This year's May 19th was a day of victory and joy for domestic track and field enthusiasts.
Zhao Zhixuan broke the 10.10 mark in the 100m, Zhou Tianjue and Ye Jun achieved excellent results in the 110m hurdles, Chen Zhi returned to 10.00 and won another Olympic qualification for the men's 100m. Finally, Su Zhe also won the double championship in the La Salle de Voeux Track and Field Meet with excellent results that day.
Even though track and field enthusiasts have seen a lot of good news since last year, they did not expect to receive such a series of surprises in just one day.
In the following ten days or so, the topic of domestic track and field circles could not avoid the number 519. Everyone enthusiastically argued the significance of this day from various aspects. Some people even shouted metaphysical slogans, believing that this was an auspicious day, suitable for competitions and awards.
The national track and field team and the athletics management center were very pleased with the results achieved by everyone on May 19. After returning to the training base, everyone was given an extra day off to have a good rest.
But as athletes, all members of the track and field team, including Su Zhe, have long developed the habit of exercising every day. Even on their days off, they can't help but exercise, otherwise they will feel uncomfortable all over.
Therefore, on this holiday afternoon, Su Zhe and his teammates appeared on the track and field field of the training base. Everyone tacitly began to warm up according to their daily training habits to maintain their competitive form.
Su Zhe, who was training on the field with everyone else, was running 10 kilometers around the field as usual - although he actually did not have the daily 10-kilometer running task announced by the sand sculpture system today.
Since being tied to this stupid system, he has gotten used to completing the daily task of running 10 kilometers, except for force majeure.
Especially after having a systematic training space, it is impossible for him to miss the daily 10-kilometer run. After all, the skill points obtained here can be exchanged for training hours in the training space. Although only one hour can be exchanged per day, it is also a long-term and effective supplement.
When he won the double championship in the La Chaux-de-Fonds track and field competition, the system, which usually simply settled the event, suddenly announced his accumulated reputation, accumulated completed tasks, rewards, etc. after settling a series of rewards such as system training space. Through conversion, it has successfully triggered the system upgrade conditions.
The system will automatically enter the upgrade mode. During the upgrade, all system functions will be shut down until the system upgrade is completed.
This prompt made Su Zhe stunned immediately, but according to the usual pattern of the sand sculpture system, the system would not change because of his hesitation.
From then on, the system completely entered the dormant upgrade mode, and judging from the progress bar that Su Zhe could see, it would take at least 12 days to complete the upgrade of this stupid system.
Looking at the long upgrade process, Su Zhe didn't know how to evaluate it for a moment - this stupid system often seemed to be far more powerful than the current era, but sometimes it seemed extremely rudimentary and crude.
For example, the system interface of this stupid system was extremely simple, and he was often asked to exchange his reputation points for free attribute points due to insufficient data storage space. And because he had too many free attribute points stored, he was tricked into using up all the free attribute points stored in his body.
Although the system never said anything other than the mechanical prompt sound, Su Zhe had gotten used to the system's existence after a year of companionship. He also regarded the system, which would secretly help him win in the lottery, as a silent close friend.
After the system officially entered the upgrade state, Su Zhe still habitually wanted to wake up the system's training space before going to bed at night. After not receiving any response, he remembered that the system was now in hibernation.
This somewhat lonely feeling made Su Zhe unable to adapt for a while.
Perhaps because of this, even though the sand sculpture system did not require any tasks today, he still habitually completed the daily 10 kilometers.
The day after returning to the team, Su Zhe received a notice that the coaching staff would not arrange any technical adjustment-related training for him in the next week. Instead, they only prepared some adaptive training and daily basic training courses such as gunshot reaction for him.
And a week later, he will take a flight back to S City in the country in advance to adapt to the venue in S City in advance and prepare carefully for the Diamond League S City leg to be held in S City on May 30th.
Unlike other Diamond League races, the national team usually only gives athletes one day to adapt in advance. While competing, it also means honing the athletes' ability to quickly adapt to competitions in different cities.
The national track and field team naturally cannot take this race in City S lightly, as it is the only Diamond League race hosted by a domestic city.
In this race, all eligible members of the national track and field team will sign up for all diamond events. At the same time, participants of each event will go to City S in advance to adapt to the local environment and ensure that they can achieve excellent results in this Diamond League.
