Haizhu City, Guangdong Province.

In a hotel box, a 45-inch large color TV is locked on the Central Channel 5, and the game screen of the World Championships in Osaka is being played.

The private room space of the hotel is not small, and there are a lot of dishes on a round table in the middle, but the two people sitting upright are not in the mood to eat at the moment.

"Lao Shen, why did you come to me, it is said that you want to watch the game, isn't it more appropriate to live in Osaka?"

Chen Jian glanced at the time in the upper right corner of the TV screen, 20 o'clock, and there were still 15 minutes left. Looking at the short man who had been staring at the TV screen since the two of them sat down, he said with a smile.

"Originally, I really wanted to go to Osaka to see the scene, and I started to book air tickets, but before leaving, I suddenly felt that it was not interesting, so I simply went to Guangdong Province to have a drink with you." Shen Yunbao came back to his senses, chuckled, and replied.

As he spoke, he pointed to the TV screen, where rows of athletic female sprinters of different skin tones were making the final preparations before the race, "The strength of the Jamaican women's relay team is not bad, and this time there is still a chance to overturn the United States." ”

"Jamaica has been producing a lot of talent in recent years, and it's been so fast."

Following Shen Yunbao's words, Chen Jian glanced at the TV screen, and also sighed with some emotion, "The men's team is estimated to be more challenging, I think we didn't have this strength in Jamaica at the beginning." ”

Everyone has been running since they were teenagers, and more than ten years have passed, and many of them have become subconscious of their attention to some things. In particular, both of them retired with the halo of Olympic champions, and although the positions arranged are different, they are basically inseparable from sports.

"yes, when I was at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, I was watching the relay at home and seeing the U.S. team out, and it was a really cool feeling. Now in addition to the American team and the Jamaican team, I looked at the lineup before, it is too strong. Although Su Zu is a great kid, the current results are something we didn't dare to think of at that time, but Tyson Gay and Powell are at their peak, and with the two of them, Su Zu has been leveled. I also watched the other ones in the preliminaries, and I ran really well, but it was still not enough! ”

"I'm not worried about Su Zu's fourth base, it's still the first three." Chen Jian's brows furrowed slightly, and the topic talked about the game, and he still sighed a little that Shen Yunbao suddenly came to Guangdong Province to surprise him, but at this moment he was already immersed in his views on the next game. "It's not much different from our original situation, if the first three sticks can create opportunities, as long as they are not pulled away too much, Su Zu should still be able to catch up a lot from the fourth base."

"That's just as well." Shen Yunbao nodded, "In 04, Su Zu's 100 meters was about 9.90 seconds, and now it's 9.70 seconds. ”

"This kid, in the past few years, it's like riding a rocket up, the record has been broken again and again, and it is estimated that there will be a chance to break the 200-meter world record next."

"In the preliminaries, the first three baton performances of the relay team were good, both in terms of results and tacit understanding, which was better than we were at the beginning."

"This is natural, I also know a little bit about Coach Yuan's situation, he is under a lot of pressure, and he didn't let Su Zu go in this preliminaries, which is also greatly beyond my expectations."

While the two were talking, the women's 4×100m relay final had already begun on TV.

As the penultimate day of this World Championships in Osaka, the two most important competitions, the men's and women's 4×100m relay finals, are impeccable in terms of spectacle.

The results of the women's 4×100m were not expected by the two, the top three and two were the United States team, the Jamaican team, and the third place was the Belgian team.

The Jamaican sprint program, both men and women, has grown to a terrible point over the years, from the 1,200 meters to the relay event, challenging the United States, the supremacy of track and field.

After the final of the women's 4×100m relay, the two sat in front of the TV, and they were not interested in continuing to chat, and their eyes began to stay motionless on the TV screen, watching the next men's 4×100m relay start.

Three years have passed, and Shen Yunbao and Chen Jian, who are sitting at the dinner table, have changed a lot. The skin is no longer bronzed and wheat-colored, but much fairer.

Chen Jian, who was a little thin, now looks a lot more well-proportioned, and his cheeks are much rounder. The other Shen Yunbao is even worse, his waist is thicker, and his body has become very strong.

After retiring, almost most of the athletes inevitably go through such a fattening stage because of metabolism and training volume, and the two are no exception.

