C39— Result And Return

Posted on April 8, 2022by UntamedS

As a primetime event broadcast live on Fuji TV, many families in Japan watched the men’s 100m sprint final of the Asian Championship Invitational.

    In a country like Japan, where the entire population had an obsessive faith in sports, this kind of event was right in the heart of the people, and many of them watched it carefully from the time the finalists were introduced.

    Ishida’s commentary naturally fell on the ears of the viewers in front of the TV, but when the camera turned to Su Zhe, the viewers often couldn’t help but marvel some more.

    “This is really the most amazing face in the sports industry ……!”

    In the next event, just for ten seconds, the Japanese viewers in front of the TV couldn’t help but hold their breath in anticipation of the performance of Shota Shiraishi, Kanaki Takeshita and that amazing Chinese player on the track.

    Until the end of the final, many people were still immersed in the excitement of that short ten-second period, whether it was the dominance of Shota Shiraishi on the field or the strength of Su Zhe’s beautiful appearance, everything satisfied them.

    On the domestic live network, because of the previous day’s drama ,it attracted unprecedented attention to today’s final. Everyone was looking forward to what Su Zhe’s performance.

    When Shota Shiraishi crossed the finish line first, many people lamented in their hearts, but Su Zhe crossed the finish line right after him, taking second place in an Asian-level event for the first time in an international race, which was already a good record.

    Comments, Weibo, and the Athletics Kingdom’s forum, both passersby and sports fans were eagerly waiting for the final results to be revealed.

    [Ahhhhh, I think we can do it this time! I’ve timed it with a stopwatch, Su Zhe definitely ran under 10:10!]

    [? The big brother above, wake up, people’s hand timing and electric timing cannot be compared, you dare believe your hand timing?]

   [ The live effect of the game is quite good, the audience at the scene looks extremely excited, but what the commentary said, I didn’t understand a word ……]

In the tense atmosphere of people either chattering or expecting, Ishida finally got the final summary of the players’ results from the judges.

    On the screen of the live TV broadcast, with Ishida’s announcement, the players’ results appeared one by one in the result template.

    “Third place: Andrew Qatar, 10:13 (0.7).”

    “Second place: Su Zhe – China, 10:07 (0.7).”

    “First place: Shota Shiraishi-Japan, 10:05 (0.7).”

    After announcing all the results, Ishida’s voice was still tinged with excitement: “Congratulations to Shiraishi, a track beast in superior form today, for once again running 10:05. And to our Su from the Chinese Empire, who set a new personal PB in today’s race and managed to run into the 10:10 mark. Oh! This means that we will see Su in a world-class competition at the World Championships in the near future, which is great news!”

    The “philosopher” girls and the Japanese girls were already jumping in ecstasy, and the other Chinese spectators who had come to watch the race were also celebrating loudly.

    And the most crazy place, without a doubt, was the domestic network platform!

    Whether it was on the comment section of the live streaming platform, or on Weibo or the forums of the athletic kingdom, all the sports fans who were following the game started to celebrate.

    [Fu-ck!!! He did it!!! Boss Zhe did a great job!!!]

    [I have tears in my eyes, d-amn it, since the news of Boss Chen’s injury came out, I’ve been worried, I originally thought we didn’t have a chance to participate in the World Championships men’s 100 meters……]

   [Who else could have done it? If Boss Zhe hadn’t been born, the number of spots for China in the sprint section in the World Championships would have dropped to zero …]

   [The world championship is a great opportunity. Yesterday, there were still people all over the Internet insulting Boss Zhe, using the means of the entertainment industry against athletes, isn’t it interesting?]

    On the internet, whether it was Su Zhe’s fans or passersby, they were infected by the enthusiasm of the sports fans, for a while, the topic about ‘Su Zhe won the World Championships men’s 100 meters qualification’ became a momentary hit.

     Taking advantage of the enthusiasm for sports events, many sports vloggers on the network wrote their own analysis and commentary on the game, making it easy for all the netizens who watched the 10 seconds flicker by and couldn’t see the excitement of the event and the hard work of the athletes behind it.

    Tao Sheng: [I didn’t open my mouth until the end of the game because I initially had a slight worry about this Asian Championship Invitational. Although Su Zhe’s talent and strength is well known, he really started to participate in sports events too recently, even up to now, he is still a player who isn’t experienced enough in the competition].

