Chapter 26 (Three in One)
For the coaches in the audience at this moment, if they still have to pay attention to Su Yu in this game, then the most noteworthy part is probably Su Yu's reaction speed at the start. As for Su Yu's performance after the start, it is completely out of their focus.
As the command of 'get ready' sounded, the summer camp students who were also in the audience were different from the coaches. All their attention was now on Su Yu and Zhou Yuang. To them, Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, who represented the summer camp students, were the most important factors for them to be nervous about in this final.
"Ahhh, no, I'm too nervous to watch the game."
"Can it be done? Can it be done? No matter if it's Su Yu or Zhou Yuang, can either of them make it to the top three?"
"When I was having lunch in the cafeteria at noon, I secretly overheard the discussion among the youth teams from other provinces. Apart from Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui, the one they were most optimistic about seemed to be Tang Xianwen from Province F. Some people also mentioned Zhou Yuang, but it seemed that no one was optimistic about Su Yu..."
Almost all the students in the summer camp had a nervous look on their faces, and after hearing the discussions of other students around them, the tense atmosphere became more and more intense.
"Ahhh, stop talking, stop talking. I hope Su Yu and Zhou Yuang can do their best!! Bring honor to our summer camp students!!"
As the discussion died down, the students soon fell silent on their own accord. The reason was simple: the eight runners on the 100-meter track were now all in position. From the second lane to the ninth lane, all eight runners had already stepped onto their respective starting blocks, and were either turning their bodies to adjust their physical condition or supporting themselves with their hands on the ground waiting for new instructions from the referee.
At the starting lines of the eight tracks, whether it was the much-anticipated Ye Minghao in the fifth lane or the contestants in the other lanes, everyone was holding their breath at this moment.
On the sixth track, Su Yu seemed to be in a strange state at this moment. His heartbeat was shaking like thunder. The surrounding sounds seemed to become farther away because of the sound of his heartbeat. Only the instructions of the referee beside the track were still clearly heard in his ears.
At this moment, only the sound of "ready" was heard at the scene. Su Yu immediately supported himself with his hands and raised his hips. His body center of gravity was very low, which was enough to help him have a better performance in the starting stage.
For Ye Minghao beside him, this game may have enough room for error, but for him, this game cannot afford to make mistakes - he must strive for the most perfect standard answer, or perhaps do better than this most perfect standard answer!
When the "ready" sounded, everyone at the scene, which was already so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, held their breath. All the sounds around seemed to be magnified countless times in Su Yu's ears at this moment. Even the breathing of Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang seemed to have become the rhythm in his ears.
For other contestants, it was just a blink of an eye, but in Su Yu's world, it seemed to be split into countless nodes.
Get ready—take a deep breath—and then…
"Bang!"
The starting gun sounds!
Pedal, explode—start at full speed!
When Su Yu stepped on the starting blocks and started running with all his strength, he kept his center of gravity extremely low. Relying on the sharp and perfect kicking angle he had mastered in every previous practice, he was like a sharp sword, breaking through the wind at the moment of starting.
Perhaps his explosive power and lower limb strength could not be compared with those of other opponents present, but with every sharp and active push, hip thrust, and arm swing, the power feedback obtained from the continuous contact with the ground during running, and the perfect reaction speed at the start that no one could match, everyone in the audience was shocked to find that Su Yu, who was not favored by anyone in the sixth lane...
In the current starting stage, he did not lose to anyone!
In the coaching area of the audience seats, many coaches even stood up in surprise at this moment, including Zhao Weiping, the head coach of the G Province team.
He looked in astonishment at Su Yu on the track not far away, and for a moment he didn't even have time to pay attention to Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui in his team.
"This Su Yu...this starting ability!"
Zhao Weiping first looked at Su Yu in surprise, then quickly turned his gaze to Ye Minghao on the track nearby.
Everyone thought that in this race, letting Su Yu start next to Ye Minghao was a very unfriendly starting position for Su Yu. Even Zhao Weiping thought before the race started that Su Yu starting next to Ye Minghao would inevitably disrupt Su Yu's running rhythm throughout the game.
