At that time, he thought that Russia's Kirill Yefimov would be a strong opponent for Su Liang at the same time, including Su Liang, who also recognized Kirill's performance and potential, but he also remembered that Su Liang thought that Kirill's skating was 'utilitarian' at that time.

Jiang Yibo didn't know from which point Su Liang came to this conclusion, but from the perspective of 'utilitarianism', he could reverse Kirill's behavior, but he could indeed perfectly interpret Kirill's performance.

It's just that apart from the criterion of 'utilitarian', both Jiang Yibo and Su Liang recognize Kirill's strength, and judging from Kirill's attitude towards the Chinese team at that time, Kirill himself has studied Su Liang.

For Su Liang, in the next preliminaries, he had to face an enemy who regarded him as an opponent and carefully studied Su Liang's sliding logic.

Not only this one, but it is foreseeable that with the rise of Su Liang last season, coupled with the prominence of Su Liang's personal technical advantages after the technical transformation, at the beginning of this season, Su Liang will encounter a large number of opponents who regard him as an opponent and regard him as an imaginary enemy to repeatedly observe and study.

Next, this battle with Kirill Yefimov can also be seen as Su Liang's first time facing such an opponent.

"Come on."

Jiang Yibo clasped his arms in front of his chest, watched the preparation for the event on TV with a focused expression, and silently cheered for his eldest son in his heart.

- Last season's victory is just the starting point, if you want to stand at the top of the short track speed skating event, how to face the various challengers from this season, this is the more crucial element!

***

The scene of the third group of the men's 1500m preliminaries in Canada at the World Cup

In the audience, on the seats of the players of the Huaguo team, the staff of Huaguo were also nervously looking at Su Liang on the field, and among the spectators, there were also a few Huaguo ice fans who came to watch the game Looking at Su Liang's direction and cheering for him.

On the ice, Su Liang stood calmly in the preparation area, of course he noticed Kirill, the opponent who had been paying attention to him since the warm-up activities, but he didn't pay too much attention to it, but after simply moving his hands and feet, he pulled down the wide goggles, hid one of his eyes behind the goggles, and quietly waited for the command of the on-site starter.

In this game, Su Liang is in the second lane, Kirill's position is adjacent to Su Liang, in the third lane, the other four lanes are from Italy, Canada, Germany and France, among which Antonio Moro from Italy is also a very good young player, in the World Youth Championships last season and Huaguo team Sun Ruixiang also has the experience of competing in the same group, this season he can qualify for the first stop of the World Cup in Canada, It can be seen that it is also the young generation of players that the Italian team focuses on cultivating.

On the field, the six players moved their muscles briefly in the preparation area, and soon each of them brought their own protective goggles.

Among the remaining 5 players, not only Russia's Kirill, but also several others, including Antonio, more or less looked at Su Liang on the second track.

In the live broadcast commentary room of the sports channel, Liao Yuwei and Lin Fangzheng certainly noticed this detail.

"It can be seen that Su Liang is already the number one imaginary enemy of all the players."

"Yes, I still hope that Su Liang can withstand such pressure, not be affected by the attention of opponents from all countries, and be able to show his strength in the game normally."

***

On the field, Su Liang certainly knew that his teammates, coaches, and fans were concerned about his condition, but he didn't make any superfluous performances - he clearly knew that all everyone's worries would turn into joy and cheers after this preliminaries.

After putting on the goggles and getting ready, Su Liang didn't pay attention to the attention around him, intentionally or unintentionally, when the camera lens at the scene glanced at him, and the Canadian commentator at the scene was also introducing him, his eyes swept lightly to the camera that was filming him, and just before the command of the on-site starter slid to the starting line of his own pass.

"Oh, the game is about to begin! The camera just caught the young player Su of China - an overly young athlete, but his quality has already made many short track speed skaters around the world feel jealous. ”

"What can he do in this upcoming game?"

"Let's wait and see!"

Many viewers at the scene felt provoked because of Su Liang's indifferent glance in the camera, but this not only did not arouse the disgust of the audience, but aroused the interest of most of the audience.

In competitive sports, arrogance will only become a personality label for a player, and only dishes are the original sin of competitive sports.

As long as Su Liang can conquer the arena with his own strength in this game, then no one will question his attitude.

Under the attention of all the attention, in the fear of the opponents in the same field, the 1500-meter preliminaries also officially kicked off in the command of the on-site starter and the sound of the starting gun!

"It's on!"

In the commentary room of Huaguo Sports Channel, at the moment when the starting gun rang out at the scene, Lin Fangzheng and Liao Yuwei both mentioned in their spirits - it has begun!

On the field, six skaters started on the skate, of which only the French started in a cross style, and the remaining five runners started in a sideways style.

Compared to the four-nation joint invitational, some of the players in the World Cup have not been affected by the technical changes, such as the French player, who used a crossover start that was originally more suitable for him before the ice point was banned.

The cross-start that allowed him to play more fully with his individual power gave the Frenchman an easy start at the start.

