Chapter 67
On June 11, Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, Zhou Yuang, Ye Minghao and teammates from the national team flew from City B to City G, Province G. Compared with previous participating cities, the altitude of City G, Province G is more than one thousand meters, which is considered a high-altitude area.
"G Province, G City, Xiaoyu, this is your first time here too, right?"
When getting off the plane, Zhou Yuang looked around and then turned back to look at Su Yu. What he saw was Su Yu who looked sick, was too lazy to speak, and was still under the debuff of airsickness.
After seeing Su Yu's appearance, Zhou Yuang couldn't help but become a little worried: "Hey, Yuanzi, is our little ancestor really okay like this?"
Jiang Yuan looked at Su Yu and smiled, "It's okay. Xiao Yu's airsickness symptoms are much better now than before."
Having said that, Jiang Yuan still helped Su Yu carry his luggage the whole time since he got off the plane. Zhou Yuang next to him did the same. When they reached the luggage carousel, he helped Su Yu take out the suitcase himself. Pushing two suitcases by himself was truly supreme service.
Zhou Yuang knew how Jiang Yuan had taken care of Su Yu before, and seeing that Jiang Yuan didn't seem too worried, he felt a little relieved and started talking to Ye Minghao and Su Yu beside him.
"Hey, Ye Zi, Xiao Yu, why do you think the Asian Games trials should be held in G City? It's quite far away, and this is considered a plateau area, right?"
After a pause, Zhou Yuang suddenly found the answer as if talking to himself: "Wait, if G City is a high-altitude area, then the Athletics Association decided to hold the event in G City. Is it actually to set more PBs?"
Ye Minghao turned his head and looked at him: "Angzi, you know a lot?"
Zhou Yuang grinned: "Of course, when I first learned sprinting, I learned a lot of theories by myself. I also read in papers that plateau areas are more likely to achieve PBs in sprinting and long jump!"
Ye Minghao smiled at him and said, "Angzi, haven't you seen that the venue for the National Track and Field Grand Prix was applied for by the local government?"
Zhou Yuang: “…”
Zhou Yuang coughed dryly: "Ahem, then no."
Ye Minghao smiled after hearing his answer and said, "That's right. City G took the initiative to apply to host the Grand Prix finals because it wanted to improve its sports talent pool and its influence in track and field events. So when applying, it did list its geographical advantages as one of its strengths."
Zhou Yuang: “……?”
Some clear stupidity gradually emerged on Zhou Yuang's cheerful and sunny face.
Su Yu, who was originally sick, thought about it after hearing the conversation between Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang, and took out his mobile phone and sent a "learning" emoticon in the group.
Zhou Yuang: “?”
Zhou Yuang turned around to look at Su Yu, and saw Su Yu who still looked sickly: "???"
"Su Xiaoyu, what are you doing?"
Su Yu slowly put away his phone. He had probably finally recovered from his airsickness. After hearing Zhou Yuang's question, he thought for a moment and said, "Nothing. I just learned some language arts from Ye Zi."
Seeing him like this, Zhou Yuang stepped forward and rubbed his head viciously, then continued to push the two suitcases forward: "You've done something bad, aren't you airsick anymore?"
Su Yu's movements were still a little slow at this moment, but definitely better than when he just got off the plane. After seeing the two large suitcases in Zhou Yuang's hands, he wanted to take his own suitcase back and push it himself, but Zhou Yuang slapped his hand away.
"Alright, alright, go post your emoticons in the group, I'll push your suitcase for you."
Even though Su Yu had just stabbed him in the back, Zhou Yuang didn't seem angry at all. He let Su Yu take a good rest. It was not until they got on the bus sent by the organizer with the main group that Su Yu came back to his senses. He breathed a sigh of relief and said thank you to Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang.
After he finished speaking, hearing Su Yu's voice, many contestants on the bus turned around to pay attention to Su Yu's situation and asked him a few words of concern.
Among them is the domestic men's 200m champion Zhan Youming, who had a good relationship with Su Yu during the winter training period.
