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

Chapter 205-206

Translator: dapotaturs

Release Date: 10/02/2023

Chapter 205: Men's 400-Meter Preliminaries - Qiu Wen

McNair had a vivid impression of the Chinese athlete 'Qiu,' not because he didn't know that, in terms of personal performance, Qiu Wen was actually not as good as many of his opponents. It was Qiu Wen's completely unpredictable running style that gave him a headache.

Athletes like McNair and his peers had almost instinctual sensitivity to speed and rhythm. When running the 400 meters, everyone had their own natural rhythm. Especially when in poor form, they relied on the inertia of their body's rhythm to run. At such times, when a player like Qiu Wen appeared, sprinting recklessly at the start and then completely disregarding the established rhythm, it was a real headache.

This feeling was just unbearable.

When McNair saw Qiu Wen's name, he almost simultaneously recalled the fear of following Qiu Wen and being dominated by his chaotic rhythm.

It was a little after 3 PM when the national team arrived at the venue. In addition to coaches like Su Bai, athletes like Qiu Wen, Zhang Ziyi, Li Junhao, and others went directly to the backstage rest area after registration. After resting and organizing themselves, they waited for the right time to go to the warm-up area and prepare for their races.

For the Chinese team, there were a total of four key events today: men's 400-meter preliminary heats, men's 100-meter semifinals, and the men's and women's 50-kilometer race walking finals.

Among them, the last event, the men's and women's 50-kilometer race walking, was considered a strong suit for the Chinese team. Both events had full Chinese participation. However, race walking events took a long time and had lower spectator appeal, so there weren't many people paying attention to them.

It was now a little after 8 PM local time in China, and someone on the Athletics Kingdom forum had already posted the lineup for the men's 400-meter preliminary heats. Immediately, track and field enthusiasts gathered to analyze the evening's preliminary heat situations.

Just like when they first saw Qiu Wen's group assignment, many track and field enthusiasts couldn't help but burst into laughter when they saw McNair's name.

Indeed, McNair was the foreign athlete who had competed against Qiu Wen the most times. Despite having a personal best of 44.62 seconds, which even surpassed Zhang Ziyi, every time he faced Qiu Wen, he stumbled, giving it an almost mystical sense of fate.

In the world of sports, there are actually many examples of this phenomenon, but most of them are in sports like table tennis and tennis. Athletes, due to their own technical characteristics, have a strong inhibitory effect on a particular opponent and are often dubbed as "killers" of that opponent.

And Qiu Wen...

To be honest, is he a "universal killer"?

【Hahaha, no, give McNair a candle. He's in lane eight, following Little Qiu perfectly. Go, Little Qiu, go! I'm rooting for you!】

Of course, there were those who laughed and those who thought it was too early to laugh. If Qiu Wen lost to McNair, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

So many people advised everyone to leave some room for themselves and not speak so confidently in advance.

At this moment, people were discussing the men's 400-meter preliminary heats very seriously and nervously. However, when the topic turned to Qiu Wen, it couldn't help but take a strange turn.

However, looking at the group list, some people also raised questions:

【Wasn't it said that the maximum number of participants in an individual event is three? Why do I see four American athletes? Did I misread it... I counted it ten times!】