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Jiang Xi’s impression of the 110-meter hurdles still lingers on the 2004 Athens Olympics in her previous life, when Brother Xiang won the championship and broke China’s zero gold medal record in the 100-meter hurdles event, which made the whole country excited.

But she never thought that one day she would be involved in hurdles.

This feeling is a bit novel.

This sport seems to be far away from her. Before this, it had nothing to do with her.

As for running, she is okay. After all, she has been jogging since she was a child. She has been used to running in both her past and present lives.

But she was suddenly called to hurdles, and she was confused.

However, based on the idea that she was just representing the School of Mathematics to go through the motions and the important thing was to participate, she went to practice hurdles when the coach asked her to.

It's not that Jiang Gui didn't have a sense of collective honor or the idea of ​​winning glory for the school competition. It's just that sports are too far away from her for two lifetimes.

There are so many sports talents in the school who have been discovered to have sports talents since childhood and have been practicing sports since childhood. In fact, there is no need for her to represent the school in the competition. She was selected because their four crazy colleges, especially their mathematics college, don't have a single sports talent. It's impossible that their mathematics college will be wiped out in this national college student sports meeting, right?

This is why they picked out a tall person like her from a group of short people, who has good physical strength and endurance. At least, if they say it out, someone from their mathematics college will participate.

Jiang Xi had been training in sprinting for a week under her coach. She does have a superior physique and a natural talent for running, but she started too late. Generally, it is a bit late to start training in junior high school, not to mention that she started in college. Compared with those sports students who were discovered at a young age and trained in track and field, her physical talent alone is not enough to make up for the gap in long-term training. Putting her in the sprinting event is really a waste.

But her physical fitness was too good. From her previous special events, whether it was cardiopulmonary function, waist and abdomen strength, vertical jump and height, or the physical strength, endurance, and explosive power she showed when practicing sprinting, the coach was reluctant to give up this good seedling. Anyway, they had to start from scratch. After looking at her sprinting data and a series of physical test data, the head coach asked her to try hurdles.

When Jiang Xi was called to the teacher in charge of special training for the school's hurdles team, she had been practicing sprinting with her. Relying on her many years of experience in track and field competitions, the sophomore girl who was a head above Jiang Xi couldn't help but reveal a mocking and triumphant smile at the corner of her lips.

She couldn't even make it in sprinting, let alone hurdles, which required more technical difficulty.

The sophomore girl who successfully squeezed her out was in a good mood, especially when she saw her senior brother sitting in the stands in the distance. She waved to her senior brother as if she had won a battle.

Her senior brother naturally noticed her and waved to her as well. He continued to focus on Jiang Wu, with a camera hanging on his chest.

Since he said he wanted to find out the team behind Jiang Wu, he was not just talking. He not only investigated Jiang Wu's daily class attendance in the school, but also her interpersonal relationships inside and outside the school after class.

Since she has a team behind her, it is impossible for her to be out of contact for a long time. As long as they are in contact and he catches them, he can naturally follow the clues and find out the long list of teams behind her.

Then he will apply to the school appeal committee for a review to revoke the serious punishment.

This is the best way he can think of to solve his future work.

Therefore, after learning from his junior sister that Jiang Wu was also sent here to train in preparation for the autumn sports meeting, he also came here and watched Jiang Wu training from a distance. Naturally, he also saw that during the training process, his junior sister used her experience to interfere.

However, as someone who won the gold medal in IMO, her mental quality is indeed strong enough. No matter how her junior sister disturbed her, she remained unmoved and her mood was not affected at all. Even when she was called away to practice hurdles, she went without saying anything.

Hurdles are different from other track and field events. There are special hurdles team teachers in charge of special training. When Jiang Xi came over, he first asked Jiang Xi for her physical test data sheet. After looking at her data in various physical test items, he also asked the same question, that is, "Have you practiced hurdles before?"

Jiang Xi naturally said no.

The teacher first looked at her physical condition, then her vertical reach data and cardiopulmonary function data, nodded and said: "Your physical condition is good, but you started practicing too late." He said, "Try to stride over first to feel the height."