But at this moment, not only was Su Yu's overall rhythm not disrupted by Ye Minghao, but he was even in the same position as Ye Minghao in the first thirty meters of the start - that is to say, Su Yu from the S Province Sports Team was almost at the forefront of all the players during the entire starting acceleration phase.
An almost incredible starting speed!
What is his starting reaction?
Is it around 0.13 seconds again?
Or even around 0.12 seconds? !
Zhao Weiping was not the only one who was confused in the audience. Many coaches who had not paid attention to Su Yu before the game were so shocked that they were speechless at this moment.
This Su Yu...how did this kid do it? He has such a stable reaction time when starting a run, and he has not even been trained for more than two months. It only took these two months for him to have such a stable reaction time when starting a run...
This could no longer be explained by the effect of training. The only thing that could explain his ability to hear gunshots was his extremely outstanding natural ability to withstand psychological stress and his extraordinary reaction ability.
This kind of ability is purely the result of God chasing him from behind and feeding him.
Although the two shots in the morning preliminaries had already made the coaches present feel the strength of Su Yu's talent, this child, who had clearly performed as if he had tried his best in the morning game, brought a new shock to all the coaches present after the shot in the final.
Zhao Weiping couldn't help but admire at this moment: "What a strong ability to withstand pressure. This kid is probably a real big-game player."
The bigger the game, the greater the pressure, the greater the ability.
Compared to those players who perform outstandingly in daily training and small competitions but collapse in big competitions, it is the dream of countless coaches to be able to train a real big-game player.
***
Compared to the exclamations of the coaches in the coaching booth, another group of summer camp students in the audience could not understand too many technical details. They could only understand that at the moment of the start, Su Yu did not lose to Ye Minghao, who was recognized by everyone as the champion.
Even during the acceleration stage, Ye Minghao relied on his stronger explosive power and speed to take the lead, but the gap between Su Yu and Ye Minghao was not that big!
As for Jiang Ruohui on the fourth track, Jiang Ruohui, who should be firmly in second place in everyone's eyes, is now only on par with Su Yu.
The scene before them gave great stimulation to the summer camp students in the audience. The students, who were originally feeling uneasy, doubtful and nervous, could not help but shout loudly towards the track to cheer for the team.
"Ahhh, come on Su Yu!! Come on Zhou Yuang!!!"
"Su Yu rush!!!"
"Su Yu, Su Yu Su Yu!!!"
Amid the summer camp participants' nervous and excited cheers, Jiang Ruohui in lane 4 also felt unexpected pressure.
In fact, when Jiang Ruohui heard the name "Su Yu" from Ye Minghao a few days ago, he didn't take it too seriously. After all, Ye Minghao had been optimistic about some other players before, but those players didn't actually achieve any very good results.
To Jiang Ruohui, the name Su Yu was just another name added to Ye Minghao's record of "misjudgments".
But at that time, Ye Minghao said to him stubbornly, "This Su Yu will definitely be very strong in the future."
Jiang Ruohui didn't take it seriously at the time. It was not until the preliminary round this morning when Jiang Ruohui saw Su Yu in person for the first time that he became curious about this opponent who dared to look them in the eye before the game and was not nervous at all about the upcoming preliminary round.
After that, what really made him feel that Su Yu was extraordinary was the only preliminary race in the morning where he had two shots to start. This summer camp student, who many people thought could not even advance to the finals, not only made it to the finals, but his reaction time in the two-shot start was so fast that neither he nor Ye Minghao could catch up.
Jiang Ruohui finally agreed with Ye Minghao's statement - this Su Yu will definitely be very strong in the future.
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But the problem is that Jiang Ruohui never expected that Su Yu's "future" would come so soon.
In this final, Ye Minghao told him before the game that he wanted to sprint for the national record that he had not been able to break before. Jiang Ruohui knew that Ye Minghao would definitely sprint with all his strength in this game. As a teammate for many years, Jiang Ruohui has adapted to Ye Minghao's rhythm very well, so even if Ye Minghao wants to sprint, it will not have much impact on him.
In fact, just as those coaches predicted, he also wanted to use Ye Minghao's leadership to break his personal best record.
From the preparation stage of this game, Jiang Ruohui felt that his condition was already very good. Even after the referee fired the gun, he was highly focused on his game and felt that he had given a very good response speed.
