Once again facing Zhang Ziyi's serious and expectant expression, Su Bai swallowed the dissuasion he was about to say.
In fact, before giving this choice to Zhang Ziyi, the coaches in their coaching team had already guessed what choice Zhang Ziyi would make.
The Olympics is undoubtedly a sacred arena that athletes from all over the world want to step onto, but it is held only once every four years. It can be said that those who can successfully enter the Olympics once during the golden stage of an athlete's career are all enviable lucky people.
Zhang Ziyi said that he is already 25 years old this year.
Now is the golden period of Zhang Ziyi's career, and theoretically it is also the stage when he is most likely to achieve results.
Who doesn't want to be able to break into that arena at the best moment of their career?
As for the possible impact on the subsequent career and personal peak...
Zhang Ziyi certainly understood that Su Bai was considering his physical condition, but what if he gave up the opportunity to enter the Olympics for the sake of a longer career or for that 'possible' peak in his career?
Zhang Ziyi looked at Su Bai with a firm gaze, and told Su Bai in the most persistent manner - this is my decision!
Of course Su Bai understood the meaning in Zhang Ziyi's eyes. He glanced at Zhang Ziyi, then looked down at the plan in his hand.
Even with Zhang Ziyi's resolute attitude, he still couldn't make up his mind for a long time.
"...You can go back and think about it. After all, this concerns your career." Su Bai smiled bitterly. This was the first difficult decision he had made since he became a coach. "Now, there are many world-class professional players who maintain very good physical condition. Many of them can continue to create peak results in their careers after they are over 30."
"In fact, the next session... we still have hope."
This is what Su Bai really thinks. With the assistance of the system, the adjustments he made in his diet, and the assistance of various training buffs provided by the system, as long as the training plan and the overall condition are well controlled, Zhang Ziyi is not really without hope in four years.
Seeing Su Bai's hesitation, Zhang Ziyi was more decisive. He looked at Su Bai and said with a smile, "Coach, but that was not my best time after all."
Su Bai was stunned when he heard Zhang Ziyi's words.
Zhang Ziyi said to Su Bai seriously: "Maybe if I keep in good shape, I do have a chance to compete in the next Olympics, but I will definitely regret it. Why didn't I step into the Olympic arena when I was at my best?"
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Hearing this, Su Bai closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then opened his eyes and looked at Zhang Ziyi: "Even if your efforts this time may not allow you to enter the finals in the Olympics, do you regret it?"
Zhang Ziyi's eyes were clear. He looked at Su Bai seriously and said with a smile, "I will never regret it!"
After hearing this, Su Bai finally stopped talking and took out a new training plan. However, before handing it to Zhang Ziyi, he took it back with a sigh and said, "Wait a few more days. I will adjust the plan and see if there is any room for improvement."
Zhang Ziyi did not object to Su Bai's words. He simply nodded. When he was about to say goodbye to Su Bai, Zhang Ziyi suddenly smiled and said, "Coach, I made this choice by myself. Don't feel too much pressure." After a pause, he continued, "Before I met you, coach, with the Olympic qualification standards for next year, I didn't dare to think that I could even enter the Olympics, let alone the next Olympics."
"Before I met you, Coach, my greatest hope and possibility in my career was probably to try to break the national record of 45.25 seconds for the 400-meter dash."
"However, there is a high possibility that I will not be able to break this record throughout my entire career - after all, it has stood in our country for 15 years."
"And now, after meeting you, my coach, with your help, I have already achieved my original career goal ahead of schedule. From now on, any progress I make is well earned."
"Under your guidance, I may have a chance to become the first athlete in China to break the 45-second mark. I also have a chance to compete in the Olympics... I may even be able to compete in the 400-meter sprint final, as you said. I have a chance to compete in the world's top competition."
"This career prospect is much better than anything I ever imagined."
After saying this, Zhang Ziyi stood up and bowed deeply to Su Bai again. Seeing his action, Su Bai couldn't help but stood up to stop him, but Zhang Ziyi still bowed to Su Bai firmly.
After listening to Zhang Ziyi's words and looking at his determined expression, Su Bai patted him on the shoulder and finally said solemnly: "Okay, I know what you mean. Just focus on training. I will take care of the subsequent training enhancement plan. In the next year, even during the outdoor competition, your training will be very hard."
"Since you have made up your mind, let's have a good fight. I will accompany you."