    [This is something that can be seen in the National Championships Qualifier, the National Championships, and the World Championships Challenge – although he has continuously achieved excellent results in the tournament, it is this state that shows that Su Zhe is actually under great pressure psychologically, and if one compares a person to a bow, he is always in a state of full tension, so one would worry if he would break his string at some point.    Not long ago, I learned from a friend that Su Zhe returned to the gymnastics team for pre-tournament orientation training soon after recovering from his foot injury, and the intensity of the training was not low. From these details, we can see that Su Zhe has a strong sense of urgency.]

    [Because of the lack of competition experience, he hasn’t been able to thoroughly grasp and balance his mental state, in a limited period of time, he directly embarked on the Asian level tournament, to compete for a seat in the World Championships …… I have considered whether this is considered to be pulling up the seedlings to help it grow].

  [Fellow friends should remember that at the Track and Field Kingdom Forum, there was once a post about whether Su Zhe could open the 10-second and 10-level barrier. At that time, I voted in the minority …… not because I didn’t believe in Su Zhe, but because I was afraid from the bottom of my heart that such a talented player wouldn’t be able to carry his psychological pressure in a short period of time and grow up in this Asian level at once. The first preliminaries were held yesterday.

    In yesterday’s first preliminaries, Su Zhe’s form was obviously affected by psychological factors, and during the start, he made a rare start error, with a reaction time of 0.18 – what happened? Compared with his average listening reaction of 0.15, a difference of 0.03 seconds, in the 100m final of the World Championships challenge where he ran out of fitness, he was able to have a listening reaction of 0.20].

    [After the start of the preliminaries, his form was even less exuberant than usual. Of course, it is possible that this was due to the fact that the opponents in that event were not strong enough to make Su Zhe’s form seem exciting enough. But more obviously, after the race entered the sprint phase, Su Zhe’s speed began to improve, all the way to the finish line, he even continued to sprint forward …… in the preliminaries, he was in the sprint phase before he really entered competitive form.]

    ……

    Tao Sheng’s long article, from his concerns about Su Zhe’s pre-competition state, to his worries about Su Zhe’s first participation in an Asian-level event, and then for Su Zhe’s preliminaries, semifinals, and finals of the three event state transformation. After reading it, everyone who hadn’t understood, revealed a dazzled expression.

    The men’s 100 meters race, although only a short 10 seconds, every athlete struggled and the efforts they put in was uncountable.

    Even just a short ten seconds on the field of play, to the ordinary people, it seemed fleeting, but the athletes on the field had actually experienced several twists and turns and they had exhausted their full strength.

This long article was reprinted by many sports bloggers, and even the official media reposted it with their opinions.

    Sports channel: [Congratulations to Su Zhe for his first run into 10 seconds 10, with 10 seconds 07, he successfully got a seat in the World Championships men’s 100 meter sprint! Every athlete has countless hard moments on the training ground, it doesn’t always lead to victory. It is the accumulation of his training and efforts that he emerged victorious.]

    Many people were just casual spectators, after watching the game and the post-race analysis of various articles, they gradually joined the Athletics forum. 

   [ I was just here for fun, but now I think it’s interesting, I think I’ll stay here – it’s really hard for athletes, I hope there will be more reports about athletes in the future, so that everyone can understand more about athletics.]

    This comment under the sports channel’s Weibo account was met with countless likes, and passersby who agreed with the opinion lined up at the bottom to express their agreement.

    This thriving trend made many people in the sports circle feel very comforted – even if some of these passersby only stayed for three days, there would always be people who stayed and they’d become the new backbone of the enthusiasts.

    If more and more people pay attention to sports and athletics, more companies would sponsor the games, and the athletes would get more prize money and better treatment.

    Because of this incident, many people began to poke fun at Su Zhe, referring to him as the sports Koi – since he entered the sports industry, he had appeared on the hot search many times, and with it, the number of people who followed sports had increased, and this competition had gotten an explosion of attention because of his anti-fan incident, and with it, people’s attention to sports also increased significantly.

    And just before the title of Koi became popular, a mass of people who knew Japanese had already taken the first step to dryly translate the subtitles of Su Zhe’s taped videos of these games in Japan, and instantly, the title [Beautiful Snow Leopard Boy from the Chinese Empire] resounded through Weibo.

    At this time, Su Zhe was momentarily unaware of the various events on the domestic network.

    As the runner-up of the men’s 100 meters in this Asian Championship Invitational, he, along with Shota Shiraishi and Andrew were invited separately by the staff for a post-race interview.

