At the end of the track, Zhou Tianjue raised his hands and scratched his hair, frowning, as if he was not very satisfied with his performance. Ye Jun took a breath and patted Zhou Tianjue on the shoulder.
"Okay, why are you so angry? There is still a chance."
"...Brother Ye." Zhou Tianjue pursed his lips and whispered, "I just feel that it is too painful to have to pin my hopes on others."
Ye Jun paused for a moment, then smiled and rubbed Zhou Tianjue's head: "You are right, it's because we are not strong enough, but we are working hard to move forward. Next time, or the next time, we will eventually rely on our own strength to fight for the position of victory. I believe that we will have a chance, and this day will definitely come."
With Ye Jun's comfort, Zhou Tianjue calmed down a little, turned to look at the big screen, and waited for his final result in this group.
Soon, the referee team pushed the final results to the commentary booth, and the director also switched the results to the big screen on site.
"The final results of the first group of the men's 60-meter hurdles semi-finals are: first place, Alcides (Spain) 7.50 seconds, second place, Gomez (Brazil) 7.51 seconds, third place, Zhou Tianjue (China) 7.55 seconds, fourth place, Train (USA) 7.58 seconds, fifth place, Ye Jun (China) 7.63 seconds..."
Zhou Tianjue's result of 7.55 seconds was 0.04 seconds better than his 7.59 seconds in the preliminaries. This is also his best result in 60-meter hurdles training in recent times.
In the commentary booth, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan both felt a little bit regretful, and although Lu Fei frowned, he was still very satisfied with Zhou Tianjue's performance.
"In this competition, all the athletes performed very well. Alcides had a very smooth start. His reaction to the shot was particularly outstanding. The data of 0.119 seconds was enough to explain everything. Gomez, who was competing with him for the first place in the semi-final group, had a reaction time of 0.128 seconds. The difference in the final results of the two was almost reflected in the results of this reaction stage. From the start to the hurdles, the smoothness and rhythm of the two have also reached a very high level. The level of this group competition is beyond doubt."
As the big screen on site began to play slow-motion footage of the entire game, Lu Fei also began to re-analyze every little change on the field for the audience.
When talking about Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun, he commented: "Both Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun have reached their peak performance today. They both ran to their best level since the winter training. In today's semi-final, their performance has reached or even exceeded my expectations, especially Ye Jun. He is indeed a good player who has accumulated a lot of experience and is growing explosively. I can clearly say that as long as they are given a little more time, their growth will be limitless."
Lu Fei's evaluation was extremely high. Before this competition, he had never praised Ye Jun so clearly, which was enough to show the change in his impression of Ye Jun during this period of time.
On the Internet, in the Athletics Kingdom forum, a group of bigwigs who were also following the competition were also expressing their admiration for Lu Fei's comments on Ye Jun.
[This is incredible. Didn't General Lu slap himself in the face? I remember saying that someone recommended Jun Ye to General Lu, but General Lu didn't think highly of him, so he refused to accept him.]
1L: [I remember this incident. Later, when Lu Shuai led the national team's cross-hurdle team, he and Jun Ye's coach worked together to develop some training plans for Lu Shuai. Jun Ye actually said that it was his original coach who accompanied him through it all.]
2L: [To be honest, it was not easy for Jun Ye. When he started training in hurdles, the event was still very popular in China. When he started participating in competitions, the event was already in a period of lack of young talents. When he was in the youth group, many of his peers were called the successor of Song Chen, but he was the only one who had never been given this title.
How popular was Hong Mingwei at that time? Jun Ye was basically a small transparent character at that time, and no one paid attention to him all the way. Later, Hong Mingwei was completely useless. Even if Jun Ye had a little success, everyone was still observing him carefully with a cautious attitude.
It was in recent years that the only athlete in China who was able to withstand the pressure and grow was Jun Ye. However, his performance at that time was not outstanding. He just carried the banner of the domestic hurdles event and walked through it without saying a word, regardless of whether others scolded him or praised him.
To be honest, from the second half of last year to now, seeing his accumulated experience and achievements, I am happier than seeing the achievements of Zhe Shao and Jue Ge Er. He deserves his current achievements and definitely deserves the praise from General Lu tonight. 】
5L: [My dear brother on the second floor... I am tearing up after reading your words. You are right. Jun Ye deserves the praise and achievements he has now. God has a good eye. No matter if it is God rewards hard work or hard work pays off, Jun Ye definitely deserves what he has now.]
