Su Bai, as a track and field athlete with no prospects, decided to retire due to a lack of hope for improving his results.
But when Su Bai officially submitted his retirement application, his...
Cui Luoheng left very quickly that day, but Su Bai, who stayed behind, was stunned for a while and spent a few minutes thinking about what he was thinking.
Su Bai was not good at dealing with such emotional troubles. After hesitating and struggling for a while, he temporarily put the matter aside and decided to let nature take its course.
The next day, when Su Bai arrived at the training venue to continue testing the members of the trial team, he unexpectedly saw Cui Luoheng appear in the training venue where the trial team was located.
Su Bai:?
Cui Luoheng's expression was very natural, and he said seriously: "I don't need to go home this holiday. If I stay with the team for training, we can train together directly at the trial team's venue. It will be more convenient for you, Xiaobai."
This makes so much sense, it's totally irrefutable?
Su Bai glanced at Cui Luoheng, who looked serious, with his mind and eyes focused on training. Although he knew what he was planning, he didn't say anything, but waved his hand and told him to go for basic training.
The 400-meter sprint trial team initially had 60 people. During the trial, after successive eliminations, there are only more than ten left now. Among the remaining candidates, there are still more male players and slightly fewer female players. However, Su Bai is not in a hurry. Among the female trial team members this time, Yang Yi, Ding Meng, and Zhao Yuhan are all extremely talented. With these three people, in cooperation with Lin Huan and Lin Yao, the women's team can achieve a smooth transition even after Chen Yada retires, and there will be no big problem in improving their results.
The selection of players for the women's team is relatively simple, and Su Bai has also made a rough decision in his mind about the selection of players for the men's team.
Jing Feibai, Hou Mingye, Zhang Jiale, Wu Tian, Qiu Mingjie and Zhuo Yutang, these six players are the final candidates initially selected by Su Bai. Among them, Zhang Jiale and Hou Mingye have undergone training. Su Bai's expectation for them is to make up for the talent gap in the 4x400m sprint relay and enhance the talent reserve of the 4x400m relay team.
With the addition of Zhang Jiale and Hou Mingye, Guo Dun will be under less pressure - Su Bai can sense that due to the difficulty in breaking through his own strength, Guo Dun has been under a lot of psychological pressure since the end of the World Athletics Relays in May. Although Su Bai communicated with him seriously during this period, Guo Dun's psychological pressure index still hovered on the edge of danger.
Including this World Championships, Su Bai has not found a player who can replace Guo Dun in terms of pressure resistance and performance. During the competition, Su Bai has always been concerned about Guo Dun's mentality. Fortunately, Guo Dun withstood the pressure of the World Championships and finally completed the competition perfectly.
However, if this state continues and Guo Dun is only locked in as a relay team member for a long time, it will obviously be unfair to him. Su Bai plans to train Hou Mingye and Zhang Jiale, who can replace Guo Dun to a certain extent. In addition, Guo Dun's own performance still has room for improvement.
As long as the training arrangements are reasonable, whether it is Guo Dun, Hou Mingye or Zhang Jiale, they can all compete for the final relay team starting spot. In addition, they will have enough energy to participate in other individual events to train and improve their individual performance.
Jing Feibai, Wu Tian, Zhang Jiale and Zhuo Yutang are all relatively young, and there is still enough time to train and cultivate them in the next few years. As they grow up and new players are selected every year, I believe there will be no problem in achieving a smooth transition of team members.
In the past few days, Su Bai has already made an estimate of the corresponding situation in his mind, and has also explained to the players of the trial team in advance that the final team assessment test will be carried out within the team today. This test was originally supposed to be conducted before the World Championships, but Su Bai was busy with matters related to the World Championships at the time, so the assessment test was adjusted to after the World Championships.
When Su Bai arrived at the training venue of the trial team, the players of the trial team were already sitting upright, waiting for Su Bai to arrive for the formal team assessment.
All the coaches of the 400-meter event under Su Bai have now arrived. When Su Bai traveled with the team to Doha, they had been watching the players of the trial team in training. The assessment results of the trial players in the past few days are also an assessment by Su Bai of their training results over this period of time.
"Relax your mind and play in good condition." Su Bai looked at the players in front of him, smiled, and then said: "Today is the time to check the results of your training during this period. Come on."
