Chapter 66
Li Xiang was also confused - he was the young reporter at G Province TV station who specialized in reporting news related to people's livelihood. He had never expected that he only went to a venue once and collected news on sports, but he would end up catching these three young contestants.
Because of the interview incident two days ago, Li Xiang has paid a little more attention to track and field news these days. Therefore, after Zhou Yuang successfully advanced to the men's 200m final of the H City Track and Field Grand Prix today, he was the first to receive the news.
So he was very confused at the moment, and his colleagues at the station even teased him: "Li Ji, why don't you consider switching to the sports department? You are such a lucky star in the sports department!"
He caught three talented athletes in track and field events at random - before Li Xiang's interview, there were no domestic U20 athletes who could meet the men's 200m standard. As a result, Li Xiang caught two future athletes who met the standard in just one interview? !
At this moment, Li Xiang also saw the post related to him on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum - this post was shared with him by a sports reporter, asking him to go and take a look in person.
Li Xiang: “…”
After he clicked on the link, he saw that the friends in the Track and Field Kingdom forum were calling on him to go to H City as soon as possible and interview a few unfamiliar "passersby". Who knows what new surprises they might find?
These topics are of course just jokes, but they are enough to show the subsequent popularity of Li Xiang's interview.
In the words of his colleagues at the provincial TV station - some reporters may never get a piece of news like this in their entire lives, but you, boy, this is a great fortune!
Surprisingly, that evening, Li Xiang received a transfer order from the station, transferring him from the people's livelihood department to the sports department. His first task after the transfer was to interview the World Youth Championship trials to be held in J Province the following month - this could be considered as a way to boost Li Xiang's own popularity, starting with the fact that he caught three World Youth Championship qualified players and ending with the interviews at the World Youth Championship trials.
It can be said that it has a beginning and an end.
***
On the other hand, Su Yu and his friends certainly had no way of knowing about Li Xiang's transfer. After "bullying" Zhou Yuang that night, before the men's 200m final the next day, Su Yu and his friends took out 10 minutes to watch Zhou Yuang's first final in the men's 200m event on their mobile phones.
In this match, Zhou Yuang felt a little nervous until the start of the game. Although he didn't know why he was nervous, before the game started, Zhou Yuang felt that he needed psychological counseling - but after standing on the final field, the nervousness in his body disappeared, and was replaced by an extremely excited state.
Su Yu looked at Zhou Yuang who was eager to try in the live broadcast and said, "He suddenly stopped being nervous."
Pei Dingshan glanced at Zhou Yuang on Su Yu's phone and said "hmm".
Just now, when he opened the live broadcast room, he saw Zhou Yuang who was obviously a little nervous. Pei Dingshan saw that he was frowning, so he glanced at his mobile phone and said to him very calmly, "It's okay."
Pei Dingshan looked at Zhou Yuang on the live screen and said, "It will be fine after he goes on stage."
Su Yu was still a little uncertain at first, but as expected, after the players officially went on the field and adjusted their starting blocks, Zhou Yuang's condition had improved significantly.
But after Zhou Yuang's condition improved, Su Yu's brows were still furrowed.
Pei Dingshan glanced at him: "What's wrong?"
Su Yu pursed his lips: "...He seems to be a little too excited now."
Zhou Yuang is such a player. When he gets excited, he can't help but lose control of his speed and rhythm - but an excited competitive state is certainly not without benefits. In an excited state, Zhou Yuang's overall performance, including explosive power, will be improved.
As the saying goes, there are gains and losses. For an athlete, in his entire career, he may only have the opportunity to encounter a relatively perfect competitive state in a limited number of key competitions. Therefore, adapting to the competition in each state has become a compulsory course for the players.
Of course, this is also true for Zhou Yuang on the field at this time.