But the heart that is still active in the track and field, looking at the familiar track and various pre-competition scenes on the screen at this moment, seems to pull them back all at once.

"If only Yang Guangzong were here."

Looking at the TV camera, the shot of Su Bingtian, the first batter of the Chinese team, flashed, and Shen Yunbao suddenly muttered.

Shen Yunbao had already taken a leave of absence to prepare for tens of millions of Osaka to watch the game, but at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, he had just retired and entered a new unit to adapt to his new identity, and he couldn't spare time at all.

Now he finally had this time, but before leaving, he suddenly changed his mind again.

flew from Jinling to Haizhu City, Guangdong Province, and directly opened a box, and only asked Chen Jian and the two to watch the game together.

And after saying this, Chen Jian also felt a little stunned in his heart when he heard this.

The men's 4×100m race was very fast, when the starting gun sounded, when the two looked at the ninth Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng and Wen Yongyi galloping on the track through a long lens, they were instantly excited and difficult to recover.

It was their old days and memories, the familiar track, the familiar racetrack, and the place where they once galloped and chased their dreams.

And at the last baton, Su Zu took the baton and started chasing from the backward position again, what a familiar scene.

In the final big screen results, although the Chinese relay team failed to win the championship, the top three results did not disappoint the two.

Especially when the counterattack under the obvious disadvantage created historic results and broke the national record and Asian record they set that year, both Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao yelled in the private room.

The record was broken, they did not lose half a point, and there was only surprise in their hearts.

This is our relay team, our once glorious project, even against the current USA team and Jamaica, it is strong enough to be absolutely competitive!

"I want to drink!"

"Then don't get drunk and don't go home!"

……

At this time, when the list of men's 4×100m results appeared on the big screen of Nagai Stadium and now on the TV screen, many Chinese viewers couldn't help but shout, whether it was in the audience or in front of the TV!

During this period, even many Japanese viewers who were originally just cheering for their national athletes also sighed sincerely for the performance of Su Zu's counterattack and transcendence in the final fourth base.

Competitive sports, especially sprinting, which is only ten seconds or tens of seconds, is completely the fastest race in the human body.

Although the Chinese relay team failed to reach the pinnacle of winning the championship as it did in the 2004 Olympic Games, the men's relay team surpassed the relay team at that time in both results and performance.

The kind of hard work and uplifting spirit that these young Chinese sprinters have manifested in them is really inspiring.

In particular, the last fourth baton, the world's top two men's 100m runners, Suzu and Powell, brought an almost blood-pumping ornamental beauty to the amazing performance of the final fourth pole of the relay race.

That absolute speed, that indomitable momentum, breathtaking!

"Old Yuan, well done!"

Li Zhizhong clapped his hands for a while, then turned around and shouted loudly to Yuan Guohua.

In the boiling scene, Yuan Guohua looked at the Chinese men's relay team, Su Zu, Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, and Wen Yongyi were wearing a huge red flag together, greeting cheers and applause on the runway, almost with tears in their eyes.

"It's not me, it's these stinky boys who do a job so beautifully."

Yuan Guohua's lips moved slightly, and his body trembled slightly.

Even in 2004, when the Chinese relay team won the Olympic championship, he never had such a performance.

Today, three years later, in Osaka, he has indescribable emotion and excitement in his heart.

Although it was only a bronze medal and a third-place finisher, this performance has greatly surpassed the performance of the 2005 World Championships. And in terms of results, the time of 37.89 seconds reached a very amazing level.

This result was definitely at the level of champions at the last World Championships in Helsinki or the Athens Olympics, but this year's USA and Jamaica teams were even more amazing.

Tyson Gay, the third batter of the U.S. team, and Asafa Powell, the fourth batter of the Jamaican team, although they lost to Suzu in the men's 100 and 200 meters, they are both sprinters at the same level as Suzu.

The average strength of the other three sticks far exceeds that of the Chinese team, and even the relay teams of Britain, Brazil, and Japan have surpassed the level of the first three sticks of the Chinese team.

In terms of preliminaries, the Chinese team entered the finals with a parking space, and in the ninth lane, the Chinese team was able to run such a result, which definitely greatly exceeded Yuan Guohua's expectations.

And in sprinting or in athletics, sometimes in addition to the position, performance is an important measure, after all, it is not a confrontational sport like ball games.

