Orc Undead Sports Warrior

Chapter 96 Training Before the Relay Final

It's possible that Lu Wei had already undergone a urine test during the 4x100m relay, and the organizing committee didn't require him to undergo another urine test after the 400m race. However, since Liu Xiang won the championship, a urine test was a mandatory procedure.

On the podium, Liu Xiang smiled brightly and confidently, while Lu Wei had little interest in the silver medal. He believed that as long as he found a way to energize himself, Varina would eventually be left in his dust.

随着刘飞人和陆威爆发式的表现,华夏队以1金2银1铜的成绩从奖牌榜的25名以前直接攀升到了第10名。

Having a gold medal makes a world of difference to a team's standing. This World Championships had 46 participating countries, and a country with a population of over a billion was ranked in the bottom half of all participating countries, which was really hard for the Chinese athletics community to accept.

Of the medals won by the Chinese track and field team, Lu Wei and Liu Xiang account for three-quarters. Chinese media predict that Chinese track and field will enter an era of two dominant forces: Liu Xiang excels in individual events, while Lu Wei can participate in multiple events and achieve remarkable results in each.

The two have very different personalities. Liu Feiren is sunny, warm, and confident, which makes people feel confident and sunny.

Lu Wei is domineering, crazy, and loyal. He can often stir people's emotions and make them feel safe.

These two athletes, with their different styles, both give Chinese track and field a great deal of confidence.

Even so, Japanese media still had something to say. The Showa Shimbun, in its summary of the competitions on the 31st, devoted nearly a third of its page to the performance of the Chinese track and field team last night.

The report never offered any praise for the Chinese track and field team's performance yesterday; it simply described the scene of the competition objectively.

At this point, the report abruptly shifted its focus, commenting on the development of the Chinese track and field team in recent years. The commentary stated that the Chinese track and field team possessed remarkable strength in women's middle- and long-distance running at the end of the 20th century, winning gold medals in every competition.

Entering the 21st century, China has been looking to Western developed countries for both its economy and culture. In many ways, it has lost its own unique characteristics and copied the development models of others, thus losing its own characteristics and becoming a hybrid that is neither fish nor fowl.

The article quickly points out that while Chinese athletics has adopted the Western model, it has not been able to maintain its previous strengths in these events, and is now facing more difficulties in competition than before.

The article states that Liu Feiren and Lu Wei are representatives of this model. In sprint and hurdle events where Europeans and Americans dominate, Chinese athletes can only hope to achieve good results by performing exceptionally well.

The article concludes that Chinese athletics has not made any substantial progress in the past decade, and its development model of doing whatever comes to mind will not fundamentally change the status of Chinese athletics in the world.

This report was published just two hours after the competition ended. The author grasped the thoughts of the people in his country, and all the angles of analysis were aimed at boosting the morale of the nation. As long as the data could be used for his own purposes, he would bring it up to forcefully express his own meaning.

This article is pure speculation and utter nonsense, but it still had a great inspiring effect on the Japanese track and field team and the Japanese people.

The athletes, who had initially been pessimistic, found a new source of psychological support and encouraged each other.

In particular, the Japanese men's 4x100m relay team has regained its morale and is striving to win a medal on home soil in this competition.

On September 1st, the World Athletics Championships entered several final rounds. However, apart from the men's 50km race walk and the men's 4x100m relay finals, China had no other events to participate in. Most of the athletes had already switched to being spectators.

The men's 50km race walk started at 7 a.m. local time, but even with the race starting so early, it was almost 11 a.m. by the time the first runner entered the stadium.

The men's race walking team failed to reverse its previous poor performance; of the three athletes participating, two were disqualified for committing fouls mid-race.

Another team member crossed the finish line 11 minutes after the third-place finisher, indicating that the men's race walking team still has a certain gap to close with the world's advanced level in this event.

This morning's competition was mostly a showcase for the men's decathlon, from discus to pole vault, then javelin to the 1500 meters. They finally finished the competition at 7:30 pm.

Having competed together for a week, the team members developed friendships. After the 1500-meter race, many of them chatted happily, saying that this event is really lonely and that they only meet true friends during the competition.

However, Lu Wei didn't see any of this. He didn't wake up until almost noon, as yesterday's peak had been quite physically demanding.

There weren't any competitions in the afternoon, and it was too hot outside, so everyone stayed in the indoor stadium. The athletes participating in the women's 5000-meter race kept running laps on the track to maintain their physical condition, running lap after lap without stopping.

As the temperature began to drop in the evening, everyone moved to the outdoor training field. The indoor training field consisted of 200-meter tracks. One of the team members from a small country who came to compete looked like a top-level player from a high school team, but he was a bit malnourished. After running about ten laps, he vomited on the sidelines, probably because he got dizzy from running so many laps...

This dampened the spirits of many team members who were training, and many left the training hall.

The first event of the evening was the decathlon javelin throw. At this time, the all-around athletes were not present, and the men's and women's 400-meter relay team members were also preparing to go to the competition venue.

The relay team members, who had warmed up countless times, no longer needed to train during the breaks when other teams were resting. It felt like they were doing something shameful, sneaking around like that.

"Asahara-kun, do you think you can outrun Lu Wei in a one-on-one fight? I think I have little hope if I meet him on the field..."

Watching Lu Wei charge and celebrate like a wild beast yesterday, Tsukahara Naotaka felt a little uneasy. Deep down, he was a little afraid of Lu Wei.

"You idiot, do you think the 4x100m relay is a cowboy duel of hand speed? There's a scientific basis for why our predecessors chose to let us conquer this event."

Although it's a sprint event, even a slight mistake during the baton exchange can wipe out a huge advantage. Therefore, this event demands scientific training and unwavering determination; it's not something that one or two fast runners can do as they please.

Asahara Nobuharu was somewhat dissatisfied with Tsukahara Naotaka's attitude, but he was still shaken by Lu Wei's performance yesterday. He noticed that apart from a few flaws in the first and second baton exchanges, the other two baton exchanges for the Chinese relay team were quite smooth.

Lu Wei's appearance made Nobuharu Asahara pay more attention to the Chinese team: "These bastards, seeing that we have achieved results in training the relay event, they also started to learn from us and start training the relay event. And then a monster like Lu Wei appeared. If we had someone like him, we would be confident that we could challenge Jamaica and the United States. Sigh!"

Thinking of this, Nobuharu Asahara sighed and made the most of the last hour to continue practicing with his teammates.

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