Because the Tokyo Olympics completely exceeded the stringent standards expected in track and field events, not only public opinion but also official expectations for results have been completely overturned.
After the directors of the Track and Field Administration Center finished their meeting, the coaches of each project group within the national team also gathered together and began to readjust the training arrangements for the athletes based on the current performance goals.
In the sprint project team, Pei Jinan brought several coaching staff members of his 100-meter project, as well as the head coach of the 200-meter project, and Su Bai back to their sprint project team's office. Then they looked at each other, and most of the coaches had bitter smiles on their faces.
"What do you call this?"
Shao Xingtong, the head coach of the 200-meter event, did not smile much on his face.
It can be said that when the track and field standards for the Tokyo Olympics were released, the sprint events within the track and field team were the most impacted.
It should be said that from an overall perspective, China's track and field team can actually be counted as one of the top eight in the world. However, among these eight teams, some of the teams that are well-fed are overfed, while others are starved to death in the poor events.
Judging from the qualifying results for this Olympics, their sprint events have been severely curbed. Originally, from the perspective of qualifying, the only two athletes in the 100m, 200m and 400m events who could be said to be safe were Fang Yu and Wu Yi. Now that the standards have been raised, the entire sprint team, from 100m to 400m, is left with only Fang Yu and Wu Yi.
How about other projects?
Not to mention field events like women's discus, shot put and javelin, if we only look at track events, such as the 20km race walking and 50km race walking, even if the performance standards have been raised to the current level, the number of athletes who can meet the standards is at least counted in tens.
For those events, there is no need to worry about qualifying for the Olympics. The only thing they need to worry about is how to select the athletes who will eventually participate in the Olympics from so many athletes who can meet the standards.
As for some other events, the situation is even worse than the sprint. They could not meet the original standards. If the current standards are applied, no athletes in their entire project team have reached the Olympic standards for three or four years in a row.
Under such circumstances, it is almost nonsense to ask them to compete for the Olympic qualification standards.
Having said that, the ones who suffered the most were the sprint team. After all, they were so close to qualifying, but it turned out to be much harder to obtain than they expected.
Pei Jinan looked at the meeting data in his hand and sighed deeply - Yeah, what is this? For example, in the 400-meter sprint event led by Su Bai, Zhang Ziyi and the others are in great shape now. Just as Su Bai had told him before, their qualification for the World Championships is basically secured.
What he was thinking at the time was that Zhang Ziyi and his team had basically secured qualification for the World Championships, so who knows, they might also be able to make history by obtaining full qualification for the 400-meter event in the Tokyo Olympics!
Who could have thought that such a strange thing would happen?
After thinking about it, Pei Jinan comforted Su Bai first and said, "Xiao Bai, this matter is completely beyond our expectations. Don't take it too seriously. If you really can't get it, the team won't blame you."
After a pause, Pei Jinan added: "The team will consider discussing it later. Let's try to get the Olympic reserve qualification based on the world ranking. This is also possible."
When Su Bai heard Pei Jinan's words, he did not answer immediately. He looked at the data in his hand and then at a time point on the list - May 1, 2019 to June 31, 2020.
This time point is the certification period for qualifying for the Olympic track and field events. In other words, what the athletes need to do is to participate in official competitions within this certification period and reach the qualifying score for track and field events set by the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee. Only then can they be considered to have truly qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
"Xiaobai...Xiaobai?"
Seeing that Su Bai did not reply, Pei Jinan called him twice, wondering if he had been hit and was feeling a little depressed.
"Well, Coach Pei..."
Su Bai glanced at Pei Jinan, and his brows were still furrowed, obviously he had something on his mind.
Several coaches around are quite familiar with Su Bai. Over the past period of time, they have witnessed Su Bai's decisiveness and straightforwardness. But when have they ever seen such a hesitant look on Su Bai's face?
Pei Jinan looked at Su Bai seriously: "What's wrong? What's your problem?"
Su Bai rarely gave a direct answer. Ever since he had grown up step by step in the coaching field under the guidance of the system, his character had become very decisive. For many things, with the guidance of the system and his own judgment, he could always come up with a better solution as long as he thought more.
However, after the Tokyo Olympics gave the certification standards for this result, he was temporarily in a difficult situation to make a decision.
