Chapter 76
In fact, compared with the current situation of a slight lack of successors in Japan's men's long jump, the overall strength of Japan's current men's high jump athletes is still not bad.
Kenta Sasaki, the top Japanese male high jumper this season, jumped 2.32 meters in the recent IAAF Challenge in Kawasaki, Japan. This result is the same as Sun Yuhang's personal best this season. Matsumoto Takashi, who is ranked second in Japan this season, also jumped 2.28 meters in the domestic competition in Japan.
Compared with athletes like Kenta Sasaki and Takashi Matsumoto, to be honest, Japanese audiences also know that at the current stage, the real threats to these two Japanese champions are China's top high jumper Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian, who has a more stable overall performance.
But for players like Jiang Yuan, Su Yu, and Zhou Yuang, their biggest threat does not lie in their current strength, but in their future "potential".
***
While the Japanese audience was nervously and anxiously watching the men's high jump competition, Zhou Yuang had already happily arrived at the backcourt lounge of the S Province Sports Team.
"Su Xiaoyu!!"
As soon as Zhou Yuang returned to the lounge, he couldn't wait to rub Su Yu's head. Only after Su Yu slapped his claws away viciously did he sit down on the bench beside him with a satisfied look on his face.
Su Yu was lying on the massage bed, receiving a relaxing massage from the masseur. He couldn't see his own appearance, but he knew that his hair must be a mess now.
"cough."
Of course Zhou Yuang also saw his "evidence of guilt" and immediately took out his mobile phone from his sports bag and decisively started sending a big red envelope with a designated recipient to everyone in the group.
Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui, the two people who did not have any competition today, opened the red envelopes immediately and sent Zhou Yuang a warm "Thank you boss gif". However, Su Yu, who was lying on the massage bed, could not play with his mobile phone at the moment. He just made a short and clear "hum" in the direction of Zhou Yuang.
"puff……"
Zhou Yuang couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard Su Yu's "humph" - there was nothing he could do, now when they chat in the group, they use Su Xiaoyu's emoticons every day, and after hearing this "humph", the little head of Su Yu who often appears in the group's QQ person directly appeared in his mind.
Of course, this 'puff' laughter earned Su Yu another 'vicious' look from him.
Zhou Yuang chuckled, then touched his chin and said, "Speaking of which, Xiaoyu, you are much more lively now than before. When we first met in 303, and seeing Yuanzi protecting you so carefully, I thought you would be difficult to get along with."
"You don't know, I had already prepared myself mentally. I would worship you as my ancestor first, and then I would find a chance to run away. Whoever wants to worship their ancestors can do so. I won't do that anyway..."
Zhou Yuang didn't know what happened to him. He had kept the words hidden for so long, but today he blurted them out.
After the result was revealed, Su Yu, who was lying on the massage bed, just glanced at him, said "oh", and then continued to lie there without paying any attention to him.
Zhou Yuang, who was originally immersed in the joy of refreshing his PB and felt that he dared to say anything, broke into a cold sweat after he went over what he had just said in his mind again.
Seeing that Su Yu ignored him, he blinked and called out tentatively, "Xiao Yu?" '.
Su Yu ignored him.
Zhou Yuang's heart skipped a beat, regretting that he had just said something too much without thinking, and then he tried to find a new topic to talk about: "Hey, Xiaoyu, look, Yuanzi is on the court again, and he cleared the 2.20 meter bar in one go!"
“…”
"...Xiaoyu?"
Su Yu, who was lying on the massage bed, responded, "Oh, something happened, I'll see later," and his voice sounded a little muffled.
Zhou Yuang: QAQ! Finished! Does this sound mean that she is unhappy? !
