Although the IAAF Diamond League is the world's top track and field federation, it did not have a strong presence in the country in the past due to low public attention.

However, since the second half of last year, the track and field circle has gradually gained attention due to various reasons, including the attention of senior management and the outstanding performance of athletes such as Su Zhe.

In addition, the IAAF report was even featured in the news a few days ago, and major online media and professional TV stations also gave relevant reports, so that many ordinary people in the country also learned about the existence of such a professional, top world-class track and field federation.

For the domestic media, the impact of this attention is that the sports channel originally only planned to purchase the live broadcast rights to show the first stop of the Diamond League in Country D to track and field fans through live broadcast. However, after the public attention of the Diamond League reached a certain level, the sports channel changed its mind and specially arranged a special broadcast time slot, and asked Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan to team up again to broadcast the Diamond League on TV.

After the sports channel announced the news of the TV broadcast, the majority of spectators and track and field enthusiasts naturally welcomed it with open arms and legs. After all, this way, they don't have to force themselves to listen to the completely incomprehensible Chinese, and they can watch the game more interestingly.

Therefore, even if the game broadcast time is a little later than the real-time live broadcast, the vast majority of sports enthusiasts and spectators still choose to wait for the live broadcast of sports channels to watch a game that they can understand and hear.

In fact, the reason why the majority of sports fans and spectators can watch the live broadcast so calmly is because this is only the first stop of the Diamond League. For Su Zhe, this is his first time to run a 100-meter race in an international arena this year.

Although official media and netizens have expressed their expectation that Su Zhe will perform well in the first game of the Diamond League, generally speaking, the beginning of the season is not the peak period for players to perform well, so the "expectations" that everyone is talking about are really just well-intentioned expectations.

For this competition, everyone's more realistic expectation is that Su Zhe can maintain his usual level, run a time of less than 10.10 seconds, and get a top four ranking in the Diamond League.

According to the points rules of the Diamond League after the reform in 2017, the top eight can get diamond points, from 8 points for the first place to 1 point for the eighth place. If Su Zhe ranks fourth, he can accumulate 5 points. According to the standard situation in previous years, as long as 15 diamond points can be accumulated in the sub-stations, the qualification for the finals is basically stable.

With this in mind, everyone watched the first round of the D Country Diamond League with a relaxed and happy mood.

Among sports enthusiasts, most have a Buddhist mentality, but there are also a small number of people who are anxious.

This group of anxious people were one step ahead of everyone else and squatted in the live broadcast room of the sports channel. Even if they could not understand the commentary, they still watched the whole thing in the live broadcast room. After watching a series of various types of competitions, they saw the men's 100-meter race in which Su Zhe participated about half an hour earlier than the people squatting in front of the TV.

Although they can't understand the subtitles, the people who are watching the live broadcast at this moment can certainly recognize the contestants at a glance.

The sparse bullet screen in the live broadcast room flashed the personal PB scores of various people who usually compete with Su Zhe, such as Gaiter, Evanson, and Nanshan Yuki. Then everyone discussed whether Su Zhe could get the top four ranking predicted by everyone in this game.

The discussion on the barrage screen stopped for more than 10 seconds until the game officially started. Then, after the game ended, everyone was still unable to react for a while.

【??? Damn, Master Zhe got the second place?!】

[6666666, Zhe Shao is awesome! Oh, how come it feels like the competition is over in the blink of an eye? I can’t even tell how Zhe Shao ran or what his condition is like… and he’s already second? ? ? ]

[I also feel that today's race seemed to go by a little too fast. I plan to turn on the TV and watch it again. Maybe it's because there's no commentary, why am I a little confused? ]

On the barrage screen, only one or two accounts were particularly excited, as if they had already seen that Su Zhe was in excellent condition in the previous game.

[What the hell! Brothers, show your professional spirit when watching a game! I think Zhe Shao's speed today is over 10!!!]

[Breaking 10? No way... I saw that Sandy and Nanshan Yuki were not in good condition today. Maybe that's why Zhe Shao seemed to be in a stable condition and ran particularly fast...]

Before the official score sheet was officially displayed, there was still some controversy on the barrage about Su Zhe's condition. Most people's point of view was that Su Zhe was in a stable condition today, but he was able to take second place perhaps because Sandy and Nanshan Yuki performed mediocrely today, and Gate fell completely behind, so he basically picked up a leak.

This subconscious denial may be due to a lack of confidence in domestic sprint events. Even though Su Zhe's previous results were good enough, he has never had a time below 10 seconds. This race is only his first stop in the Diamond League. Most people do not think that he can break the 10-second mark so easily in this race.

