The golden tiger phantom, imbued with true energy, dimmed in color after being struck by Gao Yifan's palm. However, Zhang Yuan's palm strike was extremely powerful, and Gao Yifan's palm strike failed to completely shatter the tiger.
The tiger's afterimage continued to pounce on Gao Yifan, passing right through him.
Gao Yifan groaned and fell back into the sand pit.
He quickly regained his balance, trying to place his legs in the sandpit.
But it was too late. With a muffled thud, his left foot landed, and then, affected by the tiger phantom energy emitted by Zhang Yuan, he slipped and fell into the sandpit!
Everyone sighed.
This jump wasn't as far as the second one!
The student leaders went up to measure the distance.
2.45 meters!
Although everyone felt it was a bit strange, Gao Yifan's last two jumps were clearly not up to par, after all, he had easily jumped 2.8 meters in his first jump!
No matter how badly he performed the last two jumps, it was impossible for him to only jump 2.4 meters and 2.5 meters!
I couldn't figure it out no matter how much I thought about it. I could only say that maybe he had a bad mentality or was just unlucky, which is why he didn't perform at his normal level in the last two games.
Finally, Zhang Yuan won first place in the standing long jump with a jump of 3.22 meters, surpassing the school's all-time record by 0.62 meters.
Gao Yifan, at 2.8 meters, won second place.
The morning's matches have come to an end.
Before leaving, Gao Yifan glared at Zhang Yuan, then turned and walked away.
Nobody knows what he's thinking!
However, Zhang Yuan sensed a faint killing intent emanating from Gao Yifan as he left the playground!
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The Tongcheng University sports meet lasted for three days.
Zhang Yuan participated in four events on the first and second days. On the first day, he participated in the 50-meter sprint and standing long jump. On the second day, he participated in the high jump in the morning and the 5,000-meter race in the afternoon.
The morning's high jump competition has already concluded, and Zhang Yuan easily won first place.
His opponents in this competition were not strong. Zhang Yuan jumped 1.73 meters, 3 centimeters more than the second-place competitor, and almost broke the school's high jump record of 1.75 meters.
After surpassing the second-place finisher, Zhang Yuan deliberately made a mistake, and his final score was 1.73 meters, securing him first place.
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On the north side of the school playground, a large blackboard hangs on the wall of the teaching building.
The blackboard displays the names and scores of the students who won awards in each event at this sports meet.
In the afternoon, the sun was quite scorching. Students from various colleges, as well as participating athletes, gathered around the blackboard, all checking their current scores.
The school square echoed with the rousing and inspiring background music from the sports meet.
At the highest position on the blackboard was written Zhang Yuan, Class 1, Chinese Language and Literature, 2022, School of Literature and Philosophy, with 9 points!
The score notes indicate that Zhang Yuan is currently participating in three competitions: first place in the 50-meter sprint, standing long jump, and high jump.
The second-place finisher in the overall standings, after Zhang Yuan, is Gao Yifan from the 2022 Music Class of the School of Arts, with 7 points. His awards include: second place in the 50-meter sprint, second place in the standing long jump, and first place in the triple jump.
Wang Yuancong, Class 1, 2020, School of Physical Education, ranked third with 5 points. He also ranked second in the standing long jump, triple jump, and 400 meters.
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In front of the blackboard, two women and a man squeezed out of the crowd and walked to a large tree not far from the blackboard.
The two female students were graceful and beautiful, with long, elegant hair; the boy was tall and handsome, with flowing hair dyed a little gold.
"Gao Yifan, I didn't expect that a music student like you would have such good sports performance. Your points are ranked second in the whole school, even higher than Wang Yuancong from the sports college!"
Zeng Jingxue stood under the tree, smiling.
"I've loved sports since I was a child, so I'm in good health."
It's a pity I slipped during yesterday's standing long jump, otherwise I probably could have won first place!
Gao Yifan smiled slightly.
Zeng Jingxue's beautiful eyes darted around as she comforted her, "It's okay, you've already done a great job!"
"However, my strength is long-distance running, and I should be able to win first place in the 5000-meter race this afternoon."
