"Relay race..." Su Zhe frowned, a little worried: "As long as the team needs me, I am willing to join the training, but I have no experience in relay races. Will I have enough time for training and running-in?"
After all, relay racing is a team sport. On the surface, it seems that team members only need to pass the baton to each other and then run one after another. But in reality, the team members' grasp of the timing of passing the baton, whether the baton can be passed smoothly, the team member receiving the baton's prediction of the speed of the previous team member, etc., are all difficult points that require training and running-in to achieve the maximum effect.
Su Yinsheng also frowned. In fact, even someone as decisive as he was couldn't help but have some doubts about his choice.
After all, Su Zhe already had two competitions to take part in, so this period of closed training was a good opportunity for Su Zhe to improve his technical weaknesses and consolidate his skills.
However, the relay team also faced an unsolvable dilemma due to the lack of a core player.
By letting Su Zhe join the relay race training, will he be able to lead the relay team... or will he not only fail to solve the relay team's problems, but also waste Su Zhe's 3 days of precious training time?
Although he had a lot of thoughts in his mind, Su Yinsheng still looked determined - as the head coach of the sprint team, if he showed any hesitation, it would only make the team members feel uneasy.
Su Yinsheng said: "Yes, this is a very difficult challenge. You only have three days. During these three days, your training will focus on the relay race. The training for the sprint and 110-meter hurdles will be based on the lowest intensity maintenance training."
"In three days, if we can confirm that you are qualified to play a core role in the relay, then the following training schedule will be adjusted accordingly. If not, you will withdraw from the relay training and focus on the 100-meter sprint and 110-meter hurdles. The relay team will implement Plan B."
"Your position is to be the fourth runner in the team who is best at sprinting. We only have two requirements for you: first, learn to take over the baton, and second, sprint with all your strength."
These two points are easy to say, but how difficult are they to do?
Su Zhe naturally noticed the pressure in his father's eyes. He didn't say anything more, but just nodded firmly.
In order to prepare for Su Zhe's three-day relay training, the original two relay teams were temporarily split again.
Zhao Zhixuan, Wang Ming, Meng Hao and Su Zhe became the latest team.
Qiu Xinchu and Wang Qin were separated from the existing relay team at the same time, with Jiang Zhongyan as the first runner, Qiu Xinchu as the second runner, Sun Weitong as the third runner, and Wang Qin as the fourth runner. The four of them formed the second relay team for training.
The purpose of this team is to allow Qiu Xinchu and Wang Qin to continue their training as the second and fourth batons. In addition, Qiu Xinchu and Wang Qin are still undergoing the training content tailored for them by Su Yinsheng, striving to improve the stability of their own condition and gain the opportunity to become the weak core of the team.
The other team members were somewhat surprised but also quite delighted to see Su Zhe join the relay team's training.
The current members of the relay team are actually aware of the current shortcomings of the team - without a strong core team member, it is difficult to drive a qualitative improvement in the team's strength by relying solely on continuous improvement in tacit understanding.
When the team was first formed, several members privately discussed whether Su Zhe would join the relay team. However, after seeing Su Zhe's daily training volume, the team members felt that Su Zhe no longer had the energy to participate in the relay team's training.
Unexpectedly, in the middle stage of the current training camp, Su Zhe joined the team again.
After seeing Su Zhe, Zhao Zhixuan patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Can you handle adding another project?"
Su Zhe smiled and said, "Let's give it a try. It's not like no one has ever done this before, right?"
During the live broadcast of the training session that day, some fans soon discovered something was wrong - why was Su Zhe's training different from usual? Did he adjust his training program?
Not only that, Su Zhe's training is no longer conducted alone, it seems that he is cooperating with others?
Sharp-eyed track and field fans soon discovered that Su Zhe was learning and training baton passing techniques.
As the third relay team member in this team, Meng Hao is working with Su Zhe to practice the baton passing technique.
This discovery immediately made track and field fans a little excited.
[Zhe Shao's training... is this a temporary joining of the relay team? ]
[That can’t be enough… The team has been training together for almost a week before this, and Zhe Shao still has the 100m and 110m hurdles to run…]
[Yeah, what's going on? Zhe Shao is already under a lot of pressure from training for both the 100m and 110m hurdles, so what's going on with this relay race? It affected the results of the other two events, who is responsible?]