He immediately searched on WeChat and poked Jiang Ruohui: [Ahhh! Huizi! It’s over, I think I said something wrong and made my little ancestor unhappy! what to do! 】
Jiang Ruohui: [? 】
Jiang Ruohui: [Why did you make Su Yu unhappy? 】
Jiang Ruohui: [Aren’t you sending out red envelopes? Are you rude again? 】
Zhou Yuang: [……]
Zhou Yuang: [QAQ I, I was so happy just now that I confessed to Xiaoyu my first impression of him! 】
Jiang Ruohui: [What is it? 】
Zhou Yuang: [… probably, he’s hard to serve, so I just want to treat him like a ancestor for two days, and then find an excuse to run away and change dormitories. 】
Jiang Ruohui: […(pats shoulder) Okay, Angzi, take care of yourself. 】
Jiang Ruohui: [Or, if you still want to save yourself, then... send a red envelope. 】
Zhou Yuang: [Huh? ? ? 】
Jiang Ruohui: [Send red envelopes. If one person is still angry, then send a few more! 】
Jiang Ruohui: [That’s it!] Xiaoyu, come on gif】
It was not until Zhou Yuang came back with the "True Scripture". Although this "True Scripture" seemed a little unreliable, Zhou Yuang still decided to cut off his kidney for his recklessness.
So Zhou Yuang immediately opened the chat window with Su Yu and sent Su Yu three separate big red envelopes in a row.
Su Yu:...Hmm?
Just now, before Zhou Yuang returned to the lounge, Pei Dingshan sent him a message, asking him to take advantage of the fact that the race had just ended to review the feeling of the 200-meter race, and then sort out his condition and physical condition, and try to make a simple comparison with his condition during and after yesterday's 100-meter race, and then give a reply.
Su Yu guessed that this was because Pei Dingshan was watching his match with Zhou Yuang in real time, and probably thought of how to adjust his training plan, so he sent him a message immediately after the game.
So when he just told Zhou Yuang that there was something going on, it really was something going on.
As for what Zhou Yuang had said before, it was something he had already known for a long time.
Before his rebirth, Zhou Yuang only lived in dormitory 303 for less than three days during that summer camp. After receiving Pei Dingshan's invitation for extra training, he moved out on the pretext of not wanting to disturb him and Jiang Yuan.
Su Yu didn't think Zhou Yuang needed to apologize for the bad first impression between them. After all, he had just been reborn at that time and was still a little confused. Especially when facing Zhou Yuang, he did not have a good expression.
Unexpectedly, when he was thinking about how to describe his current state, a series of red envelopes from Zhou Yuang popped up on WeChat.
Su Yu: “…”
Su Yu blinked, looked up at Zhou Yuang, and asked an irrelevant question: "Didn't the coach poke you?"
Zhou Yuang:?
Zhou Yuang was looking at Su Yu intently at this moment, just waiting to see when their little ancestor from Class 303 would receive the red envelope, but suddenly he heard this question.
Zhou Yuang subconsciously exited the chat interface with Su Yu, and sure enough, he saw Pei Dingshan leaving him a message, asking him to record his condition and feelings of the game as a basis for subsequent training adjustments.
Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning.
Zhou Yuang's mind flashed with Su Yu's words "Oh, something happened, I'll see later", and his eyes widened immediately: "So Xiaoyu, you were just replying to the coach's message?!"
Seeing Zhou Yuang's hesitant look, Su Yu responded with a "hmm" obediently.
Zhou Yuang: "...but your voice was a little muffled just now?"
Su Yu looked at Zhou Yuang in confusion: "...Because I was lying on my stomach?"
The massage teacher was still relaxing his muscles. Isn't it normal for his voice to be a little muffled when he is lying down and talking?
Zhou Yuang:! ! !
Zhou Yuang: QAQ
He, his kidney!
After realizing that Su Yu was not actually angry, Zhou Yuang immediately remembered the small red envelopes he had given out by donating his kidney, but it was too late - Su Yu blinked after seeing Zhou Yuang's painful expression, and then opened his three red envelopes in front of Zhou Yuang.
Finally, Su Yu rested his chin on his hand, continued to receive massage from the massage teacher, and tilted his head to say a real-life version of "Thank you, boss" to Zhou Yuang.
After thinking for a while, Su Yu added: "Thank you, boss. Are you generous?"
Zhou Yuang had now sat back on the long bench weakly, his heart filled with sorrow - hadn't he set a new personal best today? Why was his wallet so sad on such a happy day?