Hearing Su Bai's words, Zhang Ziyi also smiled, and then nodded seriously: "Okay."
After Zhang Ziyi left Su Bai's office, he saw Qiu Wen and Li Junhao still standing there at the corner. Judging from their expressions, they might have heard the conversation between him and Su Bai.
Zhang Ziyi walked over and met the two of them. Li Junhao had his usual rebellious look on his face, but now he looked a little awkward.
Qiu Wen was much more direct: "... Lao Zhang, do you really want to fight like this?"
Zhang Ziyi laughed and glanced at Qiu Wen: "If this opportunity was placed in front of you, would you choose to fight for it?"
Hearing Zhang Ziyi's question, Qiu Wen was stunned for a moment, then nodded as a matter of course: "Of course I'll fight him!"
After giving this answer, Qiu Wen also understood what Zhang Ziyi meant.
In fact, many times, when people make a choice, when the price to pay is themselves, they can give the answer very straightforwardly. But when the people facing the choice are their close friends, they can't help but hope that they can think more and make a better choice for themselves to avoid regrets in the future.
Zhang Ziyi smiled and patted Qiu Wen on the shoulder, then smiled at Li Junhao and said, "Don't worry, I know what choice I made. For me, this choice is the best."
Su Bai didn't know that Zhang Ziyi met Qiu Wen and the others again after he went out. After Zhang Ziyi left, he sat in his seat and thought about the plan in his hand for a long time, and then took the plan to Pei Jinan's office.
It was already around seven or eight o'clock in the evening, but Pei Jinan knew that the contestants would come back today, and he also knew that Su Bai would definitely hand over the right of choice to Zhang Ziyi today, so he stayed in the office, waiting for Su Bai's answer.
Su Bai knocked on Pei Jinan's office door, and then entered his office at Pei Jinan's invitation.
After he sat down at Pei Jinan's signal, he handed the new plan in his hand to Pei Jinan.
Pei Jinan took the training plan from Su Bai, on which it was clearly written - "Zhang Ziyi's Olympic Cycle Sprint Special Training Plan".
Pei Jinan did not open the plan first, but just took it in his hand, then looked up at Su Bai: "He chose to give it a try?"
Su Bai nodded.
"..." Pei Jinan immediately felt that the plan in his hand became even heavier. He finally sighed: "Alas... this child."
In fact, after Su Bai mentioned that possibility at the time, the coaches on the coaching staff all knew what decision Zhang Ziyi might make in the end.
However, when he actually makes this decision, no matter who he is, no one will really feel happy or that it is the right thing to do.
After a moment of silence, Pei Jinan looked up and said to Su Bai, "How confident are you about this plan?"
"As long as we strictly follow the plan, I can ensure that Zhang Ziyi can at least get an Olympic qualifying result."
Hearing this, Pei Jinan tapped the table with his finger, then opened Su Bai's training plan and began to read it word by word.
Although Su Bai pursues high intensity compared to the past, he also deliberately shortens the training time, pursuing a training plan that is efficient, self-control, and fully explores the physical abilities of the athletes.
In this training plan, not only is the training intensity high and the load on the players' bodies significantly increased, but the training time is also significantly extended. It not only pursues technical adjustments, but obviously also includes many overall enhancements to the players' physical fitness.
This comprehensive enhancement and forced improvement of physical fitness is enough to quickly improve the players' physical fitness in the short term, but because the improvement is too urgent, it is a huge burden on the players' bodies.
If there is no adequate monitoring during the training process, the athletes' muscles and joints may be overworked and worn out, or they may suffer physical injuries such as stress fractures due to excessive training.
Even if the situation is under control and there is no physical injury, the human body's ability to withstand intensity is always limited. Zhang Ziyi is still young, and this kind of training can rapidly improve his strength in a short period of time, but it is also equivalent to hollowing out his future potential in advance. Because of the heavy burden on his body, after a certain stage, his physical functions will rapidly decline.
Su Bai made countless combination adjustments in the training space, but no matter how he adjusted it, if he wanted Zhang Ziyi to be able to run under 44.90 seconds within a year, this situation was bound to occur.
All he could do was to weaken all dangers as much as possible and minimize the negative impact on Zhang Ziyi in the future.
Pei Jinan sat at his desk, checking Su Bai's training plan line by line, and confirming the purpose of the plan with Su Bai line by line. The two of them asked and answered questions until they had gone through the entire training plan.
