“On your marks！”

Syllable!

A gunshot rang out.

In the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, it was suddenly like being poured with fuel, and the heat was full of heat and boiling noise.

On the track of the racecourse, at the starting line of the corner, 9 athletes began to accelerate like arrows from the string.

In the atmosphere of cheering and boiling in the audience, a runner in the fourth lane was incredibly fast, only running a distance of sixty or seventy meters, and only more than half of the corner, he achieved an absolute advantage, with a strong pace and extremely fast cadence.

"Su Zu!"

"Su Zu!"

The crowd of more than 40,000 people was completely overwhelmed by the voice on the track, and the runners, both from home and abroad, couldn't help but shout the name of the leading runner.

A shout of surprise came from the audience, and finally converged into an invisible wave in the entire Osaka Nagai Stadium.

On the field, after Su Zu ran through the corner, he was on a straight road of less than 100 meters in front of him, and his eyes were already firmly fixed on the finish line.

Fast swing arm, powerful and large stride, far beyond the cadence of ordinary people, excellent speed retention ability in the second half of the race. A live commentator on Osaka TV was a little speechless for a while, and he was actually stuck, and he didn't have a particularly good expression.

On the contrary, a commentator on NHK TV maintained a particularly good professional quality, and his speech speed was as fast as a bullet spraying, "Su Zujun started very well, which is the world's top starting speed." Suzu started to pick up and he overtook the rest of the competitors by a wide margin, and it was unbelievable that Suzu had the advantage at the 80-meter position and sealed the win......"

"19.48 seconds, Su Zu ran 19.48 seconds...... This is a new world record, and Suzu's performance in the 200m is also unexpectedly amazing. Worthy of the pride of Asia, the strongest of the yellow race, the man who rules the speed......"

It's May 5, 2007, in the men's 200m race at the IAAF Osaka Grand Prix, Suzu crossed the finish line at the moment he crossed the finish line, and the fastest runners behind him, two American runners Wallace Spearmon and Rodney Martin, and Kuranti Martina from the Netherlands Antilles, both had a difference of several meters or even ten meters.

"19.48?!"

After Su Zu crossed the finish line, he looked at the results displayed on the timing board, his face was slightly stunned, and then he shook his head and showed a faint smile.

In the men's 200m, he didn't face any strong competitors, and Wallace Spearmon was a good player, but in the first Grand Prix of the year, he didn't seem to be fully in shape.

Another American athlete, Rodney Martin, also born in '82, ran a good time of 20.38 seconds in the indoor 200m in 2005. However, in this Osaka Grand Prix, the two did not pose much of a threat to Suzu.

In addition, the current level of 200 meters of Kuranti-Martina has not yet entered under 20 seconds, compared to other competitors, such as Japan's Shingo Sueji, etc., Kuranti-Martina's strength is relatively much stronger, but it is more than a cut short of Suzu's current stable performance.

Su Zu didn't have much idea at all in this 200 meters, but Li Zhizhong asked him to run as hard as he could to test the results of the winter training, and judging from the results, it seemed to be not bad.

"Congratulations, Su Zu, your speed in this 200-meter is as fast as a bolt of lightning."

In the finish area, Wallace Spearmon, who had completed the 200-meter race, walked up to Suzu and congratulated him.

"Thank you!"

Suzu and Wallace-Spearmon hugged softly in thanks, then waved with open hands to the tens of thousands of spectators.

The 2007 World Championships were held in Osaka, Japan, and this time the organizers of the Osaka Grand Prix used a lot of manpower and material resources, on the one hand, to warm up for the World Championships in advance, and on the other hand, to test the ability to prepare for all aspects of the competition. If China held the Magic City Gold Grand Prix in 2005, it would have sent the whole team to Helsinki to study.

As one of Japan's most important sports cities, Osaka's residents are passionate about athletics. At today's Grand Prix, there were far more local Japanese spectators than Suzu had come to Osaka in previous years.

In addition, because this year's World Championships are held in Osaka, not only is there a large number of spectators, but the organizers have invested more, and the average strength of the athletes is much higher than that of previous years in Osaka.

The Osaka Grand Prix, the first few races of the IAAF Tour's opening season, has struggled to attract many of the top Central American sprinters due to its location in East Asia and the schedule. In preparation for this year's World Championships, this time the Osaka Grand Prix was completely different. Trinidad and Tobago and even Panama have a lot of players coming to the competition.

"Director Li, it seems that Su Zu is still in a very good state."

Zhang Pingqiu stood outside the arena, looking at the scene on the big screen where Su Zu raised his hands and signaled to the audience in all directions, and it was still difficult to hold back a burst of excitement in his heart.

The men's 200m is 19.48 seconds, arguably one of the best times in the last decade, and the closest to Michael Johnson's 19.32 seconds men's 200m world record.

