Chapter 56 (Four in One)
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The moment they saw Su Yu's results, the track and field fans at the Z City Sports Center Stadium were in a trance for a moment.
To be honest, Su Yu's performance in this preliminary round was something the audience both expected and didn't expect.
I said I thought of it based on Su Yu's results and performance last season - a player who was able to run 10.41 seconds in the S City race finals does have a chance to run a good result in this game and is expected to enter the finals.
However, after seeing the score of 10.37, which was the best in the entire stadium, the track and field fans present still found it a little unbelievable.
"It's 10.40 seconds again?"
"I think Su Yu ran quite easily in this race?"
"What do you mean? Does this mean he still has some energy left?"
The audience in the live audience were stunned for a moment, then someone started shouting, and then the entire audience began to cheer - regardless of whether it was surprising or not, at least Su Yu's result was enough for these track and field fans to shout "awesome".
At the same time, in the Jigu live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were looking at Su Yu's performance on the field and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
"This is really... a hero emerges young!"
In fact, in this game, not only the audience was confused, but the two of them were also confused at the moment.
Just like the athletes on the same field with Su Yu can tell whether Su Yu is in good condition before the game, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming are both veteran commentators after all, and they can still tell whether the athletes are excited or not before the game.
Just before the game, they first praised Su Yu, but later, after realizing that Su Yu's condition did not seem to be particularly ideal, the two of them gave Su Yu a little explanation before the game, saying something like "This game is the first indoor-outdoor game this season. It may take some time for the participating players to adapt." "Yes, yes, especially for young players like Su Yu, who have relatively insufficient competition experience. In this early season competition, they may need more time and matches to adapt."
As a result, they were still describing Su Yu in the previous second, but the referee fired the gun in the next second. Then they saw that Su Yu, who seemed to be in no competitive state, gave an amazing reaction as usual after the gun was fired.
Tian Ruhui: “…”
Zhou Jiming: “…”
It's just outrageous.
But this is also good, as it shows that Su Yu is in good shape.
Then, after the start, Su Yu, who was in "Schrödinger's good condition", had already crushed the adult players in the same group with his absolute overwhelming attitude from the acceleration stage, making it impossible for them to overtake.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming saw clearly that when Su Yu finally crossed the line, the players in the lanes to his left and right, such as Zheng Guanyu, seemed a little dazed when they finally crossed the line.
It can be seen that he was really stimulated by Su Yu.
Of course, the people who were stimulated by Su Yu’s performance were not just his opponents in the same group.
For example, at this moment, the public screen barrage in Jigu’s live broadcast room is filled with a series of "Hahahahahahaha"——
[I'm dying of laughter. I can't take it anymore. Before the preliminaries of this group started, Teacher Tian and Teacher Zhou were really worried about Su Yu, right? 】
【you do not say? I already believe it! At that time, my heart skipped a beat, and I thought, will Su Yu this season be like Feng Xiaofeng last season? What do you think happened? 10.37 seconds! 】
[Laughing to death.] If the result of 10.37 seconds is at the beginning of the season and Su Yu has not yet adapted to the outdoor season, then what will his results be after Su Yu adapts to the outdoor season this season? You won’t be able to break the 10.30 second barrier in one go, right? 】
Those who followed the game in the live broadcast room were all old track and field fans, and many were also fans of the commentary of Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming. They felt that these two teachers’ commentary was passionate, professional, and humane, and that they were rare good commentators in track and field events.
As a result, the two teachers obviously suffered a setback at Su Yu's hands tonight.
For a moment, the live broadcast room was filled with "hahahaha" laughter. Just looking at the barrage reactions on the public screen, it was simply a continuous stream of laughter and joy.
When Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were commentating on the Jigu video live broadcast, in addition to the live broadcast of the event, there was also a special monitor that showed the comments from the audience in the live broadcast room. The director would occasionally remind them to look at the display screen and then select the content that the audience would focus on for commentary.
But today...
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming took a look at the display screen, and finally looked at each other and laughed - no matter how to say it, although they seemed to have been slapped in the face, Su Yu's achievement was definitely worth cheering and celebrating!
The two commentators smiled at each other and congratulated Su Yu: "Congratulations! Congratulations to Su Yu, the young athlete from the S Province Track and Field Team, for successfully achieving a good result of 10.37 seconds in the men's 100m preliminaries of the G Province Z City National Track and Field Grand Prix!"
