Chapter 84 (Four in One)
"So you are Su Yu and Jiang Yuan's classmates, and you specially formed a group to go to Tampere, Finland to watch their live performance?!"
Li Xiang and Liu Yu, the foreign reporters in charge of track and field for the sports channel, were both very surprised after hearing about the purpose of Zhong Wen and others. They didn't expect that they had not even arrived in Finland, but had already received the news when they were still at the departure station.
Zhong Wen and the others nodded in agreement, but soon made a request to Li Xiang and Liu Yu: "Are you reporters? Can you not report our trip to Finland for now?"
Li Xiang asked Zhong Wen curiously, "Why?"
Zhong Wen chuckled and said, "Actually, we haven't told Yuanzi and Xueshen that we will go to Tampere, Finland to watch their game. This time we all thought of giving them a surprise after we get there - if the news gets out now, our surprise will be gone!"
Li Xiang and Liu Yu looked at each other and both felt that the news value of this surprise was much higher than the news value of reporting it directly now, so they both agreed to Zhong Wen's request and asked Zhong Wen and his friends: "We won't report it yet, but can we interview everyone first?"
So in the following time, it became the time for the two reporters Li Xiang and Liu Yu to interview the students in Class 1, Grade 2 of S City No. 12 Middle School.
"How did you come up with the idea of going to Tampere, Finland to watch the game live?"
——"Support our top students and top students!!"
——"We watched the game together in the class before, and we were so excited at that time. We thought at that time that we must find a chance to watch our top students and top students compete in person!"
——"Yes, yes. This World Youth Championship is the first time for us academic geniuses to participate in an international competition of this level. It happens to be summer vacation. Zhong Wen said that his brother plans to go to the scene to watch the game and cheer for him. He also plans to discuss with his parents to go with him. My parents originally said that they would take me abroad for research during the summer vacation, so I applied to change the destination to Tampere, Finland!"
——"Me too, me too!"
——"Watching the game live in Tampere, Finland to support our top students and genius students! When our classmates heard that we were going to watch the live game, they were so envious. Hehe, they said that if they had known earlier, they would have asked their families to take them abroad during the summer vacation."
The students from No. 12 Middle School were very excited, and their parents were also very supportive. Li Xiang was a little curious: "Excuse me, do you all support me going abroad this time?"
The parents interviewed were very happy: "Yes, of course. Why not? We originally planned to take our children abroad during the summer vacation. Although the destination has been changed, going to the World Youth Track and Field Championships is a very good choice. It allows our children to experience the level of the world's top youth track and field athletes and see the atmosphere of this top event with their own eyes. We think it is worth it."
"Yes, and the two contestants they support, Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, are classmates of theirs. This is very meaningful."
"Yeah, I think so too - the most important thing is, we have to let our children see that the top students in their class are not only good at studying, but also very strong in sports. Shouldn't we teach our children to learn from them?"
The parents nearby laughed and said, "I'm afraid this is not easy to learn."
When Li Xiang and Liu Yu heard this, they caught two more key words: "academic master" and "academic god".
In the past, the athletes they interviewed were all famous for their athletic abilities, but when they switched to studying cultural courses, they found that they were somewhat unsatisfactory in studying cultural courses because they had been engaged in professional sports training since childhood.
But now listening to what these parents say, Su Yu and Jiang Yuan are still the top students and academic geniuses in their children’s class?
"In class? More than just in class?"
The parents laughed: "Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, these two children, in our S City No. 12 Middle School, one always ranks first in his grade, and the other is also in the top ten in his grade, and has never fallen out."
Li Xiang and Liu Yu were both surprised to hear the news, and then they asked the students' parents about the situation of S City No. 12 Middle School.
The parents also understood what the two reporters meant and said simply and directly: "S City No. 12 Middle School is a provincial key school."
The first and top ten in the grade in a provincial key school?
This was a news direction that Li Xiang and Liu Yu had never imagined before. Now, listening to the students and parents talking at the scene, they all felt that this field interview was worth it from the beginning.
In the following trip, Li Xiang and Liu Yu simply agreed to work together and conducted a joint interview. At the same time, after obtaining the consent of the students and parents of No. 12 Middle School, they took out their tools and prepared to shoot a documentary, or vlog-style itinerary record for these students and parents.
***
Su Yu and his friends who are far away in Tampere, Finland, don't know yet what kind of explosive surprise their classmates are going to give them.
As time came to three days before the game, their pre-game small cycle training had basically come to an end.
Starting from July 12, the Finnish organizers began to arrange each participating team to go to the Latina Stadium in Tampere, Finland, where the World Youth Championship was held, to conduct adaptive training on the on-site venue.
