Official Weibo of the National Athletics Team: [Our athlete @Su Zhe won the 110m hurdles championship at the Diamond League Brussels on September 19th. He also earned 29 diamond points in both the men's 100m and 110m hurdles events of this year's Diamond League, ranking second and first respectively, and qualified for the Diamond League year-end finals in both events. Su Zhe is also the first athlete to qualify for the Diamond League year-end finals in both events. ]

When the results of the 110-meter hurdles in the Brussels race were officially decided, a series of official Weibo accounts including the national team and the Athletics Administration Center also officially posted messages to congratulate Su Zhe and affirm his current achievements.

In recent days, there have naturally been waves of popular idols, stars, or current affairs news appearing on the Internet. The heat of the Olympics has gradually faded, and the popularity of the "Sports King" on Fruit TV has basically dissipated. Although some fans of Su Zhe or figure skating enthusiasts still lament that Su Zhe's relationship with figure skating is short, the mainstream heat and attention have shifted away.

However, due to Su Zhe's previous action of quietly returning to training and competing, many netizens were indeed shocked. During this period, as the reports collected by the Athletics Administration Center have shown, the public's attention to track and field events, especially sprinting and hurdles, has climbed to an all-time high.

Although the general public has not noticed it, the Athletics Administration Center has indeed made a series of preparations and started to do more work to popularize the next track and field events.

The news about Su Zhe's latest achievements released by the official Weibo accounts of the Athletics Administration Center and the national team were also forwarded enthusiastically by the majority of netizens, spreading the good news more widely to every corner of the Internet.

Because of Su Zhe, many people paid close attention to the final match time and location of the Diamond League year-end finals - September 25, Zurich.

After seeing the relevant news, some of the jet-lagged party members who were originally in Europe also considered whether to buy a ticket for the finals and go to Zurich to support Su Zhe. After all, the previous Olympics were held in Tokyo, and not only was it difficult to draw tickets, but it was also difficult for these European jet-lagged party members to make up their minds to take the time to go and watch the games.

After going through the Olympic cycle and TV variety shows, in addition to sports-related public accounts and influencers, entertainment gossip media have also completely included Su Zhe in the list of key reports. The news about him has a readership that is comparable to that of first-line stars.

What is helpless is that there is very little gossip about Su Zhe. He rarely even logs on Weibo in his daily life, and no one has ever been able to gossip about Su Zhe's smurf Weibo account. From the information available from all sides, Su Zhe's daily life is a boring cycle of going back and forth between the training base, dormitory, competition venue and training base...

In fact, these entertainment media have been working very hard. They even learned that Su Zhe was training at the national team training base in H city, Germany, and found local international students to stay outside the training base. As a result, the part-time international students they found took turns to stay outside the training base for half a month, but they did not see Su Zhe leave the training base.

After seeing this result, the entertainment media had no choice but to give up tracking Su Zhe's itinerary and instead dig up previous gossip about Su Zhe.

Finally, the gossip media did find a direction for the gossip. They discovered that Su Zhe was still an ungraduated student at S University. Since he switched to the sports circle, he had not been able to return to school to continue his studies for a long time. So they began to discuss Su Zhe's academic qualifications and whether the school would relax the requirements for Su Zhe's graduation and assessment of various subjects because of his status as an Olympic bronze medalist.

Not long after this gossip was spread, it was discovered by students from S University and reported directly to the school.

S University still values ​​this star student in the school very much, especially the College of Arts to which Su Zhe belongs. Naturally, they will not sit idly by and watch Su Zhe being criticized for such an issue. Immediately, the College of Arts compiled a series of Su Zhe's performance summaries since the college entrance examination and published a Weibo directly through the college's official Weibo account.

The Weibo post showed Su Zhe's grade ranking when he entered the school, his grade ranking during his normal study period, and other related information such as scholarships he received. At the same time, the college also made it clear that although Su Zhe is currently unable to return to school to attend classes, he still maintains his daily self-study.

After Su Zhe's application and the school's approval, professors of corresponding courses in the School of Arts have opened online courses for Su Zhe. In addition to training, Su Zhe still found time to complete his normal school studies. Although the course progress was affected due to training, competitions, etc., neither Su Zhe himself nor the school will relax the professional requirements.