"Su Yu's performance has once again broken his personal best record, and also brought the best result of my country's men's U18 100m into the world of less than 10.40 seconds! Let us congratulate Su Yu! Congratulations to the Chinese team!"
Just as Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming said, Su Yu is currently a growing record of Chinese men's U18 players. Every bit of his progress represents the improvement of the highest level of Chinese U18 players.
Of course, for the players of the Chinese team, Su Yu's performance is not without disadvantages - the key point is that the record is currently being constantly refreshed. That is, before Ye Minghao and Su Yu, China's NU16B had been maintained for 30 years. Now Su Yu not only broke the NU16B in one fell swoop, but is also pushing NU18B forward rapidly.
So……
When Su Yu turns 18, what height will China's men's 100m NU18B reach? How many years will it take for new players to come out and refresh the unknown NU18Bs?
Well, in short, this is definitely a "sweet" trouble for track and field fans and track and field people.
***
In the competition field, although Su Yu's 100-meter preliminary round created a climax, the performances of the athletes in the 11th, 12th and 13th groups of the preliminary rounds were quite lackluster.
In three consecutive groups of competitions, the best athlete only ran a time of 10.61 seconds, so that after the three preliminaries were over, the large electronic screen displaying the overall ranking remained motionless, and the final ranking was fixed after the tenth group of preliminaries.
When all 13 groups of runners had finished running, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming announced the final list of qualifiers to the audience. They were:
First place: Su Yu, S Province Sports Team, 10.37 seconds, wind speed (+0.7m/s), q (advanced to the finals);
Second place: Chen Peijie, F Province Sports Team, 10.38 seconds, wind speed (+1.1m/s), q;
Third place: Gao Tianwu, G Province Sports Team, 10.43 seconds, wind speed (+1.0m/s), q;
Fourth place: Yu Shaojie, Z Province Sports Team, 10.46 seconds, wind speed (+1.3m/s), q;
Fifth place: Feng Xiaofeng, G Province Sports Team, 10.50 seconds, wind speed (+0.6m/s), q;
Sixth place: Zhao Yingping, J Province Sports Team, 10.51 seconds, wind speed (+0.8m/s), q;
Seventh place: He Shufeng, Z Province Sports Team, 10.55 seconds, wind speed (+1.0m/s), q;
Eighth place: Ye Minghao, G Province Sports Team, 10.57 seconds, wind speed (+0.6m/s), q;
After introducing the eight qualified contestants, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming felt somewhat emotional.
"Looking at the current distribution of 100-meter runners across the country, the G Province Sports Team is still the best!"
Among the total of 8 people who advanced to the final today, there are three players from G Province: Gao Tianwu, Feng Xiaofeng, and Ye Minghao. This accounts for almost half of the finalists. And this is because Zheng Tianxi, the ace player of the G Province Sports Team, has not returned yet. If Zheng Tianxi also returns to the country to participate in the competition, the proportion of players from G Province in the final list may be even higher.
"Of course, it's not just the G Province Sports Team." Zhou Jiming added, "In today's list of qualified men's 100m finals, we can see that there are as many as three U20 athletes, which means that our young generation of athletes is also rising rapidly!"
The emergence of a large number of new talented athletes is definitely a sign of steady improvement and great potential for a competitive sport. For track and field fans, it does not matter whether the finalists are all athletes from the G Province Sports Team. What is more important is that there are 3 U20 athletes among the 8 finalists!
***
While the audience was watching the game through the live broadcast, in the meeting room of the sprint coaching staff of the national track and field team, Sun Gaoshu was watching the event with the coaches in the team.
After seeing Su Yu's 100m performance and results, Sun Gaoshu turned his head to look at the coaches present and asked, "How is it? Do you have any opinions about Su Yu's place in the 100m list of the World Youth Championships?"
Originally during the winter training stage, the national team coaching staff had basically finalized the preliminary list for the men's sprint at the World Youth Championships. The reason why it is called a preliminary list is mainly because we still have to see how the athletes perform after the official start of the new season. In addition, the upcoming World Youth Championship qualifiers will also have a certain impact on the final list selection.
But with the results and performance given by Su Yu in this preliminary round, the sprint coaches present also had an idea in their minds - in this World Youth Championship, even if Su Yu is young, it is inevitable that he will participate in a cross-level competition.
