After quitting sports, I became a chef

Unlike the preliminaries, semi-finals, or some field events, the organizers of the Doha World Championships have designed a separate appearance scene for the finals of almost every competition event.

After the on-site broadcast announced that the men's 400-meter final was about to start, all the ceiling lights in the auditorium were quickly extinguished, and the only source of light around the audience was a weak floor lamp in front of each seat.

All the lights in the arena were also extinguished, and soon, 10 light strips were lit up on the track. These light strips were buried on the edge of the 9 circular tracks on the arena. The light with the general regularity of breathing illuminates the entire arena on and off.

With the lighting of the breath-like lights, there were cheers from the auditorium - the men's 400-meter sprint finalists will also be on the stage!

Sure enough, after a series of short-lived breathing lights flashed, the gate was opened by the concierge at the specially decorated entrance for the finalists. With the most brilliant colored lights on, the No.400 contestant of the men’s 1m final appeared on the stage. up!

During the live broadcast, the local commentator in Doha also introduced the first men's 400-meter sprint finalist--Fraser from Jamaica.

"Let us welcome the first contestant - Fraser from Jamaica!" After the excited long voice, it was the introduction of Fraser's career and the results of the preliminaries and semi-finals of the World Championships.

国内，邵敏一也正在同步介绍弗雷泽的情况：“这位来自牙买加的400米名将，在这一次的世锦赛预赛与半决赛中发挥的都还算不错,预赛45秒01,半决赛44秒66,算是十分轻松地晋级决赛圈。”

In tonight's final, Fraser was placed on the second lane, which is not a very favorable position.

After Fraser's appearance, the remaining 7 finalists also appeared one after another. They are Tekau from Trinidad and Tobago, Jipreluto from Kenya, and Hernandez from the United States. , Le Clos of South Africa, Gardinell of the Bahamas, Morris of Grenada and Zhang Ziyi of China.

During this debut ceremony, basically every contestant has a 1-minute appearance time and introduction time. After all 8 contestants have appeared on the stage, more than 10 minutes have passed.

When each player enters the stage, the light strip of the track to which the player belongs will also light up at the same time. When Zhang Ziyi enters the stage, the light strip of the ninth track will light up. Seriously watching the live broadcast on TV, I silently cheered for Zhang Ziyi in my heart.

In the semi-finals, Zhang Ziyi ran a brand-new pb of 44 seconds, but this time, which was close to the 81-meter record of a yellow race, only allowed Zhang Ziyi to barely win No.400 among the remaining competitors and enter the final.

His semi-final results ranked last among the 8 players, and it is quite normal to be drawn to the ninth track.

After Zhang Ziyi smiled and waved to the audience under the brilliant spotlights, he followed the guidance of the etiquette staff and walked towards his starting line on the ninth track.

On the eighth lane behind him on the left is Tekau from Trinidad and Tobago, and on the seventh lane is Jipuruto from Kenya. Coincidentally, these two are the semi-finalists of his group No.1 and No.2.

Hernandez and Le Clos, the two top players who control the flow, are on the sixth and third tracks respectively, and on the fourth and fifth tracks are Gardiner of the Bahamas and Morris of Grenada .

When all 8 contestants on the scene are in place, the lights are completely extinguished at the special entrance where the contestants appear, but in the huge stadium, the lights are still not all lit up, only 9 light strips on the track, and the audience at the scene Under the attention of , a set of specially customized light strips shined.

On the ring-shaped track, a special virtual projection is projected onto the track, combined with the content of the big show composed of light strips, the music full of Qatari local style resounds throughout the audience, while on the track are 8 small lights that surge like waves. People, circle the field for a circle on the circular track. Finally, the light strips go out, and the ground lights on the track turn on one by one. Under the special design, the lights only illuminate the complete track of 400 meters, and the area outside the track is still full of darkness. It was so dark that the audience in the auditorium could only focus on the track and watch this men's 400-meter sprint battle, which can be said to be the pinnacle of the world.

Domestic audiences who were following the match, some of whom had never watched the World Championships before, were stunned by the organizer's flamboyant player introductions and how they appeared on stage.

【_(:3)∠】_I'm so stupid, I thought that the players in sports competitions are very simple, what's going on tonight?I was stunned. 】

【Um?Didn't you watch the men's [-]m final?Brother Yu's appearance in that game was also very coquettish, this is now a regular routine for the finalists of the World Championships to appear on the stage. 】

[Passing melon road, this appearance made me so excited... I thought I entered the talent show by mistake, but don't say it, it's really pretty! 】

Now those who are in the mood to post barrage on the public screen have big hearts. Even if most track and field fans already have [-]% guesses in their hearts, they are still so nervous that their hands are sweating , sitting in front of the TV, not even in the mood to watch the barrage.

