Chapter 219: Caught Off Guard
Before the check-in channel opened, everyone took the opportunity to do some warm-up exercises.
When it was time for registration, Lu Qianling received a numbered uniform from the registration officer. According to the number on the uniform, she stood on lane four.
There were many students watching outside the stadium, all cheering for the athletes from their class. The scene was very lively.
Long-distance running competitions have very few participants every year and have become the least popular event in college sports games. In addition, students nowadays rarely exercise and their physical fitness continues to decline. For the sake of students' safety and physical condition, the school has cancelled the women's 3,000-meter long-distance race and the men's 5,000-meter long-distance race.
Even if the above two events are cancelled, the 1500 meters is still a daunting event in the eyes of students.
Most of the students who dared to sign up for the middle- and long-distance running competition were from the school track and field team. Among the many athletes, Lu Qianling's small arms and legs, and height did not give her an advantage.
At this time, aerial photography was already in place, and the number of online viewers on the live broadcast platform reached over 10,000.
The online cloud live broadcast is intended to promote and publicize the school's ethos, while also providing students and parents with better visual viewing, allowing everyone to watch the game even without being in a crowded venue.
Most of the active people in the comment section are students from the participating grade group, who are betting online on who will take first place in the women's 1500m.
The playground is a standard 400-meter running track. There are a total of eight athletes in this group competition. The students watching online typed the number of the athlete most likely to win on the public screen. Only Lu Qianling No. 4 was not mentioned.
[I bet on number 6, she will win! Don’t ask, she’s the most beautiful! !]
[Obviously, number 2 is the best, right? She was number 1 in the women's middle-distance race last year.]
[A quick word about number 5. Last year, she was only 2.08 seconds behind number 2. Maybe she can overtake her this time.]
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The two referees at the start and finish were receiving unified instructions to facilitate timing the students. Suddenly, just before the start, Liu Xiaomeng stood outside the track holding an umbrella and shouted, "Lu Qianling, come on!"
When Lu Qianling heard someone calling her name, she looked up and scanned the crowd, and quickly locked onto Liu Xiaomeng's position. She raised her hand and placed it lightly on her chest, with a confident smile on the corner of her lips.
After the referees on both sides made gestures in the air, the referee standing at the starting point raised his hand and raised the starting gun. The referee said "ready" for a long time, followed by the sound of the gun, and the game officially began.
As soon as the gun sounded, the athletes in each lane started running. The students standing in the inner lane took advantage of the starting position and soon took a step ahead of the other students.
The students in the outer lanes started running at a constant speed and gradually merged into the same lane.
Lu Qianling's starting speed was not too slow, and the distance between her and other students was not too big.
There were two people running behind Lu Qianling, one of whom was a junior student who was half a head taller than Lu Qianling. During the second lap, the girl suddenly ran ahead of her and said, "Keep going, senior sister! If you lose to us freshmen, you'll be so embarrassed."
Lu Qianling looked at her with a forced smile: "Thank you for your reminder."
In the second lap, Lu Qianling was at the bottom of the field.
On the other side of the playground were the auditoriums, which were filled with students sitting in the shade. Seeing Lu Qianling running at the end, the students in Class 2 became a little anxious.
"Is Lu Qianling any good? No matter how bad our performance was in the last competition, it wasn't that bad, right?"
"Really... She has brought shame upon Class 2, Grade 2."
It was not until the third lap that Lu Qianling began to exert her strength and slowly overtook the students in front of her one by one.
By the end of the third lap, Lu Qianling was completely ahead of everyone else and sprinted the remaining 300 meters with all her strength.
Seeing this amazing reversal, the audiences, both online and offline, were shocked.
"Am I seeing correctly? That's... Lu Qianling?"
Liu Xiaomeng: "You're not mistaken, she is Lu Qianling."
[Holy crap! Who is number 4? He's the last one to come in first?]
Does this small body have that much reserve? She doesn't seem to be feeling any pressure sprinting.
[No way! Numbers 2 and 5 are the best athletes on the school track and field team, and they're actually following behind a little invisible person?]
Seeing Lu Qianling running in front, the two students behind also sped up and tried to overtake Lu Qianling in the last few hundred meters, but no matter how hard they chased, they always kept a distance of nearly six feet from Lu Qianling.
Seeing Lu Qianling about to rush to the finish line, Liu Xiaomeng and the class sports committee member were already waiting on the side.
Seeing the finish line just ahead and Liu Xiaomeng waving at her, Lu Qianling sped up a little and used up her last bit of strength to cross the finish line.
The red ribbon around her waist fluttered freely behind Lu Qianling as she ran a few meters. There was a burst of excited cheers from the audience, cheering for her winning first place.
Liu Xiaomeng dropped her umbrella and rushed to Lu Qianling to hug her. "I was so scared! You just came in last, you have no idea how nervous I was... Great! We got first place."
Lu Qianling was a little out of breath after running, her cheeks were red, and there was a lot of sweat on her forehead. "I deliberately let them down their guard and then caught them off guard."
Finally, after the results of the complete group were counted, Lu Qianling won the first prize in the women's 1500m with a time of 4 minutes and 37 seconds.
"Lu Qianling, did you cheat? How could you run 4 minutes and 37 seconds?" It was only by chance that their track and field team could achieve Lu Qianling's result in the 1500 meters.
"The drone was following me the whole time, how could I have cheated?" Lu Qianling looked up at the girl next to her and said in a sly tone, "The top students can control their scores, but I can control my speed. Are you jealous?"
If she hadn't spent the first two laps competing with them, she might have been able to run a time of 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
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Variety show live broadcast
Today is the second day for all the guests to take up their posts. Every time period on Saturday is very busy.
Meng Chuyuan delivered more than six meals this morning.
In the afternoon, the weather was a bit hot, and there were a lot of customers placing orders online and offline, so the sales of milk tea increased immediately.
Some customers choose to stay in the store to drink milk tea, not only to use the internet, but also to enjoy the service of the show guests.
In the afternoon, Meng Chuyuan had a lot of takeout orders that needed to be delivered. The only thing that made her unhappy was that the sun outside was a little too hot, and the round trip made her sweat.
"So far." When Meng Chuyuan received a new milk tea order, he felt that the address 2 kilometers away was so far away.
Lu Jinsen happened to hear her complaints and subconsciously replied, "I'll go and take it."
Meng Chuyuan looked up at him and said, "You don't know how to ride a bike."
"Who said I can't ride?" He came out from the counter, skillfully found the key to the electric bike, and then walked out of the store carrying the bag of milk tea.
[Sister Meng's incredible expression, hahaha, is exactly like the way I questioned Lu Jinsen yesterday]
[That's great! This stinky little brother finally knows how to care for his sister-in-law.]
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