No matter who between Ye Minghao and Feng Xiaofeng can get the other 100-meter qualification, Su Yu will definitely be one of them.
Although Su Yu is young, this kind of cross-age competition has occurred abroad, but it has never happened in China.
This person did not appear not because of any competition rules that do not allow it, it is simply because there has never been such a talented player in the country before - now Su Yu's strength is already obvious, and his condition is so stable. If he is deliberately not selected because of his age, wouldn't that be a mistake?
Seeing that no one among the coaches present objected, Sun Gaoshu nodded and said, "Okay, then the list for Su Yu will be finalized first. As for the other spot, should it be given to Ye Minghao or Feng Xiaofeng..."
Sun Gaoshu took a look at the preliminary results so far and shook his head first - the performance of Feng Xiaofeng and Ye Minghao in the preliminary stage did not mean much, so we should wait until the final to see the details.
***
On the field, Su Yu didn't know that Sun Gaoshu had already put his name on the official list of participants in the World Youth Championships. After finishing the men's 100-meter preliminaries, he followed the staff's instructions and retreated to the backcourt passage, where he watched the men's high jump final on the wall-mounted TV.
If Jiang Yuan followed his previous habit, he would usually choose to raise the bar height one or two more times before making a trial jump, but this time due to the requirements of the competition advancement system, he had already made his first round of trial jumps at a height of 2.00 meters - as stable as ever.
After the 2.00-meter trial jump, the vast majority of contestants had been successfully screened out, and only 9 contestants were retained to advance to the finals - originally there were 8 qualifying places, but the results of the last two contestants were completely different. After consideration, the referee put the eighth and ninth place contestants with tied results together in the final list.
After the eliminated contestants were determined, the contestants who failed to advance to the top eight finals left the stage one by one under the guidance of the staff, and the 9 contestants present began a new round of trial jumps at a height of 2.05 meters.
At the same time, Jiang Yuan ranked third in the preliminary round with his one-time clearing of the bar at a height of 2.00 meters, so he was ranked third from the bottom in the final stage.
The referee in charge of the officiating on the field was a very experienced referee. After a brief announcement of the final list and the order of appearance, and after confirming that the crossbar referee had readjusted the height of the crossbar, the referee announced that the men's high jump final would continue.
I don’t know what’s going on, but the eight players on the field are obviously older than Jiang Yuan. However, after seeing Jiang Yuan put on his clothes again and sit in the rest area on the sidelines, it feels like the person sitting there is not a 15-year-old junior, but a very intimidating big devil.
Almost every contestant would take a look at Jiang Yuan's position when they stood up. Seeing that he was still sitting there motionless, they guessed that Jiang Yuan would probably apply for exemption from the jump at a height of 2.05 meters. However, for the contestants present, a height of 2.05 meters was already a threshold that they could not easily cross.
The naked gap in strength and confidence before their eyes inevitably increased the psychological pressure on the contestants present.
The high jump referee on the field certainly noticed the gazes of these athletes. He also understood that Jiang Yuan's presence had become a pressure for these athletes. But even so, the referee could not let Jiang Yuan leave the field - after all, Jiang Yuan was a player who had advanced to the finals, and during the competition, what kind of trial jump strategy the athlete wanted to adopt had nothing to do with the referee, and even as the referee he could not interfere with the athlete's competition strategy.
Perhaps it was because of the deterrent effect and pressure from Jiang Yuan sitting in a seat next to the competition venue that 5 out of the 8 trial jumpers made mistakes at a height of 2.05 meters.
Fortunately, in the subsequent second and third rounds of trial jumps, three contestants seized the opportunity and successfully cleared the bar in the second and third rounds of trial jumps. In the end, only two contestants were eliminated at a height of 2.05 meters.
Then, after the height of the horizontal bar was raised to 2.10 meters, another three players were eliminated. At this time, there were only four players left on the field, including Jiang Yuan.
Jiang Yuan applied for exemption from jumps for two consecutive rounds, so his score was still only 2.00 meters when the horizontal bar was raised to a height of 2.15 meters. His opponents looked at Jiang Yuan's confident look and thought that Jiang Yuan was too conceited, but at the same time they all knew that this was a player who could jump over a height of 2.28 meters, and a mere 2.15 meters would not be a problem for him.
