Chapter 245: Remove the Obstacles (1/2)

Chapter 245: Remove the Obstacles

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Kun Shen changed the specialized competition trainers, looking hesitant.

”Tingshan Chen managed to find us some opportunity after he made a scene,” Yueyang Zhu said as he tied his shoes. ”I will not show you mercy during the competition. Try your best if you want to make it to the relay team.”

”They didn't say we can join the relay team if we win.” Kun Shen didn't seem happy.

”At least this is an opportunity. We have to seize the opportunity that Tingshan Chen fought to get us!” Yueyang Zhu said.

Kun Shen felt sorry for Tingshan Chen whenever he heard Tingshan Chen's name. Tingshan Chen was going to have a tough time after this, no matter what the result was.

Not far away from them, Tingshan Chen looked immensely proud. He didn't realize what kind of situation he was in. He quickly walked over to Kun Shen, smiling. ”Brother Shen, I did a great job, huh? You have to buy me meals soon.”

”Sure, the meal is on me!” Kun Shen smiled awkwardly, judging Tingshan Chen silently. This fool thinks he is some kind of hero. He would be counting money for the guy who sold to him. He made his bed; let him lie in it.

Dong Qian and Yihao Wu, representatives for the relay team, were ready for the competition.

”Hey Coach Li, are there only two athletes in the competition. Are the other two not coming?” Xiaochun Gao groaned.

”The relay team is for relay games. Two athletes for the curves while the other two run the straightaways. We are having a 100m sprint race, so the two athletes in charge of straightaways will take part in it. The other two athletes are practicing for the curves. I wouldn't mind having them participate if we were having a curve race,” Dai Li answered.

Xiaochun Gao didn't argue. He understood nothing about professional sports terms, so he just kept his mouth shut in case he made another mistake.

Weidong Chu felt diffirent about this though. He surely supported Dai Li, but he didn't have faith in the two athletes Dai Li had picked for this race. If it had not been Dai Li, but another guy dealing with this, this ridiculous competition would not even be happening.

Dai Li still looked confident. As he had predicted, Dong Qian and Yihao Wu were way better than their three opponents, including Tingshan Chen. And this was his big achievement from the latest three months.

The moment when Dai Li had picked Dong Qian, he knew Dong Qian had potential. His weaknesses would be easy to overcome, and once he overcame them, he would improve a lot.

In the three months of training under Dai Li, Dong Qian had continued correcting his shortcomings. Dong Qian was not bad in the beginning, and over time he became better. It was only because Dong Qian was one of the members of the relay team and didn't get involved in self-testing programs that people didn't know he had improved to a higher level.

Yihao Wu, on the other hand, was in a different situation. Dong Qian was already mature in some skills even though he had some shortcomings, while Yihao Wu had not formed his own technique yet.

Yihao Wu was one year older than Tingshan Chen, and he had just gotten promoted from the youth team. The ”mixed up” training style of the youth team would not help athletes grow.

To Dai Li, Yihao Wu was like a blank sheet of paper that welcomed all possibilities. Because of this, when they were first starting out, Dai Li taught Yihao Wu the technique system of the national team. Compared with the other athletes on the provincial team, Yihao Wu was at a higher starting point, and avoided unnecessary detours.

Young people were better at learning new things, so in the following few months, Yihao Wu grew a lot. And with a top coach like Dai Li, Yihao Wu got chances to improve faster. He was now just as good as Tingshan Chen. With the help of the explosive force halo, Yihao Wu could even be better than Tingshan Chen. Also, because they were all training for the relay team, Yihao Wu hadn't attended the most recent competitions in the past three month either. This meant that no one knew about his progress.

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Altogether there were five athletes in the match. The rest of the members of the relay team didn't join the match.

The younger athletes, as well as the average ones, thought the relay team wouldn't achieve anything even if they were going to the games, so they didn't want to embarrass themselves. The experienced athletes who had practiced for years also didn't want to get involved in the race either, as they knew it was a competition that had excellent athletes.

It was not an official match, so they didn't use an electronic timer to keep time; instead, they found five coaches to time the race, holding stopwatches in their hands and standing at the finish line.

Although there wasn't an electronic timer involved, they used an electronic starting gun. A starting gun was usable, safe, and economic, as it could be used for a long time once it was charged.

The old fashioned starting gun was no longer popular these days. The existing starting guns had been produced years ago. This country had a strict rule about guns, so even though they were only used for races as starting guns, bullets were banned. In addition, the approval process for production was extremely strict; manufacturers wouldn't bother making them, and decided to make electronic ones. The electronic guns now didn't look like guns at all, but game handles.

The announcer shot the starting gun and shouted, ”Everybody, get ready…” The five candidates were all ready to run.

With the sound of the gunshot, the five athletes shot out from the starting line like bullets.

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”Wow…” The crowd was in awe.

”How come?”

”Dong Qian is in first place!”

”Yihao Wu runs so fast!

In the race, Dong Qian was first among the runners. The other four were at similar positions.

Kun Shen, Yueyang Zhu, and Tingshan Chen were all good sprinters, so it wasn't strange for them to run at the same speed; it was to everyone's surprise that Yihao Wu was running so fast that he had caught up to them.

It hadn't even been one year since Yihao Wu had been promoted from the youth team. He was still considered a freshman on the track and field team, and hadn't been given opportunities to attend formal games. Freshmen like him had to practice for two or three years before they could compete publicly.

But now, Yihao Wu's performance was surprising everyone watching. Dong Qian had surprised people even more, as he was currently in first place.

On the sprint team, Dong Qian wasn't the worst, but he was not the best either. However, Dong Qian was running faster than Kun Shen and the other three, and the gap between them widened as the race went on.

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Dong Qian is ahead of me! How did that happen? Am I running too slow today? Kun Shen looked around and noticed that Yueyang Zhu and Tingshan Chen were running at the same pace as him.