It's just one thing to watch the footage of the game, it's another thing to face such an opponent in the same arena.

When Tully sensed that an opponent on the outside was gradually overtaking, he was also caught in a dilemma - he was temporarily in the lead position, and his opponents behind him were trying to overtake him, and if he wanted to block his opponents on the outside, he would not be able to contain the overtaking of his opponents behind him.

Hesitation and opportunity are only in a moment.

After Tali Allison guessed that the opponent who was surpassing him on the outside lane should be Su Liang, he decisively gave up his defensive control of the outside lane, and instead defended his inner lane more firmly to prevent an opponent from overtaking from the inside lane.

And the facts have proved that Tully's choice is extremely correct.

Because he really felt that when entering the corner, the Chinese player on the outside road was sliding forward like the wind, and Tully even suspected that there was no resistance in the world of the Chinese team!

It's horrible!

Why is he able to glide so fast on the outside track? Is the torso of his body too low? Can such a low body posture still maintain the stability of the core? Are you still able to move your body movements smoothly?

And the realistic answer told him - it really can.

When he saw that the guy from the Hua Nation team easily overtook himself in the corner, and then cut into the inside lane in the blink of an eye to start the lead, Tully Allison gave up on overtaking the terrible devil in front of him.

- He's just an ordinary human, so don't compare himself to the Great Demon King, right?

- An ordinary human like him, there are 3 more in this arena!

- He only needs to beat the other 3 normal humans!

So, for the last lap and a half, Tully held on to his inside lane, not giving his rivals a chance to overtake.

As for his opponents behind him, they also want to try to surpass from the outside?

Aha, it's easy to say that the outer path transcends this thing, but if it's that easy, why don't others use it to win?

Is it that they don't want to?

Tully: =. = No, yes they can't.

***

This quarter-final can be said to be the most suspenseful one in the first three groups of games, and Su Liang's promotion is like a script that has been written at the beginning, so natural that no one can say anything against it.

On the side of the field, Samuel Adams, who had already successfully advanced to the first group of the quarterfinals, looked at Su Liang on the field, and said to his teammate Benjamin Williams with emotion: "Aha, Ben, you said that if we are in this group of games, can we stop Sue's outside way?" ”

Benjamin glanced at Samuel, then returned his gaze to the arena in front of him: "Perhaps, but when we block him."

Dao transcendence, he will have new tricks waiting for us. ”

"For example, when we change lanes to the outer lanes in order to block his overtaking - guess we change lanes from the outer lanes back to the inner lanes at the same time, is it our faster lane change, or is it the speed at which he changes lanes faster?"

Samuel Adams faced the question of his friend and teammate, and helplessly spread his hands: "Aha, you're right. ”

Anyway, in terms of the speed of changing lanes, maybe only Lee Jae-hyung can catch up with Su, right?

Unfortunately, Lee Jae-hyung was eliminated from their group in the quarterfinals.

"This is an opportunist who is so bold on the ice that even if we succeed in blocking one of his paths, he will have another path to choose."

Samuel sighed helplessly: "Hey, Ben, don't say that, okay?" In the old Chinese saying, you are shaking the morale of the military. ”

Benjamin Williams spread his hands: "You were the one who provoked this topic first." ”

"Ugh." Samuel Adams looked gloomy at the Great Demon King of China on the ice who was riding in the final sprint, and asked, "Isn't there a way for us to stop him?" ”

“…… Of course. ”

Benjamin also looked at the figure of the Chinese team on the field, and then smiled: "He is still too young, too young means that he is not yet physically mature, and he is still an Asian player, and his physical talent is still far from ours - this is the biggest magic weapon for us to defeat him." ”

"Hasn't it already been said? The physical exertion tactic is not completely useless, it is just that it is useless to use it against the wrong player in the preliminary stage. ”

Benjamin looked at Su Liang on the field and said calmly: "If he wants to hit the gold medal in the finals, then when facing the final opponent, it is impossible for him to continue to use this kind of late explosion in the final - when facing an opponent with a large gap in strength with him, this method can make him more physical, but when facing the final opponent, the backwardness of the future may be the fuse that causes him to not win the medal." ”

"As the only strong man in the men's 1500m, in the final, he will definitely give it his all from the start stage – this is our chance."

