the line in third place.
"My friend, if Zhou Yuang hadn't surpassed Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei, I would be willing to believe what you said."
“…”
Oh, that's right. Zhou Yuang and Su Yu are not the only two players in this competition. Before today, Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei were both recognized as students in their summer camp who had the potential to surpass Zhou Yuang. Who could have thought of the result?
Not only were the two of them unable to surpass Zhou Yuang, they couldn't even surpass Su Yu, the wizard who was widely recognized as a lazy and fragile person when the summer camp opened!
Just look at Xu Ziqi's pale face at the finish line of the 100-meter test race to know how big a shock he has suffered.
Although Liao Weiwei seemed to be in slightly better condition than Xu Ziqi, to be honest, his condition was not much better. He was now staring at Su Yu, who had obviously staggered a few steps after crossing the finish line and was supported by Zhou Yuang who turned around and supported him. Su Yu was now gasping for breath with a look of exhaustion on his face.
Liao Weiwei: “…”
It’s hard to put it into words.
And now it was not only Zhou Yuang, Jiang Yuan, who had been paying attention to Su Yu, also came over as soon as he finished the game to see how he was doing.
In short, no matter how you look at it, Su Yu, who was so tired that he seemed to be about to collapse after running a hundred meters, doesn't look like a player who can win the top two places in this game? !
At this time, the sprint coaches outside the field were also silent. Some of them were looking in the direction of Su Yu with complicated expressions on their faces.
"This Su Yu..."
"The talent is really good."
These coaches, no matter how much they felt that Su Yu was not in good physical condition, couldn't help but sigh after watching Su Yu's performance in two consecutive games.
Not far away, Wang Pengfei had just finished communicating with his colleagues in the data group and was still waiting to retrieve the end-point images. Seeing the coaches struggling, he turned back and asked his uncle curiously, "Uncle, why do all the coaches think that Su Yu's physical condition is not good? It seems that Su Yu's problem is just physical fitness, right?"
Wang Changan rubbed his head with a headache and looked at his nephew: "Who told you it was a physical problem?"
"What everyone is worried about is not just physical problems, but other problems hidden behind Su Yu's physical problems."
"Why is my physical fitness so weak? Is it related to my physical fitness? Will poor physical fitness affect the improvement of my sports performance? If I go straight to high-intensity training with such a weak body, will it directly ruin me?"
Wang Changan shook his head: "There are too many possibilities behind this. It's impossible to explain it simply because of lack of physical strength."
"The most important thing is that our provincial team's coaches have never trained a player like Su Yu before. If they evaluate from their perspective, they will subconsciously want to be more conservative."
Wang Pengfei nodded in understanding when he heard this: "Speaking of this, my brother Pei is still bold and careful!"
Wang Changan did not knock his nephew on the head this time. For this point, he admired Pei Dingshan very much. After all, he was only a 22-year-old young man, which was the age for most people to just graduate from college. However, he not only had an excellent academic degree, but also possessed a unique vision and courage in coaching short-distance running.
Just like this Su Yu.
On the first day of the summer camp, Pei Dingshan accurately captured this genius whose brilliance seemed to be completely overshadowed by his illness. How incredible is that!
At the same time, the staff responsible for the integration of logistics data on site finally retrieved the exact image of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang crossing the finish line. Immediately, the staff let out a hiss. In the final crossing-the-finish image, Su Yu and Zhou Yuang were both actively pressing down to cross the finish line, and the one whose effective torso touched the finish line first was...
"It's Su Yu!"
"Just a little bit! Zhou Yuang is taller, so he had a relative advantage when he crossed the finish line, but there was still a little bit of a gap between him and Su Yu!"
The staff around were all surprised: "Su Yu really won?"
"I really can't believe it. This kid looks so weak. I didn't expect him to be so strong."
There was a staff member on the scene who had anticipated this result. He was the assistant coach who was responsible for monitoring the runners' reaction time. Seeing that no one else around him noticed Su Yu's reaction time, he specifically pointed to the data of the reaction time and zoomed it out, saying, "Can you take a look at this again?"
