Chapter 45
For track and field fans, Feng Xiaofeng is also a familiar athlete.
After all, one of the most common things track and field fans do every day is to pull out the current domestic athlete lists and count them to see if there are any hidden gems on these lists, and then make some rankings of "athletes who are most likely to break 10 seconds xx" based on these athlete lists.
Feng Xiaofeng was once favored by netizens in the track and field kingdom because he ran a time of 10.51 seconds last season. He was only 16 years old when he ran the time of 10.51 seconds.
But in this season, although Feng Xiaofeng's performance was stable, his results always hovered outside 10.60 seconds, which disappointed many viewers who were optimistic about his performance last season.
However, in competitive sports, it is understandable that athletes' performances fluctuate, especially for athletes in their growth and development period. It is common for their performances to fluctuate greatly. In addition, some track and field fans who know the inside story said that the reason why Feng Xiaofeng's performance declined is because he changed his training coach and carried out a round of technical reforms. So the audience does not think that Feng Xiaofeng has no hope. They are just discussing how long it will take for Feng Xiaofeng's performance slump to pass?
And what Feng Xiaofeng said in the interview today seems to indicate that he is announcing that he is about to "return as the king."
The track and field fans in the live broadcast room were watching Feng Xiaofeng's speech, and they were all speculating that Feng Xiaofeng's technical transformation should have been successfully completed, and his results might have returned to the peak or even surpassed the peak. That's why he made such a statement that was almost like a "declaration of war" when he knew that Ye Minghao and Su Yu both ran under 10.50 seconds.
Since these interviews were conducted with the players individually in advance, even Ye Minghao, who was on the same team, did not know about Feng Xiaofeng's "declaration of war". It was not until the live broadcast host found Su Yu and Ye Minghao and asked them what they thought about Feng Xiaofeng's "declaration of war" that they knew what Feng Xiaofeng had said.
Ye Minghao then replied to the host with a smile: "I will also try my best."
host:.
OK, pretty crap literature.
The microphone of the interview turned to Su Yu, and Su Yu said two words to the reporter in a flat tone: "+1"
host:……
+1 for nonsense literature
Although he failed to get any meaningful answers from the two challenged players, the host did not insist on asking them. He just left after saying some official and polite words like "I look forward to your performance" and left time for Ye Minghao and Su Yu who needed to prepare for the test.
It was not until the host walked away that Ye Minghao smiled and said to Su Yu: "Brother Feng is not a bad person, don't mind it."
Su Yu shook his head indifferently, indicating that it didn't matter.
After all, in the field of competitive sports, people who really don't care about winning or losing and results should have left the field long ago. He wants to win, and Feng Xiaofeng also wants to win. This is normal.
But as for whether Feng Xiaofeng can beat him and snatch the World Youth Championship spot from him?
A hint of determination flashed in Su Yu's eyes - for things like this, everyone should just rely on their own abilities!
***
Since the first day test is nominally just a test of the players' personal levels before winter training, there is actually no specific schedule.
The athletes were divided into groups according to different event groups such as short-distance running, middle-distance running, long-distance marathon, hurdles, throwing, jumping, etc. A total of 122 trainees (including trial training) in each group were divided into groups. After the grouping, the coaching team of each group was responsible for conducting level tests on individuals at different event venues.
Among them, there are more people in the sprint group, with three sub-events of 100, 200 and 400 meters, including trial trainees, a total of 21 men and women.
When Su Yu learned this number, he was still a little confused, thinking that the number was even less than he expected. It was Ye Minghao who quietly told him -
"They are basically all members of the 100m and 4x100m relay teams. There are only two men and two women on the 200m team. There is no regular 400m runner on the team right now. We only have players who are occasionally called up for trials."
Hearing this answer, Su Yu was stunned at first, but soon understood the meaning - the national team has strict conditions for personnel selection, and it is very likely that no athlete in the 400-meter event has been able to meet the national team's selection criteria.
It was only two days after joining the national team that he found out that not all athletes in all events are concentrated in the national team's training base in City B for training. For example, some endurance events will choose to have fixed training at training bases in high altitude areas. At the same time, the national team also has some overseas training bases, and will send elite athletes to conduct separate winter training overseas according to the situation.
The number of athletes determines that the ratio of the number of coaches to athletes can almost reach 1:1 or 1:2. As can be seen from the current first day test, the sprint group includes one head coach, four coaches and six assistant coaches.
