Chapter 51 (Four in One)
After the men's 100m test, there is a rest period of about 15 minutes, followed by the men's 200m test.
After Su Yu finished his test, Pei Yongsheng, who was standing next to him, waved at him and called him over. After more than two months of winter training, the biggest change for Su Yu was that after the 100-meter test, he was no longer so exhausted that he couldn't stand up like before.
After crossing the finish line, Su Yu's face still looked not so good, but it was much better than before.
After Su Yu took a breath, he looked up and saw Pei Yongsheng, the general manager of the short jump group, waving at him to come over. After calming his breath a little, Su Yu walked towards Pei Yongsheng.
"Coach Pei, Coach Sun, Coach, Coach Zheng."
Su Yu, Pei Yongsheng, as well as Sun Gaoshu, Pei Dingshan and others beside them greeted each of them one by one.
Several people smiled and nodded at him. Finally, Pei Yongsheng asked, "Xiaoyu, before the game started, I saw that you seemed a little average?"
Su Yu was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes."
Pei Yongsheng and the others looked at each other - since Su Yu said yes, then it was true and their guess was correct.
Sun Gaoshu couldn't help but ask, "But in the game just now, you looked pretty good?"
Generally speaking, Sun Gaoshu and his colleagues have seen many athletes who can't find their form before a game. No matter how good their performance is in normal times, as long as they can't find their form during a game, their bodies feel like they are filled with lead and they can't find any points to exert force. Even if they know what they should do and know what to do based on experience, they just feel like they can't muster up the energy and they just lack a little strength.
This is the unanimous feedback given by almost every player who can't find his form. The only difference is that some people feel that their muscles are too tight, some feel that they can't find the rhythm, and some people can't concentrate.
But it is obvious that Su Yu's performance today has spawned a new genre that they have never seen before - simply called the 'run better' genre.
It was outrageous, so outrageous that the coaching staff wanted to find out how Su Yu did it.
Faced with the curious looks of the coaches in front of him, Su Yu hesitated and remained silent for a moment, then looked up at Pei Dingshan.
Pei Dingshan chuckled inexplicably under Su Yu's gaze, and then said to him: "It's okay, just tell the truth."
Pei Yongsheng glared at his nephew after hearing this - What nonsense are you talking about, kid? Could it be that Su Yu is still trying to fool them? !
Hearing Pei Dingshan's words, Su Yu nodded, and then told the coaches the truth.
"Just before the 100-meter final, it was the first time I felt like I wasn't excited enough before the race started."
"I was a little panicked at first, but the coach comforted me and told me not to be nervous and just play as usual."
Pei Yongsheng:? ? ?
Wait, what are you talking about?
When did Dingshan comfort you? !
Pei Yongsheng's eyes almost popped out, he felt that something was not right. He vaguely remembered that his eldest nephew just made a simple gesture in the direction of Su Yu - was this gesture meant to comfort Su Yu and tell him not to be nervous and to compete as usual?
Pei Yongsheng was silent for two seconds. He knew that some coaches and athletes had a deep understanding of each other, and they would use some tacit gestures to comfort each other instead of words.
But there are still few coaches and athletes who have such a level of tacit understanding. For example, he has coached Sun Yuhang for more than ten years, but when he sees that kid, he still just wants to give him a slap on the head.
And how long has he only taken care of his nephew and Su Yu? Is it possible to have such tacit understanding in less than half a year?
Pei Yongsheng didn't quite believe it in his heart, but the facts were right in front of him.
After taking a deep breath, Pei Yongsheng asked: "Then what?"
Su Yu continued to give a calm answer: "After the coach comforted me, I calmed down a little. I think what the coach said makes sense. In the past training, I have repeatedly honed my skills. My body muscles have formed a relatively mature muscle memory. I know how to gradually increase my stride from the start. I also know how I should maintain my footing and how to move forward after entering the mid-run stage."
Su Yu thought about it and said, "After I figured it out, I also feel that although the competitive state before the game can help me get into the game better, in fact, all of this still comes from my own basic ability."
"In that case, there's nothing to worry about."
Coaches: …
No, that's not the case.
You just think you don't need to worry.
After hearing Su Yu's answer, everyone present, including Zheng Sheng and Liu Qinlong who came over later, fell into a long silence. To be honest, if all the players had Su Yu's idea, then the coaches would not need to worry about how to mobilize the players' competitive state, and the research on traditional competitive sports psychology would not become a topic that makes coaches pull their hair out.
