Chapter 133 (Four in One)
When Jiang Yuan successfully crossed the 2.29-meter bar, Mohammed Salam and Kenta Sasaki looked with surprise at the Chinese athlete who they had originally judged would be eliminated at the 2.29-meter height.
On the field, after Jiang Yuan crossed the horizontal bar in front of him, he finally changed his previous state and waved happily towards the audience.
When he left the field, Zhang Xujian had just reached the starting line of the runway. When Jiang Yuan turned around and saw Zhang Xujian, this teammate from the Chinese team also nodded to him.
Jiang Yuan's one-time clearing of the bar at a height of 2.29 meters with just one jump instantly reversed the original situation on the field.
Before this, among the remaining 4 players on the field, Mohammed Salam, Kenta Sasaki and Zhang Xujian had the same results, and Jiang Yuan was in last place. But after this jump, Mohammed Salam and Kenta Sasaki both fell behind, and now Zhang Xujian is the only one left on the field who has not made a trial jump.
If Zhang Xujian can still maintain a perfect one-time pass rate in this jump, the winning and losing trend in the game will be completely changed.
At this moment on the court, Zhang Xujian certainly understood that the key jump to turn the tide of the game lay in his next jump, but even so, Zhang Xujian did not feel overly nervous because of the pressure of this jump.
Zhang Xujian is considered as an insurance even though the Chinese team has Sun Yuhang, a top high jumper. His strength is self-evident. His stable character and ability to withstand pressure in key competitions are the important reasons why he is trusted.
In past competitions, there were many situations where Sun Yuhang got out of his depth and needed support from behind. Zhang Xujian was able to hold on under such competition pressure. Moreover, before his jump today, Jiang Yuan had already reversed a more critical game point in advance.
Therefore, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Zhang Xujian's test jump was still terrifyingly steady. Every one of his running movements seemed to have been measured with a ruler, from the running start to every step to the successful jump in front of the horizontal bar, the leap and twist, and then at a height of 2.29 meters...
Successfully passed the bar in one go!
Another perfect performance!
Zhang Xujian successfully rose to the first place in the men's high jump final with his perfect performance in this jump. Jiang Yuan, who successfully cleared the bar at a height of 2.29 meters before him, also successfully turned from the fourth place to the second place.
On the field, Muhammad Salam from Syria and Kenta Sasaki from Japan had never expected that just this one trial jump would lead to such a huge change in the rankings.
It was the failure of this attempt that made them passive in the following competitions. They had to at least clear the 2.29-meter bar in front of them before they could hope to make more mistakes than them in the next round at a height of 2.31 meters.
But perhaps because the previous competition was too smooth, the first attempt at a height of 2.29 meters dealt them such a heavy blow that both Mohammed Salam and Kenta Sasaki made mistakes in their second attempts.
When both Mohammed Salam and Kenta Sasaki failed in their second attempt, extremely solemn looks appeared on the faces of the two athletes.
The most direct impact of two consecutive failed attempts is that they will no longer have the opportunity to try again. For them, the third attempt can only succeed and not fail.
Otherwise, what awaits them is complete elimination.
It’s a pity that the god of luck did not seem to favor them at this moment. Kenta Sasaki, who was the first to come on the court, took the lead and then failed at this height as expected.
For Kenta Sasaki, this should not be the level he should have. It can only be said that he failed to control his mentality during the competition, which led to his failure to successfully cross the 2.29-meter-high bar. In the end, his score only remained at 2.26 meters, a valid score.
After Kenta Sasaki failed in his third attempt, Muhammad did not choose to continue trying, but chose not to jump at this height.
Although this jump-free option did not buy Muhammad much chance of survival, it did reduce some unnecessary physical consumption for him.
In the next game, the height of the horizontal bar was raised to 2.31 meters under the instruction of the referee. Mohammed Salam still went on the court for his only chance to try the jump. Perhaps it was because he had made emotional adjustments during the time when the horizontal bar had just been raised. This time, Mohammed Salam successfully seized his last chance and jumped over the 2.31-meter-high horizontal bar.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Jiang Yuan and Zhang Xujian from the Chinese team successfully cleared the bar at a height of 2.31 meters.
At this point, the outcome of this game was basically no longer in suspense.
