Chapter 231 (Catching Bugs)
[I have to say, the way Yudi entered the venue with the flag held high this year was pretty handsome! 】
[Hey!] Can you speak? When did our Emperor Yu stop being handsome? 】
【Autistic Caterpillar.jpg←_(:зゝ∠)_I only post pictures, I don’t talk. 】
[……?] How can you post pictures on the public screen of the live broadcast room? Help, this picture appeared in my mind...】
It is now 8:05 pm on August 2, 2024, Paris time, but if it is calculated as domestic time, it is already 2:05 am on August 3.
Before the start of this Paris Olympics, many media professionals believed that the domestic attention to this Olympics would not be too high. One reason was that a lot of things had happened in Paris, France in recent years, such as the fire at Notre Dame de Paris, the serious rat infestation in Paris that led to the search for the possibility of coexistence between humans and rats, the daily strikes of the French people, and the slow progress in the construction of Olympic venues.
The series of events in France in recent years have become known to the world, to the point that some people once doubted whether the Paris Olympics could be held as scheduled.
However, although the preparation process for this Paris Olympics was extremely difficult, it has officially kicked off.
However, there is a 6-hour time difference between Paris, France and China. In track and field events, as a rule, many important events are held in the evening. China time is 6 hours ahead of Paris time. If there is a game at 9 pm, it will be 3 am in China.
Under such circumstances, even for viewers who are willing to pay attention to the Olympics, it is difficult to watch the game through live broadcast.
But as for sports events...if you don't watch the live broadcast, many people might just choose to just watch the results.
Therefore, under such unfavorable conditions, the media generally believe that the track and field events of this year's Paris Olympics will not be as popular as in the past.
As a result, just before the start of the men's 100-meter sprint preliminaries on the evening of August 2, the number of people online in the Jigu Video live broadcast room began to rise rapidly. A group of people probably feared that they would not be able to stay up and fall asleep after watching the game late at night, so they started chatting crazily on the public screen of the live broadcast room.
Although the number of real-time viewers is indeed lower than that of the Tokyo Olympics due to issues such as time difference, judging from the current number of online people, there can be this many people at two in the morning - and this does not include those who directly turn on the TV to watch the game instead of watching the live broadcast room.
Anyway, it's more or less a miracle.
At this time, in the live commentary room of the sports channel, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were still commenting on the track and field events as usual.
"For the men's 100m sprint event at the Tokyo Olympics, three young athletes from my country, including Su Yu, Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao, have qualified. Among them, except for Su Yu who qualified by meeting the performance requirements, Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao both qualified by meeting the IAAF ranking requirements."
"Speaking of which, although the three present are all young athletes, for the Chinese track and field team, today's men's 100m preliminaries will still be a combination of 'old and new'..."
When Zhou Jiming said this, not only Tian Ruhui laughed, but the audience in front of the TV and the live broadcast also couldn't help laughing.
There is no way, it is really the old leading the new - after all, among the three, Su Yu is a "veteran" who has participated in three World Championships in Track and Field and one Olympic Games, and has entered the 100m, 200m and 400m individual finals many times, and even won many medals.
If Su Yu's qualifications were made public, people all over the world would have to acknowledge that he is a 'veteran'.
But the reality is, among the three male 100-meter sprinters present, Su Yu is the youngest.
Among the three, Chen Yifei is 25 years old, Ye Minghao is 22 years old, and Su Yu, who is a "veteran", is currently under 21 years old.
The age of the "veteran" Su Yu has been brought up from time to time by the audience and the media in recent years as a joke. However, as Su Yu's image has become more and more aloof, these jokes have become less and less common. However, the little joke made by Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming at this moment still made everyone laugh.
Of course, the reason why Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming can joke so easily at this moment is mainly because Su Yu, now the captain of the Chinese track and field team's sprint team, can indeed bring enough psychological security to the audience.
Since Su Yu first stepped onto the world's top-level arena, the World Championships, at the age of 16 in the 2019 season, Su Yu has never failed in competitions of the World Championships and the Olympics.
As long as he is on the field, it is indeed impossible to win medals every time, but as long as his condition is not too bad, reaching the finals is a basic operation for Su Yu.
As for Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao besides Su Yu, considering that they are currently unable to break the 10-second mark in the 100-meter race, it is indeed difficult for them to reach the semi-finals of the Olympics.
However, during the pre-match interview, both players had a good mentality. As long as they can maintain this mentality, although they may not be able to advance to the semi-finals, they will surely be able to give a good performance.
For domestic audiences and track and field fans, they had previously worried that with the retirement of veterans of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming's generation, it would be difficult for the Chinese team's men's 100-meter sprint to regain the glory of the 2020 season in a short period of time.