Because relay race was suddenly added to Su Zhe's training program, the live broadcast room, which originally had a relatively stable number of viewers, suddenly welcomed a group of new viewers who received the news.
Suddenly, there were more noisy and discordant voices in the live broadcast room.
[What was the coaching staff thinking? Letting an athlete who hasn't mastered the baton passing technique join the relay team? Is the relay team's performance just a matter of time? Why not give the previous team members some training time instead of letting Su Zhe train? ]
[What I said before is right. Su Zhe’s performance is good, but we can’t expect him to try every event, right? Especially an event that he has never trained in before???]
[Brothers, please don't be so rude. The coaching staff has its own ideas. If you are so capable, why don't you become a coach yourself?]
[Just a joke, I'm just spraying at a person. If I say the food is not tasty and there is something wrong with it, do I have to be a chef to spray it?]
The originally harmonious live broadcast room began to have a hint of smoke because of this incident.
Voices questioning Su Zhe's joining the relay training soon emerged on the Internet. Some people believed that he was already fully trained in two events, so why should he be urgently allowed to join the relay team when he has not mastered the baton passing technique and has never participated in relay training?
The staff of the sports channel who had been monitoring the network information quickly fed back the news to the director, asking him whether to limit the bullet screen comments in the live broadcast room.
"Let them publish it." Director Wei Liang said decisively: "Those who come to this live broadcast room and can raise this question are all sports enthusiasts who care about track and field events."
"Everyone's starting point is correct, and the objections they raised are actually not wrong. If we didn't know the current difficulties of the track and field team, we would also feel that the coaching staff's decision is wrong."
After a pause, Wei Liang suddenly turned to the staff and said, "Hey, go call He Datou over. How can this clip be missing from the documentary? Tell him to come quickly!"
On Weibo and in the Track and Field Kingdom, track and field enthusiasts began to debate the team's decision - would this be effective? Was it worth it?
Huang Wenye is a die-hard track and field fan, especially for track events, which he has a deep love for. He knows almost all the track athletes at home and abroad.
He has always been a passionate supporter of the national track and field team. He is always willing to attend any competitions he can and will cheer for the athletes on the field.
Among all the competitions, the 4*100m race is among the top three on his watch list.
If the 100-meter race can be called the most dazzling gem in track and field events, then some people say that the 4*100 meters is an ornament made up of the most dazzling gems, and the entire stadium is dazzling because of them.
Huang Wenye also strongly supports this statement. He loves to see this group of partners who are full of tacit understanding and take turns to race on the track for the same belief in victory.
They sprinted on the track at their fastest speed, achieved each other's results with the best tacit understanding, and finally achieved the best result with collective strength.
Every time Huang Wenye watched such a competition, he felt so excited that he couldn't help himself.
Huang Wenye was very excited when the relay team qualified for the World Championships.
Although veteran Liu Hanjiang had retired at that time, Wang Ming joined the game as a substitute and replaced Liu Hanjiang. Under the full leadership of Chen Zhi, the team successfully qualified for the World Championships.
But not long after that, news came out that Chen Zhi was injured and fractured.
At that time, Huang Wenye was worried about the situation of the relay team.
If the originally mature team was only temporarily missing the veteran Liu Hanjiang, with the core figure Chen Zhi still there, it would not be difficult to have Wang Ming, a substitute player, temporarily take over Liu Hanjiang's position and then select a young player to train.
But when Chen Zhi, the core figure of the team, also encounters problems...
[Can the relay team still make it to the finals in this World Championships? ]
When Huang Wenye was feeling down, he once posted this thread on the Athletics Kingdom. At that time, many forum members also expressed relatively pessimistic emotions under the thread.
Everyone knows that the 4*100m relay event in this year's World Championships will be extremely difficult.
After Su Yinsheng took over the head coaching position of the national track and field team and recruited Qiu Xinchu, Wang Qin and others to join the relay team, many people also ignited a glimmer of hope. After all, Su Lao Hu's reputation in short-distance coaching is not covered up, including the 4*100m event, and the S province sports team has always been firmly ahead of many provinces.
But today, Su Zhe suddenly joined the relay team, which made everyone feel a little nervous.
Obviously, Su Yinsheng was reluctant to let Su Zhe join the relay team at first, otherwise he would not have waited until a week after the training camp before temporarily recruiting him into the team for training, knowing that Su Zhe had no relevant experience and was under pressure from two events.
What does this mean?