——All this is probably fate.
***
In the Jigu live broadcast room, the Japanese audiences who were still in the room did not know what kind of sad story the "Player Zhou" who had caused them great psychological trauma before was experiencing now.
They only know that as the height of the horizontal bar rises, their hearts are also undergoing round after round of "torture".
Compared with the initial time, the height of the horizontal bar has risen to 2.24 meters. After three rounds of trial jumps at the 2.20-meter stage, one of the seven players who advanced to the finals has been eliminated.
At this stage, there were only 6 players left on the field, and only three players had maintained a perfect one-time clear rate until now. They were Sun Yuhang, the current top-ranked Chinese athlete in men's high jump, Zhang Xujian, who was second only to Sun Yuhang, and Jiang Yuan, who was second only to these two last season.
"Dear audience, what's going to happen next is a fight between dragons and tigers!"
In the Jigu live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were watching the men's high jump final in front of them and both felt that it was exceptionally exciting.
It's just like they say - a fight between dragons and tigers.
Why do I say so?
In fact, you only need to look at the number of participants in the Asian Games to know - for each individual event of the Asian Games, each country can only send two athletes to participate, and the Asian Games trials are to select the best from among the outstanding domestic athletes.
For example, the final competition between the five men's long jump champions was like this.
As for the men's high jump, with the strength of Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian, there was no doubt that they would win the two places. However, many people did not expect that since last season, an extraordinarily talented player like Jiang Yuan would emerge.
As for Jiang Yuan’s PB of 2.28 meters last season, it would definitely not be easy even for Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian to cope with it.
And if - just if, if Jiang Yuan really beat Zhang Xujian and Sun Yuhang in today's Asian Games trials, then who should get the final spot in the Asian Games?
Of course it will still be given to Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian. After all, we have to make a comprehensive reference to the players' overall results and performance in various competitions - but if the time really comes, even if the quota is given to Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian, they will definitely be in a difficult position.
Therefore, if the two of them want to obtain the two Asian Games qualifications legitimately, they must not give in at all today.
Forget about letting it go, you have to be really alert.
——Well, at least that’s what many people think.
***
After successfully jumping over a height of 2.24 meters, even though this height was not stressful for Zhang Xujian normally, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at this moment.
This was the first time that Zhang Xujian and Jiang Yuan faced off in a formal competition.
Of course he knew Jiang Yuan, Pei Yongsheng's last disciple. He was also present during the first test phase of winter training when Sun Yuhang was ordered to provoke Jiang Yuan and uttered the classic provocative sentence "I'll give you 5cm, let's compete".
During the first test phase of that winter training, even though Jiang Yuan was extremely talented, he still lost to him and Sun Yuhang.
But this time when he met Jiang Yuan on the court, Zhang Xujian could feel that Jiang Yuan was obviously much more difficult to deal with than before - this was not an improvement purely after winter training and new season competition training, but another kind of reborn change.
This change should have come from the long jump event the day before.
In fact, when Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian just came back from abroad, they received a "task" from Pei Yongsheng. Of course, this task was mainly given to Sun Yuhang by Pei Yongsheng, asking him to "pressurize" Jiang Yuan more during the Asian Games trials and stimulate the kid.
The reason for this is that Jiang Yuan encountered bottlenecks in both the long jump and high jump events this season and has not been able to find his form in the competition.
Originally, neither of them felt any pressure when listening to Pei Yongsheng's request. Sun Yuhang simply nodded and agreed, saying it was no problem.
But when he and Sun Yuhang finished taking over the task from Pei Yongsheng, they remembered to take a look at Jiang Yuan's performance this season. How could Pei Yongsheng be so anxious that he wanted to find them to provoke him?
As a result, they searched Jiang Yuan's results and found out that his best result and PB in the long jump this season was 8.08 meters, and his best result in the high jump this season was 2.26 meters.
With this result, how many domestic players have been defeated instantly?
That’s it. Pei Yongsheng calls this a bottleneck? !
But since they had already agreed, they didn't want to say anything more.