In addition, there is a team of 9 foreign coaches in the national team. Some of these foreign coaches are located in the national team's overseas bases, and only 4 are based in the country. Unlike the national team coaches who focus on a single project, most of these foreign coaches are proficient in teaching multiple projects, and their guidance to national team athletes can often switch back and forth from short-distance running to middle- and long-distance running to jumping events.
It can be said that everything in the national team seems strange and new to Su Yu. He wants to absorb any knowledge here and try any training.
Of course, before that, he must demonstrate his strength and give the national team coaching staff a reason to keep him.
Although he didn't know why, Ye Minghao always felt that after he introduced the situation of the national team to Su Yu, Su Yu's fighting spirit seemed to become stronger?
***
As the athletes from various groups followed different coaches to their respective testing sites, the live broadcast room of Jigu Video was divided into more than a dozen separate sub-live broadcast rooms according to different event groups. Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming circled in different venues, following the official perspective of Jigu Live, and explained the athletes' performances on the spot.
[To be honest, this first-person live broadcast by Teacher Tian and Teacher Zhou is quite interesting. 】
On the public screen of the live broadcast room, track and field fans were chatting with each other using barrage comments, and at the same time they were also following the perspectives of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming to see how the athletes performed in the first day of testing.
At this moment, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were watching the test in the sprint group - in fact, this was also their selfish motive. After all, as commentators invited by Jigu Live, they were aware of Feng Xiaofeng's provocation. In addition, after the live broadcast of the National Track and Field Grand Prix, they were still quite curious about Su Yu, so they chose the sprint group as the first stop for the commentary.
At this time, the individual ability test of the 100-meter event of the sprint group is in progress.
Since it is a test of personal ability, the test format is more like individual physical testing, and it is not conducted in the form of a team competition.
Seeing this, Tian Ruhui said: "This form of testing will have different effects on different athletes. For example, some athletes are training athletes, and their personal performance in training is often better than in competitions, but some athletes are big-game athletes. The greater the pressure in the competition, the better the performance of the athletes."
"Yes." Zhou Jiming nodded and said, "Generally speaking, there are relatively few players who can compete in big competitions. Therefore, how to guide athletes to adjust their competitive state and how to ensure that athletes can perform better in big competitions are also compulsory courses for coaches."
As they were talking, the last athlete on the testing field had already completed his test - it was none other than Gao Tianwu, a familiar face to track and field fans and a member of the national 4*100m men's relay team.
"Gao Tianwu's performance is not bad." Tian Ruhui glanced at the electronic display screen at the scene and said, "10.39 seconds (customary 1.1m/s), his condition is quite stable. It can be seen that Gao Tianwu did not give up his training during the rest time after the end of the season, and his overall level is maintained very well."
After praising Gao Tianwu, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming also commented on Zhao Yingping who was tested before Gao Tianwu. As a player who has broken 10.40 seconds many times this season, Zhao Yingping only ran 10.56 seconds in the previous individual test, and was obviously not in good shape.
Not only Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were not satisfied with Zhao Yingping's performance, they who were present at the scene could also see that when Zhao Yingping was taking the test, the sprint group coaches, led by sprint group leader Sun Gaoshu, also shook their heads slightly when they saw Zhao Yingping's performance.
Although this is just a level test before winter training and has no decisive impact on whether the players will eventually be recruited into the national team, this performance on the first day of testing will unintentionally deduct points from Zhao Yingping's final result.
As Zhao Yingping left the field in obvious frustration, the next person to start the test was Feng Xiaofeng, a young player from the G Province Sports Team.
It was obvious from the perspectives of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming that Feng Xiaofeng's appearance attracted considerable attention from the short-distance running coaches present.
The two looked at each other and understood what the other had not said - it can be seen that the coaching staff of the national team is indeed more inclined to use players with clear past achievements, more competition experience and who look more stable, which is why they paid so much attention to Feng Xiaofeng when he took the court.
As for Feng Xiaofeng, who accepted a live interview with Jigu before the game and made "bold remarks", the 17-year-old young player obviously also has the ambition to realize his "bold remarks". Facing the onlookers of the coaching staff around him, he did not show any timidity, but devoted himself wholeheartedly to his test preparations.
In the live broadcast room, some track and field fans who were watching the game couldn't help but praise Feng Xiaofeng's performance.
