After the competition ended and he returned to the Asian Games Village, Su Zhe finally had some free time to take out his phone and take a look. In addition to receiving the usual condolences from his friend Jiang Hanning, he unexpectedly saw a group of familiar street scenes of Country D while browsing his Moments. Upon closer inspection, he found that the person who posted the pictures was Shao Xingchen.
???
Su Zhe was a little surprised. Is Shao Xingchen also in Country D now? But he never mentioned this matter?
After thinking about it, Su Zhe opened the dialogue box with Shao Xingchen and sent a question mark.
Soon, there was an immediate response from the other side. A series of photos popped up in the dialogue box, and at the end was a smiley face.
Looking closely, this series of photos were all taken during his competitions over the past two days. These photos were obviously taken with a professional telephoto lens. Just looking at the shooting effects of the photos, they are in no way inferior to those of professional sports photographers.
When Su Zhe saw these pictures, he was instantly impressed.
"Boss, are you watching the game live? Embarrassing..."
Shao Xingchen on the other side quickly replied yes, and then said as if to explain: "I had a work schedule in Country D, so I just happened to come a few days early, so I came to watch the game. You need to concentrate on the game, so I didn't tell you."
Seeing Shao Xingchen's explanation, Su Zhe smiled. No matter what, it was a very pleasant thing to have friends come to watch his game in person.
After thinking for a while, Su Zhe asked, "Will you come to watch the game tomorrow? I can ask someone to take you to the seats in the players' area, where the view will be better."
After receiving this sentence, Su Zhe only saw that the chat box was still in the typing state, but when he received the reply from the other party, there was only a simple word "OK".
Looking at Shao Xingchen's actions, Su Zhe had a funny face. Since they met, Shao Xingchen's seemingly aloof image had been shattered many times. His awkward look in such a strange place was unexpectedly funny.
“Great photo! Can I post it on Weibo?”
This is not a polite remark. In the photos sent by Shao Xingchen, there is a sense of speed and power. If it were not mentioned that the photographer was Shao Xingchen, he might have thought it was the work of a professional photographer.
This time the response was quick, just two simple words: "Okay."
That night, Su Zhe updated a group of photos of himself on the court on Weibo, with the caption: Thank you to the photographer for his work, which recorded the precious moments on the court for me.
The Weibo account, which had been inactive for a long time due to the focus on training and competition, was updated. Philosophers and Su Zhe's current sports fans were naturally very happy and they left comments under the Weibo post to lick the screen and praise him.
Country D, after sending a Weibo message and wishing Shao Xingchen goodnight, Su Zhe had a flash of doubt in his mind - with Shao Xingchen's traffic, is his schedule so relaxed now? He was stuck in Country D for many days for a job, so could he still come to watch the games?
However, this doubt only flashed through his mind, and soon Su Zhe put the problem aside for the time being. He lay down on the bed, began to enter the system's training space, and according to his own training plan, began to try to improve his explosive magic skills.
Whether in the 100-meter sprint or the 110-meter hurdles, his explosive power is much weaker than other strong athletes. If he wants to further improve his strength, he cannot stop training his explosive power.
Tomorrow's semi-final is bound to be a tough battle.
On October 5th, because it was a Saturday, a large number of spectators were able to come and watch the game, and the event arrangement also reached a new peak.
The semi-finals and finals of the 110m hurdles were scheduled on this day, at 10:40am and 8:10pm respectively.
After the preliminaries the day before, the 40 athletes in the 110-meter hurdles were reduced to three groups of 24 people. Compared with the relatively easy qualifying conditions in the preliminaries, qualifying from the semifinals to the finals was much more difficult.
In this semi-final, only the top two teams in each group and the top two attacking eight athletes among the remaining athletes will advance to the final. Based on past experience, only those who run within 13.25 seconds can have a certainty of advancing to the final.
At 8 o'clock in the morning of that day, the grouping table for the semi-finals had already reached Lu Fei's hands. Fortunately, Su Zhe and the other two were assigned to different groups, but judging from the grouping table alone, the group that Ye Jun was in had basically sentenced him to no hope of advancing.
Ye Jun's group one of the semi-finals includes American star Lister and Spanish star Alcides. In addition, Brazilian player Elano also belongs to this group. If nothing unexpected happens, the final group one will be a life-and-death battle between these three strong players.
Seeing that Su Zhe and the others looked a little worried, Ye Jun patted them on the shoulders and said with a smile: "Alright, with my current performance, I'm lucky to be able to enter the semi-finals. The burden of entering the finals still lies on you two, both of you should cheer up!"
