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

Chapter 90: Six Nations Combined Challenge - 110m Hurdles Finals

Translator: dapotaturs
Release Date: 09/04/2023

At this point in the schedule, it was already late afternoon, and the morning's drizzle had disappeared. Sunshine was now gracing the competition area.

The cleaned track had little to no traces of rainwater left, and the slight humidity on the track no longer had any impact on the athletes.

On the 110-meter hurdles track, Cui Luoheng, Lu Mengfan, and Zhao Yankai of the Chinese team were positioned in lanes 4, 5, and 7, respectively.

In the remaining 5 lanes, the only athlete who posed a slight threat to these three 110-meter hurdles athletes from the Chinese national team was Takakazu Komatsu from the Japanese team. He had previously won the only medal in this event at the Asian Games, excluding Cui Luoheng and Lu Mengfan.

Unlike earlier events like the 400-meter sprint, after Cui Luoheng's rise in the Asian Games, his personal best in the 110-meter hurdles was the best among all Asian athletes in 2018. With Cui Luoheng and Lu Mengfan both competing, China had a certain dominance in the 110-meter hurdles event within Asia.

In the meeting room of the S Province Athletics Team:

The Asian Six Nations Athletics Challenge was closely watched by athletics teams at all levels across the country, and the S Province Athletics Team was no exception. Coaches such as He Yishen, Zhao Heping, and Zhou Wen had been following the entire competition over the past two days. They couldn't help but marvel at the achievements Su Bai had made since joining the national athletics team.

"Who would have thought that this guy, Little Bai, would become a coach in less than a year?" He Yishen looked at the screen where the 110-meter hurdles race was about to start and said with emotion, "Qiu Wen and Ah Heng, these two kids owe a lot to Little Bai."

Zhou Wen, the hurdles coach for the S Province Athletics Team, was originally Cui Luoheng's head coach. Even though he had handed Cui Luoheng over to Su Bai's guidance half a year ago, he never stopped keeping an eye on Cui Luoheng's progress.

He watched Cui Luoheng's journey from a 14.57-second time in the beginning of the 2018 season, to later achieving 13.57, 13.47, and finally, an astonishing 13.37 to win the gold medal at the Asian Games. Seeing him now standing confidently in the center of the track, even outperforming Lu Mengfan, made him feel deeply moved.

"Indeed, this kid, Little Bai... Qiu Wen and Ah Heng do owe a lot to him. But he's more than just the one who brought Qiu Wen and Ah Heng back."

Su Bai, being a product of the s Province Athletics Team himself, even though he now held the position of a national team coach, he had always carried the mark of the S Province Athletics Team. Over the past year and a half, his achievements as a coach had brought great honor to the S Province Athletics Team.

"All right, the race is about to begin!" As they spoke, the announcer on-site gave the command, "On your marks." The highly anticipated 110-meter hurdles race, which had turned into something of an "internal battle," was about to start!

On the track, after the starter's gun went off, Cui Luoheng walked to the starting blocks. He crouched down, placed his hands on the track, and then, with a powerful leg drive, he hopped onto the starting blocks.

After more than half a year, he had gained enough experience to control and adjust his hypersensitivity before the start of a race like today's. But he couldn't help but think of Su Bai before every race, or rather, he wished he could see Su Bai, to hear those words of encouragement directly from him.

Cui Luoheng didn't know how he developed this mentality. Although he hadn't spent much time with Su Bai personally, as Su Bai's focus had shifted to more athletes, like Qiu Wen and the others, Cui Luoheng remained an exception, showing an inexplicable trust and closeness to Su Bai.