Chapter 65
The applause continued on the court because Li Tian's group was the last group of the 400m preliminaries, and the next one was the 400m hurdles. The staff of the event organized the event needed some time to place the railings, which gave Li Tian more time to accept the cheers of the audience. When Li Tian approached the stands and greeted the audience at close range, many young track and field fans rushed to the side of the stands, stretched out their hands to hope to touch the talented player from China. More people stretched out the prepared paper and pen from the stands and asked Li Tian for his autograph.
Li Tian has seen such a scene on TV countless times. Just like the IAAF's Golden League and the World Track and Field Championships, every player who won the championship has the opportunity to slap high fives with many supporters and sign autographs for these track and field fans. This seems to have become an international practice. Whenever Li Tian sees this scene through the TV screen, he feels excited and fantasized about the day he can accept the highest courtesy given by the audience like those champions galloping in the international arena. However, today, in this arena, he finally got this opportunity.
With great excitement and pride, Li Tian stretched out his right hand and started jogging along the edge of the stands, allowing his hands to touch countless track and field fans with warm body temperature. He occasionally stopped in the middle and wrote his proud name on the prepared autograph for the fanatical audience. The media reporters present would not let go of the current scene, because only in the preliminary stage of a college-level competition, a Chinese teenager from the far east could quickly get such recognition from the audience. This has never happened in the history of German track and field. They raised their cameras and took photos at Li Tian.
The good times always pass very quickly. The staff on the scene placed the stairs for the man's 400-meter hurdles in just five minutes, and the 400-meter hurdle preliminaries are about to begin. Although Li Tian wanted to shake hands with every audience who supported him and also wanted to sign autographs for every track and field fan who loves him, he now had to leave the arena and return to the warm-up area behind after waving goodbye to the audience.
Back at the players' warm-up area, he saw Walter, who was ready, and saw Li Tian's wonderful performance continuously, and even he began to try the game.
"How about it?"
"Hehe! I haven't felt this way for a long time. Maybe because of the influence of your competition just now, I am really eager for the competition now. And you have such an outstanding performance in front of you. If I perform too badly, then I will be quite shameful, and I will also embarrass the academy!" Walter joked with a relaxed look on his face.
"Then I can only wish you excellent performance!"
"Just watch my performance!" Walter and Li Tian tacitly hit their hands and walked into the game with confidence. Excellent athletes have a strong competitive heart, and excellent athletes will also stimulate and influence each other. Walter is undoubtedly a very outstanding player, otherwise he would not have become a German champion at the age of 20. Although he is not in the same competition event as Li Tian, when he saw the craze caused by Li Tian's competition, his heart, which is also highly competitive, was deeply stimulated and became excited. He also wanted to show his style on the field.
Walter was ranked fourth in the first group, which was the most favorable pass. Li Tian watched him step onto the starting device confidently through the window in the warm-up area.
Walter has no other opponent in this competition, the only opponent is himself. He originally regarded this competition as winning honors for the academy, but now he is very eager to surpass himself again and again like Li Tian.
When the referee's starting gun fired, Walter rushed out with all his strength. His good rhythm between the bars and excellent bars passing skills were his great weapons. When he ran at high speed, his bars were brisk and graceful, and he would basically not lose much speed after passing the bars.
"Hey! Why did Walter start to compete in the preliminary stage like Xiaotian? He has no opponent at all!" Kozer, the highest-height player in the "four" (the main player in the German track and field team's high jump event, 196CM), and the most energetic guy asked in confusion.
"This is not a question of whether there are opponents or whether it is a preliminary round! Do you think Walter can still treat this game calmly after watching Xiaotian's outstanding performance just now and the crazy scenes of the audience? At least I can't do this. Kozel, are you not excited at all after watching Xiaotian's game?" Lobeck asked at him with contempt.
"How could it be! I was very excited when I saw it!" Kozel said quickly.
"Yes! Even I want to come out and compete happily!" Kaedman next to him said: "Xiaotian is indeed a very influential person. It's not that he is so well-known, but that he can always lead others through his own efforts and performance. Isn't we constantly practiced more and more during this period of time being influenced by him? He always trains until the latest one every day, and his training attitude makes us ashamed, so when I train with him now, I am more serious than when there were coaches before. Maybe you haven't noticed this, but we are indeed being influenced by Xiaotian little by little. People with his ability are really rare!" Kaedman sighed softly.
As they were talking, Walter crossed the last railing and rushed through the finish line at high speed. The distance ahead of the second place was about twenty meters long. Walter was also very excited after crossing the finish line. Although he had not shown his results yet, he felt that he was in very good condition this time and ran very smoothly, and he was likely to create his best score.
"47 seconds 97!" When the electronic display screen made this series of numbers, Walter rushed to the stands excitedly. He really ran the best in his personal history and even reached the 48-second mark, which was 0.2 seconds higher than his previous best. If he could run such a result in the last World Championships, he would never be eliminated in the semi-finals.
"Hahaha...! Xiaotian, I really can't believe that I really ran into 48 seconds, haha..." Walter rushed back to the warm-up area of the backcourt and was a little excited. He started to hug everyone and kissed him randomly. Many "innocent boys" were tragically "poisonous mouths". When they saw Li Tian, they immediately rushed towards him, scaring Li Tian so much that he turned around and ran away.
Chapter completed!