Chapter 134 First place in the group
Just like physical education classes, the only requirement for the school sports meet is that you cannot go back to the classroom. Whether you are participating in the game or watching and cheering, you can only move around on campus.
Such rules are not a big deal for most students. Instead of reading in the classroom, everyone would rather join in the fun outside.
Even Liu Zhiyi, who was always quiet, had no intention of sneaking back to the classroom at this moment. She took Xu Cailing's arm, and the two girls joined in the fun at the stadium.
When Liu Zhiyi was studying in the city, the school also held a sports meet, but to her at that time, this kind of event seemed to have nothing to do with her. She was like an outsider, and she neither participated in the competition nor had any interest in watching the competition. Even if she could not return to the classroom, she would probably find a quiet place to sit and read.
But now it is different. She has an unprecedented sense of participation in the school sports meet of Baitan Middle School. Not only can she cheer for her good friends who are participating in the competition, she has even signed up for the competition herself!
Compared with schools in big cities, Baitan Middle School is very small and the school sports meet is very shabby, but for the students here, it is particularly fresh and lively.
There are about five or six hundred teachers and students in the school, and they are gathered on the track and field, just like a large-scale physical education class.
Due to the limited conditions of the school, this school sports meet will focus on track and field events, and the schedule has already been finalized.
The events held this morning mainly included the 4-meter sprint, 100-meter sprint, and the preliminaries of the *-meter relay.
The preliminaries will directly select the places for tomorrow morning's finals, so the performance in the preliminaries this morning is also crucial.
The first thing to start now is the men's 100-meter sprint preliminaries. According to the number of registered participants, the preliminaries are divided into six groups, with six people in each group. Only the top six boys in the preliminaries can advance to the 100-meter sprint final tomorrow morning.
As the first game of our school's first sports meet, even though it was only a preliminary round, the attention it received was unprecedentedly high. Both sides of the short 100-meter track were packed with people from all grades and classes.
Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi arrived early and squeezed in front of the best viewing spot near the finish line. Peipei, Yushan, Ye Xiaoli and others were also next to them.
On the other side of the track, A Sheng was huddled together with the boys in his class.
Don’t ask where Fang Wei has gone. Fang Wei is now preparing at the starting line of the track!
As luck would have it, he was in the first group in the preliminaries, and in the same group with him was Lu Jialiang from the same class.
This time, five students from Class 2 signed up for the men's 100-meter race, and the other three students were in the group at the back. However, everyone knew that the fastest boys in the class were Fang Wei and Lu Jialiang.
"Cailing, after the men's 100-meter preliminaries are over, will it be your turn to compete?" Liu Zhiyi looked at Fang Wei at the starting line in the distance, and then looked at Xu Cailing beside him.
"Yes, after we finish the 4-meter and 100-meter races, Zhiyi, you will also be on the field! It's the preliminaries of the x relay race! Are you nervous?"
"A bit..."
Liu Zhiyi's heart couldn't help but beat fast just thinking about standing on the runway in front of so many people.
She looked at Xu Cailing's excited expression again and asked, "Cailing, are you nervous?"
"Haha, it's okay, I feel very excited now!"
"excited?"
Xu Cailing couldn't describe the exact feeling. Maybe she was a little nervous, but more excited. She felt like she had endless energy.
"It would be great if I could have another pair of eyes. I'd really like to see what's going on over there at the starting point." Xu Cailing said regretfully.
"Yes." Liu Zhiyi also nodded.
After all, the 100-meter track is so long that you can only choose one position to watch the race, and you can't cheer for Fang Wei from a close distance.
At the starting point, the competition was about to begin.
Fang Wei and Lu Jialiang walked onto the track and did some simple warm-up exercises.
Fang Wei looked up in the direction of the finish line. From the huge crowd, he accurately spotted Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi standing next to the finish line, so he raised his hand and greeted them.
"He saw us!"
The two girls were excited and raised their hands to respond to him.
Classmates from the same class were distributed in the front, middle and back, and the one standing in the front row was Wen Susu, who was holding a camera.
Fang Wei also raised his hand and greeted Wen Susu, and Wen Susu took the photo with a click.
Two physical education teachers, Mr. Niu and Mr. Wang, served as referees. Mr. Wang shouted commands at the starting point, and Mr. Niu kept time at the finish line.
"Grade One and Two, Fang Wei, "
"To!"
"Grade 1 and 2, Lu Jialiang,"
"To!"
Teacher Wang confirmed the arrival of the first group of participating students. Among the six students, only two of them were in the first grade of junior high school, and the other four were in the second and third grades of junior high school.
