Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 96 Your life is much more than this
  Beihai, Guangxi, is 2200 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

Hepu County, Xichang Town, Gemaoshan Village.

Before dusk arrives, smoke rises from the mountain villages.

It seems that dinner for rural people always comes earlier than in the city. In fact, it is just because it is their second meal of the day.

"Shan Lin! Our brothers are here. Are the dishes ready?"

"Oh? It's a bird, a toad (frog), and an eel. You spent a lot of money on this meal!"

At Mo Shanlin's house, a few friends who were close friends and played well together said hello and entered the kitchen. After seeing the dishes prepared by Mo Shanlin, they all looked happy.

"I specially called you here, can you do something good? Not only are there meat, vegetables, but also wine." Mo Shanlin filled a bowl of spicy fried eel and immediately greeted: "Bring the dishes to the main room , wait for me to get the wine!"

"Hey! What the hell are you doing?" At the door of the kitchen, a middle-aged man patted the "briefcase" he carried with him. There was half a pot of light yellow liquid swaying in it.

"I'm afraid that's not the wine." Mo Shanlin's mouth twitched, but he soon laughed out loud: "Just drink it, why am I afraid of you? After all, I drink it in my own home, so I'm afraid of you. I couldn’t go home, so I spent the night in the ditch!”

A few people chatted and laughed and came to the main room.

Mo Shanlin did not move his chopsticks in a hurry, but turned the TV on to CCTV.

"Eh? What sports channel are you watching? Look at the disc I gave you two days ago. It's an American Hollywood blockbuster. It's very exciting!"

The dog friend said and started to open the DVD, but Mo Shanlin directly stopped him.

"We'll watch that later. Let's finish watching this game first."

Mo Shanlin looked at the picture on the TV carefully and saw that the familiar name was not on the results of the first group, so he reminded: "Please wait and watch carefully, maybe there will be a surprise."

The friends who are friends are a little uninterested in sports competitions and so on. In the past two years, the Japanese and Korean World Cup national football teams failed in the group stage, so they only occasionally looked at Yao and Liu Xiang.

"It's not Liu Xiang in the 100-meter semi-finals, so what's there to watch?"

"Don't worry, it's coming soon. Hey, look, look!"

The friends looked up and saw at a glance the young man who was slightly short and not very muscular appearing on the TV screen.

"Is this or not that?"

"Lao Jiang's second son! Didn't you say he went to Beihai to study? Why did he suddenly appear on TV?"

"You're stupid! He was chosen by the teacher from the vocational high school to go to Beihai to practice sprinting. Now that he's on TV, it means he's good at it!"

"Stop talking! Watch the game!"

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2200 kilometers away, Shijiazhuang Yutong International Sports Center.

On the runway, facing the CCTV live footage, Lao Yi felt nervous for no reason.

This is not his first time participating in a competition, but it is his first time participating in such a major event that is broadcast live nationwide.

When it comes to the semi-finals, the competitive pressure is far more intense than in the preliminaries, and the overall level of the opponents is much higher than in the previous preliminaries.

As early as the fifth grade of elementary school, his sprinting talent had already begun to show signs, and he was selected by the county sports school.

However, due to family constraints, I did not go there in the end.

However, Huangtian paid off and eventually embarked on the track and field path and became a sprinter.

It took Lao Yi nearly two years to go from a vocational high school student to the National Track and Field Championships.

Sprinting is his dream and the food he relies on for survival.

What has supported him all the way to this point is not only the stubborn temperament in his bones, but also the words of his deceased mother's instructions before she was alive, and the expectations that still linger in his ears.

Lao Yi didn't know if Uncle Mo Shanlin was watching him in front of the TV at this time, and he didn't know if he could successfully enter the finals, let alone where his end point would be.

All he knows is that the road is at his feet!
  "Lane 3, Guangxi player - Lao Yi. 』

Following the game announcer's plain and simple introduction, Lao Yi's eyes changed, he gritted his teeth, pointed domineeringly at the audience, and roared angrily, revealing a rare ferocity in his eyes.

Wen Hao, who was on Lane 5, tilted his head slightly and glanced at the -meter champion of the Guangzhou Asian Games in his previous life.

Many athletes have a ruthless spirit in their bodies, but many times, this ruthless spirit is often mixed with a hooligan spirit.

But the ferocity in Lao Yi's body was very pure, more like the beastly nature of a bull with no way out when facing a tiger.

Interesting.

"Lane 4, Guangdong player, champion of the Asian Youth Championship in Omen and Taipa - Liang Jiahong! 』

Compared with Lao Yi's introduction, Liang Jiahong's introduction seemed much tougher, at least he was honored.

After hearing such an introduction, some spectators in the stadium who did not know him could not help but applaud and cheer for him. His popularity was obviously higher than that of Lao Yi.

After that, Wen Hao in lane 5 and Yang Yaozu in lane 6. One is the Asian 200-meter record holder, the other is the national -meter record holder and a domestic star. The cheers and applause they received were naturally even more enthusiastic.

Lao Yi saw this "treatment" in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.

"Everyone is in position——"

The starter's order is officially issued.

Lao Yi slapped his thighs that were a little tight due to nervousness, took two deep breaths, and shouted loudly before stepping forward to prepare.