This adaptive training is designed to familiarize athletes with the field conditions so that they can perform better in the competition.
There were a total of three days before the game, and each team's venue adaptation arrangements were also allocated at different times during the three days.
Since the Chinese team arrived early, the Finnish organizers also arranged the Chinese team's field adaptation training time in the first batch, in the same period as the Japanese team and the British team, which also arrived in the first batch.
Therefore, when Su Yu and his team arrived at the scene, they could see that the Japanese team and the British team had arrived at almost the same time. When everyone got off the bus and gathered together and were guided by the staff to the stadium, and then prepared to start the venue adaptation training, many people noticed that many players on the Japanese team seemed to glance at Su Yu.
"Wolf Son..."
'train……'
"Perhaps I am just being reluctant..."
'He looks very weak...'
If anyone can understand Japanese, they will find that they are discussing similar topics.
On the other side, the British and Chinese teams entered the venue at almost the same time. Many players from the British team also noticed Su Yu from the Chinese team, but they did not know Su Yu. The reason they noticed Su Yu was purely because they thought Su Yu... was too small.
"Hey did you see that? That little boy over there!"
"Oh, isn't today's venue adaptation training? Did someone bring family or friends over to play?"
"Is that the Chinese team coach's child? Bringing a child to participate in field adaptation training, this seems too unprofessional?"
"Hey, didn't you guys guess that he might be a player for the Chinese team?"
"Oh, this is impossible! He looks no more than 13 years old? Participating in the U20 World Cup, this is abuse!"
Su Yu: “…”
When Su Yu first heard these big-mouthed players from the British team chatting, he didn't intend to respond, but as he listened, he felt that these people were about to argue in his ears.
Jiang Yuan beside him couldn't help but burst out laughing, and rubbed his head after laughing - don't think he doesn't know, Jiang Yuan's action was deliberately to lead the British team players to guess his age even younger!
Su Yu rarely slapped Jiang Yuan's hand away in front of Zhou Yuan's confused eyes, and then glared at Jiang Yuan fiercely.
Zhou Yuang was about to ask dazedly, "What's wrong?" when he heard Su Yu turn his head and say something to the foreigners next to him. Then the group of foreigners were silent for a while, and the next second they made a "boo" of discussion.
After saying the above sentence, Su Yu walked forward.
Zhou Yuang, who was behind Su Yu, looked at Su Yu in front of him in confusion, then looked at the British players on his right, and then asked Jiang Yuan tentatively: "Hey, Yuanzi, what did Xiaoyu say to those foreigners just now?"
When Jiang Yuan heard this question, he smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Xiao Yu said that he is already 15 years old this year."
Zhou Yuang:? ? ?
Jiang Yuan saw the confused look on Zhou Yuang's face, so he very 'kindly' added the previous situation: "These British players think Xiaoyu is only 13 years old this year, so it is impossible for her to be a contestant of the Chinese team."
Zhou Yuang: “…Puff.”
After Zhou Yuang made a "puff" sound, he coughed dryly and asked, "And then what?"
Jiang Yuan touched his chin and said, "Xiao Yu just told them that he is already 15 years old this year, and now the players from the British team are saying that he is so cute, like a little rose with thorns."
Zhou Yuang: “…Puff!”
Ye Minghao: “Puff…!”
It turned out that Zhou Yuan was not the only one looking for Jiang Yuan to watch the show. Ye Minghao in front of him was also listening with his ears perked up. If you look around, players like Feng Xiaofeng seemed to be trying to hold back their smiles as well, probably because they heard Jiang Yuan's translation.
Among these people, Zhou Yuang's reaction was the biggest. He literally covered his stomach and mouth at the same time.
"Ahem, little rose with thorns!"
Zhou Yuang was simply amazed by the amazing naming skills of these foreigners, from Japan's Son of Wolf to the British team's 'Little Rose with Thorns'.
Zhou Yuang smiled until his big white teeth showed, and asked with a smile: "Hey, where is our little rose with thorns?"
Jiang Yuan pointed in the direction of the two coaches, Pei Dingshan and Zheng Sheng, not far away: "Over there."
Zhou Yuang laughed silly: "Well, it seems that our little rose is angry and ran to find her parents."
Ye Minghao looked at him with amusement: "Okay, stop talking nonsense."
"Hehe." Zhou Yuang laughed. He was not stupid. It would be fine if he just laughed. Was he really going to run to Su Xiaoyu and ask for a beating?
After laughing for a while, the players of the Chinese team also came to the stadium. After the staff provided by the on-site organizer introduced the time period for adaptive training to the coaching staff of the Chinese team, they quickly left, leaving the venue to the teams present.