At this moment, after entering the arena, he had already gotten rid of the nervousness that had troubled him for half a day, and he became completely excited - although because he ranked only eighth in the preliminaries, he was placed in the outermost lane in the finals, which was not an ideal position, but after standing at the starting line, he felt that he was in superb condition and would definitely be able to run a more perfect result in this race than in the preliminaries!
At this moment, in addition to track and field fans, Su Yu and Pei Dingshan, the free coaches in the national team's sprint group's meeting room were also sitting together in the meeting room, waiting for the evaluation of Zhou Yuang.
For Zheng Sheng, the contestant Zhou Yuang was indeed a pleasant surprise.
After all, before this, Zhou Yuang was just a player who was temporarily retained in the national team for training because of his relationship with Pei Dingshan. He did not have an official call-up order from the national team, so he did not actually receive all the treatment of a called-up player in the national team. However, the secretary of the S Province Sports Team made a special application to the national team, stating that all expenses of Zhou Yuang in the national team would be borne by the S Province Sports Team. This allowed Zhou Yuang to temporarily stay in the national team and continue to train with Pei Dingshan.
During the winter training, Zheng Sheng actually observed Zhou Yuang at first, but Zheng Sheng paid more attention to Su Yu. In addition, Pei Dingshan later took Su Yu and Zhou Yuang to open another training ground for training, so Zheng Sheng had fewer opportunities to observe Zhou Yuang. When he saw Zhou Yuang's result of 21.49 in the last Z City race, Zheng Sheng was ecstatic again.
If Zheng Sheng was just ecstatic in the last Z City race, then after the results of the men's 200m in H City race came out yesterday, Zheng Sheng felt like he was "dizzy from the surprise".
Two races, two athletes who qualified for the men’s 200m at the World Youth Championships? !
Zheng Sheng would not have dared to think about this a day ago. Today, he gathered all the free coaches together, and wanted everyone to help take a look at the game status of young player Zhou Yuang, and see if he and Su Yu could be put on the list of the World Youth Championship based on Zhou Yuang's current status.
In the conference room, the coaches were watching the live broadcast on TV together, feeling a little emotional.
"You say, this little coach Pei, this vision and ability..."
Pei Dingshan is only 25 years old this year. After passing the certification exam at Lyles College last year, he went directly to the S Province Sports Team. As a result, he brought back two promising sprinters, Su Yu and Zhou Yuang - oh, don't forget, Jiang Yuan from the next jumping group was also recommended to them by Pei Dingshan as a coach.
Let’s put it this way, the work results of this year are equivalent to their work in ten years.
Everyone was sighing as they watched the men's 200m final that was about to begin - compared to the previous men's 200m final, there were some changes in the finalists this time, but people like Gao Yansong, Li Qingci and Zhang Lei once again appeared in the Grand Prix final of H City.
In the national team's sprint coaching meeting room, a coach saw the familiar faces of Zhang Lei and Li Qingci and mentioned, "Zhang Lei and Li Qingci are in good shape this season, aren't they?"
Zheng Sheng nodded. "Yes, in the last Z City race, Zhang Lei and Li Qingci also performed well. But the gap between Li Qingci's performance and his performance was too big, and his mentality was not stable enough. In the last Z City race, he had a huge advantage in the first half of the finals, and Gao Yansong couldn't beat him. But after halfway, his strength was gone, and in the second half, he was disturbed by the performance of Gao Yansong and Su Yu, and finally lost to Zhang Lei."
In the national team, there are only two athletes, Zhan Youming and Gao Yansong, in the men's 200m individual event. Zheng Sheng has always wanted to recruit at least one more athlete into the team, but after observing for a long time, he has not been able to finalize the list for the time being.
Both Zhang Lei and Li Qingci were on his watch list, but the focus of today's discussion was not Zhang Lei and Li Qingci, so after a brief introduction, Zheng Sheng asked everyone to put their attention back on Zhou Yuang.
"Please take a look at it together. If there is no problem, I will report the names of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang as soon as the trials are over."
