Chapter 38
S Province Sports Center Stadium
As the opening event, the contestants of the men's long jump final had already appeared on stage and completed their warm-up before 17:00, including Jiang Yuan.
Compared with the preliminary round in the morning, there are only 12 elite athletes from all over the country participating in the men's long jump in the final stage. Most of these elite athletes have had many experiences of confrontation in past competitions. If there is the most unfamiliar opponent for these athletes, it is probably Jiang Yuan from the S Province Sports Team, who only made one trial jump in the preliminary round in the morning but won the second place in the whole field.
For the entire afternoon, the athletes from various provincial teams were trying to inquire with Lin Jingwu of the S Province Sports Team, wanting to know whether Jiang Yuan's jump of 7.83 meters in the morning was a result of his own strength or an accident.
Facing these inquiries, Lin Jingwu shook his head three times in a very good-tempered manner: "I don't know, I don't know, I don't understand either - although we are all from the S Province Sports Team, Jiang Yuan is in the junior group and doesn't usually train with us, so I don't know his specific results."
Su Yu, who was also taking a short rest in the backcourt lounge at the time, tilted his head strangely after hearing Lin Jingwu's answers, and then looked at Jiang Yuan.
Jiang Yuan:?
Su Yu: "...It's okay, I just felt that the tone of Jingwu's words just now was a little familiar."
Jiang Yuan: ^^
In short, those contestants who were unable to find out Jiang Yuan's results in the afternoon now looked at Jiang Yuan with some hesitation on their faces.
Among all the contestants, only Gao Xu, who was the strongest, looked relatively calm, because he was sure that even if Jiang Yuan jumped 7.83 meters in the final, he would be able to surpass him.
At this time, the audience in the audience seats had already turned their attention to the long jump final.
"That's the one, right? Jiang Yuan from the S Province Sports Team?"
"It looks like it's in pretty good shape, but I don't know what will happen when the game actually starts?"
"It should be okay, right? After all, he was able to jump 7.83 meters in the qualifying round, so he must have some strength."
Some of these spectators had watched Jiang Yuan's competition in person that morning, and some had become curious about Jiang Yuan and Su Yu because of the discussions on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum. Now they were all eagerly looking forward to seeing Jiang Yuan's specific performance.
But apart from that, another group of spectators was very simple and pure - those students from No. 12 Middle School, they came just to cheer for Jiang Yuan and Su Yu. No matter how the audience around them questioned and discussed, their ideas did not change. When Jiang Yuan came on the field, they burst into warm cheers and screams in the direction of Jiang Yuan, which brought the atmosphere of the scene to its first climax.
The track and field fan sitting next to Wang Yangming couldn't help but sigh: "If we talk about enthusiasm, it has to be these students. When they cheer, they are so energetic."
As they were talking, Zhong Wen in the front row turned around and handed Wang Yangming a banner that read "Go Jiang Yuan, Go Su Yu!"
Wang Yangming glared at Zhong Wen: "What are you doing?"
Zhong Wen grinned: "Nothing, just letting you experience the enthusiasm of middle school students. Come on, cheer together."
Wang Yangming:? ? ?
"Why?"
Zhong Wen looked at him with a look of "a timid child" and said, "Your head is my ball. I just let my ball cheer for me. Besides, aren't you going to cheer for our academic genius and academic master in every game? You should prepare for it now!"
Wang Yangming:? ? ?
The result of this bet hasn't come out yet!
But before he could refute, Zhong Wen turned around and continued to discuss enthusiastically with his classmates, ignoring him, so he could only reluctantly hold up the Jiang Yuan Su Yu banner in his hand and watch the game.
On the field, the men's long jump final has begun. Since Jiang Yuan achieved a good result of second place in the preliminaries, his appearance order in the finals is 11th, just one place ahead of Gao Xu.
Looking at the many athletes who had already started their jump trials, Wang Yangming hesitated for a moment and whispered to the track and field fans around him, "Do you think Jiang Yuan can win a medal in the long jump final?"