The current relay team, even after the intensive training and running-in period, is unlikely to meet Su Yinsheng's expectations... Helplessly, he can only consider letting Su Zhe try to join the relay team to form a new team combination.
After realizing this, many fans of the relay race felt very sad and hopeless.
Huang Wenye was one of the people who spoke out to vent his anger in the live broadcast room. His passion for relay races made him feel uneasy. Even though he knew the coaching staff must have their reasons, he still felt upset.
From time to time, I was still paying attention to the gossip in the live broadcast room. At first, I was shocked by the sudden topic on the Internet, and wondered why such a harmonious live broadcast could cause a quarrel.
After reading the popular science, the bystanders can understand the sports fans on both sides who hold different opinions.
As a loyal fan of Su Zhe, Mr. Tao Sheng naturally paid attention to this incident at the first time. However, even as a fan of Su Zhe, he still has the identity of a sports commentator. From the perspective of his own professional ethics, Tao Sheng also has doubts about Su Yinsheng's decision this time.
After some hesitation and thinking, in the afternoon, Tao Sheng posted a commentary article titled "This is a Shocking Gamble" on his Weibo.
This article details his blind guess about Su Yinsheng, or the coaching staff's mentality.
The conclusion is that letting Su Zhe join the relay team was an amazing gamble made by the sprint coaching staff under multiple pressures.
As for whether this gamble can be won? It is hard to say.
I have to say that as a sports commentator, Mr. Tao Sheng's sharp vision is quite amazing.
At the national track and field team's training base, Su Zhe's first day of relay training is still in progress.
For Su Zhe, who had never had any experience in relay, passing the baton was a difficult task. In addition to mastering the technique of holding the baton steadily without dropping it, he also needed to master the timing of starting from the pre-running area.
He needed to keep an eye on Meng Hao's running speed at all times. After Meng Hao reached a certain distance, he would start from his own pre-running area, trying to complete the baton pass when both of them were at their top speed, and then sprint forward with all his strength.
In addition, in professional competitions, it is impossible for the baton-receiving teammate to look back and check the movements of the baton-passing teammate. The baton-passing between the two sides depends not only on the tacit understanding between the baton-passing teammate and the baton-passing commands that have been agreed upon by both parties.
Meng Hao made an agreement with him that whenever his name was called, he had to put his arms back in preparation for taking the baton.
Just for this baton handover, Su Zhe has already spent a whole day.
"Su Zhe! Stretch out your hand!"
"Su Zhe! Take over!"
On the field, Meng Hao’s shouting almost never stopped.
Su Yinsheng was naturally there too, watching other things Su Zhe needed to pay attention to—
"You're starting too fast! Meng Hao is still so far away from you. Can you catch the baton if you start now?!"
"You're starting too slow! At your speed, the third runner will be ahead of you!"
"Show me the starting line behind you!!!"
"Don't shrink back, run forward with big strides! What's the point of passing the baton if you can't speed it up?"
"Don't reach out too early to take the baton before Meng Hao calls you! It will affect your running speed!"
"Watch your feet! Don't run into someone else's runway!"
Due to this sudden incident today, the number of people in Su Zhe's live broadcast room has increased dramatically today. Many spectators and sports enthusiasts have come to watch the live broadcast, wanting to know whether Su Zhe can quickly master so many technical difficulties in a short period of training.
Everyone noticed that Su Yinsheng's roar almost never stopped at the beginning of the day, but as the training time progressed, the frequency of Su Yinsheng's roar gradually decreased.
Because for all the problems that Su Yinsheng roared out, Su Zhe could almost complete his self-adjustment within 5 times, or even less.
In just one day, Su Zhe and Meng Hao were able to carry out smoother baton-passing cooperation while maintaining 80% of their maximum speed.
Su Zhe's speed of improvement left all the sports enthusiasts who were watching the live broadcast room dumbfounded.
After a day of training, the sprint team's coaching staff breathed a sigh of relief. They were genuinely surprised by Su Zhe's ability to learn relay events and his ability to quickly adapt.
Su Yinsheng also felt a little relieved. He turned around and called his assistant coach Zhang Ye: "Old Ye, sort out the data and prepare to adjust the starting signs on the track... Let's try to get them to run at full speed tomorrow."
In a relay race, a starting line is marked on the track to help the baton-passing athlete know when to start. When the baton-passing athlete reaches the starting line, the baton-receiving athlete can start in the pre-running area.