Probably because they were all young players, there were no well-known players present, including among the three teams, Japan, China and Britain. The Japanese team probably only knew Su Yu from the Chinese team, and most people in the Chinese team were unfamiliar with the players from the Japanese team, let alone the players from the British team.
The players from the three teams just glanced at each other at first, then dispersed and started training at different venues.
When Su Yu went to the sprint venue to warm up, he could notice that many Japanese athletes were looking at him.
If he really wanted to confuse his opponent now, he should pretend to be weak again - for him who had been ill for so many years, this was almost an easy thing to do, but he didn't.
He just warmed up as usual and then practiced to feel the difference between the track at the Latina Stadium and the tracks he had run on in the country in the past.
Perhaps because Su Yu did not show any difference, the discussion among the Japanese players gradually weakened.
——"Son of the Wolf, he is not as weak as the media reports."
——"Whether he is weak or not, he will not be an easy player to deal with."
Among the players on the Japanese team, two clear voices emerged.
In the crowd, Naoto Takahashi and Shogo Ando looked at each other, and then after looking at Su Yu who was concentrating on training not far away, they no longer stayed where they were, but also began to concentrate on training.
***
It was not until the end of the adaptive training time for the Chinese, Japanese and British teams that day that Pei Dingshan asked Su Yu how he felt.
Su Yu thought about it and replied, "Not bad."
After a pause, he added: "I feel that the ground elasticity of the runway in Latina is slightly stronger than that of the domestic venues."
Pei Dingshan nodded when he heard this: "Well, this is good news for you."
If an ordinary person were to listen to their conversation, they would probably be confused by the conversation between the two - huh? What is the difference in the ground elasticity of the runway? Can you feel this too?
The fact is, for these professional players, they can feel the subtle differences between different tracks under different venue construction standards.
Due to the different cumulative factors such as the materials used in the construction of the venue, building standards and construction levels, even if it is a standard 400-meter plastic track, the athletes will feel different.
So this is one of the reasons why pre-match adaptive training exists.
Of course, this is also why players need to participate in more competitions, practice through competitions, and experience different venues more so that they can adapt to different venues more quickly.
In the training just now, not only Su Yu, but also other players have more or less felt the difference of the Latina Stadium, but some people do not feel it obviously, while some people, like Su Yu, can clearly feel the difference.
But no matter whether the feeling is obvious or not, after the adaptive training time is over, everyone needs to quickly end the training and leave the venue.
When leaving the venue, the Chinese team happened to meet the British team. After seeing Su Yu, the British team greeted him happily: "Hey, little rose!"
Su Yu: “…”
Su Yu endured it and ignored them.
For some reason, the players from the British team all seemed to have a silly temperament. Even though Su Yu ignored them, they were still very happy and said to him, "Hey, little rose, you look so beautiful when you're angry!"
Su Yu endured it, and endured it again, and finally felt that he could not endure it anymore, and finally frowned and said to the guys from the British team: "My name is not Little Rose, my name is Su Yu!"
The British players immediately laughed even more happily: "Oh, okay, I see, Little Rose, your name is Su Yu."
Su Yu sometimes feels that the way these foreigners think is simply incomprehensible.
He was depressed and was about to say something when he felt a hand rubbing his head. He turned his head and saw that it was Pei Dingshan, not Jiang Yuan and the others.
Pei Dingshan glanced at him, nodded, and signaled him not to speak. He turned back to the British players and said, "Don't forget that roses have thorns. Perhaps you are more interested in being pricked by roses?"
Although the British players nearby called Su Yu "a little rose with thorns", the so-called thorns were only because Su Yu had previously said that she was already 15 years old.
For this group of boys with an average age of 18 or 19, they don’t think that the 15-year-old Su Yu can have any influence on them.
You know, at the age of 15, Little Rose is too young even to participate in the World Youth Championship, not to mention that the World Youth Championship (U20) is not a World Youth Championship (U18) level event.
No matter what individual events Little Rose participates in, U18 and U20 are already two different levels.
Take the men's 100 meters as an example. The WU18B (world U18 best result) of the men's 100 meters is only 10.19 seconds, while the WU20R (world U20 record) of the men's 100 meters has been refreshed to less than 10 seconds in the 2014 season and is currently held by an American athlete at 9.97 seconds.
Although they are both world records, and although the age difference between the U18 and U16 players is only two years, the gap in strength between the two is huge.
The gap between U18 and U20 is so huge, not to mention that Little Rose is only 15 years old this year?
The British players didn't think a 15-year-old boy would have much of an impact on them.