Of course, if the previous contents only made the coaches pull their hair out, then the information that Su Yu said in the second half made everyone in the coaching staff speechless.
After saying that there was nothing to worry about, Su Yu used his own state during the game to prove it: "I think that my competitive state before the game was not high enough, which is not a bad thing from some perspectives."
Pei Yongsheng:? ? ?
Su Yu thought for a moment and continued to summarize: "That's right. During the past exams, our teachers always told us to stay calm and rational. I think the same is true for competitions."
Sun Gaoshu:……?
Su Yu didn't pay much attention to the expressions on the coaches' faces, but continued: "Before, when my competitive state was very full, my expectations for the game would be very high. When the game started, all I could think about was that the game was about to start, and I couldn't wait to sprint."
The coaches nodded. That was right. When the players were in high competitive form, they were very excited about the game and couldn't wait for it to start.
But at the same time, this energy is actually very easy to dissipate. In the daily work of coaches, one of them is to remind the players to hold back a little before the game and not to burst into form too early. Otherwise, if the form bursts too early in the morning, it will be over when the real game comes. If the form bursts too early, they will not have the energy to compete.
So coaches actually agree with the view that "competitive state may not always be good" from some perspectives, but in most cases, coaches believe that it is closely related to the athlete's desire to win, competitive state and the athlete's actual performance in a certain game.
These thoughts circled in the coaches' minds, but no one spoke anything. They were all waiting for Su Yu to continue talking about his ideas.
Su Yu was still sorting out his memories while talking about his thoughts: "When my competitive state is high, my emotions will affect my overall skills more. When my competitive state is high, my technical details will not be so accurate..."
Pei Yongsheng: ...
No, your previous technical movements were already very accurate!
Is there any athlete who can perform 100% of his movements accurately during a competition? !
But Su Yu didn't know what Pei Yongsheng was complaining about, and continued: "But today, when my emotions are not so full, I can feel that my mind is clearer, and a clear mind is very helpful for me to control my body and technical details."
Sun Gaoshu: ...
This was the first time he heard such a fallacy that "not being in full competitive form is a good thing", but after listening to Su Yu's explanation, it seemed that it did not make sense.
Su Yu continued his narration, emphasizing the details of his feelings during the game, even including the sense of distance between himself and his opponent and the quick calculation method of how to catch up with his opponent in the actual game.
On the side, Feng Xiaofeng and Ye Minghao were not far from Su Yu, and they also listened to Su Yu's entire story.
The two of them felt very silent.
Feng Xiaofeng looked at Ye Minghao tentatively - is it true?
Ye Minghao: ...
Ye Minghao: It should be true.
As for the two of them, I won’t talk about Feng Xiaofeng. He was a very typical sports student, the kind who was competitive but not so smart. It’s not to say that he didn’t study at all, but his academic performance was indeed not that good.
As for Ye Minghao, because of his family's academic background, even though he chose the path of sports, his academic performance was actually very good. Even if he could not be called a top student, he was definitely an excellent student.
Otherwise, his family would not have always wanted him to retire and pursue studies.
But even so, Ye Minghao still felt at this moment that sometimes, there is indeed a huge gap between people's brains and talents.
For example, everything Su Yu is talking about now is beyond his understanding.
As a very talented sprinter, competitive state is also a very important influencing indicator for Ye Minghao.
Sometimes, good grades are strictly related to your own condition.
Just like the game in which he fell just short of breaking the national record, he felt that his condition was just a little off, including the Grand Prix final in which he sprinted with all his strength at Su Yu's reminder - his long-standing desire and firm belief, as well as his expectations for his future, all these factors combined together, allowing him to perform in an unprecedented state in the game that day.
In that competition, even before the final results came out, he already had a hunch in his heart - success.
To be honest, he has never felt that his competitive state was not up to par in a competition and yet achieved excellent results.
What Su Yu was talking about with the coaches was already a bit bizarre to Ye Minghao.
Feng Xiaofeng felt that he was not smart enough and could not understand what Su Yu said.
Mainly, during the review process, Su Yu would occasionally quote some technical terms and more academic expressions - these were all things he learned from the extra classes that Pei Dingshan gave him.
