The next day, all competitions had entered the finals and the events ended one after another on the venue grounds.
Guo Lei stared at the class points table, unable to do anything.
The boys had tried their best to obtain points, however, the overall level of the boys in five classes of the third year students had risen significantly. There were several events in which Guo Lei had been certain of getting first place that they had not gotten. Things could not continue on like this.
For the final relay event, the boys were better and the girls were weaker. Their class could not even gather up four capable people.
Hao Dong Min patted him on the shoulder, “Relax, we have already done our best.” He had a hopeless and helpless tone.
It was arranged the same as yesterday with the 200 metre final in the morning and 100 metre final in the afternoon. The relay would be after all the other events were over.
The only good news now was that Sun Ying had won second place in the women’s shot put event just now, earning a precious four points for the class.
The 200 metre final was about to begin. With the episode from yesterday, the referees for today had been replaced with the most experienced physical education teachers. Moreover, there were obviously more spectators today than there had been in the previous years and there was a lot of hope for the 100 metre final.
Wu Yu Mei came early. After hearing Guo Lei’s report, she was also worried.
Su Mian stood at the starting point for the 200 metre race. She was now well known by students in all ten classes.
“That thin and tall one is called Su Mian, the dark horse of the 200 metre race.”
“She has such a good body and can also run fast, how can other people live?”
“Maybe it was just good luck yesterday. We’ll see for real today.”
On the field, the spectators were ecstatic. The students of third year class six had long taken good standing positions to cheer for Zhang Yan Jie and Su Mian.
Su Mian still had bad luck this time and had been assigned to the outermost track again. In the history of sprint races, there had never been a championship winner who ran in the outermost track.
Zhang Yan Jie was in the middle track and Yang Qian was on her left. It could be said that the odds were in her favour.
She walked up to Su Mian and said in a low voice, “Su Mian, how about it, it’s not too embarrassing to give up now, but if you come last, you’d be very disgraced!”
Outsiders looking on thought that the two runners from the same class were discussing skills and strategies. They would never have expected Zhang Yan Jie to say this.
Su Mian straightened up and said, “Zhang Yan Jie, I really admire you. I really wonder who taught you how to speak nonsense? Competitions focus on participation, what shame is there for me to be able to hold on until the end? Yet you, are you afraid of not being able to run as fast as me, and cannot back down gracefully?”
When Su Mian hit the nail on the head, Zhang Yan Jie still said stubbornly, “I’ll be afraid of you? I’m afraid you won’t get a single point and embarrass the class.”
“The race has yet to begin, how can you be certain that the one who embarrasses the class will be me and not you? You’re just afraid that I’ll run faster than you! Zhang Yan Jie, prepare, it’s more convincing to speak with strength.” After Su Mian finished speaking, she did some warm-up exercises.
Only then did Zhang Yan Jie leave awkwardly. She was indeed afraid that Su Mian would run faster than her. She had watched Su Mian’s race yesterday and she was not worse than those seeded runners, which she had never expected.
Now she was a little suspicious that Su Mian was not just casually sprinting. The 200 metre race was much more difficult to run than the 800 metre race. Without practicing, it was impossible to grasp the speed and rhythm so well.
Yesterday, Su Mian had made an incredible counterattack in the last 80 metres. She could still remember that now. Surely Su Mian was not hiding something? She looked again at her warming up seriously, completely like a rookie, and felt relieved again.
“Everyone to their places, get ready!”
Bang!
The gunshot rang and eight people charged forward on the tracks like lightning. Su Mian was on the outermost track with no one in front of her. After the two races yesterday, Su Mian now knew more about her endurance and explosive power.