But they didn't expect that in the two days of Asian Games trials, the men's long jump on the first day and the men's high jump on the second day - before the two of them could "press" Jiang Yuan, it seemed that Jiang Yuan had received enough stimulation in the high jump final the day before.
I thought of the look in Jiang Yuan’s eyes that I saw today—determined and serious.
If Jiang Yuan, who was seen in the first day of winter training, still seemed indifferent to the game, then Jiang Yuan's attitude towards the game now is obviously much more serious.
Zhang Xujian thought, although Coach Pei asked him and Sun Yuhang to "suppress" Jiang Yuan, in today's game, they might not be able to, nor do they necessarily need to, "suppress" him.
After successfully clearing the bar, Zhang Xujian glanced in the direction of Sun Yuhang - Sun Yuhang's appearance order was after him, so he raised his hand and waved at Sun Yuhang, then returned to the high jump rest area.
Jiang Yuan had returned here after crossing the 2.24-meter horizontal bar. He probably saw Sun Yuhang was about to appear on the stage, so he turned his head to look in the direction of Sun Yuhang.
Not far away, in front of the starting line of the run-up area, no one knew what Sun Yuhang was thinking at the moment, but in short, he was quite careless in this jump, so much so that when he finally passed the bar, he actually failed and fell directly onto the sponge bag with the bar.
Many spectators at the scene stood up in surprise when they saw Sun Yuhang made a mistake in his jump. However, some spectators who had watched a lot of high jump competitions were also surprised for a while, and then seemed to remember something and slowly sat down.
?
In the audience, a track and field fan saw that the audience around him didn't seem surprised at all, and asked in confusion: "Friend, didn't you just say that you are a fan of Sun Yuhang? Sun Yuhang made a mistake in this jump and is now behind Jiang Yuan and Zhang Xujian. Aren't you anxious?"
The guy next to him who was said to be a fan of Sun Yuhang was silent for two seconds, and said with a subtle expression: "Ah, don't worry about it."
? ? ?
Just when this track and field fan who didn't know Sun Yuhang well was full of questions, he found that Sun Yuhang on the field did not seem to be in a hurry at all. After a while, when the referee was organizing the athletes to conduct the second round of trial jumps at a height of 2.24 meters, Sun Yuhang simply chose to apply for exemption from the jump.
"Oh, Sun Yuhang failed in his first jump at a height of 2.24 meters. Now he has applied for exemption from the jump. When he reaches the next height, he will only have two more chances to try. Isn't he afraid of this?"
The Sun Yuhang fan next to him sighed and said, "Maybe he's not afraid. He might even find it exciting."
? ? ?
Just when this track and field fan was full of questions, a fan of Sun Yuhang next to him said quietly: "Even when he reaches 2.28 meters, he may not try to jump. Maybe he will wait until he reaches 2.31 meters."
After seeing more and more question marks on the heads of track and field fans around him, this fan of Sun Yuhang sighed and said, "Although you don't pay attention to high jump and Sun Yuhang, you should have heard a lot of Sun Yuhang's 'classic quotes', right? For example, 'Does the law stipulate that athletes can only win and not lose in competitions?' and so on?"
The track and field fans nearby nodded blankly.
This fan of Sun Yuhang sighed: "These are all his wonderful speeches after he got into trouble. Although they seem unreliable, in Sun Yuhang's words, 'I failed to clear the bar at a height that I can usually pass. It looks like I will lose, right? But maybe I am conserving my energy and giving you a carrot full of hope. In the end, I will surpass you at a height that you can't pass'."
Track fan: “…Ah, ah this?”
Sun Yuhang's fans sighed helplessly: "In short, although this seems unreliable, it is indeed a stupid thing Sun Yuhang would do when he wants to provoke an opponent. When he fails, he is also quite calm about his failure, just continuing to speak nonsense to the media - if he succeeds, there is a very wonderful success case, that is, when he jumped 2.39 meters to set the national men's high jump record."
Track and field fans: “…”
The track and field fan finally understood why, when everyone was shocked just now, some audience members in the audience looked as if they understood something in an instant.
