After Leaving the Sports Circle, I Became a Cooking God (Completed BL)

Chapter 209-210

When the new competition venue was set up, Pei Jin'an nervously muttered, "I wonder how Fang Yu's condition is today for the upcoming race... I also don't know if he can qualify."

In today's schedule, the most crucial events in the sprint category are two: the just-concluded men's 400 meters preliminary race and the men's 100 meters semifinal.

The men's 100 meters individual event takes place on the first three days of the World Championships: preliminaries on the 27th, semifinals on the 28th, and the main event, the men's 100 meters final, on the 29th.

To make it to the final of the men's 100 meters, Fang Yu needs to first overcome tonight's semifinal.

The men's 100 meters semifinals are divided into three groups, each with 8 athletes. The top two from each group directly advance to the final, and the two athletes with the best remaining times among those who didn't finish in the top two also qualify.

Reaching the final in the semifinal stage represents a significant difficulty increase compared to the preliminaries. In the preliminaries, the field is halved, but in the semifinals, only one-third of the athletes will make it to the top-tier competition.

While looking back at past performance records, running within 10.10 seconds is typically sufficient to comfortably advance to the semifinals, transitioning from the preliminary stage to the next day's semifinals demands that athletes maintain excellent form consistently. Maintaining a stable performance over multiple consecutive rounds of competition is often more challenging than producing a single outstanding result on any given day.

Can Fang Yu maintain his performance stability?

In yesterday's preliminaries, he clocked a time of 10.08 seconds. Can he replicate this performance today in the semifinals and secure a spot in the final?

The answer to this question is yet to be determined as the competition has not yet started. The viewers in front of their televisions can only wait in silence, anticipating Fang Yu's appearance and hoping to witness the miracle of a Chinese athlete making it to the top-tier competition in the men's 100 meters sprint!

"Xiaobai, do you think Fang Yu can do it?" Pei Jin'an couldn't hold back any longer and asked Su Bai this question.

Su Bai didn't give a direct answer but simply smiled and said, "I believe he can."

On the warm-up field outside the main stadium, as the men's 100 meters semifinals approached, Fang Yu had already arrived and started his warm-up preparations for the upcoming race.

Accompanying him on the warm-up field was another Asian face – Shoyo Komatsu from Japan.

Shoyo Komatsu is the current holder of the Japanese national 100 meters record in recent years. Before this year, his personal best (PB) was 10.01 seconds. However, in this year's Japanese National Athletics Championships, with the assistance of a strong tailwind at 1.8 meters per second, he achieved an impressive time of 10.00 seconds.

Breaking the 10-second barrier seemed within his reach, but he hadn't quite achieved it yet.

In yesterday's preliminaries, Shoyo Komatsu ran a time of 10.18 seconds, securing his place in today's semifinals as a supplementary qualifier.

Shoyo Komatsu and Fang Yu were acquaintances. After a brief greeting when they crossed paths during warm-up, they began their preparations for the upcoming race.

In today's competition, Shoyo Komatsu and Fang Yu were assigned to the same semifinal group, making them direct competitors in today's race.

When the staff members responsible for guiding the athletes appeared, Shoyo Komatsu and Fang Yu exchanged smiles and greeted each other. Then, they calmly walked towards the preparation area, awaiting their turn to compete.