Not only the national team, the Athletics Administration and the Sports Federation of Taiwan have also paid a lot of attention to the Diamond League. In addition to the popularity of the Diamond League itself, it is also because the domestic public is gradually becoming more interested in track and field events.
Both the General Administration of Sport and the Athletics Center have made the Diamond League another important promotional point for track and field events. They hope that through the promotion of the Diamond League events, they can once again expand the influence of track and field events and allow more people to feel the benefits of this event.
It is precisely because of this that the promotion of this year's Diamond League is unprecedented, almost as grand as the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in March. The plan proposed by the publicity staff of the General Administration of Sport and the Athletics Administration Center directly links the Diamond League with the Tokyo Olympics to be held in July.
[Experience the showdown between top Olympic-level players in advance! ]
【The world's top track and field athletes are right in front of you! 】
[You can experience the ultimate battle without going to Tokyo! 】
【Witness together, Diamond League, everything is possible, maybe the next world record will be presented before your eyes! 】
In addition to this series of promotional slogans and themes, these publicity personnel also listed all the players participating in this year's Diamond League. In addition to the simple list, in order to make the series of publicity more convincing, the publicity personnel arranged and displayed the individual achievements of these players, so that ordinary audiences can more intuitively recognize how strong the competitive level of these players is.
At the same time, in order to truly achieve the effect mentioned in the promotion, the organizers of the Diamond League S City Division even sent out invitations to the top players in each event during the registration stage.
For example, Gates, Evenson, and Sandy in the men's 100m event, Alcides, Lister, Gomez in the 110m hurdles, and the same is true for other track and field events. The organizers basically used the top three in each event of last year's World Athletics Championships as the invitation standard and invited these athletes one by one.
At the sincere invitation of the organizers of the S City sub-race, many players who had no special arrangements or competition conflicts accepted the invitation of the S City organizers. It was these players' confirmation of participation that truly made this sub-race a gimmick comparable to the Diamond League year-end finals, and to a certain extent, achieved the effect of the promotional slogan.
In this highly regarded Diamond League tournament, our country’s players certainly cannot let us down.
The national track and field team has set requirements for all participating athletes - to fight with all their strength, try their best to get the best results, and show the style of our country's track and field athletes.
It was in this tense and solemn atmosphere that Su Zhe took the opportunity to return to City S, which he had not visited for a long time.
When leaving the airport, at the exit gate, Su Zhe saw a far different number of reporters than usual. However, this huge group of reporters did not seem to be out to block him, because their eyes lit up when they saw him. And the reporters who looked somewhat familiar to Su Zhe were actually only seven or eight official media outlets that often covered sports news.
Su Zhe glanced at the remaining reporters, and when he saw the logos on their interview passes and microphones and cameras, he discovered that the remaining twenty or thirty were all from entertainment media.
Judging from the situation, there is probably some kind of heavy traffic with news that just happened to catch the flight landing at this time today. These reporters must be waiting to catch the big star.
In fact, before Su Zhe left the station, the two groups of reporters were a little confused at first. After all, a group of official media that reported on daily dramas and a group of entertainment reporters were mixed together, and the picture style did look a bit weird. But both sides soon discovered that their target persons were different, and they started chatting with their colleagues.
It was not until Su Zhe appeared that the official media began to take pictures of Su Zhe from a distance, and many reporters nearby also recognized Su Zhe.
However, these entertainment reporters do not know much about Su Zhe. Their understanding of Su Zhe is probably limited to a few reports on Su Zhe by Zhuo Siming and Zhuo Da, as well as some old and distorted revelations about Su Zhe circulating in the circle.
Although they were not the subjects of their interviews, most reporters still took some photos of Suzhe Airport as an extra gain for today.
Among all the entertainment reporters, the only one who took the bus photos of Su Zhe seriously and brought a recorder with him, ready to interview Su Zhe before his own interview target arrived, was the reporter from the Pear Public Account.
Within the Pear Public Account, Zhuo Siming's rise to power is simply a contemporary legend. Several reports about Su Zhe have been remembered by the young reporters who came after him from the Pear Public Account, and they are just waiting for the opportunity to fabricate such a scene and replicate a new legend.