In fact, if we only consider the results, then it is only natural to put forward the names of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, as they are the only two qualified athletes in the country. However, the situation of Su Yu and Zhou Yuang is the same as that of Su Yu and Ye Minghao in the 100-meter event. Both athletes are too young.
As athletes in their growth and development period, their conditions are actually hard to grasp. If such athletes are included in both the 100m and 200m lists, it would be somewhat risky.
But then again, choosing Su Yu and Zhou Yuang is risky, but is it safe to choose Zhu Songfeng and Gao Leqiang?
So this time, Zheng Sheng called so many coaches to watch the game together, just to let everyone make a decision together, and by the way, see if Zhou Yuang's competitive state is stable in the game - it doesn't have to be much, as long as Zhou Yuang can run within 21.60 seconds in this final, Zheng Sheng will dare to formally submit this list.
***
At the H City Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Zhou Yuang didn't know that Zheng Sheng and other national team coaches were observing him through the live camera. But in the eyes of Zhou Yuang who was in great shape at the moment, even if he really knew, he wouldn't think there was anything wrong!
Isn't it just watching him play?
look! Look hard!
With such a high-spirited attitude, Zhou Yuang felt that his whole body was full of energy even when he was preparing to start running.
When the starting gun sounded, Zhou Yuang suddenly felt as if he was possessed by Xiaoyu - his reaction to the gunshot today was probably his fastest ever!
The speed of reaction to the gun usually indicates the condition of the athlete. In this game, Zhou Yuang became the athlete with the fastest reaction at the start with a reaction time of 0.139 seconds.
It was this feeling of being full of energy that allowed Zhou Yuang to give a more perfect performance than ever before in the starting phase - he pushed the starting blocks with both legs and used the explosive force to quickly push forward to start, with his body leaning forward from the beginning!
One step, two steps, three steps!
At this moment, Zhou Yuang's explosive start even showed an impact that was no less than Gao Yansong's.
“Very positive and proactive performance!”
In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui also gave praise to Zhou Yuang generously.
To be honest, from Tian Ruhui's perspective, Zhou Yuang is definitely a very promising young player in the same age group. Judging from his performance in the last Z City sub-race and this one in the H City sub-race, if it weren't for the fact that there was a top talent like Su Yu ahead of him, Zhou Yuang might have been the most dazzling star in the same age group.
But competitive sports are like this. There are not so many shining stars. What often happens is that the rise of one dazzling star suppresses other bright stars.
However - Tian Ruhui thought, even ordinary stars actually have strengths and weaknesses. At present, it seems that Zhou Yuang may have the opportunity to become a brighter one among many stars.
On the field, this 'brighter star' was just as Su Yu and Pei Dingshan thought - running a little crazy.
Switching from a nervous state at the beginning to an excited state, Zhou Yuang's entire starting burst stage fully demonstrated his excitement and initiative. If it weren't for the long-term segmented timing training in winter training that took root in his heart and gave him a certain judgment of his own speed, perhaps Zhou Yuang would have to run 200 meters as 100 meters.
But even if he still had some impression of the split time training in his mind, it could not stop him from sprinting in the corners - fortunately, the 200-meter cornering stage still requires the athlete to control the angle of his body's tilt, which naturally limits Zhou Yuang's speed and prevents him from completely exhausting his energy in the first 100 meters.
But even so, when entering the stage of connecting the curve to the straight road, it can be felt that Zhou Yuang's condition is not as good as the explosive stage at the start.
Fortunately, although Zhou Yuang ran like crazy at the beginning, he reacted by himself in the cornering stage. He realized his condition during the race and did not get scared. Instead, he chose to stabilize his mentality and continued to run as he did in training.
In the training hall of the National Track and Field Team Training Base, Su Yu was watching the live broadcast in front of him with his mobile phone. His brows were furrowed at the beginning, but now they were gradually relaxed - Zhou Yuang had adjusted himself.
On the court, just as Su Yu saw, Zhou Yuang managed to readjust his condition by relying on the rhythm he mastered in his usual training.
