As of August 6, the Tokyo Olympics is drawing to a close.
The Chinese track and field team can be said to have reaped a lot in this Olympics. Not only did Su Zhe win medals in the men's 100m and 110m hurdles, but the performance and results of Chen Zhi, Chou Tien-jue and Ye Jun can also be regarded as historic progress.
Maintaining stability in strengths and making breakthroughs in weaknesses - this goal of the track and field team in the Olympics can now be considered a complete success.
Next, the final goal of the track and field team's sprint group is to achieve another excellent result in the men's 4*100m relay final on August 7 and get a good result for the relay team.
After he retired from the competition, Olympic staff found him and informed him that a reporter from the IAAF was waiting for him and hoped to give him a brief post-match interview. At the same time, the staff had provided him with a relevant translator and asked him to go without worry.
Su Zhe had never expected that the IAAF reporter would come to interview him. After agreeing to the staff, he quickly changed his clothes, and then went out and found the IAAF reporter and the translator waiting in the interview area according to the staff's instructions.
The reporter from the Athletics Federation was a big white man with a shiny bald head. Just looking at his physique, you would never have thought that he was a reporter. He looked more suitable to wear camouflage and play the role of an American muscular man in a police and gangster movie.
After seeing Su Zhe, the muscular brother greeted Su Zhe with a smile and wanted to give him a bear hug.
After Su Zhe finally stepped back, he realized that this strong man was almost two meters tall... This made Su Zhe couldn't help but complain in his heart that the basketball world might have lost an excellent player.
"Hey Sue, hi, you can call me Jackson."
Jackson's voice was as strong and deep as his body. If he didn't always have a gentle and talkative smile on his face, people would probably misunderstand that he was threatening others.
Su Zhe looked at Jackson's physique with some admiration, and then greeted him seriously: "Hello, Jackson, I am Su Zhe."
Jackson was probably already accustomed to other people's views of him. After greeting Su Zhe with a smile, the two of them sat down in the interview area together. At the side, Jackson's work partner, photographer John, was also ready, and the few of them quickly entered the regular interview session.
"First of all, congratulations, Sue, your results are truly amazing! You are the first athlete to run at the world's top level in both the men's 100m and 110m hurdles! Can you tell me how you did it?"
In fact, it is not just Jackson who is curious about this issue. It should be said that many track and field enthusiasts at home and abroad who follow Su Zhe have analyzed and discussed this issue many times.
Theoretically, the technical emphasis of the men's 100m and 110m hurdles is completely different.
If athletes can run more freely in the 100-meter event, the 110-meter hurdles are different.
From the inherent eight-step and seven-step techniques of the 110-meter hurdles, it can be seen that there is a clear number of steps that can be calculated for running the 110-meter hurdles. Taking the seven-step technique as an example, the 110-meter hurdle athletes have a fixed number of steps in front of the hurdles, 10 strides across the hurdles, and 10 strides between the hurdles, totaling 27 steps. Finally, including the relatively free final sprint, the total number of steps is usually stable at around 50 steps.
100-meter runners are divided into frequency-type runners and stride-type runners based on their height, leg length and other factors. On the track, the number of strides a 100-meter runner can take to complete the entire race ranges from 41.2 to over 50.
The technical characteristics of the 110m are destined to limit the original advantages of some 100m athletes. For hurdlers, the importance of technique and rhythm between hurdles is greater than the simple speed factor. Therefore, hurdlers may not necessarily be able to achieve good results in the 100m event.
This is also the reason why it is difficult for top athletes in these two events to be versatile and achieve excellent results in both events.
But since last year, Su Zhe's appearance has been constantly breaking this impression in people's eyes. He has participated in two events at the same time, and his performance in these two events has been constantly improving. Until today, he even won medals in these two events at the same time at the Olympics...
Not only track and field enthusiasts and media in China, but also all overseas media paying attention to Su Zhe were shocked by his results and achievements.
[This is a player who completely overturned the traditional concept of sports! His achievements are jaw-dropping! ]
Before Jackson came to interview Su Zhe, during the European League, some foreign sports media that paid attention to Su Zhe wrote articles with this title to express their disbelief at Su Zhe's performance.
Of course, in fact, Su Zhe did not expect that he would achieve such results in these two events.
Initially, he had no plans to get involved in the 110-meter hurdles. Even though he had selected this skill from the system, he had no plans to make it one of his main events.
