“…… Later, I was asked, what does it take to be a good sports journalist? This is actually a big question, and I can only talk about it from my personal point of view. In the early days of my job, I was a completely confused newcomer. At that time, I was able to get a job because of my connections, so if I just wanted to run on the front line, I would be able to watch a few more football games at public expense, and maybe I could go abroad to Europe, well, I'm a fan (laughs). Until a sprint race changed me, you can't imagine what it was like to see the runners flying across the starting line...... That passion, trembling ......"

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On the morning of September 13.

On the third day of the National Track and Field Championships, the various events of the track and field competition were carried out in an intense and orderly manner.

This morning's track competition starts at 9 a.m. with the men's decathlon 100m, followed by the women's 5000m final. At 9:40 and 9:50, the women's 800m heats and the men's 800 heats were played. The women's 200m final starts at 10:20 and the men's 200m final starts at 10:30. This will be followed by the men's and women's 4x400m relay heats.

When Su Zu stepped on the track and field field, he found that there seemed to be more spectators today than yesterday. Probably because of the weekend, although the overall seating has not yet filled the audience seats on the other side of the runway, the black figures, and some small flags and other things, are obviously a lot more than the previous two days.

Moreover, I don't know if it was a mishearing or a psychological effect, it seems that the cheering is a little louder, and I can vaguely hear someone shouting his name.

"The new national 100-meter record holder, I will have to show mercy to my subordinates." Before he got on the runway, Yang Guangzong leaned next to Su Zu and said with a smile.

"That's not going to work, I've got to try. You already have the Olympic A mark in hand, it's time for us young people to get ahead. Su Zu shook his head and smiled.

"Alas, the back waves of the Yangtze River shoot the front waves, you want to shoot me and Chen Jian to death in front."

Yang Guangzong's personality is a little more cheerful than Chen Jian, and he also likes to make some jokes, and he is a competitor on the field, but he actually has a good relationship off the field.

Due to the fact that the sprint team has fewer personnel, and attaches more importance to individual performance, and each has its own head coach, there is basically no phenomenon of athletes ranking seniority, which is not much better than some ball games.

At last year's Asian Games, Yang Guangzong won the bronze medal in the third place in the 200m with a best time of 20.58 seconds, which also reached the A-standard qualification for the 04 Athens Olympics.

And he is also the 200m champion of the '99 National Track and Field Championships, and the 200m champion of the '02 National Track and Field Championships and Grand Prix Finals. I have ideas for the championship in '03, but it's not enough to say that I have to run hard.

In the 200-meter final of this National Championships, before the competition, Yang Guangzong's head coach Liu Renjia had a request that he must win the championship. However, Yang Guangzong was noncommittal about this. At this stage, in the domestic 200-meter field, when it is still difficult for most athletes to open the 21-second mark, he is almost crushing all the players. Su Zu's strength in the 200 meters is good, but overall he also knows that Su Zu's cornering skills are still a little worse and need to be improved.

And, to be honest, his eyes have begun to look not only at home, but also at the major international arenas. Shingo Sue's results in the World Championships can be said to have stimulated him severely.

Su Zu and Yang Guangzong participated in the men's 200m final that started at 10:30, and Su Zu ran okay in the 200m heats yesterday, winning the first place in the group with a time of 20.99 seconds. The other seven competitors, including Yang Guangzong, all entered the final with a time of 21 seconds.

"By the way, Brother Yang, are there any masters in the Asian Championships?" Su Zu remembered that he was going to the Philippines for the Asian Athletics Championships in a few days, and asked.

With a national championship 100-meter championship and national record, Su Zu is also more relaxed about the 200 meters, he didn't sign up for the 200 meters, like Chen Jian, he lacks a few points in the back after 150 meters, as well as the curve technology, this time it was the Ronghai Provincial Team that added it to him.

At the Japan Athletics Championships in June this year, he set a new Asian record by running 20.03 seconds. At the World Championships in August, he finished third in 20.38 seconds. It was the first World Championships medal won by an Asian athlete in the men's track and field sprint event. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Guangzong's spirit is a little trance, he and the last Shingo have always been competing, but since 02, the last Shingo has broken out one after another, and this year has broken the 200-meter Asian record.

"But I don't think he will necessarily participate in the Asian Championships, and now he should also participate in the Athletics Federation's Golden League in Europe. In addition to him, the other Japanese players Koji Ito and Nobuharu Asahara, are estimated to be retiring, and I haven't heard what the state is, or newcomers. ”

Su Zu nodded after listening, it is true that many names are relatively unfamiliar, compared to Yang Guangzong, the "big brother", who understands all kinds of Asian players, he is still at the stage of staying outside the door.