Finally, the school made it clear that Su Zhe would not be able to return to school to take the exams at the end of the school year due to the annual competition schedule, and he had already submitted a relevant application to the school. After the important annual competitions are over, he will return to school to take the relevant exams.

After this Weibo post was published, it was directly buried under the main article published by the gossip media. After reading the content released by the school, many people realized that Su Zhe's previous grades had been quite good. However, some people saw the issue of the college's special approval for online classes and began to discuss whether Su Zhe's special treatment was appropriate.

Although topics related to Su Zhe's academic performance have caused a certain degree of discussion, the degree of popularity has not achieved the expected effect. After all, Su Zhe's current achievements are enough to make him the champion in both the domestic sprint and hurdles events. For such an athlete who is in a period of rising performance and can bring honor to the country, the privilege of only teaching online is not something that people would find difficult to accept.

At the same time as this news broke, some overseas students revealed that this media outlet had hired overseas students to keep an eye on Su Zhe.

This is not a big deal. What's funny is that the information that a dozen part-time students took turns to stake out Su Zhe for nearly half a month and didn't see him go out was also exposed. Not only Su Zhe, but also other members of the national team, the students had only staked out a few times.

After everyone laughed at the news, they sighed again that athlete training is really too hard. Not only do they need to have enough talent, but they also have to endure high-intensity training, be able to withstand such high-intensity and boring training, and have the psychological endurance to face training and performance bottlenecks. It is really not easy.

People laughed to the end, and then thought of the online classes that the school had set up specifically for Su Zhe, and waved their hands: [Such high-intensity training every day, and then having to face the professor for one-on-one online classes... This daily intensity is really so great that it makes people collapse. No wonder these media can't take pictures of Su Zhe at all. If it were me, let alone completing these things, as long as I could do even one-tenth of Su Zhe's daily life, I probably wouldn't feel like going out anymore_(:з」∠)_]

Although the previous gossip did not achieve its purpose, the direction of this kind of gossip has given many entertainment media new ideas for digging up news.

A well-known gossip media remembered the circle that Su Zhe was in, so they went to the forum of the track and field kingdom. After carefully reading a series of posts, they keenly found a discussion post in the forum about the Diamond League year-end finals.

This entertainment celebrity named Guaji Guaji Guahaoshi took a screenshot of a popular science discussion post about the Diamond League Finals in the forum and forwarded it to Weibo. The key information they took the screenshot of was that [the champion of the Diamond League Finals will be designated as the world's number one in the event by the IAAF].

After the title of "World's No. 1" was announced, the interest of those who were already following the game on the Internet was further ignited in an instant.

The screenshots of Guaji Guaji are very thoughtful. They sorted out the championship results of the 100m and 110m hurdles year-end finals in 2019 and 2018. In 2019, the 100m champion Evenson ran 9.93 in the finals, and the year-end championship in 2018 was also won by Evenson with a score of 9.95. In the 110m hurdles, Lister and Elano won the annual championships in 2019 and 2018, with scores of 13.10 and 13.08 respectively.

When this series of results were placed in front of everyone, many onlookers showed expressions of "there is hope".

[Oh my god, this result is not as good as Su Zhe's when he won the bronze medal in the Olympics, right?]

[It seems to be true? Su Zhe won the bronze medal in the 100m at the Olympics in 9.90 seconds, and the bronze medal in the 110m hurdles in 13.08 seconds...]

Among the crowd watching the show, some people also raised puzzled questions.

[Why is it that in this competition where you can get the world's number one title, the results of the designated world number one in the adult year are so much worse than the results of the Olympic champion? Now it seems that the results are even worse than the Olympic third place...]

Of course, in response to these questions, passers-by who had some knowledge of the relevant issues soon came out to provide simple scientific explanations.

[It is normal for athletes to have ups and downs in their performance. In addition, track and field events are divided into big years and small years. For example, last year and this year, there were big competitions such as the Track and Field World Championships and the Olympics. Even in a "big year" for sports, every athlete will arrange their own competitions and training for the whole year according to the annual schedule given by the International Association of Athletics Federations or our domestic track and field management center, and consider how to adjust their status throughout the year. For example, last year, the Track and Field World Championships was the top priority for the athletes. Of course, no one would adjust their peak competitive status to the Diamond Finals after the World Championships...]