When facing the questions from the coaching team, Su Yu subconsciously felt as if he was facing questions from his former mentor and other professors, so he was almost reviewing his thoughts and feelings in the form of explaining the ideas of the project.
It has a clear structure, strict logic, and contains some arguments and citations.
Pei Yongsheng: ...
If I hadn't known that I had just called Su Yu over on a whim, I would have thought that this kid had already written a paper on this issue in advance.
He knew that his nephew was very smart. After returning from Lyles College, he compiled a number of articles and experiences based on what he had learned as a student at Lyles College, which were only available for internal reading. The main reason was that not many coaches and scholars in China had conducted detailed research and discussion on these experience-related contents, and there was a lack of empirical samples, so they just wanted to take a look at them internally.
He originally thought that this was quite amazing, but today he found that Su Yu, the man brought by his nephew, was even smarter than Pei Dingshan!
Thinking of this, an idea suddenly flashed through Pei Yongsheng's mind - could it be that Pei Dingshan, this kid, only accepts disciples based on whether their brains are useful or not?
On this side, no matter how shocked and surprised the coaches were, Su Yu still calmly explained all his thoughts and ideas.
The coaches present and the contestants who heard what Su Yu said, whether they understood it or not, were almost all silent.
Only Pei Dingshan nodded, raised his hand to rub Su Yu's head, and praised: "Not bad."
Everyone around: ...
?
For Su Yu's performance, you only have one word to say: "Not bad"? !
But Su Yu didn't seem to be dissatisfied with Pei Dingshan's praise. He just glanced at Pei Dingshan and said "hmm".
Pei Yongsheng: ...
Is this such an easy-to-please child? !
Pei Yongsheng felt jealous and wondered how lucky his nephew was to have such a good apprentice.
The other people around also had different expressions on their faces. You looked at me and I looked at you.
However, because the women's 200-meter test was about to start, the coaches did not continue to ask Su Yu more questions. Instead, they asked Su Yu to go to the side to drink some energy drinks to replenish her body, and then quickly adjust her condition and wait for the next 200-meter test.
***
Pei Yongsheng waited until Su Yu was a little far away before he asked Sun Gaoshu, "Old Sun, what do you think?"
Sun Gaoshu looked puzzled: "What do you mean by how I see it? Su Yu's situation... I think it's probably an isolated case."
Zheng Sheng and Liu Qinlong looked at each other - who said it wasn't?
As for Su Yu's situation, they have not seen a second case so far.
After all, which player would be thankful for being more rational when he is in a bad competitive state? I also feel that I can control my body better when I am not in good condition...
Well, this is the truth, but how many people can actually do it?
For example, those athletes who are in poor competitive condition find it difficult to concentrate. When they are in poor condition, their starting reaction time may even be beyond 0.17, 0.19 or even 0.20 seconds. However, due to Su Yu's so-called "poor condition", his starting reaction time was directly 0.125 seconds.
Just talking about the difference in starting reaction time between when he is in good condition and when he is in bad condition - basically there is none.
Pei Yongsheng thought about Su Yu's performance in the previous game and asked the staff around him: "Are you going to prepare a side-running video for today's test?"
The track and field team's training grounds are always equipped with various video recording equipment to facilitate coaches and athletes to use during training, so that they can record the status of athletes during training and testing in a timely manner, so that targeted analysis can be made based on the athletes' performance during review.
For example, Chen Peijie was in poor condition before, so the purpose of asking him to review the performance later was the same - when the sideways running video comes out, the scholars in the research group will bind the skeleton according to the video recorded here to compare whether the running posture is correct or not. In addition, there will also be analysis reports on the performance of different segments, each 10 meters long, during the entire 100-meter process.
These research and review contents are difficult resources for the provincial teams below, but they are essential supporting contents within the national team.
Sure enough, after Pei Yongsheng asked, the staff nearby gave a direct reply: "Yes, there are side-running videos and front-view videos."
Pei Yongsheng nodded: "Okay, after the test is over, it will be transmitted directly to the research group. Please ask the scholars and teachers there to do the video analysis of Su Yu first."
The staff nodded to indicate that they understood and had made note of it.
To be honest, it's hard to forget this incident. After all, when Su Yu was talking to several coaches just now, the staff member had been listening to the whole thing on the side. He was also one of the people who were very shocked by Su Yu's answer.
