Chapter 53: Wild Card

Director Yuan was not angry when he saw Xiao Ji stop, this 800 meters was just an experiment for him, not normal training, he had already gotten the answer he wanted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

100 meters in about 10 seconds, 200 meters 22.18, 400 meters 44.59, 800 meters if you run absolutely two minutes away, this series of data clearly shows Xiao Ji's physical characteristics: excellent explosive power and speed endurance, poor aerobic endurance.

Although there is a gap between the explosiveness of our country's players and the black players in the Americas, it is not very big, just look at the long jump, in the case of such a slow running speed, my country's long jumpers can still occupy a place in the long jump world, this is because the long jump basically only has the requirements for explosive power, and there is basically no requirement for speed and endurance.

The main reason for the gap in the 100 meters is the speed endurance, which is always left behind in the final stages.

The distance of 200 meters and 400 meters is farther, and the requirements for speed and endurance are higher, and the competitiveness of Chinese players is also lower.

Director Yuan meditated hard to overcome the difficulty of speed and endurance, but there is still no good way, and Xiao Ji seems to have this ability by nature.

Generally speaking, the ability of humans to use muscles is measured by indicators such as explosiveness, strength, endurance, etc.

Human efforts have been made to improve these indicators, but unfortunately some of them are contradictory.

For example, explosiveness and stamina.

There are three types of muscle fibers: white muscle fibers (fast-twitch fibers), red muscle fibers (slow-twitch fibers), and intermediate muscle fibers.

Red muscles are known to have high aerobic capacity and fatigue resistance, but they are a type of muscle that performs low-intensity, long-term exercise due to poor glycolytic (anaerobic) capacity, slow contraction, and low muscle strength per unit of exercise. White muscle, on the other hand, has the highest glycolytic (anaerobic) capacity and strength per unit of exercise, but is poor in aerobic capacity, contraction speed, and fatigue resistance, and is a muscle type that is high-intensity, short-term exercise.

Red muscle and white muscle exist for both men and women, young and old, but the proportions are different, the proportion of white muscle is higher in sprinters, and the proportion of red muscle in long-distance runners is higher.

The easiest way to increase your explosiveness is to increase the proportion of white muscles, but at the cost of losing your stamina.

There is no such problem in Xiao Ji, the muscle ability that the system has improved for Xiao Ji is comprehensive, whether it is explosive power, strength or endurance, all of which are improved, which is the terrible thing about the system.

It is because of this unique ability that Xiao Ji has excellent speed endurance and has never undergone any training to have a good strength in the 200m and 400m.

After Coach Yuan found out about this, he directly changed Xiao Ji's training plan and began to add 200 meters and 400 meters of training programs.

Coach Yuan wanted Xiao Ji to sign up for the 200m and 400m events at the Asian Games, but there was a problem: Xiao Ji had never run the 200m and 400m before, and he was not eligible to participate in the Asian Games, and the national team was represented in both events, and there was no wild card place.

After checking the information, the only recent competitions are the Diamond League Brussels, the Athletics Challenge Lieti, the IAAF Intercontinental Cup and the Tarens Track and Field Challenge, all of which have entry requirements without exception, and Xiao Ji does not meet all of them.

Director Yuan was very distressed about this, but Xiao Ji thought of a solution.

In order to encourage competitions, the IAAF will give the Organising Committee a few wild card slots, and the Organising Committee will generally give the quota to young and promising athletes from their country.

Xiao Ji set his sights on those wild card slots, and he called his agent Lou Jie and asked him to try to contact the organizers of the following stations.

Matteo is a small leader in charge of external liaison in the organizing committee of the Letti Station, and one of his main tasks is to contact sponsors.

Unfortunately, he messed up this year, and he only got a meagre more than 100,000 euros in sponsorship fees, which was far from enough to pay the appearance fees to the contestants.

He felt that he was wronged, and he really couldn't blame him for not being able to attract sponsors, who told them to sandwich their event between the two major competitions of the Diamond League and the Intercontinental Cup, which were less than 10 days apart.

The frequency of participation in 3 races in 10 days is so high that basically no athlete will do this.

As a result, the Rieti tournament did not attract any big-name athletes, and the participants were all ordinary players who did not qualify for the Diamond League and the Intercontinental Cup.

The level of competition is low, so naturally there is no attention.

Sponsors are very sophisticated, and if the attention is low, the advertising effect will be poor, so they are reluctant to sponsor.

At this time, he received a call from Lou Jie.

As soon as he heard that the other party actually asked for a wild card place, Mateo didn't think about it and had to refuse, their Italian players were fighting for these wild card places, and you still want to share the pie from a player from another country.

Just as he was about to blurt out, Matteo suddenly felt that the name Lou Jie seemed a little familiar.

Football is basically the number one sport in all countries in Europe, and Italy is no exception, and they also have Serie A, one of the four major European leagues, which was known as the "Little World Cup" back then.

Matteo is also a veteran football fan, and after thinking about it for a while, he remembered that this was not Xiao Ji's agent.

Xiao Ji is now thriving in the Premier League, many people are optimistic about him, and his reputation has long spread to Italy.

Since the other party has a bit of an identity, Mateo changed his words and asked for the reason.

Lou Jie only said five words: Xiao Ji wants to compete.

Matteo's business sense is still very sensitive, and he immediately understands the meaning.

A young demon star with a certain reputation in the football world came to participate in the track and field competition, which is a great gimmick.

Matteo's biggest concern right now is the sponsorship fee.

With this gimmick, the attention immediately went up, and the sponsors didn't flock to it?

Sleepy and send a pillow - it's the right time.

Matteo immediately agreed, and kindly asked Xiao Ji what event he wanted to participate in, and he could give him all the wild cards for all the events.

Xiao Ji's goal is very clear, that is, to qualify for the 200-meter and 400-meter Asian Games, and Lou Jie wants the 200-meter and 400-meter wild cards.

Mateo felt a little regretful, he wished that Xiao Ji would participate in all of them, only 200 meters and 400 meters were still too few, 200 meters would be more than 20 seconds, 400 meters would be more than 40 seconds, and it would be over in a while.

After securing the quota for the competition, Xiao Ji flew to Italy on September 5.