Just now they noticed that Little Rose was training on the sprint track. She was most likely a 100-meter competitor. At the age of 15, she could probably just barely reach the qualifying line of 10.58 seconds, right?
Or even better, running 10.50 seconds?
The two British team members participating in the men's 100m have PBs of 10.31 and 10.33 respectively. They don't think that this little rose from the far East can hurt them.
Seeing the disapproving looks of the British players, Pei Dingshan's eyes darkened for a moment, then he smiled slightly and said, "Then I wish you good luck in the competition."
***
The three days of field adaptation training before the competition passed quickly. When the time came to July 15th, the five-day World Athletics Youth (U20) Championships in Tampere, Finland finally kicked off.
On the first day of competition, Chinese athletes will compete in the women's 3000m steeplechase, women's javelin qualifying round, women's 800m preliminaries, men's long jump qualifying round, men's 100m preliminaries, women's pole vault qualifying round, women's discus qualifying round, women's 400m and 5000m events.
That's right, although the Chinese men's 400m team couldn't find a single athlete who met the requirements, the women's team still had two female athletes who qualified for the 400m.
According to the competition schedule, the intensity of the women's team on the first day of the competition was at its highest, but there were only four people on the men's team, namely Su Yu and Ye Minghao in the men's 100 meters, and Jiang Yuan and Bu Cunzhou in the men's long jump qualifying competition.
Among the four, the oldest is Bu Cunzhou, who is already 18 years old this year, but in terms of current achievements, Bu Cunzhou has become the weakest among the four.
But fortunately, he is a kind and gentle guy, so gentle that he doesn't look like a competitive athlete. He is not the smiling good guy like Jiang Yuan, but he simply looks very generous and trustworthy.
Because he knew that the other three male players who were going to participate in today's competition with him were relatively young, Bu Cunzhou asked them a few more questions before setting off in the morning, for fear that Su Yu and the other three might have forgotten to bring something.
After arriving at the stadium, Bu Cunzhou repeatedly told Su Yu and the others to follow the Chinese team's staff. If they couldn't find the exit, they should look for the staff wearing Chinese team sports jackets.
It can be said to be very careful.
It was also when Su Yu and his team arrived at the scene that the domestic Jigu Video’s live broadcast of the World Youth Championship finally officially began.
"Hello, everyone. Welcome to watch the live broadcast of the World Athletics Youth Championships in Tampere, Finland, brought to you by Jigu Video. I am the commentator Tian Ruhui."
"I am the commentator Zhou Jiming."
"Teacher Tian and I will be broadcasting and explaining the five-day event for you."
After a brief self-introduction, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming quickly jumped into the introduction of this morning's live broadcast schedule.
Due to the heavy investment made by Jigu Video in publicity during this period, as well as the popularity of Su Yu himself, the number of clicks and plays on the promotional videos previously shot by Jigu Video with Su Yu as the protagonist has exceeded tens of millions so far.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were also very surprised to ask the people from Jigu Video what the actual background playback data of this video was. The reply they got was also a very astonishing number, which can be said to be the first result of Jigu Video in recent years.
With such a powerful promotional video, the publicity and promotion team of Jigu Video has put in all their efforts to come up with a good publicity and promotion result and effect. Therefore, the closer the competition is to start, the more popular the publicity and promotion of this World Youth Championship becomes. After the competition officially started, the number of online viewers has broken this year's record almost instantly.
Of course, it is not possible that all the people who suddenly flooded into the live broadcast room were track and field fans. There were also many ordinary people who were attracted by the publicity during this period. For these ordinary audiences, it didn’t matter what the competition was about. What mattered was whether the Chinese team’s athletes could win.
This is the only issue that most of the competition fans and passers-by care about when watching the game.
But for track and field enthusiasts who follow track and field events, many people understand that the World Youth Championships is not an easy competition for the Chinese team. Except for a few events such as women's hammer throw and discus, it is almost impossible to see the Chinese team crush in the remaining events.
Therefore, these passers-by who were attracted at the start of the game soon began to find the game a bit boring, especially since there were many decathlon competitions interspersed in the morning game. The Chinese team did not have any athletes participating in this event, which made the audience even more bored.
As a result, the number of viewers online at the same time began to decline rapidly from its peak after the game started.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were quite helpless when they noticed the downward trend of the numbers. They both wanted to find some topics that would interest the audience, but at this moment the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase was going on. Xiao Yu, a young player from the Chinese team, was too nervous and her performance was not ideal, so she was not a good candidate for topic.
Just when Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were having a headache, they heard the director's voice coming from their headsets: "Teachers, I will switch to screen No. 12 right now. I will switch to screen No. 12 right now!"