The moment the debate on the bullet screen stopped was the moment the official score ranking was released.

On the live broadcast screen, a lone bullet screen was floating across the center of the screen, reading: [I think Zhe Shao’s result this time is around 10.05 seconds…], and matching this bullet screen was the official score sheet, with a clear note behind Su Zhe’s name: 9.99 (-0.7).

The air in the entire live broadcast room froze for a moment, and then a cautious and tentative question popped up.

[…Is it really over 10???]

Afterwards, the entire live broadcast room seemed to be boiling, and a series of barrages began to pop out. Most of the barrages contained meaningless "Ahhhhhh...", while a few of them contained sentences such as "My face hurts so much" and "Zhe Shao is awesome".

After everyone had been meaninglessly yelling for a while, other discussions began to appear on the bullet screen.

[Brothers, take a closer look, this is not just breaking 10, Zhe Shao is breaking 10 against the odds!!!]

With the reminder from this big brother of the barrage, everyone remembered the wind speed factor that had just been ignored. For a moment, the people on the barrage were a little dazed.

【Did anyone just take a screenshot of the results? Let's go back to the forum to discuss it?】

[What are we talking about? I'm still a little dazed. Everyone, turn on the TV, hurry up! The right thing to do is to watch the live broadcast again!!!]

So, after hearing this shout, the crowd immediately turned around and turned on the TV or mobile phone live broadcast at hand, ready to once again pay close attention to how Su Zhe performs in this game.

Sports Channel, Director's Studio

In the commentary room of the sports channel's broadcast studio, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan had already been explaining the various events before the men's 100 meters. The two of them were concentrating on their work and naturally did not notice the status of the director and staff outside the commentary room.

When the competition in Country D ended in real time, the sports channel here also received the news simultaneously. Including the Athletics Administration Center and even the General Administration of Sport, relevant staff had already reported Su Zhe's results back to the country.

Not to mention the sports enthusiasts on the barrage, for the domestic sports workers, this news shocked everyone and made them a little dazed.

It was a widely acknowledged fact that Su Zhe's 100-meter time would break 10 sooner or later, but no one expected that the day when he would break 10 would come so soon and so unexpectedly.

In the first stop of the Diamond League, he broke 10 in the 100m against the wind, and also beat Gate, Sandy and other top 100m runners, ranking second in this 100m race, and accumulating 7 Diamond points...

If these elements were combined on top international players like Gates, Sandy, and Evanson, no one would be so shocked. But when these elements were combined on Su Zhe, even though everyone already knew that Su Zhe was very powerful, they were still shocked once again.

This is the second athlete in the country to break 100 meters! ! He is also the only athlete in the country to break 100 meters in the past 19 years!

In the studio, the program director in charge of the broadcast reacted quickly and notified the relevant staff immediately to push another wave of Diamond League broadcast ads on the currently available channels. At the same time, he packaged the relevant broadcast content and sent it to the news team, asking the editor on duty to write the article immediately. At the same time, he notified the evening news team of the article and the news message, and immediately informed the relevant news programs, leaving about 1 minute of news time to give Su Zhe the good news of breaking 10 in the 100 meters today.

The work in the sports channel's director's room was proceeding in an orderly manner, and in the commentary room, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan's commentary had just reached the men's 100-meter event.

Outside the broadcast room, the director cut off the conversation with the commentary room, turned around and asked the editor-in-chief whether he should pass the news of Su Zhe's score exceeding 10 to the two commentators first, but the editor-in-chief shook his head and refused this idea, hoping to present the two commentators' most realistic state in the game commentary.

Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan, who were still unaware of the outside news, were in a very stable mood and state before the commentary.

The two counted the results of Evanson, Gates and others, and also reviewed Su Zhe's previous performance in the L City leg of the domestic grand prix. As expected by many people on the Internet, they also judged that Su Zhe should be able to squeeze into the top 4 in this game.

At the same time, the two also made their own predictions, believing that Su Zhe's 100m performance would definitely break 10 this year, but whether it would be sooner or later was still a question.

When Su Zhe and others came to the starting line and began to adjust the starting blocks, Zhang Jing was still communicating with Wang Miaochuan. He said with a hint of emotion: "According to the plan of the national team coaching staff, Su Zhe's personal condition should reach its peak during the Olympic cycle. By then, Su Zhe will definitely have the best chance of breaking 10!"

Wang Miaochuan naturally agreed with Zhang Jing's statement. After a few simple responses, the monitoring screen in the commentary room showed that the athletes were ready to start.

Zhang Jing also added: "In the last women's 100m race, we can see that the D country competition site should be in a headwind today. This wind will have a certain impact on the athletes' performance on the spot. I hope Su Zhe can also get an excellent result under the headwind!"