    The person in charge of this interview was the host, Kazuhide Miura, also from Fuji Channel, a middle-aged uncle of about 40 years old with an amiable and funny temperament, but not exempt from the same amazing attainment in giving compliments.

    Su – so far unaware of his nickname – Zhe, after changing into a casual sports outfit, followed the staff into the interview room. The two of them arrived at the same time after changing their clothes.

    As a heavy face fan of Su Zhe, Shiraishi was stunned after seeing him in different clothes, his hair was moved away from his forehead with a band, completely revealing his delicate face, Shota’s eyes shone, and when Su Zhe greeted him, he showed a silly smile, revealing his tiger teeth, it was almost like a tail was wagging behind him.

    Miura Kazuhide obviously noticed Shiraishi Shota’s reaction, and he asked smilingly from the side, “Ah ah, it seems that player Shiraishi likes player Su!”

    “Ah.” Shiraishi Shota froze and affirmed without hesitation, “Yes, I think that Su’s beauty and power are enough to conquer everyone’s heart.”

    “Eh?” Miura Kazuhide didn’t expect Shiraishi Shota to have such a high opinion of Su Zhe, but he, who also admired Su Zhe quite a lot, couldn’t help but praise him after seeing him, “Player Su is really the premier face in the sports world, with a slightly cold temperament, he looks more like a noble prince, almost like a character out of a manga!”

    After they sat down, Su Zhe and Andrew, who couldn’t understand Japanese, had been at a loss as to how to communicate with Miura Kazuhide and Shiraishi Shota, who were in the middle of a conversation.

   Miura Kazuhide immediately realized his rudeness after seeing the look on the two men’s faces, he immediately apologised to them, and with the help of the guide and interpreter, began a post-match interview about the entire match.

    The content of the interview was nothing more than whether the initial goal of the tournament was reached, what were the feelings after the game, how did you feel after reaching the goal, what was the next goal, etc.

    Su Zhe originally thought that since he had at least two years in the entertainment industry, he wouldn’t have any problems coping with these post-game interview questions, but what he didn’t expect was that the brain circuit of the people of Japan was extraordinarily strange ……

    Miura Kazuhide: “Ah, Player Su, your beauty and strength has conquered the hearts of many people, I heard that your fans in Japan have started a support group, many supporters made many posts, hoping to understand your next tournament arrangements, may I ask Player Su if you have a specific schedule next?”

    ????

    Su Zhe showed a bewildered expression after listening to the interpreter …… Isn’t this an ordinary post-race interview? Why did the questions seem a bit strange?

    He thought for a moment before responding, “Next, I’m returning home immediately tomorrow morning, then I’ll join the national team’s training, and then head to country D to participate in the Athletics World Championships.”

    “Ah ……” Miura Kazuhide showed a regretful look, “Returning home immediately? I’m not going to lie, Fuji Channel has a variety show that wants to invite you, but it’s true that professional and powerful athletes are the most interested in training and participating in competitions!”

   Shiraishi Shota also had a regretful expression, he looked at Su Zhe somewhat lost, obviously he didn’t think that Su Zhe would immediately return to start training tomorrow.

    Although seeing the regretful expression on Shota Shiraishi and Kazuhide Miura’s faces, Su Zhe still didn’t quite understand the current state of affairs, he just nodded seriously, “Yes, in the next month, I need to put all my energy into training and strive to get better results at the World Championships.”

    The post-event interview wasn’t an exclusive interview, and it only lasted 15 minutes in total, which was already a long interview.

    After the interview, Miura Kazuhide and Shiraishi Shota still conveyed to Su Zhe the expectation that he would accept the invitation to come to Japan for a variety show during the winter break, hoping to give fans something to look forward to and surprise them.

    Although Su Zhe knew that there were some Japanese people cheering for him in the stands these two days in addition to the “philosopher” girls, he didn’t expect that it would be to the extent of having established a support group.

    But there would still be winter training waiting for him, so for a while, he couldn’t say yes to the request from Miura.

    Shota Shiraishi, however, took advantage of the presence of an interpreter and seriously asked the interpreter to help him relay his social network account. But the country didn’t use line and Weibo, and eventually Su Zhe could only leave a contact such as WeChat, e-mail and Twitter.

    The next day, under the arrangement of the team staff, Su Zhe and some of the athletes who had completed the competition boarded the plane back to China.

