In the blink of an eye, several seeded runners surpassed Su Mian. That pace was akin to the wind.
This was the death group. Up until the last moment, it was unknown who would be able to enter the preliminaries.
Su Mian ran at Yang Qian’s speed and only accelerated when she saw that she was behind.
Guo Lei covered his eyes. It was hopeless. With Su Mian’s sluggish walking speed, how could she compare with those seeds?
Zhang Yan Jie looked smug, “What did I say, Su Mian has no sense of collective honour at all. See, a place was wasted in the end.”
Hao Dong Min’s face sank when he heard this, “Don’t jump to any conclusions until the final moment!” This Zhang Yan Jie, the race was not going well and she was talking so sarcastically.
“Look, look, Su Mian caught up!” It was unknown who shouted, but it brought everyone’s attention back to the field.
Guo Lei stared with eyes like a bull, “How odd, is that Su Mian on the field?”
After 100 metres, Su Mian was almost just ten metres behind. After catching up all the way, in the end, she and the seeded runners reached the end at the same time.
“What did Su Mian place?” Hao Dong Min got up hurriedly and stretched his neck to look at the finishing line. Their position was suitable for watching the first half of the race, but they could only watch the runners’ backs for the second half.
At this time, the runners did not leave immediately. It seemed like several of the teachers were arguing.
They were disagreeing!
Seeing that it didn’t look good, Hao Dong Min and Guo Lei quickly went to the finish line.
Sure enough, several teachers were now unsure who finished first and were swearing.
This era was not as advanced as later generations with cameras and infrared rays. In this era, they could only rely on eyes and stopwatches.
Thinking about it, five or six people had reached the finish line together and the teachers’ hands stopped the watch slightly differently, so the results were different.
In the end, the teachers were arguing endlessly. The organising committee decided that Su Mian’s group would race again and the two groups were decided based on their scores. Now the first group would have four people and the second group would also have four people.
This was fairer to Su Mian and her group. After all, they had just finished running and even if they rested for half an hour, their physical strength would definitely still be affected.
As soon as the rules were made, Zhang Yan Jie became happy. Like this, she would be able to enter the finals. She had originally been worried since she came third in her group, and there were four to five seeded runners in Su Mian’s group, so her results were very uncertain.
Guo Lei and Hao Dong Min also breathed a sigh of relief. At least Zhang Yan Jie had been promoted now.
This also led to Su Mian and the others directly entering the heats round. Who would have thought that the 200 metre preliminaries would have to be redone and that four to five seeded runners would be grouped together.
It was packed with standing spectators outside the track. What happened just now had spread from tens to hundreds of people by word of mouth. It was unexpected that the 200 metre preliminaries would be so fierce. Some classmates who were originally studying in the classroom and even the teachers came over to watch.
This time, the referees had been completely swapped out to some of the physical education teachers who were the most qualified. Usually, these teachers rarely participated in things like sports games.
Now that they had been invited to come out, it seemed like the school had attached great importance to this competition. This also embodied the principles of fairness, justice, and openness.
This situation had really caught up with that of the 100 metre finals!
“Su Mian, come out, just do your best!” Wei Min cheered for Su Mian. She had rushed over with Liu Xiao Hui and Wan Li Li.
They had originally thought that Su Mian would definitely be eliminated and had never dreamed that Su Mian would actually catch up to the few seeded players towards the end.
Hao Dong Min shouted, “Su Mian, come on, you can advance, I believe in you!” After noticing Su Mian’s amazing explosive power in the last dozen metres, he was already anticipating Su Mian’s performance!