Zhan Youming was sitting two rows in front of Su Yu, with Gao Yansong. He turned around and asked Su Yu, "Are you okay? Are you alive now?"
Su Yu nodded: "Yeah, much better."
Zhou Yuang complained to him from the side: "Isn't it much better? You can speak now. But Su Xiaoyu, you usually look very well behaved, but I find that you are also a bad guy at heart. You looked so uncomfortable just now, and you even remembered to send emoticons to mock me in the group!"
Su Yu looked at Zhou Yuang, blinked, and said nothing.
Because he was young and looked very well behaved, even when he looked at Zhou Yuang with innocent eyes, it was Zhou Yuang who raised his hands in surrender first.
"Okay, okay, okay, okay, you are not bad, I am the bad one."
Seeing Zhou Yuang's self-contradictory remarks at the speed of light, Zhan Youming laughed at him for a while, and then rubbed Su Yu's head from a distance across the seat: "Su Xiaoyu, you said everything is fine, why are you so weak?"
After saying this, Zhan Youming thought about it and felt that Su Yu, whose physical condition had improved a lot after training with Pei Dingshan, did not seem to be too weak. However, Su Yu's obvious condition of airsickness was still not good.
"You need to take better care of your body. You're already in this condition during the domestic flight. What will you do when you go back to compete overseas?"
During this period, although Zhan Youming and his team have been training overseas, they still pay attention to domestic competitions. With this attention, Zhan Youming and his team of course know about Su Yu's situation in domestic competitions.
Zhan Youming didn't know what was going on for other people, but for him, he was really happy - just think about it, he was basically the only one carrying the 200m in China before, and seeing that among the younger generation of U20 athletes, there couldn't even be a single athlete who met the 200m standards for the U20 World Youth Championships, even though Zhan Youming was an extremely optimistic person, he couldn't help but have a headache when thinking about the problem of the next generation of 200m athletes in China.
It was also because of this that he was so excited when he discovered Su Yu’s 200-meter talent during the winter training.
Afterwards, during the overseas training and competition, he had been paying attention to Su Yu's performance. The moment he saw Su Yu run a time of 21.02 seconds, Zhan Youming could finally be sure - he was not mistaken about this Su Yu!
After returning to China this time, although he has not seen Su Yu's training performance yet due to time constraints, he also briefly learned about the situation from Zheng Sheng. Anyway, everything is going well. The only problem is probably that Su Yu will have a lot of pressure on his shoulders during the World Youth Championship.
This is also the reason why he is worried about Su Yu's physical condition.
Su Yu is fine in all other aspects except his health. He gets airsick even during domestic flights. The World Youth Championship will be held in Tampere, Finland. There is no direct flight from City B to Tampere. One has to change two or three flights in between. The fastest way to reach Tampere is at least sixteen or seventeen hours.
Seeing that Su Yu looked like he was about to faint at any moment, Zhan Youming was not worried about anything else but that the first press release about the World Youth Championship that China would receive would be "my country's World Youth Championship participant Su Yu arrived in Finland while ill and in poor condition."
Thinking of this, after caring about Su Yu, Zhan Youming sent a message to Zheng Sheng: "Old Zheng, has the departure time for the World Youth Championship been decided? For the sake of our sprint team's performance, the departure time must be set earlier!"
***
In the car, in addition to the more familiar athletes like Zhan Youming, there were two people who were very unfamiliar to Su Yu, namely Zheng Tianxi, the mainstay of the men's 100 meters, and Feng Chuming, the number two player in the domestic men's 100 meters.
Before Su Yu arrived at the national team, Zheng Tianxi had already gone overseas for training. Feng Chuming went to the overseas training base with him. Later, after the start of this season, Zheng Tianxi was still competing overseas. Although Feng Chuming returned to China to participate in the H City sub-race, the sub-race that Feng Chuming participated in was staggered with Su Yu, so they did not meet.
After Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming came back this time, although Su Yu met and greeted them both, the personalities of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming were completely different from Zhan Youming. Zheng Tianxi was a very serious person and didn't talk much. It could be seen that he was very strict with himself, while Feng Chuming was almost a copy of Zheng Tianxi.