    On the way out, Shota Shiraishi again came as a staff member to say goodbye, which was quite a surprise to Su Zhe.

    After waving goodbye to his new friend from a foreign country, Su Zhe boarded the flight back to China with the team.

    In less than 3 days, the players’ trip to Japan could be said to be fast.

    But this Asian Championship Invitational, for the Chinese team players, the results were quite fruitful – including Su Zhe, a total of five players qualified for the World Championship, including Su Zhe.

    All of them were eager for the upcoming training after returning to China.

    In this next period of time, they needed to improve themselves as much as possible, in order to compete for better results in the World Championships!

     Just as Su Zhe was resting with his eyes closed on the plane, the familiar system sound suddenly rang again, emitting an alarm-like sound.

    “Tick, the host reputation has reached 30 million, the system data storage space is insufficient, please add some to the attributes points to avoid data overflow.”

    ……

    This prompt with an alarm sound confused Su Zhe for a moment.

    He didn’t expect his reputation value to grow so fast during this period of time, but what he didn’t expect more was …… that amount of reputation value drove the system to the edge of data overflow?!

    What kind of amusing system was this …… it was able to achieve so many technological functions, yet its data storage was so poor?

   Countless questions surged through Su Zhe’s mind, for a moment he didn’t know what to say. 

   Finally Su Zhe quietly poked open the system’s reputation and attribute point exchange function, then in the corner he saw a line of small words: Primary system, reputation storage limit 35 million.

     Well …… the system mentioned upgrades, but no matter how hard Su Zhe tried, he couldn’t find the way to upgrade the system or the instruction manual.

    In the end, Su Zhe gave up looking for it, he returned to the attribute point exchange interface, he began to consider how to exchange the new attribute points.

    He originally felt that after the previous fusion of attribute points, there was still a portion of the potential brought by the attribute points that hadn’t been absorbed in its entirety through training, but since he now had to make the exchange, he took advantage of the arrival of the national team training and the acquisition of new space training hours to start a new crazy training mode again.

    National Team Training Center, World Championships Training, Conference Room

    After Su Yinsheng was assigned to participate in the Asian Championship Invitational, he was called up by the national team and joined the sprint coaching team for the World Championships training, and took up the position of head coach.

    He was responsible for the training of more than just Su Zhe, who hadn’t officially qualified for the World Championships in the 100m when he was drafted into the team.

    The men’s 100m wasn’t the only team that qualified for the World Championships, but the women’s 100m and 200m both qualified.

    In addition, the men’s 100m relay had also qualified for the 4*100m relay at the World Athletics Relays after finishing in the top 10.

    However, Chen Zhi, the key figure who led the men’s relay to the championship at the World Athletics Relays, had just completed surgery in Germany at this time and was completely unlikely to lead the men’s relay event again during the World Championships.

    At this time, Su Yinsheng was discussing with the coaching staff about which player should be selected to join the 4*100m team to take Chen Zhi’s place.

    The four members of the 4*100m team were originally Chen Zhi, Meng Hao, Zhao Zhixuan and Wang Qin, with Qiu Xinchu as a reserve.

    According to common sense, if Chen Zhi was injured and there was a shortage of starters, Qiu Xinchu should have taken Chen Zhi’s place directly. However, because of Su Zhe’s presence, the members of the coaching team raised the question of why not replace Chen Zhi with Su Zhe, while Qiu Xinchu remained as a reserve.

    Su Yinsheng naturally understood the idea of the coach who made this suggestion, Su Zhe’s 100m performance was now basically stable, and when in good shape he even ran within 10:10 mark in this final.

    In contrast to Qiu Xinchu, whose performance fluctuated greatly and his form wasn’t yet stable enough, it seemed natural that Su Zhe should take the top spot.

    Rubbing his head, Su Yinsheng said with a headache, “Guys, don’t forget that Su Zhe is actually just a rookie athlete, from his return to track and field training until now, all his training events are only 100 meters and later 110 meter hurdles.”

    “Also because his competition program is limited to the 100m sprint and 110m hurdles, he’ll have to train for another event, so far, he hasn’t even had a systematic training on corners, not to mention the handover technique, in addition to the cooperation with his teammates …… can it be taught in less than a month’s time?  Besides, he still has the training for the men’s 100-meter event and the pressure of participating in the 110-meter hurdles. You  calculated the time period. How can he train for three events simultaneously? “

    Su Yinsheng’s words made the coach who made the suggestion calm down, and the topic was temporarily shelved.