This is indeed the case.
After the height of the horizontal bar rose to 2.15 meters, Jiang Yuan finally stopped applying for exemption from the jump. As the second player among the remaining four players, he once again started from the running area under the watchful eyes of the audience, opponents and referees, and then easily crossed the horizontal bar height of 2.15 meters - another one-time clearance!
On the court, Jiang Yuan's opponents no longer had any temper.
The athlete who just appeared before Jiang Yuan failed in his first attempt, and the two athletes who appeared after Jiang Yuan also failed in their first attempt at a height of 2.15 meters.
Among the remaining four players on the field, only Jiang Yuan cleared the bar in one try at a height of 2.15 meters in the first round of trials. This result basically established Jiang Yuan's victory in the men's high jump final.
The final fact is the same.
After the height of 2.15 meters, two more players were eliminated. Finally, at a height of 2.20 meters, Jiang Yuan once again achieved the result of clearing the bar in one go, while his other opponent failed in three attempts and finally his result was fixed at a height of 2.15 meters.
With only three attempts and three successes, Jiang Yuan won the final victory with ease.
***
While commentating on Jiang Yuan's men's high jump final, Tian Ruhui couldn't help but sigh repeatedly: "Although Jiang Yuan is young, his strength and mentality have already reached the top level in the domestic men's high jump event."
"Yes, we have always said in the past that Zhang Xujian is the most mentally stable high jumper. Maybe now we can add Jiang Yuan to that list."
In the past national team's men's high jump event, Sun Yuhang was indeed a well-deserved talented player, but don't be fooled by Sun Yuhang's arrogance, in fact, he is also a player who depends very much on his condition. When he is in the best condition, he can tie the national record for men's high jump in one fell swoop, but when he is not in good condition, his result is only about 2.26 meters.
Of course, based on his own strength, even when he is not in good shape, the minimum result given is more than 2.20 meters.
His teammate Zhang Xujian is not as good as Sun Yuhang in terms of personal strength and talent. Zhang Xujian is not a player with a very sharp personality, so in terms of popularity, Zhang Xujian is far less famous than Sun Yuhang. But in terms of strength, when Sun Yuhang is not in good shape, Zhang Xujian is a very reliable player.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming's comments on Jiang Yuan can be translated as follows: Jiang Yuan is not only talented, but also has a very stable mentality. He has good talent, a stable mentality, and a good brain.
Adding all these conditions together, wouldn't it be like Sun Yuhang plus Zhang Xujian? !
The two did not say it explicitly, but the meaning was very clear.
It can be seen that after this winter training period, these two commentators have become fans of the two players Su Yu and Jiang Yuan.
***
After the men's high jump final ended in the morning, the track events also held preliminaries for the men's and women's 400m, 1500m and women's 5000m events.
While these events were going on, Jiang Yuan and Su Yu had returned to the lounge of the S Province Sports Team. Since Jiang Yuan's first day of competition had ended, he was in a relatively relaxed state. However, Su Yu had a men's 100m final in the evening, so after returning to the backcourt lounge, Jiang Yuan asked Su Yu about his condition.
"Well enough."
After the 100-meter preliminaries in the morning, Su Yu had obviously improved greatly compared to last season when he was pale and looked like he would faint at any time. Although he still felt exhausted for a short while, his overall condition was still good.
And just as Pei Dingshan said, his body's recovery ability is very strong. Compared with ordinary players, his recovery speed is nearly twice as fast.
An hour had passed since the tenth group preliminaries of the 100m in the morning. After returning to the backcourt lounge, there was a massage teacher from the S Province Sports Team waiting for him. He helped him adjust the fatigue of his muscles as soon as possible. Now Su Yu's overall condition has basically returned to its peak.
Jiang Yuan knew Su Yu and knew that what Su Yu said was true, so he smiled and nodded, walked up to him and rubbed his head: "Then congratulations, the new NU18B!"
Su Yu sat obediently and let Jiang Yuan rub his head - everyone in his family did the same, and they loved to rub his head since he was a child, until later when he really became an adult, they gradually reduced this kind of interaction. When he was just reborn, he was a little uncomfortable with such actions, but after so much time, Su Yu had accepted these actions of his family on his head again.