Looking at sprint races in later generations, except for the domestic 1200-meter runners, the others are European and American runners, and among the current runners in Asia, Su Zu is really not clear.

Not only him, but also Li Zhizhong has been doing his homework in this area since he entered the national team, after all, he has just come up from the local team, and many sprinters in Asia know very little.

Shingo Sueji may not have gained a reputation in later generations, but he was indeed the top sprinter in Asia in the past few years, comparable to some athletes in Europe and the United States. The Asian 200m record was broken by Qatar's naturalized athlete Ogunod more than a decade later.

To put it bluntly, this is one of the few players in Japan who can still create good results when he goes abroad.

"What other strong players are there besides these people?"

Hearing that Shingo Sue might not participate in the Asian Championships held on September 20, Su Zu felt a little pity, and then asked Yang Guangzong if he had participated in the Asian Games and some other Asian games, and he still knew a lot of familiar information.

"If you want to talk about other masters, Kuwait's Faouzi is one, and Saudi Arabia's Al-Bissi, you probably haven't heard of these, you will know when you want to see the Asian Championships."

While the two were talking, the women's 200m final was over, the staff on the sidelines cleared the track, adjusted the equipment, and the men's 200m athletes took to the field.

Su Zu is in the fourth lane, Yang Guangzong is in the fifth lane, and both of them are the first and second places in the preliminaries. In fact, the powerful players, in addition to the preliminaries will be arranged for a worse number of passes, basically the preliminaries results come out, and the finals can get a good run.

When the players were ready, the starting gun rang out.

This time, Su Zu did not choose the same gun pressing tactics as in the 100m final, although this aspect has benefited greatly after success, but he still lacks enough training, and it is still difficult to press the gun steadily.

This tactic is not certain to a certain extent, or it needs to fight for the championship, and it will not be used as the first choice.

However, he listened to the gun this time, and the starting speed was still good. After a few games, I gradually got back to the feeling I had played a few months ago.

His current running style is the acceleration stage of the 200-meter corner, trying not to be left behind too much, especially when the corner enters the straight, which has the largest arc and tests the skill of the runners the most.

When a good 200m athlete enters the straight in this corner, he can not only keep sprinting and not slow down, but can even accelerate to a certain extent, so as to widen the distance between other competitors.

Although the original intention is that for this 200-meter race, Su Zu's degree of attention is far lower than that of the 100-meter, but once the athletes step onto the field, they will naturally unconsciously have the intention of competing to win.

When you can win, no one wants to lose.

The eight runners were all running very fast, and at this stage of the corner into the straight, Yang Guangzong had already achieved a certain advantage with his excellent 200-meter technique, but there was also a short athlete in front of him, Shen Yunbao.

Shen Yunbao's 100 meters is not weak, he has also trained for many years, and his technique in the first half of the 200 meters is also very good, and he can even press Yang Guangzong to run at this stage.

But after passing the corner, entering the straight stage, he was gradually caught up by Yang Guangzong. After all, the special 200-meter athletes have strong ability in the second half.

At the same time, after the previous athletes had already entered the straight, Su Zu also completed the final stage of the corner and began to run the final straight of 100 meters.

Su Zu ran the 200 meters in the corner, and several coaches gave evaluations, and he was almost 0.3 seconds behind the other athletes in the corner.

This time, with the improvement of his overall personal strength, he is not as far behind as before, and it is only between 0.15-0.2 seconds at most. As soon as I entered the straight, my stride suddenly increased.

When he was close to 150 meters, he had already caught up with Shen Yunbao and another athlete, and by the time he reached the stage of about 180 meters, he was almost neck and neck with Yang Guangzong.

190 meters, 195 meters...... Rush the line!

After running across the finish line, Su Zu subconsciously glanced at the timing board on the side.

20.91 seconds.

However, the gold content of this championship is much lower than his 100-meter national record-breaking result, not to mention that the national 200-meter record at this time is 20.54 seconds so far away, even Yang Guangzong's state this trip is very average, ranking second with a time of 20.93 seconds.

Anyway, though, it was a win.

Another champion.

Su Zu trotted down, watching many spectators on both sides start cheering for him, someone is calling his name, he is no longer the nobody.

What's next?

Asian Athletics Championships, Manila, Philippines.