After watching too many players like this this year, they suddenly reacted after seeing the performance of players like Zhao Zimo - oh, it turns out that this is the normal performance of young players who participate in international competitions for the first time.

After finally coming to their senses, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng looked at each other.

"It's amazing, just compare it and find out how many good seedlings with top potential have emerged in our national youth team this year."

Although in the past, they already knew that young players such as Su Liang, Wu Gang, Sun Ruixiang, and Liu Yuqing were indeed talented players with top, strength and potential.

But who can enter the national youth team is not a genius in the provincial and municipal team clubs?

It is only after being tested by the competition in a competition like today, and under the test of the big wave gold rush, top geniuses like Su Liang and them are more clearly revealed in front of everyone.

Thinking of this, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng couldn't help but have deeper expectations for the future - today's Huaguo youth team has such a strong reserve strength and talented players, so as these young players gradually mature and step on the stage of international competitions after being tempered by higher-level competitions......

When that time comes, how far will the short track speed skating level of the Chinese team be improved?

But when Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng flashed Su Liang's figure in their minds, they suddenly felt that maybe the Huaguo team didn't need to wait for that much time...... There is already a talent beyond everyone's imagination that has begun to shine on the international stage.

In yesterday's men's 1500m event and today's 500m event, Su Liang's technical ability, confrontation ability, strategic ability and his ability to be stable beyond people's imagination in all events......

This made Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng can't help but look forward to the 500m semifinals, finals and tomorrow's 1km race in the afternoon.

Especially in the 500-meter race this afternoon, the Huaguo team currently has Mu Yuansheng, the 500-meter champion of the last World Youth Championships, and Su Liang, a talented player who everyone can not estimate what kind of performance he can achieve.

So can they greedily look forward to the dream of the Chinese national team winning two medals again in the afternoon 500m event?

Chapter 139

With the end of the qualifying preliminaries and quarter-finals, the second match day of the World Youth Championships, the morning schedule has come to an end.

Zhao Zimo was still a little hesitant on the way back to the backcourt lounge - his 1/4 finals were really ugly, in fact, at the moment of the end of the game, he had already noticed the abnormality of his state during the game, but at the same time that he noticed the abnormality, the game was completely over.

Before coming to the World Junior Championships, or before this quarter-final, he always thought that he should be a player with a good mentality, at least in the previous qualifying rounds and preliminaries, he was able to maintain his form as much as possible, and had a good performance in the game.

But before the start of the just-concluded 1/4 finals, he fell into great anxiety, the pressure from the strength gap between himself and Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng, as well as the anxiety about his future qualifications, and the pressure of facing strong players from other countries when approaching the arena......

All kinds of pressure, which may not have seemed so serious to him in the past, suddenly swept him in like a wave before the start of the match, and the waves of those huge pressures crashed him into the deep sea, so that his mentality completely collapsed before the start of the match.

This is a completely unexpected state of pressure for Zhao Zimo.

It was also after really facing this state of pressure alone that Zhao Zimo really felt why his coach kept emphasizing to him how important it was to adjust his mentality before the game.

It was also in the process of reminiscing that Zhao Zimo suddenly remembered why his coach repeatedly emphasized to him that Su Liang's mentality was too stable during the World Cup in Beijing.

It was also after that World Cup in Beijing that his coach solemnly told him that Su Liang would definitely be the most feared athlete in the short track speed skating event in China in the future.

At that time, he didn't quite understand why the coach suddenly said that, but now that he thinks about it, Su Liang was almost single-handedly facing the South Korean player, and as a young player who made his debut on the international stage, Su Liang was even able to complete the foul trick against the South Korean player under the pressure of a strong senior opponent on the international stage for the first time at that time.

Powerful, sharp, calm.

It wasn't until he personally felt the pressure of confronting strong opponents from other countries on the international stage that Zhao Zimo deeply felt how difficult it was for Su Liang at the beginning - it was almost a miraculous performance.

In short, for an athlete, he can adjust his mentality before the competition, or have a heart as strong as steel, be able to withstand all the pressure during the competition, and play his strongest strength steadily...... Once there are two players with similar strength, then the one with a more stable mentality and state will definitely be the first choice of most coaches.

Walking all the way to the lounge, Zhao Zimo was also reflecting on his performance all the way, in fact, on the way back to the lounge, he had already readjusted his state.

Although he still has a huge regret in his heart, just like Coach Pei and Team Leader Zhang said, what he is really better at is the 1km distance event, and the strength of today's 500m 1/4 final is not necessarily a real bad thing for him.

If he can realise his problems in advance today, he will be more serious in tomorrow's game.

So he didn't do well in the 500m, but at least he could make sure he had no regrets in the 1km tomorrow.

