Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 305 Before the Competition
The sun is scorching. Although it is the end of September, the summer in Qatar is far from over. At present, the local daytime temperature in Doha is still close to 9 degrees Celsius.While competing with each other on the sports field, athletes have to "confront" the hot local weather. In order to avoid the hot day, many athletes choose to start training in the evening.

Doha is located at 25.26° north latitude, 51.56° east longitude, and its longitude and latitude is located in the northern hemisphere—the eastern hemisphere, which belongs to the low latitude zone. The daylight time at the end of September is about 9:05-25:17, so athletes usually don’t leave the air-conditioned hotel/indoor training room until after 25:17 in the afternoon to go to the outdoor track and field for training.

The Chinese men's relay team has been training in Europe before and arrived in Doha on the 24th, so the current team does not need much training, the most important thing is to adapt to the venue.

On September 9th, the second day after Wu Ziyi arrived in Doha, the coaches led the team to the main venue - the Khalifa Stadium.

The Khalifa Stadium, which hosts the World Championships, can accommodate 4.8 spectators. It is the main venue for the 2006 Asian Games and the 2019 Asian Championships and will also be one of the venues for the 2022 Qatar Football World Cup.

The temperature in Doha is above 30 degrees Celsius all year round. It is not surprising that even extreme weather of 40 degrees Celsius occurs in the hot summer. The hot climate makes it very difficult to do outdoor sports here.

In the past few days, in view of the high temperature and high humidity in Doha, the outdoor air-conditioning system equipped at the Khalifa Stadium has been activated. 500 air outlets can keep the temperature inside the stadium at around 23 to 25 degrees Celsius, which is very suitable for most track and field events temperature.

At the same time, the Organizing Committee of the Doha World Athletics Championships has also specially arranged special time and routes for road running events. Off-site events including marathon and race walking will be held at night in local time to avoid the high temperature brought by the sun , The competition route planning also uses more coastal and tunnel roads.

Of course, to participate in night events, athletes need to adjust their habits and status in time, which also increases the difficulty of the game.After Chinese race walkers came to Doha, they insisted on training every day at 11 o'clock in the evening. Such an experience is really special.No matter what method is used to "cool down", the weather factor is an important issue for athletes to face in this World Championships.

What Wu Ziyi is most interested in about the Khalifa Stadium is its high-tech contestant introduction. During the introduction of the track finals, each contestant's profile picture and name will be projected on the runway of the stadium. The lights are dazzling and dizzying.

There are many athletes in the stadium who are undergoing adaptive training. Soon after Wu Ziyi and others entered the field, they felt the eyes from all around, which shows how much they are valued.

Wu Ziyi and others each took out their own starting blocks for starting practice. Before the practice, they still warmed up for about an hour to reduce the risk of strain.

The footsteps sounded, and Wu Ziyi did not only practice starting like Su Bingtian and the others, but started a set of progressive acceleration running from 10% pace (easter eggs).

During the warm-up and practice period, athletes from other countries kept coming to say hello. Blake was the first to come. He has a good relationship with Wu Ziyi, and the two often interact on the extranet.This year he opened a [Johan Blake Rehabilitation and Health Center] in Jamaica. Wu Ziyi also sent the staff of Jingfeng Club to study for a while, so the two upgraded to a partnership.

[Brother Knife] Degrasse is also here. He and Xu Zhou are training partners, and they are also relatively close to Wu Ziyi, so they chatted happily.

"It's still hot with the air vents on. Is Qatar's technology not good enough?"

After the adaptation training, everyone sat in a row on the sidelines, holding various "fans" in their hands to fan the wind. The paper used for posters, brochures, and competition materials, although their upper bodies were shirtless and their hands kept fanning It was still hot, and Xie Zhenye started to complain.

Li Wen, Zhu Zhiwei and others brought mineral water to the team members. Wu Ziyi picked up a bottle and unscrewed it, drank a third of it slowly, and then poured the water directly over his head.

"Just now I went to look at those air outlets, and they haven't all been opened, maybe only a quarter of them." After putting most of the bottle of water under the forest, Wu Ziyi felt that the heat had dissipated a bit, and replied, "After all, there is another place in the stadium now." There is no audience, and if you drive too much, you will lose a lot of money."

Xie Zhenye also took the water and poured it into his mouth, "Gulu Gulu Gulu. Pfft, isn't Qatar a local tyrant, and still care about losing money?"

"Who's money doesn't come from the strong wind," Su Bingtian said, "We have been here for almost two hours, and we haven't even seen the shadow of the Moldy Country team."

Wu Ziyi's news is the most informative: "They arrived several days earlier than us, and they rented a special venue for training, I heard."

"What did you hear?" the team members asked in unison.

"I heard that their training effect is very good!" It was not Wu Ziyi who answered them, but Randy, "Yesterday, a reporter from NBC went to interview them, and their head coach Orin Richberg told the reporter——[The Moldy Country Team Will win four relay gold medals!]”

The team members looked at each other after hearing this. Of course, the Mold Country team had boasted too much, and the number of slaps in the face was too many to count, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it.

There are only four track and field relay events in the World Championships and the Olympic Games, men's/women's 4×100 meters, men's/women's 4×400 meters. Strong, and the chance of mistakes in the 400-meter relay is very small, even if there are some small mistakes, there is a chance to make up for them.

But the 100m relay.
"Isn't this a little exaggerated? To win the relay gold medal? Their men's team has lost to us many times, and the women's team should be the strongest now, right? The coach answered like this, isn't he afraid of being slapped in the face?"

Xie Zhenye scoffed. The 2015 Yenching World Championships, the 2016 Rio Olympics, the 2017 Bahamas World Relay Race, and the 2017 London World Championships all lost to the Chinese team. This does not include the Diamond League.The only victory of the Mold Country Relay Team against the Chinese team this year is this year's Yokohama World Relay Race, but that was also lost without Wu Ziyi playing. If the Chinese team played with all the main players, Xie Zhenye believes that the victory will still belong to the Chinese team.

"Pa——" Xie Zhenye's head was slapped unexpectedly, and seeing that it was Wu Ziyi who moved his hand, he had to say aggrievedly: "What are you doing—QAQ"

Wu Ziyi turned his palms into claws, and grabbed Xie Zhenye's head twice. The sweat in his hand was caught, and he washed it away with water in disgust.

"Before we were able to win, in addition to our own strength growing, it was also because they kept making mistakes and the level of mutual understanding between them was insufficient. However, the media in the bad country reported Coleman, Gatlin, Gillespie and Belcher, After the U.S. Championships, they have been training together. Although Rodgers and Lyles have trained less, their paper strength is indeed better than ours. We must not be arrogant!"

Wu Ziyi took out his mobile phone while talking, opened the official website of the IAAF, and found out the match data of Mike Rogers.

"Although Rodgers did not participate in too much training, he also ran the 7-gun relay before the World Championships and has rich experience. According to his game data and my personal analysis, he should shoulder the burden with Gatlin and be responsible Handle the middle bats. Then allow Coleman and Lyles, the two least-experienced players, to focus on only one handoff of bats 1 and 4."

"Very good analysis! From what I know, their club times are indeed arranged in this way." Randy patted Wu Ziyi's shoulder in relief, and asked softly: "So according to this analysis, do you think this combination What kind of results can you run?"

Wu Ziyi looked up, and the players and the coaching staff were all looking at him. He said his "guess" with a solemn expression: "Based on their personal strength and reasonable batting arrangement, I think this lineup can Run within 37 seconds, if the cooperation is perfect, their upper limit should be within .30 seconds!"

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