After the men's 200m final of the National Track and Field Championships, Su Zu basically announced the end of his championship this time.

On the fourth day of the National Championships, which is also the last day of the competition, the men's and women's 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay will be held on this night.

The relay race is the most important team event in track and field, and it is relatively strong in both spectacle and competition.

The provincial team of Ronghai Province once again proposed to let Su Zu participate in the relay team, although the idea of Su Zu joining the relay team had been abandoned, but after Su Zu won the men's 100-meter championship and the men's 200-meter championship, some people had to have some ideas.

And the leader of the provincial team also seems to know the origin of Zhuang Tao, the 400-meter coach, and Su Zu, and through this relationship, he also asked Zhuang Tao to help with ideological work.

Because the relay team is registered according to the group, the team members can still be adjusted to join before the start of the competition. Once a relay team has started a race, only two members of the team are allowed to participate as substitutes in the subsequent race. Substitutes should also be athletes who have signed up to compete in relays or other events at the Games.

Looking at the tangled look of a one-meter-nine big man, Li Zhizhong finally gritted his teeth and refused on the pretext that Su Zu was not in good health.

Zhuang Tao can actually understand this, and the two have already communicated about this situation before.

The relay race is a team event, not better than a single event, in addition to the need for individual strong strength, it is very important to cooperate, with not tacit understanding, a handover baton may lose a lot of time, just shake your hands, the position of the handover is not right, you can't feel the feeling of wasting half a second, but this time wants to make up for it on the field, but it is very difficult. The competition of sprinting itself is calculated in hundredths and thousands of seconds.

And Su Zu and the other relay team members of the provincial team have hardly run in, the players are not familiar with each other, and the starting speed is not understood, so it is easy to cause the baton to be lost, and when the time comes, who is responsible?

If it is before he breaks the record and wins the 100-meter championship in the National Championships, Li Zhizhong may not be able to refuse, after all, many domestic competitions have to go from the side of the local team. There are a lot of troubles.

But now the situation is different, at a time when domestic track and field events are generally in a downturn, a new national record is like a shot in the arm.

At least in the past two days, the local media and newspapers in Ronghai Province have made headlines that "the outstanding athletes of our province have broken the meeting and the national record in the men's 100-meter race at the National Track and Field Championships, and created another brilliant achievement".

There are even some businesses and enterprises, people who know each other through the provincial and municipal teams, who contacted Li Zhizhong in all directions, indicating that they want Su Zu to take over information such as advertising endorsements.

The image of a character, after a certain competition, will gradually become the business card of the local community in various sports events. A lot of tricky things are now going to be a lot easier.

At 18:40 on the evening of September 14, Su Zu and Li Zhizhong appeared in the audience together. Although he did not participate, the final of the relay team could not be missed.

The result of the competition is not too suspenseful, in the men's 4X100m relay race, Guangdong Province with Chen Jian successfully won the championship, with a time of 39.70 seconds, and it is also the only team to break the 40-second mark. The second place was 40.22 seconds and the third place was 40.38 seconds.

"What? Regret not going to the competition? ”

After the final results came out, Li Zhizhong saw Su Zu frowning and thinking the side, and immediately asked with a smile.

"No, if I go to participate, it won't change anything."

Su Zu shook his head, the reason why he didn't participate in the relay race for Ronghai Province was mainly because he hadn't run in, and the athletes were too unfamiliar with each other, so he would agree not to participate. If the cooperation is not enough, he will not be able to win the fourth baton of the Ronghai Provincial Relay Team to help run it, and it may be even worse.

"The main reason is that the relay race is not easy to run, except for the Guangdong provincial team that ran 39.70 seconds this time, the other teams didn't even score 40 seconds. I watched last year's Asian Games, and our relay team only ran 39.09 seconds. ”

Although Su Zu is now a substitute in the relay team, he still learned some information about his daily training and relay races from Yuan Guohua.

Since 1972, the men's 4x100m relay has hardly been lower than 39 seconds in the Olympic Games. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the U.S. team finished in 37.61 seconds. More than 1 second, in the sprint event, it is like a moat, and the difference in strength is too great.

"At last year's Asian Games, I remember telling you about the final results. In the championship, Thailand was the runner-up, and Japan was the runner-up, and we were the third runner-up. In fact, in addition to paying attention to personal strength, the relay race also has high requirements for the athletes' skills and tacit understanding. Li Zhizhong recalled the situation of the Asian Games last year, when he and Su Zu were still in the Hedao City team, Su Zu was training at that time, and he watched the game carefully.

Thailand won the men's 4x100m relay at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, but the Thai team's individual sprinting strength was generally weaker than that of Japan and China, and there were basically no top three results in the 100m and 200m events.

However, relying on extremely superb baton handover skills and tacit understanding, he defeated the Chinese team with good athletes such as Chen Jian and Yang Guangzong, and the Japanese team with sprinters such as Shingo Asahara.

This is also the reason why Su Zu and Li Zhizhong are reluctant to rashly join the relay team of Ronghai Province and participate in this relay race. If the strength of the sprinters is not ridiculously different, the baton handover technique is a very, very crucial part.

From the first to the fourth, there are a total of three baton handovers. If the team's sprinting strength is relatively average, but it can save 0.5 to 1 second when handing over the baton, it is almost impossible to easily catch up on the field.

Why Yuan Guohua gathered a group of sprinters for training early, and even asked to eat and live together, the main reason is actually the tacit understanding and understanding between the team members.

Athletes who are familiar enough with each other can have a full understanding of each other's speed, and can maintain maximum acceleration and sprint speed in the process of receiving and handing over the baton, and the person who takes over the baton does not need to wait until the athlete in front of him is almost there to start accelerating, and a lot of time is lost.

At last year's Asian Games in Busan, the Thai team won the championship with a time of 38.82 seconds, relying on the accumulated advantages in each baton, even if the individual 100-meter strength of the four relay team members was 10.35 seconds, they were still able to run extremely good relay results.

"The main opponents of this Asian Championships are still the Thai team and the Japanese team, and I have also looked at the test results of your training, and if you replace Yin Hangchao, you will have to run the fourth base. It turned out that Chen Jian, who ran the fourth stick, had to change to the second stick, and all the orders had to be changed, and the adjustment was quite big, and it wouldn't necessarily let you participate. ”

Li Zhizhong and Su Zu analyzed the situation of the relay team, when the team trained before, if Su Zu ran the fourth base, because several athletes who were already familiar with the fixed basestick had to adjust their positions, and the overall results were about the same as the original.

Moreover, Su Zu's baton skills are not as skilled as few veteran players, and there is a certain risk, if there is no necessary situation, Su Zu may not be given priority to playing.

However, Li Zhizhong also knows that this kind of thing is uncertain, especially after Su Zu broke the national 100-meter record, it is difficult to predict whether Coach Yuan Guohua will make adjustments.

After the men's 4x100m relay, the athletes on the field have adjusted and started the next round of the men's 10,000m final, and a group of more than two dozen athletes are waiting for the gun to sound in front of the starting line.

Buzz!

Suddenly, there was a trembling sound.

"Huh?" Li Zhizhong glanced at Su Zu, as if he was a little puzzled.

"I'll answer the phone."

Su Zu took out his mobile phone from his pocket, walked out of the audience, and slipped to the side.