"Su Zu, Director Li said that this championship was not planned, you just finished the competition in Europe, will you feel very tired?"

"Exhaustion is definitely there. The Golden League and the Grand Prix themselves are held in various countries, and although the intensity of the competition is not high, there are still many places to travel. However, I think I'm okay. ”

"Then if you rush back to play in China, will it affect your future match with Powell, we all know that you and Powell are aiming to break the record in the Golden League?"

"When the record will be broken, no one can say for sure, I can only say try hard. And to put it this way, it's important to break records, but it's just as important to play at home. This is the Asian Games trials, and although I got the 'ticket', I still want to go back to China to compete. I haven't raced domestically this year......"

……

"Zhang Peimeng, we're going to see the competition venue, are you going?"

With a click of the door, the door of the hotel room opened, and half of his body leaned in from outside the door, and asked Zhang Peimeng, who was sitting on the sofa.

"Go, you wait for me, I'll change my shoes."

Zhang Pei Meng saw that the person who came in from outside the door was his teammate in the imperial capital team, and immediately stood up from the sofa and replied.

I turned off the TV, walked to the door, looked at the sneakers on my feet, hesitated, simply picked up my backpack, threw a new pair of sneakers and spikes from the shoe rack directly into the bag, and followed out of the door of the hotel room.

What he saw in the hotel just now was Su Zu being interviewed by reporters at the airport.

On August 2, as soon as Su Zu's plane arrived in Shizhuang City, it was blocked in the reception hall by many media workers who had been waiting for a long time.

The two staff members of the Shizhuang Sports Bureau who were in charge of picking up the airport originally wanted to directly bypass the reporters, but there were too many people behind them, so they had to be interviewed by several relatively influential reporters at the scene.

After the interview at the airport, Su Zu settled down in the hotel, and the next day attended a press conference of the Shizhuang Sports Bureau, during which he and Liu Yangyu were both present.

For Su Zu and Liu Yangyu, the "admission ticket" to the Asian Games is naturally not a problem, and the purpose of the two participating in this National Championships is mainly to promote the domestic track and field career.

Before Su Zu returned to China, the advertising slogan "Su Zu is coming" had been hung on both sides of the main road in Shizhuang City, and the booking hotline for the competition was also printed on it.

In the past two years in China, the popularity of track and field events, especially sprint and sprint events, has increased greatly, and they are almost completely driven by the two.

Especially this year, the men's 100m world record, then the 110m hurdles world record, such a result, a major breakthrough before the 2008 Olympic Games, can be said to be extremely exciting.

The 2006 National Track and Field Championships was held in Shizhuang City, and the competition was organized by the Athletics Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, with the aim of better preparing for the 2008 Olympic Games and training the Chinese track and field athletes.

In addition to the efforts of the local authorities, Shizhuang City was also selected to prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, because the geographical location, climate, temperature, and altitude of Shizhuang City are similar to those of the imperial capital. In order to be in line with the Olympic Games, the competition time was also scheduled in the morning and evening.

Moreover, at the same time as the National Championships, a meeting of the leading group of the Asian Games for track and field events will be held to decide the list of athletes participating in the Asian Games. The significance is self-evident, whether the participating athletes can successfully get the "ticket" to the Asian Games also depends on the performance of this competition.

After briefly answering a few questions from the reporters at the press conference, he left the meeting.

After all, he has just returned to China, and he still needs to rest and adjust, and there will be two men's 1200m races in the National Championships soon.

As soon as he got out of the press conference and got into the car arranged by the organizer, Li Zhizhong looked at Su Zu with a strange expression.

"That celebratory gesture you designed last time was pretty chic."

At the press conference just now, Li Zhizhong understood from the reporter's question that the X gesture that Su Zu celebrated with Tyson Gay at the end of the London Super Prix was Javier Carter's special celebration gesture.

Javier Carter has not been on the international track and field for a long time, and Lao Li has not paid attention to such a player before, because he still does not know the meaning of Su Zu's last move at the London Grand Prix.