Su Yu even felt that after Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming came back, Gao Tianwu and the others' expressions became more serious than before when they saw them.
It was for this reason that Su Yu, Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang had not been able to say a few words to Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, and they were really not familiar with each other.
But Su Yu didn't mind this situation too much. After all, he was not an easy-going person. To be honest, he was probably about the same level of difficult-to-approach as Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming.
On the way to the designated hotel for the championship, Su Yu let his thoughts run wild because he had not yet recovered from motion sickness.
By the time he arrived at the hotel, he had already dug out and sorted out everything in his memory about Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming - in fact, before his rebirth, the names of these two players, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, were no longer well-known. Not only were they not well-known, but few media were even willing to mention them in advance. However, he vaguely remembered that he had heard the names of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming quite often during his junior high and high school years.
The turning point should be when he was in high school, some time before the Tokyo Olympics. The media reported extensively that Zheng Tianxi would set a new personal record at the Tokyo Olympics. At that time, Zheng Tianxi was still the focus of attention. Before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Zheng Tianxi, as the only signboard of the domestic 100 meters, carried the title of the No. 1 100 meters in Asia. That season, every game that Zheng Tianxi participated in would be reported intensively by the media, and various details would be used to speculate on Zheng Tianxi's condition at the time and whether he could beat Japanese players in the Tokyo Olympics and create unprecedented brilliant results.
During that period, Su Yu vaguely remembered that he had read several reports that Zheng Tianxi had gone to Germany for medical treatment during the winter training phase, but more reports were about the expectation that Zheng Tianxi would achieve better results.
During that period, even Su Yu, an outsider, could see that the public opinion created by the media was too excessive and the pressure on the athletes would inevitably be enormous. However, in the face of such pressure, Zheng Tianxi did not say anything. In the interviews that Su Yu remembered, Zheng Tianxi's responses were all "I will try my best."
Many people are looking forward to Zheng Tianxi's "efforts", but unfortunately, before the Winter Olympics was about to start, the spokesperson of the national track and field team came out to announce that Zheng Tianxi had to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics due to personal health reasons.
At that time, the news of Zheng Tianxi's withdrawal from the competition caused an uproar almost instantly. Even though the national team repeatedly stated that Zheng Tianxi was definitely not afraid of the game before the game, the media opinion at that time almost unanimously criticized Zheng Tianxi for "deserting from the battlefield."
Those media outlets, regardless of whether they knew anything about track and field, commented on Zheng Tianxi's outdoor performance in the 2020 season, and finally concluded that Zheng Tianxi fled because his performance in the 2020 season was always poor and he thought he would not be able to achieve good results in the Tokyo Olympics.
Even though the national team came out to refute the rumor and stated that the situation was not true, the overall public opinion atmosphere at the time was very bad. Although some netizens on the Internet had remained highly rational and calm during this period, this was also a period when the Internet completely opened up the sinking market. Therefore, a large number of media opinions that ignored facts for the sake of traffic did not affect netizens who were rational enough, but affected a large number of netizens in the sinking market who believed everything they heard. In the end, this situation not only affected the evaluation of Zheng Tianxi himself, but also affected Feng Chuming.
At that time, Feng Chuming was the only other athlete besides Zheng Tianxi who met the Tokyo Olympic men's 100m standards, but there was still a certain gap between his strength and Zheng Tianxi. In the end, Feng Chuming tried his best but only advanced to the semi-finals. He lost to his Japanese opponent in the semi-finals and retired regretfully.
So under the influence of media opinion at that time, not only Zheng Tianxi was nailed to the pillar of shame, but even Feng Chuming did not escape. As a result, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, who were originally the leading figures in the domestic men's 100 meters and had made great contributions to the domestic track and field career, became infamous under the influence of the media.