In the end, the first, second and third place results of the men's high jump in this Asian Championships were all locked at a height of 2.31 meters. Among them, Zhang Xujian won the final championship title with a 100% perfect one-time clear rate. After him, Jiang Yuan, who performed perfectly at heights of 2.29 meters and 2.31 meters, also successfully won his first silver medal in the Asian Championships.
At the same time, Jiang Yuan's personal best in the high jump event also broke through from 2.29 meters to 2.31 meters. With this bar clearance score of 2.31 meters, he successfully cleared the qualifying line for the men's high jump at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.
Although the famous athlete Mohammed Salam from Syria had a perfect performance in the early stage, his failure at a height of 2.29 meters also determined his final failure in this game. Although he also jumped over the horizontal bar height of 2.31 meters, Jiang Yuan surpassed Mohammed Salam with a perfect one-time clearance at a height of 2.29 meters.
“A fantastic men’s high jump competition!”
It was not until the final results were announced that Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming in the Jigu Video Live Room breathed a sigh of relief - Jiang Yuan's performance in tonight's men's high jump final was truly thrilling.
Especially Jiang Yuan's two consecutive failures at the heights of 2.23 meters and 2.26 meters, even Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were worried, not to mention the track and field fans and bystanders in the live broadcast room.
When the game was completely over, the onlookers in the live broadcast room were still stunned.
[Hey man, I'm just saying "hey man", is this how you guys conduct men's high jump competitions? 】
[When Jiang Yuan failed in those two heights, I thought he had given up, but in the end... he was the runner-up? ! 】
[What a mysterious game...? 】
Compared to the bystanders who were simply confused and shocked, the track and field fans, after going around in circles, vaguely felt a little awakening -
[Oh my god, friends, is there a possibility that Jiang Yuan did this on purpose in today's game? ! 】
[…Friend, you just realized it? 】
【……】
[Jiang Yuan is so outrageous. I thought it was outrageous that he applied for exemption from jump continuously. Today's series of operations seemed to be outrageous. Chengdu has set a new record again? Let me think it over. So he felt that he didn't jump continuously in the previous competitions so his perception of each raise of the horizontal bar was not accurate enough. That's why he chose not to jump over any height in today's competition. By raising the height as accurately as possible, he could feel the feeling of going over the bar at different heights, little by little? ! 】
[The friend above gave a great summary, I liked it! 】
There were originally quite a few bystanders in the live broadcast room who did not understand the game, but after watching this person’s summary and review, they finally realized what it meant.
So Jiang Yuan’s two failures at the heights of 2.23 meters and 2.26 meters might have been due to his desire to clear the bar in the most extreme way possible? !
After understanding the cause and effect of this, all track and field fans fell silent.
[…Our country’s high jump athletes are quite creative in the competition? 】
[Uh, no…]
Some track and field fans tried hard to explain in order to save the image of Chinese high jumpers in the minds of bystanders, but just as they were about to make a defense, these track and field fans remembered Sun Yuhang, the current number one in the domestic men's high jump event.
To be honest, it is hard to say who performed more sweeping operations between Sun Yuhang and Jiang Yuan in the high jump competition.
In an instant, all the track and field fans watching the game in the live broadcast room fell silent.
I want to explain, but there is no way to explain.
Today also seems to be the day when the reputation of a Chinese male high jumper was damaged (.
***
At the Khalifa Stadium, when Jiang Yuan failed to jump over the 2.33-meter-high bar three times in a row, he could only leave the field with a slightly regretful expression.
However, for Jiang Yuan, today's game did bring him a feeling of excitement that he had never experienced before.
Facing strong opponents and more difficult challenges - these factors will indeed stimulate his excitement threshold for challenging the strong and challenging higher records and better results.
It was also at this moment that Jiang Yuan, who had finally finished the game, returned to his usual self. After Zhang Xujian congratulated him, he smiled gently and said thank you and congratulations to Zhang Xujian.
Just as they were congratulating each other and taking photos together draped with the national flag presented by the Chinese team staff, the third group of athletes for tonight's men's 200m sprint semi-finals had already appeared at another athlete entrance.