After reading Su Bai's training plan, Pei Jinan let out a long sigh - Su Bai's training plan has a clear direction and purpose, and each training combination has a very clear improvement goal.
After reading it, he really didn't have anything else to say, so he nodded to Su Bai and told him to hurry up and prepare for training: "Since we are going to do it, we should do our best. Not only can we help Ziyi qualify for the Olympics, but we should also try to make him run his best and not leave any regrets in his career."
"If you need any help from the team in your training plan, just let us know... Ziyi is doing this not only for his own Olympic ideals, but also to win glory for our national team. The team will not let him suffer or be wronged."
Su Bai certainly understood what Pei Jinan said. After nodding, he was about to leave Pei Jinan's office, but Pei Jinan still kept him for a while.
"Xiaobai... In the 400-meter team, besides Ziyi, do other players still have hope?"
After Pei Jinan finished speaking, he shook his head again - in the current team, Zhang Ziyi is the closest to the Olympic 400m qualifying line. The gap between Qiu Wen and Li Junhao and the Olympic qualifying line is 0.5 seconds. To reach the level of the national team, they need to improve their performance by more than 0.5 seconds within a year...
After hearing this question, Su Bai did not deny it immediately. He just mentioned Chen Yadan from the women's team: "As for Yadan, I will try my best to adjust her personal condition. For other players, such as Qiu Wen and Li Junhao... there will be a certain element of luck involved."
Pei Jinan originally thought that except for Zhang Ziyi, other contestants had no hope, but he didn't expect Su Bai to not say anything specific about his fate.
Qiu Wen and Li Junhao's situations are different from Zhang Ziyi's.
The two of them are of similar age, both will be just 23 this year. Su Bai is confident that as long as they adjust their condition well, they will be able to compete in the next Olympics, even if the qualifying scores are more stringent than they are now.
Speaking of the qualifying results for this Olympics, whether it is Qiu Wen or Li Junhao, the current performance foundation is already there. What they need is a certain scientific adjustment of their competitive state. If they can meet an opponent who is strong enough to provoke their strong desire to win when they are in peak form, they may have hope of breaking through that line.
Compared with the situation of Qiu Wen and Li Junhao, if they were also forced to undergo training adjustments at this stage, it would definitely be counterproductive.
"I will explain their situations to them personally, but from my personal point of view, it would be a pity to overdraw their potential just for the Olympics."
Su Bai did not say to what extent the two people's potential could reach, but Pei Jinan nodded anyway. He believed in Su Bai's judgment.
The next day, the players who returned to the national team had resumed normal training. Before the training started that day, Su Bai called Qiu Wen and Li Junhao aside and explained the arrangements for them and their respective situations to them.
Qiu Wen scratched his head, then grinned and said, "Hey, Xiaobai, if you say so, then Ah Hao and I are not without hope!"
Li Junhao snorted: "Don't try to provoke me, I won't be fooled anyway!"
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Su Bai glanced at Li Junhao who was holding his head high and laughed - it seemed that because he had used a lot of provocations before, Li Junhao was now too sensitive.
However, this misunderstanding is probably not wrong?
Qiu Wen looked at Li Junhao, then at Su Bai, and then continued to say happily: "Anyway, Xiaobai, I believe in you, and I will work hard in the competition!"
Just after the athletes in the national team's 400m winter training camp had gone through indoor competitions at home and abroad, they were brought back to the national team for a one-month training camp.
This training camp targets two events, namely the Asian Athletics Championships to be held in Doha, Qatar on April 15, and the World Athletics Relays to be held in Yokohama, Japan in May. This relay competition is also the relay qualifier for the Doha Athletics World Championships in September this year. The team rankings of some events will also be included in the Tokyo Olympic list.
To be honest, the Asian Championships is a preview of this year's World Championships, and the World Athletics Relays in Yokohama may be even more important than the Asian Championships.
It can be said that compared with the preparations for last year's Asian Games, the overall pressure and atmosphere of the 400m team preparing for the Asian Championships this year are much more relaxed than they were then.
In just less than a year, the players in the team have indeed made great progress compared to last year in terms of both confidence and strength.
After the players in the team completed a schedule of training and were about to pack their luggage to Doha, Qatar, Su Bai smiled and gave a speech to the players in the team.
"This Asian Championships is your first outdoor season this year. From last year's winter training to the recent training, your real training results will be truly shown in this game.
