The word "boiling" alone is not enough to describe how heated the atmosphere was. As of tonight, this is the second medal won by the Chinese team at this year's World Indoor Athletics Championships, and it is also the second silver medal won by the national track and field team in the sprint event at the World Indoor Athletics Championships!
In the audience seats, people celebrated Su Zhe's achievement wildly, waving red flags in their hands, and even singing the national anthem loudly, feeling honored and proud of Su Zhe's performance.
In the commentary booth, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan also expressed their excitement in a joyful but restrained manner.
Wang Miaochuan said with emotion: "Before the start of this year's competition, there was a special column on the Sports Channel discussing the significance of my country hosting the World Indoor Athletics Championships. Someone pointed out that in the indoor competition, many events that my country is good at in track and field were cut off, which is equivalent to using the weaknesses of the Chinese track and field team to compete head-on with the world's athletes. In the final result of the competition, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of encouraging the public to understand track and field."
"Indeed, our country does not have much advantage in indoor track and field events, but this is not a reason not to host the competition!" Wang Miaochuan was a little excited. He said in a deep voice: "In competitive sports, we can never expect to always use our strengths to compete with others' weaknesses. What we need to do is to develop our weaknesses, so as to gradually make our own events stronger, and eventually be able to compete with other countries' strengths."
Beside Wang Miaochuan, Zhang Jing also nodded and said, "Yes, the purpose of hosting this event is to spread the influence of track and field events, so that more people in our own country can experience the charm of the world's top track and field events. From these two days of competition, I believe that the audience on the scene should have clearly felt the charm of track and field competitions!"
Just as the two hosts said, the audience at the scene, after seeing Su Zhe's ranking, were immersed in a sea of joy and couldn't extricate themselves. Everyone was cheering, hugging and celebrating happily.
On the court, at the end of the sponge wall, after a buffer, Su Zhe turned around and leaned against the sponge wall, looking at the wild cheers of the audience, and suddenly felt a little dazed.
What place did he get?
It seems to be the second...
If you come in second, then it's the silver medal?
Did he get the cards?
It was not until this thought came into his mind that Su Zhe truly realized what ranking he had achieved. After crossing the finish line, his almost empty mind gradually began to fill with excitement.
He did it! He won the silver medal in the men's 60-meter dash!
"Su Zhe!!! Awesome!!! We are so proud of you!!"
"Su Zhe did a great job!!"
In the audience area, the audience's passionate and pure shouts began to gradually flood into Su Zhe's ears. He left the sponge wall, stood up straight, and began to slowly look around the entire stadium.
This indoor venue, which can accommodate less than 5,000 people, is much smaller than the previous Hillion Stadium in Country D, but the audience area is also much closer to the players.
Su Zhe saw that everyone in the 360-degree circular seats had flushed faces, from teenagers of sixteen or seventeen to uncles and aunts in their fifties and sixties, all were ecstatic about his achievements, and their happiness and pride at this moment all came from him.
This realization made Su Zhe's nose feel slightly sour and his eyes turned red.
The audience at the scene, even the audience before the live broadcast, and his fans... Suddenly, Su Zhe realized deeply again that he was carrying so many expectations on his shoulders on the court. Countless people had their hearts tied to him, nervous for his nervousness, proud for his victory, and sad for his mistakes and failures.
This sense of burden and responsibility of being needed enveloped Su Zhe so densely for the first time. He raised his hand to push his slightly damp hair back, quietly wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes, and then bowed solemnly to the audience in the 360-degree circular seats on the scene.
At the scene, reporters in the interview booth rushed to the stadium as soon as the game ended and took various news photos for each finalist.
At Xu Zhi's signal, the sports channel's photographer temporarily gave up on Evanson, who was in first place, and went straight to Su Zhe. From the time when Su Zhe was leaning against the sponge wall in a daze to now, when Su Zhe bowed to the audience, the photographer recorded every detail meticulously.
In the commentary booth, after Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan expressed their feelings, they also asked Su Yinsheng next to them with a smile, what do you think of Su Zhe's performance today?
Although Su Yinsheng still had a serious look on his face, his relaxed state at the moment explained everything: "Su Zhe's condition today was pretty good. It can be said that his competitive condition today should be his peak in the short term. It is in this state that he has been able to exert his greatest potential."
Wang Miaochuan smiled and asked, "Well, we all know that when coaches formulate annual training plans for athletes, they will take into account the peak condition of the athletes. So Su Zhe's personal condition reached its peak at this World Indoor Track and Field Championships. Was it also carefully adjusted by the coaching staff?"
Su Yinsheng nodded and said, "That's for sure. Lao Lu and I have arranged Su Zhe's training plan for this year according to a double cycle. The first peak is the cycle of this indoor championship. So far, it seems that this cycle adjustment is quite successful..."