Gao Yifan smiled and spoke to Zeng Jingxue and Chen Li.
Chen Li's eyes darted around: "There's a 5000-meter race this afternoon, and Zhang Yuan from the School of Humanities is also participating. Can you really win first place?"
"It seems like you and Zhang Yuan didn't win first place in the competition you were competing in together."
Upon hearing the name Zhang Yuan, Gao Yifan's face suddenly turned cold, and a faint murderous aura emanated from him. However, he quickly realized that there were other people around him, so he immediately suppressed his murderous aura and smiled, "Don't worry, just watch my performance this afternoon!"
A short while later, the campus broadcast began announcing that the runners participating in the 5000-meter race should gather at the starting line.
Zeng Jingxue said, "Yifan, you've done your best. First place isn't that important. Let's go, the 5000-meter race is about to start."
Two women and one man walked toward the playground.
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The 5000-meter race at Tongcheng University's sports meet is somewhat different from other events.
The format for the 5000-meter race is that each college sends one of its top-performing runners from the preliminary rounds to represent the college, and only the top eight colleges will be selected.
One student per college, one track.
Other events, such as the 50-meter sprint and standing long jump, have limited audiences due to venue limitations and other factors.
But the 5000-meter race is different; it's a key project the school is developing, and the entire playground can be used to watch the race, accommodating thousands of students at the same time.
Secondly, the 5000-meter race is a grand finale event of the school sports meet. In order to fully motivate students, the school has increased the points for the 5000-meter race: the first place winner gets 5 points, the second place winner gets 4 points, and the third place winner gets 3 points.
Meanwhile, teachers from various colleges will also come to watch the competition.
The 5000-meter race is arguably one of the highlights of the annual Games.
Therefore, each participating college attaches great importance to this and will organize a special cheering team to cheer on their students on the field!
Of course, students from other colleges that didn't make it to the finals also came to watch the game and join in the fun.
This year's 5000m finalists include not only established powerhouses like the School of Physical Education and the School of Science and Engineering, but also teams from the School of Arts and the School of Humanities.
They sent Zhang Yuan and Gao Yifan, who are also the strongest 5000-meter runners in their respective colleges.
Judging from the performance in the preliminary rounds, the contestants from each college this year are very strong, especially the two dark horses, the College of Arts and the College of Humanities and Philosophy, who even have the potential to challenge the defending champion, the College of Physical Education.
Before the competition even started, cheerleading squads from various colleges and students watching the game had already surrounded the playground in two layers, with a total number of nearly a thousand people.
On the east side of the playground, Fei Bo and Zhu Gan, students from Class 1 of the Chinese Department of the School of Arts and Philosophy, held up a red banner, with dozens of students from Class 1 and Class 2 of the Chinese Department standing behind the banner.
The banner read: "Go Zhang Yuan, Class 1 of Chinese Language and Literature!"
The cheerleaders were all full of fighting spirit.
Before the college competition, students from Chinese Class 1 and 2, as well as students from all grades, put aside their prejudices and came to cheer for Zhang Yuan.
In addition to the eight participating colleges, including the College of Humanities, the College of Arts, and the College of Physical Education, each occupied the most prominent position on the playground, waving flags or beating drums to promote their college's athletes.
Among them, the cheerleading team from the School of Arts was the most eye-catching. They were all long-haired beauties, gathered together and shouting Gao Yifan's name.
It's fair to say that the atmosphere at the stadium was already electric even before the match started.
The atmosphere among the cheerleading teams from different colleges was also highly competitive.
On the playground and track, eight athletes from different colleges were stretching their arms, pressing their legs, or squatting to try to start running. They were all doing their final warm-up exercises and waiting for the competition to begin.
Zhang Yuan was lucky today, drawing lane four, which is located right in the middle of the track and field, offering a good view and avoiding the interference from outsiders that plagues runners in lanes one and eight.
Of the seven contestants, Zhang Yuan had met two of them before: Wang Yuancong from the School of Physical Education, with whom he had participated in the standing long jump, and Gao Yifan from the School of Physical Education.
Coincidentally, Gao Yifan's track was on the third lane, to Zhang Yuan's left.
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