Until the staff made a registration error, he thought that he would just briefly compete in the dual event... Unexpectedly, after that, he was like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins and could not be pulled back on the road to the 110-meter hurdles.
Under the indoctrination of the system, he mastered the technical skills of the 110-meter hurdles, and through constant practice, he turned these skills into his own technical instincts. This was the key to his entry into the 110-meter hurdles. What he really didn't expect was that he had an unexpected talent in the important abilities required for the 110-meter hurdles.
Jackson was patiently waiting for Su Zhe who was thinking. Seeing him frowning as if he was reviewing something, he couldn't help but secretly admire in his heart - Praise God, He has given the most wonderful things in the world to this little elf in front of him.
Only when he faced Su Zhe up close did Jackson realize how shockingly beautiful the Muse and the goddess of beauty that Victor and François Qin had recommended on Instagram were.
"Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about how to explain it." Su Zhe frowned and said, "In fact, there is a certain overlap in the talents required for the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles. The sense of rhythm, explosive power, and the important ability to control the pace... In terms of the 100-meter event, I happen to be a pace-type athlete, which happens to overlap with the pace required for the 110-meter hurdles. Whether it is the 110-meter hurdles or the 100-meter, the importance of a sense of rhythm is unquestionable. I think I am just lucky enough to have enough of these abilities.
I have outstanding talent, which enables me to work hard in both projects."
Yes, what Su Zhe said is the capital of hard work - although it is cruel, it is the fact. Only after having these talents, athletes are qualified to further discuss hard work.
The world of sports is a world of the strong. In this cruel world, if you want to achieve top results, you must first have extraordinary talents.
This truth is cruel but true.
Obviously, Jackson also heard the implication of Su Zhe's words. He raised his eyebrows and smiled as he moved on to the next question: "Su, your results have proved that you have certain talents, but whether in the 100-meter event or the 110-meter hurdles event, you have not yet reached the top level - your current 100-meter PB is 9.90 seconds, and your 110-meter hurdles PB is 13.06 seconds. These results can make you one of the top five in the world, but they cannot make you the king of these two events..."
"Do you think you have enough talent to make you the top of these two projects and become a true miracle child?"
Jackson's question seemed to be full of provocation, but Su Zhe didn't say anything about it.
He has strength, and he also has confidence.
As for the desire to pursue the top, he has never lost it.
Seeing Jackson's interested look, Su Zhe smiled and said, "I think I'm still young enough, and my performance and condition are far from reaching the peak." After a pause, Su Zhe added, "I only stepped onto the court again in July last year, and now I'm sitting here, accepting your interview."
There was no need to explain the meaning behind this sentence. Jackson certainly understood it. He immediately laughed and said to Su Zhe, "Hey, Su, I admire your directness and confidence. This is the character of a strong man!"
In the subsequent interview, Jackson's questions became much milder, and the two had a back-and-forth conversation, digging out a lot of questions about how Su Zhe balanced the training of the two projects, or whether he had ever encountered any difficulties in the two projects.
At the end of the interview, Jackson suddenly asked curiously: "Speaking of which, Su, besides the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles, do you have any other specialties?"
"Other things you are good at?" Su Zhe thought for a moment and said with a smile, "That's probably shooting."
"Woo?" Jackson exclaimed in surprise. "Shooting? I thought it would be related to other events related to running... such as 200 meters, 400 meters... or long jump? Shooting has no special connection with the two events you are best at."
"If I may ask, what is your shooting level?"
"Ah, this one?" Su Zhe said with a smile, "It's probably at the level of a professional athlete..."
Su Zhe's answer made Jackson stunned, and then he laughed again: "Hahaha, dear Su, you have a great sense of humor! Then can I look forward to seeing you in professional shooting competitions in the future?"
Jackson's reaction made Su Zhe realize that he was joking about what he said, but there was no explanation, so Su Zhe just smiled and said casually, "Who knows?"
This interview from the IAAF ended after Jackson and Su Zhe talked for about 20 minutes. Jackson praised Su Zhe, saying that he was a charming athlete with confidence and a sense of humor.
After some friendly business exclamations, Suzhe watched Jackson leave and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Perhaps it's a habit left over from his two years as an idol, but he always becomes a little aggressive when facing unfamiliar interviews. However, this is not a bad thing for him.