Jiang Yuan looked at Su Yu with a smile, thinking that his little ancestor was really well-behaved. After laughing, he also helped contact the staff of the S Province Sports Team and asked if there were any special meals - the national team's nutritionist team specially developed a meal plan for Su Yu, including the diet during the previous winter training period, as well as the diet before and after the game and catering matters to assist physical recovery.
This time when they came to City Z to participate in the competition, Pei Dingshan directly sent back a copy of the meal plan made by the national team nutritionist for them. Wang Changan patted his chest and said that there would be absolutely no problem.
In fact, these meals are not that expensive. If the players of the provincial team follow the daily meal standard of 200 yuan per person, they will definitely not be able to eat enough. It mainly depends on whether the players are willing to eat these fixed nutritious meals.
At this moment Jiang Yuan asked, and the staff of the S Province Sports Team said that everything had been arranged at the hotel where they were staying. The ingredients were arranged by the organizer of Z City, and the source was safe, so they could be eaten when they returned to the hotel.
After dealing with these things, Jiang Yuan took Su Yu back to the designated hotel for the competition.
***
On the other side, Zhou Yuang and Jiang Ruohui were chatting privately on WeChat - it was not that the two of them were unwilling to chat in the group, but mainly because Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Ye Minghao were all competing in the group today, especially Su Yu and Ye Minghao who had a final in the evening. If they were chatting in the group now, what would that look like?
In fact, Jiang Ruohui also participated in the preliminaries in the morning, but Jiang Ruohui's strength was still a little behind those adult players, and ultimately he failed to make it into the final qualifying list.
Zhou Yuang was different. He did not sign up for the 100-meter event this time, but the S Province Sports Team helped him sign up for the 200-meter preliminaries with the wild card qualification. However, track and field fans focused on Su Yu's multiple events and did not notice that the S Province Sports Team also used a wild card spot for him.
In the small window between the two people, Jiang Ruohui was quite emotional: [Alas, I participated in fewer competitions last season, and most of them were U16 competitions. I still thought I was quite capable, but the Grand Prix races I participated in last season and this season woke me up every minute. 】
Zhou Yuang comforted him: [What's the big deal? You are only 16 years old this year. You ran 10.76 seconds in the preliminaries this morning. Has that already broken your personal best in the 100-meter race? Isn’t that good! 】
Probably because he was suppressed by the other two bkings of 303 for a long time, Zhou Yuang is in a particularly good state of mind now, with an inexplicable self-confidence of being the 'number one person under bking' (?).
But he was right to comfort himself. As a 16-year-old, 10.76 seconds is indeed a very good result. You can see that the qualifying result for the men's 100 meters in the U20 World Youth Championships is only 10.58 seconds. According to Jiang Ruohui's current results, he may not have a hope in this year's World Youth Championship, but he should have a chance to qualify for the next World Youth Championship.
Jiang Ruohui finally came to terms with it, and couldn't help but sigh with Zhou Yuang: [Those two people in our group are really not human...]
It is obvious who this "not human" refers to. Ye Minghao is indeed very awesome, but when it comes to the level of "not being a human", there are only Su Yu and Jiang Yuan.
But Jiang Ruohui seemed a little worried: [Hey, Angzi, do you think Xiaoyu rushed a little too fast in the preliminaries this morning? Will he be in good shape for tonight's final? 】
When Zhou Yuang saw the word "status" said by Jiang Ruohui on the phone, he couldn't help but fall into a brief silence.
You want to talk about something like "status"...
If it was last season, he might still be a little naive and a little worried about Su Yu's finals status, but now...
Zhou Yuang typed silently on the message input box on his phone: [Don't worry, if you're talking about the status... To be honest, even I don't understand now, is it Su Yu who is in good competitive status that is scary, or Su Yu who is not in good competitive status that is scary. 】
Jiang Ruohui: [? 】
Zhou Yuang didn't explain any further and just let Jiang Ruohui go and see for himself and he would understand.
Jiang Ruohui didn't bother about it and even cheered for Zhou Yuang in the men's 200m preliminaries tomorrow night.
After seeing the words "Come on", Zhou Yuang sighed quietly again - he had to come on, after all, he was the number one person under the twin stars of 303bking. No matter what, he had to at least keep this outrageous title, right?
***
The day passed quickly, and after getting enough rest, the athletes returned to the Z City Sports Center Stadium before the start of the Z City Track and Field Grand Prix evening event on April 10.