The track and field fan brother was very honest and said bluntly: "I don't know, but I have observed that he performed very steadily in the long jump preliminaries and high jump preliminaries this morning. I think that at least his competition condition and results should not be bad."
Hearing this, Wang Yangming only felt a slight pain in his kidneys.
***
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming have already started their commentary work.
"The first round of trials for the men's long jump final is currently underway. It can be said that this first round of trials is very critical for each athlete. The success or failure of the first trial is related to whether the athletes can have a guaranteed result in the subsequent trials, which will have a huge impact on the mentality of the athletes."
"Yes." Zhou Jiming took over Tian Ruhui's words and said, "Especially since the first three jumps of the final will directly eliminate the bottom four players, this is a huge pressure for the players who are just about to enter the final."
As they were talking, the fifth finalist had already appeared on the field. This was a player from the H Province Sports Team, who happened to be the player who "will just make it to the finals" as mentioned by Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming.
In the qualifying round, this athlete's best triple jump result was only 7.46 meters, just on the edge of the qualifying line predicted by many people.
Perhaps because his performance in the qualifying round was less than ideal, the athlete from H Province seemed to be under great pressure in his first jump in the final. When he jumped onto the board, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming could clearly see that the athlete did not even make it to the board without even watching the replay.
Tian Ruhui looked back at his own ruler line on the bunker after the athlete landed, and shook his head regretfully, saying, "It's a pity that Liu Jun's performance in this jump was actually quite good, but he failed to maintain his run-up rhythm during the run-up phase and made a major mistake when he was getting on the board."
Just as Tian Ruhui said, when Liu Jun saw that he had jumped 7.6 meters, he was delighted at first, and then the referee next to him signaled that his jump was a foul. Both the live broadcast audience and the audience on the scene could see Liu Jun's ups and downs at this moment, and finally he returned to the long jump rest area with a painful look on his face.
It's not just Liu Jun. Perhaps it's because it's the finals, or perhaps it's because these athletes all know the importance of the first jump, so that in the first jump stage, there are an unusually large number of athletes who make mistakes in getting on the board during the trial jump.
There were a total of 12 athletes in the long jump final. Among the 10 athletes before Jiang Yuan took the stage, only 4 successfully completed their first attempt.
In the Jigu live commentary room, when Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming saw Jiang Yuan appear on the stage, there was a hint of worry in their voices when they discussed.
Tian Ruhui: "For young athletes who lack experience in major competitions, the 'failure effect' and pressure atmosphere brought about by the consecutive failures of previous athletes usually have a great psychological impact on them. If the first jump just now has a great impact on other athletes, then for young athletes like Jiang Yuan, it can be said to be a crucial impact."
"Yes." Zhou Jiming nodded and said, "For other players, due to their relatively rich competition experience and ability to withstand pressure in major competitions, if they fail to jump once, they can still regain their form through their own adjustments in subsequent competitions. But for young players who are participating in such a competition for the first time, we have seen many cases where they fail in their first attempt and then cannot regain their form."
Not only Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming thought so, many audience members also had the same idea.
However, at the 100-meter warm-up venue, there was a wall-mounted TV on the wall at the edge of the venue that was broadcasting live events. When Ye Minghao noticed that Jiang Yuan was about to appear on the stage, he curiously asked Su Yu, "Aren't you nervous for Yuanzi?" '.
Su Yu looked back at the picture on TV, then shook his head calmly.
"Don't be nervous."
From the scene that just flashed by, it can be seen that the failure of the previous contestants did not affect Jiang Yuan.
If there is only one problem, it is probably that... Jiang Yuan doesn't seem to have a strong desire to win at the moment.
As soon as Su Yu finished speaking, the referee on the live broadcast screen signaled Jiang Yuan that he could start the trial jump.
Jiang Yuan, who was standing in front of the running line, nodded after receiving the trial jump instruction, and looked far away in the direction of the take-off board and the sand pit. After a brief pause to prepare, he decisively took the running step.