At the same time, the race has ended from the curve section and entered the straight section.
In the second half of the race, after entering the straight stage, Zhou Yuang followed the techniques he learned in training and gradually increased his stride length - his stride frequency had stabilized to its highest value in previous races. As his stride length increased, from the audience's perspective, Zhou Yuang's speed in the second half of the race gradually increased.
In the live broadcast room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were stunned for a moment: "Speed up in the latter part?"
But Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had sharper eyes than the average spectator. Zhou Jiming soon understood the difference: "Zhou Yuang's stride lengthened in the latter part of the race. The larger stride length helped him to have a better speed performance!"
Although Zhou Yuang's stride frequency seems to have not changed much, his larger stride means that he consumes less energy than athletes with higher stride frequency at the same speed. This is more in line with the running economy of Zhou Yuang, whose speed endurance is not very outstanding.
It was after Zhou Yuang successfully opened up his stride in the second half that his overall performance became better and better. In the end, although he still lost to Gao Yansong and Li Qingci who performed well today, he successfully surpassed Zhang Lei in the final straight stage and won the third place in this game!
He finally achieved a good result of 21.32 seconds in this game, which not only broke his personal best record, but also made Zheng Sheng and the national team coaches who had been paying attention to his performance throughout the game determined to push him and Su Yu to participate in the World Youth Championship together.
***
That night, Su Yu and his friends were once again filled with a joyful atmosphere - mainly because after Ye Minghao sent out the first lucky red envelope, Zhou Yuang once again ranked last, so he did not believe in evil and sent out a red envelope himself to celebrate his successful medal in the 200 meters.
As a result, this celebratory package failed to lift him off the last place. Finally, after sending out three packages in a row, Zhou Yuang won the title of the top non-African leader in the group. Is this a cause for celebration?
***
After two consecutive track and field Grand Prix races in April, Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang returned to the national team for training, while Jiang Ruohui followed the G Province Sports Team back to G Province to continue training.
The next period from late April to early May is a regular training cycle for Su Yu and others. For the young U20 players from various provincial teams, it is the sprint stage of the World Youth Championship qualifiers. However, for these young players, the competitions in the men's 100m and men's 200m events have already been declared over in advance.
"Alas, there are so many geniuses in this world, why can't there be one more like me?"
"Hey, you can't say that. Compared to those players who couldn't get into the provincial team, we can all be considered geniuses, right? It's just that there are geniuses above us who are even more abnormal than us."
During this period of time - or starting from the S City sub-station competition last season, the future pride of these provincial teams have been subjected to a wave of crazy dimensionality reduction attacks from the S Province Sports Team.
In the words of these U20 players - what? 100 meters in 10.27 seconds at the age of 15? ! What? 200m result of 21.02 seconds at the age of 15? ! Ask us what we feel now? Thanks for the invitation, this is not a question, it is mental bullying, I have called the police.
There is also a U18 athlete who is quite active in the Athletics Kingdom. So after Su Yu ran these two results, he was crazily @ed by the forum friends in the Athletics Kingdom, and they also asked him what he thought.
——?
——What do I think?
——I have no idea.
——What I want to know now is that Su Yu is only 15 years old this year. How far can he break the U18 record of 100 meters? Oh, and by the way, the record of 200 meters is probably not far away:)
——I would like to know, after Su Yu leaves the U18 stage, whether I can see any U18 player breaking his record in my lifetime.
puff.
This resentful statement made the track and field fans burst into laughter on the spot, but what the U18 athlete said was not wrong. They also wanted to know, with Su Yu's current performance and ability, to what extent will he break the domestic 100m and 200m U18 records?
If possible... maybe we can enjoy the 100m WU18B time of 10.19 seconds currently created by Japanese athlete Ippei Suzuki? !
***
In the meeting room of the national track and field team's sprint coaches
The national team coaches are also discussing the World Youth Championship, mainly pre-screening players based on the key observation lists of each individual event.