At this time, the number of spectators in the stadium stands was much greater than that in the morning - after all, for office worker track and field fans, there was really nothing they could do about the overlap between the morning race and their work hours. But in the evening races, not only were there more important events, but people were also off work/school, so of course there were many more people coming to watch the games.
Wang Yangming, the 'President of the Su Yu and Jiang Yuan Supporters Association', was quite conscientious. Before the evening game started, he distributed Su Yu banners and small flags to the track and field fans near his seat one by one. At this moment, many people were holding Su Yu's banners, and there was also a large banner at the guardrail in front, which created a home-field atmosphere for Su Yu in the stadium of G Province Z City.
The evening match was the first game which started at 19:00. At this moment, the students of Class 1, Grade 2 of No. 12 Middle School were preparing to start their evening self-study. Before the evening study began, someone took out his mobile phone and opened the Jigu video, intending to take a sneak peek. As a result, he first saw the big banner in the camera that read "Come on Su Yu - all the students in Class 1, Grade 2 of No. 12 Middle School in S City support you."
The classmate immediately took a screenshot of the scene, quietly posted it in the class group, @ed Zhong Wen, and most importantly gave a thumbs up to Zhong Wen’s cousin - the cousin is really good and really hardworking.
These top students were no different from ordinary people when it came to gossiping. Soon someone saw the news and there was a burst of chatter in the class as they discussed Su Yu's performance in the final that evening.
"What time is the final tonight?"
"About 9 o'clock. Self-study hasn't finished yet."
A group of students looked a little depressed, probably because they couldn’t watch the live broadcast and could only wait until night to watch the recorded replay - but no matter what, even if they couldn’t cheer for their academic god in the first place, their hearts must be with the academic god!
When Lin Zhengting walked into the classroom, he saw these little brats chattering. He snorted coldly, and when he saw that the students were silent, he knocked on the desk and said, "Study hard. If you perform well, I will give you 10 minutes at 9 o'clock."
Seeing the students' eyes widened, Lin Zhengting said with a smile: "Why? Do you think I don't know?"
As he said that, he waved his hand and said, "Alright, study hard and we'll talk later."
***
Su Yu didn't know that his head teacher and classmates were actually planning to come and support him at a certain time. At this moment, he was recuperating in the exclusive lounge of the S Province Sports Team.
Unlike the preliminaries in the morning, the women's and men's 100-meter finals in the evening were scheduled at the end of tonight's competition - because the 100-meter sprint has always been the highlight of track and field events. If the 100-meter sprint was brought forward, it is very likely that after the sprint is over, more than half of the attention on the scene will have gone away.
Therefore, some organizers tend to schedule these important events to the back when arranging events.
Su Yu didn't mind the arrangements for these events. After resting for most of the day, he even had a good sleep in the hotel in the afternoon - good deep sleep helped his body recover to its peak condition.
But he also knows that there must be many players who rest and recover well like him.
Even though he now has the ability to run under 10.40 seconds, Su Yu still understands that there are many talented and strong athletes in this world. Although his results in the morning's preliminaries were indeed good, in tonight's final, whether it is Chen Peijie, Gao Tianwu or Yu Shaojie, the regular players of the national 4*100m relay team, actually have the ability to break the 10.30 second mark.
In addition to these people, the abilities of Zhao Yingping, Ye Minghao, and Feng Xiaofeng should not be underestimated.
When facing the enemy, even the slightest relaxation may lead to your failure.
Su Yu accepts failure when he lacks strength, but does not allow himself to fail because of underestimating his opponent.
With all these thoughts in mind, Su Yu closed his eyes and rested calmly until the staff of the S Province Sports Team knocked on the door of the lounge.
"Su Yu, it's 8:20, you can check in and warm up!"
Su Yu listened to the staff's voice, nodded, and responded with "OK".
***
Jiang Yuan was sitting in the audience seats tonight, watching Su Yu's game as a spectator. After he found the seat with the best view of the 100-meter sprint, he saw the banner in front of him that read "Come on Su Yu". After he sat down, someone directly handed him a banner with Su Yu's words.
When Jiang Yuan saw it, he smiled and said thank you.
"You are welcome."
Wang Yangming saw that there was an empty seat next to him, so he squeezed in. But when he heard the voice, he looked up and was stunned. He saw Jiang Yuan wearing a baseball cap: "Why are you here?"