And behind him, in the first bend out of the corner, to the surprise of many people, it was not Su Liang who followed him close and sliding, but Kirill from Russia - Su Liang, who was originally on the second lane, somehow slowly rubbed behind Kirill in the starting stage.

At this time, the one who stuck behind Kirill and skated on the third heel was the Chinese player who didn't care about everyone's attention before the start of the game, Su Liang.

In the live broadcast room of Huaguo's sports channel, Liao Yuwei and Lin Fangzheng originally guessed that Su Liang would not win in the starting stage of the 1500-meter race, but they originally only thought that Su Liang would follow the skating in second place.

But what I didn't expect was that Su Liang actually followed behind Kirill in Russia?

Some ice fans who still remember Kirill's skating strategy against the Chinese national team players during the Four Nations Joint Invitational Tournament were all dazzled after seeing Su Liang's action - interesting!

Chapter 216

In the initiation stage, Kirill's path is adjacent to Su Liang, and on the third path to Su Liang's right, including Kirill himself, he has no intention of surpassing Su Liang, but Kirill's habits will not let him fall into a position that is too unfavorable for him.

If you fall into the last two positions, you will need to expend more energy when you want to overtake in the latter stages of the game, which is not in line with Kirill's personal habit of placing a high value on the economy of the game.

It is precisely because of this personal habit that Kirill subconsciously put himself in a more advantageous position, although he did not run with all his might in the starting stage.

It was in this kind of mentality game that Kirill still inertly came to the second position of the follower, and Su Liang, who was behind him, quietly occupied the position behind Kirill with his easy start and sliding.

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Liao Yuwei couldn't help laughing after seeing Su Liang's action: "Very clever location choice." ”

"Yes." Lin Fangzheng also had the same smile on his face as his old partner: "It can be seen from Su Liang's choice of position that his performance is quite relaxed, and from the current point of view, he is in good shape in this preliminary match." ”

Although the performance of winning three consecutive championships in the Feiyang Cup in mid-September is enough to prove Su Liang's state in the new season, it is indeed with the opening performance of this World Cup preliminaries that ice fans are really relieved.

In the first three laps, both the French in the lead and the Italians, Germany, and Canada were gliding smoothly on the course without any intention of moving.

The brief change came in the second corner of the fourth lap, when Italy's Antonio Moro, who had fallen behind Su Liang, put on the outside lane on the straight stage and accelerated his feet to launch the first overtake attempt of the race.

Antonio Moro thought that this would be a difficult attempt to seize the opportunity to overtake, including the audience at the scene did not think that the three players in front of him would be able to give up the lead at this stage, but the fact is that Antonio's attempt to overtake did not encounter any obstacles!

What happened?!

Many viewers sitting in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast were also stunned for a moment - or Antonio was not without any obstacles, when he tried to overtake from the outside lane, Kirill, who was in second place, had noticed Antonio's overtaking moves, so there was a brief tendency to swing outward during the slide, but perhaps it was found that Su Liang behind him did not make any blocking moves to Antonio, so he quickly returned to the inside lane.

"What do you think of this transcendence, Mr. Liao?"

In the live commentary room of the sports channel, Lin Fangzheng had a little smile on his face.

Liao Yuwei also smiled: "This transcendence just now, maybe some viewers didn't understand it, this is a very interesting result of the mentality game in the process of athletes' competition." ”

"First of all, the timing chosen by Antonio is a player who may not realize that the overtake at this stage is the most likely time to succeed, and the 13.5-lap course is still in the first half of the race, with low lap times and the race is not yet in the heat of the race."

"The difficulty of the players at this stage is low, and at the same time, the transcendence at this stage, for the rest of the players, is not difficult to overtake in the later stage, and the opponent also has the probability of not blocking in the plan of his own physical energy distribution plan."

"The second is the character and mentality of the opponent in front of Antonio -

Most ice fans should know that Su Liang is more inclined to surpass in the future, and his personal position in the future stage has little impact on him. For example, in the start-up stage just now, Su Liang's performance when he started was quite obvious. ”

"The second Russian player Kirill Yefimov should have reacted the most to Antonio in the process of overtaking just now, but it is clear that Kirill's more fearful opponent than Antonio is Su Liang behind him - he briefly tried to stop Antonio's overtaking, but after he found that Su Liang did not show any action, Kirill stopped his movements."

On the field, the relationship between a brief transcendence and the player's position change was clearly presented in front of the eyes of the ice fans under the introduction of the two commentators.

The audience in front of the TV was listening to the commentary while watching Su Liang, who was in fourth place on the field.

On the ice, Su Liang, who was sliding, had his hands behind his back, his body was curled up, his center of gravity was pressed very low, and his eyes were cast through the protective goggles to look ahead, obviously observing the gliding state of several opponents in front of him.

With Antonio's successful overtake, the calm state of the field began to be broken, and the German and Canadian runners in the back seemed to regret not taking the wonderful opportunity to overtake, so in the next lap five to six, the two runners in the back also began to swing on the outside track to try to find a chance to overtake.

