Chapter 154 I am the champion
"Win!!!" Just as Li Tian rushed over the finish line, the entire arena was completely boiling. The audience in the stands were excited, laughing, and cheering. Regardless of whether they knew each other or not, many audiences enthusiastically hugged the people around them, venting their passion and excitement to everyone.
"Ah...! Long live...! Dad, Xiaotian won the championship! Xiaotian has become the world champion, Xiaotian has become the world champion!..." Zhao Rong in the stands hugged her father's neck and jumped and screamed hard, not caring about the image of the girl at all, but no one would pay attention to her at this exciting moment, because everyone was like her.
"See, I see! Xiaotian has become the world champion, China's first 100-meter world champion!" Zhao Qingguo murmured to his daughter, with irresistible trembling in his words. The focus of his eyes was tightly locked on his crazy-shaped son through dozens of meters. Suddenly, he couldn't help but stretch out his excited hands to hug his wife and daughter tightly into his arms.
"A Hundred-meter world champion! The Chinese dreamed of a championship for half a century, and today it finally came true. Good Xiaotian, we will be proud of you!" The members of the coaching team sitting next to the Zhao family were all red in their eyes and tears appeared. As Li Tian's enlightenment coaches, they spent four years together day and night, and the coaches devoted almost all their efforts to cultivating him, step by step as he grew from an ignorant child of eleven years to the current world youth champion, realizing the dream of several generations of Chinese track and field people. At this moment, no one can be more excited and satisfied than their hearts. Several old men hugged each other, laughed with satisfaction, and let the irresistible tears of excitement slide down their faces.
"Ah...! Who said that Chinese athletes cannot dominate the 100-meter track? I am the champion! I am the world champion!..." Li Tian, who rushed through the finish line, suddenly opened his arms like a proud eagle, roared to the high stands, and tried his best to vent the surging passion in his heart. "World Champion!" What a loud title, what he longed for most for many days and nights, in this moment, everything became reality.
"Let the cheers and applause come more violently!" After venting, Li Tian closed his eyes gently, raised his head, stood quietly in the stands, listening to the audience cheering for his victory.
"Li Tian, champion! Li Tian, champion! Li Tian..." Responding to Li Tian's passion, the audience at the scene started to clamor even more crazily, with bright and dazzling five-star red flags waving vigorously, and the red storm swept the entire arena. The champion belongs to Li Tian, belongs to China, and belongs to all Chinese people.
"Wow! Refreshed again!" Li Tiancai came to his senses amid a huge aura and slowly turned around in the direction of the audience's gaze and looked back.
"9 seconds 84!" This result that can make everyone excited is suddenly displayed on the giant electronic screen behind him. Li Tian once again improved the 100-meter score of the world youth record, the Asian record and the Chinese national record to a position that almost no one can shake.
"Okay...!" Li Tian waved his arm excitedly. He was extremely satisfied with this result. Not only could he set three new records in a row, but he was also the best score he had ever achieved in the 100-meter event. What's more valuable is that it is only one percent a second away from the current world's best score of 9.83 seconds this year. This result was created by the American star Gatlin, a recognized sprinter in the field, at the National Championships held two months ago. The gap of one percent is no longer a gap, which means that he is now fully qualified to launch a powerful challenge to Gatlin's dominance.
Just as Li Tian was paying attention to his competition results, dozens of domestic and foreign media reporters who were specially approved by the event organizing committee to enter the competition area for interviews, rushed towards Li Tian's position with an aura of no less than the world sprint champion. In just a few seconds, the camera, microphone and recorder were blocked around Li Tian.
"Li Tian, Li Tian." Dong Rina, a famous sports reporter from CCTV Sports Channel, the leader of China's sports media, rushed to the front of other media colleagues and pulled Li Tian to her side. The cameraman following him immediately started the camera and conducted a live interview.