Screen No. 12?
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were stunned for a moment. The corresponding shot of screen No. 12 was the audience seating area for the two events, men's long jump and 100-meter sprint, which would be held later. The women's 3,000-meter steeplechase was currently going on. What was the purpose of suddenly cutting to screen No. 12?
As a result, the two of them were stunned for a moment, and the next second they saw the live broadcast screen being cut to the audience seats corresponding to screen No. 12, where all of a sudden all they saw was a sea of red!
All the audience members with black hair and black eyes had small national flag stickers on their faces and they all wore red national flag T-shirts. They looked unmistakably Chinese.
this? !
“It’s Chinese audience?!”
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were both surprised. They finally understood why the director wanted to switch to screen No. 12 at this moment. It was obvious that he wanted to use these Chinese audiences to create a topic.
Tian Ruhui smiled and said, "I didn't expect to see spectators from China in the audience of today's competition! It seems that this should be a small group of track and field enthusiasts. I wonder if they are local Chinese in Tampere, Finland?"
After all, this is a competition that takes place far overseas. According to the general thinking, no one would have thought that there would be spectators from China chasing after the game abroad to watch it.
As a result, just as they were saying this, a boy of about fifteen or sixteen in the audience suddenly raised his mobile phone and turned the screen of his phone on the live broadcast screen.
Tian Ruhui:? ?
Zhou Jiming:? ?
Audience in the live broadcast room: ...? ? ?
Just when everyone was confused, someone with sharp eyes in the live broadcast room finally noticed: [Ah! Friends! ! The picture on the mobile phone screen is from our live broadcast room! ! Are they also watching the live broadcast at the scene? ! 】
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming also reacted. The young man's action at the scene was to explain to them that we are not local Chinese in Tampere, Finland. We just came from China to Tampere, Finland to watch the game!
This discovery not only stunned the audience in the live broadcast room, but also brought a huge surprise to the staff of Jigu Video - what is the topic? What is discussion? Isn’t it all coming?
#Chinese track and field enthusiasts travel thousands of miles to Finland to watch the games#
#Audience watching the live broadcast of Jigu Video at the World Youth Championship in Finland#
#Click to see the audience interacting with Jigu video on the spot#
I just want to ask you, are these topics outrageous?
In short, for the staff of Jigu Video, this is simply good news from heaven.
The on-site director of Jigu Video said decisively: "Pay close attention to screen No. 12 and switch it in time at the appropriate time."
After all, they were broadcasting a live event, and no matter how interesting the content in the audience seats was, they couldn't just focus on screen No. 12, so the director simply assigned someone to focus on split-screen No. 12, intending to cut the screen over as soon as there was any movement.
Before they could cut away the footage for long, the staff member in charge of watching screen No. 12 said, "There's movement in stand No. 12!"
Any action?
What action?
The director immediately turned his attention to screen No. 12. Coincidentally, at this moment, the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase was over, and Xiao Yu of the Chinese team did not get a very ideal result. So the director immediately and decisively cut the live broadcast to the position of camera No. 12, and saw the Chinese audiences at the scene rummaging in their backpacks and took out a red banner.
When the director saw the red banner, he couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart - not all the text on these banners can be broadcast. He was afraid that the Chinese audiences in the picture would see content that was expressly prohibited by the ban after opening it, but it seemed a bit too deliberate to cut the camera temporarily at this moment.
While they were struggling, the Chinese audience in the field had already opened their banners.
As the banners were unfurled, the director heaved a sigh of relief, and then at the same time, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face - these were the banners! That’s all!
He didn’t quite believe the internal rumors before that Su Yu was a human-shaped topic-generating machine who naturally generated popularity, but now, he really believed it a little!
At this moment in the live broadcast room, the banners held up by the Chinese audience in the audience clearly read: "Su Yu, Jiang Yuan, the academic gods, go go go! All the students of S City No. 12 Middle School are cheering for you! ! ! 》
At this moment, what caught everyone's eyes was exactly this sentence.
Not only that, in addition to the two people holding the banners in their hands, someone else took out a large banner with Su Yu and Jiang Yuan’s portraits printed on it. This scene was like a star-chasing scene!
But everyone who saw this scene felt a little shocked and a little upset.
After seeing this scene, Tian Ruhui couldn't help but be stunned and said, "These Chinese audiences seem to be classmates of the two young players Su Yu and Jiang Yuan?"
“I never thought that the classmates of these two young players would travel thousands of miles to Tampere, Finland, to cheer for them at the World Youth Championship!”