Anyway, after listening to what Su Yu said, a strange idea suddenly popped up in the staff member's mind - that is, with such a brain, let alone being an athlete, he could probably do anything.
At the same time, another nonsensical thought in the staff member's mind was - if Su Yu's brain were placed among athletes, would it be the best one?
Of course, this kind of thing is not easy to prove. Anyway, Su Yu's performance today has left a very clear image mark on all the national team members present.
***
Next, Su Yu got about 10 minutes of rest time. He replenished his fluids while adjusting his condition, trying to keep his body warm as much as possible.
The reason for this is that studies have long proven that an athlete's body temperature is often closely related to their competitive performance. That is why the athlete's warm-up and corresponding warm-up preparation techniques have always been one of the key research projects in competitive sports.
When Su Yu was preparing for the 200-meter race, Zhu Songfeng and Gao Leqiang looked at Su Yu and felt that their warm-up preparation was slower than Su Yu's charge. Su Yu had just finished the 100-meter test not long ago, and his physical energy consumption was different from theirs. They felt like they were bullying Su Yu when comparing with him at this moment.
Zhu Songfeng asked Su Yu tentatively: "Are you in good condition?"
Su Yu I took a sip of the energy drink in my hand and nodded: "Well, okay."
Su Yu is usually not a talkative person. He just explained his competitive state to Pei Yongsheng and others, which was somewhat similar to the state of an academic report. After coming out of that state, Su Yu became his usual self again - looking a little sick, with a bad temper, not wanting to talk and not being easy to mess with.
Zhu Songfeng:.
Gao Leqiang:.
The two of them looked at each other and felt that Su Yu probably didn't want to talk to them, so they decided to forget it. After all, it was just an internal test match and it wasn't a big problem.
Zhu Songfeng and Gao Leqiang are still not very clear about Su Yu's specific performance in the 200m. They have only seen Su Yu's 200m performance on the first day of testing at the beginning of winter training. Although Su Yu ran 21.95 seconds that time, which shocked them very much, this result is still quite a distance away from their results, so there is not much pressure on them.
During this period of training, they certainly noticed that Zhan Youming and Su Yu were becoming more and more familiar with each other, but neither of them thought that Su Yu's 200-meter result might surpass theirs.
After all, Su Yu is strong in 100 meters, but not every 100-meter runner can run 200 meters well. After all, the physical energy consumption levels of the two are different. Some athletes just cannot recover so quickly, so that a 100-meter runner can run very fast in the first 100 meters, but start to drop sharply in the second half.
Although they have seen Su Yu's daily 200-meter constant speed test, in the constant speed training, Pei Dingshan requires him to run 200 meters within 24-25 seconds. In this case, Zhu Songfeng and others really find it difficult to detect Su Yu's actual 200-meter ability.
***
On the field, after the two sets of 100-meter tests were completed, the on-site staff quickly placed the markers at the starting line of the 200-meter curve. The women's 200-meter runners soon arrived at the starting line to conduct the final starting test and adjust the position of the starting blocks.
After the women's athletes made the corresponding adjustments, 15 minutes had almost passed and the women's 200-meter race started first.
Just as everyone expected, the girls in the women's group attached great importance to this test match - after all, apart from Guo Minzhen who had an absolute advantage, the level of the remaining players was not much different. They could only improve the coaching team's impression of themselves by training harder and performing more stably in various tests.
Therefore, driven by this mentality, the female contestants gave their all in this test and performed at their best.
After the women's 200m test results came out, three of the six women's athletes, including four trial athletes for the World Youth Championships and one national team regular, Guo Minzhen, a total of five U20 youth athletes, ran into the World Youth Championship women's qualifying score of 21.90 seconds.
Zheng Sheng, who was standing nearby, scratched his head in pain after seeing the performance of the women's team - wow, the girls in their women's team really fight hard, and they have good talent as well.
Although due to the limitations of the yellow race, they cannot catch up with the players of black descent in terms of talent, but within Asia, these girls are really strong.
As for the men's team...
Talent is still too scarce.
Thinking of this, Zheng Sheng turned his expectant gaze to Su Yu not far away - he wondered how Su Yu would perform in this 200-meter test?
But when he looked up, Zheng Sheng was stunned for a moment and asked the staff beside him: "Is Su Yu in the innermost corridor?"