However, as the race entered the 5th and 6th laps, the pace of the race gradually changed, and the overall speed of the glide increased due to the acceleration of Antonio's overtake, the two competitors from Germany and Canada missed the best opportunity to try to overtake at this time.

Ahead, Antonio is currently in the leading position, but he also knows that behind him, whether it is the French player who originally led the skating or the Russian player Kirill, they will not let him easily lead the skating to the end, not to mention that there is also Su Liang of the Chinese team in this group.

In the process of leading the skating, Antonio turned his head to observe the follower behind him from the angle of entering the corner - only to see that the game had entered the 8th lap, but Su Liang of the Huaguo team still put his hands behind his back and slid the whole way.

For a moment, the thought that flashed through Antonio's mind was - this terrible guy, wouldn't he really be afraid of not being able to advance?

But the thought came to me for a moment.

After all, as a World Junior Champion last season, he clearly knows how terrifying the demon king of the Chinese team is - the first all-around king in history to sweep the three individual events of the World Youth Championships.

Instead of worrying about whether he can advance, it is better to worry about whether he can keep his current position!

Since occupying the lead position, Antonio has been fully in control of his skating rhythm and the blocking of the back course, but if he wants to maintain the blocking of the inside lane and the control of the rhythm for a long time, it is also a big test for the athlete's own technical details......

Antonio did his best, but unfortunately he made a mistake at the first corner of lap 9 and made a gap in the inside lane.

It's not a big gap, and if it had been last season, the riders behind might have hesitated to take advantage of it...... In fact, even this season, because the new rules have just been introduced, there are still very few players who have really changed their thinking by interpreting the side-to-shoulder principle, so there are not many players who will be decisive when faced with this opportunity.

But the Frenchman behind Antonio happens to be one of them.

The moment he sensed his chance, the Frenchman didn't hesitate to add a knife at his feet, leaning in and moving forward from the inside lane.

Antonio was unable to block the inside lane due to a mistake in the corner, but the space he exposed was limited, and even though the Frenchman behind him was careful, the two bodies collided.

The arms of the two even had a brief entanglement during the swing, which caused some interference to the gliding of the two, if it wasn't for Antonio's sliding more stable, maybe the two would have fallen because of this collision.

As Shang Fei's coach, he has been worried about the situation on the field at such a moment throughout the second half of the summer training cycle, or even if Shang Fei has adjusted his mentality and has made his own breakthrough in the style of skating skills, what coach will not be worried about seeing the scene on the field at this moment?

In the live broadcast commentary room of the domestic sports channel, Lin Fangzheng and Liao Yuwei were also frowning.

If this was last season, they would have been able to figure out who the foul party in front of them was, but the new rules of the new season, including the ISU official referee training DVD, have only been taken seriously after the release of the new rules, and the two of them only recently got the new ISU referee training DVD through a relationship, and they are not familiar enough with the penalty cases.

But fortunately, Antonio and the two did not have any problems because of this overtake, but after the corner, the Frenchman, who was originally behind Antonio, came to the lead position again.

With the change of lead skaters again, the race has entered the second half of the ninth lap, and all ice fans who are familiar with Su Liang quickly realized that the real critical stage of this race is coming soon!

Perhaps it's not just the fans who are aware of this, but the players on the field are also aware that the final stage is coming!

The two German and Canadian competitors behind Su Liang tried to swing to the outside track again to overtake, and this time the timing of their overtaking seemed to be well chosen, Su Liang did not limit their sliding route, and even at this stage, there was about two positions between Su Liang and Kirill in front of him!

Golden opportunity!

Although the two riders on the outside track couldn't find a better chance to continue to overtake a better position, they at least overtook Su Liang in front of them, and as long as they continued to stay in this form and continue to find a chance to overtake in the final three laps, then they might ......

The beautiful imagination had only lasted less than two seconds, and out of the corner of their eyes, they saw that a figure had already flown by like lightning in the position of the outer road.

“……”

Oh shit.

Why does this guy's glide look so easy and there is not even any sound?!

Even if they already knew that this guy from the Huaguo team was an overly strong teenager, the moment they felt Su Liang easily surpass from behind them, the sense of disconnection in strength was more clearly placed in front of them.

On the 10th lap of the third group of the men's 1500m preliminaries, for Huaguo ice fans who watched this game, this race seemed to have just begun!

In the commentary room of the sports channel, Lin Fangzheng and Liao Yuwei had already put aside the doubts about the foul judgment of the previous French players and Antonio, but decisively put their eyes on Su Liang in front of them.

"The race entered the critical stage of the last three laps, and Su Liang, who had been following the slide smoothly before, began to exert his strength!"

"Just one straight road, Su Liang has returned to the fourth place, he is currently in the outer lane, it seems that he intends to force a breakthrough from the outside lane with his strength - as we all know, it is not easy to cause fouls in the outside lane, but there are also high requirements for the absolute strength of the player."

"And last season, Su Liang, who was still able to do not slow down or even speed up the corner, undoubtedly has the personal ability to forcibly surpass!"