[It looks like he came prepared.] 】
[Come on, come on, I hope you really have the ability to realize what you say! 】
[His current condition before the test seems to be better than that in several public events this season. Let's wait and see the result first. 】
Under the attention of the on-site coaching staff and many track and field fans in the live broadcast room, Feng Xiaofeng began his test with a focused expression. No matter if he was eager to prove himself after a whole season of lows, or if he wanted to better realize the "crazy words" he had said, at least in this test, Feng Xiaofeng really did a better performance than he had in the past entire season!
After seeing Feng Xiaofeng finally get past the line with his head, Zhou Jiming's eyes lit up: "Not bad!"
The quick reaction at the start, the steady rhythm throughout the race and the powerful sprint in the final stage were indeed excellent performances.
As he spoke, Zhou Jiming looked up at the screen of the electronic timer. Feng Xiaofeng's final result was not yet on the screen, only his starting reaction time - 0.143 seconds, which was a very excellent reaction value. The speed of the starting reaction is not only a reflection of the athlete's personal reaction ability, but also a relatively intuitive presentation of the athlete's current state.
Feng Xiaofeng's reaction speed of 0.143 seconds is enough to prove that his condition today is really good.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jiming and Tian Ruhui looked at each other again, and their eyes meant - it seems that what Feng Xiaofeng said during the solo interview really has a chance to come true!
Sure enough, as the final results were announced, Feng Xiaofeng, who had completed the test on site, waved his fist happily - 10.45 seconds (wind speed 0.8m/s)!
After a whole season of silence and lows, even though this test was not a formal competition, this result made Feng Xiaofeng breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, before today, many people said that he was talented when he was young but not necessarily good when he grew up, and that Ye Minghao, who was known as the 'successor of Feng Xiaofeng' in the G Province Sports Team, had surpassed him. Even though these people didn't say these things in front of him, he was not a fool and he could understand all kinds of opinions.
His coach always told him that technical changes require patience and athletes must endure loneliness - how many athletes have spent years trying to improve by 0.01 seconds?
He understood the logic, but if he didn't see any results, he thought he would lose his balance and choose to quit.
But today's pre-winter training test finally allowed him to regain his confidence.
After he finished running, he could see that the coaches of the national team looked at him with affirmation in their eyes. After turning around, he saw that the person following behind him was Ye Minghao, who was originally called his successor.
Perhaps noticing his realization, Ye Minghao smiled at him and then looked away.
Feng Xiaofeng doesn't like this guy who is given the title of his successor, but he also knows that this guy really has some ability. After all, not everyone has the ability to break the U16 record that has been untouched for 30 years.
After Ye Minghao's individual test was over, his results also proved this point - 10.43 seconds (0.8m/s). Ye Minghao's results actually improved again!
***
At the location of the national team coaching staff, the sprint group leader Sun Gaoshu wrote something on the coaching board in his hand after watching the test performances of Feng Xiaofeng and Ye Minghao. He then turned his gaze to the starting point of the 100-meter race, where Su Yu, the last test runner of the 100-meter sprint group, was already ready.
Compared with the previous players, Su Yu, who is only 1.7 meters tall, looks the smallest among them all. Even the 15-year-old Ye Minghao cannot be called strong, but his limbs still have a thin layer of trained muscles. As for Su Yu, teenagers of this age are already slender, and Su Yu is relatively thin among people of the same age. Before the test even started, the coaches of the sprint group felt that they were abusing and mistreating children.
A coach looked at Su Yu and hesitated for a while before saying to Sun Gaoshu, "Coach Sun, how about... do you think Feng Xiaofeng and Ye Minghao are a good match?"
When he said this, Pei Dingshan was standing by. He turned his head to look at the coach who was speaking, then motioned for him to look towards the test site.
"Su Yu's test is about to begin."
It was an extremely calm sentence, but it was full of protective meaning, which made the coach who had hesitated to speak earlier shook his head and said to Pei Dingshan with a smile: "Coach Pei, you really have confidence in Su Yu."
Pei Dingshan did not deny this, but said bluntly: "He has the ability."
The coach who was speaking heard this and shook his head helplessly again, then turned to look in the direction of the testing area: "Okay, okay, okay, let's see how your disciple performs first. If your disciple's results can really be stable - I won't say much, as long as his results can be maintained within 10.50 seconds, I will guarantee him a place in the World Youth Championships."