After Zhang Jing, Wang Miaochuan and Su Yinsheng chatted for a while, the referee team also pushed the final results to the commentary booth.
Zhang Jing smiled and announced Su Zhe's final results to the audience on site and the audience before the live broadcast: "In the men's 60-meter sprint event of the World Indoor Track and Field Championships, first place: Evanson (USA), 6.43 seconds, second place: Su Zhe (China) 6.48 seconds, third place: Gates (USA) 6.51 seconds..."
After the results of the first, second and third place were announced, the scene fell into frenzy again. No one knew where the voice came from, but all the audience began to shout Su Zhe's name rhythmically.
"Su Zhe! Su Zhe! Su Zhe! Su Zhe!"
The sound was neat and uniform, as if the audience at the concert, led by the drummer, were shouting together, inviting the singer to return for an encore.
What is different from a concert is that in this indoor stadium, there are no drummers or staff to lead everyone. All the shouts from the audience at this time come from their own excitement, and their love and gratitude for Su Zhe.
On the court, Xu Zhi was also smiling while conducting a live interview with Su Zhe.
Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan, who were in the commentary booth, had already brought the topic to Xu Zhi's live interview at the director's suggestion.
"First of all, I want to congratulate you warmly!" Xu Zhi's voice was also filled with joy: "In the first world-class competition of the year 2020, I won my first world-class medal for the first time!"
Su Zhe also had a smile on his face as he said thank you in the direction of Xu Zhi.
The audience was cheering enthusiastically. Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Friends watching TV, you can hear that there are still audiences cheering for Su Zhe. It can be said that Su Zhe's performance today has encouraged everyone! So, Su Zhe, in the pre-match interview, you confidently announced that you must enter the finals. Did you have confidence and a premonition that you would win a medal today?"
Su Zhe shook his head: "That's not true. Before the race, I set a goal for myself, which was to run my best and get into the top five. There are many strong competitors in the 60-meter race. Based on my ability in daily training, I have some confidence that I can get into the top five, but there are still too many uncertainties in the final. Especially in the 60-meter race, the race is extremely short. Just a delay in the reaction to the gunshot may have a great impact on the final result..."
“So, my idea is always to take care of myself first and give full play to my current condition in the competition. Fortunately, the coaching staff adjusted the condition cycle for me, allowing me to participate in the competition in the best condition, which is also an important reason why I can run this result today.”
"You ran 6.48 seconds today, which is only 0.03 seconds away from your senior brother Chen Zhi's personal best, which is also our country's 60-meter sprint record of 6.45 seconds. Have you ever thought about surpassing Chen Zhi's result?"
This question made Su Zhe smile: "Of course I have thought about it. As an athlete, who wouldn't want to break his own record? Who wouldn't want to break records and create history? But you have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. I will continue to work hard and strive to compete with Brother Xiaozhi soon."
The live interview was not long, but it satisfied the audience in front of the TV and computer.
When leaving the field, the audience was still excited. As Su Zhe was leaving the field, he glanced at a certain place in the audience stands and saw a spectator wearing a mask and a duckbill cap.
Even from a distance, this audience member looked very familiar to Su Zhe.
Su Zhe looked in that direction for two or three seconds, then suddenly smiled and waved to the audience member who was sitting there, and then left the stage with a smile.
In the direction where Su Zhe waved his hand, the audience cheered and rejoiced when they saw his sudden action, and a young man in a duckbill cap sitting in the seat also showed a gentle smile on his handsome face hidden behind the mask.
The results of tonight's game will naturally have far-reaching impacts beyond the scene.
Online, the athletics kingdom forums, Weibo, major news apps, video sites, etc., have already been abuzz with the final result of this competition.
In the forum of the Kingdom of Track and Field, the page of the sprint space had already completely collapsed. There were more than ten or twenty posts in a row on the homepage, all celebrating the achievements that Su Zhe had made tonight, and everywhere was filled with shouts of how awesome Su Zhe was.
For a while, no one cared about the rules such as not allowing mass posting, and the administrators of the forum also temporarily relaxed their management and joined in the carnival.
[Damn, it’s so fucking exciting to watch Zhe Shao’s game. Even as a big boss, my eyes are still red. But I have to say, this game is really exciting to watch! ]
1L: [I was so excited that my eyes turned red +1w. To be honest, this 60-meter race was over in a blink of an eye, but I still find it hard to get over the exhilarating feeling. After watching the race, I almost wanted to go downstairs and run a few laps to vent my excitement...]
3L: [Hahahahaha, I just howled during the competition and got beaten up by my wife and mother. They said I scared my daughter. Hey, isn't this exciting? Master Zhe is really awesome. A world-class medal, right? He got it! Oh, it's really satisfying. I can't say anything else except "I'm so happy"...]