Among them, in China's strong events such as race walking and women's shot put, there are many U20 athletes who have met the standards of the World Youth Championships. For these types of events, what the coaching team needs to do is to focus on screening and marking the athletes who are worthy of attention, and finally make a screening based on the athletes' performance and results in the World Youth Championship qualifiers, as well as the athletes' previous average performance results.
In the sprint group, for events such as the 200m, there are only two qualified athletes, Su Yu and Zhou Yuang. Basically, no matter what the results of the trials are, as long as Su Yu and Zhou Yuang do not perform so poorly that they cannot enter the finals, the final spots will go to them.
Of course, in addition to screening key players, the coaching staff also has to observe the situation of the opponents in the World Youth Championship - this part of the work is mainly carried out by the coaches in charge of the youth teams, and is reported to the coaching staff at this meeting, so that the coaches of the coaching staff can also give targeted explanations to the players in subsequent training.
In general, the preparation work for the World Youth Championship should not have taken up too much time and energy of the national team's coaching staff, but this World Youth Championship has some additional issues that deserve extra attention.
These issues worthy of attention are the relevant reports on the Japanese team threat theory made by Pei Dingshan and Sun Gaoshu to the coaches of the sprint group during the discussion meeting of the Z City race.
"So it's confirmed? The names of the two people are Fukushima Ryutaro and Takahashi Naoto?"
Sun Gaoshu nodded, "The news we have received is that it has been confirmed. The Japanese team's World Youth Championship trials will be held much earlier than our trials, so the list has been basically finalized. The men's 100 meters will be runners up, including Fukushima Ryutaro and Takahashi Naoto. Fukushima Ryutaro is 19 years old this year, and his best personal 100-meter performance is 10.05 seconds. In this Japanese trials, his performance is 10.11 seconds, and Takahashi Naoto is only 17 this year, and he also ran a performance of 10.15 seconds in this Japanese trials."
10.11 and 10.15? !
As soon as these two results came out, the faces of the sprint coaches present all looked unhappy.
Zheng Sheng frowned and asked, "That Takahashi Naoto, who is only 17 years old this year, has a 100m time of 10.15 seconds. Does that mean he broke the WU18B record of 10.19 seconds set by Ippei Suzuki?"
Hearing this, Sun Gaoshu shook his head: "That's not the case."
"On the day of the 100m final of the Japanese trials, the wind speed was 3.1m/s, which was above the speed limit."
In many track and field events, there are strict standards for the recognition of various records. For example, the venue where the athletes compete must meet the standards of the IAAF. In addition to the track standards, it must also have an electronic timer and an ultrasonic wind speed meter. At the same time, with these standard equipment, for example, the 100-meter sprint and the 200-meter sprint require that the wind speed on site does not exceed 2.0m/s. Otherwise, if the wind speed exceeds the limit, the results will still be valid, but the records cannot be recognized.
When hearing Sun Gaoshu say that the wind speed in Japan's qualifying match was extremely fast, the coaches of the national team on the scene didn't know for a moment whether they should be thankful or not.
After a while of hesitation, Liu Qinlong finally said with emotion: "Japan has done a great job in popularizing track and field events among young people."
It is precisely because Japan has done a good job in popularizing track and field events among young people that more talented young athletes can be screened and discovered in a timely manner and receive correct training as early as possible.
For example, the reason why Japan is able to produce outstanding young athletes one after another is that Japan is full of ambitions in track and field events and focuses on training young athletes.
At this point, even if the Chinese team doesn't want to, they have to admit that the country's work in this area is far from good enough.
Sun Gaoshu listened to Liu Qinlong's words and smiled bitterly: "Okay, let's put this issue aside. This time, Japan is well prepared for the 200m and 400m events. In addition, I heard that in the long jump event, Japan has an 18-year-old athlete with a PB of around 8.10 meters - but this problem should be a headache for Coach Pei next door."
