Chapter 249: The Newcomer's Thoughts
"Su Zu, mighty!"
"It's amazing, just a casual semi-final is about 20 seconds."
"If I can run this time, even once, it will be worth dying."
"Dream, you haven't scored 21 seconds now."
At the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, when Su Zu won the first place in the semi-finals again under the attack of two strong American opponents, six or seven young Chinese boys in red and white sportswear shouted in the audience.
Zhang Pei Meng watched the moment Su Zu ran across the finish line, and he only felt a fiery emotion rushing directly from his lower abdomen to Tianling Gai, too shocking, too excited, and too cool.
There are really Chinese athletes, in the semifinals of the World Championships, who are more than a few meters away from other black and white players.
That feeling, that kind of shock, was far greater than what he usually trained with Su Zu.
We Chinese athletes are really able to do this.
Wen Yongyi was also touched in his heart, because of the weather and intensive training in the past few days, these young relay athletes of the Chinese team have never had the opportunity to come to the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.
I only know that Su Zu won and won the 100-meter World Championships, but this concept is really not immersive on the sidelines, and I can't experience that pride and passion at all.
Wen Yongyi is still a little proud and a little extreme in terms of personality, which comes from the several times he entered the sports school and professional team when he was a teenager, and he gave gifts through the back door, so although he likes sprinting and sports, he can't help but have a somewhat biased and one-sided view of many things.
But at this time, when you are abroad, in the capital of Finland, watching the athletes who have trained with you gallop on the field and win the championship with absolute crushing, the feeling is really very moving.
When can I be like him too?!
Being born a sprinter and being able to run at the World Athletics Championships and run into the Olympics is the greatest honour. From the age of seven or eight or teenagers, I began to practice hard day after day, in order to succeed in this stage.
Before that, who would dare to think that people with the same age as them, but people of the same root and the same species can really achieve such great success.
John Capel, who was the winner of the last World Championships. Wallace Spearmon, I heard that he is also the current No. 1 athlete in the 200m ranking in the United States, but they are still not Su Zu's opponent when they join forces.
Next to Zhang Peimeng and Wen Yongyi, the other Chen Hangyu, Dai Shengming, Liang Hongjia, and Lu Bin were all excited. They are all new to the team this year, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are members of the national youth team, but because of their potential or being favored by the coach, they have all been given the opportunity to train.
The implementation of the training plan is proposed by Coach Yuan Guohua before, to relay to drive individual singles, in the field, six people are members of the relay team, plus Su Zu and Lin Zhenyao, who has never been to Helsinki, a total of eight people, maybe there will be more newcomers to join.
But this was the sprint seed for the sprint team to prepare for the 2008 and later 2012 Olympic Games, and it was the 200m race in a row that really opened their eyes today.
Among several people, like Zhang Peimeng, who is a 200-meter specialty, on behalf of the saint, the seeded player recommended by the Bayi team, is also good at 200 meters, both of them are not very old, but the goal now is to be able to run into 21 seconds.
Suddenly seeing such a peak showdown, it was not a small touch to my heart. And the key thing is that this person who has run such a result often appears in front of them, training and eating together.
Su Zu can run into 20 seconds, maybe we are not as talented as him, but work hard, discount, it is not impossible to run into 21 seconds, and there is always a chance to run 20 seconds and 50 seconds.
Yang Guangzong also ran more than 20 seconds and 50 seconds, and the coach repeatedly emphasized that even if our talent can't catch up with Su Zu, at least we can catch up with Yang Guangzong.
So, is it a possibility?
Is there a chance for us to participate in such a sprint competition on the highest stage in the world?
No matter how passionate you are watching on the sidelines, how can you compare to actually going to the game!
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When Su Zu came down from the arena, the sweat on his face was clearly visible in front of the camera.
A 200-meter run is not an easy task. This is a threshold, not that if you have the strength to run in, you can run in every time.