7L: [+1 for Jun Ye. If nothing else, looking at the improvement in his performance this time, Jun Ye has completely caught up with Jue Ge'er and Zhe Shao. What does this mean? Jun Ye has really entered the stage of his performance explosion. I think Jun Ye is probably what is called a late bloomer. I am waiting to see how high he can reach in the end! I am leaving this here. I am optimistic about him. His final performance will definitely not be worse than Zhe Shao and Jue Ge'er! ]
A passage from Lu Fei's live commentary made netizens in the track and field kingdom forum, who have been following the cross-hurdle events for many years, feel very complicated.
Over the years, because Ye Jun is the only cross-hurdle player standing at the top in the country, all the insults from some brainless cross-hurdle trolls on the Internet are directed at him.
Those trolls don't care what the current situation of hurdles jumping is like in China, or that the hurdles jumping performances of various countries have declined to varying degrees on a global scale. They just say that Chinese hurdles jumping used to be at the top of the world, so why are the current athletes getting weaker than the previous generation?
If the search results for "Hong Mingwei, useless" are somewhat reasonable, then the search results for "Ye Jun, no longer useful" are pure brainless arguments from the brainwashing of trolls.
In a post on the Athletics Kingdom forum, a forum member finally expressed his feelings.
[Among the three stars who are currently crossing the hurdles, the one with the most stable mentality is definitely Jun Ye. He can be said to have walked through mountains of swords and seas of fire. If his mental quality was not strong enough and firm enough, he would not have been able to come this far, and he would not have been able to wait until he entered the golden stage of his current performance explosion.
Jun Ye's current state is not due to any external force, but to himself. 】
This passage was quoted by countless people in the forum, and was also reposted on Weibo by many sports celebrities and quoted in their own articles.
Amid heated discussions online, the on-site competition has already advanced to the second group of the semi-finals.
The second group includes strong players such as Lister from the United States, Elano from Brazil, and Adolf from France.
If we talk about the 60-meter hurdles results, these three are almost the same. Adolf is quite strong in the early stages, but if they really fight on the track, if someone is not careful, it is hard to say who will win in the end.
Moreover, apart from these three players, the other players in the second group of the semi-finals are also strong. In this unknown arena, no one can predict whether anyone will suddenly make a comeback.
Soon, under the instructions of the referee, the spectators who were cheering for the athletes stopped shouting, and after the scene was quiet, the athletes had already stepped onto their respective starting blocks and made their own preparations.
After the referee's command, the starting gun sounded and the competition officially began!
Under the watchful eyes of the spectators, this group of players exuded the smell of gunpowder from the moment the competition started.
List, Elano and Adolf all tried their best, starting from the speed of reaction to the gunshot, to the acceleration at the start and the rhythm of crossing the hurdles, the three of them were in a very similar rhythm. In addition, a Swiss athlete Luca also caught up with List and the other two in this group. He rushed forward with an extremely ferocious attitude at the beginning of the stage, and even tied with the three in the hurdle crossing stage of the first three hurdles. However, from the third hurdle, whether it was due to psychological reasons or other reasons, Luca began to have continuous problems with technical deformation, hitting the hurdles one after another, and finally fell to the third from the bottom.
Among the Lister trio, the final result was that of Elano's victory, Lister's second place, and Adolf's third place.
In the commentary booth, Wang Miaochuan also reported the results of the group of players to the audience.
"Men's 60m hurdles semi-finals, second group: first place, Elano (Brazil) 7.49, second place, Lister (USA) 7.51, third place, Adolf (France) 7.54, fourth place, Noland (Jamaica) 7.61..."
As soon as the result came out, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan both showed a little nervousness on their faces - Adolf, who was also ranked third in the group, scored 7.54 seconds, just 0.01 seconds faster than Zhou Tianjue's 7.56 seconds. And just this 0.01 second difference meant that there was one more person standing in Zhou Tianjue's way to promotion.
Once the third-ranked athlete in the third group scores more than 7.55 seconds, it means that Zhou Tianjue has completely lost the qualification to advance to the finals.
This situation made the two commentators, as well as the audience at the scene and before the live broadcast, nervous.
Whether Zhou Tianjue can enter the finals or not depends almost entirely on the performance of the third group of players in the semi-finals.
Zhang Jing threw this question to Lu Fei, who was frowning in thought: "Coach Lu, do you think Zhou Tianjue has a good chance of advancing to the finals?"
After hearing this question, Lu Fei frowned and thought for a while before speaking: "You have already got the list of players in the third group. In this group, the players who need to be paid special attention to are Holness and Percival from Jamaica, Louis from the American team, and finally Su Zhe..."
"This..." Wang Miaochuan looked down at the grouping table, his face a little ugly: "Coach Lu, are you saying that these four athletes are all capable of making it to the finals?"
