Bai Yu paid no attention to the followers behind him. As long as these guys didn't surpass him, he wouldn't care about them.
With a clear lead, Bai Yu finished the first semi-final race, and cheers erupted from the stadium as the results were announced.
The reason is very simple: Bai Yu's performance broke the tournament record; he advanced the record by one minute in his first match.
Of course, the "one minute forward" mentioned here doesn't mean improving the record by sixty seconds, but rather improving it from eight minutes to seven minutes.
His semi-final time was seven minutes and fifty-eight seconds, just a few seconds away from the world record.
In this situation, cheers naturally erupted from the crowd, which was the greatest encouragement for the record-breaker.
Although Bai Yu couldn't understand what the audience was shouting, he could still feel their happiness through the emotions they were expressing.
Bai Yu waved to him as he walked half a lap around the track.
His current achievement is the result of Bai Yu holding back; he didn't use his full strength.
It wasn't that Bai Yu looked down on the dozen or so people he was competing against; it was mainly because these people weren't top athletes in the 3,000-meter event, so the pressure they could put on him was very limited.
If that's the case, then why does Bai Yu need to use all his strength? That's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, a bit of a waste.
Only in the finals will he unleash his full potential, aiming to not only win the championship but also break the world record.
After finishing her race, Bai Yu did not leave the track, but stayed to watch the other runners' races.
There were three groups of athletes participating in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and the top five from each group advanced to the final.
In the latter two groups of matches, Bai Yu naturally saw many familiar faces, including several who had put considerable pressure on him in previous matches.
These people's strength is obvious to all, and a small semi-final will definitely not stop them.
After a day of competition, the fifteen finalists were selected, ten of whom were acquaintances of his.
In these sports, the athletes' natural talent is extremely important, and the turnover rate of talent is naturally very slow.
A good athlete can be guaranteed at least eight years of playing time on the field once he starts to make a name for himself.
Of course, injuries and a lack of self-discipline could shorten this time considerably.
The opponents Bai Yu is currently facing are not yet in the iteration phase; he is still competing against some old rivals.
The day after the 3,000-meter obstacle course, Bai Yu competed in the 10,000-meter race, which didn't have a semi-final; it was a straight-up final.
In this competition, Bai Yu will face a total of 19 competitors, eight of whom are from the same country, namely Kenya.
The key point is that Bai Yu also has a grudge against these eight people. During the warm-up session before the competition started, these people approached Bai Yu and made a lot of provocative gestures.
Unfortunately, Bai Yu was a terrible student; he didn't even recognize many obscure characters, so how could he possibly understand English?
Therefore, Bai Yu showed no reaction to these trolls' provocations, and even smiled back at them.
Bai Yu could swear to God that he simply returned a smiley face, mainly to express friendliness, and he really didn't mean anything else.
But for some reason, his smile seemed to have provoked the Kenyan athletes, who immediately became excited and started gesturing at Bai Yu again.
Perhaps Bai Yu didn't know that sometimes a smile can also mean disdain. Perhaps, to these haters, his smile meant that Bai Yu looked down on them.
The final consequence was that Bai Yu was relentlessly targeted by these players during the competition.
There were eight of them in total. In their opinion, they could easily spare two people to wear down Bai Yu's stamina and disrupt his rhythm.
In fact, that's exactly what they did. At the start of the match, Bai Yu was prepared to take the lead, but two players immediately jumped out and competed with Bai Yu for that lead.
Bai Yu speeds up, and they speed up as well. If Bai Yu doesn't speed up, they will block his way and disrupt his rhythm.
Although their actions were extremely shameless, they had plenty of players to pull off such a stunt. At worst, they could just abandon the results for these two.
However, Bai Yu was not used to being suppressed by others, so he took the lead as soon as the competition started.
The two people behind him sped up, so he sped up again; and when the people behind him sped up again, he sped up again.
Then, in just two laps, Bai Yu and the two black pieces behind him had already taken a half-lap lead over the second group.
By the sixth lap, they had already lapped all the remaining riders.
Six laps, meaning the race has only run 2,400 meters, and there are still 100 meters left to reach the quarter mark, which is when the lap is completed.
This might also be related to Bai Yu and his two companions' mindless acceleration. After all, the three of them completely disregarded their own physical strength and only knew how to accelerate, so it seemed quite reasonable that they lapped the other contestants.
Then another six laps passed, and Bai Yu had already accomplished the feat of lapping the last-place team twice.
By the time he finished the twelfth lap, there was no one behind him. When he completed the 5,000 meters, the entire stadium erupted in cheers, much louder than when he broke the course record yesterday.
Bai Yu ran 5,000 meters in just 11 minutes and 52 seconds, which is more than 20 seconds faster than the new world record he set two years ago.
Unfortunately, this race was 10,000 meters. If it were a 5,000-meter race, his time would have been a new world record and the first time a human had run 5,000 meters in under 11 minutes.
It's a pity that the race being held now is the 10,000-meter race.
So after the cheers erupted, there were sounds of regret again, but only for a moment before the atmosphere became excited again.
Because they realized one thing: if Bai Yu could run under eleven minutes this time, he could do it again in the future, and he could still break the world record.
To the surprise of the Kenyan athletes, the two competitors they had used to disrupt Bai Yu's rhythm, despite exhausting themselves, failed to disrupt her rhythm at all.
Instead, it unleashed his potential, allowing him to achieve his best ever result in the 5,000 meters, and he even had the energy to continue and finish the remaining half of the race.
Indeed, that was the case. Bai Yu was a man who had just undergone three months of weighted cross-country training, and he did it at least three times a day, rain or shine.
These little karaomis want to disrupt his rhythm and exhaust his stamina? Don't even think about it.
Although Bai Yu could no longer accelerate in the second half of the race, his current lead of more than one and a half laps over the second-place finisher was enough for him to keep going.
Until the very end, the second-place finisher was still almost a lap behind him, and his time broke the meet record again, as well as the new world record for the 10,000 meters!
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