But he couldn't help but ask: "...So as the top 1 in high jump, isn't Sun Yuhang's attitude towards the competition a little unreliable?"
Sun Yuhang's fan shook his head awkwardly: "It's not that unreliable, my friend. You have to respect the diversity of human species. Athletes also have their own unique personalities. In fact, although Sun Yuhang is sometimes out of touch, most of the time there is no problem..."
But somehow, the words 'no problem' tended to become quieter and quieter.
At the end, this fan also gave up: "Why do so many people say in the high jump competition that if Sun Yuhang is there, Zhang Xujian must be tied to the insurance?"
Track and field fans: “…”
The track and field fan wiped his face speechlessly: "Okay, I understand, but who is Sun Yuhang trying to provoke by doing this in today's game? Or maybe he just made a technical mistake? After all, this is a height of 2.24 meters. To be honest, not every athlete can be 100% successful every time, right?"
Facing the question from this track and field fan, the fan of Sun Yuhang next to him hesitated and remained silent for a while - it's true, this is the Asian Games trials, not an international competition, who does Sun Yuhang want to provoke today?
***
Who to stimulate?
Of course it is to stimulate Jiang Yuan.
After Sun Yuhang returned to the rest area with a smile on his face, he patted Jiang Yuan on the shoulder as he passed by him and said, "How is it? I'll give you 5cm today, too."
Jiang Yuan: “…”
Zhang Xujian: “…”
Other contestants who happened to hear this: “…”
After Sun Yuhang finished speaking, he was dragged away by Zhang Xujian on the spot, who cursed him in a low voice: "Sun Yuhang, what the hell are you doing?!"
Sun Yuhang, however, said righteously: "Didn't Old Pei ask us to put pressure on him? Isn't it the same to stimulate him?!"
Zhang Xujian looked at him speechlessly when he heard this: "You call this exciting?"
Sun Yuhang spread his hands and said, "Why don't you shout?"
He smiled for two seconds, then saw Zhang Xujian's overly serious expression, so he sighed and scratched his head, "Okay, Zhang, look, Jiang Yuan has the same personality as you, very serious - but in this world, there are players like me, and there are other guys with even fouler mouths, you have seen them all."
"I know, and you can see that after yesterday's long jump finals, Jiang Yuan has basically broken through the bottleneck in both long jump and high jump. But apart from the bottleneck, as a player, there are too many things that he will encounter on and off the field."
"In that case, it wouldn't be bad to let him meet an opponent like me in the arena earlier, right?"
Zhang Xujian listened to what Sun Yuhang said, remained silent for a while, and finally sighed - OK, not bad.
However, he glanced at Jiang Yuan from a distance, and always felt that Sun Yuhang's "stimulation" to Jiang Yuan today might not work, or Jiang Yuan had quickly understood the meaning of Sun Yuhang's "stimulation".
In short, the young player who was stimulated by Sun Yuhang's simple words now seems to have grown a lot compared to before.
***
In the following games, just as Zhang Xujian guessed, Jiang Yuan did maintain a very stable mentality and focused his attention on the goal of "breaking through".
When the horizontal bar rose to a height of 2.28 meters, Jiang Yuan made his first mistake in clearing the bar, but Zhang Xujian could see that this was not due to the negative effects of Sun Yuhang's deliberate "stimulation", but was purely a physical problem.
After all, for Jiang Yuan, he had just experienced a high-intensity men's long jump final the day before. Even after a day of rest, his condition definitely did not return to its best.
In addition, today's high jump started from 2.05 meters. Jiang Yuan rarely applied for exemption in the early stage as he had done in the past. Instead, he jumped every time solidly.
Taking all these into account, Jiang Yuan was able to hold on until a height of 2.28 meters before his first technical error and failure to clear the pole, which was already a performance of his top-notch mentality, excellent condition and technique.
Not only Zhang Xujian noticed this, but Sun Yuhang also noticed it.
He touched his chin and snorted, "Ah, Old Pei is good. This closed disciple is pretty good."