It's just that Zhao Zimo's state has been adjusted, but after all, he is still a teenager, after making huge mistakes, if he is still alone, it will be okay, but to return to a public space like the lounge, facing his two teammates and other staff of the Huaguo team, it always makes Zhao Zimo feel a little awkward.

However, he couldn't stay outside the break room forever, so after more than 10 minutes of hesitation, he finally pushed open the door to the break room.

After pushing the door in, Zhao Zimo found that the staff in the lounge, including his two teammates Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng, just raised their heads and smiled to say hello to him after seeing him come back, which was not much different from usual.

The masseur in the team just smiled and said to him after seeing him that Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang still had a game in the afternoon, and they needed to complete a relaxing massage for the two of them first, and let him wait on the side for a while.

In the face of such a natural attitude of everyone, after feeling that no one treated him like a fragile product, Zhao Zimo was stunned for a moment, and then he completely relaxed his state, and gradually left behind some of the inexplicable unnecessary pressure in his heart before.

Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng first went to the women's team to comfort the girls of the women's team, and then when they returned to the men's team's lounge, they saw Zhao Zimo, who had relaxed down, talking to Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng about his mentality in the previous 1/4 finals.

"It's still inexperienced, but I already know what's going on, and in the first game, I just suddenly had a lot of energy, and all of a sudden I couldn't think about anything, and I just had all kinds of pressure in my head...... Anyway, tomorrow you will see, tomorrow's 1km will definitely be better than today's form! ”

What Pei Jing and the others heard when they entered the door was what Zhao Zimo said, and both of them laughed after glancing at each other.

"Okay, since you're so confident, we'll wait to see your results tomorrow!"

Zhang Dongcheng smiled and patted Zhao Zimo's shoulder.

Pei Jing also had a smile on his face, after all, Zhao Zimo was also a young player they brought up little by little, just like the two of them talked about at the beginning, it is very normal for young players like this to have some problems and encounter some setbacks and tribulations in the competition, as long as they can adjust their mentality by themselves, then this is a good thing.

***

After Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng returned to the waiting lounge, they first chatted with Zhao Zimo briefly, and then focused on Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang, the two players who had semifinals and finals to break through in the afternoon.

"The morning game is over, and the final list for the afternoon semi-final match is out."

"The semi-finalists this time...... The list is fairly evenly divided. ”

When Pei Jing said this, he laughed first, it was really after all the games in the morning, the countries of the players who finally advanced to the semi-finals were really a bit excessive, and the 8 players who advanced to the final semi-finals were two from China, two from South Korea, two from Russia, and the last two from Canada.

"I don't have to say, you should be in half in the semi-finals in the afternoon."

The semi-finals are still the same as the previous 1500m semi-finals - the computer has programmed the group selection, and the first principle is that there are no two competitors from the same country in the same group.

Of course, in view of the special circumstances of the 500m semi-finals, if all three competitors from a certain country advance to the semi-finals in the semi-finals, then there will still be two competitors from the same country in the semi-finals group, but today's semi-finals list, the countries to which each competitor belongs are too even, so there is no such problem.

For the opponents in the afternoon, Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng actually had a rough idea in their hearts, but Pei Jing still had to do the analysis that he should do, he and Zhang Dongcheng and Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng analyzed the opponents that the two might encounter in the afternoon one by one, and screened out a few more threatening opponents.

Among these people, the main threats to Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng are EliezelePage from Canada, Vladislav from Russia, and Choi Changxi from South Korea.

The threat for the first two is that they are both high-explosive top fighters, and they are more dangerous in the future, especially for Su Liang, Vladislav and Eliezelepec are the types of players he is currently more difficult to deal with.

Relatively speaking, these two players are less threatening to Mu Yuansheng.

Although Mu Yuansheng is also a high-explosive forward-looking player, and in terms of size, his explosiveness and strength seem to be inferior to Vladislav and Eliezer, from this point of view, Mu Yuansheng seems to be in a disadvantaged position.

But you can't look at the problem from this point of view, compared with Vladislav and Eliezelepage, although Mu Yuansheng's strength has an obvious gap with them, but in terms of size, Mu Yuansheng is a slender but not overly strong type, so in fact, in terms of the effective use of explosive power, he is definitely not weaker than these two opponents.

And Vladislav and EliezelePage both have a fatal weakness, that is, they rely too much on their explosiveness and power, and ignore the meticulous precipitation of technology.

Just like the American player Chris that Su Liang met in the last game, from a technical point of view, Mu Yuansheng also has to beat these two opponents.

As the 500-meter distance champion of the last World Youth Championships, Mu Yuansheng has his unique advantage in the 500-meter distance, after a year of precipitation and accumulation, in this year's World Youth Championships, Mu Yuansheng is fully confident that he will once again advance to the 500-meter distance final and win a medal.

