2 August, 2008.

The opening of the Olympic Games is getting closer and closer, and the entire imperial capital and even the country are beginning to prepare for this grand festival.

Whether it is newspapers, television, or the Internet, the topics of discussion have begun to revolve around the Olympics and various sports news.

The various gold medal highlights before the game, the analysis of the world's masters, if it were not for the domestic ban on spinach, the handicap for each event at this time has been opened.

At this time, the atmosphere in the training base of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China is becoming more and more tense.

Yang Guangzong stood on the side of the track and field and looked at the few people who were practicing the relay on the track, and his expression was slightly in a trance. The weather in the imperial capital in July and August was already very hot, and even if he just stood in the sun for a while, he felt sweaty.

And several people on the runway were soaking wet, almost as if they had been fished out of the water.

Such a scene inadvertently reminded him of himself 4 years ago, under the scorching sun, in the breeze, and in the drizzle, they also trained so desperately.

When you have the strength, you will hand over the baton on the track to run, and when you are exhausted, you will hold the baton with each other to make tacit cooperation.

The sound of footsteps sounded for a while, Su Zu gasped and left the runway, beckoning to Yang Guangzong from a distance, "Brother Guangzong, why are you here?" ”

Yang Guangzong was at the training base of Beijing Sports University, and he was not with the relay team, and the two sides were separated by some distance, because the Olympic Games were approaching, and the track and field teams of some countries had already been mentioned to the imperial capital to start the adaptation training of the venue.

"After a day of rest, the coach asked me to soothe my muscles, and I have nowhere to go, so I came and walked around with you." Yang Guangzong smiled, the 400-meter training is more grinding than the 1200-meter run, and the over-distance running can be exhausting without a few trips a day.

After his injury, he did not follow the principle of "three from one big" in his training in the United States, but flexibly adjusted the training intensity and time according to the characteristics of his body.

"We'll do a few more days of high-intensity training, and then we'll almost reduce the amount of exercise and start to adjust and rest."

Su Zu held his knee and exhaled, it was already the end of July, less than a week before the opening of the Olympic Games, but the start of the track and field competition was almost until August 15, which could leave enough time for the athletes to adjust their condition.

This is the advantage of the Olympic Games in your own country, you can flexibly arrange the preparation before the games according to the schedule of the games, if the Olympics are held in other countries, you have to count the fatigue of traveling, you have to go to the Olympic Village to contact the venue after arriving, and even have problems such as adapting to the climate, water and soil and food.

Usually watching the Olympic Games, everyone can always find a characteristic, that is, the national results of the Olympic Games will be particularly good, one aspect is not only the referee of the organizing committee and other factors, but also the athlete's adaptation to the familiar home factor.

Those who can compete for the championship are all top athletes, and in the case of little difference in strength, many times a little bit of weak adaptability problems, the physical and mental state will be different, resulting in the final gold medal belonging to different people.

"The Olympic standard time is about to end, and the 400 meters are currently my A standard, and what about the 1200 meters on your side?"

Yang Guangzong asked, although he used to be the big brother in the track and field team, but the speed of track and field renewal is amazingly fast, after he left for a few years, he cut off contact with many people, there are not many athletes who are familiar with him, and he is not very clear about the men's 1200 meters standard.

"Only Zhang Peimeng."

Su Zu straightened up and turned his head to look at the few people on the track and field who were still practicing the baton, "Wen Yongyi ran 10.28 seconds in this month's University Games, and only got the B standard. Su Bingtian is still young, and his best time is 10.31 seconds. Zhang Peimeng's 100m ran 10.25 seconds in the last open race, which is still a little short of the A standard. On the contrary, in the 200 meters, he ran 20.55 seconds, which was enough to qualify for the competition. ”

The qualification for the men's 1200m at the 2008 Olympics is not much different from that of the Athens Olympics, with the men's 100m A standard being 10.21 seconds, the B standard being 10.28 seconds, the men's 200m A standard being 20.59 seconds, and the B standard being 20.75 seconds.

Because Su Zu's 1,200-meter performance has far exceeded the A standard, other athletes must meet the A standard if they want to participate again, and become one of the three places. As for the B standard, it is when there is no player who can reach the A standard, and there is only one place.

"Zhang Peimeng and Su Bingtian, I often hear people talk about them when I come back, and they both have more potential. Especially Zhang Peimeng, his technical style is a bit similar to mine, but he has a faster cadence than me. ”

Yang Guangzong smiled, although he was not very old, only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, but there was a relieved expression on his face that the old team members saw their successors.

Su Zu thought about it, Zhang Peimeng and Yang Guangzong's technical styles were still really close.

However, although Zhang Peimeng's height is not low, he runs more lightly, especially in the winter training of Haigen base for several consecutive years, Zhang Peimeng has greatly improved his speed in the second half of the middle and second half of the race, which is why he was able to reach the Olympic 200-meter A standard in this Olympic Games.

As for Su Bingtian, he is not very old now, even if he enters the national team in advance and has a better training method, Su Zu knows that he will have to wait a few more years for him to really start to exert his strength. After the strength and technique are gradually mellowed, it will enter the explosive period.

As the two were talking, Yang Guangzong suddenly looked Su Zu up and down, walked up and down in front of Su Zu and roughly measured, "Su Zu, you are taller than me now, right?"

