Su Zhe turned his head and saw an athlete who was about 195cm tall, wearing a black training suit, with slender and strong arms and legs. His appearance was also very outstanding among the hurdlers.
He flipped through the list of hurdle athletes that Zhou Hongzhi had prepared for him and quickly came up with the athlete's name - Zhou Tianjue.
When Su Zhe saw this name, he complained in his heart, is this name of Tianliang Wangpo actually real? Now seeing the real person and hearing that sentence, Su Zhe simply thought he was playing the leading role in a Mary Sue campus drama...
This horrible thought shocked Su Zhe, and he quickly threw this unreliable idea out of his mind.
Su Zhe nonchalantly looked up at Zhou Tianjue, who was a head taller than him. In his heart, he was evaluating the information records about Zhou Tianjue in the materials provided by Zhou Hongzhi.
This is a young hurdles athlete who is only 19 years old this year. He studied under the domestic 110-meter hurdles master Lu Fei. He was a good seedling selected by Lu Fei himself from the B City Sports School. When he was a teenager, he had already participated in major competitions such as the National Junior Track and Field Championships and the Asian Junior Track and Field Championships. He ran 13.60 seconds in the Asian Junior Championships and won the silver medal in the 110-meter hurdles.
However, since this year, due to the official transition to the adult category, the height of the railings in the competition was changed from 0.99 meters to 1.067 meters, which made Zhou Tianjue face a series of technical adjustments and adaptation periods. His number of competitions in this season was limited, but he was still judged by domestic track and field fans as one of the most promising young athletes. In the two limited competitions this year, he ran a time of less than 14.30 seconds, and his performance in both competitions improved visibly.
Since the retirement of the previous 110-meter hurdles champion trained by Lu Fei, there has been an obvious gap in the domestic 110-meter hurdles. The emergence of Zhou Tianjue has given a shot of confidence to domestic track and field fans.
Su Zhe reviewed all the information about Zhou Tianjue and once again carefully scanned the boy who was one year younger than him. According to the information Zhou Hongzhi had collected, Zhou Tianjue had actually run under 14 seconds many times during training, with his best result being around 13.58 seconds. This result has already surpassed most of the current veterans in the 110-meter hurdles.
The real ambition of Lu Fei and Zhou Tianjue should be to challenge for the World Championships. This National Championship qualifier and even the National Championships later should be the training grounds prepared by Lu Fei for Zhou Tianjue.
This is a truly powerful enemy, but also an overly proud enemy.
Su Zhe glanced at Zhou Tianjue and nodded at him with a smile.
"We'll know if you can cross the railing after a run."
The 110-meter hurdles were once a strong event in the country's short-distance running and short-distance events, and even once dominated the world record for the 110-meter hurdles. Therefore, there have always been many athletes training in the 110-meter hurdles in the country, which is also the charm and attraction of this strong event.
Because of this, although there were also three places for the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries in the afternoon, there were a total of 87 participants, 18 more than the 100-meter sprint in the morning.
The hot and humid weather made the athletes on site feel a little irritable. Many of them took off their sportswear over their training suits in the preparation area in advance to make themselves feel cooler.
The weather in G City was much more humid and hot than Su Zhe had imagined. During the two days since he arrived in G City, the thing he found most difficult to adapt to was the climate and humidity here.
Seeing that the athletes around him had taken off their sports jackets, Su Zhe simply took off his T-shirt in the preparation area, revealing the tight black training vest and training pants he was wearing underneath.
No one noticed that in the stands not far away, a row of girls were covering their mouths and screaming silently, and the only girl operating the live broadcast phone could hardly control her shaking hands!
Ahhhh!
What did they see?
The on-site dress-up benefit of the baby! ! !
The live broadcast room had gone crazy by now, with messages of licking the screen and bullet screens shouting "Stop shaking your hands" filling the screen.
[Wow, athletes are great, athletes are awesome! It’s a wise choice for me to become an athlete! 】
[dbq, I have quickly taken a screenshot... baby, my heart is dirty... baby, how can you be so beautiful...]
