"I really don't know what those guys in South Korea think, players like Choi Chang-hee are going to be wasted by them for three years."

The men's 1500m final has not yet begun, and at this time, the staff of the Chinese national team are chatting with Pei Jing about topics related to Choi Chang-hee and Nanhai.

The so-called waste of three years is related to the relevant regulations for naturalized short track speed skating players.

After a naturalized player has represented their home country in an international competition, they will need to take a three-year gap before they can represent the new national team in international competitions.

Although it is said that the country after the naturalization of the player, when there is a need for the naturalized player to participate in international competitions, the applicant can apply to the country of origin of the player.

But as far as South Korea is concerned, short track speed skating teams from all over the world have already seen it thoroughly - and want to apply for South Korea to let Choi Chang-hee represent teams from other countries in international competitions?

This is impossible.

In other words, once Choi Chang-hee is naturalized in another country, he will have to be silent for three years.

Who knows, Pei Jing shook his head and sighed: "What about three years?" ”

"Didn't you hear that the South Korean team is still blocking Choi Chang-hee's naturalization?"

"But as long as they are careful and make a little stumbling block in the process of Cui Changxi's naturalization, as long as it drags on for a year or two, who knows what they can drag Cui Changxi into?"

As for the word 'Danfan' in Pei Jing's mouth, it can almost be deleted directly - after all, with South Korea's attitude towards Choi Chang-hee now, who can say that South Korea is careless?

In short, for Choi Changxi, a player, Pei Jing also feels sorry.

What is certain is that there are relevant regulations for international competitions for naturalized players, plus Choi Chang-hee and South Korea, the country of origin, Choi Chang-hee wants to really find an ideal naturalized country, but it is not so easy.

But no matter what, Pei Jing still thinks that Choi Chang-hee's approach is correct.

After all, a very good child, if he continues to stay in South Korea, he may be wasted.

***

At 4:30 p.m., the men's 1500-meter distance individual final of the Canada World Cup finally officially kicked off.

Lee Joon-tae is one of the second-tier players of the South Korean national team, and he is not a high-profile player in South Korea, and the reason why he was able to qualify for the World Cup in Canada this time is purely because South Korea does not value this Canadian tournament.

South Korea's top tier athletes are gearing up for the Team World Championships on March 15 and the Short Track Speed Skating World Championships on March 21, so the Canada leg of the World Cup is vacated for the second tier to train.

For a player like Lee Joon-tae, a World Cup tournament like this is a great opportunity for them to turn around.

If they can do well enough in the World Cup

, then it is very likely that after returning to South Korea, it is possible to be promoted from the second echelon to the first echelon for corresponding training.

For such an opportunity, in today's men's 1500m event, Lee Joon-tae is completely full of sprint, and he is very satisfied with his sprint result.

Neither of the two competitors he was with made it to the final, and he was the only South Korean team to qualify for the 1,500m final.

He is also proud of his performance, and he believes that since he can advance to the finals, he will definitely have the opportunity to win his first world championship in the finals.

The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

Among the six runners in the men's 1500m final, the six runners will be ranked according to the results of the semi-finals, and Lee Joon-tae is the one who ranks the outermost.

And the player in the innermost lane is Su Liang from the Huaguo team.

Lee Joon-tae had certainly heard of Su Liang's name - a name that made South Korea's youth team head coach Lee Yong-ha hate it, and a name that made South Korea feel jealous of him.

Short track speed skating World Junior Championships men's 1500m, 1000m and 500m overall champion and record-breaking all-around champion.

Lee Joon-tae once thought that no matter how Su Liang was, he was just a young player who was only 16 years old.

He may be able to dominate the World Youth Championships, but Su Liang will not have such a big advantage in the adult events of the World Cup.

But Li Zhuntai didn't realize it at all, or he didn't know it, in the previous World Cup Beijing Station, Su Liang had already won a silver medal in the men's 1500m in the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup.

The player who won the gold medal in the men's 1500m distance at the Beijing World Cup was Canada's Samuel Adams, who was standing on Su Liang's right hand at the moment.

After only 4 months, Su Liang completed the comeback against Samuel Adams in the World Cup.