This statement seemed like a request, but in fact everyone present understood it - even though Feng Xiaofeng and Ye Minghao both ran under 10.50 seconds just now, Feng Xiaofeng had been in a slump for more than a year before that. Just look at the way he punched in the air to celebrate after the result was released, and you'll know how difficult it was for him to run this 10.45 second result.
As for Ye Minghao, this season is clearly a period of rising performance for him. Not only has he broken his personal bests one after another, but his results have also been steadily improving in many competitions. Although today's time of 10.43 seconds was a bit unexpected, it was an understandable performance as he made a new breakthrough under the stimulation of his teammate Feng Xiaofeng's performance.
But it’s different here in Su Yu.
It has been less than 4 months since this kid started to actually start sprint training. It is understandable that his performance improved quickly in the early stage because of his good personal talent and the specialized guidance of a top-level sprint coach like Pei Dingshan. However, no matter how fast the performance improves, in fact, athletes cannot always run their best time.
To summarize based on the experience of the national team coaches, PB is PB, and regular results are regular results.
Generally speaking, PB does not represent the athlete's hard power. To determine the athlete's hard power, we usually have to look at his season average performance and his performance in headwind or zero wind speed. Taking into account many factors such as wind speed and condition, it is very likely that a athlete whose best result can be under 10 seconds, in fact, in most cases, can maintain a result of around 10.30 seconds, which is considered an excellent condition.
These coaches are worried about Su Yu, mainly because they reviewed Su Yu's performance in the U16 base competition and the Grand Prix competition - there is no other reason, it's just that the improvement is too great, but the number of competitions is too few.
From the preliminaries of the U16 base competition to the final of the Grand Prix with 10.41 seconds, Su Yu's results in the four rounds of the two competitions were 11.35 seconds, 10.93 seconds, 10.62 seconds and 10.41 seconds. If we trace back to the results at the opening stage of Su Yu's summer camp and the closing test match, the results at that time were even more outrageous.
In the two competitions held no more than one month apart, his results soared from 11.35 to 10.41, the national leading level!
Even a rocket can't jump as fast as you, right?
Of course, the coaches of the national team certainly agree with Su Yu's performance in the preliminaries and finals of the National Track and Field Grand Prix, but considering the gap between PB and personal hard power, some coaches in the national team's sprint group still believe that Su Yu's regular strength should be closer to 10.62 seconds.
--At the same time, these coaches did not make such speculations out of thin air. They had read the training data of Su Yu collected by Pei Dingshan. In Su Yu's daily training, his 100-meter test results were basically stable at around 10.60 seconds, which further confirmed their ideas.
Pei Dingshan did not explain any more - no matter how much he said, it would be better to let them see Su Yu's performance with their own eyes.
At this moment, Su Yu was already ready in front of the starting line. After the assistant coach in charge of starting gave the command "get ready", Su Yu quickly walked around to his starting block, supported himself with his hands, quickly pushed his legs onto his starting block, squatted on the ground, and waited for the next command.
After the assistant coach in charge of starting the test saw that he was ready, he gave the command "Ready" and then the starting gun went off with a bang - the test began!
Outside the test site, the cameraman of Jigu Live was steadily capturing Su Yu's test footage, while Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, who were watching the race on site, felt more clearly Su Yu's ridiculously fast reaction speed to the gun at the starting stage the moment Su Yu started running!
Among them, Tian Ruhui subconsciously found the electronic screen at the scene and took a look, then took a breath: "0.129 seconds, it's within 0.13 again!"
Not to mention anything else, Su Yu's reaction speed when hearing a gunshot is so sensitive that it is truly amazing.
On the other side, Zhou Jiming, who was concentrating on watching Su Yu's performance on the court, had another feeling in his heart - watching this kid's game on the spot was really a visual enjoyment.
On the track, Su Yu didn't know what the people around him thought of him. He just focused on running on his own track, keeping in mind the rhythm of his breathing and steps. Even though he didn't have many other opponents on the track at this moment, but from an angle that no one could see, every time he ran in the past formed an amazing image in his mind - these images had different rhythms, starting at the same time as him at this moment, and became his opponents on the track at this moment!
From the moment the starting gun sounded and he stepped on the starting blocks, countless memories of past training and competitions appeared in Su Yu's mind at the same time. He was running at full speed, and his opponent was not any other person, but his former self in his mind.
This is an almost incredible ability to replicate memory.
