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

Chapter 225-226

Translator: dapotaturs

Release Date: 10/09/2023

Chapter 225: Smooth Qualification & Results

From starting in sixth place to crossing the finish line together with McCLeod!

Regardless of who came first between the two, Cui Luoheng has successfully secured one of the two direct qualification spots in the second group of the semifinals along with McCLeod!

This result instantly relieved the audience, who were anxious just moments ago due to Cui Luoheng's slow start.

In the stands, Jiang Wentao felt like his shirt was soaked with sweat. From the start of the race until the third hurdle, Cui Luoheng, who had fallen far behind, had made them extremely anxious. For a few seconds, Jiang Wentao even thought that this time, qualifying was probably hopeless.

However, starting from the fourth hurdle, Cui Luoheng's speed increased rapidly, and the sensation of watching him overtake competitors from the back was incredibly thrilling, causing Jiang Wentao to feel his scalp tingling.

They won.

They qualified smoothly!

Jiang Wentao looked at Cui Luoheng, who had already stopped at the end of the track, and let out a long sigh of relief.

On the track, Cui Luoheng was looking back at the track he had just run, reminiscing about the feeling he had during the race.

Unlike in the past when he controlled his perception to the minimum, this time, he had no control over this heightened perception. At the start of the race, this feeling was unfamiliar to him. Fortunately, over the past year, his instincts during training had become ingrained in his bones, allowing him to quickly adapt.

By the middle of the race, he had gradually adapted to this heightened perception. What benefited him the most was not just the detailed perception of the distances between hurdles but a more wondrous sensation.

It was as if time had slowed down, and in the same amount of time, he could perceive and utilize more. With this sensation, he had more time to think on the track. More importantly, his judgment of his own technique, details, and the threats from other competitors had become more accurate. All the available time became more abundant.

It was this sense of abundant time that allowed him to keenly perceive the height of his clearance over the hurdles and the potential for further compression.

Cui Luoheng knew that this sensation was mysterious, but it wasn't the first time he had experienced this "time-slowing" perception.

Usually, athletes would gather together during training or privately to discuss their states and techniques in training and competition. They would not only discuss with fellow athletes in the same events but also with those from different events.

For example, sprinters and long jumpers would communicate with each other about some techniques, and high jumpers would discuss with sprinters about the starting techniques that would suit them best.

During their chat with Qiu Wen and Wang Shen, Qiu Wen had once marveled that high jump was all about that moment of exerting force, feeling like there was nothing in his mind, and then he cleared the bar.

At that time, Wang Shen had said that, in reality, after takeoff, he could still think about many things, such as the height he had reached, the way he should exert force to clear the bar, or whether there were any mistakes in the point of force during takeoff, and how he should adjust in the air.

After countless training sessions, athletes' familiarity with and control over their bodies were beyond the reach of ordinary people. To the average person, a short sprint lasting just over ten seconds or a split-second jump might not seem like a time to think about many things, but in fact, athletes' minds were rarely blank during the competition.