"Here it comes! The first trial jump of Jiang Yuan, a young athlete from the S Province Sports Team!"
No matter it was the audience at the scene or Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming in the Jigu live broadcast room, when Jiang Yuan started his first trial jump, everyone held their breath and looked towards the long jump final arena - would he be successful in this attempt?
On the field, from the moment Jiang Yuan started his run, many people's eyes lit up - what a fast running speed!
If we look at it from a purely visual perspective, Jiang Yuan's running start speed is not even slower than the starting burst phase of some 100-meter runners.
Both Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming sighed inwardly at this moment - judging from Jiang Yuan's starting speed alone, his 100-meter race time was probably around 11.50 seconds. For a 14-year-old athlete, this was already an excellent sprint result.
Of course, there is still a certain difference between the run-up and sprint in long jump. In order to ensure that the athlete can get on the board and take off smoothly from the run-up to the take-off stage, the number of run-ups for long jump athletes is usually fixed. The acceleration in the front run-up stage and the control ability in the back run-up stage determine whether the athlete can effectively use the speed and power from the run-up to achieve a perfect take-off!
At this moment on the field, Jiang Yuan was undoubtedly performing a perfect example of a perfect jump.
From the initial run-up acceleration to the pace control after reaching the high-speed run-up stage - until he steps on the pedal and jumps!
Land on the board, cushion, push off and jump!
"Great cushioning performance -"
When Tian Ruhui saw Jiang Yuan's series of technical movements of cushioning and stretching on the board, his eyes lit up and he praised him subconsciously.
Then, Jiang Yuan took off at a beautiful angle, and his body soared forward in an extremely long arc in the air. During the air stage, it was obvious that Jiang Yuan consciously used the strength of his hips to further push his body forward.
After this series of beautiful and outstanding performances, Jiang Yuan successfully landed in the sand pit, and in the final stage of landing, he stabilized his body and did not fall backwards. Instead, he dived forward, stabilized his condition, stood up and moved forward to leave the sand pit.
***
At the same time, in the office of the National Track and Field Team, Pei Yongsheng was watching the live broadcast of the Grand Prix in the evening with the coaches in the team who were free. After Jiang Yuan's jump landed successfully, one of the coaches jumped up directly on the spot.
"This kid! When did he show up?!"
The coach next to him turned around and asked Pei Yongsheng, "Coach Pei, is this kid one of the two good prospects you mentioned?"
Although it was a question, the coach's words were all in a positive tone.
After all, only athletes in the short jump and stride events can be recommended to Pei Yongsheng. In the long jump final just now, these coaches did not think that except Jiang Yuan, the remaining athletes had a chance to be recommended to Pei Yongsheng.
Faced with these coaches' questions, Pei Yongsheng smiled and did not deny them.
The coaches around had already started discussing it.
"This kid, is his 14-year-old self correct?"
"I just checked the registration information this time. Is Jiang Yuan a multi-sport competitor?"
"Wow, he ranked first in the high jump qualifying competition? He cleared the bar from 2.00 meters to 2.15 meters in one go?"
After seeing Jiang Yuan's achievements, even the coaches of the national team were a little surprised: "How come no one has discovered a player of this level before?"
Pei Yongsheng looked at the short jump coaches in the office and smiled: "Don't rush to talk, just keep reading."
***
In the audience seats of the S Province Sports Center Stadium, when Jiang Yuan's trial jump was successful, there was a burst of warm cheers.
Among them, the students from No. 12 Middle School cheered the loudest.
"Ahhh, Jiang Yuan is awesome!!"
"Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan! You are amazing among the twelve!!"
All kinds of fancy celebrations rang out in the audience seats, and even the track and field fans who came to watch the game seemed quite excited. After all, during the trial jumps of the previous 10 athletes, the atmosphere of continuous failures really made it difficult for people to get excited, and in the previous 10 consecutive trial jumps, even the athletes who succeeded in the trial jumps did not perform very well.
Jiang Yuan's jump just now can definitely be described as a jump that boosted his morale!