George Williams, the leader of the U.S. team, thinks like this, and in his opinion, Su Zu has definitely gone all out, and should even squeeze out his maximum potential.
Since the start of the competition, Su Zu has participated in a total of seven competitions from the start of the 100 meters to the current men's 200 meters, the semi-finals of the preliminaries and semi-finals, which is a test of physical fitness.
However, Li Zhizhong is not as worried as he said in this regard, last year's Athens Olympics, Su Zu encountered a much more difficult situation in the first competition than this time, at that time, there was no physiotherapist to massage and relax in the interval of each game, all relying on Su Zu to fight one by one to the end.
And this year's situation Su Zu is obviously a lot better than last year, at least in terms of physical fitness, Su Zu has improved a lot, the reason why he advised Su Zu is mainly for the sake of prudence, but the matter has come to this point, there is nothing to say.
After the second group of the men's 200m semifinals, Li Zhizhong, Zhang Pingqiu and others did not linger on the sidelines, but returned to the lounge in the venue.
In the lounge, Su Zu had already gone through a simple wash, because it was the semi-finals, except for a brief interview with CCTV when he was just over the game, he did not encounter the scene after the previous 100-meter final.
And there are many competitions today, such as the javelin, which are the focus of the local media in Finland.
"All four Americans have advanced to the finals."
As soon as he entered the lounge, Li Zhizhong talked to Su Zu about the situation of the second group of semifinals.
"It's a lot of talent."
In the men's 100m, the U.S. team advanced to the finals with Justin Gatlin and Leonard Scott, and Sean Crawford were eliminated in the semi-finals, but there were still two players who advanced.
In the men's 200m, there were four terrifying athletes who advanced. The other two in the group are Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, who are among the few players who can put pressure on the Jamaican Lightning.
It's the World Athletics Championships, which is a level of competition in the IAAF classification and the Olympics, but now it's a bit like the last Grand Prix in Eugene, where the United States took half of the finals at once.
"It's a sprint race, if it's a long-distance run, there are lanes, and if it's a middle-distance run, it's really hard to compare." Zhang Pingqiu on the side interjected.
Li Zhizhong nodded, like this women's 10,000 meters, the tacit understanding of the two Chinese athletes in the rain competition has a certain lack of understanding, and finally the top three were monopolized by three Ethiopian athletes, this situation is not accidental, after all, the position, run, lead, etc., there are too many tactics that can be adopted in long-distance running.
"Tomorrow, we still have to pay attention to this aspect of rushing." Li Zhizhong told Su Zudao, he knew Su Zu's temperament, and in the face of such a situation, he definitely wanted to win more. If you press the gun, it is undoubtedly a riskier choice.
"I'm confident."
Su Zu took a light breath, the encirclement and suppression of the four American players, it is impossible to say that there is no pressure at all. Spearmon and Tyson Gay are both best runners in the 19.5 and 19.6 seconds, and Gatlin is not good at the 200m, but he has seen the strength of Suzu, and the speed in the second half is better than him.
With Su Zu's current score of just breaking 19.8 seconds, if he encounters any of the few people who play extraordinarily and explode, he will probably not win the championship.
But it is precisely because of such a competitor that Su Zu feels that competitive sprinting is so fascinating, and every time he is forced by this strongest opponent, he can once again perform beyond the ordinary.
At the current stage, the attribute improvement brought by the system is already difficult to visually reflect in his speed.
I can only train at a high intensity, and continue to improve slowly, although I feel that it becomes difficult to obtain potential points, and the value of various attributes has reached a high level, gradually approaching the limit of the human body.
But after all, he has not reached the top, as long as there is competition, he can continue to push himself to run better.
Two months have passed since the New York Grand Prix, and his training has not been interrupted in the intervening years, and he wondered if he could break through a little more and improve his 200m time against the siege of four American athletes.
After all, compared to the current 100m world record of 9.77 seconds and 200m record of 19.32 seconds, he still has a lot of room for improvement.