Yes, just as Jiang Yuan, Zhang Xujian and Mohammed Salam entered the final trial jump challenge of the 2.33-meter-high horizontal bar, the men's 200-meter semi-finals on the field had already begun.
In the first match of the men's 200m semi-final, Zhan Youming had already appeared on the stage and easily won the first place in his group with a score of 20.33 seconds and successfully advanced.
In the second group of the men's 200m semi-final that just ended, the top two players achieved scores of 20.76 and 20.81 respectively. These two results are far from the 20.33 and 20.59 created by Zhan Youming and Takagi Akechi in the first group of the semi-finals.
However, the reason for this is mainly because in tonight's men's 200m semi-final, most of the stronger players are distributed in the first and third groups of the semi-finals. Not to mention Zhan Youming and Takagi Akechi in the first group, in addition to the two of them, there are two strong players from Bahrain and Qatar.
But perhaps because he wanted to be more confident of qualifying for the 200m final, the naturalized Bahraini star Andrew Hames predicted the referee's gun firing timing too early at the start, resulting in a false start in the first race of the semi-final, and ultimately missed the final because of the false start.
In addition to strong players like Zhan Youming, Takagi Akechi and Andrew Hames, other hopefuls of advancing to the finals such as Zhan Chunhan, Su Yu, Kobayashi Yuki and Lee Jong-hyun were all gathered in the third group of the semi-finals. This allowed South Korea's Choi Jae-woo to easily win the qualification for the finals by ranking first in the second group of the semi-finals.
But in short, now that the 200m semi-finals of the first two groups have ended, the final qualifying places will depend on the specific performance of the players in the third group of semi-finals that are about to take place.
After Jiang Yuan took a group photo with Zhang Xujian to celebrate their victory, he saw Su Yu who had already entered the field and stood in front of the starting line not far away when he was about to leave the field. However, his exit direction was not right, as his back was facing Su Yu's starting position. He had no way to say anything to Xiao Yu alone at this moment, so he could only turn his head to look in the direction of Su Yu, and then turned and walked towards the exit passage.
Zhang Xujian also saw that Jiang Yuan was concerned about Su Yu who was about to start the game, so he patted Jiang Yuan on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I heard Coach Pei talk to Coach Xiao Pei, and they both think that Su Yu is in excellent shape this season and there will be no problem."
As he spoke, Jiang Yuan looked back in the direction of Su Yu, then smiled and nodded, and followed Zhang Xujian to the backcourt.
***
On the field, Su Yu saw Jiang Yuan when he was on the field. At that time, the men's high jump competition had ended. The staff ran onto the field holding the national flag and handed it to Jiang Yuan and Zhang Xujian.
Su Yu was very happy to see Jiang Yuan successfully break through his limits and refresh his personal best in this game, but after being happy, he turned his attention back to the game in front of him.
In tonight's men's 200m semi-final, his opponents in this group are all strong.
As early as this afternoon, after seeing the group list and lane arrangement handed to him by Pei Dingshan, Su Yu couldn't help but feel excited.
Although he also knew that he should be in a better and more excited competitive state in the final stage, it is indeed very difficult for an athlete to control when to be excited.
Fortunately, Pei Dingshan did not force him to exercise perfect self-control, and was even a little tolerant of his ups and downs.
Because of his physical condition since childhood, both his parents and Jiang Yuan and Uncle Jiang and Aunt Chen have been very indulgent towards him, so that he is very sensitive to this attitude.
However, Su Yu could no longer remember when Pei Dingshan started to have such an attitude towards him - he could not even remember the reasons why he had resisted Pei Dingshan during the summer camp of the S Province Sports Team.
The current Pei Dingshan seems to have changed a lot from the Pei Dingshan back then...
When he went on the court, Su Yu's mind was filled with excitement as well as some very confused and scattered thoughts. However, when he arrived at his seventh starting line, Su Yu quickly put aside these unnecessary thoughts and focused his attention on the field in front of him.
***
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, when Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming saw Su Yu appear on the stage, the topic of discussion in the live broadcast room quickly changed from the men's high jump final to the last group of the men's 200-meter sprint semi-finals in front of them.