Of course - now after this jump, the audience is more concerned about how many meters Jiang Yuan jumped. !
In the Jigu live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming also praised Jiang Yuan's jump. Compared with the audience on the scene, they who watched the game through the perspective of the live broadcast room had a clearer understanding of the final result of Jiang Yuan's competition.
"The referee on site is measuring Jiang Yuan's final score."
"The first thing we saw was the footage of Jiang Yuan touching the board at the moment of takeoff. From this footage, we can clearly see that Jiang Yuan did not commit a foul in this jump."
"Now we are waiting for the final result of Jiang Yuan's jump. If the judgment of Mr. Tian and I just now is correct, Jiang Yuan's jump has reached around 7.90 meters! Now we need to wait for the final measurement of the referee on site, but if there are no accidents, Jiang Yuan's jump should have successfully refreshed his personal best in history!"
At this moment, it is certainly not just Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming who are looking forward to Jiang Yuan's final result.
In the audience seats, with Jiang Yuan's successful jump, the discussion and expectations of track and field fans became more intense.
It was under such strong expectations that the large electronic screen at the scene finally lit up under the attention of the crowd. All the previous men's long jump results ranked down one line at this moment, and the name that appeared in the first place of men's long jump had become - Jiang Yuan, 7.91 meters (wind speed 0.6m/s)!
“What the hell!!!”
After seeing the ranking clearly, the first ones to jump up were undoubtedly the students from No. 12 Middle School. The excitement in the hearts of these students from No. 12 Middle School had reached its peak at this moment!
Zhong Wen jumped up three feet high at this moment, and yelled: "7.91 meters! Damn, Yuan Zi is awesome, 7.91 meters!!! Ranked first!!"
The students around him, who were from Class 1, Grade 2 of No. 12 Middle School like Zhong Wen, were already going crazy with excitement. Some of them were even broadcasting live in the class group. In fact, another group of students on the Internet also jumped up after seeing this result.
[Ahhh!] I'm so angry, why wasn't I there? ? 】
[My classmates are in tears. I just returned to the city and I want to ask if it is too late to rush to the scene to watch the game now? ? 】
[Come come come!] I'm already rushing! I told my parents that the top student in our class is going to win a prize in this competition, and I have to go cheer for them. Now my dad is accelerating me to the limit. Woohoo, top student, wait for me! I'll be there right away! ! 】
Not to mention the students of No. 12 Middle School, Principal Lin of No. 12 Middle School and the head of the second grade, Chen Sheng, were actually watching the competition at the scene. After seeing Jiang Yuan's name appear in the first place, Principal Lin couldn't help but say to the track and field fans around him: "Did you see it? Jiang Yuan, the first place winner! He's a student of my school!"
Actually, if we really talk about competitions, the students of No. 12 Middle School have participated in so many competitions, including national, provincial and ministerial subject competitions, selection for the provincial and national teams for the Mathematical Olympiad, and the National Robot Competition for Middle and High School Students. As a provincial key school, these top students of No. 12 Middle School have won countless awards in various competitions. But after watching such a track and field event in person, Principal Lin and Chen Sheng couldn't help but feel their blood boiling in their chests.
Chen Sheng couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder they say competitive sports excite people."
It is really hard not to feel excited to be able to watch such a game live.
The audience member with the most complicated emotions at the scene would probably be Wang Yangming.
The moment Jiang Yuan's results appeared, Wang Yangming jumped up with excitement and waved the banner in his hand. But when he came to his senses from the excitement, he couldn't help but feel a slight pain in his kidneys - what should he do?
He seemed to have sensed that the devil brothers not only took his head, but were about to take his wallet.
On the side, the track and field fan who had been sitting next to Wang Yangming since morning patted Wang Yangming on the shoulder with a sad face and said again earnestly: "Friend, I just wanted to tell you that gambling is not advisable."
Some people, at a young age, not only lost their brains, but now... their kidneys are also at risk.
However, Zhong Wen in the front row, probably out of a kind of 'caring' for his brother, turned around and grinned at his brother: "Brother, keep up the good work next time, and remember to speak louder."