After hesitating for a moment, he looked up at Pei Jinan and said with a wry smile: "Coach Pei, if... I mean if I can make Zhang Ziyi reach the certification standard within the certification period, but this may have an impact on his future sports career..."
When Su Bai said the first half of the sentence, the coaches next to him were stunned.
Zhang Ziyi's current personal PB is 45.24 seconds, which is a full 0.34 seconds away from 44.90 seconds. Su Bai is basically saying that he has a way to make a player whose original performance limit is 10.09 seconds run under 10 seconds within a year.
But after Su Bai said the second half of the sentence, everyone understood why Su Bai, who had always been decisive, now looked so hesitant.
After a moment of daze, Pei Jinan's expression became serious.
After a moment, he frowned and asked, "Xiaobai, are you serious?"
Facing Pei Jinan's question, Su Bai also nodded solemnly: "Yes."
The atmosphere in the office suddenly became solemn. The coaches present certainly understood the weight of Su Bai's words, but they also understood that since Su Bai was so hesitant, this plan might not be a good thing for the players themselves.
As coaches, they devote their wholehearted attention to the players. They care about every detail of the players' performance, competitive status, and personal health.
Especially for athletes like Zhang Ziyi - it is not easy to produce one or two good talents in sprint events in the country.
Don't just look at their sprint group. The coaches of other events are so worried that the athletes won't dare to eat local meat when they go to other places for training that they have to pack the meat from City B and airlift it to the training site, for fear that the athletes on the team won't be able to eat meat and the food will be bad.
Su Bai is still young, but older coaches like Zheng Xingguo have been teaching many players for many years and take care of them like their own children.
They all say master, master. For most coaches, they are really like teachers and fathers to the players.
Now, but now, Su Bai is facing the situation that there are ways to make the players improve more, but at the same time, there is a price to pay for the improvement.
They didn't know what the price was, but looking at Su Bai's serious expression, it was nothing more than an impact on the athlete's own physical health, or it would affect the athlete's future sports career.
At this point, no one dared to speak.
Is it to ensure Zhang Ziyi's future sports career, or to strive for the qualification for the Tokyo Olympics?
The opening and closing of their mouths may determine the future life of an athlete, or allow him to qualify for the Olympics but lose the qualification to achieve higher results in the future.
That day, at this small meeting in the office of the national team's sprint project group, no one could give Su Bai a clear suggestion in the end.
In the end, it was Pei Jinan who made the final decision: "After the tour is over in the next two days, when Ziyi comes back, we will have a face-to-face chat with him and see what he thinks and decides."
The only person who is truly qualified to make a decision on this matter is Zhang Ziyi himself.
On the Internet, the public discussion caused by the track and field competition standards for the Tokyo Olympics lasted intermittently for half a month.
During this short period of half a month, the members of the track and field team participating in the world tour have successively won many good results.
Domestically, in late February, the national indoor track and field regional competitions officially opened. Compared with previous years, the attendance rate of the indoor regional competitions has now reached 80% to 90%, which has completely exceeded the expectations of athletes and organizers.
In the past, during the course of these domestic indoor regional competitions, the stadium seats were basically empty, and the players competing in them were like they were competing in an internal competition. Now, with the enthusiastic cheers and support from the audience, the players have become more motivated to compete!
Among them, the most popular ones are of course the athletes in the 400m winter training camp. Zhou Xu, Zhang Chang, Hu Li and other athletes who were arranged to compete in the country did not disappoint the audience's attention and their efforts during the winter training.
Whenever they participated in a regional competition, they easily won the championship.
Although they did not achieve the same results as Zhang Ziyi and others in the indoor competition, their results were basically around 46.20 seconds. This result is a significant improvement compared to their previous outdoor results!
National Track and Field Team Training Base, 400m Training Indoor Hall
Over the past half month, members of the national team have been arranged to compete in various indoor competitions at home and abroad. Now, the 400-meter training hall only has hurdles on one of the tracks, and on the starting line not far away, there is a tall figure squatting on the starting blocks, supporting himself with his hands, waiting for the start signal to sound.
In the huge venue, only the hurdle training area is still in use.
Su Bai stood calmly beside the track, looking at Cui Luoheng who was squatting on the ground, then turned to look at the assistant coach not far away and nodded to him.
