After Leaving the Sports Circle, I Became a Cooking God (Completed BL)

Chapter 75: Unexpected Events in the Preliminaries & Su Bai's Decision

Translator: dapotaturs
Release Date: 09/04/2023

In the morning of that day's 400-meter preliminaries, whether it was the women's 400 meters or the men's 400 meters, they all delivered performances far exceeding the records of previous years. In the women's 400-meter preliminaries, both Chen Yadan and Lin Yao achieved times below 53 seconds. Additionally, three of the 4x400 meters relay team members from the national team also performed impressively.

Moving on to the men's 400-meter preliminaries, it was nothing short of a fierce competition. In the national team, only Li Junhao couldn't participate due to his poor single-event performance this season. The remaining athletes, including Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Guo Dun, Lin Chuan, as well as those who had previously trained with the national team under Su Bai's guidance but had returned to their provincial teams for training, like Zhou Xu and Zhang Chang, and even athletes Su Bai had coached in the S province athletics team, Zhang Wei and Hu Li.

All in all, there were eight final spots, and not a single one was left for other athletes.

Initially, the audience hadn't realized this. It wasn't until noon when they left the venue to take a break that someone posted a thread on the Athletics Kingdom forum.

Topic: [Summary: What's the Commonality Among the 8 Athletes in the Men's 400-meter Final of the National Athletics Championship?]

Thread content:

>Zhang Ziyi: Under Su Bai's guidance, improved personal best.

>Qiu Wen: Under Su Bai's guidance, transitioned from a 100m and 200m athlete to a 400m specialist, repeatedly improved personal best within the season.

> Guo Dun: Under Su Bai's guidance, improved personal best.-

>Zhou Xu: Participated in the national athletics team's Asian Games training mainly led by Su Bai, improved personal best.- ...

The summary continued, pointing out how each athlete's performance had improved significantly under Su Bai's guidance.

Done summarizing, the poster found it a bit dizzying. The question was, if Li Junhao had participated today, who among these athletes would have missed the finals?

PS: By the way, this year's national championship was the first time all eight qualifiers in the preliminaries clocked under 47 seconds. Even the worst results, achieved by Hu Li and Zhang Wei, were 46.89 seconds and 46.95 seconds respectively. The top six athletes all stayed under 46.50 seconds.

(2017 National Championship Preliminary Qualification List and Results Screenshot)

The poster included the screenshot of last year's preliminary results for comparison. Looking at last year and this year's results, it was quite evident... The poster didn't need to say much more... and went off to get a drink.

Finally, the poster bowed to Coach Su Bai, who was present at the venue that day. Thank you, Master, thank you so much!!!

Comment 1: ... Damn?

Comment 5: I need to take a moment too. I knew this year's national championship results would be impressive, but I didn't expect them to be this impressive. In last year's preliminaries, only Zhang Shuai ran under 46 seconds. Everyone else was above 47 seconds. Just one year has passed, and who could have predicted this?

Comment 10: I bow to Coach Su Bai along with the poster. These results are incredible!

Comment 13: Why did you only post the men's 400-meter results? The women's team also achieved personal bests, and there's also Cui Luoheng in the 110m hurdles... Adding it all up, Su Bai has only been coaching these athletes for less than a year, and the results now, I'm genuinely starting to believe in miracles.