Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 289 The Unpromising Xie Zhenye

Wu Ziyi, who won the Diamond Award, did not choose to board the plane to return to China. His competition arrangements for this year have all ended, and it is time to take a vacation.

Ali and Gong Lijiao's team boarded the flight back to China together. He was brought by Randy from the country, and then he returned to Shanghai to teach with Randy or go back to the country for vacation. Randy and the track and field center had to go through approve.

Li Wen stayed. She studied in Paris and often traveled around Europe during college. This time she can directly act as Wu Ziyi's guide.

Half an hour ago, Wen Ying sent Wu Ziyi a boarding message. Presumably, the plane has already flown to an altitude of [-] meters, and she will be able to meet her at Brussels Airport in a day. The lover who has been away for half a month will travel to Europa hand in hand.

On September 9, the Asian Games in Jakarta officially ended. The Chinese team dominated Asia with 2 golds, 134 silvers, and 94 bronzes.

Feng Shuyong, head coach of the Chinese national track and field team, said in an interview on the closing day:

"The overall level of China's track and field is still improving. Through this Asian Games, the self-confidence of the team members has also been further enhanced, laying a solid foundation for next year's Doha World Athletics Championships. In the future, we will give more play to various events With the leading role of top athletes, we will develop the weak events in our track and field team from point to area, strive for steady performance in strong events, and strive to catch up with Asia and the world level in weak events.”

After the Diamond League Brussels station, IAAF President Sebastian Coe interviewed Wu Ziyi and said:
"9 seconds 66 is undoubtedly one of the greatest times in the history of men's [-] meters. We are honored to witness the rise of a superstar after Usain Bolt. At the same time, we have also witnessed the rise of many sprinters this year. Rise, Coleman, Ronnie Baker, Sue, Lyles, myself and my fellow council members can't wait to witness this new era in Doha."

"Sir, is it true that Uzi will not come to Ostrava to participate in the Intercontinental Athletics Cup?"

On the flight from Zurich to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, Noah Lyles, who was sitting in the first-class seat of the plane, was very restless. Wallace Spiemon on where to pick up girls on vacation.

Lance Brauman picked up a cup of coffee and took a sip: "He doesn't like the level of the Intercontinental Cup in Track and Field. There are not enough top players to make him fight, and there is not enough appearance fee. He certainly won't come."

Lyles rolled his eyes, and his arms hung limply on the backrest: "Ha~ Sir, if you say that, even I have no interest in this competition."

"Hmph!" Brauman snorted softly, "Your current 9-meter level is not qualified enough to say such a thing. When will you be like Coleman and run steadily under 85 seconds at full strength? Let’s talk later. I managed to get you a place in the Intercontinental Cup’s 100-meter event. You must run hard for me this time. If you don’t win the championship, you will feel better during the winter training!”

Lyles picked out his ear casually, and said quietly: "Champion? My personal best time has already reached 9 seconds. It is still very easy to win the Intercontinental Cup, right?"

"That's not necessarily true, Noah, your strength is not stable enough." Spiemon closed the magazine in his hand, glanced at Lyles and analyzed to him:
"Your teammate of the American team is Blake. He just ran 9 seconds 94 in Brussels. Since Paris, he has basically been able to run steadily under 10 seconds under his full strength."

"There is a high probability that one of the places in the African team will fall to Sibeini. This is also a very stable player with seasoned experience."

"If Uzi doesn't come, there is a high probability that a place in the Asia-Pacific team will be given to his Chinese teammate - Su, his personal best time is 9 seconds 88 like yours, and there are also 9 seconds 89 for one shot and 9 seconds for one shot 90, is a very tough opponent."

"Wallace is right, don't underestimate your opponent." Brauman patted Lyles lightly on his head, which hadn't grown much hair yet, "It takes all your strength for a lion to fight a rabbit, let alone Your opponents are not weak, and your level is far from reaching the point where you can underestimate the world's masters!"

As Lyles' coach, although he hasn't been teaching him for too long, Lance Brauman has basically figured out the little guy's temperament.

In his eyes, Lyles is a person who is very good at performance and brave to perform. As the coach of many world famous players such as Tyson Gay and Spiemon, he will also be amazed by Lyles' talent.

Although his performance in the 100-meter event is not outstanding, as far as the 200-meter event is concerned, he is definitely capable of surpassing Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin and chasing the national record holder-Michael Johnson.

No matter how big the stage is, he can remain calm and composed. The more applause and cheers from the audience, the more he enjoys the game. This is an athlete who was born for the competitive arena.

But sometimes his temperament is too perverse, with too much extroversion and not enough restraint, Brauman also has some headaches about this.

Sometimes a smooth career path is not a good thing. Although he was defeated by Wu Ziyi this year, Brauman knew that Lyles had already been mentally prepared for that kind of failure.

What Lyles lacks now is not victory, but failure, and the person who makes him fail is preferably the athlete he despises.

Wu Ziyi has already started to take a vacation, and from time to time, he posts beautiful pictures and food photos of various places in the prestige group, but the Shenzhen Universiade Center is still not open to the public. After returning to China, Su Bingtian and Xie Zhenye went back to training without even returning home.

The Intercontinental Cup of Athletics is not well-known, and due to the restrictions of the rules, the strength gap between the players in each event will be relatively obvious.

比如亚太队目前正在商定的男子100米名单当中，除了苏炳天之外就只有桐生相秀、哈尔西跑进过10秒，而且后两者的9秒98和9秒97还都是在大风的条件下跑出来的，平常比赛里也就是10秒10~10秒20左右的水平。

Although this year's state is very good, Su Bingtian still has relatively high requirements for himself, and he really wants to draw a successful end to his 2018 season-winning the Intercontinental Cup.

Although he wanted it very much, Su Bingtian was quite reserved. He didn't want Xie Zhenye beside him, who was always talking about it from eating to training to sleeping.

"Why am I so worthless! Look at my IAAF homepage. The last time I won an individual event was the Youth Olympic Games eight years ago, 8"

Although the Intercontinental Cup has relatively low gold content and is based on a team points system, it is a "World Series" after all, the kind that can record the honor interface of IAAF athletes.

Like the Montreuil Classic and La Chaux-de-Fonds track and field competition that Xie Zhenye participated in before, the level is actually not high, but the European track and field leagues have always attracted more masters to participate, but the IAAF does not care whether you have high gold content. Even if they ran 9 seconds and 8 to win the championship, it could not be recorded in the honor panel.

So Xie Zhenye is still quite promising, eh.

(End of this chapter)