The so-called restraint mainly refers to the fact that in this 1500-meter semi-final, the starting speed of the competitors is about the same, and no competitors choose to stretch the speed of their opponents significantly in the early stage.

This is a relatively rare situation in this year's World Championships, whether it is the men's event in the morning or the semi-finals of the previous women's group, in most cases, there are players who start to race all the way in the starting stage, so that the audience is ready for this opening and players are crazy to speed up, and the opening of this group of semifinals is actually a harmonious start.

For example, South Korea's Lee Jung-tae is good at acceleration, but even Canada's Benjamin Williams didn't turn on his bulldozer mode, he just briefly increased the speed during the start-up phase, and after taking the lead position, he stopped speeding up, but controlled the speed to a relatively gentle rhythm.

"Why is that?"

After Liao Yuwei introduced the situation on the field at the moment, she smiled and handed the topic to Lin Fangzheng.

Lin Fangzheng shook his head with a smile when he heard this question: "Teacher Liao, this is lazy let me introduce - in fact, through the previous competition, I believe that many viewers can see that the physical consumption of the leading skating for the players is very large, not to mention the Russian player Yulia in the first group of the women's 1500m semifinals, this is actually a very powerful player, but she overestimated her physical fitness and lowered her opponent, so after continuous high-intensity confrontation with Sharna, coupled with her long-term consumption of leading the skating, By the final third of the race, she was no longer fit enough to sustain her lead. ”

"That's why we've always said that it's a very dangerous strategy to keep the lead the whole time, and unless you are sure that you can absolutely suppress your opponent and control the back line to avoid your opponent's overtaking, your early physical exertion is likely to be a useless exercise, or even help your opponent save energy."

"Normally, unless you have teammates on the field who can alternate with you, you should avoid exerting too much energy ahead of you."

Lin Fangzheng explained slowly, and what he and Liao Yuwei didn't say was that when Benjamin Williams had a strong opponent who was good at the back, his instinct as a bulldozer had to be restrained.

After all, in the past competitions, the same bulldozer players have not tried not to refrain from restraint......

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What the result is, you know.

***

On the ice, at this time, the competition was only in the third lap, and the atmosphere between the players was very harmonious, like Su Liang, he quietly followed behind the Japanese team's Naomoto Ueki, temporarily keeping his position in third place, without any intention of surpassing at all.

Behind Su Liang are Sweden's Tully Allison, South Korea's Lee Jung-tae and the Polish unlucky guy.

Needless to say, as a South Korean 1500m runner, it is a common habit of South Korean athletes to exert power in the back, and he is in fifth place at this time, which is not because he does not have the ability to occupy a better position, but because he is used to it.

As for the Polish player in sixth place, the elimination group reserve is not casually said, the Polish player has not tried to struggle, perhaps considering that he is more hopeless in the middle and later stages, so the Polish player wanted to take a wave of bulldozer strategy in the starting stage, but he did not choose the timing of the start, and when he wanted to start in the outermost lane, he always found that there was an opponent who put on the outside lane to adjust the position.

In addition, in front of him was a player of the level of Da Li Zhengtai, so that he tried to speed up and surpass several times without success, and finally could only fall last without embarrassment.

In the words of Lin Fangzheng and Liao Yuwei, it is the player who lacks the vision and courage to seize the moment.

As for Tully Allison, who is also a reserve in the elimination group, although he is only in the fourth place for the time being, he has no extra mind to observe and think about anything else at this time, and all his attention is on Su Liang in front of him.

After all, it is not easy to keep up with Su Liang throughout the whole process.

But...... At least in the future, it seems to be easier than he thought?

Tully Allison's brain capacity at this time didn't allow him to think about more questions, he just followed closely behind Su Liang, constantly reading Su Liang's rhythm - just like now!

Su Liang is entering the bend at a small angle, and his body is rapidly leaning towards the inside corner - this is a very beautiful transcendence!

Tully Allison's brain seemed to split into two selves, one was narrating without emotion, and the other didn't know anything at all, only to follow Su Liang's movements in front of him.

So in the exclamation of the audience, he also made a very beautiful small angle overtake...... And it worked!

Olivier Danielsson, the head coach of the Swedish team on the sidelines, almost jumped up from the spot at this moment: "Tully! Attaboy! ”

It was a great moment that Tulli Allison had never had in a previous game, and it was so exciting to have such a clean inside pass!

After all, the scene is Sweden's home stadium, and although the Swedish audience at the scene has already accepted the possibility that the players of their national team may not be able to advance to the finals, they can't help cheering when they see the players of their national team have such a wonderful performance.