In the previous 800-meter final, Huang Yilun's small group of die-hard fans of the 400-meter sprint were still talking to each other. Of course, what they were talking about was not about the content of the competition. Come together during the day today, I was excited at first, fidgeting and waiting for the evening game to start.

When the night game really started, as one event after another progressed, they became less and less afraid to mention things related to the night game in the group.

Huang Yilun doesn't know what the old horses in his group did when they were nervous. Anyway, he has paid attention to the local tyrant track and field fan who bought a hot search and apologized for Su Bai because of his bad mouth on Weibo.【 The Great Sage runs fast], this guy just donated an unknown amount of 44 yuan and 8 cents to the public welfare project on Weibo today.

Of course, the Great Sage doesn't run as fast as Qiu Wen's funny guy. He didn't choose to post his donation to Weibo at the same time, and the reason why Huang Yilun was able to know it was purely because he also chose to donate for peace of mind.

Then, on the real-time donation status of that public welfare project, I saw a whole row of names belonging to 'The Great Sage Runs Fast'.

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Well, since Fang Yu's donation and the follow-up incident of Qiu Wen's donation, track and field fans have regarded it as a kind of psychological comfort for peace of mind, especially the public welfare project donated by Huang Yilun, because the earliest That fan's donation to Fang Yu, and later Qiu Wen's donation are all here, so he has become an 'Internet celebrity' in public welfare projects.

Huang Yilun was thinking about these scattered things wildly in his mind, just to distract himself from the tension in his heart, but when Shao Minyi's voice on the TV said, "The game is about to start", he still breathed nervously. lag.

It's time to start!

At the scene, all 8 players were already in position on their respective tracks.

Among the eight players, Zhang Ziyi is undoubtedly the one with the worst performance. Except for him, the worst PB of the other players is 8 seconds, which is 44 seconds away from his 51 seconds. gap.

Thinking of this gap, Huang Yilun felt a little depressed, but then he looked at the remaining 7 players on the track except Zhang Ziyi—all black players.

Yes, this time in the 400-meter final, except for Zhang Ziyi, the rest were all black players, not even a white player.

This is a field completely occupied by the racial talents of black players, and Zhang Ziyi is the only one of a different color in this blackness.

"No matter what, it is already a victory and a miracle for Zhang Ziyi to be able to stand here as a Chinese player and an Asian player of yellow race!"

Shao Min looked at the situation on the field with emotion, and said: "In the preliminaries and semi-finals before, Zhang Ziyi used his magical speed to smooth the gap between Asians and these black players. The yellow man standing on this track is already the pride of all of us!"

Of course!

The audience in front of the TV echoed this in their hearts.

In the semi-finals the day before yesterday, although I knew that Zhang Ziyi was the first person of yellow race to enter the finals, it was only a mental shock. After watching the black players in the finals with my own eyes today, this vision It was the shock of the world that made them realize more deeply how powerful Zhang Ziyi was and what a great thing he had accomplished!

Doha Stadium, match scene

Zhang Ziyi was squatting on the starting line. Due to the special setting of the light strips on the scene, he could not see other areas of the field except the 400-meter track. And he was on the ninth track, and there were no competitors in front of him. As far as he could see, only A dazzling light, in this light, is the 400-meter track he is familiar with.

This is the first time for Zhang Ziyi to compete on such a track. He has clearly participated in a preliminaries and a semi-final on this track. Earlier, he had also run on this track during the Asian Championships.

But at this time, under the reflection of the lights, all of these seem so familiar and strange.

The audience at the scene was very excited, their excited voices were a little noisy, which made the track in front of Zhang Ziyi, which gave Zhang Ziyi a sense of dream, more real.

This is the track for the men's 400-meter sprint final at the World Championships.

This is his track!

When thinking of this, Zhang Ziyi closed his eyes, got rid of distracting thoughts, and focused all his mind on the game in front of him.

"No matter what, it's good to have no regrets."

In his mind, he remembered the words Su Bai said to him in the morning.

"You tried your best in the semi-finals, so you didn't get discouraged in the finals, and then ended the game casually, right?"

This was what Chen Yadan said to him when he passed by him shortly before departure.

Of course, he didn't work hard to get here just to end this final at random, so of course the way to not leave any regrets is...do your best now and fight one more time!

At the scene, the audience fell silent under the reminder of the broadcast. On the track, 8 runners had already squatted at their respective starting positions on the curved track.

During the broadcast, calm and clear voices began to be heard one after another.

"Everyone take their places."

"preparation."

After that……

"boom!"

"The match... has begun!!"

Li Sen loudly announced the official start of the competition, and after the competition started, the 8 figures on the track on the scene had turned into 8 dazzling meteors in the shadow of the lights.