Later, after the passage of time, when Zhou Yuang became a new generation leader in the country and had enough voice and influence, in an interview, the reporter asked Zhou Yuang who his idol in track and field was. Zhou Yuang gave the two names "Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming". At the same time, when the reporter asked Pei Dingshan, the meritorious coach of the national team at that time, which athlete he admired the most, he also gave the two names "Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming".
After that interview, as Zhou Yuang and Pei Dingshan became more and more famous and influential, the names of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming also began to be gradually explored. Some of the hidden secrets from the past were unearthed again, and the dirty water thrown on Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming was washed away.
***
“Xiaoyu, Su Xiaoyu?!”
When Su Yu came to his senses, what he saw was Zhou Yuang's big face sticking out in front of him.
After being startled, he frowned silently and pushed Zhou Yuang's big face away: "What?"
Zhou Yuang rolled his eyes at him: "What else can you do? Get out of the car, sir!"
Su Yu then noticed that many of the contestants had already gotten off the bus, and now only he, Zhou Yuan, Jiang Yuan and Ye Minghao were left on the bus.
It was obvious that Zhou Yuang and the others were waiting for him.
Thinking of this, Su Yu quickly stood up and apologized: "I'm sorry, I accidentally got distracted."
Seeing him like this, Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Nothing, Xiaoyu, what were you thinking about just now? You looked very angry?"
When Su Yu heard this question, he pursed his lips and said, "Yeah." He nodded, "I thought of some very angry things."
"Then what? What happened?" Zhou Yuang asked curiously.
Su Yu glanced at him and said, "Nothing, I don't want to talk about that."
After a pause, he added: "But I also thought of something else."
Zhou Yuang: "Hmm?"
Su Yu thought for a moment and said, "For example, you are a good person."
Zhou Yuang's eyes widened: "Hmm?"
"Good man, Su Xiaoyu, what on earth did you think of? Why did you suddenly give me a good guy card?"
Su Yu glanced at Zhou Yuang's current unreliable look, and thought about the image of Zhou Yuang who seemed very reliable in his memory. Suddenly, he thought, maybe the serious and reliable Zhou Yuang he saw on TV later was not an illusion created in the interview. It is also possible that it was indeed Zhou Yuang who had grown up and matured because of certain things.
If that was the case, he felt that it would be better for Angzi to continue to maintain her current personality.
In short, although they didn't know the reason, after arriving at the lobby of the designated hotel, Zhou Yuang and others saw that Su Yu, who was usually too lazy to communicate with others, greeted the two black-faced kings Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming seriously after seeing them.
After seeing Zhou Yuang's puzzled look, Su Yu said to Zhou Yuang and the others in all seriousness: "Brother Xi and Brother Ming are both good people."
Zhou Yuang was very confused. He didn't quite understand what was going on. Why did Su Xiaoyu suddenly feel that the two black-faced kings were good people after being in a daze for a while?
***
Although Zhou Yuang and the others didn't know what Su Yu was thinking, they didn't actually think there was anything wrong with Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming. It was just that they didn't have much contact with these two seniors, so they were not very familiar with them.
And as of now, they and Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming are still players on completely different tracks.
Just like Ye Minghao and Zhou Yuang, they did not have too many ambitions in this championship. Their goal was to run in good condition and achieve good results in the preliminaries.
To be honest, among the four of them, probably only Su Yu and Jiang Yuan have a real chance to compete with those top players in the final stage of the championship.
With this thought in mind, Zhou Yuang would occasionally talk to Jiang Yuan and Ye Minghao in private about Su Yu's condition these days.
"Fortunately, although Xiaoyu was severely airsick, he recovered quite quickly..."
Although he has recovered, Zhou Yuang is still a little worried about Su Yu's physical condition after his recovery - he doesn't know whether it will affect his performance in the championship.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yuang looked at Jiang Yuan and said, "Yuanzi, you are much better than me in this respect. Seriously, Yuanzi, you are not going to grab a spot in the Asian Games this time, are you?"
Hearing Zhou Yuang's words, Jiang Yuan smiled but said nothing - he had talked to Xiao Yu about this a long time ago. He wanted to participate in the Asian Games trials at that time because he wanted to pour a bucket of cold water on his mentality.