Wang Yangming was quite alert. When he saw Jiang Yuan wearing a baseball cap, he did not call out his name directly.
Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Hello, cousin."
After a pause, Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "My schedule for today is over, so I just happened to be watching Xiaoyu's game in the audience."
“Oh, oh…”
This was also the first time that Wang Yangming met Jiang Yuan. He was a little nervous for two seconds after seeing him, but he soon relaxed - mainly because Wang Yangming had been watching the game for such a long time, and this was the first time he had such a strong player sitting next to him, and this player was also a classmate of his cousin. This feeling was indeed a bit magical.
But this state didn't last long. Ten minutes after Jiang Yuan sat down, the commentator on the scene was already high.
"Dear audience, the 100-meter sprint race of the National Track and Field Grand Prix G Province Z City is about to begin!"
"First up are our eight finalists in the Women's Flying Squad!"
As the commentator's voice began to echo at the scene, the audience in the stadium became excited at the first moment, and Wang Yangming also paid more attention to the court.
At the same time, when the contestants of the women's 100m final came on stage, Su Yu had already stood in the waiting passage with the remaining seven opponents of the men's 100m final, waiting to appear after the women's 100m final.
At this moment, the whole stadium was filled with a boiling and heated atmosphere. On the field, there were enthusiastic cheers from the audience and passionate introductions of the players by the commentators. Off the field, in the player channel, no one spoke or greeted anyone, whether it was Gao Tianwu, Chen Peijie, Yu Shaojie, Ye Minghao, Feng Xiaofeng, or even Su Yu.
Everyone wants to get a good result in tonight's final, but everyone also knows that among the eight people in the final, there will definitely be wins and losses.
As for who wins and who loses, it depends on their own abilities.
No one was in the mood to chat with the opponent at this time. Everyone remained silent. This silence might be to control their nervousness, or it might be to suppress their overly excited state.
As the calmest player among all, Su Yu could feel the long-lost state of excitement at this moment, but this state of excitement did not seem to be particularly excessive. It was just a little bit of excitement that allowed him to feel the faint thumping of his heart, but he could also feel the calmness in his brain.
Subtly, at this moment, Su Yu suddenly felt that - perhaps compared to his previous overly excited or later overly calm competitive state, tonight's state, which was slightly excited but calm enough, might be the 'most perfect competitive state' he should pursue.
He wanted to remember the feeling at this moment, but he knew more clearly that "perfect competitive state" was something that could only be achieved by chance. Otherwise, why would so many players be troubled by their competitive state?
The fact that he is in such a stable competitive state now is something worth cherishing.
Thoughts raced through his mind, and when he opened his eyes again, Su Yu happened to see Ye Minghao and Feng Xiaofeng, who were also resting with their eyes closed not far away.
Perhaps it was because Feng Xiaofeng was in such good shape during the morning's preliminary round that he achieved a time of 10.50 seconds in the preliminary round, so that Feng Xiaofeng had higher expectations for tonight's competition.
But at this moment when the men's 100m sprint final was about to begin, Feng Xiaofeng gradually became a little anxious - unlike his high competitive state before the morning preliminaries, tonight's final was about to begin, but he seemed to be unable to find the feeling before the morning preliminaries.
It's not that I don't have the excitement and tension before the game, but compared to the state in the morning, my competitive state at this moment is obviously not as good.
As the thought that "my competitive state doesn't seem to be very good" arose in his mind, Feng Xiaofeng became more anxious.
The emergence of this feeling of anxiety directly caused his competitive state, which was not very high to begin with, to become even lower. He even began to feel that something was wrong with his whole body, and he vaguely felt that his muscles were starting to stiffen.
The stiffness and tension in Feng Xiaofeng became very obvious. Su Yu could tell at a glance that something was wrong with Feng Xiaofeng. After hesitating for a moment, he raised his hand and patted Feng Xiaofeng on the shoulder.
Feng Xiaofeng was already anxious at the moment, and his emotions were fluctuating violently. When he noticed Su Yu patting his shoulder, he subconsciously glared at him, but when he glared, what he saw was Su Yu's calm eyes.
In a moment, he finally woke up.
Su Yu glanced at him and whispered to him, "Don't think too much."
Then he didn't say anything else and leaned against the wall again.