Excellent reaction to the gun, outstanding start and acceleration - at least in the starting stage, Jiang Ruohui felt that his starting state was already very outstanding.
According to his own experience, this rhythm is enough for him to get a result that is infinitely close to the edge of 11 seconds. With this result, among the other 7 opponents present, no one except Ye Minghao would be his match.
What he had never expected was that, from the outburst to the start acceleration, he thought that the only person ahead of him was Ye Minghao. It was not until Ye Minghao continued to accelerate and took the leading position that Jiang Ruohui realized that on Ye Minghao’s right, Su Yu from the S Province Sports Team was actually as fast as him at this stage!
This completely unexpected discovery made Jiang Ruohui confused for a moment, and the pace that he had been following closely behind Ye Minghao also changed unexpectedly at this moment.
Fuck.
Jiang Ruohui's brain was exploding at this moment, but he was a relatively experienced player after all. Although this completely unexpected discovery brought him a huge psychological shock, he managed to withstand the shock, gritted his teeth and began to sprint forward with all his strength with a ferocious face.
Just when he was sprinting, Jiang Ruohui couldn't help but think of the preliminary round in the morning. He seemed to have been chased by another player from the S Province Sports Team and his rhythm was disrupted.
Damn, so Zhou Yuang from the S Province Sports Team can’t be as fast as him now, right? !
***
On the seventh lane, Zhou Yuang was also in an extremely excited mood at this time. Just as he thought, every start of Su Yu could stimulate his state very well.
Following Su Yu's quick reaction after the starting gun sounded, Zhou Yuang felt that the rhythm of his whole body was also mobilized at that moment.
Pedal, explode and accelerate fast!
His explosive power and strength are stronger than Su Yu. After a brief lag at the starting stage, he quickly caught up with Su Yu with his explosive power. However, this slight advantage in the starting acceleration stage alone was not enough for him to win the final victory.
Not only because there was Ye Minghao before Su Yu, but also because Zhou Yuang knew clearly that compared with Su Yu's mid- and late-stage abilities, his advantage only lay in his explosive power and acceleration ability in the early stages.
Go, go, go!
He must show even stronger acceleration ability in order to achieve better results in this final!
***
As the race entered the 40-meter segmented stage, most of the athletes on the field had already reached their maximum speed, and even some athletes with weaker speed endurance had begun to gradually slow down at this stage.
At this moment in the competition, as the game entered this stage, the advantages and disadvantages of the players have gradually emerged.
In the coaching area seats in the audience, the coaches watching the game on site did not expect that this game would have such a pace and performance.
At this moment, the top three players in the competition were not Ye Minghao, Jiang Ruohui and Tang Xianwen as they had initially expected - among these three, Ye Minghao was indeed still in the leading position, but the second and third places were already occupied by Su Yu and Jiang Ruohui from the S Province Sports Team, who were competing with each other for a leading position.
Due to the position and angle of the seats in the coaching area, the coaches present at this moment could not even tell who was in the front position between Su Yu and Jiang Ruohui. However, it was visible to the naked eye that the distance between Zhou Yuang on Su Yu's side and Su Yu was also very close. Previously, during the acceleration phase, Zhou Yuang even briefly led Su Yu.
As for Tang Xianwen, who had been favored by the coaches before, his performance was actually very good. It was a pity that Tang Xianwen was obviously lagging behind at this time. Not to mention the gap between him and Su Yu, there was also a certain position gap between him and Zhou Yuang.
Then, halfway through the race, the boundary between the leading group and the players behind became increasingly clear.
At the forefront of the entire field is still Ye Minghao from the G Province team. Although Ye Minghao briefly fell behind Su Yu during the acceleration phase at the start of the race, this lag did not affect Ye Minghao's own condition. It even seemed like a switch that stimulated Ye Minghao to perform even better.
Under Su Yu's stimulation and pursuit, the excitement of facing a strong enemy made Ye Minghao, who was running on the track, feel a long-lost sense of oppression. It was also under this sense of oppression that he realized that he seemed to have broken through his previous maximum speed. The exhilarating sense of speed made him feel that the blood in his body seemed to be surging and burning at this moment.
And on his right side, Su Yu was also running at full speed towards the finish line with unwavering determination.