"What's the matter, I'm not like Liu Yangyu who went around most of the circle shirtless after breaking the record."

Su Zu laughed, remembering the action of doing the X gesture with Tyson Gay at the Crystal Palace Stadium of the London Grand Prix, which was really rare.

The last time he did such a strange move, it should be the first time he stepped on the stage of a national competition, at that time, he had a whim to do a head-to-head movement before the game, and slowly after that, he rarely did these funny movements.

On the one hand, his personality is already relatively dull, and secondly, domestic players rarely design some eye-catching celebration postures.

To put it simply, it is not as maverick as some foreign players.

"You still have to pay attention to your image when you look back." Li Zhizhong shook his head and smiled, if a domestic reporter can turn this over and ask, it must be reported by foreign media. But he didn't care, it was indeed the same as Su Zu said, Liu Yangyu broke the world record, and he celebrated shirtless under the agitation, and someone pointed at him, let alone others.

"I'll take notice."

Su Zu nodded, he himself is not an extroverted person, but he occasionally has a brain pump, after an athlete becomes famous, just like a star, his every move will be amplified by the media.

"By the way, what is the name of the athlete who challenged you before the game?" Li Zhizhong changed the subject and asked.

"What's wrong? Javier Carter or Xavier Carter, I can't translate it accurately. Su Zu wondered.

"This player is very talented." Li Zhizhong sighed lightly, "Absolute speed, speed endurance, running rhythm, if you train well, you can go further, and it is estimated that you will become your opponent in the future." ”

"Heh, Master, you you."

Su Zu saw that Li Zhizhong was happy to see the hunt, and the talent and foundation of Javier Carter, a black athlete, were indeed very good, but Su Zu almost never remembered such a player in later generations.

Especially after the rise of the Jamaican Lightning, those who can still be noticed under his aura are Tyson Gaye, Powell, Gatlin, and later John Blake.

Looking at Javier Carter's character and behavior, as well as Wallace Spearmon's case record of possession of weapons, etc., Su Zu estimates that he should be unknown to everyone in the future.

In competitive sports, basketball and football may still have many athletes who can paddle water, slowly retreat from the high level, and fall into a fast time, with good talent and skills that can support it for a while.

But in athletics, as soon as you start to slacken, it's almost a straight down.

……

August 5th, the day after the start of the National Championships.

The Yutong Sports Center in Shizhuang City is already overcrowded, with more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 grandstand seats, which is completely full in this game.

Today is the men's 100m race, with the men's 100m heats and semi-finals in the morning and the men's 100m final in the evening.

This is the second time Su Zu has set foot in the stadium, and the last time he came to compete was at the National Athletics Championships two years ago, similar to this one, but the main purpose of the National Championships was to select Olympic athletes, and this time it was for the Asian Games.

The atmosphere in Yutong Stadium this time was much warmer than the one two years ago, and even the two-day games on August 5 and August 6 were inflated.

Because in these two days, there are Su Zu's men's 100m and 200m, as well as Liu Yangyu's men's 110m hurdles.

In China, or in many countries around the world, in fact, many sports can be vigorously promoted and lively, largely due to the emergence of super sports superstars.

This time in the track and field event, there are two domestic athletes who have achieved super brilliant results in the world track and field, and the enthusiasm of the audience to watch the competition can be imagined.

In addition to the local audience in Shizhuang City, many viewers from other areas such as Baozhou and Imperial Capital rushed to Shizhuang City to see the style of China's flying people.

Moreover, a set of advertisements for Mercedes-Benz shot by Suzu in China also appeared in the prime time of CCTV and David TV at the end of June.

At the beginning of the advertisement, a slow-paced music can be heard from the gray screen.

With the sound of music, the eastern sky lit up.

On a bed, Su Zu got up from the bed, got dressed and put on his shoes, and the camera swept over a wall covered with medals and photos.

Open the door and leave the bedroom.

In the next second, Su Zu was already running on the gray street, and in the empty street, a Mercedes-Benz sedan suddenly caught up from behind.