"Dear audience, the third group of players in the men's 200m sprint semi-finals have arrived on the field. Our young athlete Su Yu is in this semi-final group. In this morning's preliminaries, Su Yu advanced to the evening's semi-finals with a score of 21.33 seconds. In this evening's match, he will compete with Chinese Taipei team's famous athlete Zhan Chunhan, South Korea's 200m rookie king Li Zhongxian, Japan's top men's 200m athlete Kobayashi Yuki, and a total of 7 opponents from Singapore, the Sultanate of Oman, Turkmenistan, and Lebanon for the final spot in the men's 200m final!"
After Tian Ruhui quickly introduced the opponents in Su Yu's group, Zhou Jiming also reported the results of these players in the previous preliminary round and their respective personal best results, so that the audience in front of the live broadcast room could better understand the actual strength of Su Yu's opponents in this game.
"It should be said that the overall strength of the opponents in Su Yu's group is far greater than the average strength of the opponents in the second group of the semi-finals. Although it is only a semi-final that will begin later, the difficulty of this match will probably not be inferior to the final."
In the live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming created a somewhat tense atmosphere. Some people who did not understand the situation found it a bit strange on the public screen of the live broadcast room - why were the strengths of opponents in different groups different?
[There is no other way. In fact, for competitions like these, the organizers do not want too many strong players to gather together. However, in order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the groups are randomly generated by machines. However, this kind of random generation by machine will add some additional conditions, such as 'players from the same national team are not allowed to be randomly assigned to the same preliminary or semi-final group'.
In addition, there may be rules such as 'the xth-placed players in each preliminaries grouped in staggered groups', which depends on the conditions set by different organizers.
But the problem is, no matter how well-thought-out the random grouping conditions are, bugs are bound to appear when encountering actual situations, such as this morning's preliminary round... To be honest, the four people in Su Yu's group should not be grouped together. If he was put in the second group of the semi-finals, the overall situation of each group would be much more balanced.
But don't forget that in the morning's preliminaries, our Yu Di let his guard down and his reaction time at the start hit a new low, 21.33 seconds. With this result and this ranking - the computer thought he met the requirements to be randomly selected into the preliminary round, so didn't he get randomly selected into the third group of the semi-finals?
If you look back carefully, in the second group of the semi-finals, are there two or three teams whose preliminary results are better than our Yu Di’s? 】
【……】
The bystanders in the live broadcast room were stunned after seeing this explanation.
So what I mean is, the computer works diligently to randomly group the players, but it can't handle the players' slacking and the results are so inconsistent, right? !
If you think about it this way, you really can’t blame anyone for the grouping situation we have now. In fact, the random grouping AI applet is even crying.
The commentators and audiences were chattering in the live broadcast room, but it did not affect the players' preparations on the field.
Su Yu and the other athletes present were basically all experienced and strong athletes. They quickly adjusted the angles and positions of their starting blocks as soon as they entered the competition.
On the field, Su Yu was in the seventh lane. To his left behind in the sixth lane was the 200m star Yuki Kobayashi from Japan. And to the left behind Yuki Kobayashi, in the fifth lane was the 200m star from Chinese Taipei, Zhan Chunhan, also known as 'Little Zhan'.
At the Asian Games last season, Yuki Kobayashi's rhythm for the entire game collapsed because he was affected by the rhythm of Zhan Youming, Zhan Chunhan and Su Yu in the early stages of the game.
At this moment, there were only two people on the court, Su Yu and Zhan Youming, one behind his left and the other in front of his right.
Kobayashi Yuki: “…”
This is simply a game of enemies.
However, even in the enemy game, Yuki Kobayashi still took a deep breath as much as possible to adjust his overall state - last season's Asian Games final was a lesson for him, and he couldn't dwell on the lesson of that game.
In today's semi-final, he can only achieve a successful "revenge" if he can qualify for the final.
On the seventh path, Su Yu didn’t think so much.
He was simply reviewing the PB data of Kobayashi Yuki, Zhan Chunhan and Li Zhongxian. Among the three of them, the strongest should be Zhan Chunhan from the Taipei team. In the Asian Games last season, Zhan Chunhan finally won the runner-up of the men's 200m of the Asian Games with a score of 20.22, which also broke his personal best record.
Yuki Kobayashi and Jong-hyun Lee's 200m PBs are 20.34 and 20.40 respectively.
All three athletes present are stronger and better than him in terms of 200m PB.