On the other hand, the sports reporters did not have so many thoughts after waiting for Su Zhe. These local reporters in S City naturally had a natural liking for Su Zhe, who was born in S City, became famous in S City, and also came from a sports family in S City.
After these reporters greeted Su Zhe with a smile, many of them even asked Su Zhe if he still remembered them. The atmosphere among them was very friendly and harmonious.
The questions prepared by the reporters were not tricky, and were mostly the usual package of questions related to the event. The focus was on explaining the national attention paid to this Diamond League event, and the audience's expectations for the peak showdown between the players in this event.
Most of the questions focused on Su Zhe's goals for this competition, whether he had prepared physically for facing two top competitions consecutively on the same day, etc. These routine questions were not difficult to answer, and the main thing was to let Su Zhe express his determination.
After these questions, a reporter from the Pear public account took out his recorder and introduced himself.
"Hello, Su Zhe, I'm a reporter from the Pear public account. Previously, you @ed Shao Xingchen on Weibo and asked for premiere tickets. Does your statement represent your support for Shao Xingchen?"
This abrupt question left the official media reporters confused for a moment. Su Zhe was also stunned for a moment after hearing it, and then simply nodded.
"Of course, as a friend, isn't it normal to support the movies he starred in?"
"Su Zhe, you have been training for the competition, and you may not know that many people are dissatisfied with Shao Xingchen's winning of the role in Director Shen Zheng's movie, thinking that he is not competent and will be a failure in Director Shen Zheng's career. Even so, do you support him?"
Su Zhe frowned at the young reporter's question. The sports reporters who had just finished the interview were also a little unhappy, thinking that this young reporter, who had come from nowhere, was clearly forcing Su Zhe to give a □□ to a popular star.
After frowning, Su Zhe directly expressed his support for Shao Xingchen: "Why not? Have the makeup photos for this movie been released? Has the trailer been released? Has the director expressed his opinion? Without any information leaking out, how do you know that Shao Xingchen is not good enough?"
"I think there is no point in discussing this now. Once he really performs poorly in the movie, the audience's reaction will speak for itself."
Although the reporter from the Pear public account asked two questions, he did not get the explosive answer he wanted. Su Zhe's answer could only be pushed with a title like "Su Zhe strongly supports Shao Xingchen", which does not seem to be very attractive.
But after answering this question, Su Zhe did not stay any longer. After saying goodbye to the familiar reporters, he quickly took a taxi and left the airport.
After getting in the taxi, Su Zhe finally understood that the person that all the entertainment reporters present today were aiming to block was most likely Shao Xingchen.
After thinking about it, Su Zhe sent a message to Shao Xingchen, telling him that there were a large number of entertainment fans blocking him at the exit, and then he closed his eyes and rested in the car.
S City Sports Team
As the sports team where his father Su Yinsheng stayed for decades, the S City Sports Team is undoubtedly one of the places Su Zhe is most familiar with.
This time when Su Zhe returned to S City to participate in the competition, the S City Sports Team expressed absolute support. Li Mingdeng and Zhao Changhe had already contacted him, and the adaptive training in the past few days was held at the training ground of the S City Sports Team. He did not have to worry about accommodation and food.
The familiar environment and people of the S City Sports Team allowed Su Zhe to enter a relatively relaxed state. After a night's rest, the fatigue from the long-distance flight finally subsided a lot the next morning.
When he woke up, Su Zhe habitually observed the update progress of the sand sculpture system and roughly confirmed that by the time the sand sculpture system was officially updated, the S City leg of the Diamond League would have ended.
After returning to the sports circle, this will be his first game not under the system status buff - this knowledge makes Su Zhe unexpectedly excited.
Although the system's status buff is very good, he wants to know more, without the system's status bonus, how much strength can he show on the field?
Theoretically, the status bonus improves his personal mental state, psychological state, and perception state on the field, but according to the previous status overflow tasks, the system's status bonus also has an upper limit.
This means that as long as he is in good enough condition, he can fully achieve the effect of the system condition bonus on the field... Such thoughts and possibilities are particularly tempting to Su Zhe, and at the same time, they also arouse his expectations and fighting spirit for the next Diamond League race.
I really want to see as soon as possible what kind of results I can achieve in the race under such circumstances!