The distance between this marking line and the baton-receiving athlete needs to be set based on a comprehensive consideration of various factors, such as the running speed difference between the baton-receiving athletes, the tacit understanding and proficiency of the baton-receiving team, and then a relatively accurate distance is calculated using the corresponding formula.
During today's training, the coaching staff has made several adjustments to the starting marks between Su Zhe and Zhang Ye. Now, what Su Yinsheng asked Zhang Ye to calculate will be the first relatively clear final data.
On the Internet, sports enthusiasts who were originally arguing with each other temporarily stopped talking after seeing the results of Su Zhe's one-day training, and the bullet screen in the live broadcast room gradually became harmonious.
[Laughs, although the seniors have always supported Zhe Shao...but what is the situation with this progress? ]
[I feel dazed... I've heard before that Zhe Shao is a genius, but today I feel like I've been enlightened...]
【??? What kind of god-like learning speed is this? ? This is the first time I have seen someone master the baton passing technique to this level in just one day.】
[(Dog head saves life) So your relay race is so simple? ]
[Brother Doghead in front, if I hadn’t seen your doghead, I would have almost wanted to hit you with a hammer to greet you…]
After completing a whole day of training, Su Zhe, who was originally a little nervous, finally relaxed.
The baton passing technique is indeed difficult to master, but it is not as difficult as he originally imagined.
In fact, he felt that this was the benefit of his improved reaction speed. During the nearly one week of training, in addition to the daytime training tasks, he would choose to enter the training space after falling asleep at night to continue completing the attribute point fusion series of tasks.
In terms of training for the attribute of agility, in addition to improving his own agility, he also needs to complete a lot of exercises related to reaction training.
It seems that the system's definition of agility is not limited to physical agility, but also includes the agility of thinking and reaction.
As his practice deepened, his thinking and reaction speed seemed to have improved to a certain extent.
In the baton-passing training of relay races, athletes' quick reaction speed is essential. The improvement of this ability enabled him to make such rapid progress in today's training.
Not only sports enthusiasts on the Internet, but even the current members of the relay team found it incredible that Su Zhe could adapt to relay running so quickly.
As a member of the relay team, all members who join the relay team have some experience in relay running, and of course they know what it was like when they first learned the baton passing technique.
After Su Zhe completed the relevant training for the relay team, Wang Qin stared at Su Zhe for a long time with a dazed look on his face, as if he was looking at a god.
When facing Wang Qin and Qiu Xinchu, Su Zhe was a little hesitant, wondering whether they would have any objections to his sudden entry into the team and taking up a main position.
Wang Qin, on the other hand, saw through Su Zhe's thoughts immediately. He patted Su Zhe on the shoulder and said with a hearty smile, "Do your best tomorrow, or Ah Chu and I will have another chance to kick you down again!"
Although Qiu Xinchu looked dull as usual, after Wang Qin's words, he nodded seriously, his eyes also filled with a firm determination.
It's not just the two of them. For every member recruited into the relay team this time, it is certainly an honor to be able to join the national team, but what everyone is thinking about is how to maximize this honor - only by having the real strength to support this honor can the result of everyone's struggle be more brilliant.
If they are not strong enough, then just keep trying!
Although they may step down from the main position of the relay team this time, they are still young and there will be plenty of opportunities in the future to put on the national team's uniform again and compete in the relay event!
"Good luck tomorrow!" Wang Ming and Jiang Zhongyan, as the veterans of the team, also patted Su Zhe on the shoulder to cheer him up.
If Su Zhe's appearance in the morning still made them a little hesitant, after a day of training, the strength and progress shown by Su Zhe had re-gathered strength in their hearts.
The trust they have in Su Zhe is the source of this strength.
This is also the confidence that a team can build when it has a core figure who is trustworthy enough.
On the side, Zhang Ye and his colleagues watched the interactions between the players, and the pressure and anxiety in their hearts gradually subsided.
Zhang Ye looked at Su Yinsheng and smiled. "Hey, ah, Old Su, I remember you were very opposed to your Su Zhe joining the relay team?"
In response to Zhang Ye's ridicule, Su Yinsheng gave him a ruthless face, and then coldly asked Zhang Ye to recalculate all the data for today, successfully earning a scream from Zhang Ye.
On the Internet, track and field fans like Huang Wenye have gradually developed new expectations in their hearts - after Su Zhe's three days of special training in relay running, what kind of results can he lead the whole team to achieve?