If a contestant with poorer psychological quality faced such a death group, he might have scared himself to death. However, when Su Yu thought about the semi-final that was about to begin, if there were acquaintances present at the scene, they would have noticed that although Su Yu's face did not seem to have any special emotions, in fact, there was a faint glimmer of excitement in his eyes.
It was at this moment that the director of the Jigu Video live broadcast room cut the camera to the position facing Su Yu in the face. In the live broadcast room, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were originally discussing whether Su Yu should run freely in tonight's semi-final and strive to advance to the final as smoothly as possible. As a result, the next second they saw Su Yu's expression in the face-to-face picture.
At this moment, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming looked at each other quickly - perhaps, this time they don't need to wait until tomorrow's 200m final to see Su Yu's best performance in the men's 200m event? !
As soon as this thought flashed through the two people's minds, the starter on the scene blew the whistle in his hand, reminding the contestants that the competition was about to begin.
The eight players on the field quickly perked up after hearing the starter's whistle. Soon, as the whistle sounded, the starter's first command of "on your positions" was quickly sounded.
All the contestants present quickly went to their respective starting blocks, supported themselves with their hands, and stepped their feet one after the other on the front and rear pedals of the starting blocks.
In just a very short period of time, the athletes on the field had quickly squatted on their respective starting blocks, and everyone was ready to wait for the next command.
In the audience seats, the audience, who had seemed a bit noisy at first, quickly quieted down under the guidance of the text subtitles on the large electronic screen, holding their breath and concentrating to leave a quiet enough environment for the players to listen to the guns.
On the track, Su Yu was squatting on the starting block in lane seven. His thumbs and index fingers formed a bridge shape and supported the starting line in front of his body. His feet were firmly on the starting block pedals, making final preparations before the start.
At this moment, the thumping sound of his heartbeat echoed in Su Yu's heart for the first time in a long time. In his ears, except for the thumping sound of his heartbeat, everything else in the world seemed to be as quiet as a vacuum at this moment.
Thump, thump, that's the sound of heartbeat.
Plop, plop, it is also the sound of expectation.
After the men's 400-meter sprint final the night before, Su Yu could feel that he had not yet fully experienced the feeling of running wildly, so much so that in tonight's semi-final he couldn't even bear it anymore and wanted to take advantage of this semi-final to feel the feeling of running wildly in advance.
It is with such expectations, as well as the excitement brought by a strong enough opponent on the field, that Su Yu can't wait for the game at this moment!
As his heartbeat became more and more excited, a new command from the starter finally sounded - "Ready!"
Following this command, Su Yu quickly supported himself on the ground with his hands, raised his hips, slightly bent his feet one in front of the other, and leaned his body slightly forward!
Just when he had made all the preparations and leaned his body slightly forward in preparation for charging forward - with a bang, the starting gun sounded.
“The game has begun!!!”
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were both perked up after hearing the starting gun and quickly focused their attention on the competition field.
Tian Ruhui quickly explained the status and performance of the athletes at the start of the race, while Zhou Jiming quickly looked at the real-time feedback of the athletes' starting reaction time from the starting blocks at the moment the starting gun sounded.
The starting reaction time data of the 8 athletes on the field all look good, but there is still one name that stands out among them - Su Yu!
"On the seventh lane, Su Yu's reaction time at the start was 0.120 seconds! He is in excellent form. It looks like in today's men's 200m semi-final, Su Yu is bound to win a spot in the Asian Championships final!"
In fact, it is more than just a matter of necessity.
Su Yu on the field looked like he was trying to sprint for the first place in the group among the strong competitors in the men's 200m semi-final.
In the sixth lane, Yuki Kobayashi from Japan quickly stepped on the starting blocks and started running as soon as the starter fired the gun. Yuki Kobayashi had already made preparations and made sure to gain a certain advantage in the early stage with her starting ability.
At this Asian Championships, he carefully observed Su Yu's performance in the 400m event. This wolf son of the Chinese team now has a very stable grasp of his overall rhythm control. At the same time, since the wolf son competes in two events, considering the best allocation of physical energy, Kobayashi Yuki believes that Su Yu should continue the rhythm of the men's 400m in the semi-finals, focusing on being conservative and controlling to preserve physical energy.