10L: [During yesterday's preliminaries and semi-finals, I knew that Zhe Shao's condition was heavenly, but I still didn't dare to think that he could break 6.50 seconds... Think about it, in December, at the invitational competition in Japan, Zhe Shao's final result was only 6.60 seconds. Who would have thought that after a winter training, his condition would improve so quickly? ]
On Weibo, major official media outlets have released Su Zhe's results and ranking in this game.
The official Weibo account of the National Track and Field Team: [#World Indoor Track and Field Championships Day 2# Warm congratulations to our country's male sprinter @Su Zhe, who won a silver medal in the men's 60m event of this year's indoor event with a time of 6.48 seconds! This is the first world-class medal that @Su Zhe has won so far. We hope that he will continue to perform well in the next competitions and achieve even better results! In future competitions, he will achieve even more brilliant results! ]
Sports Channel official microblog: [#Today's live broadcast highlights##World Indoor Track and Field Championships Day 2#@Su Zhe not only had full confidence before the game, but also combined his confidence with strength to present us with his best performance in tonight's final. Click on the Sports Channel live broadcast room address to get closer to this sprinting genius! ]
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In addition to these official media and sports-related news media, there are also various self-media that create various news that incorporate current hot topics.
On nights like this, no matter where you go, you can see Su Zhe's wonderful moments on the 60-meter track.
After forwarding the post, many netizens expressed their feelings.
[Oh, this big guy is really awesome. I still find it hard to imagine that he was such an unknown person on ylq with emoticons and black pictures everywhere. Now he has retired from the circle, and now he has won a world-class silver medal... The world is really magical. I guess that the senior executives of Lemon Entertainment are probably regretting it now...]
[Hahahaha, what a coincidence, I think so too! This company simply has no idea what kind of vision and brains they have. Not to mention that Su Zhe was obviously working hard in the competition, even if he is really bad at everything, he can easily become famous with that face, right?]
[=w= I saw a joke today, called "Lemon Entertainment is talking about lemons", which said that a young lady in the industry said that the daughter of the Lemon Entertainment CEO was the one who originally planned the fraud scheme against Su Zhe. Now the company is forbidden to mention Su Zhe. If their internal staff want to watch Su Zhe's games, they have to use their own network secretly, so as not to use the company's wifi and be discovered by the company's network security department, who will fine them...]
[Pfft, what a ridiculous rumor, it's really outrageous, she has now quit the entertainment industry to focus on winning glory for the country, and she also terminated the contract with them peacefully, what qualifications do they have to be so upset? With this young lady's narrow-mindedness, I think it would be better for the CEO of Lemon Entertainment to find a reliable professional manager to take over the company as soon as possible...]
In addition to the entertainment industry's gossip, the big names in the sports circle will naturally not miss the opportunity to comment on Su Zhe's game.
Including Tao Sheng, Uncle with Eyes, Lao Bai Watching Athletics, and even Xiao Bai Watching Athletics, an account run by Su Zhe's fan "Philosopher", almost more than 80% of sports bloggers have successively released the short essays they wrote for this game.
Of course, among them, Professor Tao Sheng and philosophers have the deepest feelings for Su Zhe.
Tao Sheng: [Tonight's 60m final was a scene that made everyone's blood boil! As @蘇哲 himself said, he did his best in the competition. He did his best in his condition. This silver medal is well deserved. I still remember that less than a year ago, he returned to the sports circle and stepped onto the competition field with questioning eyes. At that time, I was one of the people who looked at him with critical eyes. Today at the indoor championship, @蘇哲's performance and everything about him made me feel honored.]
Uncle Eyes: [Once again, congratulations to Su Zhe for his outstanding performance in the men's 60m sprint! After Chen Zhi, Su Zhe brought the silver medal in the men's 60m event of the World Indoor Track and Field Championships to China for the second time!
To be honest, when I was writing the review yesterday, I was still just dreaming about this silver medal...or rather, the medal. I didn't expect that Su Zhe would actually bring this surprise to us today!
Many people have already talked about Su Zhe's silver medal in the 60-meter sprint. In addition to talking about Su Zhe's 60-meter sprint, I also want to talk about the 60-meter hurdles in the morning!
Amid the carnival tonight, how many people still remember that Su Zhe actually won the first place in the men's 60-meter hurdles preliminaries this morning?
Moreover, this was the first time he participated in an indoor competition using the seven-step technique at the hurdles after his winter training.
Before Su Zhe actually took the court, I was worried. Given Su Zhe's height and limited training time, could he fully learn the seven-step technique and make full use of this technical move instead of being affected and suppressed by the difficulty of the technical move?
Fortunately, Su Zhe's performance on the court made me completely relieved.
Even when facing a strong opponent like Elano, he was able to maintain his performance steadily and finally won the first place in the 60-meter hurdles preliminaries.