The staff nodded: "Yes, I drew it by lottery."
Zheng Sheng was silent. What kind of luck did Su Yu have?
In the 200-meter race, although the distance of the curved section run by the athletes is the same, in fact the centripetal force affecting athletes in different lanes is different. If we compare lanes 1, 4, and 8, the centripetal force affecting athletes decreases with each lane - of course, this does not mean that lane 8 is better, as athletes in the outermost lane will experience other effects.
Therefore, for athletes, the relatively central lane would be a more ideal position.
But no matter what, it is certain that the players in the innermost lane are most affected by the centripetal force.
Moreover, due to the influence of the centripetal force on the athletes in the innermost lane, they will need to adopt a more extreme body tilt angle to counteract this centripetal force.
To put it simply - it's not easy to run.
They have done research and found that there will be slight differences in the average scores of the same player in different lanes, but the overall conclusion is that the scores in the innermost lane will be relatively worse.
Zheng Sheng also wanted to see what kind of result Su Yu could achieve in this test match, but there was a 100-meter test first and then Su Yu drew the first lane.
Zheng Sheng was silent at this moment - considering this lane, and Su Yu's condition was not that good today, he didn't know if he could maintain the same condition in the 200-meter run as he did in the 100-meter run...
In short, after thinking about this series of things, Zheng Sheng felt a headache. He didn't know what result Su Yu would be able to achieve in the 200-meter race.
But no matter how much of a headache he had, it was useless. The draw had already been made. This was an established fact, and Zheng Sheng could not possibly intervene and ask the staff to change Su Yu's order just because he wanted to see Su Yu get a better result - what would it mean to do that?
So he could only watch from the side with a nervous mood.
Instead, Liu Qinlong patted Zheng Sheng on the shoulder and said cheerfully, "This shows that Su Yu is destined to be our 400-meter man!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Gaoshu next to him coughed dryly - as the leader of the sprint team, Sun Gaoshu was also the coach in charge of the 100 meters.
This dry cough is saying to Liu Qinlong and the others - Enough, what 200-meter people and 400-meter people, don’t you take our 100-meter runners seriously?
The coaching staff's "turbulent situation" will not affect the players' preparations for the competition.
On the track, Su Yu was also ready for the competition.
Although Pei Dingshan had analyzed the impact of centripetal force on athletes on different tracks before learning cornering techniques, and he also knew clearly that it was not favorable for his 200-meter test on the innermost lane, it still did not have much impact on his emotions.
There are 9 tracks. Even if the innermost lane is not used, there will still be athletes standing on these 8 tracks from the second lane to the ninth lane, either in the current test race or in the official competition in the future.
Even if he could avoid standing on the innermost lane once or twice, could he always avoid the innermost and outermost lanes?
It's easy to imagine that this is impossible.
So Su Yu doesn’t care which track he is on.
At this time, he stood in the innermost lane and adjusted the position, angle, and front and rear pedals of the starting block according to his own ideas. Then he stood in place and looked at the bend in front of him.
Relatively speaking, the innermost lane may not be easy to run in, but that does not prevent Su Yu from searching in his mind in advance to recall the feeling of his body tilting in different lanes. In his memory, he clearly found his body memories in the 200-meter stage. At the same time, during everyone's preparation stage, he also closed his eyes slightly and began to review the feeling of body tilting and running in the innermost lane.
Next to the stadium, Zheng Sheng saw Su Yu closing his eyes and was stunned for a moment. Just when he was about to say something, he saw Zhan Youming approaching the place where the coaches were watching the game.
Zhan Youming looked at Su Yu's condition, touched his chin, and said with a smile: "This Su Xiaoyu is in pretty good condition!"
Zheng Sheng:.
Zheng Sheng glanced at him and asked, "I've read the rehabilitation report from the rehabilitation doctor. You've almost recovered. When do you plan to go to the overseas training base?"
Zhan Youming looked like he was going to abandon me, and said exaggeratedly, "Old Zheng, are you going to forget the old one now that you have a new one?"
Zheng Sheng was silent for two seconds: "...You, my old friend, are giving me a headache."
Zhan Youming directly said: "I don't know, I will listen to the team's arrangements."