After hearing what Sun Gaoshu said, the coaches present all smiled bitterly and fell silent.
After all, Sun Gaoshu's words "the Japanese team is also well prepared for the 200m and 400m" revealed information that Zheng Sheng and Liu Qinlong actually knew.
Take the 200 meters for example. The Chinese team went through a lot of trouble to get together Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, two young players who met the 200-meter requirements.
But what about the Japanese team?
In the 2017 season alone, there were already four U20 athletes who ran the 200m under 21 seconds - that's right, not the 21.40 qualifying line for the World Youth Championships, but the U20 athletes who ran under 21 seconds.
At this time, Zheng Sheng could only comfort himself in his heart - fortunately, no matter how many athletes of the Japanese team met the standards for the World Youth Championships, they could only send a maximum of 2 athletes in the 200m event.
Although I don't want to admit it, given the current situation of the Chinese team, once they go to the World Youth Championships and compete with the Japanese team in the sprint events, it is unlikely that the Chinese team will be the winner.
Thinking of this, Zheng Sheng rubbed his head with a headache: "Coach Sun, just tell me, what are the arrangements and rules for this World Youth Championship?"
Since Sun Gaoshu called them here for a meeting, it must be that the higher-ups have already given instructions. All Sun Gaoshu can do here is to convey the instructions to them.
Listening to what everyone said, Sun Gaoshu smiled bitterly, and finally sighed: "It's okay. Coach Pei went to the Athletics Association and had a fight with them. In fact, the indicators for the Asian Games and this World Youth Championships have been slightly adjusted."
"so?"
Zheng Sheng asked.
Sun Gaoshu said softly, "In our sprint group, all the men's 100m runners have advanced to the semifinals, and we will strive for the top five and the top four in the finals, and we will strive for the finals in the men's 200m."
After hearing this, Zheng Sheng felt as if his neck was being strangled. He stared for a long time, wanting to say something but unable to. After a long while, he turned his face away and cursed, "How calculating!"
The reason for such criticism is that this result is basically exactly at Su Yu's limit of 100 meters and 200 meters. In other words, if Su Yu can smoothly perform close to his personal best in the 100 meters and 200 meters races of the World Youth Championships, then he will have a chance to reach the standard of this task result in the end.
But in such an extreme state, let alone Su Yu, even if you replace Feng Chuming, Zheng Tianxi, or Zhan Youming to participate in the competition, they may not be able to achieve the same result.
Zheng Sheng thought of this and couldn't help but continue to curse: "Isn't this bullying?"
Bullying?
But what can we do about it?
Sun Gaoshu shook his head and said, "Coach Pei said when he came back that the main reason was the pressure from the Asian Games. It was because Ippei Suzuki from Japan ran 9.96 seconds during winter training, and Japan said they would snipe the runner-up for the 100m gold medal."
"Coach Pei had a quarrel with the Sports Federation because of this matter. In the end, he sighed. The Sports Federation is actually under pressure. After all, the Japanese team has said so. The Sports Federation can only pass the task to us. It means that we can let Zheng Tianxi, Zhan Youming and other adult players go for it in the Asian Games, but we must also grit our teeth and hold on in the World Youth Championship. No matter what, we have to show Japan the strength and threat of our young generation of players."
Finally, Sun Gaoshu said: "Coach Pei said that our current scientific review and other training improvement plans have been seen by the General Administration of Sport, but the specific improvement effect is still too far away. This time, the Japanese team's World Youth Championship selection results are just around the corner. The Japanese team clearly wants to beat us in both the World Youth Championship and the Asian Games. We can't just say that our players will 'do well in the future'."
"Also, Coach Pei said that the final hint from the Sports Federation was that if it really doesn't work out, at least keep one event. The Sports Federation also knows our difficulties. China's track and field foundation is worse than Japan's. But what they mean is that even if our foundation is poor, we can't give up without thinking about giving it a try from the beginning."
