The Su God of the Reopening of the Sports Arena

Chapter 2439 Now it's time to get serious.

Chapter 2439 Next... it's time to get serious.

After the woman finished.

The biggest highlight has been added to the schedule.

The 100-meter men's sprint showdown!

About to start.

"Dear viewers, the men's 100-meter sprint battle is about to begin, which is also the biggest battle in Qing Tang City this time."

"Although saying this might be a bit disrespectful to other events, in reality, this competition is the biggest highlight."

"After all, they are our country's athletes. We need to know what kind of form they are in before the World Championships so we can feel at ease. The most important thing is..."

"The battle between Suarez and Bolt continues."

"Bolt has once again broken the 9.50-second barrier."

"No one knows how Su Shen will respond this time, whether he will let the relay continue or end it here."

"It's also a huge suspense point in this match."

"Alright, the players are now ready to go on stage."

"The finalists are..."

"The first wave of Zhou soldiers."

"The second one is Liang Jiahong."

"The third one is Zhao Haohuan."

"The fourth path of Su Shen."

"The fifth one is Zhang Peimeng."

The sixth principle is "work and rest".

"The seventh way to thank Zhengye."

"The eighth prefectural governor of Xuzhou."

no doubt.

There wasn't a single extra person.

Do you want to make it onto this list?
Even some of our own people haven't been able to get into Ersha Island.

For example, Wu Zhiqiang.

Therefore, this list is of high quality.

It's terrifyingly high.

There are a lot of people who have broken the 10 mark.

Only a handful of them could not break 10.

That's what makes it scary.

In fact, there are only the first and eighth tracks.

It was open for less than ten seconds.

You can't even imagine this lineup being used across all of Asia.

Placed worldwide.

Only Jamaica in the Americas can rival it.

You mean America?

I'm really sorry.

This year, the US team has begun to gradually decline.

There aren't many that can open in 10 seconds.

Therefore, this actually set a precedent.

In Yang Jian's words:
"This match may be the most exciting one outside of major tournaments."

"It is one of the top regional competitions."

"Besides us, only Jamaica's regional tournaments can compare."

"Coach Li, what are your expectations for this team this year?"

"What else can we expect? Defeat our opponents! Keep the record and the championship in China!"

"Leave them all in the Bird's Nest!"

"Haha, it seems my thoughts are quite similar to Coach Li's, and I estimate that the billions of viewers across the country share similar ideas."

"Although there are still 4 spots, Zhang Peimeng defeated Gatlin last year with diamond points, which helped us get an extra wildcard. Of course, even if he hadn't gotten it, we would still have wildcards. It's just that now we have two wildcards, which is equivalent to easing the burden on our athletes from strong opponents."

"Otherwise, it will most likely fall to Jamaica or the United States."

"Right now, neither the US team nor the Jamaican team can field more than three players."

"The thought of defeating four of my own people with black hair and yellow skin in the final at the Bird's Nest makes me excited."

"IM about the same."

"I just hope that in this competition, everyone can use their unique skills to show us their competitive form before the Bird's Nest."

on the field.

Su Shen is warming up.

"Xiao Tian, are you sure this is the one? If so, I'll have to avoid you. You'll run too fast and disrupt my rhythm." Zhao Haohuan joked. After all, this kind of selection competition is an internal battle within the country, and with his strength, he is a sure thing to get into the top two.

They also have different mindsets.

"With such a perfect combination of timing, location, and people, we shouldn't waste it," Su Shen laughed. "I must give him a big gift package of TA noodles."

"After all, that's what he said himself."

"The warm-up is over."

"It's time to get serious."

Zhao Haohuan shook his head, feeling that they, mere mortals, did not understand their world of lightning.

A bunch of exaggerated achievements, but it turns out this is just a warm-up.

I wonder how much progress they've made.

Once athletes reach this level, their personal development becomes the main focus, and there is no corresponding experience or team in China capable of handling this level of competition.

Then it's up to Su Shen to decide how to handle it.

He gained enormous autonomy.

It can be said that, apart from his team coach Randy, it's all about him.

Even his team members have many unclear points, after all, not every training program requires the entire team to be present.

And what you asked Randy.

He'll just say you'll find out when the game starts.

I won't say anything more about the rest.

The person who hanged it was very interested.

But I just won't tell him.

I feel an unbearable itch to try it.

The others also had their own ideas.

Each has its own fighting spirit.

This match definitely had a lot to offer.

This is also why there are more and more suspenseful moments in competitions as there are more and more top athletes... naturally, there will be more and more.

In front of the starting blocks for lane four.

Su Shen crouched down, his fingertips gently tracing the edge of the metal footplate. He wore his signature red cropped sports vest, and compression pants tightly hugged his sleek calves. The "click" of his spikes piercing the rubber track was particularly clear in the empty track and field.