As Zhang Jing finished speaking, the players in the broadcast were already ready to enter the official competition.

Up to this point, there were not many viewers who had actually watched Su Zhe’s race in advance on the domestic Internet. Only a few track and field fans who had watched the live broadcast were shouting on their Weibo accounts or in the relevant sections of the track and field kingdom forums: Wow, he broke 10 points against the wind!!!

The official Weibo account of the Sports Channel released a Weibo push with a link to the broadcast and the exact broadcast time of the event before the broadcast officially began. The push contained an exaggerated slogan: [The first Diamond League men's 100m broadcast of 2020 that cannot be missed]. In addition, the Sports Channel even urgently put a subtitle rolling advertisement for the broadcast of this event on the relevant TV live channel.

Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan, who were commentating on the race, naturally didn't know about this. They both stared at the race scene intently, from Su Zhe's change of starting leg to Su Zhe's temporary third place at the start, the two of them carefully memorized these details so that they could be more targeted in the replay commentary after the race.

This serious state, as Su Zhe started to stalemate with Sandy in the middle of the race and then gradually surpassed Sandy, Zhang Jing and Wang Miaochuan finally couldn't hold back their excitement.

Zhang Jing shouted, "Second place! Su Zhe is currently in second place! Good! Well done!!! Su Zhe has made it to the finish line!!! It's incredible that he has managed to get second place in the first stop of the Diamond League!!"

Seeing Su Zhe crossing the finish line in second place, Wang Miaochuan's voice and emotions were also very high at this moment: "In the first stop of the Diamond League, Su Zhe gave us a huge surprise in the men's 100m event!"

The two immediately had a detailed discussion about Su Zhe's technical adjustments and personal condition during the game, and this gratified but relatively calm mood finally got slightly out of control after seeing the player's performance shown on the screen.

Zhang Jing: "Okay, the results are out. Su Zhe's result is...?!!"

When Wang Miaochuan noticed Zhang Jingdun, he took a deep breath and announced the results of the eight athletes: "First place in the men's 100m event of the Diamond League D Country Division, Evanson (USA), 9.92 seconds (wind speed -0.7m/s), second place, Su Zhe (China), 9.99 seconds (-0.7), season sb & personal pb, third place, Sandy (Nigeria), 10.04 seconds (-0.7)..."

Only after all the players' scores were reported did Wang Miaochuan breathe a sigh of relief. Zhang Jing also controlled his ecstasy and entered into a professional commentary state.

Compared to when Su Zhe simply won the second place, before the results were officially announced, Wang Miaochuan and Zhang Jing were obviously more excited than before even though they were trying to control their emotions.

Zhang Jing said with emotion: "Congratulations to Su Zhe. He is the second athlete in our country to achieve a valid score of sub-10 in the 100m in an official international competition!"

Wang Miaochuan's tone was filled with an irrepressible excitement: "Yes, and not only that, I think some viewers should have noticed that Su Zhe's sub-10 100m result today was achieved against the wind! In other words, this is definitely not his best result under full conditions. We have reason to believe that in the next race, with the wind in his favor, Su Zhe will definitely have the opportunity to run a better result!"

Zhang Jing also agreed and took over the conversation, saying, "Before the competition, we also mentioned that according to the national team's training plan, Su Zhe is probably not in his best competitive state at the moment. If we extrapolate from his current state, in the Olympic arena, we may be able to expect a Su Zhe who can consistently run under 10 seconds!"

Of course, those who were stunned at the same time as Wang Miaochuan and Zhang Jing included the vast number of spectators and most sports enthusiasts who did not watch the live broadcast on the Internet but instead watched the TV broadcast.

The moment they saw Su Zhe's result, almost everyone with a little knowledge of sports exclaimed "Alas!", and sports enthusiasts almost jumped up from their sofas and chairs after hearing the four words "breaking 10 against the odds".

In a short period of time, sports bloggers on Weibo all posted the four big words "Breaking 10 against the wind" at the same time. Only then did some people notice that someone had posted a spoiler before the TV broadcast began. However, there were too few people posting at the time, and these guys were only concerned with the excitement. The content they posted was cut off from the beginning and there was not even a subject, so people did not guess that the person they were talking about was Su Zhe.

On the Athletics Kingdom forum, the original poster who posted the post [Fuck, breaking 10 against the wind!!!] has disappeared, apparently watching the live broadcast with Chinese commentary in front of the TV.

On the first floor of this post, there are still forum friends who are full of doubts.

