The day after the World Championships ended was the last day of the seven-day National Day holiday in China. The national track and field team that had set off for Doha also flew back home on this day.
During this ten-day Doha Athletics World Championships, the national track and field team lived up to expectations and achieved breakthrough results in many events, especially in track events. The men's 100m sprint and 400m sprint made historic breakthroughs into the finals of the World Championships, and in the men's 100m sprint, Fang Yu even broke the Asian record, bringing the men's 100m record back into the hands of Asians.
Counting the results of the past ten days, although there were occasional mistakes, what left a greater impression on people were still the many wonderful scenes in this event.
When the national team's plane landed, many people at the B City Airport recognized the athletes who won glory for China at the World Championships. From time to time, people in the airport took out their phones to secretly take photos. Some seemed to be die-hard track and field fans. They did not specifically stop the national team players, but just shouted to the national team members from a distance - "The Chinese team is awesome, I will always support you!"
The shouts of this track and field fan attracted many people's echoes. For a moment, in the huge airport, all the members of the national team became the focus of attention.
Naturally, the domestic media had been waiting outside the airport for a long time. After meeting the national team, there was another round of interviews. Then they watched the national team members and coaches get on the bus sent by the national team and head back to the national track and field team training base.
After getting on the national team bus, all the players relaxed.
"Ah, now that I'm on the bus to our base, I feel like home!"
"Hahaha, isn't it enough to make you feel at home when you get off the plane?"
"Hey, that's different."
The team members slumped in the seats of the bus. They no longer looked like athletes. They took out their cell phones and browsed the contents of their interest.
Qiu Wen was browsing his phone at his seat. He looked up and saw that Zhang Ziyi and Guo Dun, who used to sit in front of him and Li Junhao, were missing Zhang Ziyi.
Seeing this, Qiu Wen glanced around and sure enough, in a row of four seats not far in front, Lin Yao and Chen Yada were sitting in the row on the left side of the aisle, and Zhang Ziyi was sitting in the row on the right side, also next to the aisle.
"...Ah, is this the sour smell of love?" Qiu Wen leaned on the back of the chair in front of him, with an inexplicable sigh on his face, "Old Guo, look, Old Zhang has been seduced to the point that he doesn't even want to sit next to you."
As he spoke, Qiu Wen patted Guo Dun's shoulder with a gloomy face that looked like he deserved a beating.
Qiu Wen's attitude made Guo Dun laugh and cry. He also glanced in Zhang Ziyi's direction and said with a smile: "Okay, if there is any hookup, it's Zhang who wants to hook up with Yadan. Besides, where does the sour smell of love come from?" After a pause, Guo Dun also showed a happy smile on his face as if he was reading gossip: "Isn't it that they haven't hooked up yet?"
These members of the national track and field team are all in their twenties, and they devote themselves to training every day in the national team. Regardless of whether they are of the same sex or the opposite sex, most of them are training fanatics like them.
No matter whether you like a guy or a girl, when you meet them, most of the time they are either training or competing. If you randomly pick a girl in the training base, you might run into one who is more obsessed with training than the guys. Usually, the word love may not even come to their mind.
In short, if you really want to solve any major life issues in this team, it is really difficult.
Therefore, whenever two people in the team happen to fall in love with each other, it is like a torch in the dark and an enemy of the people. Anyway, the signs of Zhang Ziyi and Chen Yada now have quickly made them the focus of gossip for everyone in the national team. This can be regarded as a little fun change in the hard training life of the national team members.
Qiu Wen sighed with a melancholy look on his face: "Ah, Lao Zhang is so lucky. After a trip to Doha, his PB was 44.81 seconds, and he was able to hook up with Sister Dan. Lao Zhang must feel that his life is perfect. Alas, why doesn't anyone see that I am also very handsome and dashing?"
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After hearing Qiu Wen's complaints, Li Junhao, who was sitting next to him, took out his mobile phone, turned on the front camera, and handed it to Qiu Wen.
Qiu Wen:?
Li Junhao: "Wake up, don't hurt the four words handsome and cool."
After he finished speaking, there was a click, and Qiu Wen's confused face from the angle of death appeared on Li Junhao's mobile phone screen.
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Qiu Wen: I’m so angry!