[I'm so stupid, really. I only knew to buy tickets for the Grand Prix, but I didn't know to fly directly to City G at noon... There was such a beautiful scene, but I could only hold my phone and cry...]
At this moment, all the philosopher girls had the same thought in their minds - what's so good about the entertainment industry? Long live the sports industry QvQ!!!
In the afternoon's qualifying round, Su Zhe was assigned to Group 5. After he received and entered the group information with the staff, Zhou Tianjue happened to go to the same staff to enter the information.
"Hey, little sheep, you are also in the 5th group? I wish you a smooth run."
The frivolous voice was just like that of a little hooligan who was in high spirits. After he finished speaking, he walked away with a sneer. No matter how you looked at him, he looked like an overly proud, immature child who had not yet learned to respect others.
In his mind, he had no rivals in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries for this national championship, and he had already secured his qualification and even the first place.
Su Zhe just frowned slightly and continued to warm up to relax his body.
Since the start of the first group, the qualifying rounds have progressed very quickly. The results of these young athletes are mostly similar, all within 15 seconds, but there is still some distance from the 14-second mark. So far, the best result in the field is 14.29 seconds run by a young athlete from Province H.
After two weeks of adaptability training in real life, the system requirement of 14.30 seconds is no longer a problem for Su Zhe. But his goal is not just 14.30 seconds...
Thinking of this, Su Zhe turned around to look at Zhou Tianjue who was still chatting and laughing with others, and then smiled slightly - he wanted to test the results of his extreme training during this period of time.
In that case, let’s see who is the real little lamb!
Soon, the competitions of the first four groups were over, and the athletes of the fifth group entered the venue at the same time. All athletes began to conduct short adaptive test runs on the track.
Zhou Tianjue and Su Zhe, who were in lane 4 and lane 6, simply patted their thigh and calf muscles in front of their starting blocks to relax their bodies.
In the stands, in addition to Su Zhe's fans, there were also some local track and field fans from City G, many of whom were supporters of Zhou Tianjue. They came this time to witness Zhou Tianjue's entry into the national championships with their own eyes.
These track and field fans were very curious when they first saw a group of young girls gathered together and chattering, but they soon remembered the identities of the girls - they were all fans of Su Zhe!
As a track and field fan, how could we not know about Su Zhe who is currently the hot topic? Everyone couldn't help but start discussing how Su Zhe would perform in the 110-meter hurdles in this preliminaries.
"Let's not talk about anything else." One of the young men said, "Look at the field. There are eight players, and he is the only low point in the middle. Jue Ge'er is 195 cm tall, but his legs are over 110 cm long. How can this natural gap be made up?"
"Well, when it comes to handsomeness, a man should look like our Brother Jue, tall and handsome, with perfect proportions and strong muscles. How great is that? Why do girls like guys like Su Zhe?" Another man with a flat head looked puzzled.
"There are so many little girls coming to see him. I hope he doesn't lose too badly, otherwise I'm afraid these little girls will cry." A middle-aged uncle looked at Su Zhe's fans next to him with a worried look on his face like an old father.
"Hey, this guy who doesn't run 100 meters properly but has to run the 110-meter hurdles with a confused mind, even if he doesn't run well, isn't it his own fault?" A young man with a crew cut looked disdainful, and seemed to have a lot of opinions about Su Zhe's participation in two events. At the end, he pouted and said, "Do you think he will kneel down on the first hurdle?"
While people in the stands were talking, the players on the field were already getting ready for the competition.
Everyone is ready at the starting blocks.
"Everyone, get ready! Ready—"
All the players took ready positions—“Bang!”
The starting gun sounds, and all the athletes quickly burst out with strength, breaking away from the starting blocks and running forward!
On 8 race lanes, 8 figures are running on the short track in front of the hurdles, which are less than 14 meters long. Because of the existence of the hurdles, the hurdle athletes need to quickly raise their body center of gravity after accelerating at the start in order to prepare for the difficult running between the hurdles.