His excellent reaction speed at the start gave him an exceptional advantage in the acceleration phase of the start, but he knew that this was not enough.
Whether it is Ye Minghao on his left or Zhou Yuang on his right, the reaction advantage of only 0.01 or 0.02 seconds in the starting reaction phase, if magnified to the entire 100-meter stage, the distance difference between them is only less than 20 centimeters.
If he made any mistake during the entire game, this reaction advantage of just 0.02 seconds would be offset by Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang with their own outstanding physical talents.
The violent thumping of his heart and the sound of everyone's footsteps could not disturb Su Yu's clarity of mind. No matter what pace everyone around him took, he always maintained his own unique pace.
- Maintain your rhythm and recall every movement you made during training.
The landing, support, push-off and departure of each step, the amplitude of each arm swing and the knee and ankle angles at each landing moment...
These angles and changes that are completely imperceptible to ordinary people seem to be engraved in Su Yu's mind and muscles, more perfect, and more perfect!
When the nearly perfect technical movements were maintained, the consumption of physical energy seemed to slow down a little. Although fatigue and soreness from the body and muscles had gradually crept up Su Yu's body, the physical fatigue and soreness that he had been accustomed to since childhood did not bring Su Yu too much trouble.
In fact, the constant stimulation of his nerves on the field made Su Yu even more excited.
He could - he could run faster!
This stubborn idea took root and grew deeply in Su Yu's mind.
So what does he need to do next?
——Feel the power of this track, feel the force feedback from the ground. Although his strength is limited, the feedback force from the ground is enough to help him accelerate better and faster!
One step, two steps, three steps...
At a time when the opponents around him had accelerated to their maximum speed and were gradually unable to maintain their maximum speed, Su Yu's speed was the opposite of all the opponents around him - his maximum speed stage had not yet arrived!
"This kid is horrible!"
The coaches in the audience watched Su Yu's performance with astonishment almost the entire time. Both his reaction speed at the start and his performance in the acceleration phase were amazing enough, but what was even more amazing was his acceleration ability in the middle and late stages.
When all his opponents had entered the slowing down phase, only Su Yu's speed stood out.
At this time, the race had entered the last 30 meters. Before this, Su Yu had fallen behind for a short distance, but as the race entered the last 30 meters, Zhou Yuang was the first to be overtaken by Su Yu. Then, Jiang Ruohui, who gritted his teeth and sprinted with all his strength in the fourth lane, was almost caught up by Su Yu!
In the audience seats, the students from the summer camp were almost shouting their throats out. Voices of "Come on Su Yu" and "Come on Zhou Yuang" echoed one after another on the track. The faces of the students from the summer camp were all red with excitement, and their voices of cheering had become hoarse.
Come on, come on.
When these cheers from strangers reached Su Yu's ears, they also merged with the persistent sprint in Su Yu's heart.
Faster, he wanted faster!
He can!
The thumping sound of his heartbeat seemed to be synchronized with his every footstep, and every step he made on the ground made Su Yu's blood boil even more.
Hurry up.
Faster!
Even though he could feel that his body had reached the limit of fatigue, his mental excitement had reached its highest point ever.
Not far from the finish line of the 100-meter final, Jiang Yuan was quietly watching Su Yu's stubborn figure on the 100-meter track in the high jump preparation area.
At this moment, Su Yu's stubbornness seemed to be contagious and was faintly engraved in his heart.
The obsession with winning?
Jiang Yuan looked at the young man who surpassed Zhou Yuang step by step, started to be on par with Jiang Ruohui, and then continued to move forward with perseverance. He saw that this child who had grown up under his care seemed to have transformed into a better person.
At this moment, for Jiang Yuan, the answer to the question he asked himself during lunch break seemed to become clearer.
***
On the field, Ye Minghao was only 10 meters away from the finish line, but when he was making the final sprint, he actually felt that the distance between him and Su Yu to his right rear seemed to be not far? !
The last ten meters, eight meters, seven meters...
In the audience, not only the students of the summer camp, but also most of the coaches in the coaching area had stood up and looked nervously at the final result of this final.
There is no doubt that Ye Minghao should be the first to cross the finish line, but what about the second one?
Is it Jiang Ruohui who is sprinting at full speed?
