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

Chapter 199-200

Translator: dapotaturs

Release Date: 10/02/2023

Chapter 199: Final Sprint Before the World Championships & New Personal Bests

From June to August, there weren't any major competitions. The most anticipated event during July and August was the Diamond League. However, in the national team, only top female athletes like Liu Jiaonan had the qualifications to participate in the Diamond League. As for male athletes like Fang Yu and Wang Shen, their performances this year had already placed them in the top 20 in the world rankings, but they would have to wait until the next season to qualify for the Diamond League.

Of course, despite the lack of major competitions, the members of the national team continued to compete abroad. After all, the deadline for achieving qualifying standards for the World Championships on August 31 was approaching.

For those national team athletes who had not yet secured their qualifications, they naturally couldn't stop striving to improve their performances. For those who had already secured their qualifications, they tried to participate in more competitions, using them as practice to maintain their competitive edge and gradually peak their form.

During this time, the coaching staff of the national team arranged a series of European training meets for their athletes in various events.

For a while, the athletes traveled to countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK to participate in a dense schedule of competitions.

It should be said that this dense schedule had its benefits. During these two months of competitions, there were athletes like Wang Shen, who treated each race as practice to adapt to different conditions, and then there were those like Qiu Wen, who ran each race with a carefree spirit.

Compared to Zhang Ziyi, who had somewhat restrained himself according to Su Bai's requirements, the names of these two athletes, the "Chinese Qiu" and the "Chinese Li," became even more famous among international 400-meter athletes during this period.

The former became well-known because Qiu Wen approached each race with full energy, making many athletes doubt whether he was really adjusting his competitive form properly, or perhaps his form had indeed not reached its peak?

Whether it was Qiu Wen's boundless energy or his disruptive pace when running in the outer lanes, many international athletes who had competed against him still had lingering fears.

Many athletes had privately expressed: 【This guy should never appear in any lane other than the innermost one!】

And this guy, who made many opponents feel exhausted with his disruptive running style, once again improved his personal best. He lowered it from 45.27 seconds to 45.17 seconds. While successfully resetting his personal best, he also left the competitors in the same race feeling exceptionally tired.

As for the latter...

During this period, Li Junhao participated in a total of four races. Just as Su Bai had mentioned when he first adopted the controlled-flow running style, Li Junhao hadn't completely mastered the rhythm of this running style yet. To truly run with a controlled-flow, luck still played a significant role in most cases.

His luck was decent. In two races where he couldn't achieve a controlled-flow state, his times fell to around 45.70 seconds. However, in the two races where he successfully achieved the controlled-flow rhythm, he finally managed to reset his personal best to 45.28 seconds, securing his qualification for this year's World Athletics Championships.

On the women's side, Lin Huan and Lin Yao didn't give up on their pursuit of the qualifying standards for the World Championships in the 400 meters. After the World Relays Championships, they returned to individual 400-meter events, and their performances were gradually improving.