Hearing what Zhong Wen said, Wang Yangming immediately jumped up and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? This is only the first try, and it's still unclear whether Jiang Yuan will win or not!"
But Zhong Wenke was too lazy to pay attention to him, and said directly: "Don't try to fool me, do you think I'm stupid? I checked the data this afternoon. In the men's long jump of the last Grand Prix, someone won the championship with a jump of 7.88 meters. Yuanzi's jump is 7.91 meters. Even if he doesn't win the championship, can he not win a medal?"
With a "whoosh", the knife from my cousin was stabbed, accurate and fierce.
Wang Yangming had no choice but to grit his teeth and said, "Gao Xu hasn't played yet. Besides, even if Jiang Yuan wins the long jump, there's still the high jump and Su Yu's 100-meter race!"
Seeing his cousin's stubborn look, Zhong Wen didn't get angry. He just smiled and turned around to continue cheering for Jiang Yuan with his classmates.
However, many people thought that Jiang Yuan's first place ranking would soon be surpassed by Gao Xu, who would perform next. However, after Gao Xu completed his first jump, he did achieve a very good result, but his result of 7.89 meters was exactly two centimeters less than Jiang Yuan, so he temporarily only ranked second.
In the second round of trial jumps, many people wanted to see Jiang Yuan achieve even better results, but he directly applied to be exempted from the next five jumps.
When seeing Jiang Yuan decisively leave the stadium again without looking back, even the coaches of the national team who were watching the game couldn't help but remain silent for two seconds.
"This Jiang Yuan has a lot of personality."
The coaches could see what Jiang Yuan was thinking: "This kid, is he trying to save his energy for the high jump final later? Is he trying to get a medal in the high jump final?"
After all, high jump and long jump are different. In the long jump final, Jiang Yuan can directly determine the outcome based on the result of the first jump, but in the high jump final, he needs to maintain more physical strength to reach higher heights and trial jumps.
At the sprint warm-up, after seeing Jiang Yuan's performance, Ye Minghao couldn't help but praise him: "Yuanzi, this is so cool."
Instead, Su Yu glanced at the direction where Jiang Yuan left and blinked.
Ye Minghao noticed the difference in Su Yu's attitude and asked, "What's wrong?"
Su Yu paused, shook his head and did not answer.
Under Ye Minghao's somewhat confused gaze, Su Yu vaguely understood Jiang Yuan's meaning - he was indeed accumulating physical strength, but not just to rush for a card in the high jump final, but to re-challenge the record that he failed to challenge last time, so he chose to skip the jump after the first jump in the long jump final.
In order to challenge the high jump record of 2.26 meters set by the famous high jumper Sun Yuhang, Jiang Yuan chose to conserve more energy.
Thinking of this, Su Yu suddenly turned his gaze to Ye Minghao.
Ye Minghao:?
Ye Minghao: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong?"
After looking at Ye Minghao intently for a few seconds, Su Yu suddenly said solemnly: "I want to challenge you."
Hearing Su Yu's solemn challenge, Ye Minghao was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily: "Okay - Come on, Xiaoyu, in the final later, we will each rely on our own abilities."
Yes, it depends on your ability.
Su Yu looked calmly at every opponent present.
Of course he knew that among the eight finalists on the field, his strength on paper was definitely the weakest, but you could say he was overestimating his own abilities or he was clueless... Now that the warm-up was completed and the men's 100m final was about to begin, facing opponents who everyone on the field knew were stronger than him, what surged in his chest was a fighting spirit that drove him to keep moving forward to challenge.
He wanted to challenge the opponents present - to see how high he could reach in the upcoming final!
***
When the clock struck 18:30, discussions began to break out again in the coach's office of the national track and field team.
"The men's 100m final is coming."
"The other recommended runners should be the ones in the 100-meter final, right?"
"Is it Ye Minghao? I've been following this kid before. He's a really capable young player. He ran a new U16 record of 10.47 seconds in the last race. But he got a place in the Olympic reserve talent training base during the winter training period in the base race before that. I thought I'd wait and see."