After discovering that gossip media had posted screenshots of the discussion on Weibo, members of the Track and Field Kingdom also took to Weibo to learn about the standard of the Diamond League competition and the normal fluctuations in athletes' performance.

Since the public's attention to track and field events has been increasing, veterans in the track and field kingdom, while feeling gratified, have to pay close attention to Weibo and the direction of public opinion to avoid having excessive expectations or biased public opinion that ultimately affect the athletes' reputation.

For Su Zhe, these online public opinions naturally have no impact on him. In the national team, he is too busy to pay attention to online messages. His coaches naturally will not use any online public opinion information to disturb him. Including friends who would call him to chat and say hello on a daily basis, such as Shao Xingchen and Jiang Hanning, they will not send him any information on the Internet that may affect him.

After winning the 110m hurdles on September 19, Su Zhe returned to closed training mode.

As the last major competition of 2020 and also as the first athlete to enter the year-end finals in the 100m event, the Domestic Sports Federation and Athletics Administration Center, including official media such as Sports Channel, all attached great importance to Su Zhe's competition.

The national team also issued instructions to Su Zhe's coaching staff to do their best to ensure Su Zhe's competitive state, whether in the sprint group or in the hurdles group. Recently, his father Su Yinsheng and hurdles coach Lu Fei have been watching him very carefully. The coaching staff has also repeatedly considered and adjusted his overall training plan, in order to ensure that his competitive state will not decline too much after the peak of the Olympic cycle - of course,

It would be best if we could get back to a small peak.

Under the careful adjustments of the coaching staff, Su Zhe can also clearly feel that although he has passed the peak of the Olympic cycle and is now approaching the end of the season, his personal condition is still not bad.

Of course, Su Zhe thinks that the sand sculpture system should also be credited for this.

With the end of the Olympic cycle, the reputation value of the Sand Sculpture System after the upgrade finally reached the edge of overflow, so a full 300 million reputation points were forced to be converted into free attribute points. Faced with the large number of free attribute points he had obtained through reputation conversion after many competitions, the Sand Sculpture System was probably dissatisfied again and released a comprehensive physical fitness improvement plan 2.0 for him that required a large consumption of free attribute points.

After clearing all the free attribute points on his body according to the requirements of the sand sculpture system, he once again had a list of daily training tasks in the training space that seemed endless.

Su Zhe deeply felt that if he followed the arrangement of the sand sculpture system and the speed at which he accumulated reputation points, his path of attribute transformation and daily training to improve his physical fitness would probably never end.

It was probably because of the new physical fitness training brought to him by the Sand Sculpture System that he was able to better improve his physical condition and withstand the ups and downs of his competitive state.

At the national team's overseas training base in H City, Su Zhe's high-intensity formal training was stopped on September 22. In the next few days, he mainly did simple training to maintain his condition before the game and prepared for his trip to Zurich.

The distance from H City to Zurich is not far. It only takes about one and a half hours to get there by direct flight. Therefore, Su Zhe traveled light the day before the competition. He packed a simple luggage and went to Zurich with his teammates, his father and others.

As the last important game of the year, everyone on the national team hopes to be able to see Su Zhe's final performance in the game in person.

Not only the national team members, but also Zheng Wensheng, as a representative of the Athletics Management Center, flew to Zurich to watch the game in person, although the Athletics Management Center did not make any specific requirements on Su Zhe's performance in this competition, to show their attention to Su Zhe's competition.

Xu Zhi from the Sports Channel also took the task this time and came to Zurich with his photography team to record and interview Su Zhe before and after the game.

Although domestic spectators have expressed their understanding of the athletes' ups and downs and expect them to perform but don't put pressure on them after various track and field celebrities, friends on the track and field forums, and "philosophers" have taken turns to speak out, it is impossible to say that no one expects Su Zhe to win the championship title.

【Who hasn’t had a sudden burst of energy? Aren’t many world records and athletes’ personal records achieved at the Olympics or World Championships?】

With this thought in mind, people have focused their attention on Zurich on September 25, hoping that Su Zhe can bring everyone another miraculous leap here.