When he left the athletes' rest area and found the Chinese players' seats, he was greeted with a warm welcome from Qiu Zhongwen, Zheng Wensheng, Lu Fei and other staff members as well as other Chinese team players.
As he was going to be interviewed, Zhou Tianjue, who had gone ahead, had already reached the players' booth. After seeing him, Ye Jun stood up with a smile, came to his side, gave him a big hug, and congratulated him on winning the bronze medal in the 110-meter hurdles event.
After hugging everyone one by one, Su Zhe sat down in one of the seats with a smile and began to watch the track and field event going on attentively.
Domestic, Athletics Management Center, Marketing Activities Office
The Olympic cycle is undoubtedly the busiest time for the marketing department, especially since the Chinese track and field team has performed extremely well in track and field events this year. As a result, more and more people have approached the team to invite them to do advertising, endorsements, events and even variety shows.
In fact, during this period, the Athletics Administration Center had already transferred more staff to the marketing office to cooperate with the work according to the experience of previous Olympics, but they still underestimated the hunger of advertisers this time.
"Hello? Does Su Zhe still have any appointments or endorsements that are about to expire? Our company wants to invite him to be the spokesperson for our entire product line, but requires that he cannot have any competing products from the same series..."
Jiang He listened to the staff's voice on the phone, and after patiently waiting for the other party to finish speaking, he politely said, "I'm sorry, Su Zhe's endorsement has expired, and all endorsements have been renewed for a long period of time. There is no plan to change the endorsement for the time being."
"…Then how about being an ambassador? Our brand has gained a certain degree of popularity, and cooperation with Su Zhe and the Athletics Management Center will be a win-win situation…"
"I'm sorry, Su Zhe's endorsement, ambassador, promotion and other related plans have already been filled."
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid the campaign site can't help..."
"Just post a single link ad on Weibo? This is not appropriate. We are athletes. It is not appropriate for a top athlete like him to do such a thing..."
"I'm really sorry. We have already understood your sincere intention to cooperate. I have already recorded your relevant information. If there is any area for cooperation, we will contact you promptly..."
After finally hanging up the phone, Jiang He couldn't help but rub his nose tiredly.
As the head of the marketing department, Jiang He is more like a businessman than other staff members. All he has to do is to coordinate the interests of all parties and try his best to obtain more and better benefits for the Athletics Management Center and athletes.
Since the Olympics entered the track and field season, the Marketing Department has been receiving new calls from commercial investors. Especially after Su Zhe's advertising was intensively promoted and he suddenly became popular due to various hot searches and achievements, the Athletics Administration Center has been receiving a lot of contact calls.
Among the five advertisers that had signed contracts with Su Zhe before the Olympics, except for Brunswick and Hurricane, the remaining three brands that had only signed Su Zhe as ordinary advertising promotion or ambassadors immediately went directly to the Athletics Administration Center with new contracts, requesting renewal and planning to upgrade Su Zhe's brand title, inviting him to be the full-line spokesperson for their respective brands.
However, compared with the influence of Bruns Group and Furious Group, Jiang He temporarily suppressed the requirements of these brands and prepared to make the best selection among the major brands and finally make the best choice for Su Zhe.
During this period of time, Jiang He almost had the illusion that he was Su Zhe's exclusive agent. In fact, the influence created by Su Zhe during the Olympics had exceeded the sum of the other members of the track and field team.
Advertisers once said something good to praise Su Zhe - if you miss this event, where else can you find an athlete with such good looks, strength and popularity?
The commercials shot with him not only portray the spokesperson in a positive light, but they also look good!
Being an athlete’s endorsement can produce photos that look like big stars. Who wouldn’t want such a good thing?
The result of all these factors is that out of the 10 calls Jiang He and other staff received in a day, at least 7 were from people trying to invite Su Zhe.
In addition to product endorsement advertising, another major source of invitations is invitations to various variety shows and interview programs.
This kind of invitation is normal for athletes. During the Olympics, as long as they can achieve certain results and have a little luck, many athletes will directly become star athletes during this period.
Departments like the Athletics Administration Center often feel a mixture of joy and sorrow when star athletes appear.
The good news is that star athletes can bring rich profits to each center, and at the same time increase the popularity and influence of their respective projects, allowing the public to start by liking this athlete, then gradually like the project this athlete belongs to, and then increase their attention to this project.
