"This ...... There weren't many people participating. ”

On the morning of March 9, outside the Vienna Startale Indoor Gymnasium, Su Zu looked at the athletes from all over the world waiting to enter, and unexpectedly found that there were not many people, only a few teams, which was much inferior to the scale of the domestic indoor track and field competition.

"Don't look at the small number of people, but the level of the IAAF assessment is still high." Lu Jianming seemed to have rested for two days, and his biological clock was completely adapted, and he gradually began to feel energetic, standing next to Su Zu and explaining to him.

The IAAF has 10 divisions for various competitions.

The International Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna, nominally an IAAF Indoor Chartered Competition, is considered the fifth class. In terms of the level of track and field events, it is already at the same level as the Asian Games, the All African Games, the Commonwealth Games, the World University Games, etc.

Of course, this mainly refers to the IAAF's division of track and field events, but in terms of actual influence and scale of participation, it is actually far inferior.

"The athletes who came today are a little less than the Linz Indoor Championships, and the Linz Indoor Championships athletes are more casual to sign up, and a few of them are warming up for the World Indoor Championships, but this ......" Lu Jianming pointed to the gate of the Wiener Starthale Indoor Gymnasium, "If you want to participate, you must be in the name of the national team, like some track and field powerhouses can't look down on." ”

Although the International Indoor Championships in Vienna are not low in terms of rank, they attract only the participation of the host country, with only competitors from China, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Australia and Canada participating.

Britain, France, the United States, Germany and Russia, as well as West Africa, and some countries in Central and South America, the traditional track and field powers, have not been on the competition list.

"If you can still run the indoor results in Linz, you will have a chance this time."

Lu Jianming patted Su Zu on the shoulder, and he was also a little regretful that he failed to win the championship in Linz the day before yesterday, but the first two players at that time, although they were not famous, but later learned that one was from the United Kingdom and the other was from Nigeria, both of whom were black athletes of West African or West African descent, and they were born with a sprint advantage in this regard, and they were also the number one players in the World Indoor Athletics Championships that opened on March 14.

With the gradual entry of the athletes, the Wiener Startale Indoor Stadium gradually became lively, and today it also attracted many local residents and tourists from Vienna to cheer on the teams.

The competition was held for one day and featured a total of 24 men's and women's events, 12 of which the Chinese team competed.

They are the men's 60m, men's 60m hurdles, men's 200m, men's triple jump, men's high jump, men's long jump, and women's pole vault, women's high jump, women's triple jump, women's long jump, women's 60m hurdles, and women's shot put.

In the men's 60-meter event, the main players participating were Su Zu, Chen Jian, and Shen Yunbao, who had just arrived from China. The 200-meter is Yang Guangzong, and the 60-meter hurdles are naturally Liu Yangyu's strengths.

At 9:30 a.m. local time, the runners of the men's 60-meter sprint event were checked in.

Su Zu and the various players who participated in the preliminaries this time have already started to warm up half an hour in advance. Even if the number of athletes from all over the world is relatively small, after all, the level is there, and all aspects are in accordance with the process of procedures.

Su Zu's previous domestic competitions were relatively not so strict in this regard. After the warm-up, each athlete is summoned by the host staff for the first check-in, after which the roll call is followed by the referee to check the athlete's belongings. After these processes, it is time to go to the second recording room, where the athlete keeps urine samples, warms up, goes to the toilet, and so on.

At 10:00 a.m., the men's 60-meter sprint preliminaries officially began, with only 6 groups and a total of 46 athletes participating.

Su Zu is in the third group of the preliminaries, Chen Jian, who also competes together, is in the first group, and Shen Yunbao is in the fourth group.

The preliminaries were very fast, and the 6 preliminaries groups were finished in just ten minutes, because there were no particularly strong players, Su Zu won the second place in the men's 60m indoor preliminaries with a time of 6.63 seconds.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jian seemed to have problems with his physical adaptation after arriving in Europe, and he was never able to run at the level in China, and finally finished ninth in the preliminaries in 6.76 seconds, unfortunately missing the final in the afternoon.

On the contrary, Shen Yunbao, who had just come from China, ran 6.74 seconds and entered the final with the fifth place in the preliminaries when the time difference was completely reversed.