The staff present were stunned for a moment, and then looked in the direction pointed by the assistant coach, and then they were dumbfounded: "Oh my God, 0.127?!"
"Oh my god, is this guy's reaction speed to hearing a gunshot... so fast?"
"0.127 seconds?"
Someone was shocked and said, "Even among professional players, there aren't many who can react this fast in an official game, right?"
"...More than a few?"
Normally, in domestic competitions, athletes who can react within 0.15 seconds or so are considered to have passed the test. Su Yu's reaction speed of 0.127 seconds would rank among the top few even in the finals of international competitions.
In other words, regardless of anything else, just looking at Su Yu's reaction to the gun in this final, it is not an exaggeration to say that he has one of the world's top reaction speeds to the gun.
After the staff members were briefly confused for a while, someone asked, "Is it a coincidence?"
After all, the reaction speed to hearing a gun is something that can happen. You never guarantee that someone will be in a particularly good condition today and have good luck to encounter it. As for whether you can maintain this reaction speed next time, we'll talk about it next time.
Su Yu has participated in so few competitions now, and they were all just small competitions within their summer camp. It is hard to say whether he is really born with excellent reaction speed or just has good luck and is in good shape.
While these staff members were confused, a lot of time had passed. The coaches and students watching the game not far away waited for a long time but no one announced the final results and rankings. They all looked in the direction of the data group. The assistant coaches finally realized that they had not done their job yet, so they hurried to send the confirmed final data to another public display screen in the stadium.
The coaches and students present had been waiting for too long. Even Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief. After hearing applause and cheers from the crowd, accompanied by a few shouts of "Su Yu is awesome", he realized that the results had already appeared on the electronic display screen.
By the time Su Yu and Zhou Yuang turned around to look at the large electronic screen, the students present had already exclaimed in surprise.
"11.67... Well, I remember who said that during the opening test match? It was impossible for Su Yu to improve by another 3 seconds during the closing test?"
"Although, 14.32 and 11.67, well, to be honest, it is indeed just over two seconds but less than three seconds."
As soon as these words came out, the students present looked at each other, and finally couldn't help laughing out loud, and then began to applaud and cheer "Su Yu is awesome."
As for the coaches on the coaching staff, after two consecutive games, Su Yu's performance and results had already made them numb. In the end, they had to smile bitterly and said, "Comparing people will make you die, and comparing goods will make you throw them away."
If before today, even if they already knew that Su Yu was talented, someone asked them if they believed that Su Yu could improve his performance from 17.50+ to 11.67 within one summer camp cycle?
There is no way anyone present would believe it.
But the scary thing is that this fact is already laid out so plainly before their eyes today.
But if you ask them if they dare to take Su Yu with them personally?
Even if Su Yu's talent was so clearly laid out in front of them today, no one would dare to nod - of course, before today, they did not dare to do so because of Su Yu's physical condition, and after today's two games, they did not dare to do so because of Su Yu's talent.
With a child who has such talent and such special physical conditions, they have no confidence in raising Su Yu well. If they can't do it well, it would be better not to raise him so as not to ruin the child's good talent.
***
On the other side, both the students watching the game and the coaches on the scene were still amazed at Su Yu's performance. On this side, Wang Pengfei, after a brief silence, asked about his second uncle Wang Changan.
Wang Pengfei: "Uncle, what did Coach Zhao Weiping say at first? The summer camp players were just runners-up in the base competition and had no chance of entering the finals?"
Wang Pengfei pointed at the electronic display screen at the moment, showing Su Yu and Zhou Yuang's scores of 11.67 and 11.68, and said, "Why do I feel that Su Yu and Zhou Yuang don't have so little chance?"
Not to mention those far away, even in the junior group of their S Province Sports Team, there are not many kids who can run the 100 meters to such a result!
You know, the scores of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang are both above the national second level line!