Zhang Xujian didn't bother to pay attention to him. After completing his jump and successfully crossing the height of 2.28 meters, the ranking on the field had become Zhang Xujian first, Jiang Yuan second, and Sun Yuhang third.
Except for the current one, two, and three players, there are no other players on the field.
That is to say, at the previous height of 2.24 meters, the three remaining finalists on the field had all failed to clear the bar at a height of 2.24 meters, and the only three players left on the field were Zhang Xujian, Jiang Yuan and Sun Yuhang.
Previously, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming in the Jigu live broadcast room had said that this game would be a "fight between dragons and tigers". The two veteran commentators are worthy of being veteran commentators, and what they said was indeed correct. However, the specific situation of this fight between dragons and tigers inevitably made some viewers who did not understand the situation confused.
In the Jigu live broadcast room, some people were wondering - didn’t Sun Yuhang say that he was China’s top male high jumper? How come it's ranked third now?
Some track and field fans who knew something about the situation looked confused - Sun Yuhang had used this trick in the past to provoke his foreign opponents, but now there are only three people on the field. Sun Yuhang, if you want to provoke people, who do you want to provoke? In this Asian Games trials, who are you stimulating? Aren't you stimulating the players from your own national team?
At this moment, who is the most relaxed person in the entire Jigu live broadcast room?
Of course, it’s the audience from Japan!
These Japanese spectators were worried before the game started - contestant Jiang! Will Jiang, whose PB in the men's long jump is 8.16 meters, also break his PB in today's high jump final, giving the Japanese team another formidable opponent in the difficult high jump? !
But finally, this worry was slightly relieved after Jiang Yuan failed in his first attempt to jump from a height of 2.28 meters.
[Ah... Athlete Jiang's success at the 2.28-meter height is the only one in a public competition so far, right? So, maybe he will stop at 2.24 meters today? 】
Although 2.24 meters is also an outrageous result, for example, the best results of the Japanese U20 players this season only stayed at 2.21 meters, which is still 3 cm away from the 2.24 meters height that Jiang Yuan just jumped in one go.
But at least, the result of 2.24 meters sounds much better than 2.28 meters!
In addition, Sun Yuhang's failed attempt at a height of 2.24 meters actually gave the Japanese audiences a sense of relief.
After all, Sun Yuhang and Zhang Xujian are the key figures in competing with Kenta Sasaki and Takashi Matsumoto for medals in world-class competitions!
Therefore, Sun Yuhang’s failure and his poor performance are good news worth celebrating for Japanese audiences!
Because of this, the Chinese audience in the Jigu live broadcast room was completely confused at this moment. It seemed that they could not understand the situation on the field, so they temporarily did not "tease" the Japanese audience in the live broadcast room, so that only the Japanese audience became interested while watching.
Some even spoke up——
[Gentlemen! If Sun can still maintain this level in the Asian Games, he will definitely not be a match for Sasaki! 】
This comment immediately won the approval of the majority of Japanese audiences.
The Japanese audience's joy continued until the moment Sun Yuhang continued to apply for exemption from the 2.28-meter jump.
【? 】
[Do you still need to apply for a waiver?] ! 】
[Is contestant Sun's performance a bit too arrogant? 】
Well, I don't know whether he was arrogant or not, but Jiang Yuan could see that Sun Yuhang was really stubborn - he said to give 5cm, so 2.24 meters to 2.28 meters was certainly not enough, of course he had to cross to the next height.
Since Sun Yuhang applied for exemption from the jump and Zhang Xujian cleared the bar at a height of 2.28 meters in one try, the remaining two trial jumps were naturally left to Jiang Yuan.
Jiang Yuan knew that his physical strength today had basically reached its limit, so no matter what, the next two trial jumps would be his last chance.
And since he is the only one on the field performing the 2.28-meter high jump attempt at this time, he will have the opportunity to make two consecutive attempts - this means that he will not have much time to rest and recover his strength between the next two attempts.
In other words, in reality, if he wanted to jump over a height of 2.28 meters, his only real chance would be this next time.