The university sports meet uses the internationally used 84cm high international track. Being too tall is not really an advantage. The hurdle team teacher mainly saw that her legs are long, her thighs are strong, and her explosive power is written on the physical test sheet.

Similarly, he asked the senior brothers to teach her the key points and movements of striding over the hurdles, and then began to teach her how to run and how to master the rhythm of the steps. This is very important, but the sprint she practiced before is completely different.

After the lecture, the senior asked her, "Do you want to try it? Feel it first."

Because it was her first time jumping over the hurdles, the senior did not set the hurdles to the international standard height, but lowered it to 76 centimeters for 400 meters.

Many people in the school knew her, and when they saw her coming over to jump over the hurdles, they all stood on both sides of the runway and watched her jump over the hurdles with a smile.

Jiang Qi first tried to jump over a few hurdles. She was relatively light, so it was not difficult for her to jump over these hurdles. The feeling was a bit like the feeling when she played standing long jump, rubber band jumping, and haystack jumping with her friends when she was a child.

She could always jump very far with a light jump, like a frog with excellent jumping ability, and like a light swallow.

It was not difficult to jump over the hurdles. She tried her pace and rhythm again. After nodding to her senior brother, she made an OK gesture to indicate that she was OK.

Perhaps talent is something that cannot be seen or touched. The first time Jiang Xi jumped over the hurdles, she easily jumped over ten hurdles without falling down. She jumped over all of them.

This surprised the people standing on both sides of the track.

When they first learned to jump over the hurdles, they all experienced kicking the hurdles or falling down. However, Jiang Xi neither fell down nor kicked the hurdles. In the process of running over the hurdles, she seemed to have returned to the feeling of playing games as a child. She had the ultimate control over her body. This control told her that she could do it, she could jump over it easily. Such a rhythm, pace and explosiveness are truly amazing.

Although this is related to the lowering of the railings, which reduces some of the difficulty, the height of the railings when they first jumped over the railings was also adjusted to the corresponding height according to their age and height at that time.

The senior brother asked her nervously: "Have you really never practiced jumping over the railings?"

After confirming that it was really Jiang Xi's first time, he asked her to jump over it again.

Jiang Xi felt the feeling just now for a while, and jumped over it easily again.

Of course, this is just hurdle jumping, not speed.

Being able to jump over the hurdles easily is different from participating in a competition, but this has already allowed her to show enough talent in the sport of hurdle jumping.

This really surprised the hurdle team's teachers, because there is still a shortage of young hurdle athletes.

Since the female athlete set a record of more than 13 seconds at the National Games in 1993, six years have passed, and no one has yet appeared to break this record.

The instructor asked Jiang Xi to try accelerating again. After accelerating, the difficulty was indeed increased by more than a little bit. What surprised the instructor was that Jiang Xi's control of rhythm was surprisingly good. She was always able to stabilize her own pace. Every step seemed to have been accurately calculated and the distance of each step was measured. When she crossed the hurdles, her rhythm was always consistent, achieving the right effect.

"Oh! It's too late to practice this. You should have practiced it a few years earlier. With your talent and physical condition..." At this point, he suddenly stopped.

Track and field events have never been the strong point of Asians. Africans do have unique talents in this event.

Their country's women's hurdles event has been quiet since 1993, except for a star from heaven, and no outstanding talent has been found.

Now a talented person has been found, and she is a college student. It is too late to train her now, isn't it a pity?

If she had been found a few years ago, not to mention in the world-class sports games, at least in the Asian Games, she might have been able to qualify.

Jiang Qi himself felt that what the hurdles team teacher said was quite amazing.

She knew from a young age that Jiang Song had excellent physical fitness and developed motor nerves. In her previous life, when she and Jiang Bo occasionally mentioned her eldest brother Jiang Song, they had laughed more than once that if Jiang's father and mother had been willing to send him to a strictly managed sports school since he was a child, there might not have been a Jiang Husky Song who later felt good about himself even though he was bleeding from his head.

