Early in the morning of August 12, the young athletes of the Chinese men's 4×100 relay team had already started training on the track and field track in the athletes' village.

The current lineup of the relay team mainly consists of seven people, Su Zu, Zhang Peimeng, Wen Yongyi, Liang Hongjia, Chen Hangyu, Dai Shengming, Lu Bin, and his training partner Lin Zhenyao, who is under observation. In addition, there are several others, including Jing Ke, Gong Wei, Gu Kai and others, who can be regarded as alternate members of the relay.

However, after thinking about it carefully, the head coach of the relay team, Yuan Guohua, negotiated with other coaches in the team, mainly to select new players as the main lineup, and continue to carry out long-term training in accordance with the previous training plan of relay-driven individual events.

The old team members, such as Jing Ke, Gong Wei and others, are all close to thirty years old, but their growth is relatively low, and to a certain extent, it is not conducive to the atmosphere of the entire relay team.

Starting from scratch and drawing on a blank sheet of paper is always much easier anyway. And to some extent, there are already successful lessons to learn from.

As for Su Zu, Yuan Guohua has also watched Su Zu grow up all the way in the past few years, and he will definitely be able to take on the responsibility of the captain of this relay team.

Moreover, Su Zu's level is relatively high now, and it is of greater significance for these young players to promote.

It can be said that in order to balance the relationship between all aspects, Yuan Guohua spent a lot of brains in the face of the replacement of the old and new members of the relay team after Athens.

This is also because he brought out the men's 4×100m relay Olympic champion, although this honor cannot be completely his, but such a huge success has been able to give him more right to speak.

On the track of the track and field, Su Zu looked at these team members who were similar in age to him, and he was also surprised by everyone's mental state.

Among these team members, the only one he once knew in later generations was Zhang Peimeng, and the others were not familiar with it, and some had not even heard of it. I don't know if it was because of the flapping of his butterfly's wings, to some extent, athletes who might not have walked on the sprint road appeared on this track.

"Su Zu, let's do it again, I know the problem this time!"

After another training session to hand over the baton, Su Zu heard a voice behind him calling him.

On behalf of the saint, the newcomer selected from the Bayi team, a young man from Shandong, is a few months younger than Su Zu, and he is also relatively straightforward.

In the track and field team, the original older generation of sprinters, Jing Ke, Gong Wei, Gu Kai, and others are somewhat estranged from Su Zu. Everyone is familiar with it, these people are all old qualifications, after Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao retired and Yang Guangzong went to the United States for training, they couldn't pull their faces when they were Su Zu's younger brothers.

On the contrary, the young men of the new relay team are now more able to get along with Su Zu. One is that Su Zu doesn't have much of a fight, and he can get along with everyone in training and life. The other is that when they entered the team, it was already after the Athens Olympics, and Su Zu's results were there, and no one was unbalanced. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is an element of worship.

"Okay, run another group. Don't slow down when you and I hand over the baton, just follow the steps we've calculated. Su Zu smiled and nodded.

In the baton handover training, he does not run the whole distance, mainly when he starts, calculate the step point, so that the speed of both of them can reach the high speed as much as possible for the handover. After all, he has been playing for the past few days, if it weren't for the fact that he could practice as much as possible before the game and try to get along with each other, he would have been able to rest.

It turned out that Wen Yongyi was the third runner, his starting speed was fast, his cadence was fast, and at 60 meters was only at the level of Su Zu. It's just that his speed and endurance are not good enough now, and the speed of the last twenty meters falls too fast, and Su Zu starts to accelerate, and it is difficult to receive the baton smoothly. And the third stick is the corner into the straight, and the requirements for the cornering technique are also relatively high, and Wen Yongyi is also lacking in this regard.

For the time being, Wen Yongyi is the first runner, Zhang Peimeng is the second, Daishengming is the third, and Su Zu is the fourth. In addition, Chen Yuhang is the substitute for the first bat, Liang Hongjia is the substitute for the second bat, and Lu Bin is the substitute for the third bat. In the fourth case, according to Yuan Guohua's plan, Su Zu's training partner Lin Zhenyao will be his substitute.

This is not completely fixed, in fact, it is two sets of the same lineup, now it is not as good as before 03, when it was more difficult for the relay team to come up with a lineup, and even had to consider borrowing people from other field events.

Yuan Guohua is now looking for newcomers almost all the time, for a relay coach, if he can have enough cards in his hand, constantly adjust the optimal solution, and examine the degree of tacit understanding and personal strength, he can always get a better relay lineup.

Of course, Su Zu's current personal strength far exceeds that of other players, and no matter which set of lineup he is in now, he will obviously significantly surpass the results of another set of lineups.

This is the difference in absolute strength, and you can't expect an athlete at a level of 10.40 seconds to run the same time as an athlete at 9.84 seconds.

"The roster for the American Relay is out."

Just as several athletes in the track and field field continued to carry out simple baton handover training, Li Zhizhong, who had just learned the latest news from the reporter, hurried to the training ground.

"Who are they?"

Hearing Li Zhizhong say that the list of relay members of the American team came out, Yuan Guohua immediately came back to his senses and asked.

There is no doubt that at this stage, the overall level of American sprinters is the number one in the world. This was evident in yesterday's 200m final. Although they lost the championship, from second to fifth, all four spots were American athletes. Among them, the 200-meter champion of the Athens Olympics participated, and other countries are still the envy of this phenomenon of abundant talent.

"Morris Green leads the team, plus Maddy Beal, Tyson Gay and Leonard Scott." Li Zhizhong told what he learned from a Chinese reporter.

"Gatlin and Spearmon and Shaun Crawford are not included?" Yuan Guohua said a little strangely.

"It seems that there is none." Li Zhizhong shook his head, this news was mainly learned by his reporter when he went to interview the conflict within the US track and field team.

"However, this list may only be for the first round of preliminaries, and Gatlin may be in the semi-finals."

The list members of the relay race can generally be reported before the start of the race, and as long as the personnel are the players participating in this World Championships, they can adjust the registration, and there is no limit to death.

"Even without Gatlin, the average strength of the relay lineup of the American team is still the strongest." Yuan Guohua sighed slightly.

In tonight's relay preliminaries, the Chinese relay team and the American team were in a group in the two groups of preliminaries.

To be honest, being in the same group stage with the United States team is not a good thing for the current Chinese men's 4×100m relay team, and it is more difficult for them to qualify for the finals. Then the United States, which almost firmly locked a spot, lost one point for the Chinese team to advance.

"Now it depends on the situation, in the past two days, many media have learned that the American team is not harmonious, and there may or may not be a chance." Li Zhizhong smiled.

Today's big news is about Su Zu winning the 200-meter championship yesterday, which once again triggered a full-scale infighting in the US team, and even staged an all-out martial arts.

Craig Musback, executive director of the U.S. Athletics Association, has repeatedly said that judging by the reaction of all coaches, agents and athletes, "they are still a very cohesive team."

As for whether this is true or not, it will probably depend on how the first round of the relay race performs in the preliminaries tonight.