Olivier originally thought that it would be an impossible task for Tully to keep up with Su Liang's rhythm throughout the whole process, but this clean double overtake just now was a shot in the arm for Olivier.

Perhaps...... Is it really possible for Tully to do miracles?

Naomoto Ueki of the Japanese team expected that he might be surpassed by Su Liang, but what he didn't expect was that there would be more than one Su Liang who surpassed him.

After being surpassed by Su Liang and Tully in a row, Naomoto Ueshu was a little confused - what is the situation?

However, the superfluous thoughts did not linger too much in Naomoto's mind, and although he had just entered the fifth lap, although he was overtaken in a row, it did not mean that he had given up his hopes of racing and qualifying, and he began to swing on the outside lane to try to find an opportunity to cut forward, but the short observation made him feel even more confused.

What's going on with this Swedish player?

Is he some replicant of Su Liang?

How was he able to get to such an extent with his clinging tactics??

Although based on the difference in personal skills, Tully Allison could not reproduce Su Liang's movements and postures 100%, but his eyes followed Su Liang to the death, almost 90% of the time to reproduce Su Liang's rhythm.

It was with this degree of reproduction that Tully Allison was able to transcend the inner path when Su Liang saw the right time, and he also came to a beautiful inner path transcendence.

If Su Liang were to be asked to explain the situation, Su Liang would probably only say that what Tully lacked was not technology, but consciousness.

Short track speed skaters generally lack sufficient tactical awareness on the ice, which is understandable, just like when you can drive a very fast speed when you are driving alone, but when there are different opponents or unfamiliar obstacles on the track, you can't find a safe and suitable time to overtake.

When it comes to short track speed skating, it's rare to find that you're physically and technically professional, and even fewer are on the ice with a keen tactical sense under the top professional level physical hardware.

As one of the two main players in the Swedish team, Tully Allison's basic strength is undoubted, and what he lacks is the ability to observe and control the timing of the game.

In today's game, he simply gave up everything else, and only regarded himself as the shadow behind Su Liang, this choice happened to avoid his own weaknesses, so it also achieved completely unexpected results.

"It seems that Tully Allison is planning to follow up on Su Liang in this game."

At this point, many people also saw Tully Allison's plan.

It's just that the vast majority of people still think that this is an unwise approach, after all, there are only two final promotion places in this game - who can guarantee that Su Liang will definitely be able to advance to the finals in the first group, and you Tali Allison can follow Su Liang to the second place in the group in the end?

In the audience, the audience had different ideas and discussions, and as for the ice, Benjamin Williams in front of Su Liang at this time had not noticed Tully Allison who was following behind Su Liang for the time being.

At this time, Benjamin Williams only knew that Su Liang had come behind him, but the player of the Chinese team obviously did not have the intention of surpassing him to the front of the leading sliding, so Benjamin Williams could only continue to maintain his leading position and consume his physical energy to 'shield Su Liang from the wind and rain' behind him.

At this stage, when Su Liang does not plan to overtake him for the time being, his opponents are only big Lee Zhengtai from the rear and Japan's Naomoto Ueki.

At this time, at the moment when the race had entered the eighth lap, the big Li Zhengtai, who was originally in fifth place, had already started to speed up, first easily overtaking Japan's Naomoto Ueki from the outside road, and then in the plan of the big Li Zhengtai, he should have surpassed the Swedish player Tali Allison in front of him - but hell, I don't know why, this guy from the Swedish team is like the shadow of Su Liang of the Huaguo team, and he is closely attached to that Su Liang, so that he can't find the slightest chance to surpass!

What the hell is this!

Because of the failure of two consecutive attempts to surpass Tully Allison, this made Da Li Zhengtai's mood gradually become a little irritable.

Originally, for Su Liang, a talented player of the Huaguo team, Da Li Zhengtai has never had a good impression.

After all, no one would have a good impression of an opponent who cheated into fouling and eliminated them in the same game for the first time, right?

In that World Cup sub-tournament in Beijing, Da Li Zhengtai played almost a pure clown, under the inducement of Su Liang, the foul offense was clear, and directly sent a beautiful promotion place to Su Liang, who was originally the third in the group at that time.

As one of the athletes standing at the top of the South Korean men's 1500m, Lee Jung-tae did not allow himself to forget such humiliation.

Unlike Lee Jae-hyung, who disdains to use some 'necessary techniques', Lee Jung-tae doesn't mind using some 'technical' 'technical moves' in a sufficiently concealed situation.

Therefore, in Da Li Zhengtai's original plan, when he is close enough to Su Liang, he can quietly increase his swinging arm movements, and through some sufficiently concealed 'technical movements', he will return the losses he suffered to the genius of the Huaguo team.