At Su Bai's signal, the assistant coach gave the order: "Ready... Bang!"
As soon as the electronic starting gun sounded, Cui Luoheng, who was originally squatting on the starting block, was ejected almost at the same time! His left foot suddenly burst into power, and with a push, his body immediately gained a powerful forward force. As his two legs alternated with each other, his upper body was quickly pulled up, and his arms swung widely. With the power of his swinging arms and the explosive force of his feet pushing off the ground, his body quickly gained potential energy for starting!
Because Cui Luoheng's steps in front of the hurdle have changed from eight steps in the past to seven steps, his body is not raised as much as before, but this slightly lowered posture will also help him in subsequent attacks on the hurdles!
From the start to the hurdle attack, there are 7 marks on the track with white powder. These white lines are exactly the stride size that Cui Luoheng needs to adapt to after changing from eight to seven.
Cui Luoheng's current condition is very different from when he first started the eight-to-seven training during the winter training.
In the previous training, his condition was once low because of the burden and difficulty of changing from eight to seven. Although he still insisted on training every day and did not say anything against training, his training state and spirit showed his irritability at the time.
No athlete can confidently say that he can complete the eight-to-seven training easily without changing his expression and in outstanding condition.
During that time, Su Bai did not deliberately say anything to Cui Luoheng to relax him. He just spent more time accompanying Cui Luoheng, even after the training, when he simply had a midnight snack with Cui Luoheng, or when he returned to the dormitory with him and simply chatted about life on the way.
Fortunately, although Cui Luoheng always said that his psychological quality was not good, he still successfully got through that period of personal lows and was able to concentrate more on training.
The improvement in Cui Luoheng's condition also made Su Bai feel relieved.
After all, in terms of Cui Luoheng's personal talent, his rhythm control ability and rhythm sensitivity are very high, but these two talents are of no benefit to Cui Luoheng's technical adjustment of eight to seven.
Strong control ability means that he is in a state of high-intensity control over his own rhythm. This state was even able to suppress his own rhythm sensitivity at the beginning, causing him to stay in the rhythm set by Zhou Wen for a long time.
Later, after he had finally used his rhythm control ability, he now had to break the rhythm range that was already very comfortable for him and readjust.
This is a huge challenge and burden for Cui Luoheng.
As for the other one...his rhythmic sensitivity.
After Cui Luoheng changed his pace before the hurdles from eight steps to seven steps, he and most of the players competing around him may be at a different rhythm before the hurdles. This means that the possibility of Cui Luoheng being affected by the rhythm of the players around him in the stage before the hurdles will increase again.
Although Su Bai has been helping Cui Luoheng to focus his rhythm sensitivity on himself, the effectiveness of this focus and convergence technique in the arena after the change from eight to seven still needs to be verified on the field.
Su Bai watched Cui Luoheng's trial run and saw that he was able to run the entire course smoothly. Then he looked at the data of 13.46 seconds on the electronic timer at the finish line and nodded.
13.46 seconds, this is one of Cui Luoheng's better training data since he changed from eight to seven. Compared with the data of 13.57 seconds in the last full trial run, this trial run was only three days apart, and there has been a substantial improvement. This shows that Cui Luoheng has adapted well to the adjusted state. As long as he maintains this state, his results will quickly return to the original level, and even enter a new improvement range.
Su Bai was satisfied with Cui Luoheng's result, but Cui Luoheng did not seem to be in a very good mood after seeing his own result.
He walked up to Su Bai and looked at him. He seemed a little depressed.
"What's wrong?" Su Bai rubbed Cui Luoheng's head out of habit: "This result is not bad, it is much better than the state three days ago. Keep it up, and your results will improve rapidly in the future."
Cui Luoheng frowned and said, "But it's only 13.46 seconds now..."
Su Bai smiled. He had been thinking about Zhang Ziyi's affairs recently, so he often looked at the Olympic qualification data. Perhaps Cui Luoheng also noticed it and misunderstood that he was worried about his qualification.
"Don't worry." Su Bai patted Cui Luoheng on the shoulder: "According to your current condition, there should be no problem in meeting the Olympic standards. After your eight-to-seven technical adjustment is truly completed, I have your follow-up adjustment plan here."
"After the adjustment from eight to seven, your performance will also enter a period of rapid improvement. Let's take advantage of this period and work hard to achieve good results in next year's Olympics."
