Following in Bolt's footsteps

Chapter 306 Courage
"Don't be afraid, don't worry, just like the trials, show your courage and move forward!"

In the waiting room of Khalifa Stadium, Wu Ziyi patted Cheng Guanfeng on the shoulder for his final pre-match encouragement.

It is now September 9th, at 27:18 Doha time, and the staff are already waiting for the men’s 100m first group runners at the entrance of the waiting room. They need to line up to enter the stadium now, and the competition must start at 18:05.

Wu Ziyi came very early, his group was the fifth group, and the players in the same group were still preparing for the final warm-up on the warm-up field, but in order to cheer Cheng Guanfeng, he came to the waiting room ahead of time.

"Cheng Guanfeng, Cheng Guanfeng from China—please take your seat!" The staff member read Cheng Guanfeng's name, and Cheng Guanfeng said solemnly: "Brother, I will definitely enter the semi-finals!" Then he turned and walked towards the gate of the waiting room .

"Cheng Guanfeng? Alright, please come behind Akani Sibini, your path is the seventh."

The players in the first group set off, Cheng Guanfeng disappeared from Wu Ziyi's field of vision, and then Wu Zhiqiang and Su Bingtian also entered the waiting room one after another.

"Ah Feng has gone out?"

"Yeah, I hope he can maintain a good attitude and run beyond his own level." Wu Ziyi picked up the clothes scattered on the seat and offered a seat to Su Bingtian.

Wu Zhiqiang moved a chair from the side, and together with Su Bingtian sandwiched Wu Ziyi, "He has a very good mentality, he can run this score at a young age, maybe there will be a big explosion, and he can directly run within 10 seconds ?”

"How is it possible? That's too exaggerated!" Wu Ziyi waved his hand, "His strength is actually not as strong as yours, but your future is too bad. If you can do a good job in the start-up connection and short-distance acceleration, with your Running ability on the way, if you run below 10 seconds, it is stable."

Su Bingtian put on a thin warm clothing on his body, and turned on the air conditioner in the waiting room, which was much lower than the temperature in the warm-up area. In order to ensure that the muscles do not cool down in advance, necessary warmth must be done.

"When I mentioned Ah Feng, I thought of seeing you for the first time in 14. At that time, you were not even 18 years old, but in fact your strength was approaching me and Zhang Peimeng, but your skills were still relatively rough." Su Bingtian suddenly felt the past, and Wu Ziyi also Leaning leisurely on the seat and listening to his chatter.

"Sure enough, you broke out in the second year. During the winter training, you swore to me that I would be able to run under 10 seconds. At that time, I really didn't believe it. Then you did it. That's when I really Believe—it turns out that we yellow people and Chinese people can really run under 10 seconds, and we can really break the [ethnic theory] of those so-called experts.”

"Now you have run to 9 seconds 7, 9 seconds 6, and there are Lao Xie, A Qiang, Jin Sen, Xu Zhouzheng, and a strong rookie like A Feng, the Chinese team will not need me in the future, even if I run After retiring from the World Championships, I believe that one of you can also be very good."

"Brother Tian!" Wu Ziyi interrupted Su Bingtian, but he was not excited. He just looked straight at the ceiling and said softly: "9 seconds 88, is your limit? We have already won a gold medal in the world championship relay, A silver medal, and an Olympic relay silver medal, don't you want to win the gold medal in Dongjing with me?"

"Also, don't you want to have your own separate Olympic medal?"

In the Khalifa Stadium, Yang Jian is sitting in the commentary booth to give real-time commentary to the domestic audience. Next to him is Zhang Peimeng, the former "big meter brother" in China.

Yang Jian: "The men's [-]-meter preliminaries are definitely more competitive than the previous qualifying rounds, and the pressure Cheng Guanfeng felt must be greater than Wu Zhiqiang's previous shot."

Zhang Peimeng: "Yes, the opponents in this group are indeed very strong."

Yang Jian: "That's right, Cheng Guanfeng's pass is on the 8th track, and the third track in this group is the Canadian player Aaron Brown, who ran 3 seconds this season. The most interesting thing is the 9th track." The South African star Sibini has a PB of 96 seconds and a season best of 6 seconds. The top three in the group can directly advance to the semi-finals, and there will be 9 substitute places after that. I hope Cheng Guanfeng can adjust his mentality to make this one The gun played well”

Cheng Guanfeng finally realized what a "World Series" is. Although he participated in the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina last year, the influence of the Youth Olympic Games is definitely not comparable to that of the World Athletics Championships. Moreover, Argentina, a South American country, does not like many track and field. They prefer football, so there are very few Argentine spectators who come to watch the game.