However, with Su Yu's continuous growth and performance in recent years, domestic audiences are extremely fortunate - fortunately, Su Yu has allowed China's men's 100-meter sprint to have a smooth transition.
Take the current Paris Olympics for example.
If it weren't for Su Yu, with just Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao, it would be impossible for all the people watching the game to be as relaxed as they are now.
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In the men's 100-meter sprint preliminaries that night, Su Yu, Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao appeared in the first, fourth and sixth groups of the preliminaries respectively.
Just as everyone expected, Su Yu, who appeared in the first group of the preliminaries, did not disappoint anyone. In the preliminaries, he easily won the first place in the group and qualified directly with a score of 9.98 seconds.
When the result of 9.98 seconds appeared on the field, Sun Gaoshu, Zheng Sheng and Liu Qinlong, coaches in the Chinese athlete section of the audience, couldn't help but feel dazed.
The reason is simple. Su Yu's preliminary qualifying result of 9.98 seconds is exactly the same as his preliminary result when he first broke the 10-second mark in the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics four years ago.
For a moment, the Chinese coaches in the audience had the illusion that they were dreaming of returning to Tokyo.
But soon, Sun Gaoshu shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not a dream of returning to Tokyo. Su Yu is much stronger than he was during the Tokyo Olympics."
Isn’t it?
From 10.02 seconds before Tokyo to 9.86 seconds before the Paris Olympics, Su Yu, who is only 21 years old, has already broken the 9.90 second mark. He is no longer in the state where he had to put all his effort into breaking the 10-second mark in the 100 meters.
Su Yu has now made great improvements in adjusting and controlling his own condition compared to the past.
If Su Yu ran 9.98 seconds in the Tokyo Olympic preliminaries because he could only run 9.98 seconds at the time, then the reason why Su Yu ran 9.98 seconds on the blue track of the Paris Olympics today was that he was regulating his condition and conserving physical strength for the upcoming semifinals and finals as well as a series of other individual events.
After Sun Gaoshu and the others expressed their feelings for a few moments, Liu Qinlong suddenly asked, "Where's Xiao Pei?"
As Su Yu's head coach, this is Su Yu's preliminary match. Even if this preliminary match is not difficult, you, Pei Dingshan, can't be absent from the scene, right?
"Waiting in the backroom?"
Sun Gaoshu listened to Liu Qinlong's question, shook his head in amusement, and pointed in the direction of the stadium: "Look, it's over there."
When Liu Qinlong heard Sun Gaoshu's answer, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the stadium. Then he saw that after the game, Pei Dingshan took Su Yu's game bag in his hand and went on the court to find Su Yu. He seemed to be asking about Su Yu's current condition and even took out a towel to wipe Su Yu's sweat.
From a distance, the two of them were quite close. Pei Dingshan even stretched out his arms and hugged Su Yu, then rubbed Su Yu's head.
Liu Qinlong was stunned for a moment when he saw Pei Dingshan and Su Yu interacting like this. Then he couldn't help but complain: "Where is the assistant coach taking care of the players' post-match status? Isn't there someone there? Why is Xiao Pei going down there?"
Moreover, not everyone can go to the venue after the game. You need to apply to the organizer in advance and submit a list.
So Pei Dingshan was well prepared early in the morning to wait for Su Yu to finish every game directly at the sidelines?
Zheng Sheng listened to the speech of Liu Qinlong, the iron-blooded old straight man next to him, and couldn't help rubbing his head, and then whispered to Liu Qinlong: "Old Liu, didn't you notice it?"
Liu Qinlong turned his head in confusion: "What did you find?"
Zheng Sheng sighed helplessly: "Didn't you notice that Xiao Pei's attitude towards Su Yu is a little different?"
Liu Qinlong was still puzzled: "Not quite the same? What's the big deal? Su Yu is the first player that Xiao Pei discovered. He has been with her since he was 14 years old and has achieved such results... Then Su Yu is Xiao Pei's lifeblood. It's normal for Xiao Pei to treat Su Yu differently!"
Zheng Sheng rolled his eyes speechlessly: "I heard that when you were dating your wife, it almost ended because you didn't understand romance?"
Liu Qinlong listened to Zheng Sheng's words and immediately became alert: "Old Zheng, what are you doing? Are you planning to mock me?"
Zheng Sheng chuckled: "No, I just think that your lack of understanding of romance is indeed true."
Liu Qinlong was just about to continue asking Zheng Sheng what he meant, but after hearing Zheng Sheng's sarcasm, he finally came to his senses.
He looked at Zheng Sheng in astonishment, and then looked at Pei Dingshan and Su Yu who were about to leave the field in astonishment.