Ye Minghao and Feng Xiaofeng were standing very close to each other and heard what Su Yu said. After opening his eyes, he glanced at Feng Xiaofeng's condition and understood. As a teammate and opponent, Ye Minghao didn't say much, but just nodded to him, patted Feng Xiaofeng on the shoulder, and then continued to close his eyes to maintain his condition.
Feng Xiaofeng didn't know what was going on. His originally anxious mood suddenly calmed down after looking directly into Su Yu's eyes - perhaps it was because those eyes were so calm that after looking at each other, the uneasiness in his heart was reduced a lot.
After calming down again, Feng Xiaofeng knew what his situation was.
Because last season, his performance had a big decline throughout the entire season - at first he thought that the decline in performance at the beginning of the season was only temporary, but as the season progressed, his game condition became worse and worse.
Even though my performance in training has been improving, I just can't perform to my full potential in the competition.
It was an extremely frustrating feeling. Even though he was later called up to the national team for winter training, Feng Xiaofeng understood that it was not because the national team really valued his ability, but because there were too few players available in the U20 age group.
On the first day of the national team's winter training, his provocation of Su Yu was not so much arrogance as it was a protective shell used to cover up his extreme lack of self-confidence.
He is using an arrogant image to hide his pain over last season's failure.
Until this morning, finally, the long-lost excellent competitive state reappeared in him - it was difficult for him to describe the excitement, but finally, in the morning preliminaries, he proved himself again with a score of 10.50 seconds.
And all day today, he has been looking forward to the final tonight. He wants to prove his strength and potential with even better results in the final tonight!
But unexpectedly, as the game approached and as he got along with his final opponents, after seeing their calm and composed warm-up preparations and their overwhelming momentum, Feng Xiaofeng could no longer find the amazing competitive state he had in the morning.
In fact, if Su Yu hadn't woken him up with that slap just now, and he had calmed down after the eye contact with Su Yu, perhaps in the final later, he would have given a much worse performance than before.
Thinking of this, Feng Xiaofeng broke out in a cold sweat, but after the sweat, his mind became much calmer and clearer.
Although he no longer had the outstanding competitive form he had in the morning, after experiencing the previous tension, Feng Xiaofeng suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with feeling so calm now - at least, Su Yu was as calm as him, wasn't he?
As long as he can maintain this calm state, even if he cannot give a very good performance, at least he will not have some bad performances such as false starts or slow reaction at the start because of the overly tense and intense competitive state later in last season.
After thinking about it this way, Feng Xiaofeng became calmer, and as he calmed down, the previous state that was so bad that his muscles seemed to be stiff and tense finally gradually eased.
Su Yu didn't know what Feng Xiaofeng was thinking. He just simply felt that Feng Xiaofeng's situation was not good at that time. Out of friendship as teammates during winter training, he tried to calm Feng Xiaofeng down, and then he closed his eyes to maintain his condition.
This slightly excited yet calm state was so wonderful that he couldn't help but look forward to how he would perform in the subsequent games.
Excitement, anticipation, calmness, all kinds of complex emotions mixed together, making Su Yu begin to appear in an unprecedented mixed state at this moment. At this moment, he closed his eyes slightly, as if he felt that he was already squatting on the starting blocks, and the opponents around him seemed to be in place.
——Will it be too exciting?
Su Yu asked himself this in his heart, but he could tell from his own heartbeat and his still clear mind that no, it wouldn't happen.
At this moment, he could feel his control over every detail of his muscles and could hear the pounding of his heart - this was not over-excitement, but a competitive state that was closer to perfection!
This is a wonderful state that he has not yet been able to fully grasp and control, and it only appears occasionally.
All he can do is try his best to maintain it before the game, and then... give his best performance in the next game!
As Su Yu was looking forward to it, he heard the excited cheers and shouts of encouragement from the audience outside the stadium - the women's 100-meter sprint final had begun!
And after eleven extremely frenetic seconds, it was their turn!
Ten, nine, eight, seven...
While listening to the excited screams and cheers from the audience outside the stadium, Su Yu was silently counting down in his heart.
Finally - as the screams grew louder, four, three, two... one!
The cheers and screams outside the stadium reached their climax at this moment. Along with the high-pitched commentary of the on-site commentator, Su Yu looked at the player channel in front of him and silently said in his heart -
Now is the time to get on stage!
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Su Yu, too lazy to talk, but number one at comforting people (?)
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