But she didn't expect that she also had a talent for sports.

Maybe she did, but she didn't think that she had a good talent for sports. In her previous life, she spent her entire adolescence in the predicament of hunger and cold, and she had no energy or energy to pay attention to anything other than survival.

Even if she had learned to appreciate herself and look at herself correctly, she still couldn't learn to look up to any of her talents.

Just like now, even though the teacher of the hurdle team said that she had a talent for hurdles and that she started practicing too late, she felt that it was unlikely that she would achieve good results in hurdles. However, the hurdles were easy to practice, which made her feel happy unexpectedly when practicing this event. When she jumped over the hurdles one by one, she felt a sense of accomplishment psychologically.

It was precisely because of this that she practiced very seriously every time, and she could feel her progress every time. Such progress was very obvious, mainly because she began to gradually master the skills of accelerating hurdles taught by her senior.

She practiced tirelessly for more than ten times, and she always maintained a consistent frequency in these more than ten practices, as if she was tireless, and each time she jumped better and faster than the last time.

Even the coach who was still paying attention to the other people's hurdles couldn't help but look at her sideways.

One hurdle jump is 110 meters, and ten times is more than a thousand meters. It is a high-energy process of running at full speed, which is completely different from the consumption of the body by long-distance running at a constant speed. Moreover, she also added continuous hurdle jumps.

If you don't have sufficient physical strength, you will find it difficult to even lift your legs later. With

such physical strength and endurance, it is no wonder that the coaching staff was reluctant to let her go. Since she couldn't achieve results in sprinting, they threw her to the hurdles team to continue training.

However, she had never received systematic training. When she felt the pain and sluggishness of her leg-lifting movements while crossing the hurdles, and her pace and rhythm began to become disordered, Jiang stopped.

It had been a long time since she had felt this way.

She found that running and sweating freely on the sports field was also a way to release herself. She quite liked this kind of pure sport that did not require any brainpower and focused on one thing.

Perhaps it is because her cerebral cortex has been overactive since she was a child. Jiang Qi keeps her brain busy except when she is in deep sleep. Even when she is running, she cannot stop. She is either thinking about the plot of a novel or thinking about other things. For example, when she is practicing boxing and Sanda, her brain will automatically think about where to punch so that she can knock down the opponent more effectively and achieve a more efficient damage value.

Most of the time, this feeling is unconscious and out of her control. The more she tries to control her brain not to think, the more she will think, and she will suffer from insomnia.

For example, these days, in addition to focusing on one thing in the hurdles exercise, she only needs to constantly correct her movements and hurdles posture, and not think about other things. This is also a very rare experience for her.

After she talked about this feeling with Song Peifeng, she found that Song Peifeng felt the same way. They were both overthinking people, with their brains constantly working.

The first time she practiced, Jiang Xi's thighs were sore. At that time, she was so excited that she didn't even feel it. When she returned to the rental house, washed up, and lay on the sofa, her thighs were so sore.

When Song Peifeng came back, she immediately shook her big white legs and shouted, "Comrade Xiao Song, it hurts, my thighs hurt!"

Jiang Xi couldn't help but bury her face in the pillow and laughed.

I don't know if it's because of being with Song Peifeng, or because of the influence of her roommates in 401 dormitory, but Jiang Xi feels that she is living more and more like a child now, as if she has relived her overly precocious and overly sensible childhood. She can act coquettishly, play tricks, let herself go, and just be herself without any scruples, because someone will respond to you in everything, so that you don't realize it, just like a child, you can cry out in pain when it hurts.

Song Peifeng also noticed her changes. It seems that the longer he knows her, the more he finds her childish side that is different from her usual one, and he is happy to indulge her. She seems to be separated at work and in life. She is strict like an older sister at work, and childish and shameless like a younger sister in life.

While enjoying the massage from Xiao Song, Jiang Xi shared her experience with her and said with a little pride: "I didn't expect that I have the talent to jump over the fences. Maybe I can become a master of jumping over the fences one day."

She recalled her childhood in the mountains.