He first slightly adjusted the spacing of the starting blocks, reducing the distance between the front and rear push-off plates by half a palm's width.

This subtle change was a last-minute decision he made based on muscle feedback from the previous day's training.

After securing the front push-up plate, Su Shen did not immediately stand up. Instead, he bent down and pressed his palm against the track, feeling the elasticity of the plastic surface. His fingertips brushed against the fine particles, as if he were having a silent conversation with the track.

The interaction between people and the track.

And so it happened silently.

After several test runs, Su Shen began to adjust the starting blocks.

"Adjust the angle a little more."

He muttered to himself, reached out and loosened the fixing bolts of the rear pedal, rotating it clockwise twice to increase the angle between the pedal and the ground by a few degrees.

After adjusting, he took a half step back, his feet shoulder-width apart, his body slightly leaning forward, his gaze following the track to the finish line in the distance.

It was as if I was rehearsing the entire trajectory of starting and accelerating in my mind.

A moment later, he squatted down again, placed his right foot on the front step plate and his left foot on the back step plate, assuming a standard starting position.

Slightly bend your knees, keep your back straight, and place your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart with your fingertips lightly touching the ground.

He held the position for a few seconds, feeling the pressure points in his leg muscles, then released his foot and shook his right leg.

The angle just now made the quadriceps muscles a bit too tight, so it needs to be fine-tuned.

This time, he turned the bolt on the rear pedal counterclockwise by one full turn, and then gently kicked the bottom of the pedal with his toe to ensure it was securely fixed.

Throughout the debugging process, he kept his brows slightly furrowed, his expression so focused that it seemed as if the entire track and field was left with only him and the starting blocks.

The others wanted to say something, but seeing his appearance, they quietly retreated.

After all, everyone knows that now.

Su Shen is the one under the most pressure in China.

All they need to do is advance and achieve good results.

And Su Shen needs to have a conversation with certain people remotely during this match.

The intensity has been pushed to this point; no one wants to lose.

Whether it's Suarez or Bolt.

Nobody wants that.

Since you don't want to be a loser.

You have to be a winner.

Make the opponent lose.

Given this pressure, it's normal that no one bothers him anymore.

After all, the others were somewhat distant from Su Shen. Unlike Zhao Haohuan and Zhou Bing, who were core team members who had been with him from the very beginning.

Next, he stepped onto the starting blocks again, firmly placing his feet on the front and rear push-off boards, and lowered his body into the ready position. This time, he didn't rush to stand up, but maintained the posture, slowly contracting his calf muscles and feeling the reaction force of the push-off boards on his feet.

A few seconds later, he tilted his head slightly, muttering to himself, "The support of the front pedal is a bit weak. The fixing pins need to be adjusted down another half centimeter."

The assistant handed over a small hammer. Su Shen took it, knelt on one knee, aimed it at the fixing nail at the bottom of the front pedal, and tapped it twice with a light tap of his wrist.

Each strike is executed with just the right amount of force, ensuring that the nail doesn't sink too deep and cause the footboard to stiffen, while also maintaining stability.

After finishing striking, he put down the hammer, gently shook the footplate with his foot to make sure it wasn't loose, and then straightened up.

This time, he turned the bolt on the rear pedal counterclockwise by one full turn, and then gently kicked the bottom of the pedal with his toe to ensure it was securely fixed.

Throughout the debugging process, he kept his brows furrowed and his gaze fixed on every detail of the starting blocks.

That's the attitude.

This meant that he almost never had any problems with starting the game.

The level of rigor is frightening.

As he ran his fingertips along the rubber anti-slip layer of the front pedal, he noticed a tiny bump on the edge—this was formed by the aging of the rubber after use, and if left untreated, the spikes were very likely to slip there.

Su Shen pulled a folding knife from his sportswear pocket, and gently scraped the rubber surface with the blade, flattening the protruding part with a precision as if he were performing a delicate operation.

After finishing, he repeatedly rubbed the area with his thumb to confirm that it was completely smooth before stopping.

After all, you can't replace the starting blocks after just one race.

It's not a top-tier competition.

Learn how to get along with the starting blocks.

This is also a skill that athletes should learn.

Next, he bent down to observe the levelness of the front and rear pedals, keeping his line of sight parallel to the ground, and adjusted his breathing to keep his body stable.

Upon discovering that the rear footplate was about 1 millimeter higher than the front footplate, he immediately loosened the fixing bolt of the rear footplate, pulled out one of the adjusting shims at the bottom, and retightened the bolt.

When confirming again, he deliberately pressed his palms on the two footplates to feel the consistency of the force feedback, ensuring that he could get a balanced reaction force when his feet pushed off the ground.

He then stepped onto the footboard, entered the ready position, straightened his back, and kept his knees at about 90 degrees.