Now, the Khalifa Stadium has gathered more than [-] spectators. Spectators of all skin colors and national flags of various colors have gathered here to watch the biennial track and field feast, and the noise is soaring.

It is impossible to say that he is not nervous, but Cheng Guanfeng's inner tension does not come from the audience or the title of "World Championships", but from the expectations of the Chinese people for him.

Although Wu Ziyi is at his peak, Cheng Guanfeng has already been dubbed the title of "Wu Ziyi's successor" early on. He is also the champion of the Youth Olympic Games. At the age of 19, he broke into the World Championships with a PB of 10 seconds. This is both an honor and a burden.

Cheng Guanfeng knew that he and his elder brother Wu Ziyi were two types of people.

His eldest brother Wu Ziyi will always remain confident and calm during competitions. He knows his abilities clearly and can display them extremely stably. During training, he will always keep thinking and keep learning with the heart of pursuing the limit. Constantly improve their own technology and ideas.

Cheng Guanfeng didn't have any of these, but he had his own magic weapon - courage!
The time passed by one minute and one second, and the on-site host began to talk to the eight players on the field one by one. The camera stayed in front of Cheng Guanfeng for less than two seconds. After waiting for a few seconds, the starter's voice came from the speaker in front of the players. instruction:

“On your marks~”

Stepping on the starting block with both feet, no matter what thoughts are in his mind, his body will run on the track following the muscle memory formed after the gunshots. Cheng Guanfeng believes in his body!

"Set—"

"boom--!"

Yang Jian: "The gun was fired, Cheng Guanfeng started well, and the acceleration of the future was very good!"

Chen Guanfeng is a somewhat strange player. With a height of 179 cm, he has 44 steps per 44 meters. Generally speaking, players with ≤[-] steps per [-] meters are stride players, and such players are usually better at the back.

Wu Ziyi did not train him to be a late-game player, nor did he overly focus his energy on the future, but under the premise of Cheng Guanfeng's own pursuit of strides, he tried his best to ensure the acceleration ability of the front and the maintenance of the back. ability.

balanced type.

Cheng Guanfeng is ready. He is very glad that his course is the 8th course. The two opponents beside him are Belcher from the United States and Tamil Burnett from the Netherlands.

Although the PB of the former is higher than him, most of the good results are Gale, and the actual strength is very close to him.The latter is a 200-meter special athlete, and his PB is not as good as his own. The 10-meter performance basically hovers around 2 seconds 10 to 4 seconds [-].

Such an opponent is of great reference value. Cheng Guanfeng knows that he does not have the capital to refer to Sibini, because the strength gap is too large, and these two opponents are his best references in running.

Ten meters, 20 meters, 30 meters
Cheng Guanfeng was half a body ahead of Belcher and Burnett by virtue of his future acceleration ability. When he looked up and entered the mid-running stage, he saw Sibini who suddenly accelerated in the corner of his vision. Opening up the gap surprised Cheng Guanfeng.

"Don't be afraid of any difficulties you encounter. Face it with a smile. The best way to eliminate fear is to face fear. Courage is strength!"

Your opponents are not at the front, but at your side, defeating them, at least you have a chance to participate in replacements!

"Entering the acceleration stage of running on the way, oh--Sibney is too fast, and he rushed out at once, Cheng Guanfeng must be steady, don't be led into a mess!"

"In the last 30 meters, Cheng Guanfeng held on. With a chance, Sibini still won the first place in the group in the final pressure line, 10 seconds 01, Cheng Guanfeng"

Yang Jian was a little uncertain about Cheng Guanfeng's number one, so he turned to look at Zhang Peimeng.

Zhang Peimeng: "It still depends on the results given by the referee. Cheng Guanfeng and Burnett next to him are too close, so it is very difficult to judge."

Off the field, Cheng Guanfeng was also anxiously waiting for his results. The referee team was still very fast. Sibney's 10 was quickly refreshed on the big screen, followed by No.01—Aaron Brown, 2 seconds 10
3 Tamil Burnett 10.21
4 Cheng Guanfeng 10.22
5 Augie Idoberon 10.23
"Cheng Guanfeng is fourth, fourth in the group, 10 seconds 22, six substitute places, there is still a chance!"

10秒22（-0.3m/s），没能直接晋级半决赛，而且成绩离自己之前跑出的10秒06与10秒14相差有些大，但程冠峰并不气馁，因为他知道自己的能力还不足以保证自己每一枪都能跑进10秒20的关卡。

10 seconds is actually his very real level. It is the first time to participate in a competition like the World Championships. It is commendable to be able to overcome the tension and fear in your heart with courage. Even if you cannot enter the semi-finals, this will be a A valuable wealth of experience.

(End of this chapter)