I've made a big bet with the team, and I guarantee that your results will be great. ”
Su Bai looked at the group of contestants with relaxed smiles on their faces, and then smiled as well: "Don't let me see you embarrass me."
In this Asian Championships, Wang Ting will lead the 400m event. The data model of the training effectiveness prediction curve that Su Bai and the head of the scientific research group Ma Changping are jointly researching has reached a critical stage. The pressure on the athletes in this competition is not too great, so Su Bai has no plans to go with them.
The players in the team usually respect Su Bai's guidance, but at this moment they are not afraid of his threats.
Especially Qiu Wen, the funny guy, he looked at Su Bai with sparkling eyes: "Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai, when we win the game, can you cook us a feast?"
Su Bai looked at Qiu Wen, then smiled and said, "Sure, but what kind of feast you can have depends on your own performance."
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Seeing Su Bai's threat, Qiu Wencai's body trembled, remembering that one day before, he seemed to have dug a hole for himself by talking nonsense, saying that in the first competition of the outdoor season... he would reach the qualifying line for the World Championships?
Let’s not talk about this, let’s talk about the dinner…
Qiu Wen thought about it carefully. During the winter training period, he was almost catching up with Lao Zhang's results. However, in the past month, Su Bai had adjusted the training plan for Lao Zhang, and even Lao Zhang's training status seemed to be in high spirits.
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And it's not just Lao Zhang. Ah Hao has also made a lot of progress during this winter training.
Let’s also include the naturalized players from several West Asian countries.
After thinking all of this over, Qiu Wen's face turned green - it was over. He wouldn't wait until the end, when the rest of the team would happily enjoy the feast while he was left alone to eat steamed buns, right?
On the side, Zhang Ziyi glanced at Qiu Wen with a hint of amusement in his eyes.
This time, Qiu Wen is not only a competitor in the 400-meter sprint, he also has to run in the 400-meter relay. The team has been training for so long, and compared to last year, there has been a lot of progress in the relay events.
At this year's Asian Championships, relay will definitely be one of the team's medal-winning events, but Qiu Wen himself obviously did not think of this.
Guo Dun, Lin Chuan and Zhang Wei had obviously thought of this as well, but they found Qiu Wen's nervous look quite interesting, so they didn't say anything. Li Junhao, on the other hand, after glancing at Qiu Wen, turned his head away in annoyance and stopped looking at him - this guy, when he gets stupid, there's really no cure.
The next day, when all members of the national track and field team arrived at the airport in City B, they were suddenly startled by the surging crowd of media reporters in the airport. At first glance, there were more than a dozen media outlets.
In the past, whenever the national track and field team went abroad to compete in major competitions, there would be some media coming to interview them, but most of the people who came were track and field reporters from sports channels and sports newspapers.
This was nothing like what happened today, when dozens of people crowded around and, upon seeing them, they wanted to rush over and shove the microphones in front of them.
The official leading the team for this event was still Jiang Wentao. After all, he had led many competitions and had seen this kind of situation during the Olympics, so he was relatively calm.
However, after taking the microphone handed over by these reporters, Jiang Wentao's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch twice - wait, what did he see? Why is there a media like "Fruit Entertainment Channel" among the reporters interviewing? And it looks like they are not just one or two companies?
——"Director Jiang, after the winter training and the Asian Championships training camp, what kind of results do the national team expect to achieve when they go to Qatar this time?"
——"At last year's Asian Games, the performances of the 400m sprint and relay were very impressive. What do the 400m athletes expect of themselves in this Asian Championships?"
——"Last year, many of Coach Su Bai's predictions were very accurate. Did Coach Su Bai make any predictions about the players' performances before this competition?"
——"I heard that many domestic brands want to invite members of the track and field team to endorse their products. Will this have an impact on the mentality of the athletes?"
A series of questions, some professional and some gossipy, were constantly thrown at Jiang Wentao and his team members, and everyone answered these questions seriously and with restraint one by one.
Until a topic was thrown in front of Cui Luoheng - before this Asian Championships, Su Bai did not let Cui Luoheng leave to participate in any indoor tours. So far, except for the national team, no one can clearly understand Cui Luoheng's training situation from eight to seven.
——"Excuse me, how is your 8-to-7 training going? What is your target score for this competition?"
Because of the previous variety show extras, Cui Luoheng is also extremely popular. He pursed his lips, looked at the microphones that were pushed in front of him, was silent for a moment, and then calmly said two words to the cameras in front of him.
"champion."
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