Suzu ran through the streets, alleys, roadsides, beaches.

The picture of the Mercedes sedan simultaneously skimmed over the top of the mountain, puddles, and muddy loess roads.

With a voice-over voice singing: "Running ...... alone"

The camera once again switches to the lively and fierce arena, and countless spectators are waiting to watch the arena in anticipation.

A gunshot rang out!

Su Zu started and ran on the runway, and at the same time the sound of a group of car engines starting, and the bright silver Mercedes-Benz C-Class started at the same time, shuttling on the winding road.

Before the finish line, a number flashes on the chronograph board.

9.75 seconds!

In the end, the scene is frozen in Su Zu and the car parked on an open track and field.

"Become the protagonist of life! - Mercedes-Benz. ”

After this set of advertisements appeared, it attracted the attention of many people almost instantly.

Su Zu's Antan advertisement was talked about by many people before, although the advertisement of this Mercedes-Benz car was not up to the strong.

It is not as concise and straightforward as Coca-Cola's 12.88 seconds after Liu Yangyu broke the world record, but it still has a lot of impact.

The world record of 9.75 seconds on the chronograph board is really amazing, and with this, nothing else is so important.

In Yutong Stadium, when Su Zu appeared, the cheers of the current crowd reached their peak almost instantly.

Although Su Zu has not been back to China for a long time and has not had serious training in the past few days, at this stage, there is an absolute gap between the level of domestic players and him.

The men's 100m event at the National Championships is a three-round competition: the preliminaries, the semi-finals and the final. In the men's 100m preliminaries and semifinals in the morning, Su Zu easily won the first place in the group and successfully advanced to the final.

Su Zu also found a point in the morning competition, there are many new faces of domestic athletes participating in the men's 100m event than before, and there are many young newcomers in various provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, the People's Liberation Army, and industry sports associations.

The rise of newcomers can be said to be the influence of the current domestic environment, starting from the 04 Olympic Games, two years have passed, and many talented athletes have emerged in the National Championships.

After all, sprinting is the most down-to-earth, the easiest, and the most talent-testing event.

Talented athletes, as long as they have a certain amount of training, can easily stand out from the same players.

At the level of international first-class athletes to national athletes, it will not be too much of an obstacle for talented players.

The limitation is that after reaching this level, if you want to go further, you need more professional, scientific and hard training.

At 20:15 in the evening, the men's 100m final officially began!

Standing in the middle of the track, Su Zu looked at the top players from various provinces and cities, except for his teammates in the national team Zhang Peimeng, Wen Yongyi, Gu Kai, Chen Yuhang, Dai Shengming and others, the remaining two are newcomers who just emerged in China last year and have not yet joined the national team.

Su Zu didn't know the two for a while, but he was still very happy to see the appearance of outstanding domestic players.

In the men's 100-meter final, after the starting gun sounded, Su Zu took the advantage after 30 meters, and maintained this advantage until the end, and finally won the championship with a time of 9.92 seconds without suspense.

To Su Zu's surprise, the second place was Zhang Peimeng, who won the second place with a time of 10.28 seconds, ahead of the third place Gu Kai's 10.30 seconds.

This is Zhang Peimeng's personal best time, and it is also the first time he has run the 10.30 second mark, which can be said to be a huge breakthrough.

Some of Suzu's other teammates in the national team also performed very well in this championship.

In this National Championships, it can be said that the men's sprint event has completely entered the era of "young generals", except for a few players such as Gu Kai, most of the athletes are post-85.

On August 6, Su Zu won the men's 200m championship at the National Track and Field Championships again.

In the just-concluded London Super Grand Prix, he set a new personal best, which is also an Asian record, and it is unlikely to be challenged at home.

After the game, Su Zu went around the field to greet the audience and express his gratitude, and almost everywhere he went, the warmest applause was detonated.

At this point, Su Zu returned to China to participate in the National Championships.

On August 9, Suzu flew to Europe again to prepare for the Zurich Golden League in Switzerland on August 18.