"Another rising sprint star in China! 6.50 seconds shines in the audience." A front page of the Austrian Morning News with Su Bingtian starting and crossing the line appeared on many media around the world the next day, especially in European and Chinese media.
, and even more generously reproduced it.
Now that top players such as Su Feng and Bolt have disappeared due to winter training, news like this can easily grab some front-page headlines.
And after some media found out that Su Bingtian and Su Feng were the same master and came from the same school, this trend became even more intense.
Compared with the more cautious foreign media, the Chinese media are much more generous.
After all, Su Bingtian's 60-meter result is indeed too strong!
Achieving such a result at the age of 19, and being Su Feng's younger brother, he has considerable potential. Even if he cannot become the second Su Feng, he may still become a top sprinter.
However, at this time, Su Bingtian had not yet seen this trend in China.
After all, he was abroad at this time and it was difficult to see domestic news.
At the same time, people like He Jun who can directly contact Su Bingtian will definitely not take the initiative to tell him this in order to provide him with a better environment. This will add a lot of pressure in vain.
At this time, Su Bingtian had flown across the English Channel and arrived in Birmingham.
Birmingham is the second largest city in the United Kingdom after London. It is second only to London in population and area. It is located in the center of England. It is on the iron wheel trunk line connecting London to Liverpool, and the transportation is very convenient.
Birmingham has the youngest population in Europe. It has been rated as the city with the best quality of life in the UK for three consecutive years. It has more than 1,900 world-class companies, R&D centers, and innovative enterprises. It is a vibrant and prosperous business area and a major city in the UK.
Manufacturing center.
Birmingham has a wide variety of industries, mainly heavy industry. It has the largest scale of metal processing in the world. Ferrous metallurgy, non-ferrous metallurgy, aircraft, chemicals, military industry, automobile industry, etc. are all very developed.
In recent years, the economy has been shifting to the tertiary industry, and the financial industry and tourism have developed rapidly.
In the following years, the IAAF Diamond League and the IAAF World Indoor Championships were held here, and it was known as the European Sports Capital.
At the University of Birmingham Stadium, Su Bingtian, who had finished the Linz Indoor Games, was training here.
The University of Birmingham was founded in 1825 and has a history of nearly two hundred years.
On March 17, the Birmingham Indoor Stadium was filled with more than 20,000 spectators, which is very rare in indoor track and field events.
The reason is naturally not Su Bingtian's participation, but that Asafa Powell has completed his winter training and set the first stop in 2009 here.
At the press conference before the game, Powell confidently said that his strength has improved greatly compared to last year and will challenge Su Feng and Usain Bolt. At the same time, he threatened to break the men's 60-meter indoor competition.
World record!
This undoubtedly attracted a lot of public attention, especially in a big city like Birmingham, where it easily attracted tens of thousands of spectators.
After all, 2008 has just passed, and the biggest sports news in 2008 is not which team won the Champions League. This happens every year. The biggest sports news is that Su Feng and Usain Bolt both ran 9.6 seconds in the men's 100 meters.
Marginal results.
Powell is one of the two strongest competitors and a former world record holder. It carries enough weight to make such remarks at this time.
"Bingtian, your challenge today is not small. You don't have to fight with Powell. He is not something you can challenge yet." At this time, Liu Yuxiang and Su Bingtian were sitting in the audience on the sidelines, watching the competition of all the athletes.
Liu Yuxiang did not participate in today's game, and Su Bingtian's game was also in the afternoon. He came with Su Bingtian.
At this time, it became clear that there was no problem with professional coaches. Neither Jiang Yun nor Li Guoliang could give Su Bingtian enough help. On the contrary, Liu Yuxiang, who had gone through countless competitions, could help Su Bingtian adjust his psychology.
Powell's participation this time indeed exceeded many people's expectations.
After all, if there is a long winter training, the first stop after the winter training is usually some grand prix. Unexpectedly, Powell came.
Although Su Bingtian has watched Powell's matches on TV countless times, and even watched the match between Powell and Su Feng live, he still felt a little nervous about competing on the same stage.
"I said, don't look so serious. In fact, think about it, how many times has Powell lost to Su Feng, and how many times have you competed with Su Feng? You are not even afraid of Su Feng, so why are you afraid of Powell?"
"Brother Liu, I know." Su Bingtian took a deep breath. He was not a talkative person to begin with, and even more so at this time. Liu Yuxiang's comfort had some effect, but he still had to make adjustments on his own.
In the afternoon, 14:30 London time.
After completing the inspection, Su Bingtian came to the exit of the corridor. As soon as he turned a corner, he saw that familiar yet unfamiliar figure, Powell!
He was one of Su Bingtian's goals before 2004, and after 2004, Powell's performance got better and better every year. Even though he has been stolen by Su Feng and Usain Bolt in the past year or so, he is still the best player in the world.
One of the strongest sprinters!
Su Bingtian was in the first lane, and Powell was in the fourth lane. When he saw Su Bingtian walking by, Powell himself was slightly startled.
For a moment, when he saw the red figure, he thought it was Su Feng coming, but after taking a closer look, he realized it wasn't.
After all, although the two people have black hair and yellow skin, there is still a big height difference.
"Is it another Chinese player?" The registration was done by the coach. Powell came to the UK directly from Jamaica and did not read the news in Europe. He did not know the news about Su Bingtian. It is understandable that there was a brief misunderstanding after seeing it at this time.
Can be forgiven.
Soon, eight athletes began to appear, and almost all of the loud cheers in the room were directed towards Powell.
"That guy means that Su Feng is not here, and there are no tigers in the mountains." Liu Yuxiang looked at Su Bingtian with a serious expression in the stands, wondering if he would be affected, and silently complained in his heart.
Indeed, if Su Feng came, Powell would never receive such attention, and Su Bingtian would be under much less pressure.
He understands the pressure of facing the world's top players alone. This is how he got through it at the time. Now let's see how Su Bingtian's pressure resistance is?
Soon, eight people arrived at the starting line.
"Hi, do you know Su Feng?" Powell asked Su Bingtian proactively before the starting line.
"Ah, I know him, he and I are the same master." Su Bingtian had studied English assiduously before going abroad. At this time, he was stumbling and his pronunciation was not standard, but the general meaning was still clear.
"Oh?" Powell's eyes flashed and he continued to ask: "Are you Su Feng's junior brother?"
"Yes."
"Do you know when Su Feng will participate in the competition?"
"It seems that it will start in Osaka, Japan. It has been like this in previous years."
Powell nodded, not knowing what he was thinking, and then the two ended the conversation.