In fact, we are still on the field. Of course, we can't tell anything just by looking at the relationship between Pei Dingshan and Su Yu.
But Liu Qinlong recalled the time when Pei Dingshan immediately went up to hug Su Yu after Su Yu finished his match...
Liu Qinlong racked his brains for a long time and originally wanted to say that this was not much different from how ordinary coaches treated their players, but he thought again - given their coach Xiao Pei's usual calm demeanor, it would be good enough if he would smile and praise the players a few words and nod after the game.
How does it look like it's towards Su Yu?
He did not sit in the seat for Chinese players at the scene, but directly applied to wait on the sidelines. As soon as Su Yu's game ended, he went up to check on Su Yu's situation.
It does look like a normal interaction between a coach and a player...
But Liu Qinlong finally felt that he had always been in the dark.
Depend on!
Given Coach Xiao Pei's personality, it was already an unusual situation for him to have this kind of interaction with Su Yu.
When Liu Qinlong came to his senses, his first reflexive reaction was: "...Does Su Yu know about Coach Xiao Pei's idea?"
This kind of relationship between coaches and athletes has happened in other domestic sports before, but the age gap between coaches and athletes in those sports was too big, which seemed somewhat inappropriate. Sometimes the coaches even had families, which made it even more morally flawed.
But the situation of Pei Dingshan and Su Yu... Although they are said to be a master-disciple relationship between coach and player, they are actually only eight years apart in age, and both Pei Dingshan and Su Yu have never had any emotional entanglements with anyone since childhood.
In this case, if the two of them really get together, they, as the elders, will not be able to stop them.
only……
Any coach knows that an athlete’s mental state has a great impact on their competitive state.
National team coaches like them have more or less encountered situations in their past coaching experiences where players' emotional problems affected their competitive state.
Of course, the emotions here do not only refer to love, but also include a series of family pressures and problems such as family affection.
And often, these emotional issues are the most difficult to resolve.
Especially since Pei Dingshan and Su Yu have been coaches and players for so many years, Liu Qinlong couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling whenever he thought of the scene of them quarreling or even breaking up.
Su Yu is now the backbone of China's track and field sprinting program. If anything goes wrong with his condition, then the Chinese sprinting program and the country... oh no, it should be that track and field fans all over the world would explode on the spot, right? !
Thinking of this, Liu Qinlong felt his scalp tighten, and whispered to Zheng Sheng and Tian Ruhui beside him: "Su Yu doesn't seem to like to talk much, so he must be quite slow in this aspect, right? For the future of our Chinese sprint, how about we control Xiao Pei first and don't let him have the opportunity to influence Su Yu?"
In Liu Qinlong's words, this is to 'curb the possibility of problems occurring at the source'.
Zheng Sheng: “…”
Sun Gaoshu: “…”
Neither Zheng Sheng nor Sun Gaoshu had expected that Liu Qinlong could come up with such a 'genius' idea.
How to say it?
As expected of Liu, he was almost dumped by his wife when he was young and he hasn’t made much progress now that he’s old. He’s a tough old straight man, Qinlong.
Of course, Zheng Sheng and Sun Gaoshu also knew what Liu Qinlong was worried about - if an athlete's emotional life is unstable, it would affect their competitive state, which is really annoying.
To be honest, if Su Yu really resisted Pei Dingshan, then they might really do this - after all, as early as when they saw some clues, Zheng Sheng and Sun Gaoshu had also been troubled by the same problem.
But they soon discovered that Su Yu might not be unaware of it.
Su Yu knew Pei Dingshan's attitude, but still did not refuse Pei Dingshan's approach. This is actually quite telling.
Sun Gaoshu and Zheng Sheng had discussed that neither Su Yu nor Pei Dingshan were people with drastic emotional ups and downs. If the two of them really got together, Pei Dingshan himself was a coach, so he would know some things better than the average person.
Moreover, whether it is Su Yu or Pei Dingshan, both of them are very tenacious but also very dedicated. The two have been tied together for 7 years and understand each other well enough...
If anyone must be worried about the two of them separating, it should be Pei Dingshan who is worried about what he will do after Su Yu retires.
After all, Su Yu is already 21 years old this year and it is time for him to fall in love. Although he has a rather cold personality, he has such a handsome face - in the words of the media, the proportion of female fans in track and field sprint events has been increasing year by year in recent years.
If Pei Dingshan had not been able to be with Su Yu, just based on Su Yu's face, no matter how cold his personality was, any man or woman who had the chance to come into contact with Su Yu would probably not be willing to let her go.
Not to mention those in China, as far as Sun Gaoshu and others know, Su Yu has many friends who are famous sprinters all over the world.