For a moment, the childish battle for the cell phone between Qiu Wen and Li Junhao reappeared in the car.
Wang Shen, who was in the same row with Qiu Wen, had originally closed his eyes to rest. Although the conversations between Qiu Wen and Guo Dun were not loud, he certainly heard them all. After opening his eyes, he did not look at the childish fight between Qiu Wen and Li Junhao, but glanced at the row of seats in front of Zhang Ziyi.
The front seats were usually reserved for coaches and staff when they were on the bus, but at this moment, a hurdler was sitting in the coach's seat with a clear conscience, while Lu Mengfan, who was in the same hurdle event as Cui Luoheng, sat alone next to Guo Dun.
Wang Shen couldn't help but sighed, then glanced at Qiu Wen who didn't notice the situation at all. He felt deeply that the members of their "midnight snack group", the two guys in the track events, might have exchanged their emotional intelligence and IQ for their athletic talent.
However, Wang Shen glanced at Cui Luoheng who was sitting in the front seat again, and thought that maybe that was not the case - this guy Ah Heng, after getting on the bus, waited eagerly for Su Bai to sit in his usual seat, but he did not give his seat to Pei Jinan who got on the bus later, but sat directly next to Su Bai.
The action of reserving a seat was so obvious that Wang Shen felt that at least someone should have noticed Cui Luoheng's intention. However, neither Qiu Wen nor other people Wang Shen observed seemed to think that there was anything wrong with Cui Luoheng's action.
Even Wang Shen felt very confused by this discovery.
In the front seat, Su Bai seemed to be a little airsick and carsick. He was leaning against the back of the chair with his eyes closed. As he leaned back for a long time, his head leaned towards the window. However, the feeling of resting one's head against the window, as anyone who has tried it knows, is really uncomfortable.
So, after Cui Luoheng pursed his lips and watched Su Bai open his eyes again due to the shock of the car window, he finally took a deep breath and reached out to poke Su Bai.
Su Bai opened his eyes and looked at Cui Luoheng with some confusion:?
Cui Luoheng swallowed his saliva and didn't say much. He just pointed to his shoulder and looked at Su Bai eagerly, waiting for Su Bai to understand what he meant.
Su Bai understood what Cui Luoheng meant. He glanced at the nervous Cui Luoheng, smiled, leaned his head towards his shoulder, and whispered "thank you".
Su Bai, with his head resting on Cui Luoheng's shoulder, of course could not see the redness gradually appearing on Cui Luoheng's face as he sat upright. Instead, Pei Jinan, who sat on the other side of the aisle because his seat was occupied by Cui Luoheng, saw Su Bai leaning on Cui Luoheng's shoulder when he turned his head, and also saw the nervousness and blushing on Cui Luoheng's face that he could not hide.
When he saw the unconcealable redness on Cui Luoheng's face, Pei Jinan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered that this was not the first time that this kid had snatched his seat.
Pei Jinan immediately understood what Cui Luoheng meant. He was about to scold him and say "Su Bai is his coach", but then he remembered that Su Bai was indeed Cui Luoheng's coach, but Coach Su Bai was only 24 years old this year. If you really count, there are a lot of players in the team who are older than him. Cui Luoheng is 21 this year, and there is really no big problem between the two of them in terms of age.
After coaching the national team for so many years, Pei Jinan rarely intervened in the love affairs of the team members. For example, he knew about the affair between Zhang Ziyi and Chen Yadan, and even teased Zhang Ziyi. But this player fell in love with the coach...
This is really the first time in all these years.
Pei Jinan felt that this matter was a little difficult to handle. Although there was not much age difference between Su Bai and Cui Luoheng, they were, after all, the identities of coach and team member, so it might not be pleasant to say it out loud.
After thinking it over, Pei Jinan was a little undecided - should he talk to Su Bai about this?
Before Pei Jinan could finish his struggle, they had already arrived at the national team training base. These players who had been fighting in Doha for many days finally returned to their familiar place.
After everyone got off the bus one by one, Cui Luoheng silently helped Su Bai take out his luggage, and then personally sent Su Bai back to his dormitory.
Qiu Wenzhen picked up his luggage and was about to walk towards his dormitory, but out of the corner of his eye he saw Cui Luoheng who was helping Su Bai with his luggage.