And Su Liang technically has a crushing advantage over almost all the 7 opponents in the same group, but he also has a very distinct weakness, that is, his lack of strength and explosiveness, as well as the impact of his lateral upright start on the explosiveness of the start.

It is also because of this situation that Su Liang is very likely to face a huge speed gap in the future stage when facing top explosive players like Vladislav and Eliezelepage.

It's not that Su Liang can't complete the overtaking in the later stage, but this back-end overtaking is also a very difficult challenge for Su Liang to complete.

"At the moment, it seems that except for the two players in South Korea, the rest of the players should be explosive players."

After Pei Jing said this, he frowned first.

It's not easy to do.

However, this is the reality and cruelty of competitive sports, you are never free to choose the type of opponent you will face in a top international competition, and you will often face opponents and challenges that you cannot predict.

Zhao Zimo on the side frowned at the same time after listening to Pei Jing's introduction, but before the others at the scene could appease Su Liang, he saw Su Liang take a step forward and raised his head, his eyes looked firmly in the direction where Pei Jing was, his eyes were shining, with a challenging expectation and desire.

"I'm looking forward to it!" he said. ”

After hearing Su Liang's four words, Pei Jing suddenly had the thought of 'sure enough' in his heart.

For a long time, the coaching staff has always attached great importance to Su Liang's strength, but in addition to his simple strength, Su Liang's mentality of being stronger is the original driving force that pushes him step by step to continue to reach higher peaks and challenge to higher peaks, and it is also the confidence of the national team coaching staff that Su Liang is absolutely capable of winning the world's top.

Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng patted each other with a smile, and Su Liang's shoulder responded with a hello.

In the following time, the masseur of the national team in the lounge gave Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng muscle relaxation massages respectively, and the two also had lunch in the lounge.

After a short lunch break, as the day before, at one o'clock at noon, Su Liang and the two went to the location of the group lottery together and completed the semi-final group selection in the afternoon.

Only 8 contestants were divided into two groups of group selection, and the speed was very fast, and in just a few minutes, the notary and staff on the scene had completed the final results of the lottery.

In the afternoon, Su Liang will feature in Group 2 of the semi-finals, while he will be joined by Choi Chang-hee from South Korea, Vladislav from Russia, and Eliezelle Page from Canada.

Mu Yuansheng's group will face Julian from Canada, Choi Hyun-tae from South Korea and Arseni from Russia.

After seeing this grouping list, Pei Jing and Zhang Dongcheng were stunned for a while, and then shook their heads together.

At noon, when analyzing their opponents, Pei Jing and the two of them were worried about whether Su Liang or Mu Yuansheng would meet Eliezelle Page, Vladislav and Choi Changxi in the same group.

They had thought it was just a worst-case scenario, but it was now fulfilled before their eyes.

It's an indisputable group of death, and in this group of death, Su Liang will not only have to face two top explosive fighters, but also an endurance fighter of a similar type to him.

If Su Liang can at least 60% be sure of advancing to the finals in another group, then in the group in front of him, Su Liang's promotion possibilities have dropped directly from 60% to less than 40%.

***

At the same time, in the short track speed skating section of the domestic Ice and Snow Kingdom, ice fans have also found the group list for the 500m semifinals of the World Youth Championships in the afternoon from the official website of ISU for the first time.

And after seeing this group list, domestic ice fans also fell silent at the same time.

[There is a saying that Su Liang's hand is really black. 】

[How do you think Su Liang's luck is already good in the previous group of games, and today I feel that his black hand is back again......]

[This grouping, Su Liang should be really cool this time, right? ] 】

[Eighty percent, after all, you take a look at his grouping, Vladislav, EliezelePage and Cui Changxi, those two are running at a terrible speed in the future, plus it is a short distance of 500 meters, as long as the two of them are ahead in the future, the next full sprint speed, Su Liang and they want to surpass it is not so easy. 】

Originally, the domestic ice fans were still in a jubilant atmosphere when they saw that Su Liang, who was rumored to be physically exhausted in the morning, successfully advanced to the semifinals, but after seeing Su Liang's group list, this kind of person couldn't help but fall silent.

In the end, there was still an ice fan who said: [Forget it, don't worry about whether you can advance to the finals, it is not easy for Su Liang to be able to compare to now, and in the semi-finals in the next afternoon, we just need to cheer him for him with all our might. 】

Although the ice fans can't say sigh, the atmosphere is also sluggish.

As everyone knows, Su Liang, who is far away in Budapest, is very satisfied with the grouping of this competition, and even from the end of the group drawing, he is full of expectations, and he can't wait to participate in the competition!

Chapter 140

At 2 p.m. Budapest time, the afternoon session of the second day of the World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships kicked off.

The women's team went a little more smoothly in the morning than the men's team, with all three players reaching the semi-finals at the same time, so in the women's semi-finals Group 2, there will be two players from the Chinese women's team competing for the final qualification.