At the training ground of the S City Sports Team, Zhao Changhe watched Su Zhe who was training the 100-meter race. He felt that Su Zhe was particularly excited today, but after asking Su Zhe, all he got was Su Zhe's embarrassed smile and eyes that were a little too bright.
After the training ended, Zhao Changhe and Li Mingdeng could not help but sigh: "Azhe is still very attached to our sports team! When he was training today, he was so excited that he wanted to break 10 in the 100m during the training phase! His performance in this race will definitely be good!"
After hearing what Zhao Changhe said, Li Mingdeng was also relieved. They both had admission tickets to the Diamond Tournament, so they agreed that they must cheer for Su Zhe on the spot and let him feel the warmth of the S City Sports Team.
Online, ever since the official media started hyping up the Diamond League S City race, the Diamond League tickets that were originally in sufficient supply have suddenly become extremely popular. About half a month before the race, the tickets for the 80,000-seat stadium were already sold out.
Many track and field enthusiasts who did not buy tickets early were confused and re-experienced the sadness of competing for tickets to the domestic track and field grand prix not long ago.
Most of the members of the Athletics Kingdom forum who wanted to go this time managed to get tickets. The occasional one or two who failed to get a ticket could not help but express their sorrow and anger in the forum.
Subject: [A big venue with 80,000 people, these tickets are gone just like that? I don’t think these are Olympic tickets, are they? Why has the Diamonds Tournament suddenly become so popular in our country? ]
1L: [Brother, I'm not saying this, didn't you see the official promotion? It's comparable to the Olympics, right? These few words are enough to attract a lot of passers-by, right? ]
2L: [The guy above is right. The Diamond League already has a certain degree of popularity. Plus, the official promotion this year, how could the popularity be low? Brother, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for buying your ticket late...]
4L: [This is the Olympic year, and the public's attention to sports events has already increased. The official father is also promoting it with all his strength. Obviously, he wants to use this to let more people know about track and field. Under this situation, it is normal for the tickets to be sold out! ]
10L: [My dear OP, think about it. If you want to go abroad to watch the Olympics, you will not only need to pay for the trip, but also the lottery for the Tokyo Olympics tickets. It is not too much to say that the chances of winning are very low, right? Even if you can go abroad, can you get the tickets? At this time, our official father said that if you come to S City, you can experience the peak showdown of the Olympics in advance! Are there any tickets left? Next time you want to watch the game, you should be more careful and buy the tickets early! ]
On Weibo, all kinds of official and unofficial guides to watching the game are flying all over the place.
Although many track and field enthusiasts are unable to attend the competitions in person, they have made various versions of [Key Points Viewing Guides] based on the schedule of each event to serve the audience, reminding spectators who are watching the competitions in person which events will be more interesting to watch at which time.
Regardless of which version of the viewing guide you read, the men's 100m and 110m hurdles events in which Su Zhe will participate are marked with asterisks for special attention, with notes indicating that they are important competitions that should not be missed.
Amidst all the noise and heated discussions, the time finally came to May 30th.
In today's competition, there is not only the official diamond competition, but also about 7 padel events have been arranged on site to allow other athletes to feel the atmosphere of the competition and of course to prevent the audience from feeling bored before the start of the main competition.
At 5 pm, Su Zhe had completed the registration for his first 110-meter hurdles event at the registration office, then followed the staff to the preparation area, changed his equipment, and began to warm up step by step.
In the stadium with 80,000 people, the enthusiastic audience was full of encouragement even for the padel matches.
Listening to the enthusiastic applause and cheers coming from the stadium, the athletes in the preparation area were also infected by this enthusiastic atmosphere, and everyone showed their anticipation for the next game.
Su Zhe pinched the palms of his hands and began to concentrate more on warming up - he was already feeling impatient with just the warm-up stage.
Can he continue his past achievements today?
He simply couldn't wait to get on the court and feel his own speed!
Amid everyone's eager anticipation, the opening ceremony of the Diamond League S City Race officially began. Then, at the last stage of the opening ceremony, the organizer spoke on behalf of the event and announced that the Diamond League had officially begun!
Next, it is time to compete in the first event of the Diamond League.
The athletes of the 110-meter hurdles finally made their official debut amidst everyone's anticipation.