Thinking of this, Wang Pengfei was still a little dazed, and felt that his brother Pei's vision was really amazing. When the summer camp opened, he did not choose anyone else but Su Yu. In 40 days, he directly trained a child who failed the 100-meter physical education exemption test to the level of a national second-level athlete.
Of course, Zhou Yuang was also outrageous. He changed his active power leg in 40 days. This almost impossible operation was completed smoothly. Moreover, after changing his active power leg, he used it without any sluggishness in the competition and directly ran out a result close to his peak state. The point is that in these two games, there was no sign of Zhou Yuang's initial unstable technical state.
Thinking of this, Wang Pengfei swallowed his saliva and said to his second uncle: "Second uncle, tell me, will my brother Pei take Su Yu and Zhou Yuang directly to the national team in the future?"
Wang Changan listened to his nephew's words and knocked on his head speechlessly: "Okay, do you really think it's that easy to get into the national team? Go ahead and daydream."
***
At the focus of everyone's discussion at the scene, Zhou Yuang hugged Su Yu after seeing the results and rubbed his head. Su Yu, who was originally looking at the results, was dazed. After a while, he was so angry that he raised his hand to slap Zhou Yuang's claws away.
"Get out of the way!"
Su Yu, who was hugged by Zhou Yuang, was looking at the results in silence one second, and was suddenly attacked by Zhou Yuang the next second. He was so angry that he forgot why he was silent just now, and just wanted to slap this annoying guy away from him.
Jiang Yuan, who was standing next to him, also looked at Zhou Yuang's actions speechlessly. He quickly stepped forward to help pry open the hands that were still "doing evil" on Su Yu's head.
Although Zhou Yuang's hands were pried open, his mouth was not blocked. After letting Su Yu go, he smiled brightly and said to Jiang Yuan beside him: "How is it? I told you a long time ago, didn't I? Our little ancestor has great talent!"
Hearing what Zhou Yuang said, Su Yu subconsciously wanted to frown and refute, but for a moment he was unable to refute what Zhou Yuang said, and in the end he just frowned and stood there in confusion.
In his subconscious, his talent was still not as good as Zhou Yuang's, but he did win this time.
And the feeling of winning is... wonderful.
Su Yu couldn't describe what that feeling was, but when he successfully crossed the finish line and successfully saw his score appear at the top on the electronic display screen on site, the feeling of inner fulfillment seemed to have soothed his physical fatigue.
This made Su Yu realize that no matter whether the talent is good or bad, in a real game, what really determines a game may not be just pure talent.
Even though his talent is not as good as Zhou Yuang's, he still has a chance of winning.
Such a thought flashed through his mind and gradually took root, making him not only satisfied with today's game, but also giving rise to more expectations. He looked forward to being able to sprint towards a new victory finish line once again... and many times in more games to come.
Jiang Yuan noticed that Su Yu remained silent after pushing Zhou Yuang away, so he tentatively called out "Xiao Yu?" ', Su Yu, who was immersed in his own thoughts, came back to his senses. After looking at Jiang Yuan's worried eyes, he pursed his lips embarrassedly.
"…I'm fine."
Jiang Yuan couldn't help laughing when he saw Su Yu's rare shy and embarrassed behavior. Just when he was about to say something, he heard Zhou Yuang next to him calling "coach" in the other direction.
Pei Dingshan had just watched the entire game between Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, and at the same time recorded the parts of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang's performance in the game that still needed further adjustment and breakthrough. After the final data group confirmed Su Yu and Zhou Yuang's performance data, he walked up to Su Yu and Zhou Yuang.
He first glanced at Su Yu, whose complexion had gradually returned to normal after a short rest, and then nodded: "You are in good shape for the finals, but your physical energy consumption is still a little beyond expectations. You need to learn to control it better in the future."
Su Yu listened to Pei Dingshan's praise and responded with a sullen "hmm".
Pei Dingshan glanced at the silent Su Yu for a moment longer, and did not force him to speak. He turned his gaze to Zhou Yuang who was now standing upright.