Cui Luoheng looked at Su Bai seriously, and seemed to see that what Su Bai said was sincere and not forced, so he nodded.
But after a while, Cui Luoheng turned his head and found that Su Bai was looking at the data in his hand, and his face didn't seem very good. He frowned and turned away - during this period, Su Bai's mood didn't seem to be very good. Cui Luoheng originally thought that Su Bai was worried about the effectiveness of his eight-to-seven training, and whether he could successfully qualify for the Olympics.
But... now it seems that Su Bai is not worried about him.
Ever since the Olympic qualifying results came out, after chatting with Pei Jinan and other members of the coaching team in the conference room that day, although he is now waiting for Zhang Ziyi to return home, he has not given up on calculating the plan in the training space every day.
Every night, he would be in the system's training space, using the simulated athletes in the system and various data provided by the system to constantly test the limits of Zhang Ziyi's body.
It should be said that his simulation calculation is indeed effective. Compared with before, the limit of Zhang Ziyi's condition he calculated is a little stronger than before. However, this little bit stronger is too limited and is far from enough for Zhang Ziyi to run into the Olympic qualification line.
This is because Su Bai took over Zhang Ziyi's training last year and laid a certain foundation for him, which enabled him to reach his current extreme state.
If he continues to increase the stakes, although it will improve Zhang Ziyi's personal performance quickly in a short period of time, it will not be of any benefit to his subsequent career.
It is very likely that Zhang Ziyi will be forced to end his career early, and the peak of his career will not be able to reach the height that Su Bai originally expected for him.
Just like Pei Jinan and the others were worried, Su Bai was unable to make a decision for Zhang Ziyi's life. He could only wait until Zhang Ziyi and the others returned to the team before he could make the decision himself.
Today is the day when Zhang Ziyi and others will return to the team after going out to participate in the tour. Thinking about the topic that he will discuss with Zhang Ziyi, Su Bai can't help but feel at a loss as to what to do.
At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Cui Luoheng's training had already ended. Su Bai was sitting alone in the office sorting out the materials in his hands. Qiu Wen's voice came from outside his office.
"Xiaobai!!! We are back!!!"
Qiu Wen, Li Junhao, Zhang Ziyi and others finally met up at the national team's overseas training base and returned home together after participating in the last overseas tour.
Including Chen Yada and others from the women's team, they had just arrived together.
After arriving at the national team's training base, several team members found Su Bai and greeted him as soon as they put down their luggage.
Although they were competing overseas this time, they had already heard about the qualifying standards for the Tokyo Olympics. When they were overseas, they had discussed this exaggerated standard more than once. This time, they found Su Bai as soon as possible, and they also wanted to see what Su Bai had to say.
After Su Bai greeted everyone, Ye Fei simply comforted them: "The qualifying line for the Tokyo Olympics is now a fait accompli. I will make some corresponding adjustments to your training. Everyone stay positive and work hard."
Su Bai smiled again and said, "However, before considering the qualifying line for the Tokyo Olympics, Qiu Wen, you and Junhao should first consider the qualifying results for the World Championships."
?
Qiu Wen was completely confused. He had never thought that he was still concerned about the qualifying results for the Olympics, but he was hit by a bullet at the World Championships. He immediately held his head high and said, "Don't underestimate me. The qualifying results for the World Championships are easy to get!"
Su Bai then patted his shoulder with a smile and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for the results of your first outdoor game."
……?
The first game?
Qiu Wenhu's body trembled, feeling that he had dug a deep hole for himself again.
After Su Bai sent Qiu Wen, Li Junhao and others away, he left Zhang Ziyi alone. This matter was related to Zhang Ziyi's future development, so it was better to talk about it as soon as possible.
Su Bai looked at Zhang Ziyi who was listening attentively, sighed in his heart, and explained to him the qualifying results for the Tokyo Olympics and the expected improvement in Zhang Ziyi's performance.
"…The choice of this matter is up to you."
Who would have thought that after hearing Su Bai's question, Zhang Ziyi hesitated for a moment and said seriously: "Coach, please arrange new training for me."
As Su Bai was stunned and asked him to think it over, Zhang Ziyi simply smiled and said, "Coach, I'm already 25 this year. I want to participate in the Olympics... no matter what."
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