In terms of physique, the participating students in the second and third grades of junior high school are obviously much taller. Fang Wei is the shortest in the first group and has a clear disadvantage in terms of height and leg length.
If all the people present were athletes, Fang Wei would have planned to lie down, but few of the current contestants had done any special training. Even if they were a little shorter than the students in the eighth and third grades of junior high school, Fang Wei felt that he could still outrun them.
After all, these days, apart from Cai Ling who was training, he was not idle either!
"Everyone stand on the runway and get ready."
Fang Wei was in the second lane. The original loess track was painted with straight track lines using white lime, and a red rope was drawn at the finish line.
"Fang Wei, come on, come on!!"
Wen Susu cheered him on, then holding her camera, she did not stay at the starting point but went straight to the finish line.
As the school's specially-invited photographer, Wen Susu has the right to 'stand anywhere' and can bring her camera to find all kinds of perfect viewing angles.
Xu Cailing had a flash of inspiration, and she pulled Liu Zhiyi to sit next to Teacher Wen to get her viewing angle.
Over there, the game was about to begin.
There were students from all grades and classes on the field, and they all cheered for their classmates.
"Liu Huakun! Come on!"
"Wang Chunlin! Come on!"
The students in Class 2 heard this and were not to be outdone. They shouted at the top of their lungs, “Come on Fang Wei! Come on Lu Jialiang!”
Of course, there were cheers from Cailing, Asheng and Zhiyi. Even the usually quiet Liu Zhiyi shouted very loudly at this moment. When her voice suddenly rang out, it scared Xu Cailing and Wen Susu.
The two girls looked at her in unison. Liu Zhiyi blushed and stopped shouting...
"Everyone is in position——"
"preparation--"
"Beep——!"
The whistle blew, Teacher Wang waved his hand, and Fang Wei, Lu Jialiang and others on the track rushed forward with all their might! !
The atmosphere inside and outside the venue reached a climax at this moment. Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi widened their eyes and stared at Fang Wei on the second track, cheering for him again.
Fang Wei didn't care about their cheers anymore. He didn't dare to hold back and sprinted at full speed! !
He started off pretty fast and was in the lead in the first half!
But in the second half, his disadvantages of height and long legs became apparent, and other players began to close the gap with him little by little.
If your legs are not long enough, make up for it with your stride frequency!
Fang Wei's legs were moving like a Hot Wheels and he was about to be caught up, but he was always just a little bit short.
The short 100-meter track passed in a flash. The students on both sides only felt a gust of wind flashing in front of them. When they came to their senses, Fang Wei had already crossed the finish line first!
"Oh~~!! Fang Wei is first!! Lu Jialiang is second!! The first two are both from our class! Awesome!"
The people in Class 2 who were waiting near the finish line cheered. Xu Cailing, Liu Zhiyi and Wen Susu, who had just finished taking a photo, also came over. As if to welcome heroes, everyone gathered around Fang Wei and Lu Jialiang.
Teacher Niu, who was in charge of timing, also announced the results.
"First in the group, Fang Wei from Class 13-11, seconds!"
"Second in the group, Lu Jialiang from Class 13-23, Junior High School, seconds!"
"Third in the group, Wang Chunlin from Class 13, Grade 69, seconds!" The results of the top three were very close. Fang Wei didn't know if he had a chance to advance to the finals with this result. Anyway, he had already exhausted all his energy. Compared with the result in the last physical education class, he improved by almost half a second. He was quite satisfied with himself. After all, sprinting was not really his strong point.
Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi handed him a bottle of water.
This is a treatment only for students in Class 2, because Wen Susu bought two boxes of water at her own expense, and also bought a box of snacks for her classmates to eat and drink.
"Fang Wei, you run faster than before! First in the group!" Xu Cailing said excitedly.
"How amazing!" Liu Zhiyi also said.
"what……"
Fang Wei blushed at the compliment, "I'm only first in the group. I don't know if I can make it to the finals with this result."
"Of course you can!" Wen Susu said this. She looked at Fang Wei with a smile, an expression of surprise as if she was saying, 'Your physical fitness is as good as your academic performance.'
"Teacher Wen, you dare to insult me too!"
Fang Wei smiled and looked at Xu Cailing again: "It's up to you now!"
"It's still a while!"
"It will be very soon!"
It was indeed very fast. Soon, all the men's 100-meter preliminaries were finished.
Fang Wei just made it to the finals with the sixth place overall, and in the final circle of the 100-meter sprint, except for him, all the others were students in their second and third years of junior high school.