But what he didn't say to others during this period of time was that perhaps he didn't need to wait for Sun Yuhang and others at the Asian Games trials to pour cold water on him, because he had already been soaked by himself.
It's not for any other reason, it's just that he finally encountered a low point and bottleneck in his form.
Previously, his high jump PB had reached 2.28 meters. During the winter training period, he even reached a height of 2.29 meters. However, such results were not normal, but his limit.
After that time he cleared the bar at 2.29 meters, his normal performance remained stable at a height of 2.26 meters.
His coach Pei Yongsheng was actually very satisfied with his condition and performance. At the same time, his anxious mentality could not be hidden from Pei Yongsheng.
——"Jiang Yuan, you are only 15 years old this year. You should know that a 15-year-old who can maintain a stable performance of 2.26 meters is already a top talent in the world."
But with long-term training and the "ceiling" of his performance, Jiang Yuan could feel the restlessness of his own state.
In fact, he thought Xiaoyu probably guessed it, because during this period Xiaoyu also shared with him some boring training in competitive sports and mentality control techniques when facing bottlenecks.
He also knew that his problem was what he had anticipated - after rapid and almost unimpeded success, he now encountered his own bottleneck and low point, and the sudden predicament affected his mentality.
But even though he was well aware of these problems, and even arranged an Asian Games trials schedule for himself in advance to adjust his mindset, when he really encountered this problem, he still had to face a lot of anxiety and irritability.
I can only say, no wonder they say athletes need to have a big heart.
In the competitions before this season, he had not encountered any truly difficult opponents, but from now on, starting from the Asian Games trials on June 15th...
Jiang Yuan thought that next, he would probably start to face his biggest challenge and the most difficult game at this stage.
However, compared to the World Youth Championships that will follow, perhaps it is his luck that he can face these difficulties and mental problems first in the current Asian Games trials.
***
On the evening of June 14, at the Track and Field Kingdom Forum
On the night before the opening of the Asian Games trials, it was already very clear what the situation would be like in the entire Track and Field Kingdom Forum - the entire forum was filled with discussions related to the Asian Games trials the next day, and the main topic of discussion was the final Asian Games trials roster.
Subject: [It’s so rare that all the famous players of the Chinese team are gathered together! I am really excited. I have asked for leave and am now in City G, waiting for tomorrow's game! 】
2nd Floor: [Hehe, I have taken leave +1. I feel that the organizer has scheduled the competition from Friday to Sunday. Although I need to take a day off, I can finally watch the entire competition to my heart’s content! 】
8th Floor: [Friends, can anyone highlight the key points? What are the important matches tomorrow? ? ? 】
10th Floor: [Hmm? Asian Games trials, aren’t every game the focus? But in my opinion, the most important thing should be the 100 meters and 200 meters, right? The main thing to see is the condition of Team Zheng and Zhan Youming. This competition is held in City G, at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, which should be of certain benefit to the performance of sprinters. I wonder if Team Zheng and Zhan Youming have a chance to create a PB. 】
16th Floor: [Oh, it’s not that easy to create a PB. It really depends on the condition. I hope that Team Zheng and Zhan Youming can get good results in the next Asian Games. 】
18th Floor: [Come to think of it, I’m more curious about the final rosters for the 100m and 200m events. Is there really no one left for the 400m event? 】
22nd Floor: [Don't mention it, I get angry whenever I mention the 400 meters. Yuan Xinghua's talent in 400 meters is really the best in the country in recent years. He can run both 200 meters and 400 meters, and his result in 100 meters is not bad either. He is really an all-round sprinter. But he happened to take stimulants - with his talent, he doesn't need to take such shortcuts, but he did it anyway! 】
25th Floor: [@22nd Floor, has this matter been concluded? Isn't it said that he was banned because of violating team rules? 】
28th Floor: [@25th Floor, my friend, don’t be naive. For a player of Yuan Xinghua’s level, if he really just violated team rules, would his provincial team be willing to ban him from the game? If there is no problem with Yuan Xinghua himself, why didn't the national team call him up during last year's winter training? He doesn't say it clearly, and is just trying to leave a fig leaf. 】
33F: [Alright, alright, forget about that unlucky Yuan Xinghua, let’s count the finalists for the 100m and 200m events…]
In short, in just this one night, the Track and Field Kingdom Forum welcomed a recent wave of traffic peaks. Almost everyone was discussing Zheng Tianxi, Zhan Youming, Sun Yuhang and other popular Asian Games athletes. Occasionally, someone would mention young athletes such as Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, and Zhou Yuang. However, even with the results of Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, they were still a certain distance away from these top domestic athletes.