After all, Su Yu would be introverted when being interviewed by reporters, but he was actually quite easy to talk to when communicating with fellow contestants.
If Pei Dingshan hadn't been able to be with Su Yu... and instead Su Yu had been swindled away by some foreign playboys...!
Good job.
Anyway, when Sun Gaoshu and Zheng Sheng thought of this possibility, they almost wanted to send Pei Dingshan directly to Su Yu.
What is this called?
This is called a son-in-law who comes to your doorstep.
Sun Gaoshu and Zheng Sheng did not let Liu Qinlong continue to think about it. Instead, they whispered to Liu Qinlong the terrible possibilities they had thought about, and then Liu Qinlong fell silent on the spot.
After a moment, Liu Qinlong seemed to have made up his mind and said, "When do we start?!"
Zheng Sheng:?
Sun Gaoshu:? ?
Liu Qinlong: "Hurry up and send Xiao Pei to Su Yu, so as to avoid any more trouble!"
As a son-in-law, why should I care about face? The real thing is to go to someone's house and ask to be married as soon as possible.
Sun Gaoshu and Zheng Sheng were silent for a while as they watched Liu Qinlong about to take action.
"Alright, there's still a game to go, let's finish watching it first."
Sun Gaoshu and Zheng Sheng both wanted to tell Liu Qinlong - why didn't you take action before? Isn't it a good idea for Pei Dingshan and Su Yu to get along well with each other?
Not to mention anything else, just the way they stood together as if they were alone, and the way Pei Dingshan just went forward to hug Su Yu, I guess those overseas players had already thought that Su Yu and Pei Dingshan were together.
Sun Gaoshu and Zheng Sheng felt that since they both had a tacit understanding, no matter what others thought, they could proceed slowly and not break the window paper.
If the situation really goes wrong one day and Pei Dingshan makes Su Yu angry, they will definitely be the first to take Pei Dingshan to Su Yu to apologize - Xiaoyu, look, this is the son-in-law from our track and field team's sprint group who came to apologize to you.
As for what if Su Yu makes Pei Dingshan angry one day?
Then this is none of their business. Xiaoyu is such a good kid, how could he make you, Pei Dingshan angry? Or Coach Pei, why don’t you reflect on your own problems first? You will be angry, but are you really not at fault?
In short, it is impossible for them to get Su Yu back to your Coach Xiao Pei. If they want to coax him when the time comes, you, Coach Xiao Pei, will have to find a way to coax him yourself.
:)
It is so cruel and so just.
Several coaches were discussing these things in a low voice in the Chinese players' seats while watching the situation on the field - the preliminaries of the first group had already ended, and Pei Dingshan had already accompanied Su Yu to the backcourt lounge.
Since Pei Dingshan and Su Yu were in the backcourt lounge, there would be someone to take charge of the situation after the match between Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao was over, so they could just continue watching the game in the live audience seats.
As the players from each group came on stage one after another, soon, the remaining two players of the Chinese team, Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao, also took to the field in the fourth and sixth groups of the preliminary round respectively.
As young athletes competing in the Olympic Games for the first time, Chen Yifei and Ye Minghao indeed maintained a very good mentality. Facing strong opponents on the field, neither Chen Yifei nor Ye Minghao had any thoughts of giving up the competition.
In the fourth group of the preliminaries, Chen Yifei was lucky enough to encounter a group with the weakest average strength in this Olympic preliminaries.
However, even the weakest group is not easy to defeat - in this game, Chen Yifei gave his all and completed the game with the mentality of "successfully advancing to the semi-finals is victory."
In the end, in this game, he won the qualification to directly advance to the semi-finals with a score of 10.01 seconds, while breaking his personal best in history and pushing his score one step closer to the 10-second mark in the 100 meters.
In the sixth group of the semi-finals, although Ye Minghao's opponents were stronger than Chen Yifei, perhaps it was because of the stimulation from these opponents that Ye Minghao ran a time of 9.99 in this preliminary round and successfully broke the ten-second mark for the 100 meters.
Ye Minghao also became the second active athlete after Su Yu to run the 100 meters under 10 seconds, and the fourth athlete in the history of China's 100-meter sprint to break the 10-second mark!
When Ye Minghao saw his own 10-second 100-meter record on the electronic screen at the Stade de France, he suddenly remembered that he almost left the track and field arena.
He recalled his first meeting with Su Yu and also remembered Su Yu's advice to him.
He was glad that he met Su Yu, and was also glad that his persistence saved his dream - he was very lucky, he thought.
The author has something to say:
Pei·Tingshan, the son-in-law of the track and field team: ... (silently raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose)
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