"In fact, it may not be Ye Minghao, right? Maybe he is talking about the other kid named Su Yu?"
"Oh, I also paid attention to this Su Yu this afternoon. He ran 100 meters in 10.62 seconds. He is only 14 years old, which is not bad. But I think this 10.62 seconds is a bit exaggerated. The main reason is that his reaction time at the start was 0.127 seconds. This is probably due to his exceptional performance in the preliminaries this morning. It cannot be counted in the regular results. For a child of this age, a reaction time of 0.17 or 17 seconds at the start is good. If you add the 0.05 second difference in reaction time when hearing the gun, then the PB of 10.67 seconds is excellent, but it is still not as good as Ye Minghao of the same age last year."
"Yes." Another coach in the office gave the same opinion: "And Su Yu's overall physical condition is obviously weaker. From the perspective of physical condition alone, Ye Minghao is still better. Coach Pei, don't you agree?"
Pei Yongsheng listened to the discussion of the coaches in the office with a smile from beginning to end. When he heard the question asking him for confirmation, he just smiled and waved his hand: "Let's see, let's just keep watching. We can talk about the conclusion after the game is over."
Listening to Pei Yongsheng's words, the coaches were a little confused, but they all put their minds at ease and turned their attention to the live broadcast of the game.
***
S Province Sports Center Stadium
At this moment, in the audience, as the athletes participating in the 100-meter final came on stage, the students of No. 12 Middle School became excited again. They excitedly waved the small flags and banners with Su Yu and Jiang Yuan's names on them in the audience, and shouted loudly, "Come on Su Yu" and "Come on, God of Learning."
For the students of No. 12 Middle School, this was already the second time that their academic genius had made a bid for a medal - in the previous long jump final, although Gao Xu had not been able to surpass Jiang Yuan in the first jump, Gao Xu was indeed a very capable and experienced player. After making mistakes in the second and third jumps, Gao Xu regrouped and adjusted his condition in the fourth jump, and finally succeeded in jumping out a good score of 8.02 meters in the fourth jump, which ultimately laid the foundation for his victory in this game.
But except Gao Xu, none of the remaining players were able to perform better than Jiang Yuan in the next five attempts. The best player among the remaining players only jumped 7.80 meters, and with this result he won the third place in the S City leg of the National Track and Field Grand Prix.
After seeing the final results, many of the audience expressed regret over Jiang Yuan's runner-up finish.
"What a pity! If Jiang Yuan had tried a few more times, he might have won the championship."
But some people disagree: "Look, in this competition alone, two athletes' first trial jump results were their final results. Who can guarantee that the results of the next few trials will be good? Besides, Jiang Yuan will have the high jump final soon, so his strategy is definitely not wrong."
As everyone chatted, they turned their eyes towards the direction of the competition venue - at this moment, the eight contestants of the men's 100m final had already arrived at the venue. The eight contestants had already taken their positions according to their lanes in the final, took off their sports jackets, and began to make final pre-match preparations on the field.
Su Yu, one of the contestants in the 100m final, was of course among them. However, unlike the preliminaries, Su Yu, who ranked fourth in the preliminaries, had a pretty good lane position in the finals. In the third lane, on the fourth lane to his right was Gao Tianwu, a member of the national 4*100m relay team who had an absolute advantage in the men's 100m.
The player in the second lane to the left of Su Yu is also very strong. He is Zhao Yingping, another player who broke 10.40 seconds.
In the preliminaries, Zhao Yingping ran relatively slowly and did not sprint at full speed. He only advanced to the finals with a score of 10.70 and ranked seventh in the preliminaries. But in the finals, Zhao Yingping's aura was different from that in the preliminaries.
In the live broadcast room of Jigu Live, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were also introducing the eight players in the competition.
"Zhao Yingping in the second lane has run under 10.50 seconds in many competitions this year. It can be said that his competitive state this year has been very good. Although Zhao Yingping's result in the preliminaries was only 10.70 seconds, it can be seen that Zhao Yingping is conserving his strength."