***

On the field, although Su Liang didn't know what people outside the court were discussing at the moment, he clearly knew that at this moment, there must be countless eyes watching him and paying attention to his every move.

But the boy on the ice didn't care, and after easily finishing first in the group, he raised his right hand and raised it into a fist to announce his victory to everyone present.

At the same time, in the short track speed skating section of the domestic Ice and Snow Kingdom Forum, someone made such a post -

Theme: [1st in the preliminaries, 1st in the quarterfinals...... Next, there are two more games, can you dream first? 】

Many ice fans who watched the live broadcast of the game while swiping posts on the forum, after seeing this post, their movements were sluggish, and then they all asked the same question as the landlord in their hearts-

Can you dream first?

From the preliminaries...... In the finals, the kind that is the first in all of them?!

Chapter 297

In China, although it is already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, in the conference room of the coaching staff of the national short track speed skating team in the winter training center, Lin Guobin and several coaches are still in the conference room, watching the live broadcast of the World Championships.

Most of the home TVs of this era are twenty or thirty inches in size,Large-size TVs are not as common as later generations in terms of production and price,The conference room of the national team uses a 37-inch imported TV,It is already the best equipment that coaches can easily watch。

However, in the conference room in the new area of the winter training center, the national team also purchased the current largest size 70-inch rear projection TV, and when the national team is officially transferred to the new area of the winter training center, the coaching staff can also be more relaxed when reviewing the game here.

Having said that, the smiles on the faces of the coaches of the national team completely relaxed after watching Su Liang's group of quarterfinals.

"Yes, yes! All three of them have successfully advanced to the semi-finals! ”

The coaches were all smiling.

In fact, generally speaking, the quarterfinals will not put too much pressure on the Huaguo team, but the group where Chu Rui is located is indeed too outrageous, so that both ice fans and coaches here in Huaguo feel a little extra nervous.

At this time, after seeing that Chu Rui, Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang were all successfully promoted, the coaches also relaxed.

However, this relaxation is also a short time to relax, after all, there will be the men's and women's semi-finals and finals in the afternoon session in the next 2 hours!

After the quarterfinals of the men's group were all over, Lin Guobin also had a smile on his face, and then said: "Eat first, eat first." ”

Previously, because they were all paying attention to the game, their coaches hadn't even eaten dinner, and now it's already this o'clock in the evening, even if it's for physical considerations, they have to pad their stomachs first.

On the way to the cafeteria with the coaches, Li Yunlong accompanied Lin Guobin and said, "I'm afraid the afternoon game will be difficult." ”

Lin Guobin smiled and patted his hands: "It's not difficult, it's good to have a harvest." ”

He deliberately put aside the medal task on the national team's back, and only talked about what players can gain.

The reason why the two said this is also because of some content seen from the morning game - in the previous quarterfinals, although the Huaguo team successfully advanced with all its members, it is not without crises behind this full promotion.

It's like Chu Rui.

After all, he is a 500-meter sprinter, he has strong explosiveness and short-distance speed ability, but in terms of speed and endurance quality, he is lacking.

In fact, it can also be seen from the quarter-finals that his lead is very advantageous in the future, when he is ahead, his opponent is almost difficult to pass his edge, but after the end of Chu Rui's best stage, in the next schedule, Chu Rui's pressure and his threat are visibly enhanced.

He was able to maintain his lead position at that stage, mainly because Samuel Adams and Harrick Blasi didn't want to affect the overall tempo in the middle of the goal, but also to avoid irritating the opponents behind them and causing a series of overtakes and extra energy, as well as the impact of Germany's Marcus Grave's underdogship.

If it weren't for these, Chu Rui's early accumulation of advantages might have been exhausted in the game.

But even so, in the later stage, Chu Rui's state was basically pushed by the opponent in the rear.

It wasn't until the final scuffle that he finally built up a bit of fitness, which allowed him to be lucky enough to finish third in the group.

What Lin Guobin and Li Yunlong didn't say was that in the quarterfinals, Chu Rui consumed too much physical energy, even if the masseur in the team adjusted his muscle state for him, but his best game today also broke out in advance in this quarter-finals.