The words of a forum member basically represent the mentality of the vast majority of forum members.
——[I know that the future of 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump and high jump belongs to Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, but now, 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump and high jump still belong to Zheng Tianxi, Zhan Youming and Sun Yuhang. 】
It is with this mentality that even though they knew that young players like Su Yu and Jiang Yuan had also come to participate in the trials, almost everyone's attention was not on them - of course, it was just 'almost everyone'.
Wang Yangming finished his work on Thursday and then rushed to catch the evening flight to City G with Sui Pengfei.
Along the way, Sui Pengfei was amused and helpless when he heard Wang Yangming crying with a melancholy face, complaining about how he had his kidney removed and was severely scolded by his father for asking for leave on Friday.
"You really took the bet you made with your cousin seriously?"
Wang Yangming said seriously: "Why don't you take it seriously? I have already agreed to it!"
Sui Pengfei glanced at him and said sarcastically, "So embarrassed? So sad? How about I talk to your cousin for you and ask him to let you go?"
Hearing Sui Pengfei's "considerate" and "friendly help", Wang Yangming choked and said with a dry cough: "No, no, no, a man should keep his word."
Sui Pengfei rolled his eyes: "I see you are enjoying this, right?"
Wang Yangming: “…cough.”
Although he was still sad at the beginning that his head was taken by the 'devil brothers', after watching the game for such a long time, he really became a fan of these two classmates of his cousin.
After all, for these track and field enthusiasts, what could be more joyful than to directly "cultivate" two future top athletes in the seedling stage?
Wang Yangming is now completely immersed in this kind of happiness, although he has seen Su Yu and Jiang Yuan start to move from domestic competitions to foreign competitions - his cousin Zhong Wen had very considerately sent him a message before, saying that he only needs to pursue domestic competitions and there is no need to force foreign competitions, but he "righteously" refused, saying that since he lost the bet, he will definitely take responsibility to the end.
At that time, his cousin sent him an expression from Su Yu's emoticon pack that said 'stare...', probably because he was speechless about his obvious attempt to cover up his mistake.
On the way to City G, Wang Yangming and Sui Pengfei couldn't help but chat quietly for a while on the plane. They were talking about what results Su Yu and Jiang Yuan would achieve in tomorrow's competition.
Coincidentally, the person sitting next to them on the plane was also a track and field fan who was flying to City G to watch the game, so they couldn't help but start a discussion, but their opinions were not quite unanimous.
The big brother sitting next to me thinks that the most exciting performance in tomorrow's game should be Zheng Tianxi's. Su Yu's performance in previous games was good, but this is also his first time to compete head-on with so many domestic celebrities. The performance of these celebrities will be more stable than Su Yu's.
Wang Yangming felt that Su Yu would definitely have the opportunity to set a new record in tomorrow's game.
Neither Wang Yangming nor the elder brother could convince the other, so Wang Yangming said viciously: "Let's make a bet!"
"Let's bet!"
Sui Pengfei looked at the two people who had added him on WeChat and shook his head helplessly.
In addition to Wang Yangming and Sui Pengfei, Li Xiang, a reporter from another G Province TV station, also came for Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, Zhou Yuang and Ye Minghao. Among these four people, the first three were the news interview trio that had caused heated discussions on the Internet, and the last one, Ye Minghao, was a well-known young player from the G Province team. It was said that he had a good relationship with Su Yu and others, so he was also put on Li Xiang's interview list by the G Province TV station.