Or was it Su Yu who began to show signs of technical distortion in the final sprint?
It should be said that Jiang Ruohui is worthy of being one of the only two players among all the players present who have broken the 11-second mark. Even though his rhythm was slightly disrupted by Su Yu during the acceleration stage, he quickly stabilized his state and started to sprint at full speed. However, in the final sprint stage, Jiang Ruohui's strength was indeed exhausted, and the final sprint was entirely supported by willpower.
The same is true for Su Yu on the sixth path.
In the final sprint, Su Yu relied on his acceleration ability in the later stages and his sprint to break through his limits to catch up with and even surpass Jiang Ruohui in the fourth lane. However, as the race entered the last 10 meters of the sprint, his physical strength had exceeded the limit.
Su Yu could feel that his limbs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and muscle aches had spread all over his limbs. No matter how hard he gritted his teeth and persevered, his technical movements had inevitably become deformed.
But even so, he was not willing to relax in the last 10 meters.
Even though he was enduring a sore muscle that was enough to make one's scalp numb, he gritted his teeth and increased the amplitude of his arm swing. His body leaned slightly forward, and his eyes were always firmly looking towards the finish line in front of him.
One step, two steps, three steps...!
When he was about to cross the line, Su Yu still did not forget to make the final downward push towards the finish line. Even though he knew at this moment that the victory of this game belonged to Ye Minghao, he still refused to give up his persistence in surpassing his own limits.
Until the moment they saw Su Yu cross the finish line, the summer camp students in the audience couldn't help but cheer loudly. This cheer was not necessarily purely because of the excitement about the place Su Yu won, but more because of the excitement of witnessing this event with their own eyes.
Even in the coaching area on the other side, the coaches from various provincial teams and sports schools had clearly seen higher-level competitions than this one, but at this moment they still couldn't hold back their inner excitement and also applauded the players on the field.
Zhao Weiping said to the S Province Sports Team with great emotion: "Congratulations to you, a very promising and very contagious player!"
Sitting in the coaching area, Wang Changan was also looking at the direction of the finish line with excitement. There, Su Yu, who had just crossed the finish line, finally ran out of energy. After crossing the finish line, he could only run a few more steps to buffer the pressure before his knees went weak and he knelt on the track.
Ye Minghao, who crossed the finish line before him, and Zhou Yuang, who crossed the finish line after him, hurried to Su Yu after seeing this and helped Su Yu up, who was kneeling on the track with his hands on the ground and gasping for breath.
Looking at Su Yu who had barely stood up and whose face had turned from pale to red, Wang Changan was a little bit unbelievable about everything at the moment: "This kid Su Yu... is really amazing."
Who says it isn’t?
If you only look at Su Yu holding Zhou Yuang's breath on the track, no one would have thought that this seemingly frail child could actually take the second place in the men's 100m in this U16 event which is considered to be the top level in the country.
Yes, although Jiang Ruohui tried his best to sprint at the last moment, the coaches saw clearly that at the last moment, Su Yu crossed the finish line first.
At the end of the track, Jiang Ruohui stood with his hands on his waist, breathing heavily. Although he roughly knew the final result, he still couldn't believe it.
Especially when he saw the guy who was so weak that he seemed to be dying while being supported by Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang...
Jiang Ruohui wiped his face with a look of pain. It was really hard for him to convince himself that he had really lost to Su Yu, who looked like he was about to fall at any moment. It was really hard to overcome the psychological barrier!
After taking a deep breath, Jiang Ruohui finally turned his head away from Su Yu and instead directed his gaze towards the large screen at the scene.
There is no way. Since I don’t want to watch Su Yu, let’s just look at the results of this game.
To be honest, at this moment, there are not many contestants who can be as open-minded as Jiang Ruohui and turn their attention to the large electronic screen. Most of the contestants are still in a daze.
For these contestants, Ye Minghao's victory is almost a foregone conclusion, and there is really no surprise about it, but what about the second place? Why isn’t Jiang Ruohui the second place? !
Not only is it not Jiang Ruohui, it’s not even Tang Xianwen, but... that Su Yu? !
You know, not only had no one heard of Su Yu's name before this U16 base competition, but he was not even a serious player in the provincial youth team. He was just a player selected to make up the numbers in a summer camp held by the S Province Sports Team!