For athletes, the term 'competitive state' can be described as mysterious.

Some players originally had average results, but they were able to snatch medals from some famous players when they were in excellent condition - and it is precisely because of this that fans of competitive sports have already learned not to look at the overall strength of players from a simple one or two games.

For example, when the coaches of the national teams do training and game planning for the top players, they often make corresponding adjustments to the training and competitions of the players in different cycles according to the importance of the competition each year, so that the players can have a better performance in the competition.

This is also the reason why some people were worried when Su Liang temporarily announced his withdrawal from the World Junior Championships and hit the World Championships.

Now, although they are watching the game remotely through TV, Lin Guobin and Li Yunlong have seen the possible problems of Chu Rui from the live broadcast of the game.

At this moment, Lin Guobin's mobile phone rang, and when he picked it up, it was Pei Jingbo's transoceanic call.

"Director Lin."

Lin Guobin listened to Pei Jing's voice on the other end of the phone, and asked directly, "How is Chu Rui's state?" ”

Pei Jing smiled helplessly: "I really can't hide it from you." ”

After a pause, the other end of the phone said: "The game here has just ended, I went to the lounge to take a look, Xiao Chu said it's okay, it's okay to relax at this time, but I see that he himself feels it - the quarterfinals have just ended at this time, and now I'm relaxed, and it's difficult to continue in the afternoon." ”

Pei Jing is talking about a very real question, such as some top athletes, why do they release water in the preliminaries and quarterfinals? Is it because they look down on their opponents and do not respect them?

Of course not.

Top athletes are also ordinary people, as long as they are human, there will be ups and downs, just as it may take a few months for an early athlete to adjust their best form of the year to the most important major cycle, in the major cycle, they will not be able to stay in the best condition for a long time.

It's like we can often put all our mind and effort into something, whether it's watching anime or doing crafts - when you put your mind and soul into it, it's the best time, and when you successfully complete your goal, what follows is the so-called 'Sage Time Gate', you will feel that everything is boring, and it will be difficult to find content that interests you in a short period of time.

The same is true for athletes.

Of course, there is no problem for them to devote themselves to the World Championships, but the competition is also prioritized, if the best form has been consumed in advance in the preliminaries and quarter-finals, then it will be difficult to stimulate themselves to get a better performance in the subsequent games.

Just like Chu Rui's recent quarter-finals, he successfully advanced from the group of death, and for him, he also experienced the 1500m event like the 1500m final.

He even broke through himself in that race, had a better performance, and also opened a new direction for his subsequent 1500m strength.

The investment in this state and this kind of harvest are enough to bring Chu Rui a sense of satisfaction in the harvest.

In this case, even if he knows that the semi-finals in the afternoon are more important than the quarter-finals, but there is a saying that 'the brain knows, but the body does not know', reason can tell Chu Rui that the semi-finals in the afternoon are more important, but for him, the semi-finals in the afternoon, the stimulation is no longer enough, so it is bound to be difficult for him to play to the peak state of the morning in the afternoon game.

Lin Guobin and they can all understand this situation, but they inevitably feel some pity in their hearts.

Pei Jing made this call, and he also communicated with Lin Guobin in advance - in the semifinals in the afternoon, Chu Rui may not be easy to advance.

Of course, in fact, he also wanted to discuss a way with Lin Guobin to see if there could be any additional ways to motivate the players, but for this situation, Lin Guobin also shook his head helplessly.

"Lao Pei, you are also a senior coach, we have all encountered this situation before, we can only rely on the players themselves to adjust, from the coach's point of view, whether you are appeased or scolded, it is not appropriate."

On the other end of the phone, of course Pei Jing also knew this truth, he could only smile bitterly and sigh: "Alas." ”

Lin Guobin is right, this is the semi-finals, Chu Rui is a player who knows the truth himself, when he went to see Chu Rui before, what Chu Rui said was actually comforting him.

Pei Jing can see that Chu Rui is also trying to mobilize his emotional state with his years of competition experience, but he can't see too many results for the time being.

At this point, he can only play well on the sidelines, don't put too much pressure on the players, and try to encourage them to play their best.

As for Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang, the brothers.