Su Zhe and the others certainly understood what Ye Jun said. It would be very difficult for just Ye Jun, or even just the two of them, to advance to the finals.
Zhou Tianjue seemed to be not used to this rather heavy atmosphere. He curled his lips and turned his head and said, "Wait, you will see my performance in a while!"
When the 110-meter hurdles officially began, the first group of semi-finals was just as everyone expected before the game, a battle between Lister and three others.
In order to compete for a place in the final, these three famous players no longer held back and started the amazing competition without slacking off from the first shot.
In the commentary booth, Chris and Beerus could not help but admire that this was a pre-rehearsed final, and the battle between the three was no less exciting than the final.
Behind the three, other players were also trying hard to catch up, but in the end, no new miracles emerged in this semi-final.
Finally, in the first group of the 110-meter hurdles semifinals, Lister advanced to the finals with a time of 13.15 seconds, finishing first in the group, while Alcides advanced to the finals with a time of 13.18 seconds, finishing second in the group.
Elano, who finished third in the group, also had an astonishing result of 13.19 seconds. Judging from the experience of previous years, this might even have been the first place in a semi-final group. However, in this terrible death group, he could only be ranked third in the group and was temporarily undecided.
Although Ye Jun ranked fourth in the group in this semi-final and also broke his own personal best, his score of 13.32 seconds made it almost impossible for him to advance to the final.
On the domestic Internet, sports fans who were watching the live broadcast couldn't help but sigh for Ye Jun, but his performance in this game was already very good, and everyone still applauded and cheered for him with a slightly regretful mood.
Zhou Tianjue was in the second group of the semi-finals. His group was of average strength. Although there were strong players, none of them were top players like Lister who could run under 13.20 seconds at any time.
The strongest among them may be Louis from the American team, followed by Zhou Tianjue himself and Adolf from the French team.
In this race, Zhou Tianjue ran very smoothly at the beginning.
After yesterday's preliminaries, he reviewed his performance during the race and seemed to have figured out how to run under 13.26 seconds.
In today's semi-final, he tried to recall the feeling of the previous day's competition. This on-the-spot short-term memory allowed him to successfully find the state of the previous day. From the start to crossing the hurdles, the rhythm was very smooth, allowing him to successfully occupy the second place behind Louis, and he was almost sure of victory.
But in a competition, there are always unexpected situations.
Just as Su Zhe was watching the battle on the field and secretly cheering for Zhou Tianjue, he had already crossed the last hurdle and entered the final sprint stage. Adolf, who had been running behind him, went the wrong way in the sprint stage after hitting the tenth hurdle!
Adolf obviously discovered his mistake, but it was too late for him to correct his course. In his eagerness to correct his course, Adolf lost control of his body, and eventually he fell forward during the sprint, and went straight behind Zhou Tianjue who had not yet run far ahead. When he fell on the ground, his left hand instinctively tried to support the ground, but it grabbed Zhou Tianjue's heel...!
"Zhou Tianjue!!"
Su Zhe's face changed when he saw Zhou Tianjue being grabbed by Adolf by the heel. In the Chinese player area, Zheng Wensheng and Lu Fei, who had smiles on their faces, stood up at the same time in shock.
In just a blink of an eye, Zhou Tianjue, whose heels were caught, fell forward heavily near the finish line because of his forward momentum. In just a moment, his knees touched the ground and both hands scraped the ground at the same time. Both elbows were covered with red marks and blood soon flowed out.
After seeing this scene, the audience burst into cheers throughout the Hillion Stadium.
The French player Adolf who had knocked Zhou Tianjue down quickly got up and helped Zhou Tianjue up with an apologetic look on his face.
After getting up with difficulty, Zhou Tianjue looked towards the finish line with reluctance. The athlete who was originally behind them had already crossed the finish line in front of him as the second in the group.
The second group of the semi-finals ended in such a dramatic scene.
When Su Zhe followed the last group of semi-final contestants onto the stage, Zhou Tianjue and his team had already withdrawn from the competition. Throughout the stadium, many spectators were still whispering and discussing the regrettable accident that happened not long ago.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the two athletes who fell did not seem to be seriously injured, which can be considered a blessing in disguise.
At this time in the competition, because of the previous accident, many players were looking at each other, and seemed to be a little jealous of the other contestants around them.
After all, such accidents are not uncommon in the arena. Once it happens to you, not only will your performance in the game be ruined, but you are more likely to be injured and have a greater impact on yourself.
For a moment, the atmosphere on the field became somewhat frozen.
