On the second day after the World Athletics Relays ended, the Chinese team packed their bags and prepared to return. However, when the Chinese team was preparing to return, Lin Ping, the translator in charge of the liaison work, received an invitation from the Japan Athletics Association, saying that a Japanese TV station wanted to interview the coach and players of the Chinese team.
However, Lin Ping said that judging from the words of the Japanese Athletics Association, the person they wanted to interview should be Su Bai. After all, the Chinese team members had a concentrated interview time after the two-day competition, and the reporters who were supposed to interview them should have interviewed them by then.
In addition, during these two days, Su Bai was not present in the live broadcast of the game on the second day of Yokohama TV. It is said that some Japanese viewers called to ask why the Chinese team's coach Su was not there?
However, Su Bai did not take these trivial matters to heart. After confirming with Jiang Wentao that it didn't matter if he didn't accept the interview, he directly rejected the invitation and followed the Chinese team on the journey back to China.
When everyone returned to China, it was already 3 pm China time. After leaving the airport, the national team members found that not only had reporters come to see them off and interview them when they went abroad, but also many reporters came to pick them up and interview them when they returned.
"Ah, when did we become so popular?"
Qiu Wen scratched his head, and his words made the reporters around him burst into laughter.
After briefly accepting a series of interviews at the airport, some reporters also asked Su Bai about the upcoming schedule and goals for Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Li Junhao and others.
"The next stop is the World Athletics Challenge in the Netherlands, which should be held in early June."
Su Bai's answer stopped there. He did not elaborate on the final performance goals for Zhang Ziyi and others. In the past two days, he also knew that he had revealed too much information on Yokohama TV. Now if he publicly expressed the performance goals for his players, it would most likely be over-interpreted.
It would be more appropriate for Zhang Ziyi and others to speak up themselves.
Zhang Ziyi naturally expressed very seriously that he hoped to run within the 44.90 second 400m qualifying range before the Olympic performance assessment period ends on June 30 next year. Although Qiu Wen's 400m PB is only 45.27 seconds for the time being, he also stated the same goal as Zhang Ziyi without hesitation.
Among the four members of the men's 400m relay team, Guo Dun's goal is to break the 46-second mark in the next one to two years, while Li Junhao frowned and said that he would do his best to qualify for the World Championships in September this year.
Reporters at the scene all knew that the qualifying score for the World Championships in September this year was 45.30 seconds. That was to say, if Li Junhao wanted to achieve his goal, he would have to run under 45.30 seconds in the 400-meter event before August 31 this year.
The reporters immediately searched silently in their minds - what was Li Junhao's previous PB? It should be the 45.98 seconds run in the Asian Six Nations Athletics Joint Competition at the beginning of the year?
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Although this result was indeed under 46 seconds, it was still a long way from 45.30 seconds, right? Moreover, Li Junhao is currently the main force of the relay team in the national team. From last year's Asian Games to now, all the official competitions he participated in were relays.
Reporters certainly knew that Li Junhao had an outstanding performance in the relay team, and even many track and field fans privately speculated that Li Junhao's PB should have improved. But this improvement cannot be from 45.98 to 45.30 all at once, right?
If it were really that easy to improve the 400-meter sprint performance, how could the national record of 45.25 seconds have remained unbroken for more than a decade?
Li Junhao frowned. As soon as he saw the expressions of the reporters present, he knew what they were thinking. However, he also knew that his results in the past two years were really disappointing. Since he came under Su Bai's team, he has not achieved any particularly outstanding results in the 400-meter individual event. It is natural for these reporters to have doubts.
However, even though he knew it, Li Junhao naturally wouldn't feel very happy facing such silent questioning.
Su Bai noticed Li Junhao's mood, patted him on the shoulder, and then took over the conversation and said to the reporters present: "The performance of several athletes in the national team's 400-meter event has been continuously improving after winter training, including during the relay training. I believe everyone has seen the changes in the national team over the past year."
"Next, the national team's 400-meter event will not stop here. Please believe that in the future, the national team's athletes will definitely present even more impressive results in the competition."
Su Bai's words ended here, and the interview about the 400-meter event also came to an end.
In addition to Su Bai and the men's team members of the 400m event, different teams and athletes such as the women's team, 4x200m, and 4x100m also accepted separate interviews.
After such a delay, by the time everyone returned to the national track and field team training base, it was already evening. At around five or six o'clock, the athletes who stayed behind to train with the national team had already completed their training for the day, had already taken a shower, and came to the cafeteria for dinner.
After Su Bai and his team arrived at the base, they disbanded on the spot. The contestants returned to their dormitories with their luggage, and then went to the cafeteria after a simple wash.
The same was true for Su Bai. When he arrived at the cafeteria and was about to eat, he met Cui Luoheng who was looking at him eagerly.
"noob!"