At the beginning of the season, Su Zu was able to have such an extraordinary performance, which had to make Zhang Pingqiu excited.

Su Zu's game characteristics are too obvious, and if there are players with close strength in this game, Su Zu may be able to run faster than this.

Li Zhizhong also had a satisfied smile on his face, looked at Su Zu on the field and was cheering around, and shook his head lightly unconsciously, "It's better to wait for Su Zu to finish the 100 meters before being happy." ”

In 2007, the new season, after the end of the winter training at the Haigen base, Su Zu had such a performance on the field, Li Zhizhong was very satisfied, and he also wanted to see where Su Zu's limit would be.

After two years of speed endurance training at the Hagenki subplateau, Suzu has been evident in the 100 meters, where the center of gravity has been on the 100 meters last year and this year ...... Lao Li shook his head, running 200 meters is also a better choice.

In the athletes' lounge, after Su Zu finished the men's 200-meter race, Jiang Daheng was doing a muscle massage for him to relax, seizing the recovery time.

"Alas, Su Zu, is the strength appropriate?" Jiang Daheng patted the muscles of this Su Zu's calf and asked.

"Huh? What the?! Su Zu came back to his senses slightly.

"I ask you if you can handle it?" Jiang Daheng followed and asked again.

"Uh...... It's okay. Su Zu replied a little absent-mindedly.

"You......" Jiang Daheng shook his head, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, the world records are ours." ”

He has seen a lot of such situations these days, and Su Zu seems to be completely obsessed with it, and almost all he thinks about running 100 meters in his mind is thinking about running 100 meters. often called him, but he didn't respond, even if he came back to his senses, he soon became addicted again.

Just like now, Su Zu was lying on the massage table with half-squinted eyes, Jiang Daheng was giving him body muscle physiotherapy, and he didn't seem to have much reaction.

"If you don't break the world record, who can break it." Jiang Daheng gave Su Zu a detailed muscle massage and sighed in a low voice.

"Huh? Master Jiang, what are you talking about? ”

It seemed that Jiang Daheng's words to himself were heard by Su Zu again, and he turned his head slightly to Jiang Daheng and asked.

"It's fine." Jiang Daheng patted Su Zu's shoulder, "Go and warm up, the competition is coming soon." ”

"Oh, okay, thank you Master Jiang."

Su Zu nodded and got up from the massage table.

Leaving the lounge, Su Zu walked all the way to the indoor warm-up track in the check-in area, but he was still recalling the technical actions in his mind. "The first three steps are a little bigger, which can make the acceleration more sufficient, but you also have to control the cadence, when I was training at the Hagen base before, I used the stride acceleration method of the first half of the acceleration a few times, and the 200m run is okay, but the start time of the 100m is too slow.

When I ran the 200m today, the first half of the acceleration was relatively fast, and if the first half of the race was bigger, using Powell's starting style, maybe the speed and endurance in the second half of the middle and second half would be better.

Not necessarily. I used to have a decent start. Master used to improve my movements by Carl Lewis, the first half of the pace should be strong and powerful, the steps should be larger, and the speed should be completely raised.

I've compared the videos of the previous races, and in the first three steps of the start, my stride was actually not small, it should have been from the fourth step to the fifth step, and I fell down when I started to accelerate. The fast cadence slowed me down slightly. If I had controlled the acceleration of the first half of the race and had a larger stride than I had done earlier in the 200 meters, it would have been the highest speed on my way, and the stride length was not ideal. ”

Along the way, Su Zu's mind turned over and over again recalling the scenes of his own races, his own and his opponents, starting from Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao in the National Grand Prix, to the running skills of top players such as Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell in Europe and the United States.

During his time training at the Hagen base, he also watched a lot of videos of previous sprinters from the eighties and nineties. Like Carl Lewis, Vanobelli, Morris Green, and Michael Johnson to name a few.

Summarize the experience of each player to optimize and carve their own skills.

On closer analysis, he hasn't been in the field of sprinting for a long time, but there have been a lot of changes in his skills. Starting from running 60 meters, the original front and back feet and the first half of the fast cadence acceleration are changed to the back, similar to Justin Gatlin's big stride start acceleration, and inadvertently learning some of Powell's running techniques.

On the whole, ordinary people can hardly see any technical points when watching the video of the competition, but through the analysis of the video frame by frame, it will be found that Su Zu's technology has changed a lot over the years.

Among them, Li Zhizhong's training is one thing, and the other is also Su Zu's natural changes in his body with the improvement of his strength and agility.

Li Zhizhong's strength in the field of sprinting is undoubtedly in the training of strength, and later Lao Li expanded from this aspect, including muscle explosiveness, speed and endurance, which have been improved to varying degrees, and can also keep up with Su Zu's growth.

However, in terms of technical requirements, Su Zu was not absolutely meticulously carved, which was also what Su Zu gradually realized later.