Zhou Jiming also sighed with emotion at this moment: "This is a totally unexpected result. It can be seen that our two young players, Su Yu and Jiang Yuan, have a group of good classmates who have a very good, sincere and enthusiastic relationship with them."
Not only Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming, but even the barrage on the public screen of the live broadcast room was delayed for a moment because of this unexpected discovery.
When everyone came to their senses, the live broadcast room suddenly began to surge with comments -
[Damn, I was still thinking conspiracy theories at first, wondering if the people on Jigu Video were just trying to hype it up, but it turns out that it was Su Yu and Jiang Yuan’s classmate? ! 】
[I really didn't expect that these junior high school kids would travel thousands of miles to Tampere, Finland to watch the game, just to cheer for their classmates... Oh no, my eyes were filled with tears for a moment, what an enviable friendship between classmates. 】
[They were really good classmates. The friendship we made when we were young is the most unforgettable. When I think about it now, my best friends were all people I met when I was young. At this age, emotions are purest and warmest. I can’t help but feel moved…]
Since the live broadcast room already attracted a lot of attention today, the official Weibo staff of Jigu Video immediately posted screenshots of the scene on Weibo, so the audience who had previously lost interest quickly began to return to the live broadcast room.
Many viewers wanted to see these students. There were also some students from No. 12 Middle School in the live broadcast room. They were also shouting and urging Zhong Wen and others to cheer loudly and bring the blessings of all the classmates in the school.
All of a sudden, not only did the audience return to the entire live broadcast room, but the atmosphere of watching the game among everyone also quickly rose, which quickly raised the heat and atmosphere of the live broadcast room to the highest level.
It was at this moment that the audience in the live broadcast room saw Zhong Wen and others in the audience suddenly cheering loudly. At the same time, the camera on the scene switched quickly.
Tian Ruhui also cheered up and said, "The A group of men's long jump qualifying contestants have come on stage! Chinese contestant Jiang Yuan is also among them! He and Chinese contestant Bu Cunzhou will represent my country in the upcoming men's long jump qualifying competition."
Zhou Jiming also breathed a sigh of relief - Jiang Yuan was about to go on stage, and Su Yu's debut would not be far away.
The men's long jump qualifying round was only 20 minutes earlier than the men's 100m preliminaries. Once Jiang Yuan appeared on the stage, it also meant that Su Yu would also be on the stage later. It can be said that these two ratings kings of Jigu Video are finally coming.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jiming quickly began to introduce the situation of the men's long jump qualifying competition: "In this morning's men's long jump qualifying competition, Group A and B, a total of 12 players will be selected from a total of 27 players to advance to the men's long jump finals."
"According to the rules of the World Youth Championship, the first place players in the qualifiers of Group A and Group B will directly qualify for the finals, and the remaining 10 places will be determined based on the overall ranking of the remaining unqualified players in Group A and Group B. The top ten players among the remaining unqualified players will be qualified to advance as substitutes."
After explaining the promotion rules, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming discussed Jiang Yuan's competition strategy this time.
"At present, Jiang Yuan's long jump ability is beyond doubt. It won't be a problem for him to qualify for the men's long jump. However, considering that Jiang Yuan is participating in both the men's long jump and the men's high jump, in order to allocate physical energy for the two events and retain physical energy for the subsequent finals, Jiang Yuan may not need to put too much effort in this morning's qualifying round?"
"Yes." Zhou Jiming nodded in agreement: "Especially, Jiang Yuan and Su Yu are actually the youngest contestants in this World Youth Championship. Compared with the other U20 players, Jiang Yuan and Su Yu are bound to have some disadvantages in physical fitness..."
The reason why the two commentators made such a patch for Jiang Yuan was mainly because Jiang Yuan and Su Yu were both players participating in the World Youth Championship for the first time. Both of them were still young players and lacked experience in participating in international competitions, as well as this kind of cross-border combat results.
Although Jiang Yuan and Su Yu both performed very well in domestic competitions, it is hard to say for sure how they will perform in international competitions.
So the two commentators habitually helped Jiang Yuan and Su Yu to slow down the pace.
After the two of them had finished putting up protective armor for Jiang Yuan and Su Yu, they noticed that some comments from track and field fans suddenly appeared on the public screen of the live broadcast room.
[Emm, the speeches of Teacher Tian and Teacher Zhou seem familiar to me. 】
[After reading this story about the armor stacking to the maximum, I always feel like I can see the future? 】
These are all old track and field fans who watch the games all year round, but there are also some viewers with less experience in watching games. They don’t quite understand the meaning of these remarks and asked in the barrage what was going on?
But these veteran track and field fans just smiled – it’s okay, just keep reading and you’ll know!