What Kobayashi Yuki wanted to do was to drive the forward rhythm of Zhan Youming and Li Zhongxian who were behind him on the left while Su Yu was conservative and kept his physical strength under control, so that Su Yu, who was in the seventh lane, would realize that the forward rhythm of all his opponents had been brought up, and even if he wanted to speed up in the latter part, he would not be able to do so due to the lack of support from the forward speed.
In this way, Su Yu's overall rhythm was completely disrupted, making this wolf son of the Chinese team lose the qualification to advance to the finals.
But dreams are full and reality is skinny.
Yuki Kobayashi had never expected that in this game, Wolf Son did not control his rhythm as he expected, but instead reacted quickly and exploded after the starter fired the gun.
It is no exaggeration to say that at this moment Kobayashi Yuki seemed to hear a loud bang in his head, causing his rhythm to be obviously interrupted for a moment.
The only good news may be that this is just the beginning of the game. Although everything is not as expected, Yuki Kobayashi still has the opportunity to readjust her rhythm and continue to accelerate forward.
Oh, no.
Maybe it’s not that ‘everything is not as good as he expected’, but that among all people, only Su Yu is not as good as he expected.
In addition to Su Yu, Zhan Chunhan behind him on the left and Li Zhongxian in the fourth lane were obviously also full of ambitions for today's men's 200m semi-final. Therefore, at the moment the starting gun sounded, it was not just Su Yu who actually burst out with all his strength, but almost everyone in this game!
***
Huff, huff.
From the moment the starting gun sounded, Su Yu felt that the blood in his body was boiling and burning, and he started running forward in excellent condition.
In this long-lost state of excitement, his mind still had the precise control of his body acquired through long-term training.
This precise sense of control comes from the amplitude of each of his arm swings, from the movement and angle of his hip thrusts, from the slightly inward tilted oblique axis state of his body, to the perception and rebound of the ground at the moment his each footstep touches the ground in a curve.
Every precise detail and control spreads from his mind to his limbs, and then from every movement of his limbs, feedback on his feelings about the outside world is collected and concentrated back into his brain.
The strong excitement made his brain perceive all of this more and more clearly. The excitement did not make his control over all of this confused. On the contrary, the perception of all of this became more sensitive because of the excitement of the brain.
Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale.
Every step and every breath he takes on the track is clearly under the control of his mind. He can feel the power of his rapid forward rush brought by the explosive power at the start, and he can also feel the confrontation between his body and the centrifugal force caused by the curves.
Based on these feelings, his brain quickly gave accurate data calculations, allowing his body to move forward with the most precise rhythm and amplitude in every step.
***
In the audience seats of the Chinese players, Zheng Sheng was shocked when he saw Su Yu's condition on the field. He did not dare to take his eyes off Su Yu on the field, but just asked loudly to Pei Dingshan beside him: "Coach Pei, what happened to Su Yu in this game?!"
Pei Dingshan calmly watched Su Yu's performance on the field, smiled, and said: "He told me before the game that he couldn't wait."
Can't wait?
What can't you wait for?
Zheng Sheng was stunned for a moment, but soon understood - Su Yu's form had exploded in the semi-finals ahead of time.
This situation is almost inevitable for players in their careers. No player dares to say that his/her performance in every game of his/her career is under perfect control.
Like Su Yu's control of the 400-meter race in the first two days since the beginning of this season, such precise control is extremely rare for most athletes.
Situations like Su Yu's uncontrollable outburst today are normal in most cases.
Although it was a pity that Su Yu's condition exploded prematurely, Zheng Sheng watched Su Yu's performance on the field. His keen sense as a senior 200-meter coach made him more and more excited.
Su Yu's state and rhythm performance...
If he remembered correctly, this was definitely the fastest speed that Su Yu had ever demonstrated in a 200-meter sprint...
To be honest, although Zheng Sheng knew that Su Yu performed very well in the 400 meters and was in very good condition this season, although the 400 meters and 200 meters are both sprints, they are still two completely different events.
Zheng Sheng was always a little worried. After Su Yu got used to the rhythm of the 400 meters, would he continue to compete according to the rhythm of the 400 meters after returning to the 200 meters and forget the speed rhythm he was supposed to have in the 200 meters?