After the Olympics, national teams from different centers will sometimes have coaches lead a team of star athletes to travel through various variety shows and show their faces in a short period of time. This is a good opportunity to quickly increase the influence of the project.
The worrying part, of course, is that after being influenced by the entertainment industry, a place of fame and fortune, some athletes may lose themselves, immersed in the vanity and popularity brought by the entertainment industry, or gradually slack off in training because of the easy rewards, resulting in a decline in performance.
The track and field team has had such athletes in the past. Since then, Jiang He, the person in charge of the marketing department, has had a heavier burden. He needs to screen various invitations more carefully, control the number of invitations, and try his best to avoid tragedies like the previous ones.
During the time when there were no phone calls, Jiang He looked through the variety show invitations that his staff had helped to organize. When he saw one of the programs, Jiang He smiled.
"Huh? This show seems quite interesting..."
Regardless of the busyness at the domestic track and field management center, when the time turned to evening, the award ceremony for the 110-meter hurdles was finally about to begin.
Before the award ceremony began, Holness was talking to Su Zhe: "Hey, Su, did you see that? There are three award podiums, and only one belongs to the big guy!"
Next to the two of them, Lister had obviously heard Holness's mumbling. He glared at Holness, obviously still feeling aggrieved about his previous loss to Holness.
But Holness was not afraid of such provocation. While Lister was glaring at him, he turned around and looked at Lister with gritted teeth, then gave Lister a brilliant smile, revealing his own big white teeth.
After Su Zhe caught a glimpse of Lister's actions, he quickly stopped him and prevented the childish guy from continuing to incite hatred.
So, before they were about to step onto the podium to receive the awards, there was a hilarious scene with Su Zhe standing in the middle between the three of them, with Lister and Holness standing on their left and right, staring at each other.
When the award ceremony officially began, Su Zhe once again stood on the podium for the third place prize. He was much calmer than before.
He still longs to stand at a higher position, and one day he hopes to be at the top of the award podium, watching the Chinese flag rise and the national anthem play. But he also knows more clearly that all this still requires more effort and struggle.
The person who presented him the award today was still the President of the International Olympic Committee, Odero. After seeing him, this kind and amiable old man smiled exaggeratedly and gave him a huge and warm hug.
"Hey, see you again, miracle boy!" Odello patted Su Zhe on the shoulder, then took the medal from the ceremonial staff and hung it around Su Zhe's neck. "This is your medal, kid. I hope I can still see you here at the next Olympics and put a medal on you... Of course, I'm more looking forward to putting that golden medal on you!"
"Thank you for your blessing." Su Zhe hugged Audero again, then took the bouquet from Audero and stood up again.
He received Odero's blessing, and of course he was looking forward to it - he was looking forward to the fact that four years later, he could wear the golden medal and watch the red flag rise to the highest point.
After medals were presented to Suzhe, Lister and Holness, everyone watched the flag hoisted high as the Jamaican national anthem played.
Finally, when taking a group photo, the Jamaican teenager smiled and pulled Su Zhe to his side again, and then reluctantly invited Lister to stand on the championship podium. The three of them stood on the championship podium, facing all the reporters, and their cameras captured a group photo of the strongest trio of this year's 110-meter hurdles.
The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_ Hey, the Olympic dungeon is almost finished, and there is not much content to come... (Ahem, of course it didn't end that soon)
I checked the word count today and it's already over 700,000 words. Ah, I'm so impressed. I'm really amazing! This is the first time I've written such a long article_(:з」∠)_
Ahem, I saw some little angels complaining, saying that all that was left was Cai Cai’s miserable performance and the boss’s indifferent face. Damn, how could Cai Cai be miserable every day! I, it’s just… occasionally… that’s all… (Gutted and looking at the sky again…)
In this case, let’s interview the boss about his mood these days——
Cai Cai: Hey, are you happy watching the competition? =w=
Shao: sharpening the knife.jpg
Cai Cai: Wait, kid, aren't you the cold-hearted one? What's with the flames in the background behind you?! (Panicing)
Shao: (sneers) Look at what you write about patting the head and hugging every day, and then ask me what the flames in the background are about!
Cai Cai: (Weak and paralyzed ing)_(:з」∠)_Baby, you... calm down a little... (Turning around and running away ing)
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