1L: [??? Who broke 10 points against the odds? Evanson and Gates? Or Sandy? ??? The foreign brothers are in good shape this year! ]

2L: [Has the men's 100m race of the Diamond Race ended? What was Zhe Shao's score? ]

3L: [If they can break 10 seconds against the wind, then Evanson or Gates are out of the running, right? Or is Sandy in great form today? I remember Sandy also broke 10 seconds against the wind at last year's World Championships, and the final was 9.95 seconds, right... So maybe he has a chance today...]

While everyone has not yet watched the sports channel broadcasts and the official media seem to be holding back on a big plan, the discussions in this building can be said to be back and forth, with some even analyzing the competitive performances of the players in the limited competitions they have participated in this year.

On the 18th floor of this building, someone raised a question, thinking that the poster was so excited when posting this, and it was possible that the person who broke 10 against the odds was Su Zhe.

Although this possibility has caused some discussion, everyone still believes that although Su Zhe should have the ability to run under 10 seconds, it is impossible for him to break 10 so quickly in the first stop of the Diamond League, and it is impossible for him to break 10 so early in a headwind.

When the poster of this thread finished watching the live broadcast of the game and returned to his post, the official media on the Internet had already started to speak out, forwarding the live broadcast video of the sports channel and warmly congratulating Su Zhe for becoming the second domestic athlete to break 10 in the 100 meters.

After watching the game, the people in the building returned to the building in a daze.

34L: [I was wrong, I shouldn’t have doubted Zhe Shao… Damn, it’s still the beginning of the season, and Zhe Shao has already broken 10?! ]

36L: [My face hurts, but it feels good and painful at the same time!! Big brother, let's make a deal. Next time when you talk, can you please not finish your words? How many brothers in this post will have a painful face???]

This theme building was turned into a huge high-rise after the forum members watched the live broadcast of the game. The people in the front row who had discussed that it was impossible for Su Zhe to break 10 points against the odds for the time being, now covered their swollen faces and celebrated Su Zhe's outstanding performance in the first stop of the Diamond Tournament in the building.

Country D, Hillion Stadium

Compared to the more conventional commentary in China, the commentators Chris and Birus from Country D have praised all the athletes in this competition one by one, especially when mentioning Su Zhe, the two of them used a tone of praise, congratulating Su Zhe for breaking 10 for the first time in his sports career, setting a personal best, and also winning the best result of the 100m in Asia so far this season.

Apart from a few domestic media outlets that have reporters stationed in Country D, there are quite a few foreign media outlets among the reporters who interviewed Su Zhe today. Many of the cameras and photographers on the scene surrounded Su Zhe, and the length of time they recorded his photography and the number of photos they took were in no way less than those of Evanson, who was first in the group.

These reporters' attention to Su Zhe comes not only from the extensive front-page coverage on the IAAF official website, but also from the absolute strength Su Zhe showed in this diamond race - after all, an athlete who can break his personal best against all odds in a competition with top players should not be underestimated.

In China, reports about Su Zhe were once again all over the Internet.

At a remote but scenic filming location in the country, Shao Xingchen, who had just finished a full-day shoot and untied the wire, but whose clothes were still stained with blood, received from Li Cheng the live broadcast of Su Zhe's game, which Li Cheng had specially downloaded for him.

Due to the harsh filming conditions, there were no nanny cars for the leading actors to sit in the wild. After getting his phone, Shao Xingchen sat on a simple folding chair and watched Su Zhe's game.

It was not until the end of the game that Shao Xingchen saw Su Zhe in the video looking back at the large screen showing the results and showing a bright smile, and a smile also appeared on his slightly tired face. Finally, he simply forwarded the video on Weibo and gave it a like.

Li Cheng didn't have any objection to his action. After all, his image as Shao Xingchen's track and field enthusiast and Su Zhe's friend had already been promoted, and fans and passers-by were fairly receptive to this image, so there was no need to worry too much about it.

When Shao Xingchen heaved a sigh of relief and was about to clean the blood stains on his body and remove his makeup to change clothes, Li Cheng suddenly remembered something interesting and said to Shao Xingchen, "By the way, I heard that a big brand has taken a fancy to Su Zhe and wants to invite him to shoot an advertisement. What do you think it is?"

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Field Management Center, Marketing Activities Office

Jiang He, the head of the marketing department, answered the phone and confirmed the information with the person on the other end of the phone again with some confusion.

"Wait a minute, can you say it again? You want Su Zhe to be your product ambassador... What product company are you from?"

“Makeup, we are a first-tier makeup brand.”

A very calm voice came from the other end of the phone.

After hearing this answer, Jiang He didn't know how to respond for a moment.