While maintaining the posture, he slowly contracted the muscles on the front of his thighs, feeling whether the support point of the push-up board on the balls of his feet matched his power exertion habits.

The stress point on the left footboard is slightly outward.

Hmm, this will... lead to insufficient activation of the inner quadriceps muscles.

He then adjusted the position of his left foot on the footboard.

Adjust your toes inward by half a centimeter.

Continue until the muscle tension transforms into a more even, stored-force state.

To verify the effect of the adjustment, he performed a light simulated push-off motion, leaning his body slightly forward while feeling the stability of the push-off board.

hum.

After pushing off.

It was observed that the front pedals wobbled slightly when subjected to force.

He immediately squatted down and used tools to reinforce the four fixing nails at the bottom of the front step plate one by one, turning each nail half a turn clockwise to ensure that it was fully engaged with the track plastic.

Finally, he took out a piece of fine sandpaper from his backpack and gently sanded the area where the spikes contacted the pedals to increase the roughness of the rubber surface and improve grip.

After polishing, he gently blew away the rubber debris on the surface with his mouth, and then wiped the debris clean with his palm to ensure that no impurities would affect the embedding of the cleats.

After doing all that, Su Shen didn't stop. Instead, he took out a small measuring tape from his pocket and bent down to measure the distance between the front and rear pedals and the angle with the ground.

He pressed one end of the calibration ruler against the top of the front pedal and aligned the other end with the stress point of the rear pedal. He stared intently at the scale lines and found that the gap was 2 millimeters narrower than the preset value.

Although this deviation is small, it can lead to an imbalance in the angle of force exerted by the legs when pushing off the ground.

He immediately loosened the fixing bolts of the rear pedal, moved it slightly laterally, and then repeatedly compared it with a calibration ruler until the distance precisely matched his hip width before tightening the bolts again.

Then I changed the angle.

The calibration ruler was also rotated to a different angle, with one end resting against the bottom fulcrum of the back step plate and the other end extending to the runway surface to measure the angle between the step plate and the ground.

Keep your eyes fixed on the scale, making sure the angle remains at your preferred 30 degrees.

This angle maximizes the leverage effect when pushing off the ground with the ball of the foot, preventing the foot from "missing" due to an angle that is too small, and also preventing the ankle from being burdened by an angle that is too large.

After confirming that the angle was correct, he used the edge of the calibration ruler to scrape the rubber contact surfaces of the front and rear pedals one by one to check for any bumps or depressions that were difficult to see with the naked eye.

As the ruler brushed across the middle of the front pedal, he felt a slight resistance. He immediately rubbed it repeatedly with his fingertips and found it to be a very shallow rubber indentation.

Although it didn't affect its use, he still took out a small piece of sandpaper from his pocket and gently rubbed and polished the indentation until the calibration ruler could pass over it smoothly again.

Finally, he unfolded the calibration ruler and placed it flat on the track next to the starting blocks, using the ruler as a reference to adjust the angle of his toes.

Start setting the optimal parameters for this season's model in your mind.

Make sure your toes are parallel to the edge of the ruler.

This ensures that the direction of the push-off from both legs is completely positive at the start of the race, avoiding the dispersion of power.

After doing all this, he carefully put away the calibration ruler, his fingertips tracing the familiar markings on it, as if he were making a final confirmation with this tool that had been with him for many years.

As he stood up, he lightly stepped on the footboard twice, listening to the solid sound of the metal fitting into the track, and his brow relaxed a little.

His eyes revealed a sense of accomplishment from meticulous attention to detail.

All right.

Su Shen has finished his pre-match testing.

It looks complicated, but for a veteran like him who has run so many races, it's a piece of cake.

Everything was as precise as a muscle.

The whole process was completed in one go.

The problem was solved quickly in a short period of time.

Previously, many people may have thought that Su Shen had gone too far in doing this.

After all, no one in the previous sprint team had ever been this meticulous.

But nobody talks about this issue anymore.

First of all, his status and position are what they are.

Then everyone will think that if he does it, they must do it too.

Could it be that you can run faster than Su Shen?

Besides, everyone firmly believes that details determine success or failure.

Of course, this statement is not entirely accurate. What people actually believe is that... for successful people, details determine success or failure.

Su Shen is undoubtedly the most successful person in this industry.

So learn from him.

It's something that happens naturally.

The entire Ersha Island.

Actually, everyone is doing the same thing, it's just that everyone's requirements and adjustments are different.

These are players from the traditional system.

I'm almost ashamed.

Because compared to these people, I can just casually measure with my feet or hands.

It's almost like...

Living in the Stone Age.

No wonder each of them can achieve such results.

They had never had these habits before, and no one had ever taught them them, so of course they didn't know how to do them.