In the next test match, Su Bai led the players and coaches of the trial team to the outdoor field. Cui Luoheng, who had come early in the morning to say he wanted to train, did not leave after completing the basic training. Instead, he followed Su Bai to the outdoor field and watched the next team assessment test seriously.
There are not many players left, 8 in the female team and 10 in the male team. The assessment test within the team is simply divided into three rounds: female team test and male team ab group test.
During the more than one month since the internal testing was postponed, all members of the trial team, both male and female, have been working very hard under the supervision of the national team coaches. After all, for the members of the trial team, being able to enter the national team is their biggest chance at the moment.
When the first round of female players crouched at the starting point and prepared to start, the assistant coach who served as the starter shouted "Get set, get set", and then, with a "bang", the starting gun sounded, and the eight young female players on the track started at the same time!
Eight young female athletes are running on the track with burning fighting spirit.
To Su Bai, or to other coaches on the field, these players still have more or less technical flaws. Their speed and skills do not seem to be perfect, but they are filled with a fighting and upward spirit. This burst of enthusiasm is enough for the coaches present to see their plasticity and hope.
Just as Su Bai had expected at first, among the women's team, Yang Yi, Ding Meng and Zhao Yuhan are the three players who have been outstanding and top-notch in terms of skill maturity, physical fitness, mentality and willpower in recent times. In addition to these three people, in today's team test match, Su Bai also paid attention to a female player who originally made him hesitant, Lu Xiaolu.
Lu Xiaolu is the youngest of the 60 players since he joined the team. He is still a few days away from turning 15. He is a player with a somewhat delicate personality, which is very rare among students in sports schools.
The girl has been from a relatively well-off family since she was young and she is spoiled a lot by her family. It is said that she practices sprinting because she likes it and she is indeed talented.
However, even though she liked him, it was not so easy to change her spoiled character that she had developed since childhood. In the sports school, the coach often could not bear to discipline her because she was talented, acted like a spoiled child and cried a lot. This resulted in her basic training not being so solid.
She was selected into the trial team because of her talent. She was able to pass the screening layer by layer. In addition to the fact that she trained more attentively in the national team than in the sports school, her own talent of course played a big part in the reason.
During this period of time, Su Bai has also carefully observed Lu Xiaolu and is very impressed with her talent. However, Lu Xiaolu's personality has prevented Su Bai from making up his mind to put her on the big list.
Tryouts are tryouts, but if Lu Xiaolu really joins the national team, Su Bai is worried about whether she can withstand the pressure of subsequent competitions. He is also worried that with Lu Xiaolu's personality, can she bear the corresponding burden if she becomes a member of the relay team?
However, in today's test match, Su Bai saw a quality in Lu Xiaolu that made his eyes light up - stubbornness.
In the women's team test match just now, Lu Xiaolu accidentally fell hard while turning a corner. Although she was not seriously injured, everyone could see from the way she fell that it must have been very painful. Lu Xiaolu burst into tears at that time. The coaches around her were still worried and thought that she might give up the test match. As a result, she stubbornly gritted her teeth and held back her tears and ran the entire test match fiercely.
Although she was the last one to cross the finish line because of the fall and her young age, she gritted her teeth and insisted on running the whole course after the fall. Her determination and courage in the subsequent competitions won the unanimous admiration of all the coaches present.
Su Bai made up his mind after seeing how she was able to keep a calm mind after facing the accident and how she performed at full strength in the competition. He ticked Lu Xiaolu's name in the record book in his hand.
However, after ticking the box, Su Bai looked at Lu Xiaolu, who finally couldn't hold back her tears after reaching the finish line, and rubbed his forehead with a headache. Speaking of which, Lu Xiaolu felt a bit like Su Qian, the simulated athlete he kept in the system space.
Thinking of how he was defeated by Su Qian in the system space, Su Bai finally felt that keeping Su Qian had many advantages. For example, when he met a player of the same type as him, he knew that he had to firmly maintain the image of a 'cold-blooded and ruthless iceberg devil' from the very beginning, and never give up an inch of ground. He must not let Lu Xiaolu feel that he was soft-hearted, otherwise the child would be difficult to lead in the future.
Lu Xiaolu had just wiped away her tears. Ding Meng was hugging her, patting her shoulder, and comforting her that she ran very well and was very strong.
At this moment, Lu Xiaolu had no idea that he had been put on the "blacklist" of the future head coach because of a certain spoiled child.