Lu Fei nodded: "Yes, I have been worried about this problem since I saw the group table before the semi-finals. In this group, the first is Louis from the American team. This is an athlete who has the ability to run under 13.17 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles. Last season, his 110-meter hurdles results were among the top six of the year. In last year's World Championships, Su Zhe once competed with him, but in the end, due to a mistake, Louis only won the seventh place in the World Championships. But this does not mean that his strength is limited to this."
"In addition to Louis, Percival is also very strong. He is also a famous Jamaican athlete. I believe that track and field enthusiasts who have been following the competition for a long time are no strangers to Percival. But even Percival and the athlete in the previous group, Noland, have not been as popular in Jamaica as this little guy named Holness since last year."
Lu Fei pointed at Holness on the group list with a stern look: "This Holness, his height is similar to Su Zhe, only 1.8 meters, but in the 110-meter hurdles, his current personal PB is 13.02 seconds, and he may break the gold medal within 13 seconds at any time. At the same time, although he is small, his explosive power is very strong. As early as last year, he had already fully used the seven-step hurdle step.
Holness is very impressive in the early stages of the race. He can usually reach his maximum hurdle speed in the first three hurdles. His only weakness is that he lacks speed endurance in the latter stages. In the middle and later stages, his speed will drop slightly because he explodes too early.
However, this decline has been stabilized in a very safe range. It is difficult for players who have been left behind by him to overtake him in one fell swoop at this stage.
In the 60-meter hurdles, due to the short track, his weakness is even less noticeable... Based on my personal experience, he can easily run under 7.50 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles."
Wang Miaochuan and Zhang Jing were both surprised by what Lu Fei said. This player named Holness was not discovered very long ago and had hardly participated in any world competitions, so he was not well-known in the world arena.
"Then..." Zhang Jing organized his words and frowned, "Coach Lu, are you saying that Tianjue's chances of reaching the finals this time are slim?"
Sighing, Lu Fei nodded and said, "Yes, if Tianjue wants to qualify for the finals, his chances are very slim."
This conclusion is bad news for Lu Fei, the two commentators, and the audience at the scene and before the live broadcast.
The atmosphere on the forums and Weibo, which was originally very heated, has now become a little stagnant.
As everyone was in a state of tension, the athletes in the third group of the men's 60-meter hurdles semi-finals also stepped onto the field one after another.
The director at the scene, perhaps to ease the atmosphere, swept the screen to the audience area. I don't know if the cameraman didn't notice it, or if the director did it on purpose, but the picture on the big screen suddenly stopped on a young man in a duckbill cap near the front row. The person in the picture seemed to notice that he was in the picture, so he raised his hand to press down the brim of his hat.
Su Zhe, who was adjusting the starting blocks at the starting point of the track, turned around after the test run and happened to see a large screen on one side of the venue. On the large screen, the young man in the peaked cap was not only wearing a peaked cap, but also a black mask and a down jacket, making his facial features and body features difficult to distinguish.
Su Zhe was stunned for a moment, then he smiled, turned around to look around the scene, quickly found Shao Xingchen's location, and waved to him.
The picture on the big screen had already moved away from Shao Xingchen's position at the director's signal, and happened to cut to Su Zhe who was waving his hands. For a moment, the audience who saw Su Zhe waving his hands responded enthusiastically and kept shouting his name in the audience.
There was not much time for preparation before the game, and Su Zhe simply waved in the direction of Boss Shao before turning his attention back to the current game.
Su Zhe was in the third lane of the race, and on his right was the Jamaican player Holness.
This teenager from Jamaica is about the same height as Su Zhe. Like other Jamaican players, he has naturally curly hair and dark skin. He grows his hair long and ties it into a big fluffy curly ponytail.
After seeing Su Zhe, his eyes immediately lit up, then he used his hands to compare the heights of the two people, and then smiled, revealing his big white teeth.
"Hey, hello! My name is Holness!"
Even before the game started, Holness was incredibly relaxed. He smiled and stretched out his hand to Su Zhe, as if to shake hands.
Su Zhe also smiled and shook Holness's hand, nodded and replied: "Hello, my name is Su Zhe."
When shaking hands with Su Zhe, Holness shook their hands vigorously, then said with a silly smile: "I know you! I've seen your games! You are really good. Of course, I will be better than you! Humph, I will let those who call me a dwarf know the fear of being ruled by a dwarf!"
Holness's words made Su Zhe stunned for a moment, and then he laughed - this Jamaican boy had a more interesting personality than Su Zhe had expected, and reminded him of his silly friend Jiang Hanning.