Among the athletes in the third group of the semi-finals with Su Zhe, the most noteworthy ones are Brazilian athlete Gomez, who has the ability to run under 13.20 seconds, and French athlete Hubert, who advanced to the finals with 13.25 seconds in the preliminaries.
In addition, the strength of Jamaican player Percival should not be underestimated. Who can make it to the finals will depend on his performance on the track later.
On the field, Su Zhe and other athletes completed their respective warm-up movements in a somewhat oppressive atmosphere. When he looked up at the Chinese athletes' seats, Su Zhe saw that in the athletes' area, in addition to the athletes from the Chinese track and field team who came to watch the game, as well as the coaches and team leaders, there was also a guy wearing a duckbill cap fiddling with a camera and a tripod.
Looking at the huge telephoto lens, Su Zhe smiled and waved towards the players' seats, then immediately focused all his attention on the game that was about to begin.
The referee's voice was heard in the on-site broadcast.
"Everyone, take your positions."
"Be prepared."
On the eight race tracks, the athletes are ready to start, just waiting for the final gunshot!
"Bang!"
On the track, eight contestants responded.
But perhaps due to the impact of the accident in which Adolf knocked down Zhou Tianjue in the previous match, the players in this match seemed a bit conservative and restrained at the start.
The player who reacted the fastest to the shot was French player Hubert, but his reaction time was only 0.134 seconds, not even breaking the 0.12X second range.
Su Zhe's reaction to the shot was not fast this time. His reaction of 0.141 seconds could only be considered average. It would be difficult for him to gain an advantage at the start in such a big competition.
But the situation in this game was very special. There were many players in a similar situation as him. Even Gomez unexpectedly spent 0.152 seconds in the reaction stage of hearing the gun.
The moment he pushed off the starting blocks and rushed forward, Su Zhe finally calmed his mind. He temporarily abandoned his unsuccessful listening reaction state and tried to increase his explosive power and strengthen his strength to allow himself to move forward at a faster speed.
For Su Zhe, he already has relatively mature techniques in the 110-meter hurdles. Whether it is the running stage in front of the hurdles or the hurdle-jumping technique, it will take a long time to improve it.
His greatest advantage is always in the hurdles, his control of the hurdles rhythm and his ability to maintain the maximum hurdle speed. If he wants to improve his performance, he needs to focus on improving his hurdle speed, which is his weakest point.
The night before, he had been working on techniques to improve his explosiveness in the training space.
The weakest stage of his overall hurdle speed is the sprint stage from the first hurdle to the third hurdle. This is because his explosive power is not sufficient during the acceleration process at the start. This is why he needs to accumulate strength in the first three hurdles, accumulating forward inertia and momentum, so that he can gradually run at the highest speed in the subsequent race.
Lu Fei had discussed this issue with him during the training camp. It was just that explosive power training was not something that could be achieved overnight. If he forced himself to increase his explosive power habits, he might suffer certain damage.
During this period of time, in order to improve his control over explosive power, he has always insisted on finding a better balance point in the training space. Until last night's training, he finally made a slight improvement.
On the court, Su Zhe's eyes were fixed on the railing in front of him. When he was eight steps in front of the railing, he began to subconsciously increase the explosiveness of his strength, while controlling his stride and stride angle. By increasing his explosive power a little bit, he began to generate more strength for himself in the stage in front of the railing.
When he came to the first hurdle, he pushed the ground hard with his right foot, and with his own strength and the power accumulated in the stage before the hurdle, he began his journey to face the track between the hurdles!
At this time, in the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel, countless sports enthusiasts were staring at Su Zhe's every move, for they were afraid that any accidents or delays would occur to Su Zhe on the track.
The race lasted just over ten seconds, but everyone couldn't help but tense up.
Master Zhe!
You must keep going!!!
Carrying the last hope of the Chinese track and field team's hurdles group, Su Zhe looked towards the finish line, and with extremely exquisite skills, he used the smallest leap to pass the railing without colliding with it.
This precise hurdle-jumping technique was exactly the same as that of the top players around him. Coupled with the deliberately enhanced explosive power, Su Zhe had gradually made up for the time lost in the reaction stage when he jumped over the fourth hurdle!
In front of him, Gomez and Hubert are fighting for the first place. Gomez is worthy of being the strong player who ran the eighth place in the world this year. His hurdle rhythm is also very smooth, and the positive and negative range of the hurdle speed between each hurdle is very small. He is a very stable and fast player in the track between hurdles.