"I have adapted well to the new technique and active power leg, and I can start a new training phase later."
Zhou Yuang, who was originally very happy after hearing Pei Dingshan's previous sentence, was stunned for a moment after hearing the next sentence: "Coach, what do you mean?"
Pei Dingshan asked him calmly: "Why? You don't want to study after the summer camp is over?"
Zhou Yuang immediately shook his head: "No, no, no, I have to learn, of course I have to learn!"
But soon, Zhou Yuang discovered that although Pei Dingshan seemed to be asking him, he was actually paying attention to Su Yu who was silent on the other end - sure enough, it came again, that feeling that he seemed to have been picked up as a gift!
Su Yu was very sensitive to other people's gazes. When Pei Dingshan asked Zhou Yuang, he noticed that Pei Dingshan seemed to be looking at him. After Zhou Yuang gave an affirmative answer, Pei Dingshan turned his gaze to him more directly.
Feeling the gaze from Pei Dingshan, Su Yu frowned and looked straight back at him.
Pei Dingshan smiled at the stubborn and awkward look of the child in front of him and asked him, "What about you, Su Yu? Are you not going to study after the summer camp ends?"
Su Yu looked at him and asked, "You haven't finished your experiment yet?"
Pei Dingshan smiled: "Yes."
Su Yu frowned: "How long will it take?"
Pei Dingshan looked at him for a while and said with a smile: "I don't know."
No matter how slow Su Yu was, he now knew that the so-called topic was just an excuse. Pei Dingshan was just using this excuse to get himself to start training with him.
Su Yu couldn't understand why Pei Dingshan wanted to follow him in such a roundabout way, so he asked directly: "Why?"
Hearing this question, Pei Dingshan looked at him deeply, and finally said calmly: "Su Yu, there is no reason. I am optimistic about you and I want to bring you out. That's all."
Finally, in response to Pei Dingshan's question, he said "OK".
If before today, he wanted to train under Pei Dingshan in order to see how far he could struggle given that he had taken a different path from his previous life, then after today, he was obsessed with the feeling of standing on the field.
Not only today's competition, but also the base competition in two days and other possible competition opportunities afterwards... He wants to stand on the field and take a look as much as he can. He wants to know whether he will still have that kind of excited anticipation after standing on a bigger and more formal field.
***
After the end-of-camp test match, this summer camp was officially declared over, but because this time it happened to be connected with the National U16 Track and Field Base Competition, the summer camp students' end-of-camp test match today was counted as an extra-curricular qualifying match for the base competition. So the provincial team waved their hands and granted the summer camp students two more days, so that the students who failed to get the top three places in the end-of-camp test competition could stay on site as spectators to watch this base competition, which was not sold tickets to the public.
Of course, some students stayed to watch the game, but it was different for Dormitory 303 - all the students stayed to participate.
In dormitory 303, Su Yu was sitting on the bed after taking a shower, and was having a video call with his parents. His parents were worried about his physical condition, and they only called him because they were afraid that he would hide his physical discomfort and refuse to go home, so they had to video call him to feel at ease.
But Su Yu was always a grumpy kid even when talking to his own parents, so the final call was basically completed by Jiang Yuan who was accompanying him. Su Yu was only responsible for responding with "um" or "ok" when his parents asked questions.
Jiang Yuan took Su Yu's phone and smiled at Su's father and mother on the other end of the line: "Uncle Su, Aunt Lin, don't worry, Xiao Yu has been in good health recently."
It wasn't until Su Yu hung up the call that Jiang Yuan reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief: "Xiao Yu, are you still going to hide this from Uncle Su and Aunt Lin?"
From the very beginning when Su Yu agreed to go to Pei Dingshan for training, Jiang Yuan wanted to tell Su's parents first, but Su Yu didn't want to say it and dragged him away. In the end, Jiang Yuan couldn't persuade his little ancestor and could only help to conceal it.
