On September 20, the Rizal Athletics Stadium was crowded.

18:55 p.m.

The broadcast of the conference venue was introducing the contestants in English, Su Zu looked at the somewhat boiling spectators on both sides, and couldn't tell whether they were infected by the emotions of the arena or were more enthusiastic about each contestant, waving small objects such as glow sticks and flags, and all kinds of unexplained shouts came and went.

“…… Fourth, a young player from China, Su Zu, who won the preliminaries and semi-finals group."

Su Zu saw the camera with the strange station logo appear in front of him, and at the same time, his name was introduced twice in English on the radio, and politely raised his hand to wave to the audience and the camera.

This Asian Championships is just a very ordinary competition for other participating member countries, and the Japanese delegation with the largest number of participants is only about 90 people, and there are basically no media personnel accompanying their respective countries.

Perhaps the Philippine authorities urgently needed such a large-scale event to divert domestic attention, not only mobilized about 6,000 students, ethnic cultural dance performers, and taekwondo junior performers to perform colorful programs at the opening ceremony on the first day, but also put a lot of effort into audience organization, and also organized local media and television stations to broadcast live broadcasts.

From the first to the eighth track, the athletes from all over the world were introduced on the radio one after another, and the referees of the Asian Amateur Athletics Federation began to signal the athletes to be in position.

According to the semi-final ranking, Su Zu is in the fourth lane of the 100-meter final, and on his left hand side is the Saudi Arabian player Al Yami in the third lane, a typical Central Asian player with a beard, Chen Jian in the fifth lane, and Cherohar in Kazakhstan in the sixth lane, Shen Yunbao was arranged in the eighth lane because he was the last in the semifinals.

There was occasional eye contact between the runners, but already on the track in front of the starting line, there was little communication. The atmosphere before the game was tense, and all the players were in the stage of psychological adjustment. Even Su Zu, Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao couldn't speak, let alone other athletes from different countries and regions, and they couldn't understand the language. If you really want to provoke and attack your opponent with a few words, you must first understand it.

Moreover, from the check-in registration to the venue, almost all of them are followed by inspectors and referees to prevent any irregular means, and if it is found that there is a performance that violates the spirit of sportsmanship, it will be disqualified.

If you want to vent your abuse, you have to wait until after the game, or in a pre-match and post-match press interview.

"On your marks." The fieldside starter gives the command.

The eight men's 100m finalists complied with the instructions and made one last move, squatting down before returning to the starting line.

The assistant referees on both sides, one after the other, checked the starting posture of each runner, whether their feet were on the starting machine, whether their fingers touched the starting line, and whether there were any illegal actions.

After everything was confirmed, the starter raised his starting gun and began to prepare to shout the command.

"Slow down your breath, calm down, prepare, prepare ......"

Shen Yunbao adjusted the position of his feet on the starting gear, due to his height, his starting device adjusted the position a little higher than that of other athletes, which helped him to exert better strength and fully accelerate in the start to seize the advantage.

Leaning over and looking down at his fingers pressed in front of the starting line, Shen Yunbao adjusted his breathing to be calm and slender.

He was the eighth, the closest to the edge of the spectator seat, and the spectator seat on the sidelines was quiet due to the noisy sound of the runners preparing to start, but Shen Yunbao could still hear the noise of rustling, maybe whispering, maybe chewing food.

"Athletes who are short in stature can run as fast. There has always been no shortage of small players in the United States. ”

When he leaned over and was about to start, Shen Yunbao unconsciously remembered what the other party said when he first met the head coach Yuan Guohua. Yuan Guohua is his head coach and the head coach of the track and field relay team.

Coach Yuan Guohua is about the same height as him, probably because of his age, and now he looks a few centimeters shorter than him.

In fact, with the general height of Chinese people at this time, neither he nor Yuan Guohua is short. However, athletes are the best of the best, especially sprinters, with the height selection of mainstream elite athletes, there are very few below one meter seven, after all, if the cadence is not fast to a certain extent, it will suffer too much in stride.