"Li Tian, congratulations on winning the 100-meter championship of the World Youth Track and Field Championships. This is China's first world sprint championship in the true sense. Facing the audience who are waiting to support you in front of the TV, do you have anything to say?" Dong Rina was also very excited to hand the microphone to Li Tian's mouth, waiting for his answer.
After venting passion, Li Tian gradually calmed down. When facing the reporter's question, he did not answer. Instead, he took off his upper body match suit in public and turned it over in surprise.
"I thank everyone for their support, and that's what I want to say to everyone!" Li Tian showed the inside of his competition uniform in front of everyone. Only then did all the reporters around him clearly saw that there were two lines of bright red words written on a white lining of the competition uniform. Li Tian said firmly and powerfully:
"I'm the champion!"
"Honor belongs to China!"
Two confident words instantly spread throughout China through radio waves and spread to all over the world. The audience waiting in front of the TV was boiling, and cheers were more excited than the moment when Li Tian won the championship just now, because Li Tian showed the confidence and pride of being a Chinese to the whole world.
"Li Tian, this morning, a newspaper reported that you were injured before the game, which made many sports fans very worried about your physical condition. What are your explanations? Today, you seem to be in good condition. Is this a smokescreen released before the game?" A very uninteresting reporter asked this question at this time.
"Thank you for your concern for Li Tian. This touched me very much. I didn't have any injuries. I just caught a cold in the rain yesterday. In order to worry about affecting the game, I specially found a doctor for examination. As for the smoke screen, I felt it was completely unnecessary. I only believed in strength, and the result was that I won the championship."
"Hello Li Tian, I am a reporter from ESPN of the American sports TV station. Now you have attracted a lot of attention in the United States. You think you will become the best track and field player in China. Some people even think that you will become 'Forrest Gump of China' in the future. And it is very coincidental that you and Mr. Johnson have both been taught by Coach Hart. What do you think about this?" The American reporter learned that Li Tian's English skills are very good, so he asked a question directly in English.
"I am very happy that everyone recognizes me. Mr. Johnson is a great player. It is my honor to be able to compare me with him, but I don't want to be a copy of anyone. In the future, I will only become 'Chinese Li Tian', and Mr. Johnson is my goal to surpass him." Li Tian's confidence surprised American reporters. To surpass 'Forrest Gump' and be 'Chinese Li Tian', even in the United States, a country with many track and field geniuses, no one dares to imagine.
"Li Tian, what goals do you have to do in the 200m final that will be held soon?" Seeing that Li Tian was about to leave, the reporters seized the time to raise the last question.
"I always have only one goal, that is, the champion. I believe my performance will not disappoint everyone later!" After saying that, Li Tian pushed away the reporters around him, waved to the audience, and walked towards the players' rest area. The cold was not healed. Such a fierce competition was not only the rapid consumption of physical energy, but also the mental consumption was also very huge, so he had to return to the rest area immediately to recover, because what was waiting for him in thirty minutes would be a 200-meter decisive battle.
When he returned to the rest area, the first person who came to congratulate him was the teammates of the National Youth Team. Li Tian won the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation in this World Youth Championship, and it was also the most valuable gold medal. The players were all happy and encouraged by the boss's victory.
Next, the other opponents who had just shook hands with Li Tian were the other opponents who had just played the 100m final with him. For this 16-year-old Chinese boy, they were full of respect at this time. Although they were all the best among young players in various countries, the 9.84-second score was simply unimaginable for many of them. Maybe they would never reach this level if they worked hard for a lifetime. Competitive sports will always be a world of strong people.
Of course, Wright and Bolt are impossible to come up to congratulate him. After losing the game, Wright looked as if he was so naughty that he was defeated by a Chinese boy three years younger than him, which made him unacceptable. But this is an unchangeable "terrible" fact. He wanted to use the excuse of abnormal performance as an excuse to comfort himself, but the 9.92 seconds he ran in the final just now was the best result he had ever run.
Chapter completed!