After the men's 100m preliminaries ended, the women's 100m preliminaries began soon.
At the school sports meet, girls' enthusiasm for signing up was obviously not as high as boys'. There were only four groups in the women's 100-meter preliminaries, with only five people in each group.
"Which group is Cailing in?"
"Group 4!"
Although it was the fourth group and it was still a while before her turn to perform, Xu Cailing had already started warming up.
Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi accompanied her and observed the competition of other girls' groups.
It seems... there's nothing to worry about.
After the first two groups finished running, the best result was only 14 seconds, which was not even as good as Cai Ling's result in physical education class. There was a huge gap...
Fang Wei didn't know what mentality to use to watch Cai Ling's game. Wasn't there any suspense at all?
That's why Fang Wei didn't go to the finish line to watch the race. Instead, he just watched it from the starting point and could cheer her on.
Soon, the first three groups finished the race.
"I'm ready to go on stage! Hold my clothes for me!"
Xu Cailing took off her coat and jumped around on the spot.
The high-intensity exercise in the early days made her legs very sore, but fortunately she has recovered to her best condition in the past two days, and the girl is in full swing.
She let her shoulder-length hair down, held a rubber band in her mouth, and put her hands behind her back to tighten her hair, then tied it tightly with another rubber band. Her heroic eyebrows and eyes were sharp, like a natural athlete.
The giggling smile on the girl's face also faded, and she looked straight ahead with a determined look, showing a seriousness that Fang Wei had never seen before. He didn't expect that Cai Ling also had such charm!
"Will you be nervous?"
"I feel...excited!!"
"..."
Well, it seems that Cailing is still a big-game player!
Mentality is extremely important. Many players perform very well in training matches on weekdays, but their performance is poor when they enter the official competition.
Seeing Cai Ling like this, there is no need to worry at all.
"Cai Ling! You look so cool and handsome!" Liu Zhiyi on the side couldn't help but say.
"Huh?" Xu Cailing was stunned. Isn't this the word she usually uses to praise Zhiyi? How could it be used on her?
"That's right! The brand!"
Xu Cailing looked at the white T-shirt on her body and then she remembered that she had missed something. She quickly took the jacket from Fang Wei's hand and put the label with "Grade 1-2" printed on it onto the left side of the white T-shirt.
"The fourth group of contestants have started preparing!"
"Track 1, Class 2-3, Zhang Liwen,"
"Track 2, Grade 1, Class 2, Xu Cailing,"
"..."
"I'm going to play!"
"Come on Cailing!" said Liu Zhiyi.
"Go, go, go!" Fang Wei said.
A Sheng also waved to her at the finish line.
Xu Cailing stood on the runway.
"Everyone is in position——"
"preparation--"
"Beep——!"
The girl's attention was more focused than ever before. She seemed to be unable to hear or see the cheers from outside the stadium or the people around her. All she could see was her own track and the red line at the finish line.
The moment the whistle sounded, Xu Cailing rushed out!
She runs so fast!!
It immediately caused a burst of surprise from everyone around!
There was a men's 100-meter race in front, and the spectators around, when watching the women's 100-meter race, felt that this group of pretty girls were running so slowly as if they were taking a walk, which was both healthy and pleasing to the eyes.
The appearance of Xu Cailing directly broke this "leisurely" atmosphere of the game.
It was like a super high-speed fighter jet that accidentally entered a fleet of civilian aircraft, displaying its excellent speed and skills to the extreme, instantly pushing the atmosphere of the stadium to a climax!
"Shit! Who is this girl? She runs so fast!!"
"Which class?"
"She has a brand on her chest."
"I can't see clearly!"
From the start, Xu Cailing was far ahead!
As time and distance went by, this lead was not only not caught up, but the gap became wider and wider!
In the second half, she couldn't see any other contestants nearly ten meters behind her!
Everyone's eyes were focused on Xu Cailing. The other contestants were not even qualified to serve as foils because they couldn't get close to her at all!
Such a highly individualistic display of absolute strength made the 100-meter race more lively than ever before. They were all young boys and girls, and who would not be excited to see such a scene?
The boys and girls in Class 2 cheered for her at the top of their lungs!
Wen Susu was also stunned. After she came to her senses, she quickly raised her camera.
Before the atmosphere on the field could continue to build, Xu Cailing pushed her upper body forward and rushed directly across the finish line!
The red ribbon was hung on her body, and she ran away with it for a long distance...
"First in the group! Xu Cailing from Class 13-04! seconds!"
(End of this chapter)