On this short 14-meter track, Su Zhe's speed is not weak, but his advantage is not obvious. The group of tall and strong hurdlers around him make him look particularly small, and he looks like a junior athlete.
Before the short sprint to the hurdles was about to end, Su Zhe was slightly behind Zhou Tianjue in lane 4. However, from the perspective of an onlooker, it was clear that Zhou Tianjue still had some energy left and was very relaxed.
In front of the first railing, Su Zhe took a step back, pushed the ground with his rising leg, began to swing the other leg forward, pressed his upper body downward, bent his arms and stretched them forward, and attacked the first railing.
His kick was powerful and strong, and the series of rhythms from pushing off the ground to soaring into the air seemed extremely easy and natural. The whole process of jumping over the first hurdle was like flowing water, and no part of his body touched the hurdle, let alone the problem of hitting the hurdle.
However, a competitor in lane 8 made a technical error when crossing the first hurdle, and fell headfirst behind the hurdle, doing a forward roll.
The sudden accident caused some chaos on the field. Some players were obviously affected by the mistake of the player in lane 8, and they couldn't help but stop their movements.
Su Zhe's spirit was not shaken by any external factors. After crossing the first hurdle, he quickly took three steps forward between the hurdles, and quickly jumped up again after a short step to attack the hurdle!
On Lane 6, although Zhou Tianjue was not nervous about the mistake made by the athlete on Lane 8, he was still slightly distracted. He quickly realized that someone beside him was following his pace in attacking the hurdles, and was quickly crossing the hurdles and attacking the hurdles.
Who is it?!
Is there anyone in Group 5 who can keep up with his pace?
Zhou Tianjue was suspicious, but he caught a glimpse of a dazzlingly white figure from the corner of his eye—it was that little sheep?! How is it possible?!
The doubt in his heart made Zhou Tianjue's rhythm slightly chaotic. At the fifth column, his left foot slightly hit the column, which again affected the rhythm of the subsequent movements. He watched Su Zhe, who was originally slightly behind him, keep moving forward at a steady and smooth rhythm!
How can this be?!
How is this possible? !
Zhou Tianjue glared and started to increase his speed, but the sudden speed-up changed his original attack rhythm, and in the next attack, he hit the hurdle again.
"How is that possible?!"
In the stands, the track and field fans of City G were stunned to see the ever-changing situation on the field. Zhou Tianjue, who was originally thought to be in first place, actually fell behind. The person running ahead of him was none other than Su Zhe, who was mocked by the track and field circle for being overconfident? !
"What a smooth movement!" The middle-aged man who was not optimistic about Su Zhe at first, now stared at Su Zhe's offensive movement and stood up excitedly: "The rhythm between the columns is very steady, and it is even accelerating!"
In the stands, track and field fans and "philosophers" were staring at the track. At this moment, Su Zhe had already crossed the 9th hurdle and was about to attack the last hurdle.
Zhou Tianjue was worthy of being the disciple carefully trained by Lu Fei himself. After a brief rhythm disorder, he quickly adjusted his attack rhythm and soon caught up with Su Zhe's speed again between the hurdles. The two of them broke through the tenth hurdle almost at the same time.
At this time, Su Zhe and Zhou Tianjue had already opened up a distance of about two railings from the players behind them!
In front, Su Zhe and Zhou Tianjue have entered the final sprint stage!
Su Zhe's amazing late-game acceleration ability was once again fully demonstrated. He rushed forward, and his strong figure was deeply imprinted in Zhou Tianjue's mind.
He sprinted forward desperately, trying to overtake the figure, until just before the finish line, he and Su Zhe crossed the finish line almost one after the other.
During the buffering process after crossing the line, Zhou Tianjue looked back unwillingly at the electronic timer recording the players' scores. The timer with black background and red letters clearly recorded the scores of both of them.
Zhou Tianjue——14.07 seconds.
Su Zhe——14.05 seconds.
Just 0.02 seconds is the difference between first and second.