Fortunately, Pei Dingshan is indeed a very reliable coach. Under his guidance, Xiaoyu's physical condition has never had any problems. If we only talk about the pure training intensity, Su Yu's training intensity during the entire summer camp cycle may not be as good as that of ordinary summer camp students.
Although everything was fine, Jiang Yuan still felt uneasy because he had kept it a secret from his elders at home.
Su Yu lowered his eyelashes and was silent for a while before saying, "We'll talk about it when we get back."
Jiang Yuan realized that his child was being weird again.
Although he always thought it was a simple matter to communicate directly with his family, he also understood that Xiaoyu had been like this since childhood. Even if he was soft-hearted, he could still twist himself into a knot. So he had to rub Suyu's head and smiled helplessly: "Okay, I'll listen to you. Let's talk about it when we get back."
***
At 5 o'clock the next morning, Su Yu had already adapted to the early morning schedule during this period of time. After getting up and washing up with Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang, the three people in dormitory 303 went to the training ground together again.
Today, the summer camp trainees have all finished their summer camp training journey and are now sleeping leisurely in the dormitory, but there are many unfamiliar faces on the way to the training ground.
"They are all here to participate in the base competition."
Most of these young players who come to participate in the base competition have a high degree of self-discipline. After arriving at the S Province Sports Team, they will also use the training grounds provided here to complete their daily basic training.
In fact, Su Yu and the other three did not have any high-intensity training today. They only had basic maintenance training to maintain their personal training and competitive state.
When Su Yu and others arrived at the training ground, Liu Wenjian, after seeing Jiang Yuan, waved and called him over. After the game the day before, Liu Wenjian had something else to do and had not yet found Jiang Yuan. After seeing him today, he directly proposed to recruit him into the provincial team.
Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
He had already seen Su Yu's love for this arena from yesterday's game, and if he did not accept Coach Liu's olive branch, then he would not be able to stay in the provincial team to take care of Xiaoyu.
Until this point, he still didn't have a very clear feeling about 'entering the provincial team and becoming a registered professional athlete', but when reviewing the game of the previous day, Jiang Yuan felt that he didn't hate the feeling of being light and airy during the game.
***
On the third day, the National U16 Track and Field Base Competition - a youth competition that has attracted little attention from the outside world but is extremely well-known in the professional circle - finally officially kicked off at the S Province Sports Team Track and Field Base.
Provincial teams from all over the country including HK and some qualified professional sports schools have sent special teams to the track and field base of the sports team of S Province. In the past few days, each team has already undergone venue adaptation training under the arrangement of the S Province Sports Team, and is waiting to decide the outcome in today's official competition.
As the host, the S Province Sports Team also sent its own team. However, in previous competitions, the S Province Sports Team rarely achieved outstanding results in short jump events, especially in the 100m and 200m events. In the base competitions in the past two years, they did not even advance to the finals.
Therefore, as this year's host team, the sprint athletes of the junior group of the S Province Sports Team are under extraordinarily great pressure. Not only are the leaders of the sports team keeping an eye on them, but all the provincial teams participating in the competition are also waiting to see what kind of results the S Province Sports Team can achieve in the sprinting this year.
I have heard that this year the S Province Sports Team has added an extra preliminaries, but these players simply don't take the "preliminaries" selected from the summer camp seriously.
"They are just some wildcard players. Calling them wildcard players is a bit of a compliment, right? Do you think that the S Province Sports Team's own junior players can't advance, and those summer camp players who haven't even participated in much formal training can advance in their place?"
"That's right. I've heard that those summer camp students can't even run under 11 seconds. What can we expect from such athletes?"
After the two of them finished speaking, they turned around and happened to see the Su Yu trio looking at him, so they asked curiously: "Which team are you from? Do you think I'm wrong?"
Su Yu looked at the player silently: "S Province Sports Team."
Jiang Yuan smiled and added, "Summer camp students."
Zhou Yuang also smiled and showed his signature big white teeth: "Oh, yes, yes, that's the 'wild card player who made up the numbers for the S Province Sports Team's summer camp' you just mentioned!"
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