Zheng Sheng didn't bother to pay attention to him - in fact, the team had already considered Zhan Youming's situation, and had originally planned to talk to Zhan Youming about training at the overseas training base in the next two days. Now that Zheng Sheng mentioned it to him, it was considered as an advance notice so that Zhan Youming could adjust his condition a little.
Zhan Youming played bad for a while, then came to Zheng Sheng and asked him, "Hey, Lao Zheng, are you worried about Su Xiaoyu's grades?"
Zheng Sheng: "...What else?"
Zhan Youming patted his shoulder and said, "I can't say for sure about other events, but for Su Xiaoyu's 200 meters, you can rest assured."
Zheng Sheng: “…”
Zhan Youming patted his chest and said with a smile: "200 meters, I am an authority."
Zheng Sheng couldn't help but complain about him: "Yes, yes, authority, the authority who accidentally strained his leg muscles."
In fact, Zhan Youming's leg injury is certainly not as simple as a strain. It involves the impact of long-term training habits as well as some hidden injuries and stress injuries. This accidental injury is actually a good thing. It found out the problems that were not noticed in the past in advance and avoided greater injuries in the future.
But this certainly does not prevent Zheng Sheng from complaining about his apprentice.
Zhan Youming chuckled and said nothing. He knew how worried Lao Zheng was during the time he was injured, so he didn't care what Lao Zheng said - it was just a few grunts.
But after he finished talking, Zhan Youming continued, "Really, Lao Zheng, I have a very good eye, you believe me."
Zheng Sheng ignored him because the coach in charge of refereeing had already given the order of "get ready".
There are three fewer athletes taking part in the men's 200m test than in the women's group. Due to physical reasons and his personal level, Zhan Youming is not needed to take the test. So there are only Gao Yansong, another national team regular in the 200m, and Zhu Songfeng and Gao Leqiang, two trial athletes called up for the World Youth Championships. Finally, there is Su Yu, who was temporarily recruited from the 100m by Zheng Sheng to take part in the test.
There were four contestants and nine tracks. The innermost lane was not used. Only lanes 2 to 5 were used. Gao Leqiang was on lane 5, and Zhu Songfeng and Gao Yansong were on lanes 3 and 4 respectively.
At this time, the four athletes have arrived at the starting lines of their respective tracks in turn, squatted on the starting blocks, supported themselves with their hands, bent their knees and touched the ground, waiting for further instructions from the referee.
Logically speaking, lane five should be the best lane in this competition. Although it is the outermost lane in this test, lane five has always been the "golden position" in the competition. Only players who rank in the top four in the preliminaries or semi-finals have the opportunity to be randomly assigned to the middle lane.
But at this time Gao Leqiang was squatting on the starting blocks in the fifth lane. He could only see his opponents when he looked back to the left. There were no other opponents in front of him. He himself was at the front of the extended line of the starting line on this curve.
Although he knew that this was just a test match and there was nothing to be nervous about, the feeling of tension and the panic of not knowing when he would be overtaken by the opponent behind him on the left, these negative emotions had already enveloped him before the game even started.
Next to the game schedule, Zheng Sheng and others couldn't help but frown after seeing Gao Leqiang's condition.
Zheng Sheng frowned and said, "Gao Leqiang has some problems with his ability to withstand pressure."
In normal training, Gao Leqiang's performance is actually quite good. In several 200-meter tests within the team between Gao Leqiang and Zhu Songfeng, Gao Leqiang and Zhu Songfeng won and lost alternately.
Therefore, Zheng Sheng did not think that there was any major problem with Gao Leqiang's condition. Moreover, after more than two months of training, Gao Leqiang's strength has improved. If he is in good condition, he has a good chance of achieving the World Youth Championship qualifying result of 21.40 seconds within the qualifying window period.
But at this time, it was just an internal team test match. Gao Leqiang was in the fifth lane, which should actually belong to the golden lane, but he showed a very obvious sense of tension.
This only proves that Gao Leqiang is definitely not a competition-type player - this doesn't even mean he is not a big-game player.
Sun Gaoshu on the side nodded, but did not make any further comments for the time being.
After all, the results haven’t come out yet, so we still have to wait and see the specific performance - who knows if Gao Leqiang will be nervous before the game but will be able to calm down during the game?
It’s not like there haven’t been players and performances of this type in the past.
Zheng Sheng also nodded and focused his attention on the game in front of him.