When Jiang Yuan stood in front of the starting line in the run-up area, he looked at the horizontal bar not far away. His mind went blank for a moment and he recalled the scene when he first crossed the 2.28-meter horizontal bar.
So, what did he do that time?
When the referee had signaled Jiang Yuan that he could jump and the countdown had begun, Jiang Yuan calmly closed his eyes and recalled the feeling of his previous jump.
He was also very tired after that trial jump, but his heart was full of excitement and anticipation.
He longed - longed to cross that horizontal bar and feel the sky reflected in his eyes at that moment.
That’s the feeling!
“Tick-tick, tick-tick—”
The countdown on the scene had reached the last 15 seconds, and the timekeeper was about to give a reminder to Jiang Yuan, but at this moment, the young man in front of the starting line opened his eyes and took his starting step!
Push the ground, push the ground, push the ground!
As he started his run-up, his mind began to actively remind himself of the things he should pay attention to, and then his feet began to move forward step by step with a unique rhythm!
When his run-up reached the last four steps, the originally regular elastic forward acceleration began to transform into a run-up close to his maximum speed!
His body is in an upright stage until the penultimate step, when he begins to lower his center of mass in order to prepare to provide vertical force for his jump!
***
In the rest area, Zhang Xujian and Sun Yuhang were watching Jiang Yuan's run-up and the last four steps of his jump. When they saw Jiang Yuan successfully push off the ground with the last step, Zhang Xujian was the first to say, "...This jump, it's done."
Sure enough, in this jump, Jiang Yuan successfully got rid of the shadow of the failure of the first jump. Even though he was already extremely tired, he successfully crossed the 2.28-meter horizontal bar, allowing the night starry sky to be reflected in front of his eyes again!
"Congratulations Jiang Yuan! 2.28 meters high, second attempt, success!"
When they saw Jiang Yuan successfully pass the pole and flip over on the sponge bag, the Chinese audience in the live broadcast room burst into warm cheers, but the Japanese audience, who had breathed a sigh of relief not long ago, looked at each other in bewilderment.
【2.28 meters...】
How did you successfully jump over it?
Didn’t I fail on the first jump?
Of course, the Japanese audience also understood that just because the first jump failed did not mean the second jump would be successful. It’s just that they had just breathed a sigh of relief, but now they are worried again.
You know, contestant Jiang is only 15 years old this year!
In other words, the three most terrifying contestants today are only 15 years old this year! !
Perhaps to ease the mood, after a brief silence, a Japanese audience posted a comment in the live broadcast room: [It doesn’t matter. At least in this year’s Asian Games, Sasaki and his team will face Sun, who is not in good shape…]
Yes!
The athletes that China will really send to the Asian Games should be Sun and Zhang. Although Zhang was as steady as ever in today's competition, Sun failed at the horizontal bar height of 2.24 meters!
With this feeling, Japanese audiences continued to watch.
At this time, since Sun Yuhang applied for exemption from jumping at a height of 2.28 meters, and Zhang Xujian and Jiang Yuan had both successfully cleared the bar, the height of the horizontal bar quickly rose to 2.31 meters.
After the height was measured by the horizontal bar referee, Jiang Yuan was the first to go on stage and conduct a trial jump at a height of 2.31 meters.
But his physical strength was indeed exhausted, so this attempt was not successful - but even so, the audience still gave him warm applause.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xujian failed for the first time at a height of 2.31 meters.
This height is already very close to his current limit.
After Zhang Xujian also failed, this time, Sun Yuhang did not choose to continue to apply for exemption from the jump. Instead, he stood in the running-up area and started from the running-up area. Then, he presented a perfect... one-time pass over the bar at a height of 2.31 meters to all the spectators!
Japanese audience: “…”
Japanese audience: "...So, we have been watching the game till now, just to let us receive this final and cruelest blow, right?"
***
On that day, after the competition ended, Sun Yuhang, Zhang Xujian and Jiang Yuan won the first, second and third place in the men's high jump final respectively.
Late at night after the competition was over, a new topic suddenly appeared on Twitter in Japan - #中国の试田少年王#.
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