Before this, especially after watching Su Yu's particularly relaxed performance in the 200m preliminaries in the morning, Zheng Sheng actually had a small question in his mind - was the result of 21.33 seconds the result of Su Yu completely relaxing or was it a problem caused by Su Yu's inability to readapt to the rhythm of the 200m for a while?
Because of this worry, Zheng Sheng was actually a bit confused the whole afternoon, and even now...
Until now, after seeing that Su Yu's cornering speed had not only reached his best state in the past 200 meters, but even seemed to have surpassed his best state in the past 200 meters, Zheng Sheng clenched his fist and waved his hand fiercely - that's it! It’s settled!
Yes, it is stable.
Even though Su Yu had just finished the first half of the race in front of him, in the 200-meter race, almost everyone agreed on one point - Su Yu was invincible in the second half.
This does not mean that Su Yu can defeat any opponent in the second half, but when his opponents in the first half cannot shake him off, Su Yu's ability in the second half is enough to enable him to catch up with and surpass those opponents who could not completely shake him off in the first half.
Zheng Sheng still remembers how amazing Su Yu's performance was when he first demonstrated his almost 'displacement' ability in the second half of the 200 meters.
And now, Su Yu on the field has hardly lost to any opponent since the start.
Whether it was Yuki Kobayashi in lane 6, Zhan Chunhan in lane 5, or South Korean rookie king Lee Jong-hyun in lane 4, these players performed well in the early stages of the race, but perhaps they still considered retaining some form for the finals, so they did not really let go and explode forward in the race.
It was precisely this difference between the two that allowed Su Yu on the field to steadily leave behind Kobayashi Yuki, whose rhythm collapsed at the starting stage, from his originally not particularly outstanding starting explosive stage.
On the field, perhaps only Zhan Chunhan had some advantages over Su Yu in the early stages, but Zhan Chunhan's advantage was not obvious, so when the curve stage ended and entered the straight stage, Zhan Chunhan only had a lead of about half a body length facing Su Yu.
However, this lead of only half a body length was definitely not enough when facing Su Yu in the second half!
On the court, it was obvious that Zhan Chunhan also realized this.
However, although he broke out with all his strength at the beginning of the game, his burst was not as all-out as in the finals, so his speed ability was not fully utilized. Although he has now noticed Su Yu's ambition in this game, facing Su Yu who is about to enter the second half of the game, even Zhan Chunhan can no longer pose much threat to Su Yu at this stage.
At this time, in the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had already devoted themselves to the passionate commentary of Su Yu's semi-final.
"Su Yu is in excellent condition! He is currently in second place. Japanese player Yuki Kobayashi in lane 6 is trying his best to catch up with Su Yu, but Yuki Kobayashi's ability in the second half is average, and he is showing signs of slowing down..."
"Lee Jong-hyun, the South Korean rookie king in lane 4, was completely suppressed by Zhan Chun-han in the first corner, but at the end of the corner, Lee Jong-hyun showed very good control. He withstood the pressure from Zhan Chun-han and his current position is almost the same as Kobayashi Yuki..."
“The last 80 meters of the straight!”
"At the forefront of this game are Zhan Chunhan from Chinese Taipei and young player Su Yu from the Chinese team!!!"
"Su Yu is currently in second place in the group, but dear audience, the competition has entered the second half, and it will soon be Su Yu's turn..."
Absolute field time! !
This is not the first time that Zhan Chunhan has played against Su Yu on the court, but in last season's Asian Games, Zhan Chunhan's opponents were Japan's Takagi Akechi and China's Zhan Youming. Although he also felt the threat from Su Yu at that time, the threat that Su Yu brought to him was far less than the oppression in this game!
Yes, a sense of oppression.
Zhan Chunhan couldn't believe that he would feel the pressure from a 16-year-old Chinese player in the 200-meter individual event.
But at this moment in the competition, even if Zhan Chunhan used all his strength, he could not completely get rid of the young Chinese player in the seventh lane.
even……
Zhan Chunhan even felt that he was about to be completely surpassed by Su Yu on the seventh lane!
This is totally unreasonable... His late-stage ability was already quite strong, but Su Yu's late-stage ability seemed to be a dimensional crushing of him...!