Crouching at the starting line of the fourth lane is Gao Yansong, another regular player of the national team in the 200m event. He is also another 200m expert in the country besides Zhan Youming.
In the 2017 season that ended earlier, Gao Yansong's best result was 20.62 seconds. He failed to break the 20.60 mark, but his overall performance was good. His results were relatively stable, but he had difficulty in making breakthroughs.
As for Zhu Songfeng on the third lane, he seems to be in good condition at the moment and is not as obviously stiff as Gao Leqiang. His actual performance will have to wait and see the final results.
Among all the people, the one who looked the most relaxed was probably Su Yu - or it couldn't be said that he was relaxed, but that he didn't show the obvious high competitive state that he had in the past.
You know, in normal competitions, coaches will always emphasize "moderate tension" to the players. This is to mobilize the players' competitive state, and at the same time prevent the players from being overly nervous, causing their body muscles to become stiff and lack elasticity.
But looking at Su Yu on the track in front of him...
Well, before 'getting in position' just now, Su Yu was also preparing seriously. He patted the muscles of various parts of his body, and at the same time jumped in the air on the spot to relax - it’s really amazing that the elasticity of Su Yu's body displayed in that jump was really strong.
In short, Su Yu didn't seem to be too nervous, but as he said himself, he was able to rely on his understanding of his body very calmly and make the necessary physical adjustments on the court.
It's bizarre, but it seems to be true.
Beside the track, the coaches were keeping an eye on the status of the athletes, while on the field, the athletes were waiting for instructions from the referee.
Finally, after the contestants were ready, the referee gave new instructions:
"preparation."
When the four contestants on the track simultaneously put their hands on the ground and raised their hips, followed by a "bang" of the starting gun, the race began!
On the track, four athletes started one after another in front of the starting line of the curve. Although it can be seen that Su Yu's starting reaction speed is still very fast, Zhu Songfeng and Gao Yansong in the third and fourth lanes also had fast starting reaction speeds.
Among the four, only Gao Leqiang in the fifth lane fell behind significantly at the start.
This lag at the starting stage undoubtedly brought greater mental pressure to Gao Leqiang, so that he showed obvious lack of explosive power and core instability at the starting stage.
It can be seen that he started the race with some panic, so his overall condition after the start was obviously worse.
At the trackside, Zheng Sheng and others shook their heads and sighed after seeing Gao Leqiang's performance.
It was just a test, but Gao Leqiang's running performance would obviously affect the national team coaches' evaluation of him - there was no way around it, because these coaches had seen too many players with unstable performances in the country.
There are many athletes who do not show their weakness in domestic competitions, but when they enter international competitions, due to the certain gap in strength between them and their opponents, they naturally have some psychological resistance and timidity, which leads to particularly bad performance in the competition. Maybe before the foreign athletes have opened up too much distance between them, they already feel that they are not running well and are going to lose.
The coaches of the national team have been suffering from these "civil war players" for a long time.
Opponents like Zhan Youming and Zheng Tianxi, who can display their full strength in both civil and foreign wars, are the talents that the national team coach is craving now - even if you take a step back and say that you can only fight a civil war, then at least you have stabilized the state of the civil war, right?
If you are so nervous just for today's internal test match, let alone foreign wars, you can't even hope for a civil war!
Sun Gaoshu and others shook their heads silently in their hearts, feeling that it was such a pity - of course, this didn't mean that they would give up on Gao Leqiang immediately, but their evaluation of Gao Leqiang would definitely decline. What would happen in the future would still depend on whether Gao Leqiang could stand on his own after psychological counseling and adjustments.
They will try their best to give opportunities, but the players also have to work hard to succeed.
Excluding Gao Leqiang who was obviously in poor condition in the outermost lane, Zhu Songfeng and Gao Yansong in the second and third lanes could be said to be in stable condition.
In the starting stage just now, Zhu Songfeng performed well. After this period of training in the national team, his curve starting technique has been greatly improved compared to before. Zheng Sheng helped him correct the problem of getting up too slowly in the starting stage in the past, allowing him to quickly raise his body height during the curve start process and better connect the curve start and curve acceleration process.
Gao Yansong in the fourth lane was undoubtedly the strongest among the four. In this test, Gao Yansong ran relatively relaxedly. He knew that the focus of this game was not on him, and to be honest, even if he relaxed a little, it would be difficult for the three young players on the field to surpass him.