For him who is just starting out, it seems that it is already very rare to reach the semi-final stage of the national championship. But Lao Yi was willing to stop there. Although he was a newcomer to the field, he was already twenty years old since he was born in 85.

Wen Hao, who was born in 88, is now the Asian record holder.

How could I be so far behind? !
  "preparation--"

"Snapped--!"

The starting gun sounds and the game begins!
  Lao Yi still didn't have an advantage at the start. It can even be said that he fell behind at the beginning.

Not only is he lagging behind Wen Hao, who is powerful and far beyond the domestic sprinters by several levels, but he is also lagging behind famous players like Yang Yaozu and new generation backbones like Liang Jiahong.

Even Yin Hualong, Chen Yibo and others who were on the same level as him also suppressed him in the starting stage.

The only one he didn't lose was probably Fujian player Guo Fan, who had a conflict with the provincial team after last year's National Games and lost good training conditions.

One step, two steps, three steps.
  While he was immersed in starting the acceleration, Lao Yi saw in the corner of his vision that Chen Yibo and Liang Jiahong beside him had already thrown him away by a certain distance and were running ahead of him.

But he had no idea of ​​giving up, even though in this 100-meter competition where milliseconds matter, falling behind at the start was indeed bad news.

But in competitive sports, anything can happen until the last minute.

What he needs to do is to use all he has learned in training and use the muscle memory honed over hundreds of days and nights to find the final answer!

The distance from the start to 30 meters is a period of continuous rapid acceleration. There must be no rush and the transition of technical movements must be completed.

Only in this way can one's own speed be steadily increased and sufficient speed support be obtained in the subsequent running stage.

After 30 meters, we have just entered the high-speed stage of running on the road.

Complete the technical transition from accelerating running to running on the road, fully stretch your body, fully extend your legs, lift your knees, raise your hips, press down, and scrape the ground.

Even if he didn't deliberately turn his field of vision to observe the opponents around him, Lao Yi could still notice that he was in a relatively lagging position.

At 50 meters, you can use your peripheral vision to glance to the left and right to determine where you are in the race.

At this time, Liang Jiahong on the right seemed to be further away from him than when he started the session.

He is worthy of being the champion of the Asian Youth Championships. He is the second person in the 100 meters among the current young athletes in China. He is indeed much stronger than himself!

But it doesn't matter, because Yin Hualong on the left seems to have not continued to widen the gap during this distance.

Lao Yi had no intention of paying attention to the position of other people on the track at this time, and he did not have the ability to distract himself from observing.

Outperforming one is one!
  I can't outrun Liang Jiahong, but you, Yin Hualong, I have to try no matter what!
  While running at full speed, Lao Yi suddenly heard another burst of extremely warm cheers coming from his ears.

With such a large-scale noise, perhaps that guy Wen Hao has left no man's land on the field again, shocking the whole audience with an extremely exaggerated lead, right?
  How enviable.

If you want to be the kind of star that makes the whole audience cheer, it is not enough even to be on top of the country, you must at least be on top of Asia.

How much effort does it take to reach that state?

Maybe there is no hope for life, or maybe starting from this moment, we will get closer to this goal step by step!

He ran all the way to the 90-meter position, and was only less than one body behind Yin Hualong in the starting phase. Lao Yi finally caught up!
  The final sprint! Press the line!
  Lao Yi didn't know whether he had overtaken Yin Hualong at the last moment. The only information he could know was the number displayed on the timer after he slowed down.

10 second 14!

Seeing Wen Hao's face not red and out of breath, Lao Yi knew that even this result, which broke the record of the National Track and Field Championships, was still just a level that he could easily achieve.

But even such a random result is definitely something that many Chinese sprinters and Asian sprinters will find difficult to come close to throughout their lives, even if they break their legs.

On the big screen, the results were refreshed one by one.

I didn't feel it carefully during the game, but looking at it now, the wind speed during the game actually reached -1.7m/s!

Under such wind speed conditions, Wen Hao can still run for 10 seconds and 14 seconds. How terrifying must his strength be?

Ranked second is Yang Yaozu, a famous player from Shanghai, with a time of 10 seconds.

In third place is Liang Jiahong of the Guangdong team, with a time of 10 seconds.

Lao Yi, who was ranked fourth, opened his eyes in disbelief:

4——Guangxi——Lao Yi——10.51 PB
  5——Sichuan——Yin Hualong——10.52
  fourth place!
  Fourth place in the semi-final group!

He defeated Yin Hualong at the last minute, who had been selected for the national youth relay team!
  Not only that, after comparing the results, he also defeated Su Bingtian, who was ranked fifth in the first group of the semi-finals, and won a supplementary promotion spot in the finals!

Mom, did you see it?
  I lived up to your expectations, I advanced to the finals!

Lao Yi's eyes were soon moistened with tears. After a dull wail, he faced south, knelt on his knees, held his head and cried.

Several players around him, who were either happy or regretful when they saw their results, were all frightened by this sudden scene.

Although they have tasted the pain caused by hard training day after day, they do not know why Lao Yi cried, and therefore cannot empathize with him.

Wen Hao didn't know why he was crying, but he knew that anyone who cried with joy must have a bitter past behind him.

So he walked to Lao Yi, knelt down and patted him on the back.

"Don't cry in a hurry. There are still finals waiting for you to prepare. Get up quickly."

"Your life is much more than this."

(End of this chapter)