The Young Urban Doctor

Chapter 511: Chapter 511: Isn’t She Going to Show Up?

The Fall Sports Festival at Yan University’s main campus opened to much anticipation.

It was an event eagerly awaited by a great number of students.

Compared to the welcome party, the threshold for the sports festival was much lower; as long as you were willing to sign up, there was basically a chance to participate.

Unlike the welcome party, which required you to have some artistic talent or a specialty in some area.

If you signed up for the sports festival without any special skills, at worst, you wouldn’t place, which wasn’t really embarrassing.

It was also an opportunity for many to show off their strengths and attract the opposite sex’s gaze. It was a platform for making friends with people of the opposite sex, as the spirit squads would go wild during the event, and students from different classes and even disciplines would mingle to varying degrees.

If a boy and girl caught each other’s eye by chance, it could lead to something special.

This was the age when young men and women were flooded with hormones, feeling the strongest desires for the opposite sex.

Luo Ziling often teased the three guys in his dormitory, calling them “in heat.”

Under Cao Jianhui’s coercion, Luo Ziling had no choice but to sign up for the sports festival. After looking at the list of events, he chose running.

Because to him, running seemed to require the least effort.

In the high-altitude mountains, he could run several kilometers in one go, and quite fast at that.

Although he didn’t know his exact time for the 100 meters, or for the kilometer, he was still quite confident in his abilities.

Cao Jianhui was also very confident in Luo Ziling’s abilities and thus encouraged him to fill up on six events.

Luo Ziling signed up for six events, all of them running, surprising his classmates.

Naturally, his competition schedule drew the most attention; the girls in his class who admired him, and even students from other classes and colleges, were all inquiring about what events he had signed up for and when he would be competing.

The sports festival took place on two athletic fields, one belonging to the Medical College and the other to the Humanities College.

The two fields were not far from each other in a straight line, just a few hundred meters apart, both standard stadiums. The only difference was that one field had a standard soccer pitch, while the other, which would host the field events, did not have a standard soccer pitch.

The opening ceremony was held on the field without the standard soccer pitch.

The athletes participating in the sports festival, dressed in their beautiful sportswear, assembled on the field, while the stands were filled with students not taking part in the event. During the opening ceremony, the place was packed, and seeing the stands filled with people, the noise buzzing in one’s ears, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but exclaim at the sheer number of students at Yan University.

Today, Luo Ziling was dressed as usual. To avoid attracting more attention, he still wore his large glasses that obscured his face. Last night, he had seen on the forum that news of his participation in the sports festival had leaked, leading to a frenzy among the girls. Many girls said they would come to cheer him on. Seeing the thread extend to over a hundred comments gave him quite a shock.

The opening ceremony was enthusiastic yet long-winded, and the stirring “March of the Athletes” initially ignited the students’ passion. However, the successive speeches given by the leaders wore down many people’s patience.

In the stands and among the athletes, some were already cursing the school leaders for eating too much breakfast and talking such nonsense.

Luo Ziling, however, didn’t mind. He stood behind Cao Jianhui, who was holding the class sign, curiously observing the bustling field.

Attending a sports festival for the first time in his life, he felt a little excited.

After the opening ceremony, the formal competition began.

Luo Ziling’s six events were spread over two days.

The 100m, 200m, and 400m preliminaries took place today, with the finals scheduled for tomorrow.

The 800m finals and preliminaries were both today, with the preliminaries in the morning and the finals in the afternoon.

The 1500m and 5000m had only finals, no preliminaries, which also took place on the first day.

Luo Ziling’s first event at the sports meet was the 800m preliminaries.

Since the 800m preliminaries started quite early and Luo Ziling wore an ugly pair of oversized glasses, not many people came to watch. The only ones who cheered him on were his male and female classmates and some well-informed girls from the next class.

There were three students from Clinical Medicine Class 1 signed up for the 800m race.

Luo Ziling was in the first batch of students running the preliminaries.

In the preliminaries, his performance took everyone by surprise.

During the two-lap race, he ran at a fast pace throughout without any noticeable changes in speed.

At the start, when classmates saw him breaking into a run, many were afraid he would run out of stamina and shouted at him from the sidelines.

But Luo Ziling finished the race at that pace, shocking everyone.

When Luo Ziling finally crossed the finish line, he was nearly a full lap ahead of the last runner. Such an abnormal gap shocked all the spectators. With a time of one minute and forty-eight seconds, Luo Ziling broke the school sports meet record with an abnormal result.

Upon being informed of the result, the chief judge nearly bit off his own tongue.

This result was less than two seconds off the Asian record, with the world record being around one minute and forty-one seconds.

At a university sports meet, a student’s result under two minutes is already incredibly impressive.

After all the preliminaries were over, Luo Ziling was the only one whose time was under two minutes. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

It seemed there was no question about who the champion would be; no one ran faster than Luo Ziling.

After the 800m preliminaries ended, the 100m and 200m preliminaries were held on the track.

As for students like Luo Ziling, who entered so many running events, he was the only one in the entire school.

While there were a few students who ran the 100m and also entered the 200m and 400m, it was only Luo Ziling, the abnormal one, who registered for both the sprints and long-distance events. Luo Ziling’s 800m preliminary result had already begun to ferment in the forums, and many students came to watch the excitement with a hobbyist’s interest, yet even more planned to witness Luo Ziling’s performance during the finals in the afternoon.

But to everyone’s surprise, Luo Ziling ran astonishly good times in the 100m and 200m sprint preliminaries. His 100m preliminary result was ten seconds four, and for the 200m preliminaries, it was twenty-one seconds one. These two results, of course, broke Yan University’s records as well as the university sports meeting records.

On the university forums, there was instant madness. Pictures of Luo Ziling in the competition appeared in many posts, and the number of girls who commented that they definitely would come watch Luo Ziling’s remaining races reached a terrifying figure.

Of course, Luo Ziling didn’t pay much attention to this; it was Li Fuming and Wu Longjiang from the cheerleading team who told him about it.

But to Luo Ziling’s regret, Yang Qingyin did not appear at the field.

This woman, did she not want to come watch his race, not willing to cheer for him?

Luo Ziling felt a bit disappointed inside.