She was also lively and naughty at that time. When chasing rabbits and pheasants in the mountains, she would not go around the bushes but jump over them directly. She was used to jumping over all kinds of stones, pits and bushes in the mountains.

It seemed that she was not the only one. In her memory, all her friends seemed to do the same. When they encountered a dead tree blocking the road, they would jump! When they encountered a thorn bush, they would jump! Even without these, everyone would create obstacles to jump over and play. The most fun toys were the haystacks piled up on the playground during the double-snap season. Those were the childhood memories of many rural people of their generation.

Song Peifeng looked at the lively expression on her face and smiled and replied, "You can do it." He then asked her, "Can you make it work?"

The National Tsing Hua University where Song Peifeng was studying was also going to hold an autumn sports meet. Song Peifeng was participating in the 800-meter and long jump events.

During this time, he was also practicing.

Jiang Xi said, "Don't go to the dance club, martial arts club, and drama club for the time being. Set aside time to concentrate on practicing hurdles."

She was not the only one who felt this way. Because the successful bid for the Universiade this year was no longer a matter for their school alone, but the entire General Administration of Sports had attached great importance to it. All activities had to make way for the Universiade next year. Many talented students from Peking University and Tsinghua University, as well as students with sports expertise, had suspended many of their after-school activities and concentrated on practicing sports, striving to win glory for the country and for the university students of their country. The atmosphere was very enthusiastic.

Not only Jiang Xi, but the entire 401 dormitory, although only Jiang Xi was selected to join the cross-hurdles team, the others did not enter the school team, but it did not affect their joy and passion for the success of the Universiade application this year. It doesn't matter if they didn't enter the school team, they can cheer as cheerleaders, after all, there are also people from their dormitory who entered the school team.

Since Jiang Xi joined the cross-hurdles team, the 401 dormitory people often came in groups to watch Jiang Xi's special practice on the stadium.

Zhang Min, the king of supporting roles, always clapped and cheered no matter how Jiang Xi ran: "Jiang Xi is great! Come on Jiang Xi!"

Yu Qianqian, who is now close to Zhang Min and wears the same pants as her, has changed her soft personality when she first entered college. Under Zhang Min's leadership, she is better at cheering than Zhang Min, and her cheers are louder than Zhang Min's. If you don't know, you would think Jiang Xi ran first in the hurdles team.

In fact, she is still a newcomer and is still in the practice and familiarization stage. It's just that her amazing talent is also making her progress at an amazing speed.

But Zhang Min and the others don't care so much, they just cheer very hard.

Back in the dormitory, they also discussed forming a cheerleading team for Jiang Xi.

"How about we use a piece of white cloth, write 'Come on Jiang Xi' on it, and tie it on the forehead?" Yu Qianqian suggested enthusiastically.

She is increasingly pursuing fashion but has no idea how to do it. Recently, she dyed her hair a dull yellow color and permed it into a lion curl, which made her face look even more yellow. However, she enjoys it and her temperament has become more lively and cheerful.

Shen Xinlan, who was sitting at a small square table reading a book, couldn't help but look up from her book and complained: "Don't you really think this looks like mourning?"

The word "mourning" made Yu Qianqian stunned. She imagined the scene in her mind, shook her head quickly, and suggested again: "Then a red ribbon! A red ribbon should be okay, right?"

Zhang Min imagined the scene in the dormitory of a group of people tying red ribbons on their heads to cheer for Jiang Xi, and she fell on the bed and laughed until her stomach hurt.

Yu Qianqian was so angry from laughing that she was going to hit Zhang Min. Zhang Min then held her belly and laughed until her voice became hoarse, saying, "In our hometown, grandchildren wear mourning clothes with red cloth strips."

Yu Qianqian: ...

Yu Qianqian was not discouraged. She stamped her feet and continued to suggest, "Then, then, then...then green cloth strips, green will be fine, right?"

Liu Yan looked up in confusion, "Why do you have to insist on Yu cloth strips? Nothing else will work?"

Shen Xinlan also looked up in confusion, "Right? Can't we just customize T-shirts and wear them?"