It is a sport that breaks the limits of individuals and teams, and the performance of the Chinese team can be said to be what Yuan Guohua, Li Zhizhong and other national team coaches have not expected.

And in terms of ranking alone, although the Chinese team failed to win the gold medal like the 04 Olympic Games, compared with the fifth place in the World Championships in Helsinki, this time won the bronze medal, which is also a huge breakthrough.

The results of the Chinese relay team in the preliminaries were extremely good, and in the finals, the improvement of the results was not only due to the factor that the fourth baton was replaced by Su Zu, but also the other three baton Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, and Wen Yongyi all ran better results than the preliminaries.

Of course, the strength of the U.S. and Jamaican teams is also obvious to all, although this time the U.S. team of Tyson Gaye, Wallace Spearmon, Davis Barton and Leroy Dixon won the championship in 37.78 seconds, which is far from the legendary 1993 world record of 37.40 seconds set by the legendary American relay team of Drummond, Andre Carson, Dennis Michel and Roy Burrell, no one will deny their strength.

This is the second time that the U.S. men's relay team has returned to the top since the 2004 Olympics and the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki.

Of course, it was clear from this race that the U.S. team will face a challenge, with the rising Jamaican sprint events already challenging the men's and women's teams in the 100m, 200m and 4×100m.

Although the men's 200m championship at this World Championships was won by Su Zu, in the final, the pattern of three American athletes and three Jamaican athletes has become clear.

In another time and space, starting in 2005, when Powell broke Morris Green's world record of 9.79 seconds (Montgomery's 9.78 seconds has been canceled) for the first time with a time of 9.77 seconds, and then the Jamaican Lightning and the likes of John Blake, the impact on the supremacy of traditional American sprinting is obvious.

In the United States, in the basic major events from 2006 to 2011, only Tyson Gay was independent. Fortunately, after Tyson Gay's form declined due to injury, Justin Gatlin, who made a strong comeback, once again carried the banner of fighting the Jamaican army.

It can be said that Powell's appearance heralded the rise of the Jamaican Army, while the emergence of Usain Bolt made the sprint sport popular all over the world, and repeatedly raised the ceiling of the men's 1200-meter dash.

In 2017 and 2018, when Jamaica retired in a flash, American up-and-coming Christian Coleman broke the world record in the men's 60m 6.34 seconds, but his 100m and 200m times of 9.82 seconds and 19.85 seconds did not make many people feel special.

At least in the future, if there is no time of 9.70 seconds or even 9.60 seconds, it will be difficult to impress people who have experienced the era of Jamaican lightning madness to sigh again.

At this time, in Nagai Stadium, because it was late, people in the audience had already begun to leave one after another.

Although the race was exciting enough to be exciting from the start to the finish line, many Japanese spectators were still a little disappointed with the performance of the Japanese team.

At the World Championships in Osaka, the best performance of the Japanese track and field team as the host country was only a bronze medal in the women's marathon, which has made many Japanese people dissatisfied.

And tonight, the men's 4×100m relay race, which was highly anticipated by many Japanese audiences, only finished sixth, which made many people feel a little disheartened.

To be fair, the Japanese team's time of 38.03 seconds in this race is already a huge improvement, and it was a time to win the championship in 2003 and 2005 World Championships.

But in 2007, the sprinting events of the world athletics began to really enter a stage of soaring results. In 38.03 seconds, he only finished sixth.

On the runway, Su Zu, Su Bingtian, Zhang Peimeng, and Wen Yongyi were wearing red flags and standing in front of many media reporters for interviews.

"Su Zu, do you feel a little regretful that you didn't win the men's 4×100m gold medal?" A CCTV reporter took the microphone and followed Su Zu almost for dozens of meters.

"No, I'm satisfied." Su Zu draped the red flag on his body, smiled and made a triumphant gesture to the camera, and continued, "The bronze medal of 4×100 was very difficult, but I am very happy, even happier than I personally broke the 100-meter world record and defended the 1200-meter championship, because this is a team project, it is a collective strength, I have good teammates, marking the rise of our country in the world sprinting field, it feels amazing!" ”

As he spoke, Su Zu waved to the other three people who were a little excited behind him, and the four of them stood in front of the camera, wearing the national flag, raising their right hands high, and shouting in unison: "China, come on!" ”