It was with this miraculous memory and his determination to surpass himself that Su Yu ran towards the finish line of the 100-meter track at a speed beyond everyone's expectations, under everyone's attention.
He always remembered the idea that was deeply engraved in his mind - since the coaches of the national team lacked trust in him due to his age, he should use his absolute strength to prevent the coaches of the national team from making any choice other than him!
Next to the testing ground, from the moment Su Yu heard the gun and started running, Feng Xiaofeng, who was still standing still, quickly became serious in expression.
“This speed…”
As Su Yu started running on the track, Feng Xiaofeng's face became more and more solemn.
For ordinary people, perhaps the final result of professional athletes must still rely on electronic timers, but for these sprinters who have been training and racing against time since childhood,
For humans, they have a natural sensitivity to speed.
Although it may not be possible to accurately determine the specific numbers, we can already make a relatively accurate judgment on the opponent's performance range.
After seeing Su Yu's sprinting speed getting faster and faster in the later stages, and watching Su Yu cross the finish line, Feng Xiaofeng's expression became more complicated.
"Under 10.50 seconds."
He was sure that Su Yu's speed was definitely within 10.50 seconds, and might even be close to 10.40 seconds.
This realization made Feng Xiaofeng, who was always arrogant, fall silent.
In fact, his judgment on Su Yu's results is very similar to that of the national team coach. After reviewing Su Yu's performance, he and his training coach both believe that Su Yu's hard power should be around 10.60 seconds. Therefore, Feng Xiaofeng believes that he has every chance of winning a place in the World Youth Championships with his outstanding performance in winter training.
But now, Su Yu's performance in the 100-meter test made Feng Xiaofeng realize that his previous estimation of Su Yu might have been wrong.
Soon, the final result of Su Yu's test was displayed on the large electronic screen on site - it was this final result that made the coaching staff on site exclaim in surprise.
On the large electronic screen at the scene, Su Yu's final result was displayed - 10.39 seconds (wind speed 1.2m/s).
Not only did this kid's performance not decline as some coaches expected, he even improved his performance to less than 10.40 seconds!
At this moment, in the live broadcast room of Jigu Live, the track and field fans who were originally discussing some trivial topics such as "Su Yu's performance is good" and "The reaction speed at the start is still very stable" in a relatively calm manner, after a brief silence, quickly burst into a series of exclamations -
【grass? ! 】
What the hell? What are Su Yu’s grades? ? ? 10.39 seconds? ! 】
All of these track and field fans who watch the first day of the national team's winter training test in the Jigu live broadcast room are veteran track and field fans. Of course, they know what kind of result 10.39 seconds is for the current level of domestic athletes.
Everyone already knew that Su Yu's PB for the 100 meters was 10.41 seconds, but no one expected that the 10.41 seconds Su Yu achieved in the final stage of the National Track and Field Grand Prix S City Station was not even his limit? !
[…Oh my god, friends, although I always don’t like to bet on underage players in advance, this time it’s different. I really think Su Yu can do it? ? 】
Not to mention anything else, among the athletes who were tested in the national team today, except for the ones selected for the national team, Su Yu was the only one who ran the 100 meters under 10.40 seconds.
At the scene, Zhao Yingping, who had always been stuck outside the 10.40 second threshold, was obviously shocked after seeing Su Yu's result.
Only Pei Dingshan stepped forward to support Su Yu after he finished the 100-meter test, patted him on the shoulder, and said to him, "You ran well."
The coach who had previously said that he would vote for Su Yu as long as he could run under 10.50 seconds now fell into a state of doubt about his life after hearing Pei Dingshan's plain words "good run".
He almost wanted to shake Pei Dingshan's shoulders and ask him - 10.39 seconds! That’s 10.39 seconds! A 14-year-old kid ran a time of 10.39 seconds, and you just praised him for running well? !
Meanwhile, Sun Gaoshu was reviewing Su Yu's acceleration performance in the last 80 meters of the race. He vaguely recalled the conversation between Pei Yongsheng and Pei Dingshan on the phone at that time - are you really only going to let him run 100 meters?
Yes, that kind of late-game acceleration ability...
Did Pei Dingshan only intend to let him run 100 meters? !
With such questions in mind, Sun Gaoshu looked at Su Yu, whose breathing was gradually calming down, and couldn't help asking a question that no one expected: "Su Yu, are you interested in... trying the 200-meter test later?"
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