Cui Luoheng stared at Su Bai without moving, but because he had previously confessed to Su Bai the lie that he had "poor mental quality", he now did not dare to approach Su Bai directly as he did in the past.
But even though he doesn't dare, someone else does.
Wang Shen originally went to pick up the food with Ye Wenhao, but he saw Cui Luoheng and Su Bai from a distance, so he smiled and took Ye Wenhao to their side.
"Xiaobai, I haven't seen you for a while. I saw the news that you were in Japan these two days. I just happened to have some questions about the training data. How about we sit together while we eat?"
Cui Luoheng watched Wang Shen smilingly as he sat down with Su Bai. At the table for four, the two big guys, he and Ye Wenhao, could only sit opposite Su Bai and Wang Shen.
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Looking at Wang Shen's smiling face, Cui Luoheng couldn't get a word in and could only sulk by himself. He even ate his rice a little faster.
Who knew that Su Bai accidentally looked back at Cui Luoheng's actions and suddenly said, "A Luo, you have a good appetite now. It seems that Chef Jin's cooking skills are very suitable for your taste."
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As soon as Su Bai said this, even though Cui Luoheng was indeed a cold and expressionless person, his pupils couldn't help but tremble. He almost stretched out his hand and said, "It's not that I don't have my favorite dish you cook"... But Cui Luoheng froze in his seat and was silent for a long time before he uttered two words - "No".
Even Wang Shen, who was originally smiling and joking, looked at this result and was in a dilemma.
"Of course not." Wang Shen glanced at Cui Luoheng, then said to Su Bai, "Xiaobai, Ah Heng eats the food you cook very slowly, one bite at a time, and cherishes it very much. When it comes to the food he likes, of course he has to be careful and cautious."
As he said that, Wang Shen glanced at Cui Luoheng who was standing opposite him: "Ah Heng, don't you think so?"
After Wang Shen’s explanation, Cui Luoheng immediately nodded.
Even though Su Bai was not very sensitive to feelings and ambiguous atmosphere, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. Wang Shen's words just now seemed to have a hidden meaning.
But before he could figure out what was wrong with the details, Qiu Wen's voice appeared.
"Oh! Ah Heng, Lao Wang, Xiao Bai! Oh, and Haozi, come on, make room for me, I want to eat here too... Eh? You guys have seats for four, so there's no place for me to sit..."
Qiu Wen carried the food tray to the dining table of Su Bai and the others. When he saw there was no place to sit, he scratched his head and ran away to find Zhang Ziyi, Guo Dun and the others.
Qiu Wen's coming and going were like a gust of wind, but it completely interrupted the previous topic.
Su Bai then skipped over what had happened before and turned the topic to the training data issue that he had just been discussing with Wang Shen.
After the meal, they returned to the dormitory together. After Su Bai turned away in the direction of the coach's dormitory, Wang Shen looked at Cui Luoheng meaningfully, then patted him on the shoulder, just as a token of encouragement.
The achievements of the Chinese team and the abilities displayed by Su Bai in the World Athletics Relays have become a hot topic on the domestic Internet and in sports fan circles for a while.
Not only in track and field events, but also in many other events, people now talk about Su Bai and the changes that the track and field team has undergone over the past year when they chat privately.
After returning to the track and field team, Su Bai quickly pulled himself out of the state of the previous competition. In addition to continuing to oversee the track and field team's normal planned training, he also put on the agenda something he remembered during the competition - the selection of reserve talents for the track and field team.
So, two days after returning to China, Su Bai went straight to Pei Jinan and asked for a complete set of data on domestic sprinters aged 15 to 22.
"You want all the sprinters?" Pei Jinan was surprised. "This amount of data is quite large. How about I ask someone to filter out the data of the 400-meter runners for you?"
Su Bai shook his head: "I still trust my own judgment more."
Although coaches at various sports schools and provincial teams will regularly conduct physical tests and various tests such as lactic acid accumulation level tests on the players in the team, and try to ensure the compatibility of the athletes and the selected events through the athletes' various physical data, different coaches have different abilities to read the data.
For the same set of data, if the coach only thinks about standardized data, he may ignore the characteristics of some players.
Seeing Su Bai's persistence and thinking of Qiu Wen's example, Pei Jinan nodded and agreed to Su Bai's request, but he still said to Su Bai: "Don't be too anxious or too desperate about this matter. Even if you have a good brain, you can't work so hard."
Su Bai smiled and said, "Coach Pei, don't worry. I have certain requirements for this data. In fact, I do need someone to help screen it. I will then select from the screened data."
Hearing Su Bai's words, Pei Jinan was relieved. He nodded and agreed to Su Bai's request.
Soon, all the sports schools and provincial teams across the country knew that Su Bai, the head coach of the national team's 400-meter event, was about to select players!
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