The contestants present were so confused that they were a little lost.
Although Su Yu performed well in the preliminaries in the morning, he only ran 11.35 seconds at that time? Just look at Jiang Ruohui, Tang Xianwen or even Zhou Yuang. Which one of these people is not better than him?
No matter what, among these other contestants, at least none of them is physically stronger than Su Yu.
But the runner-up in the finals turned out to be that Su Yu...
Some of them even heard the rumor that Pei Dingshan, the coach of the S Province Sports Team, would bring Su Yu to participate in training purely to help Su Yu exercise.
In short, these young players who have been in good physical condition since childhood may have felt real mental trauma for the first time here.
However, no matter how deeply hurt you are, you still have to face the reality.
When everyone finally calmed down and turned to look at the big electronic screen, the on-site referee team finally confirmed and transmitted the final results of the group to the big electronic screen.
The final results of the 2017 National U16 Track and Field Base Competition Men's 100m Sprint Finals are as follows:
First place: Ye Minghao (G Province Sports Team Junior Group), 10.52 seconds (wind speed +0.8m/s), PB (personal best record);
Second place: Su Yu (S Province Sports Team Summer Camp), 10.93 seconds (wind speed +0.8m/s), PB;
Third place: Jiang Ruohui (G Province Sports Team Junior Group), 10.98 seconds (wind speed +0.8m/s);
Fourth place: Zhou Yuang (S Province Sports Team Summer Camp), 11.13 seconds (wind speed 0.8m/s), PB;
Fifth place: Tang Xianwen (F Province Sports Team Junior Group), 11.21 seconds (wind speed 0.8m/s) SB (personal season best);
6th place…
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After seeing the results on the big screen, there was a sigh of regret, followed by a series of exclamations.
In the coaching area, many coaches shook their heads regretfully after seeing Ye Minghao's result - 10.52 seconds, this result is really just a stone's throw away from breaking the national U16 record of 1980.
The difference is only 0.03 seconds. Even though Ye Minghao's result can now be said to be the second best in U16 history, whether the record is broken or not is just a matter of seconds.
"What a pity for Ye Minghao's performance."
"Isn't it just a simple pity?"
"There won't be any junior competitions this season, and Ye Minghao is already 15 this year. This 10.52 is a complete pity."
The so-called U16 record naturally refers to the performance record of athletes under the age of 16.
Just as the coach said, Ye Minghao is already 15 years old this year. This National U16 Base Competition can almost be regarded as his last chance to break the U16 national record, but it is obvious that he missed his last chance by a very small margin.
In the audience seats where the summer camp students were, some people were also discussing this issue.
"Fuck, only 0.03 seconds away from breaking the record?"
“This is too tragic.”
"Why do you say he has no hope of breaking the record? Can't he just go and participate in some competitions or something?"
"Of course not. Only records set in competitions above a certain level will be recognized. Otherwise, if the G Province Sports Team holds an intra-squad competition for Ye Minghao every day, what's the difference between this and normal training?"
Some people discussed this question for a few sentences, but more people exclaimed after seeing Su Yu's results for the first time -
"Oh shit, look at Su Yu's results!!"
"Fuck, my knees hurt so much. Mom asked me why I was kneeling to check the results... Oh my god, Su Yu broke the 11-second mark?!"
"SOS, is there any justice? I remember when the camp just started, he said that his 100-meter performance was only 17.50 seconds?"
"Yeah, but he's now 10.93 seconds!!"
The summer camp students in the audience looked at the grades following Su Yu's name in amazement, and everyone's face had a dreamy expression.
The main thing is that in just 40 days, Su Yu's performance improved like a rocket.
"Help, who knows? Friends, before the competition started today, I heard that among this year's U16 players, only Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui have the ability to break the 11-second mark..."
At this point, the summer camp students present looked at each other.
"Well, do you think there is such a possibility..."
"?"
"That is to say, according to the current ranking, when Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui are no longer in the U16 level next year, Su Yu will be the number one player in the U16 age group... in the country?"
Everyone present: "..."
Damn, help, a completely unexpected possibility has arisen!
This is not even a possibility, but a reality that will absolutely happen next year!
