An Open Arena

Su Bingtian is a name that glued many Chinese to their televisions for the Olympic Summer Games Tokyo 2020. The 31-year-old sprinter made history on August 1 as he became the first Chinese to qualify for an Olympic Men’s 100m Final, after setting the new Asian record of 9.83 seconds in the semifinal. He finished sixth with 9.98 seconds in the final.

“Su, come on, man. We did it!” Randy Huntington, Su’s American coach, said after the race in an interview with China Daily via video link, adding that Su gave 100 percent in the semifinal already, a tough feat to repeat in the final.

Huntington was among those foreign coaches