"Pretty much." Su Zu straightened his body, "About one meter eight or nine, maybe I'm wearing shoes over one meter nine." ”

"Two centimeters taller than me." Yang Guangzong nodded, and then said, "That Jamaican Usain Bolt's game, I watched it later, he has improved very quickly in recent years, and his strength is very strong. ”

As a 200-meter runner, even if Yang Guangzong switches to 400 meters, he actually pays attention to the athletes in the 1200 meters, especially at these times, Bolt came out of nowhere, after breaking the world record of Suzu on May 31, he easily ran 9.85 seconds at the Jamaican National Championships and 9.89 seconds at the Stockholm Grand Prix.

And about the news about Usain Bolt, compared with another time and space, at this stage, in addition to track and field enthusiasts and sports practitioners, ordinary people really don't know much.

And in this time and space, from Gatling to Powell to Guy, because of Suzu, a sprinter from his own country, many people know about the world's top athletes.

Even if you can't call it understood, every time you turn on the TV to watch Su Zu's game, the commentator will impatiently say which athlete is how powerful and who is Su Zu's strongest competitor.

Now, the news of Usain Bolt's breaking the world record has spread from abroad to China, and the fame is much more than the original time and space, and there are many more people who know about it at this time.

When he was waiting for Su Zu to win the championship in the Bird's Nest and win the competition, an athlete suddenly came out of nowhere to break Su Zu's record and challenge Su Zu, which was undoubtedly an uproar.

During this time, various media from the outside world came to the track and field team to ask for interviews, but in the end, they were all blocked by Li Zhizhong and others to prepare for the Olympic Games.

The pressure was strained from the team to the coaching staff to the track and field team, and the point where the most promising gold medal was suddenly less secure in the months leading up to the Olympics, no matter who was going to be nervous.

Li Zhizhong even came and went to see the footage of Usain Bolt's race at the New York Grand Prix even after passing back from the front, analyzing his state and level, and found that the opponent had turned his head intentionally or unintentionally when he crossed the line at the end, which was a speed level that had not yet reached the limit.

Only now did Su Zu understand why Yang Guangzong suddenly came to see him from the training base of Beijing Sports University at a critical juncture in preparation for the war.

Obviously, he is afraid that Su Zu is under too much pressure, as the Olympic Games are approaching step by step, the pressure of public opinion on him from all aspects of the outside world is increasing sharply, the optimistic and the declining, the hopeful, hoping that Su Zu will win, etc., all kinds of news converge to make him on the cusp.

"Brother Guangzong, don't worry." Su Zu patted his chest and smiled, "I have a big heart, and I am very confident." ”

Since entering the track and field team, Su Zu's mood has changed a lot. Many of the team members before him gradually faded out of the track and field team, and the team members who entered later became old seniors, and there was already an invisible barrier between the exchanges.

Only Yang Guangzong, an athlete who was known as the big brother of the track and field team in the past, behaved as always, whether it was Su Zu or Liu Yangyu, and his achievements in the field did not change this respect.

"That's good!" Yang Guangzong patted Su Zu on the shoulder, and did not continue to talk about this topic in depth.

Athletes are proud and confident, he switched to 400 meters for many reasons, but one of them is not because he saw that he could not compete with Su Zu in 1200 meters, and hoped to be able to kill the way again.

At this stage of Suzu, he is already the top in the world, a two-time World Championships 1200-meter double champion, and has broken the world record many times.

There is no shortage of masters and talents in world athletics, and no matter how strong the athlete is, he has to face the challenge of one athlete after another.

"How's the opening ceremony?" Without continuing to talk about Bolt, Yang Guangzong turned to a more light-hearted topic, "You are the only one among the active athletes." ”

"It's spectacular!" Su Zu remembered the scene of the most rehearsal before, and his heart was still a little swaying, "It should be the best ever." ”

"You're in charge of the final ignition?" Yang Guangzong smiled, he was not there when the athletes in the rehearsal entered, and when he heard Su Zu say this, he couldn't help but ask.

"No, it's a lot of fun." Su Zu said and smiled, "But I have to keep it a secret." ”

"You're still keeping it a secret from me?! I'm so itchy about what you're saying. Yang Guangzong pretended to be embarrassed, but he didn't ask fiercely.

In fact, he also knew that Su Zu had signed a confidentiality agreement, and the main purpose of coming today was not for this, mainly to see Su Zu's state, talk to him, chat, and relieve personal pressure, and the rest was just joking.

A smile appeared on the corner of Su Zu's mouth, the rehearsal of the opening ceremony began in April this year, and he had participated in it several times, although the outside world has always had speculation about "Phoenix Homecoming", but it has not been disclosed from the director team to other aspects.

The ignition ceremony was exciting, but it was also very difficult. Su Zu looked for Mr. Zheng Qiuliang, who was said to be Director Zhang's assistant who came to him at the World Championships in Osaka last year, but was actually an official person. For the formal rehearsal of the rehearsal, the media should sign a confidentiality agreement.

During the rehearsal phase of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, broadcasters were allowed to bring equipment for testing. The practice of the Olympics and the tacit understanding between the broadcasters has always been that the content of the opening ceremony must not be leaked in advance.

In another time and space, Su Zu really didn't want him to happen again, and some conventions were completely useless for some media with no bottom line.

Su Zu knew very well that there were some things that he played a limited role, but he still made efforts in many aspects. From the director team of the opening ceremony, to the press committee of the International Olympic Committee, and even the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee. He is currently the top athlete in the country, and he is an important member of the ignition ceremony, at least his opinion has been noted.

And the result is good, today is August 2nd, and in another time and space, the opening ceremony of the last rehearsal rehearsal on July 30th has not been exposed.

Su Zu didn't know if what he was doing in this really worked, or if it was a time and space deviation, and some things had already been noticed by the people of the organizing committee. Either way, it's a good result.

The 2008 Olympics are just around the corner!