In fact, not many people are aware of this.

Domestic ice fans also reacted in Liao Yuwei and Lin Fangzheng's explanation, and there was still such a thing.

At this time, on the short track speed skating forum of the Ice and Water Kingdom in China, die-hard ice fans who stayed up late to watch the game were chatting about it.

[Rub, if it weren't for Mr. Liao and Mr. Lin mentioning this matter, I would have forgotten that the World Cup champion Su Liang participated in was Samuel Adams?!] 】

[Isn't it, don't you remember this when you watch the game? In the previous semi-finals, I saw Su Liang and Samuel Adams thinking about this in the same group of semi-finals, and finally when I saw Su Liang finally kill Samuel, I almost jumped up without excitement!

This feeling is definitely no less than winning the World Youth Championships, right? 】

[To be honest, when I watched the World Cup in Beijing, I was excited about Su Liang and Shang Fei's results, I remember that when we were in the Beijing Station before, our Huaguo team Su Liang and Shang Fei won the bronze with silver, where do you remember who the champion is? ] 】

[That's right, I only remember the results of Su Liang and Shang Fei......]

In the forum, the ice fans discussed it together, and then they were so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

In less than 4 months, Su Liang has gone from losing to Samuel Adams to now beating Samuel in the semifinals!

You must know that Samuel Adams can be regarded as Canada's top short track speed skater, even if Samuel Adams slows down slightly in the final half lap, but the average player will never be able to complete the comeback against Samuel in the final stage.

At this time, the men's 1500m distance final is about to begin, and these ice fans who have stayed up all night can't help but look forward to it - maybe Su Liang can surpass Samuel Adams in today's competition and win the championship of the Canadian branch of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup?

Just thinking about it, ice fans still didn't dare to say this sentence in the end.

After all, it was Samuel Adams, the bronze medalist in the men's 1500m at the last World Championships.

Perhaps Samuel Adams did carelessly lose to Su Liang in the final half of the semi-finals, but in the next final, in the face of the support of the Canadian audience, Samuel Adams will definitely not be negligent in the final.

In the semifinals, Su Liang, who won the victory thanks to Samuel Adams' negligence, still has a chance to win in the final?

It should be said that it is difficult.

***

Ice fans don't dare to put too much pressure and expectation on Su Liang, it should be said that as long as Su Liang can continue to maintain an excellent performance, it will be a good result for ice fans.

At this time, Samuel Adams, who had already come to the starting line of their respective tracks in the sound of instructions in place, was far more vigilant than the Huaguo teenager Su Liang who was on the left at the moment.

Samuel Adams certainly remembers Su Liang, after all, it has only been less than 4 months since the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Beijing, and the wave that Su Liang set off at the World Youth Championships was only last month.

What's more, less than an hour has passed since the semi-finals that just ended.

Samuel was well aware of his strengths, and although he slowed down in the final half lap in the semi-finals, he was sure that it would be extremely difficult for him to surpass him if he had been replaced by another competitor who had been in second place behind him.

But this young man from Huaguo, like a ghost assassin on the ice in the final stage, stopped him before the dawn of victory when he thought it was almost impossible.

With such strength, looking at the 5 opponents in today's finals, Samuel Adams dares to say that the remaining 4 people will definitely not be the opponents of this young player from China!

An opponent who is only 16 years old and is already on par with him.

Thinking of this, Samuel Adams's eyes were a little more focused - he wanted to see if this young player from China could still create a miracle like the semifinals in the upcoming finals, under his all-out attack and defense.

On the field, the starter on the scene saw that all the players were ready, so the second command was also issued at the same time-

"Ready."

"Bang!"

Under the sound of the starting gun, the men's 1500m final of the Canadian branch of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup officially started!

Chapter 176

On the ice, the six finalists have already started their pace by kicking the ice at the same time.

As a South Korean player, Lee Joon-tae certainly has a clear grasp of the traditional rhythm of South Korea's game, but as a second-tier player of the South Korean national team, there is naturally a clear gap between Lee Joon-tae's game experience and the first-team players.