In the conference room, the coaching staff of the national team were originally quite angry, thinking that the task of the General Administration of Sport was to set the limits of the sprint group in the World Youth Championships. But after hearing what Sun Gaoshu said, they could only shake their heads helplessly.
How do you say this?
If you fall behind, you will be beaten.
This is the situation the Chinese team is facing in the sprint event now - although they have Zheng Tianxi and Zhan Youming, two top athletes in Asia, to carry the team in the 100m and 200m events respectively, what can be said? Two fists are no match for four hands.
In the end, Zheng Sheng and others could only sigh. In fact, they could not help much in this matter. In fact, the greatest pressure was on the coach and player pair, Pei Dingshan and Su Yu.
Everyone could only shake their heads and sigh, and then said to Pei Dingshan who remained calm: "Coach Pei, the burden of the World Youth Championship can only be placed on you and Su Yu, but if you need any help from now on, just let us know. Our sprint team will be able to help without hesitation!"
Listening to the coaches' words, Pei Dingshan nodded while writing something down in his hand: "Okay, I understand."
Seeing that this stage of the topic was about to end, Pei Dingshan said nothing from beginning to end. He only said "I understand". The coaches present couldn't help but become a little anxious.
Zheng Sheng even asked directly: "What plans do you have for Su Yu and Zhou Yuang?"
When Pei Dingshan heard this question, he almost didn't think about it and said directly: "Yes."
Zheng Sheng asked: "What arrangements?"
Pei Dingshan smiled and took out a schedule in his hand, on which he highlighted the Asian Games trials starting on June 15.
Zheng Sheng frowned in confusion: "What do you mean? What is Su Yu and the others' schedule?"
Pei Dingshan nodded: "Yes."
Zheng Sheng asked: "You drew a circle here for the Asian Games trials. Does it mean the key point? What does this key point mean? To experience the atmosphere of the event?"
Pei Dingshan: "Yes and no."
Zheng Sheng looked at the young Coach Pei in front of him and felt that it was really tiring to talk to the Riddler at this time, but Pei Dingshan just smiled in the end and did not give any further explanation.
In fact, the meaning behind the plan of the Asian Games trials should have been clear to everyone, including Su Yu and Jiang Yuan - it is to let them see the strength of the truly top players in the country before they actually enter the international arena, and let them truly experience the level of opponents they will face after entering the international arena.
Before facing what is arguably the most stressful World Youth Championship in history, whether it is Su Yu, Zhou Yuang or Jiang Yuan, they must have a clear idea of the strength of the opponents they may face.
After the meeting ended that day, Pei Dingshan did not hide the truth from Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, but simply and directly told them the pressure faced by the national team and the General Administration of Sports.
Just as he expected, neither Su Yu nor Zhou Yuang showed any intention of retreating.
After the training started on the second day, Su Yu still maintained a stable and calm state, while Zhou Yuang's training obviously required a little more effort.
***
Although the following training period was uneventful, the results of the Japanese team's World Youth Championship qualifiers still had a significant impact on the track and field fans on the Internet, so that the World Youth Championship, which had not received much attention in the past, suddenly seemed to have attracted much attention.
In the World Youth Championship trials that started on May 11, no new dark horses emerged in the 100m, 200m, long jump and high jump events. In the end, Su Yu easily won the men's 100m and 200m championships, Ye Minghao and Feng Xiaofeng ranked second and third in the 100m, Zhou Yuang won the runner-up in the men's 200m, and Jiang Yuan also firmly won the gold medals in the high jump and long jump.
When the time came to June 10th, the domestic stars who had previously gone to overseas training bases to train and compete returned to China one after another. After returning to China, Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming, Zhan Youming, Sun Yuhang, Zhang Xujian, Gao Xu and other national track and field team stars gathered in G City, G Province.
Suddenly, G City, G Province was full of stars. The much-anticipated 2018 National Track and Field Grand Prix Championship and 2018 Jakarta Asian Games Tianjing Trials will finally open in five days!
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