After Hubert had a brief advantage in front of the hurdles, there seemed to be a little accident in the rhythm between the hurdles. He hit the hurdle slightly when crossing the third hurdle. Although it was not a big problem, it still had a certain impact on his speed, which slightly weakened his speed advantage. He was gradually overtaken by Gomez at the fifth hurdle.
The rhythm between the fences between Gomez and Hubert was inconsistent. While Gomez was still maintaining a stable progress between the fences, Hubert's speed reached the peak of the highest fence speed at the sixth fence. At the same time, his speed began to gradually decline, and even reached the lowest speed in the entire stage at the eighth fence.
Su Zhe's runway was on the right side of Yu Beier. He kept moving forward at a smooth hurdle-to-hurdle rhythm, so much so that when he reached the fastest hurdle-to-hurdle speed at the seventh hurdle, Yu Beier on Su Zhe's left seemed to be a little panicked because of the sharp drop in his own speed.
When Su Zhe also began to overtake him with his excellent rhythm between the hurdles, Yu Beier's mentality seemed to collapse. He was eager to overtake the player who was originally behind him, but this eager mentality did not enable him to gain an advantage. Instead, he made a major mistake when crossing the ninth hurdle and directly knocked over the ninth hurdle.
Yu Beier's mistake startled many of the players behind him. The player on the right lane of Yu Beier also made a mistake in hitting the fence for the same reason.
In front of them, although Su Zhe heard the movement behind him, he still forced himself to calm his mind and focused all his attention on the front.
On the second track, which was some distance away from Yu Bell, the Jamaican athlete Percival had already jumped over the ninth hurdle. Because of the certain distance between him and Yu Bell, Percival was not affected at all. His speed between the last two hurdles was also amazing. When Su Zhe successfully jumped over the hurdle and landed, Percival also jumped over the tenth hurdle at the same time!
Only the last 14 meters of sprint are left!
Su Zhe didn't care about any of the athletes around him. He quickly adjusted his posture while running and made a final sprint move. On the second lane, Percival also made a sprint move.
Their speeds are almost the same. Su Zhe has a stronger ability to accelerate in the later stages and has a certain advantage in stride frequency, but his stride cannot be compared with Percival. Percival is 194cm tall and his stride advantage is far greater than Su Zhe.
The two were evenly matched in the final 14 meters of the sprint. Each of them made a sprinting movement with his upper body leaning forward, not missing any posture that could gain an advantage.
When Su Zhe used all his strength to take the last step to rush to the finish line, Percival also completed the rush to the finish line.
Whether it was the audience, commentators, or the audience watching the live broadcast, it was difficult to tell who won the second place qualification from the close movements of the two.
In the Chinese players' area, Zheng Wensheng nervously gripped the back of the chair in front of him, the anxious expression on his face was self-evident. Lu Fei's brows were also tightly wrinkled, and Su Yinsheng, who also came to watch Su Zhe's game, also frowned.
Who is the second-ranked player in this group?
Zheng Wensheng couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "We are rushing to the finish line at the same time again. Why is it like this again?"
Obviously, he was talking about the situation in the semi-finals of the 100-meter dash. In the 100-meter semi-finals, Su Zhe and Nigerian athlete Sandy crossed the finish line at the same time. In the end, he took advantage of the first-line advantage to win the third place in the semi-final group and finally entered the 100-meter final.
Will I be able to get a place in the final today as well?
In the commentary booth, Chris and Beerus had already received the key video screenshots submitted by the referee team. At the same time, the director on the scene also projected this image onto the live broadcast screen.
On the big screen, Su Zhe's body clearly crossed the line faster than Percival's. The contrast between the two was clear and distinct.
Chris announced loudly in the commentary booth: "In the third group of the 110-meter hurdles semi-finals, let us congratulate Gomez and Suzhe for advancing directly to the 110-meter hurdles finals!"
Suddenly, cheers rang out again from the Chinese players' area.
In this competition with Percival, the final winner is - Su Zhe!
The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_ I'm sorry, yesterday's plot was indeed mainly oriented towards the supporting characters. Well, when writing these sports chapters, it is inevitable that there will be content related to other characters. I will control it a little bit in the future. If the supporting characters appear more, I will make a note in the content summary so that the little angels can choose whether to subscribe to the supporting characters related content!
Well, as for Shao Da Lao… He still has a little room for growth. I hope you won’t despise him too much [bow humbly ing]
Give everyone a thumbs up. Laji Caicai traveled all the way to the company headquarters for a meeting this afternoon. I’m feeling a little exhausted now, so I’m going to go to the stall and take a rest. Good night everyone!
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