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"It's up to you next. Liu Yangyu has already advanced to the 60m hurdles final with the first place in the preliminaries, and it is estimated that he will not have much problem winning the 60m hurdles championship, and we will at least have to win a medal. ”

At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, before the men's 60-meter indoor finals, Chen Jian looked at Su Zu and Shen Yunbao with a helpless expression, it is said that he is in good shape this year, but after arriving in Austria this time, he has never been able to adjust to the best state, and he has not entered the indoor finals twice in a row.

For a person who holds the title of the current domestic sprint brother, this situation is really a bit shameless, but competitive sports are like this, sometimes you are not in the right state, your body is not excited, and there is nothing you can do.

In the warm-up venue, Su Zu and Shen Yunbao both nodded together, and their expressions became solemn.

At noon, everyone learned that Liu Yangyu successfully entered the afternoon final in the 60-meter hurdles, and it was almost a record-breaking result, which brought great pressure to other players.

Everyone is a sprinter, and in addition to competition between teammates in this event, there is also competition in the event and the event. With Liu Yangyu's men's 60-meter hurdles and 110-meter hurdles, the gold medal of the Asian Games, the third place in the World Youth Championships, the champion of the World Universiade, and the seeded players in the World Indoor Championships, he has made successive achievements in the hurdles event.

In the men's 60m and 100m, which are purely running, they are far behind the results achieved by other hurdles.

Chen Jian, Shen Yunbao, Yang Guangzong, Yin Hangchao and other athletes who ran 100 meters and 200 meters did not say anything, but they were actually holding their breath in their hearts.

I always watch others add various honors in foreign competitions, and I and others can only be majestic in China, which is really a bit embarrassing.

The difference in strength is well understood. But don't try to break the record with the championship like others, but at least make a breakthrough in this kind of international competition, so it won't be too ugly.

Su Zu was once amazed by Liu Yangyu's hurdle achievements, but after becoming a sprinter, he was able to understand the gold content of this. At a time when a kind of sprinter in China could not even break the national 100-meter record, there was a person who had already made a name for himself in the international arena.

As a Chinese person, I am naturally deeply proud of this achievement, but as a player in the same men's short track event, this is not only an honor of the same race, but also an encouragement, spur, tempering, and a heavy responsibility and pressure.

At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the eight finalists of the 60-meter indoor race waited in the check-in area for a while, and a staff member came over and led everyone into the competition hall according to the name of the competition number.

As soon as I entered the venue, all kinds of incomprehensible shouts sounded in the venue. More enthusiastic, more unrestrained, and more wanton than in the preliminaries!

Su Zu looked around at the shouts, various banners swaying, occasionally singing in unison, and shouting the name of a certain athlete in unison.

This is the host's spectators cheering for the host athletes, and they, the players from outside, naturally do not enjoy this kind of treatment.

Next to Su Zu, a host player raised his hands high and signaled to the audience in the venue, and his hands kept swaying rhythmically, signaling that the audience's shouts were more intense.

The indoor stadium is not as open as the outdoor competition, and the seats in the stadium are only a few thousand people, but the local small venue is closed, and the sound of shouting and cheering with the beat of the host athlete gathers in bursts, and at first it was just the shouts of a few people, and slowly dozens of people, hundreds of people, shouting together, the sound is like thunder, rumbling to cover the entire stadium.

Su Zu watched the performance of the host athletes, and there was no imbalance of emotions, which is a privilege enjoyed by the host athletes and a moment of glory for the athletes.

This is the first time that Su Zu has seen so many spectators shouting the name of an athlete at the same time, even if this athlete he almost does not know, and perhaps he is not well-known internationally, but at this moment, it is undoubtedly brilliant and glorious.

"When thousands of people in a stadium are chanting your name, you know that your life has not been in vain."

Vienna, Austria, Wienerstahler Indoor Stadium, 10,000 people cheered.

Even if these voices were not his own, Su Zu's heart was still swaying and his blood was surging.

What is it that you have chosen a life trajectory that is completely different from what you once was?

Here's the answer!

One day, there will be so many audiences, more than that, on the highest stage in the world, chanting my name together......