“Come on!” Holness said to Su Zhe in a serious tone, “I believe you can run very fast and crush those big idiots with me! From now on, we will be the dwarf kings across the world, and let those big idiots kneel in front of us and feel what real power is!”
…
Embarrassing.
After hearing what Holness said, Su Zhe was once again certain that this young man who was placed on Coach Lu's list of key threats was essentially the same as Jiang Hanning, a funny guy.
After nodding in a daze, Su Zhe shook his head with a helpless smile, throwing away all these useless thoughts and emotions.
At the starting line, all eight athletes were ready to start the race.
Su Zhe, Holness, Percival, and Louis, these four people, are located in lanes 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively, standing in a row exactly in the middle of the eight lanes.
The middle of the track was already shrouded in a low air pressure. Even Holness, who looked like a funny guy, now had a stern expression, his eyes fixed on the track in front of him, and an intimidating aura emanated from his body.
"Everyone, take your positions."
During the broadcast, the referee's calm voice reached the ears of everyone at the scene, and the athletes took their respective preparations on the starting blocks.
"Be prepared."
"Bang……!"
After the starting gun sounded, the eight athletes on the track responded simultaneously.
Su Zhe pushed the starting block with his left leg and exerted force instantly, relying on his own strong explosive power to enter the full acceleration stage before the hurdles.
Next to Su Zhe, Holness was like a black lightning, giving people a thrilling sense of speed from the moment he started.
Amazing speed!
Everyone in the audience was shocked by Holness's initial speed the moment they saw it. However, Percival and Louis' speeds were comparable to Su Zhe's, and they were in a stalemate.
Holness and Su Zhe both adopted the same seven-step pace in front of the hurdle. About one body length behind him, Su Zhe was also trying hard to catch up with the black lightning figure.
Su Zhe's steps before the hurdles are already quite smooth. Due to the characteristics of the seven steps before the hurdles, his body leans forward at a greater angle than before, and the forward force he can use after pushing off the ground on the track is also stronger.
Coupled with the powerful explosive power of his left leg, all of this is the important reason why he can keep up with Percival and Louis in the early stages of the race!
In fact, before changing his stride from eight to seven, Su Zhe's concern had always been that he was not tall enough and his limbs were shorter than those taller and longer-legged players. In this case, if he wanted to change his stride from eight to seven in front of the hurdles, it would inevitably mean that the length of each step in front of the hurdles would have to be increased a lot.
However, the core difficulty of the technical transformation from eight steps to seven lies in whether the stride frequency can be maintained high enough after the stride frequency is changed from eight steps to seven steps. After all, the stride frequency plus the stride length are the comprehensive factors that determine the final running speed.
Fortunately, he was very talented in controlling his cadence. At the same time, due to the comprehensive physical fitness training he had undergone in the system space, his body was able to withstand longer strides while also allowing him to quickly increase his cadence.
At this time, on the track, Su Zhe had completed seven smooth steps in front of the hurdles. In the seventh step, his take-off leg was just in the right position for him to take a step in front of the hurdles.
As his right foot touched the ground, a powerful force burst out, supporting his body as he began to enter the attacking stage!
He swung his legs and folded them to cross the railing. His body leaned forward and took advantage of the impact of the force to fly over the railing almost sticking to the upper edge of the railing. Then he raised his legs and folded them, crossing the railing on the right side of his body!
"good!"
Lu Fei cheered in the commentary booth. From the moment Su Zhe started running after hearing the gun to the moment he crossed the first hurdle, his overall movements had a smooth beauty that combined explosiveness with technique. At the same time, his own excellent rhythm made this dynamic process a visual feast.
Next to Su Zhe, the dark-skinned boy Holness was still about one body length faster than Su Zhe. The overall posture of this dark-skinned Jamaican boy was stretched and powerful, and each of his movements was a perfect combination of strength and beauty.
Among the four people in the middle lane, the first to fall out of the first group position was Percival in lane 5. Perhaps it was because he had already felt the threat and pressure of being dominated by Holness when competing in Jamaica. From the stage before the hurdles, Percival's rhythm was slightly disordered, and after entering the stage between the hurdles, Percival's overall rhythm was completely disrupted by Holness.
In a hurdle race, losing your rhythm is very dangerous, which basically means the failure of a game.
After Percival's rhythm was disrupted, he hit the railings one after another, even causing other railings around him to shake.
Percival and Louis were originally at a similar level of progress, but after Percival started hitting the railings, the vibration of the railings caused Louis' rhythm to become impaired.