At a time when the eyes of the whole country seemed to be focused on Zurich, the long-lost Pear public account Zhuo Siming once again revealed a schedule related to Shao Xingchen - [On the evening of September 23, Shao Xingchen departed from City B and flew to Zurich, Switzerland. ]

After seeing this news, many people were stunned at first, and then shook their heads speechlessly. Now that everyone has accepted that Shao Xingchen is a die-hard track and field fan of Su Zhe, this news can no longer cause any waves. Many people also discussed the photos that Shao Xingchen took of Su Zhe, and expressed their hope that Shao Xingchen could produce a good set of photos this time.

The "satellite" girls who are fans of Shao Xingchen have now become desensitized to the news released by the Pear public account. They are now very calm about Shao Xingchen's attention to Su Zhe's competition. Of course, even so, after seeing that the majority of passers-by have also become desensitized to this news, the "satellites" also felt a little bit amused.

Passersby asked Zhuo Siming of Pear Entertainment to stop staring at Shao Xingchen and Su Zhe. What gossip value could these two have? Did they really think Shao Xingchen had traveled thousands of miles to pursue love? There was simply no ambiguity between these two, okay?

Of course, Pear Entertainment received all of this news, but as to whether Zhuo Siming would really give up the gossip about Su Zhe and Shao Xingchen, it is unknown.

On September 25, the final stop of the Diamond League year-end finals finally kicked off in Zurich, Switzerland.

The competition scene was star-studded. Almost all the strongest track and field athletes from around the world were present. Not only that, in addition to Shao Xingchen, there were also many foreign stars who were interested in track and field events. They also sat in the audience seats in a low-key manner, cheering for this event.

Among the celebrities who came to watch the game, there were not only those from the entertainment industry, but also those from the fashion industry, such as designer Victor, who had frequently praised Su Zhe on Instagram and called him his inspiration, and François, a famous advertising director in the fashion industry, who was completely captivated by Su Zhe's charm because of the Bruns advertisement and called Su Zhe a goddess of beauty.

The amount of star power this event attracted was far beyond many people's expectations, but it was also reasonable.

As a star league organized by the IAAF, the brand building of the Diamond League not only focuses on the absolutely high standards of the event, but also has a strong commercial packaging atmosphere. The IAAF is very pleased that it can attract so much attention at the year-end finals.

Before Su Zhe officially entered the stadium for warm-up preparations, Xu Zhi and his photographer accurately captured him and conducted a brief interview with him about the event.

"In today's finals, you are the first athlete to enter the year-end finals of both the men's 100-meter sprint and the 110-meter hurdles. At this moment, do you have any special thoughts?"

"Ah..." Su Zhe blinked and smiled, "The idea is probably that today's game might be very tiring again."

Su Zhe's answer made Xu Zhi stunned and he also laughed.

Although the year-end finals are divided into two stages, the men's 100m and 110m hurdles that Su Zhe will participate in are both held in today's final stage of the finals in Zurich. Just as Su Zhe said, he will be very tired after today's competition.

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "So, do you feel particularly troubled by the fact that you have excellent talents in both of these areas?"

Because of the long-term and frequent interviews, Xu Zhi and Su Zhe became more and more familiar with each other. Now they talked like old friends, and even the questions in the interview seemed much more relaxed.

"Of course I'm not worried." Su Zhe also smiled, and then said seriously and sincerely: "I am very happy that I have such a talent. I am also very fortunate that I have such a talent, which allows me to have the opportunity to step onto the top of the world step by step, to reach the current height, and continue to pursue a faster and stronger world."

At this point, Su Zhe said: "I am very grateful for all the amazing encounters I have had so far."

He remembered the voice that came out of nowhere when he terminated his contract with Lemon Entertainment and was about to return to the track and field team. He also remembered the companionship of the Sand Sculpture System along the way, which enabled him to rely on his own efforts and gradually reach his current height.

"Given your achievements and experiences so far, this is truly a miraculous opportunity."

Xu Zhi obviously misunderstood what Su Zhe meant, but Su Zhe just smiled and nodded.

"Well, in today's competition, I wish you a good result in advance!"

"Thank you."

After thanking Xu Zhi for his blessing, Su Zhe waved to him, turned and walked into the warm-up field to start making final preparations for this end-of-season game.