Shen Yunbao also knows the disadvantages in this regard, he needs 49-50 steps to run a hundred meters, Chen Jian is about 47-48 steps, and Su Zu can run in 43-44 steps, but now he has chosen 46 steps according to the optimal combination of cadence and stride.

He's 27 years old this year, and to be honest, he's at the end of his career in sprinting, and he's getting under pressure to watch the new generations enter the national team, and he's feeling a little overwhelmed.

As an experienced athlete who has never had many individual results, he sometimes feels discouraged.

First, a strong athlete like Chen Jian joined, and he became the first brother of the 100-meter dash for several consecutive years, and then Su Zu was born, breaking the national record.

The best time he has ever achieved in the competition so far is 10.29 seconds at the Yangcheng Station of the National Track and Field Grand Prix in April.

It was really a competition between the best sprinters in the country.

It was the first time Shen Yunbao ran 10.30 seconds, which was his best performance, but only fourth.

He was in poor condition in both the National Championships and the Asian Championships this time, running in 10.4 seconds and 10.5 seconds, while Suzu Chen Jian had already run in 10.20 seconds. It is said that in sprint races, one step at a time, the speed is 0.1 seconds faster, and it is boundlessly fast.

This time and again, Shen Yunbao has also had the idea of retiring a few times, the new generation has grown up, and the old people can't keep up, so they naturally have to make room for them.

But the coach of the team is persuading him, and they are all asking him to think about it and wait until the Athens Olympics to retire. There are newcomers, but newcomers still lack experience. In this way, his main event gradually shifted from the individual men's 100m event to the team relay event.

"Maybe you don't really have to run 100 meters in the future, just run the relay race in the last year."

The corner of Shen Yunbao's eyes swept over the left-hand side, over the arms of various colors, and the fourth and fifth were all his teammates.

All sorts of distractions flashed through his mind, and the starter had already begun to shout the password.

“Set.”

Runners change from a squatting position to a bowed starting position.

"Smack!"

Match guns rang out.

Shen Yunbao rushed out first, he was no worse than Chen Jian in terms of starting reaction, and with enough experience in the race, he could still run with the sound of guns to a certain extent.

Looking down from above, Shen Yunbao in the first 20 meters has been leading all the players by one position in the eighth lane. At this distance, for Shen Yunbao, even Carl Lewis and Morris Green are not stunned.

Su Zu also jumped out the moment after the gunshots rang out.

He was not slow to start this group, and he did not use the pressure gun in this group, and his skills and experience in this area are not enough to be safe every time.

Su Zu has been doing starting training since the beginning of the sports school, and it has been nearly two years now, from the beginning of the start to a mess, and now he has gradually moved closer to the first-class sprinters.

Of course, there is still a difference in the reaction speed with Chen Jian's world-class starting speed, but after the preliminary finals of the 100-meter and 200-meter championships, he also found the state of continuous competition in March and April.

Thirty meters, Su Zu is still in the fifth place, in front of him are Shen Yunbao, Chen Jian, Al Yami, and another Kazakhstani player Chenohar is neck and neck with him.

Fifty meters, Su Zu caught up with Shen Yunbao and Al Yami.

Sixty meters, Su Zu and Chen Jian were on a horizontal line.

Seventy meters, eighty meters, ninety meters......

Puff puff puff......

The sound of spikes and rubber tracks rubbing against each other is like the sound of firecrackers.

More than ten seconds passed in an instant.

In the spectator seats on the sidelines, the local distinctive English, vernacular, and various tones of shouts were deafening, and some spectators seemed to just bow their heads and say one more word to others, and then look up, and the eight runners have already jumped over the finish line.

The first place in the men's 100m final on the timing board has already appeared.

Athlete's Name: Su Zu; Nationality: Chinese; Score: 10.16 seconds