Thinking of this, the summer camp students present were already stunned, not knowing what to say - speaking of which, it seemed like they had met a true genius...
***
At the finish line of the race, Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang were originally supporting Su Yu together. However, after seeing his final result on the large electronic screen, Ye Minghao, who had a smile on his face, suddenly froze in silence.
"Only... 0.03 seconds."
While seeing his own results, Ye Minghao subconsciously took another look at his starting reaction time and that of Su Yu, who ranked second. His starting reaction time was 0.143 seconds, which was already a very outstanding reaction speed, but when he saw Su Yu's reaction speed of 0.121 seconds, a trace of regret appeared on his face.
If his reaction time at the start could reach the same level as Su Yu, then in today's race, would he have successfully broken the national U16 record of his dreams?
When he thought of this possibility, regret and sadness flashed in Ye Minghao's eyes.
With an unknown feeling, Ye Minghao said to Su Yu with a wry smile: "Su Yu, I didn't expect that a few days ago I said that I hope to meet you in the future on the court, but now it seems that there is no chance."
At this moment, Su Yu, with the help of Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang, had recovered some of his strength. After hearing what Ye Minghao said, he frowned and looked at Ye Minghao, and asked his question directly: "Why is there no chance?"
Ye Minghao was stunned for a moment. The young man who had always been full of confidence said sadly at this moment: "My parents don't want me to continue practicing track and field. They agreed with me before that if I can't break the national U16 record this season, I will quit the provincial team and go back to focus on my studies."
"It was almost the end of the season and this was the closest I ever got to the national U16 record of 10.50 seconds - but unfortunately, I failed."
When Ye Minghao said this, Jiang Ruohui, who was standing aside, also walked over.
As a good brother, Jiang Ruohui certainly knew about these things in Ye Minghao's family. Ye Minghao's parents had rather rigid ideas and felt that the domestic sprinting was too weak. There were only one or two athletes who could run the 100 meters under ten seconds, and they could be counted on one hand - and even if they could break ten seconds, it would be nothing in the international arena.
Ye Minghao's family is considered a big family in Province G, and they hope that he can focus on his studies. Whether he develops in academia, business, or government, it will be more promising than continuing on the path of track and field.
Ye Minghao couldn't persuade his parents, so he had to make such an agreement with them.
But unfortunately, he failed this time.
Su Yu looked at Ye Minghao in front of him and suddenly felt that he looked familiar. It was not until his memory flashed to the TV scene he saw before his rebirth that he remembered that Ye Minghao was very similar to a young track and field official who was interviewed on TV at that time - the young official interviewed in that picture seemed to be the young man in front of him who was full of vigor and vitality not long ago.
In other words, even after leaving track and field, many years later, Ye Minghao still did not leave track and field, but approached it in another way.
Such a thought flashed through Su Yu's mind.
He suddenly asked, "Is this year's season over?"
Ye Minghao was stunned for a moment: "...No, but this is the only U16 event where I have a chance to break the record."
Su Yu still looked at him bluntly: "What about the non-U16 competition?"
When Ye Minghao heard this, he stood there in a daze.
Su Yu looked at him and continued, "Since this season isn't over yet, why do you want to put an end to your hopes?"
After saying this, Su Yu no longer paid attention to the stunned Ye Minghao, and let go of Zhou Yuang's hand that was supporting him, and walked towards the edge of the high jump final venue not far away. At the high jump final venue, during this period of time, the top 9 players had completed their trial jumps at a height of 1.6 meters in the first stage. When Su Yu walked to the high jump final venue, Jiang Yuan, who was still standing in the preparation area with his coat on, smiled and glanced in the direction of Su Yu.
After smiling and nodding at Su Yu, Jiang Yuan raised his hand and said in front of all the contestants' expected gazes: "Contestant No. 10 Jiang Yuan, 1.6 meters high, requesting to be exempted from the jump."
At the same time, Ye Minghao, who was still standing not far away, gradually had a new light in his eyes: "Yes, this season is not over yet, why should I put an end to my hopes first?"
Jiang Ruohui, who was standing beside him, hesitated when he heard this: "Ye Zi, what are you planning?"
Ye Minghao smiled and said, "I will report to the coach immediately and participate in the two Grand Prix in the next season!"
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