***
At this time in the Latina Stadium, Jiang Yuan, who had already arrived at the scene, certainly didn't know what was being discussed in the live broadcast room, but he still noticed the hot and bright red in the audience seats near the long jump and 100-meter venues as soon as he entered the court.
After being stunned for a moment, he saw Zhong Wen jumping up and down in the audience, and his heart was surprised and shocked for a moment.
He knew that Zhong Wen said he would bring a surprise to him and Su Yu, but he and Su Yu thought that this meant Wang Yangming would come to watch the game. Unexpectedly, in addition to Wang Yangming, Zhong Wen and his friends also airdropped themselves to the game!
For a moment, Jiang Yuan felt his heart sour and his eyes reddened. Then he rarely smiled and waved in the direction of Wang Yangming, Zhong Wen and the others.
In the audience, when Zhong Wen and the others saw Jiang Yuan noticed them, they jumped up and down in excitement. The joy of giving a surprise to their friends was almost overflowing in the audience.
Jiang Yuan looked in the direction of the audience, smiled and waved, then murmured helplessly: "Oh, what should I do? I can't help it."
Originally according to his plan, just as Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming judged, during the men's long jump qualifying round, he only needed to maintain a level that could advance to the finals.
But after seeing so many classmates coming from afar to cheer for him and Su Yu, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt that if he only got a score of 7.5 meters or 7.6 meters and passed the qualifying round at a low altitude, such a performance would not be worthy of his classmates who had come from afar to cheer for him and Su Yu.
He thought, if Xiaoyu saw Zhong Wen and the others coming to the scene now, he would probably have the same thought, right?
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Yes, at this time in the men's 100-meter warm-up field, Su Yu, who had just finished warming up, was also stunned after seeing the audience image on the live TV screen next to the field.
For a long time, he mistakenly believed that his junior high school classmates did not like his presence.
It was not until after his rebirth that he gradually realized that his classmates were actually very enthusiastic and honest. They had no prejudice against him and always supported his competition with Jiang Yuan.
Although he never said it, he was very happy and satisfied to have such classmates and friends.
But even so, he had never imagined that these students from No. 12 Middle School would take a nearly 20-hour flight to Tampere thousands of miles away to watch the game and support him, Jiang Yuan.
At this moment, even Su Yu, who usually looked sullen, felt his heart begin to beat violently.
Under such circumstances, it is certainly impossible for him to continue according to his previous plan of "running at a relaxed pace, maintaining physical fitness, and just being able to advance."
Just like Jiang Yuan, Su Yu also felt that if he couldn't compete with all his strength under the watchful eyes of these classmates, how could he be worthy of their friendship that had brought him thousands of miles away?
It was with this idea in mind that Su Yu began to further adjust his final condition and began to wait for the men's 100m preliminaries to begin later.
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At this time in the men's long jump qualifying competition, Jiang Yuan's appearance number in this qualifying competition is 9. There are a total of 14 players, and he will be the ninth one to appear.
It should be said that this is indeed a world-class youth championship. Compared with some domestic track and field Grand Prix races, perhaps the top three medalists in the end are only barely qualified to advance to the finals.
At this time, a total of 8 athletes who appeared before him had completed their first trial jump. Among them, 4 athletes violated the rules and failed in the first round of trial jumps and had no results. Among the remaining 4 athletes, the one with the best result jumped 7.92 meters.
The man who jumped 7.92 meters was none other than Tomoya Yamakawa, Japan's strongest athlete in the men's long jump event.
This male long jumper from Japan might have known about Jiang Yuan from the previous topic of "China's Track and Field Teen King". Therefore, after meeting Jiang Yuan in this qualifying round, he probably held his breath and wanted to let this young Chinese player know how powerful he was in the qualifying round. Therefore, in the first jump, he almost went all out and jumped a good result of 7.92 meters.
Although this result did not pass the eight-meter line, Yamakawa Tomoya believed that this result should give him a chance to win the first place in the men's long jump in groups A and B.
It was with this thought in mind that Yamakawa Tomoya gave a provocative smile towards Zhong Wen and other audience members in the audience seats when he left the stage.
The director of the Jigu live broadcast room was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He cut the screen directly to Yamakawa Tomoya's face almost immediately when he provoked him.
The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't help but get agitated after seeing this scene. After all, the Japanese player looked at Zhong Wen and others in the audience and then at Jiang Yuan, and then that provocative smile, the meaning was clear.
Yamakawa Tomoya's appearance number is 8, and the next person to appear is No. 9 Jiang Yuan.
Obviously, this is to put psychological pressure on Jiang Yuan and affect Jiang Yuan's competitive state.
