Chapter 337: Psychological "Problems"

Although for Sun Mingyue, who is making her debut on the international stage, when domestic female athletes have been silent in the sprint arena of international competitions for many years, being able to break into the second round of the rematch is enough to surprise domestic sports fans. However, El Karis, who is as concerned about Sun Mingyue as Feng Quan, is not very satisfied with this result.

That's right, if Sun Mingyue's coach is replaced by a domestic coach, she may be very satisfied with her performance in this World Championships, and she can even be proud of her future coaching career.

After all, there is still a big gap between the domestic sprinting level, especially the overall strength of women's sprinting, compared with the world's top level. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to break through the first round of heats in the last few international tournaments. Moreover, Sun Mingyue is only 17 years old, and there is still some room for improvement in the future.

However, El Karis, who has trained many world-class sprinters, has higher expectations for his disciples than domestic coaches.

Under the background that the overall strength of domestic women's sprinting is weak and has not been able to break through the first round of the 100-meter event of the international competition for many years, Sun Mingyue, who debuted on the stage of the international competition, was able to advance to the semi-finals, which is indeed worthy of praise from everyone. But not so in El-Karis's view.

If Sun Mingyue really missed out on qualifying for the semi-finals due to lack of strength, El Karis may gladly accept the result. But the fact is that Sun Mingyue did not play well in the game, which led to her regrettably missing the semifinals.

Judging from the results of Sun Mingyue's group, except for Jamaican sprinting queen Fraser, who broke the 10-second (97) mark again, the athletes who won the second to fourth places were 11.19 seconds, 11.26 seconds and 11.36 seconds. In other words, except for Fraser, the results of the players who finished second to fourth were slower than Sun Mingyue's results in the preliminary round.

In other words, as long as Sun Mingyue can run yesterday's time, then she will definitely advance to the semifinals. However, Sun Mingyue, who did not play well, only ran 11.47 seconds in the rematch.

Some people may say that it is normal for athletes to have certain ups and downs in their competitive state, so there is nothing strange about Sun Mingyue's results in the semi-finals when they are not as good as those in the preliminary round. What's more, Sun Mingyue is only a 17-year-old girl, and her lack of sufficient competition experience made her unable to quickly adjust her mentality when she was in a rush situation because of athletes from other countries in the race, which led to her poor performance in the starting stage, and finally unfortunately missed the semi-finals.

The ups and downs of competitive form, the lack of experience in young competitions, and the unexpected situation in the game can indeed be the reason for Sun Mingyue's poor performance. But in El-Karis's view, these objective reasons are not the most fundamental reason for Sun Mingyue's miserable elimination.

If the difference between Sun Mingyue's results in two days is between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds, then it is reasonable to say that there are ups and downs in form. However, the only reason that can be explained by the difference of almost 0.3 seconds is the abnormal performance. The fundamental reason for this result is Sun Mingyue's lack of psychological quality.

That's right, 17-year-old Sun Mingyue is indeed very young, and her competition experience is indeed pitiful. However, if the difference between the two races reached 0.3 seconds in two days, it would be completely unjustifiable if the young man was used as an excuse.

Although the core competitiveness of competitive sports is mainly the personal strength of athletes, the psychological quality of athletes is also a key factor that cannot be ignored.

Take the worst football project scolded by the Chinese people as an example, in the eighties and nineties of the last century, the strength of Chinese football could at least be regarded as a first-class level in Asia. So in those days, whether it was the World Cup or the Olympic Games in the Asian budget competition, the Chinese team could also be regarded as a very competitive team.

However, whenever China is faced with a situation where they must win, or a draw can occur, they will always encounter an embarrassing situation of three minutes or five minutes of black, which will lead to their own elimination. It wasn't until the national football team when Milutinovic was in charge that all the fans who like the Chinese team finally made them really proud of themselves.

The reason for this situation is not that Milutinovic is highly skilled in coaching the team's technical and tactical ability. In fact, in terms of the technical ability and tactical coordination shown by the Chinese team in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, the domestic coach is not unable to do it. What really sets Milutinovic above domestic coaches is his ability to adjust the psychological aspects of players before and during the game.

In fact, the reason why Milutinovic was able to succeed in the Chinese team (the dismal performance of the national football team in the World Cup is another story) is largely due to his adjustment of the psychological state of the players. Even if he can't make the Chinese players improve significantly in terms of technical and tactical ability, he can make his players play to their all, or at least about ninety percent. At the same time, the Chinese team under Milutinovic's command rarely has players who judge the performance of two players in the second half, but maintain a relatively stable game state in the same game.

In this way, even if the Chinese team is not strong enough to dominate in Asia, it at least has the ability to compete with most of Asia's top teams.

Therefore, the level of an athlete's psychological quality determines his performance in the competition to a large extent.

Of course, if it is an athlete who has the strength to crush in a certain event like Feng Quan, even if he is a little lacking in mental quality, he may be able to win with a huge gap in strength. But in doing so, it will undoubtedly make it more difficult to win the game.

Therefore, through today's match, El Karis came to a conclusion: if Sun Mingyue wants to continue to improve her strength in the future, the first thing she needs to solve is her psychological quality. If this problem cannot be truly solved, then no matter how high her strength is, it is pointless if she cannot fully play in the game. After all, athletes who have the strength to crush everyone like Feng Quan are still rare.

Thinking of this, even though it was very clear that Feng Quan needed time to rest for the afternoon game, El Karis still dialed the other party's mobile phone after hesitating for a moment......