Yu Qianqian pointed at her fingers in confusion, "But custom-made T-shirts cost a lot of money, right?"

The little money she earned from tutoring every month was spent on her hair and cosmetics.

I don't know what's wrong with the stars these days. Green, purple, and blue eye shadows are popular. Yu Qianqian learns makeup from star pictures every day. Her eyelids are either painted green, purple, or dark blue.

She originally learned makeup because she was in love, but she ended up being obsessed with dressing up. She had no idea where her crush was. She indulged in all kinds of skin care and makeup every day and had a lot of fun.

Zhang Min didn't know how to put on makeup either. The two novices got together to fiddle with their eyelids. Every time, Zhang Min became more and more fashionable and beautiful, but Yu Qianqian never got the hang of it. She was immersed in her own makeup skills and couldn't help herself.

Shen Xinlan said, "Leave the T-shirt thing to me."

Liu Yan also joined in and said, "We can also hang a banner."

Peking University students are very fashionable. There are movies to watch in the auditorium every week. Many of them are the most popular classic movies from foreign countries, and there are images of cheerleading teams in current Western countries.

Zhang Min, who has always been at the forefront of fashion in the dormitory, said, "Why don't we rehearse a cheerleading exercise and then cheer for Jiang Xi on the track. What do you think?"

Liu Yan looked at her tall and strong figure of more than 1.7 meters, thought about the scene when she was doing cheerleading exercises on the playground, and felt that she would shake the playground over, so she quickly refused: "You can do it if you want, I won't."

Yu Qianqian was eager to try, she was very interested in all new things that she had not tried in junior high and high school.

Shen Xinlan didn't want to do any cheerleading in front of so many people, so only Yu Qianqian and Zhang Min were enthusiastically preparing. Xi Weilu from the School of Chemistry didn't have any competition items, but was also dragged by Zhang Min to practice together. The three of them rented a videotape and practiced cheerleading to cheer for Jiang Xi all day in front of the video camera.

Shen Xinlan was originally the publicity committee member, so the task of custom-making T-shirts was given to her, and the task of making banners was given to the Youth League Secretary Liu Yan.

Jiang Xi didn't know that her roommates in dormitory 401 were giving her a surprise behind her back. After practicing the key points of hurdles over and over again, she also started practicing the squat start, which required a lot of time to train.

Finally, the autumn sports meet came. Since she was the only one in the entire School of Mathematics who joined the hurdles team, although everyone had their own events, they all came to cheer for Jiang Liu.

Originally, this was just a private activity of the 401 dormitory. Unexpectedly, the fact that Zhang Min, Yu Qianqian, and Xi Weilu were learning cheerleading was known by other girls in the same department. Although they did not join their cheerleading team, when they learned that Liu Yan was preparing a banner, the class monitor took the lead and simply made a big one, which was hung on the side of the track. It read: I wish Jiang Liu from our school a victory in the hurdles!

Shen Xinlan simply paid out of her own pocket and ordered a T-shirt for everyone in the School of Mathematics. It was a long-sleeved sports sweatshirt style, of very good quality, and could be worn directly as daily clothing, except that it had eight big characters written on it: Jiang Liu from the School of Mathematics! Victory over the hurdles!

As long as you don't mind the embarrassment, this is definitely a top-notch piece of clothing.

Who would dislike such good clothing? Winter is coming soon, so at worst you can just wear it inside.

Besides, it would be embarrassing for one person to wear such clothing, but if everyone in the department wears it, who would still be embarrassed?

Not everyone is a rich woman like Shen Xinlan!

Even Xi Weilu from the School of Chemistry was given a School of Mathematics T-shirt by the older sisters in the 401 dormitory.

The little girl mingled in the School of Mathematics team with an expressionless face, and it was hard to tell whether she was from the School of Chemistry or the School of Mathematics.

Zhang Min didn't care anyway, she held Xi Weilu's hand wherever she went and took her with her.