The audience could see clearly his plan, and they immediately felt sick and uncomfortable. They just wanted Jiang Yuan to slap them in the face so that everyone could feel comfortable. However, they knew rationally that it was most important for Jiang Yuan to maintain good physical strength and not waste his energy.
This kind of mentality of being torn is really uncomfortable, but everyone still tries their best to adjust their mentality.
It was at this moment that the referee on the field signaled to Jiang Yuan that he could jump.
For a moment, both Zhong Wen and others at the scene and the audience in the live broadcast room became tense, waiting with bated breath for the result of Jiang Yuan's jump.
All everyone was thinking was - Jiang Yuan, calm down! Stay calm!
On the court, Jiang Yuan closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing, looking very calm, so calm that the referee was even a little stunned. Then, under the watchful eyes of the referee, he took the first step to jump before the final time limit.
His speed went from slow to fast, and each step of acceleration was as precise and rapid as if measured with a ruler.
As he moved forward quickly, many spectators at the scene were amazed in their hearts - this athlete has such a fast running speed, isn’t he worried that he will make a mistake and not be able to step on the taking-off board? !
But it was obvious that the man on the field never seemed to be bothered or afraid of this problem.
When he was about to reach the taking-off board, his running speed did not drop too obviously. It was with the power brought by this high-speed running that his taking-off leg stepped on the taking-off board - and his body quickly jumped forward!
A very beautiful arc! !
After seeing his jump, the commentators at the World Youth Championship exclaimed: "Oh my God! 8 meters! This athlete from the Chinese team must have crossed the 8-meter line!"
"The only question now is, did he foul?!"
Amid the intense attention of the entire audience, the on-site video began to quickly replay Jiang Yuan's performance. When they saw his active take-off leg accurately step on the springboard and jump, even though the referee had not yet announced it, the audience in the venue had already burst into cheers of congratulations for him.
Soon after the referee announced that Jiang Yuan's jump result was valid, he also gave the final result of Jiang Yuan's jump - 8.06 meters!
A result that is almost enough to win the men's long jump event at the World Youth Championships!
With this achievement, he undoubtedly jumped to the first place in the overall ranking of Group A of the men's long jump qualifying competition.
At the scene, Yamakawa Tomoya's originally confident smile turned pale after seeing Jiang Yuan's jumping performance.
He had originally decided not to conduct the next two rounds of trial jumps after his result of 7.92 meters, but now Jiang Yuan's result has put him in a deadlock.
Will he challenge a new distance?
Will he continue to try to jump over the 8-meter line and win the honor of first place in the qualifying round?
Jiang Yuan's trial jump result completely disrupted Yamakawa Tomoya's plan. When he saw the coach next to the stadium signaling that he could skip the next jump, he was unwilling to give up, so he made the second and third rounds of trial jumps. However, after his mentality was affected by Jiang Yuan, his second and third rounds of trial jumps only jumped less than 7.5 meters, and he finally retired regretfully.
After the three rounds of trial jumps were completed, only the first round of trial jumps was conducted. Jiang Yuan, who applied for exemption from the subsequent second and third rounds of trial jumps, officially qualified for the men's long jump final with the first place in Group A.
At this time, Zhong Wen and others in the audience had just finished screaming excitedly for Jiang Yuan, and then they saw another group of athletes coming on stage. The first group of athletes in the men's 100m preliminaries came on stage!
Among them is their academic genius Su Yu! ! !
“Ahhhh!! The God of Study!!!”
Zhong Wen and the others cheered wildly again in an instant, and Su Yu waved at them after seeing them. Although there was no smile on his face, Zhong Wen and the others who were already accustomed to the cold face of the academic god could actually see Su Yu's arrogance and happiness at the moment.
"Hehe, I told you, the God of Learning will definitely be very happy to see us!"
Zhong Wen and his friends continued to wave their flags happily, and on the field, Su Yu appeared together with Devon Chambers from the British team.
Of course, Davin Chambers still remembered the thorny little rose of the Chinese team, so he smiled and greeted Su Yu: "Hey, little rose, do you remember me?"
Su Yu rarely stopped and looked up at him: "Probably."
Devin Chambers then grinned and said, “Oh?”
Su Yu thought for a moment and said seriously, "Remember you, the unlucky guy who is about to be stabbed."
"Oh no!"
Devin Chambers didn't expect that Su Yu would have such a hot temper, but even so, he didn't think too much about it, and just said: "Aha, come on, I look forward to you stabbing me, cute little rose!"
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Su Yu: ...It's really hard to see someone who wants to be stabbed so much?
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