"Zhang Ziyi's start is very stable, very good, keep it up!" Shao Minyi's voice was obviously nervous, and he emphasized: "Now that Zhang Ziyi is on the ninth track, he needs to control his physical distribution. If there are no other players in front of the stage, just run blindly."

After all, Zhang Ziyi is not Qiu Wen, he does not have the extreme physical energy supply ability of Qiu Wen, and at the same time, he is not like Qiu Wen, who seriously lacks control and awareness of his own rhythm.

His start was steady and fast. Although he was not as crazy as a beast in the semi-finals, his start today carried a sense of firmness from his heart.

In today's game, he is not competing with other players on the field, he is competing with himself to see what speed he can reach!

On the track, as usual, Hernandez and Le Clos are not the two runners who charge the fastest, but Gardinel from the Bahamas and Fraser from Jamaica are the fastest runners at the start .

Fraser's starting position is at the back of all the players, but his explosive acceleration is the most fierce. After the first corner, he approached Le Clos in front of him by a distance of almost 3 meters.

Zhang Ziyi at the front is also facing this situation. Behind him, Tekau of Trinidad and Dobag chased him very fiercely at the start stage, but Tekau's state today seems to be It was not as good as on the day of the semi-finals, after the obviously very fierce pursuit, it did not pose too much threat to Zhang Ziyi.

After the first corner, Zhang Ziyi was still at the forefront of the track. After all, there was a big gap in the distance between him and the other players behind him. It was not so easy for the players behind him to overtake him at this stage.

But after entering the first straight track, from the perspective of the auditorium and the camera, it can be seen that Gardiner, who is on the fifth track, far exceeds the speed of other players around him on the straight track.

This contestant from the Bahamas is in a very brave state today. On the fifth track, with his superhuman absolute speed, he ran the 400-meter straight track beyond [-] meters!

In the commentary seat, Shao Minyi's voice was also a little surprised: "This Gardinell, his split speed at this stage should have exceeded 10 meters in [-] seconds!"

Gardiner's speed was so fierce that even as he approached the second corner, it put pressure on Hernandez on the sixth lane in front of him, making this top master of flow control seem to start to calculate Released faster than originally planned.

At the second corner, Tekau, who was trying to get close to Zhang Ziyi, failed to pull Zhang Ziyi behind him with the obvious advantage of the second corner, but entered an infinite approach with Zhang Ziyi stalemate stage.

On the contrary, Ji Puluto on the seventh lane is still in good condition. At this stage, relying on the advantage of the seventh inner lane, he has rushed to the front of Zhang Ziyi.

On the innermost track of the second track, Jamaica's Fraser rushed to the front half after the 200-meter stage after a fierce explosion at the start stage, but he was only on the last straight track After that, Fraser did not really occupy the first position.

At this time, there is already a clear demarcation on the track. Gardiner, Hernandez, Fraser and Le Clos are in the first group sprint.

The second group is led by Ji Puluto. The speed between Zhang Ziyi and Tekau is about the same. Behind them is Morris from Grenada. His condition today is obviously not very good. In the last place, there is still a short distance between Zhang Ziyi and Tekau.

On the track, although it is still in the Doha Stadium with a strong circulating refrigeration system, the mutual stalemate and mutual stimulation between the players, and the hard work of the players chasing forward step by step on the track make this area The area seems to be under the scorching sun, which is extremely hot!

Whoosh, whoosh...

It's the feeling of hot air being sucked into the throat, the excitement of sprinting forward when there is only the end of the track in front of you, and only your own goal!

run!

Rush forward, this is your pursuit of the limit.

This is... his desire to surpass himself and surpass his limits!

"Zhang Ziyi! Zhang Ziyi is currently in sixth place! He has already thrown Tekau behind him!"

"Very good! Hold on!"

"He is sprinting forward, trying to get close to Jipreluto in front! The last 50 meters! The distance between him and Jipuruto is very close, hopeful!!!"

As soon as Shao Min looked at the picture on the screen, he didn't care about the sweat dripping from his forehead to the corners of his eyes. He, Li Sen, and the tens of thousands of spectators in front of the TV were all staring at Zhang Ziyi on the track.

Overtake?

Still fail?

sixth?fifth?

The final 50-meter stage made everyone feel stalemate...

40 meters, 30 meters...

"It's even!!! Can you successfully overtake?!"

Shao Minyi's voice was hoarse and tense, making everyone's scalp tingle, and then everyone's eyes followed Zhang Ziyi closely, watching him and Ji Puluto still staged an overtake and draw in the final 30-meter stage. ... and overtake again.

In the end, Zhang Ziyi crossed the finish line with No.6.