It has been nearly two months since he was transferred from the people's livelihood news department to the sports news department of the TV station. During this period, Li Xiang first followed his predecessors in the sports department to report news everywhere, and in his spare time he also made up a lot of track and field related knowledge. Now if he were to go back to that time, he would definitely not mistake athletes like Su Yu as ordinary passers-by.
However, because it was Su Yu and others in the track and field event who gave him the title of "news lucky star", although Li Xiang now follows the news of various sports, when his senior asked him about his intentions in a specific event, he gritted his teeth and chose track and field.
Although his predecessors told him that although track and field is a major sport, the news popularity and attention it receives in the country is far less than that of other sports. For example, news about the three major balls and three minor balls is easier to spread than news about track and field, he still gritted his teeth and made this choice.
Now, two months have passed, and his predecessor has let go of him and let him lead the team to cover the Asian Games trials on his own. If his interview goes smoothly this time, he will basically be able to interview independently in the future.
Li Xiang knew that this was a special favor from his seniors, because the three young players who made him famous in one battle were all present in this Asian Games trials. If he could interview Su Yu and the other three, even if he could not create that kind of hot news effect again, he should be able to achieve good results.
However, Li Xiang also knew that although this interview was simple, it also had its difficulties - the difficulty was that the theme of this competition was the Asian Games trials, so the public's focus would inevitably be on the popular Asian Games contestants such as Zheng Tianxi, Feng Chuming and Zhan Youming.
So, if his interview focuses on Su Yu and the others...
What kind of theme does he need?
Li Xiang has thought a lot about this question, but he has not yet come up with a clear answer. While he was still thinking about this question, he suddenly received a message from his sports senior, asking him to go to the Track and Field Kingdom Forum as soon as possible.
Li Xiang:?
What's going on?
Li Xiang was a little confused. Why was he suddenly asked to go to the Track and Field Kingdom at this time?
As a result, when he opened the Track and Field Kingdom forum, what he saw was a new piece of news mixed in with the overwhelming discussions related to the "Asian Games Trials".
Topic: [Japan's 17-year-old young player Naoto Takahashi tied the WU18B set by Japan's famous player Ippei Suzuki! ! This time the result did not exceed the wind speed! ! ! 】
? !
As soon as this title came out, Li Xiang's pupils trembled.
Ever since he started reading sports news and taking track and field lessons, Li Xiang certainly knew what WU18B meant. He also knew that the current WU18B was 10.19 seconds, set by Japanese athlete Ippei Suzuki.
So far, Su Yu's personal best is 10.27 seconds, which he ran in the Z city race at the beginning of the season. This is currently the best result for the U18 men's 100 meters in the country. At the same time, because Su Yu has continuously refreshed his PB, he is also considered to be the young player in the country with the best chance of surpassing Suzuki Ippei and winning the WU18B.
But now it seems that Japan's Naoto Takahashi not only ran 10.15 seconds in excess of the wind speed in the previous World Youth Championship qualifiers, but this time he ran 10.19 seconds without exceeding the wind speed to tie Suzuki Ippei's record!
Under such circumstances, domestic track and field fans also understood that Naoto Takahashi is 17 years old this year. He just wants to challenge Suzuki Ippei's record before he turns 18 and completely change the name that originally belonged to Suzuki Ippei on the WU18B record to his!
Under the impact of such a proactive and top-notch talented player, everyone felt that Suzuki Ippei's WU18B result might not be maintained for too long.
At the same time, Su Yu, who originally had a good chance of breaking this record, may lose the opportunity to break this record due to the sniping of Naoto Takahashi.
After seeing this topic, Li Xiang instantly knew in which direction the theme of his interview could be pushed, but to be honest, he didn't really want to push it in this direction - if he deliberately guided this topic, he always felt that he was deliberately exerting and creating public opinion pressure on Su Yu.
If possible, he would prefer his theme this time to be...Su Yu successfully sniped WU18B.
But Li Xiang himself knew how slim his hope was.
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