He can break the record again and again under pressure from Asafa Powell, in a sense, there should be more potential than that, and he may go further, but the current technology limits his performance. It has become that if you want to break through, you can only train at high intensity to increase the physical qualities related to speed, such as strength, agility, and agility.

At the moment, these qualities that can be related to his absolute speed are not easy to improve. As mentioned earlier, the improvement of strength quality does not happen in a vacuum, it requires more muscles in the body. And to some extent, this will make the body bloated, and in turn lose the ability to speed, dexterity, and balance.

Top sprinters are strong, but never overstrong.

……

"Su Zujun doesn't know what kind of amazing performance he will have in the 100 meters this time? I'm looking forward to his performance in the 100m more than in the men's 200m. I don't know if it's my delusion, but I'm not too excited about Su Zu breaking the Asian record. ”

"Yes, Su Zujun's achievements in the past few years are simply the glory of our yellow race, whenever I see Su Zujun running on the runway, I always have a feeling of flying. He really deserves to be the fastest runner in the world. ”

"Judging from the men's 200-meter race, Su Zujun will hit a new high this season, and it is very likely to break the world record in the 100-meter again, I am really looking forward to it."

"No, no, I don't think the 100m world record should be broken so easily for a while. At least in this game, it's certainly unlikely. ”

"It's not easy to break through, Su Zujun just showed the absolute speed of the fastest man on the ground, a time of 19.48 seconds, which is already a new Asian record in the men's 200 meters. It was also eleven years later that the closest thing to Forrest Gump' was achieved. ”

"Let's wait and see. The men's 100m trapeze battle at the Osaka Grand Prix will begin soon, and we will see the world's fastest speed, red lightning, galloping down the track. ”

At this time, the three commentators on NHK TV were chatting with each other, and the Osaka Grand Prix, which was one of the rehearsals for this year's World Championships in Osaka, was attended by three commentators who were well-known in the Japanese sports world.

Regarding Yu Suzu's upcoming performance on the track and field, they all put forward their own opinions.

And as the time approached, the straight track in the Nagai Stadium in Osaka had been emptied. In the just-concluded men's 110-meter hurdles competition, Liu Yangyu won the championship in 13.14 seconds. The final event of the Osaka Grand Prix, the men's 100m trapeze battle, will begin immediately.

Standing on the track, Su Zu looked at the players who came to participate in the men's 100 meters on the left and right, although Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell did not come to participate, but it may be the relationship of this year's World Championships, and there are still many masters who have come to adapt to the venue in advance to participate in the Grand Prix.

And this time, because Tyson Gay and Leonard Scott will not participate in the Grand Prix, Wallace Spearmon will only participate in the 200 meters, which is a rare Grand Prix without an American athlete.

The nine athletes competing in the men's 100m at the 2007 Osaka Grand Prix in Japan were: Slovenia's Madik Osovnikar in the 1st lane, Richard Thompson in the 2nd Trinidad and Tobago, Olusoki Fasuba in Nigeria in the 3rd lane, Suzu in the 4th lane, Derek Atkins from the Bahamas in the 5th lane, Mark Burns in the 6th Trinidad and Tobago lane, Japan's Nobuhara in the 7th lane, Malon Devonish of Great Britain in the 8th lane, and Naoki Tsukahara of Japan in the 9th lane, because Shingo Sueji has a relationship to participate in the men's 200m race, he replaced Shingo Sueji in the men's 100m race.

The rise of Central American runners is unstoppable, even without Jamaica, and the sprinters around the Caribbean, such as Trinidad and Tobago and Panama, are also becoming more active in international athletics.

What are the 2007 World Championships in sight?

This Osaka Grand Prix is also a rare time for Su Zu to participate in the men's 100m race after completing the men's 200m race.

Generally in the Grand Prix or Super Grand Prix and the Golden League, there are very few runners who can run both (except for the IAAF Finals). One reason is the issue of invitation places, and the other is also the IAAF Tour on the same day, the men's 200m race is generally before the 100m, and few athletes can run the 100m after just running the 200m, only an hour or two apart. This is a big test for the physical recovery of the players.

After participating in the men's 200m at the Osaka Grand Prix, Su Zu then participated in the men's 100m race, which is already a rarity.

Looking at the runway in front of him, the first thought in Su Zu's mind was whether he would finish this trip with 43 steps or 44 steps.

Over the past few months, he has been working hard to improve his stride and cadence, and his entire running rhythm has changed. The results were also a little fluctuating, but Su Zu understood that this was an inevitable result.

Making changes will naturally result in good and bad results, and what you can do is to put in the effort and try to make the results go for the better.

“On your marks！”

On the edge of the track, the IAAF-designated starter shouted.

The warm atmosphere of the scene suddenly fell silent.

Su Zu took a light breath, looked at the finish line in the distance, and walked to the starting line.