Is this reasonable?
In fact, if you watch this game from the perspective of the live audience seats at this time, Zhan Chunhan will know that his feeling is not wrong - as the game entered the later stages, on this straight track, from the audience's perspective, Su Yu almost easily surpassed Zhan Chunhan.
It is difficult to feel the change in rhythm of the young player of the Chinese team at this stage. The only thing you can feel is that on the final straight track, the speed of this young player of the Chinese team seems to carry the power to break through the dimension. Every step of his running does not seem to be on an ordinary track, but rather on the void. Every step seems to be teleporting forward!
What coaches like Zheng Sheng could see was Su Yu's nearly perfect body elasticity in the second half of the race. This elasticity, combined perfectly with the force feedback from the track, as well as Su Yu's speed endurance and explosive power in the latter half, resulted in this almost miraculous speed in the second half of the 200 meters.
Compared with the 400 meters, Su Yu does not have to consider the following 200 meters. He can completely let go of his speed at this stage and run forward with all his strength.
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were shouting excitedly. At this point they didn't have any extra time to do more commentary. They were just partying excitedly and cheering for Su Yu on the field.
"Come on, come on!!! Su Yu, go ahead!!"
“The last 50 meters!!”
"In the last 40 meters...Su Yu, Su Yu has successfully surpassed Zhan Chunhan and is now in first place!!!"
Tian Ruhui's voice had become a little hoarse due to excitement, but he no longer cared about this degree of hoarseness. What he cared more about was Su Yu's final sprint on the field!
"In the last 30 meters, Zhan Chunhan is trying his best to catch up!!"
"Su Yu, Su Yu, hold on!!!"
“The last 20 meters!!”
“10 meters!!!”
"Su Yu——!!!"
When Su Yu successfully surpassed Zhan Chunhan on the field and finally crossed the finish line with the first ranking in the group, Zheng Sheng, who was sitting in the Chinese player zone, waved his fist happily and shouted loudly, "Good!" ! '.
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, when Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming saw Su Yu successfully cross the finish line, the joy of victory they felt was almost as much as that of a final.
It was at this moment that on the public screen barrage of the Jigu Video live broadcast room, these track and field fans and ordinary spectators suddenly seemed to wake up from a dream.
【Grass! 】
[What happened…Su Yu successfully advanced to the semi-finals as the first in the group? ! 】
[Fuck, Su Yu came in first in the men's 200m sprint semi-final? ! 】
These track and field fans have become accustomed to Su Yu's stable control of his own rhythm this season. Their original prediction for Su Yu's semi-finals was, "I don't know how much slack Yu Di will have in his reaction time at the start in the semi-finals today." However, in this game, as soon as Zhou Jiming reported, "Su Yu's reaction time at the start was 0.120 seconds," everything was beyond their expectations.
They had never expected that Su Yu would have such a reaction speed of 0.120 seconds in this semi-final. Some people even wondered, if he had a reaction time of 0.120 seconds in the semi-finals, what would Su Yu do in the final?
But before everyone had time to think too much about this, they were completely captivated by Su Yu's unprecedented speed performance on the field.
In the 400-meter race, due to the consideration of the entire race rhythm, no matter how fast Su Yu is, it will still be slower than the 100-meter and 200-meter races.
But in the 200-meter race, Su Yu seemed to have completely let go of his worries, and he flashed across the field like a flash of lightning, especially in the second half of his race...
That speed was indeed just as Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming had described—like displacement.
In fact, even though the game was over now, many spectators had not yet recovered from Su Yu's teleporting-like speed in the second half.
When the live electronic screen was replaying the highlights, many people were still stunned when they saw Su Yu's performance in the second half.
However, their stunned state did not last long - because when the final results of this group of men's 200m semi-finalists flashed on the large electronic screen at the scene, the audience's stunned state turned into shock.
The electronic screen at the scene clearly showed:
2019 Qatar Doha Athletics Asian Championships Men's 200m Semi-final Group 3
First place: Su Yu (China), 20.36 seconds (wind speed +0.3m/s), NU20R, Q (directly qualified);
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The moment they saw this result, countless people froze in place - wait, what was Su Yu's result in the semi-finals...how much did he run? !
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