But Louis was indeed a strong athlete. He jumped over the shaking railings one by one and it did not cause much impact on him. At the same time, because he had never participated in the same competition with Holness, he was not too afraid of this short athlete.
On the track, starting from the third hurdle, the only real competitors were Holness, Suzhe and Louis.
Among the three, Holness was the first to reach his maximum speed. He tapped the ground between the hurdles, took a step, and then jumped over the hurdles. The whole series of smooth movements seemed to be getting faster and faster. He was like an electric arc, flowing forward quickly, fast and difficult to catch.
Su Zhe's eyes were fixed on the front, and he did not let himself be affected by the change in rhythm. He maintained his own rhythm and gradually increased his speed on the railing. Amid the enthusiastic cheers from the audience, the passion in his chest kept pushing him to go faster and faster.
The fourth column, the fifth column...
On the 60-meter hurdles track, the five short hurdles pass by in a flash.
After the fifth hurdle, Holness's speed weakened slightly, and Louis seemed to be a little affected by Percival. He was a little conservative in the next two hurdles and did not exert his fastest speed.
After entering the final sprint stage, Su Zhe had a gap of 1.5 body lengths from Holness in front of him, while Louis was almost on the same line as Su Zhe, just slightly behind.
“Come on! Come on!!!”
In the audience seats, the audience cheered loudly, and everyone waved the red flags in their hands, staring closely at the end of the track, waiting for the final result to be announced.
Finally, after Holness crossed the finish line first, Su Zhe also leaned over to the finish line - in the final sprint stage, Su Zhe successfully mobilized his strong back-end power ability, forcing himself to go one step further and one step faster to cross the finish line!
The one who crossed the finish line after Su Zhe was the American athlete Lewis. His speed slowed down in the final sprint stage. Although he was not slow, he still lost to Su Zhe.
"Great!!!" Zhang Jing shouted in the commentary booth: "In the third group of the semi-finals, the first to cross the line was the Jamaican player, and our player Su Zhe also ranked second in the group and successfully qualified for the finals!"
After the good news was announced, the audience stood up from their seats one after another and celebrated Su Zhe's successful promotion with even more unbridled body movements.
"Now, it's time to wait for the results of this group." Wang Miaochuan said nervously, "What are the results of the third and fourth place in this group? Can our country achieve a new record of having two athletes enter the finals of the indoor championship for the first time? Let's wait and see!"
Perhaps sensing how much the audience was looking forward to the result, the referee team, after careful calculation, quickly submitted the final score sheet for the group to the commentary booth and the large screen on site.
Zhang Jing solemnly began to announce the semi-final results of his group: "Men's 60-meter hurdles semi-final third group, first place, Holness (Jamaica) 7.48 seconds, second place, (Su Zhe) 7.51 seconds, third place, Lewis (USA) 7.56 seconds, fourth place, Percival (Jamaica) 7.64 seconds..."
When reading out Louis's score, Zhang Jing could no longer conceal his excitement. After reading out all the scores of this group, Zhang Jing finally announced loudly: "Congratulations to French player Adolf and Chinese player Zhou Tianjue for successfully advancing to the finals with the top two scores among the remaining players!!!"
All the audiences on site and online shouted excitedly!
first!
This is the first time that two Chinese athletes have advanced to the finals of the hurdles event at the world's top event, the World Indoor Athletics Championships!!!
The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_Tianping, I am also in a life-and-death race today. Yesterday, a little angel criticized me correctly. I am too anxious every day. There are some bugs from time to time. I really shouldn't do this. I am already paying more attention to it, but now I come back from get off work every day to start typing. After typing, it is difficult to have time to check carefully. This is my problem. When I update on weekends, I will pay more attention. When the review of the revised article on JJ is more convenient later, I will check the bugs of the previous article and try to catch all the bugs.
PS: I promised to post the screenshots of the comments on Weibo yesterday, but I forgot to do it during the day today. I will post the screenshots of yesterday's comments on Weibo later. If you are interested, you can come and have a look. If I have time later, I will also select some interesting comments and post them here, oh!
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Today's mini-theater
Cai Cai: 0.0, you see how good your mother is to you. She even let you appear on camera when she was so nervous! You see, you even recognized me!
Mr. Shao: ...(silent for a moment, then with difficulty) Thank you?
Cai Cai: ...- - Why do you still look dissatisfied?
Shao Da Lao: ...I want to take off my hat
Cai Cai: (surprised look) =0=
Shao: (Silence for 5 seconds) Forget it, I know, now is not the time, I don’t want to
Caicai: ... =. = I'm a bit sad today, Tiger, give me a pat..._(:з」∠)_
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