This shows that Su Zhe now has a more complete understanding of the seven-step technique, and has reached a level of skill that can be used in major competitions. It can be imagined that during the winter training period, Su Zhe must have made great efforts for this.
Finally, in today's two games, in addition to strength, Su Zhe's luck may not be underestimated. In the morning stage, Elano did not perform at his full strength at the beginning, and was affected by Su Zhe to a certain extent in the later stage. He hit the hurdles slightly, and his final result was slightly worse than Su Zhe.
In the evening final, American team's Gate had a slight deformation in his movements during the final sprint, which slightly affected his speed.
I saw some track and field fans discussing whether the final result would have changed significantly if these two athletes had performed perfectly in today's race.
From my personal perspective, the rankings of Su Zhe and Elano may change in the 60-meter hurdles, but not necessarily in tonight's 60-meter final.
After all, we all know that Su Zhe is best at exerting force in the latter part of the race. In the 60-meter sprint, although the power of exerting force in the latter part does not seem that strong, it can be seen from the last 15 meters that Su Zhe is already exerting force. Before that, the gap between him and Gate was about one thousandth of a second.
With Su Zhe accelerating in the later stages, Gates is likely to be taken down by Su Zhe in the last 15 meters!
Of course, this is just my personal judgment. Personally, I am also looking forward to another competition between Su Zhe and these players, so that we can truly see who will be the final winner when everyone is in perfect condition! 】
Just as sports influencers were discussing matters related to Su Zhe's game, another small group of topics related to today's game were pushed to the top of Weibo.
#Shao Xingchen appeared at the indoor championship#
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What's the matter with this topic?
As soon as Shao Xingchen's fans "satellites" discovered this topic, they clicked on it and saw that many passers-by took pictures of a young man wearing a down jacket, a duckbill cap and a mask during the security check, who was taking off his coat and mask for inspection.
From the perspective of passers-by, the person undergoing security check seems to be their eldest son?!
After basically determining through guesswork that the person in the photo was the eldest son of their family, the satellites' first reaction was - did he go to watch Su Zhe's live game again?
As the topic climbed in the rankings, satellites gradually discovered some passers-by who laughed at it.
【_(:з」∠)_Oh, isn't this Mr. Shao Su Zhe's photographer? Why didn't he bring a camera when he entered the venue today?】
[Hahahaha, this is amazing. Shao Xingchen really likes track and field after filming Chasing the Light, right? I checked his schedule these days and he's quite busy. He actually took time out to watch the competition! It looks like he's really in love with her!]
【??? It seems that Shao Xingchen and Su Zhe have a really good relationship? Did he come to watch Su Zhe's game specially? It's a pity that he didn't bring a camera today. The photos he took of Su Zhe before were really amazing!】
After finding that there was nothing in the topic that was unfavorable to their boss, the satellites first breathed a sigh of relief, and then could not help but express their feelings in their own group.
[Does the eldest brother have a good relationship with Su Zhe, or does he just like watching track and field competitions? He even arranged a private trip to watch the competition in his current schedule... If it weren't for Su Zhe's amazing results today, the main topic of discussion today would definitely be our eldest brother. ]
[0.0 Actually, I think it’s not a big deal. There are also many big-name stars abroad who often appear at sports events. It’s not a big deal to show off your love for sports, right? ]
Because Su Zhe was such a hot topic that night, even the topic of Shao Xingchen suspected to be in attendance to watch the game did not attract much attention.
At most, a fan posted a Weibo post showing off the tickets for the March 3rd match, and said excitedly: [Ahhh, I bought a ticket for tomorrow. If the boss is watching the match in person, can I successfully meet my boss tomorrow???]
This star-chasing Weibo post was inexplicably shared outside of the circle and received countless blessings.
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After leaving the venue and getting his phone, Su Zhe opened WeChat and saw the message from Shao Xingchen.
Shao: [Tonight’s game was great, congratulations! ]
Su Zhe: [^^ I saw you at the scene! That's you, right? I didn't expect you to come to the scene again! ]
Shao: [It’s me… I didn’t expect you to recognize me. ]
While Su Zhe was chatting casually with Shao, he left the field and found the gathering point of the Chinese team members. He met up with his father, Zheng Wensheng and others, and they boarded the bus back to the athletes' accommodation center.
On the way back, Su Zhe was still chatting with Shao Xingchen. It was not until they arrived at the dormitory that Su Zhe and Shao Xingchen said good night to each other.
Shao: [Good luck in tomorrow's game. I will be there looking forward to your victory.]
Victory.
What a sweet word.
Su Zhe squinted his eyes and lay down on his bed - tomorrow are the semi-finals and the finals, which are two tough battles, so he must cheer up!
After encouraging himself, Su Zhe closed his eyes and slept well that night.