On the field, the one with the most stable condition... or perhaps too stable, was undoubtedly Su Yu on the innermost lane.
From the moment he heard the gun, Su Yu showed a starting reaction speed that was no less than before. At the same time, after more than two months of training, even though his training focus is still on the 100 meters, the improvement of various curve starts and cornering techniques is still engraved in Su Yu's mind.
On this curve, his body leaned inward, and each of his steps did not land like he did on a straight track. Instead, the force was focused on the inside of the sole of the foot which was closer to the center of the circle. His arm swinging movement while running was also different from the way he swings his arms on a straight track.
Just as Su Yu had said to Pei Yongsheng and the others before, he sincerely felt that in his current state, his mind and state were clearer and more lucid.
In his current state, he can control his limbs more accurately, such as the different degrees of arm swing between his left and right hands, and the need to generate a tendency to move inward across the body from an oblique angle during the swing of his right arm.
In his mind, almost every movement is solidified into a model cycle. His brain is the highest commander of his body, regulating his breathing, the details of his technical movements, the speed and physical strength ratio of his front and back movements, and the consumption of every bit of his physical energy.
At the track, watching Su Yu's performance on the track, which could almost be described as 'precise', Zhan Youming took a deep breath and said, "I suddenly remembered that Lewington told me before... Let me think about what he said? 'Correct posture...' Oh, and 'correct technique'."
Zhan Youming watched Su Yu's gradual progress on the field, and finally almost in an aria-like anticipation of what Lewington, the 200-meter coach at the multiple national team's overseas training base, had said - remember, Zhan, these are the keys to your completion of the 200-meter race.
Of course, Zhan Youming knew that this was a very important matter, and he also did it seriously according to Lewington's words. But until this moment, when he looked at Su Yu's precise technical movements and performance on the court, he suddenly understood the meaning behind this sentence more deeply.
- Correct posture and correct technique.
This not only ensures that he can complete the 200-meter race, but also ensures that his performance can be maintained at a high enough level when his condition is not so good.
Ahaha, who said this?
In fact, everyone who was watching Su Yu's performance on the field at this time could give the same answer.
certainly……
At the same time, another thought popped up in Zhan Youming's mind - for other players, lack of competitive state and enthusiasm during the game is not a good thing, but with a brain like Su Yu, maintaining such a rational and precise state of the game... Can this be considered a bad competitive state?
Well, maybe that’s not the case?
In short, Su Yu on the track did not care what the people watching the race around him were thinking. On the track, even on the innermost lane which was generally recognized as not easy to run in, Su Yu ran the innermost curve smoothly and beautifully.
As Su Yu finished the curve part and when he connected from the curve part to the straight part, Su Yu had gradually reached his maximum speed. The maximum speed that could not be reached due to the limitations of the curve stage also began to rise at this moment.
It only took a moment for Zhu Songfeng to overtake on the third lane.
On the third lane, although Zhu Songfeng knew that Su Yu would definitely approach him as the curve ended, he did not expect that Su Yu would overtake him so easily that he would have no power to resist.
In the following straight section, Su Yu was carried along by this indomitable momentum - or rather, it was purely due to the precise calculations given to him by his calm mind and the instruction to 'maintain maximum speed with all one's strength'.
In the following straight section, Su Yu was even getting closer and closer to Gao Yansong's position step by step.
However, Gao Yansong was worthy of being a regular player of the national team. He did not really give Su Yu the opportunity to surpass him. In the end, he still crossed the finish line in the first place, and the second place who crossed the line after him was Su Yu.
After watching Su Yu cross the finish line, Liu Qinlong, who was standing by the track, suddenly said, "...if we continue to run this race, Gao Yansong may not be Su Yu's opponent in the second half of the 200 meters."
There was no way. This kid’s ability to control the overall rhythm and energy distribution was so strong that Liu Qinlong, who had just watched the game, couldn’t help but feel warm in his heart.
After this race, Su Yu's physical energy consumption was still too great after about 200 meters, and his complexion looked much worse than when he finished 100 meters.
Before Liu Qinlong could figure out the impact of this on Su Yu, he heard Zheng Sheng beside him yell, "Met the standard! Su Yu... 21.35 seconds!!!"
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