With Samuel Adams, Michael Rogers and other short track speed skating stars present, there are also old South Korean opponents such as Su Liang and Shang Fei on the ice, even if before the competition, Lee Joon-tae thought that Su Liang was just the champion of the World Youth Championships and not worth mentioning.

But after really standing on this final stage, the gap between the innermost and the outermost ways really made Lee Joon-tae's mentality change dramatically.

So at the first time of the game, Lee Joon-tae pedaled the ice with all his might, intending to seize the innermost leading position.

But he's not the only one looking to grab the skating position on the field.

Canada's Eliezelle Page and American Michael Rogers were both poised to take the lead in the opening stages, taking advantage of their position and pace.

Needless to say, EliezelePage is a very typical explosive player in the future.

Michael Rogers from Team USA is also more adept at the sprint races.

For him, although he has no obvious shortcomings in the long distance, the short distance race is still better at the pace he likes, and taking the lead in the early stage of the 1500m distance and controlling the speed of the runners behind him is a tactic that has a higher chance of winning in the end.

In the door of the live broadcast room of the domestic sports channel

Liao Yuwei and Lin Fangzheng are also commenting on the rhythm of the game on the ice.

"Today's men's 1500m final was already in a scuffle from the first moment of the race – it was clear that it was going to be a very exciting event."

"At this stage, my country's player Su Liang did not occupy the sliding position for the first time, which is the same as his usual tactics, and he was relatively conservative and restrained in the early stage, and then broke out in the later stage."

"Yes, at present, the two players in my country are in the 4th and 5th places respectively, although Su Liang and Shang Fei failed to occupy the front position, but the two players have successfully converged on the field, which will be a very good start for their future cooperation with each other."

At this time, Michael Rogers from the United States on the ice, with his own strength and experience, took the lead in the innermost lane, and behind him was Eliezelle Page from Canada.

Behind Michael Rogers and EliezellePage is not Lee Joon-tae from South Korea, but Canada's Samuel Adams.

It was also from the opening stage that he went all out to adjust the path to the inside lane to grab the skating position, but in the starting stage, under the position of Michael Rogers and Eliezelle Page, who had the same goal, Lee Joon-tae, who was in the outermost lane, had already slowed down the two from the beginning of the reaction, and when he tried to change lanes and cut inward, the ice was very chaotic for a while, and Lee Joon-tae, who could not find the opportunity, could only return to his position, at this time he had fallen on the last position, had to readjust his state and rhythm, waiting for the opportunity to overtake in the later stage.

While it seemed like Lee Jun-tae was back in the rhythm of the South Korean race, his courage at the start was thwarted in the opening scuffle.

The event on the ice continued, Su Liang and Shang Fei were in the fourth and fifth places respectively, and in front of Su Liang was the Canadian player, Samuel Adams.

Neither the inner-lane athlete Su Liang nor Samuel Adams in the second lane chose to go all out for the lead spot in the opening stages.

Compared with Lee Joon-tae, EliezellePage and Michael Rogers, Su Liang and Samuel naturally had the better strength and mentality in the 1500m, and the two always maintained their own skating rhythm, and did not feel panicked and confused by the fierce competition for the front row position in the opening stage.

As a result, there are two completely different competitive atmospheres on the field.

Eliezer and Michael Rogers, who are in the top two, are still battling for the lead position, and Eliezer is still a little rougher than Michael Rogers, so he has a tougher battle for the lead position than Rogers.

Eliezer only briefly took the lead spot for the first four laps with a one-time outside pass, but the position was quickly retaken by Michael Rogers from the inside overtake.

Compared with the competition for the top two positions, Su Liangren, who ranked from 3rd to 5th, is extraordinarily 'quiet'.

The two players of the Huaguo team, whether Su Liang or Shang Fei, are not reckless players, but are more inclined to delicate technical transcendence directions.

Needless to say, Su Liang once suspended for a whole season due to a serious injury, and now although he is back on the ice, the shadow left in his heart is still difficult to completely recede.

Pei Jing once mentioned that during the period when Somfy reopened his training in the offseason, for a long time, his problem was that he did not dare to collide with his opponent on the ice, which was a very fatal problem for a short track speed skater.