Orc Undead Sports Warrior

After crossing the finish line, Lu Wei walked towards the sidelines while catching his breath. As he reached Wang Qiao and Coach Jiang, all three looked up at the big screen. Although the front handspring he performed before crossing the finish line was a bit exaggerated, it wouldn't have a significant impact on his result since he was almost across and his movements after getting up were very fluid.

过了将近2分钟之后，大屏幕上终于显示了第5组比赛结果。陆威以45秒62的成绩获得小组第1名，顺利晋级半决赛。

"Lu Wei has improved again recently. It seems there is still a lot of room for improvement. If he hadn't done the front handspring before the key point, he should have qualified for the World Championships. It's a bit of a pity, but it's just the preliminaries. There's no need to take the result too seriously." Coach Jiang said to Wang Qiao in a low voice as he watched Lu Wei's back.

"Sigh, he's a promising talent. But his training wasn't systematic before, and his performance is only starting to improve at this age. I don't know if it's too late. I'm both pleasantly surprised and somewhat uneasy about this young man. If I had known he could achieve such results, I would have paid more attention to his training beforehand..." Wang Qiao was a little worried that a sports prodigy might be wasted under his care.

"Don't blame yourself too much. It's not too late to start now. In the end, it depends on his own performance."

Although he didn't give it his all in the final moments of the race, the 400-meter race was very intense. After dinner and returning to the hotel, Lu Wei didn't go to the shooting and archery training center. Instead, he rested and prepared for the upcoming competition.

In his dream, Lu Wei returned to his past life, living with his people in a vast forest. But suddenly he was transported back to the final battle, the Burning Legion sweeping in, his warriors fighting bravely, yet falling one by one.

Lu Wei suddenly woke up; this wasn't the first time he'd had such a dream. Since arriving in this new world, he dreamt of the past almost every day. The extremely brutal battles had left an irreparable wound in this orc's heart, and the thought of the past always caused him a dull ache.

Although I don't know the meaning of my existence here, life still goes on, just in a different form.

A new day has begun.

The 400-meter semifinals were held in the afternoon, and Lu Wei appeared at the training field at his usual time in the morning. On days with competitions, high-intensity training cannot be arranged as usual, but some basic training still needs to be completed without compromise.

In the morning, Lu Wei mainly focused on consolidating his body's center of gravity adjustment in the first 100 meters after the start, a skill he had been practicing repeatedly recently. During training, Wang Qiao did not require Lu Wei to do a lot of repetitive training.

He set up a camera specifically for the curves, and after each practice session, he would repeatedly record and review Lu Wei's movements to summarize his experience.

On the straightaway, Liu Xiang's training presented a different picture. Under Coach Sun's watchful eye, Liu Xiang sweated profusely on the track, his training intensity no different from usual.

Having already become a world-class hurdler, and with no rivals in domestic competitions, Liu Xiang has been preparing for the upcoming World Championships to win a gold medal.

One has to admire how different their levels of understanding lead to vastly different mindsets when facing a competition.

After finishing the 400-meter run, Lu Wei continued stretching exercises before preparing for javelin training. Different sports require different levels of muscle exertion from athletes. In Wang Qiao's words, Lu Wei's talent in this sport far surpasses that in other sports. With a perfect release rhythm and standard throwing posture, achieving good results simply requires improving his physical abilities.

Only three groups remained in the afternoon's semi-finals. The top two teams from each group, along with the two best-performing players from the remaining teams, would advance to the finals.

All three athletes from Ningcheng made it to the 400-meter semifinals, and provincial leaders attached great importance to this event before the competition. In previous competitions, Hu Yuan was not far behind the top three, and with Lu Wei's sudden emergence, their chances of winning a medal have greatly increased.

Hu Yuan and Tan Tianhao were placed in the first group. Before the competition, Tan Tianhao acted like he was the boss. After the competition started, he continued to perform well.

Yesterday, Tan Tianhao was thoroughly outmatched by Lu Wei in the race, but he held his own against Hu Yuan. After taking the lead in the first half, he maintained a 1 to 2-meter advantage in the final 45 meters, ultimately securing first place in his group with a time of 7 seconds. It seems his arrogance has some merit.

Hu Yuan performed steadily. Although he couldn't beat Tan Tianhao, he still finished second in his group and successfully advanced to the finals.

Tang Yang and Zhang Huadong were placed in the second group. After the race started, the gap between them did not widen. After the second bend, Zhang Huadong began to accelerate, gradually shaking off his opponents and successfully taking first place in the group with a time of 45.65 seconds, which was comparable to Lu Wei's preliminary time.

Tang Yang may have been too nervous, which caused him to lose energy too quickly. He failed to perform well in the second half of the race, which is his strongest part, and finished only 5th in his group, effectively losing his chance to qualify for the finals.

There are very few athletes who can run the 400 meters in domestic competitions in the past 46 seconds, but there are plenty of athletes who can run around 46 seconds. The results often depend on how well they perform on the day.

The focus of competition in the third group was Lu Wei in lane 4 and Zhu Chenbin in lane 5. After the referee gave the order to take their positions, Zhu Chenbin walked slowly to the starting line with a nonchalant smile and stepped onto the starting blocks.

By this time, all the other team members were already on the starting blocks, but he was still slowly warming up. The referee needs to wait until all the athletes are completely still before giving the starting signal, which can easily disrupt the rhythm of the other team members, especially for athletes with little competition experience. Every second before the start is agonizing.

Lu Wei gradually began to adapt to this situation. In this world, sports competitions are like battles on the battlefield, where victory or defeat depends not only on strength but also on psychological tactics.

"Everyone is in your place!"

The referee finally lost patience and waited. Lu Wei bent over, concentrating all his strength in his right foot, waiting for the starting gun to fire. Once the game started, the most important thing was to perform to his normal level.

With the sound of the starting gun, Lu Wei exerted his full strength, like a leopard lying in wait, and swiftly charged toward his prey.

After honing his skills in the preliminary rounds and consolidating his abilities over the past few days, his starts are now smoother than before. In the first half of the curve, he lowers his center of gravity to minimize drag during acceleration. As he approaches the straightaway, he leans his body to the inside of the track, taking a slightly longer stride with his right leg – a maneuver he now executes with ease.