"Yes." Zhou Jiming nodded in agreement. "It can be seen that Zhao Yingping should want to challenge his PB in the finals. He looks very motivated now. Let us wish him a successful challenge tonight!"
"In the third lane is the youngest competitor in this 100-meter sprint finals, Su Yu from the S Province Sports Team. He is a young athlete with very little experience and few competitions, but he performed quite well in the preliminaries this morning. His time of 10.62 seconds makes him the second most talented competitor in his age group, second only to Ye Minghao."
"Not bad." Tian Ruhui also affirmed: "In the preliminaries this morning, this 14-year-old genius created the best reaction time in this Grand Prix race. The reaction time of 0.127 seconds is amazing. But at present, it seems that Su Yu's position in the finals should also bring him great pressure."
"Yes, on the left is Zhao Yingping who intends to challenge his own PB, and on the right is Gao Tianwu who is among the top five in the country in 100 meters. Su Yu, who has relatively little competition experience, will probably face huge pressure under the attack of these two athletes."
What Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming said was definitely not alarmist. Let alone a child of Su Yu's age, even many of the players on the national team performed well in domestic competitions, but found it difficult to maintain a stable state in international competitions due to various pressures.
In today's final, let alone the fact that Su Yu was standing between Zhao Yingping and Gao Tianwu, even if any other player was replaced, he would probably be thrown off balance by the rhythm of Gao Tianwu and Zhao Yingping.
In the audience seats, Zhong Wen and other students from No. 12 Middle School also heard the discussion about Su Yu's position among the audience. As these students listened to this, they couldn't help but feel worried about Su Yu on the field.
Zhong Wen snorted, "Don't listen to them, this is our class genius—" At this point, Zhong Wen paused and asked the students around him, "Given the personality of our genius, have you ever seen him lose his pace because of other people's discussions?"
The students in Class 1, Grade 2, around them thought about it and said – that’s really not the case.
However, after all, those are study discussions and exams within the school, which are different from short-distance running competitions...right?
Zhong Wen tried to comfort his classmates: "What are you afraid of? Our god of study is not afraid of competing in the arena. We are just cheering him on. Why should we be afraid? Come on, come on, speak louder!"
With Zhong Wen's encouragement, the students of No. 12 Middle School regrouped and cheered loudly for Su Yu who was warming up on the field.
On the field, facing the "double attack" from Zhao Yingping and Gao Tianwu, Su Yu, who should have been nervous and at a loss in everyone's opinion, was now adjusting his starting blocks while simply doing the final pre-race warm-up.
When his eyes occasionally met with Gao Tianwu and Zhao Yingping, neither player paid much attention to the 14-year-old player sandwiched between them, but instead focused on their own preparatory movements.
Only Su Yuzhong looked at them, then closed his eyes slightly and touched his left chest with his right hand.
Bang, bang, bang—
It was the sound of his heart beating one after another, representing his violent and surging mood at the moment.
While Su Yu felt the beating of his heart in his chest, he looked at the entire arena, and an old thought echoed in his mind - too weak, he was still too weak.
Precisely because of its weakness, it has not been taken seriously by these opponents.
Precisely because he is weak, no one cares about him at this moment.
But he is no different from his opponents, they all have a strong desire to win - his desire to win is no less than any other player present.
It was not until all the runners in the 100-meter final squatted on their respective starting blocks at the referee's command that the cheers of the audience suddenly quieted down - the competition was about to begin!
In this quiet atmosphere that made everyone feel nervous, there was only a 'bang' sound of the starting gun!
“The game begins!”
In the Jigu live broadcast room, Zhou Jiming spoke first, and then it was his surprised voice again -
"Among all the runners, the one with the fastest starting reaction is... Su Yu from lane 3! His starting reaction time is an astonishing 0.121 seconds!!"
At this moment, the first thought in everyone's mind was...
The 0.127 second reaction time to the gun in the morning preliminaries was not an accident!
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