Because of the successful application for the Universiade this year, the opening ceremony of this year's sports meeting was very grand. In addition to the banners around the stadium that read "Beijing University 1999 Autumn Sports Meeting", there was also an entrance ceremony for the school leaders, followed by the entrance of 56 teams.

Jiang Xi and his team represented the School of Mathematics. I don't know if it was because she was the only one from the School of Mathematics who made the school team, but the flag of the School of Mathematics was handed over to her.

Unlike this year's spring sports meet, in which the school's faculty and staff also formed more than 30 teams to represent the faculty and staff in the school sports meet, this autumn sports meet can be said to be entirely about selecting real sports athletes from the students.

Although the current school team has included all students with sports specialties, this year's freshmen have not received military training and have not participated in this year's spring sports meet. It is still unknown whether there are any good talents among this year's freshmen who are particularly good at sports. The main selection targets for this sports meet are also this year's freshmen.

The rest of the students in the School of Mathematics were basically just going through the motions. Few of them were competitive. Those who were truly competitive on the sports field were almost all students with sports expertise from various departments. The entire radio station was filled with newsletters written by students from various departments to their classmates. The radio station was filled with passionate, rhythmic, and poetic cheers. Only the four crazy departments were as quiet as chickens. We never heard any cheering messages from them.

They wanted to cheer, but there was no one to cheer for.

Jiang Xi's hurdle competition was in the afternoon. Zhang Min held Jiang Xi's arm throughout the morning and said, "You must run well in the afternoon, okay? We will take care of all the other logistics. You don't have to worry about anything. You are the only one in our school. All our teachers and students will cheer for you!"

As she said that, she and Yu Qianqian and Xi Weilu performed a cheerleading exercise for Jiang Xi on the lawn. She asked Jiang Xi expectantly, "How was it?"

Yu Qianqian's eyes sparkled, "Do you think you danced particularly well?"

This... how to say it?

Three people, one 1.68 meters tall, one 1.59 meters tall, and one 1.49 meters tall, standing together, they looked a bit like a mobile phone signal.

Jiang Xi immediately raised his thumbs, "Great! You danced very well! I feel inspired!"

"I knew it!" Yu Qianqian was so happy that she almost jumped up: "I knew Xixi would like it very much, right? Xixi, let me tell you, this is the result of Zhang Min and I practicing for several days, just to give you a surprise, isn't it a surprise?"

Jiang Xi nodded very hard, his eyes were so sincere: "Yeah, very surprised!"

She prepared it with all her heart, and was affirmed by others. Zhang Min also smiled with two rows of small white teeth, and her eyes were so smiling that the teeth were not visible.

Xi Weilu, who originally had no expression, pursed her lips and raised her mouth slightly in an imperceptible arc.

Jiang Wu found many times that someone in the crowd was looking at her, but when she turned around and looked into the crowd, she saw nothing.

But soon, the feeling of being watched came back again.

The former vice president had never expected Jiang Wu to be so sensitive. She could sense something from such a long distance, and she hid herself behind the crowd.

Jiang Wu was not afraid of anything, as long as she didn't meet that kind of extremist.

Even if she met that kind of extremist, no one knew who would fall in the end.

When it was her turn to compete, Zhang Min and the others came up to her very enthusiastically, some handed her water, some massaged her thighs, and some were afraid that she would be cold or hot, so they brought her clothes, hoping to give her the best condition for the competition.

When Jiang Wu walked to the starting line.

Suddenly, a deafening cheer rang out from the crowd: "Jiang Luo from the School of Mathematics! Winning the hurdles!"

All the students from the School of Mathematics were holding banners and cheering for her, especially Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian, who were the loudest. They dragged Xi Weilu with them, and just like that, they danced a cheering exercise on the grass of the track, shouting slogans of encouragement.

Liu Yan and Shen Xinlan both quietly moved away from them, for fear that people would know that she knew the three of them.

Jiang Xi was also full of laughter and tears. At the critical moment of the game, he almost burst out laughing. He felt warm and warm. He made a fist to cheer them up, and then with the sound of a gun, he rushed out as agile as a cheetah!