But what is hell at this moment, the Swedish player who is close behind the little ghost of the Chinese team makes him completely unable to achieve the first step of the plan of 'getting close to Su Liang'!

How is this possible?!

This Swedish Tully Allison is just an ordinary first-class player, and he may be strong for ordinary people, but for him, this guy from the Swedish team has never been regarded as an opponent by Da Li Zhengtai!

But what is happening in front of us is a fact.

Big Li Zhengtai couldn't believe the situation at this moment, and after he barely allowed himself to calm down and analyze, he soon found that the Swedish guy in front of him was indeed constantly blocking his every overtaking route.

Hell, how can this Swedish guy have such a sense of control?!

When this thought popped up in Da Li Zhengtai's mind, he quickly understood - it was not this guy from the Swedish team who had control awareness, it was the guy in front of Tully Allison who had control line awareness!

It's Su Liang!

This outrageous guy from the Huaguo team once again used the control method of a miraculous marionette to manipulate the guy behind him to constantly change the route and rhythm, becoming a natural barrier behind him!

This kind of ability to control the opponent behind him is not the first time Su Liang has shown, the last such victim is still sitting in the preparation area at this time, but this time Tully Allison and Harrick Blasi are still different - the specific difference is reflected in the fact that Tully Allison took the initiative to become this puppet, more obedient and better.

When he realized this, Da Li Zhengtai almost wanted to swear on the spot.

This despicable and shameless Chinese!

Doesn't this guy from the Swedish team have a little bit of self-esteem? Isn't it fun to be a puppet like that?!

If Tully Allison could hear Big Lee Zhengtai's question at this time, he would definitely answer happily - [That's so interesting! 】

In fact, at this time, Tully Allison didn't know what kind of great achievements he had done under Su Liang's 'control', he only knew that in this game, the tactic of 'sticking to Su Liang' was much better than he expected.

As the time of following skating increased little by little, his following skating became more and more experienced and handy.

As for the outside of the arena at this time......

Olivier, the head coach of the Swedish team, had already understood what Su Liang meant...... This terrible genius of the Chinese national team basically treats Tully, a silly boy, as a useful tool man, and uses it fluently!

Olivier thought that if he was the big Lee Zhengtai behind Tully at this time, he might have been so angry that he wanted to tear Tully apart.

But this kind of exploitation is a good thing for Tully.

After all, with Tully's own ability, it is impossible to surpass as well as the previous wonderful overtake of Naomoto Ueki, let alone maintain the top three in the second half of the race.

So......

Olivier thought of Tully's silly boy's determined face during the midday break, and then looked at the ice that made perfect use of Tully's Su Liang - so they were also a beautiful two-way run, right?

***

The race on the ice was now in lap 10, and although the speed was always controlled, Benjamin Williams was still very physically exhausted because he was always leading the skate.

Benjamin had no idea that there would be no one to compete with him for the lead position throughout the race.

Oh, what an outrageous story?!

He led the whole time and didn't pull up the speed, but no one tried to take his lead position?

But although no one competed for his leading position, there were still alternations between the skaters behind him, from the earliest straight tree planting and then fixed to the current Huaguo team Su Liang.

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Truth be told, if he can lead the whole way to the end, then it doesn't matter if he's tired now, he can.

But when the skater behind him was Su Liang of the Huaguo team, he inexplicably had a sad intuition that he was just a leading sliding tool, and when the time came, he would give up the first position to others.

But despite this thought in his heart, Benjamin Williams gritted his teeth and threw such thoughts out of his mind and began to sprint into the final three laps.

It was also at this same moment that Li Zhengtai, who was tortured by Su Liang's puppet control line and lost his patience, also went directly to the outer road, which also kicked off the sprint.

When the battle of the last three laps began, even Naomoto Ueki in fifth place began to try to sprint, and Su Liang naturally quickly increased his sliding speed in front of everyone's attention.

In the blink of an eye, Benjamin Williams, who had already felt that there was no one to compete with him for the lead position, was the first to be challenged, after all, he had already led the full 10 laps before the final sprint, which made his final acceleration look a little weak.

And Su Liang, who followed the skating all the way, was not only originally a latecomer, but his slender body and low center of gravity skating also doomed him to less resistance and lower physical consumption on the ice.

This, combined with Su's natural sense of ice, allows him to use every skating step more efficiently, so when he starts to pick up speed in the back, it's almost unstoppable by Benjamin Williams.

But Benjamin originally thought that only Su Liang could surpass himself like this, but he didn't expect that after Su Liang completed the transcendence of him from the outer way, there was another figure that also surpassed him.

Is it Tully Allison of the Swedish team?!