Just when he was about to ask the question "Aheng, why are you walking towards the coach's dormitory?", Wang Shen patted him on the shoulder and dragged him directly towards the athlete's dormitory.
Outside Su Bai's dormitory, after Cui Luoheng carried Su Bai's luggage all the way to his dormitory, he was silent for a long time before uttering "Xiaobai, have a good rest", and then walked out with his luggage in his hands and feet.
Looking at Cui Luoheng who walked to the door hand in hand and helped to close the door, Su Bai who was standing in the room couldn't help but laugh.
"bite."
Shortly after the door was closed, the phone rang with a notification sound indicating that a WeChat message had been received. Su Bai took the phone out of his pocket and saw a smiling emoticon sent by Wang Shen.
Su Bai smiled after seeing it and directly replied with a smiling emoticon.
In the chat box on the other side, there was an intermittent "typing...", and after a while, the message sent was "Did you know?" '
Su Bai thought about it, did not deny it, and directly replied "yes".
Not long after, Wang Shen sent another message with the same simple sentence: [^^But Ah Heng doesn’t know. 】
Su Bai saw the message from Wang Shen, smiled, and replied with four words: [Train well. 】
On Wang Shen's side, after seeing Su Bai's reply, he immediately saw another four clear words from Su Bai's reply - don't gossip.
In the coaches' dormitory, Su Bai looked at the chat box, rubbed his head, and then thought of Cui Luoheng's clumsy look when he left, and couldn't help but find it funny.
As a novice coach, Su Bai has not yet dealt with the love problems of the team members. He had noticed that Zhang Ziyi liked Chen Yada, and originally thought that if he had to deal with the emotional problems of the team members, the first couple he would have to face might be Zhang Ziyi and Chen Yada. Unexpectedly, when encountering a real problem, the first one he would need to deal with would be the problem between Cui Luoheng and himself.
Looking back, before the start of the World Championships, he had a private talk with Cui Luoheng because of his condition and asked him if he had any relationship problems.
At that time, A Luo that guy didn't hide his blushing at all and asked tentative questions. Su Bai didn't understand why he didn't see it at that time.
With his overly accurate memory, he could even remember what he said to A Luo at that time - "Come on, you are already very good now. I believe that after you become even better, no one will refuse your confession."
Thinking of this, Su Bai suddenly remembered the determination of A Luo when he stared at him before the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries and told him that he would definitely pass the preliminaries and make it to the finals.
He really didn't originally connect himself with the person A Luo liked, but the day he first arrived in Doha, Cui Luoheng's abrupt seat occupation on the bus, and Cui Luoheng's attitude when he came back today... If he still can't see it, then he can only think that he is blind.
Thinking of this, Su Bai remembered Wang Shen’s reply again - [But Ah Heng doesn’t know. 】
Thinking of the meaning of this sentence, Su Bai was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Before Su Bai could think too much, another message came in his phone. It was still from Wang Shen. He still had that smiling expression on his face, and then asked: [^^Do you hate Ah Heng now? Ah, don't reply, I didn't say anything. 】
Seeing Wang Shen's expression that he was trying to figure out something, Su Bai thought for a moment and threw his phone on the table. In this dormitory, it was rare that he didn't have to worry about his image as a coach. He curled up on the sofa and was in a daze for a while.
Does he hate Cui Luoheng now?
He understood what Wang Shen meant by this sentence - [You already know that Ah Heng likes you, so do you hate Ah Heng now? 】
Wang Shen's question flashed back to Su Bai's mind, and he solemnly asked himself this question in his heart - [Do you hate A Luo now? 】
Su Bai thought about it and the answer was obviously no.
However, what he couldn’t figure out was, did he like Cui Luoheng? Is there any difference between me and Cui Luoheng?
Su Bai suddenly remembered that he usually stroked A Luo's hair subconsciously - but it seemed that it was only because he always felt that A Luo was very similar to the German Shepherd that his family had raised when he was a child?
In the evening, in the coaching dormitory of the national track and field team, Comrade Su Bai, the coach who is usually decisive, rational and resolute, encountered a rare problem tonight that gave him a headache and was difficult to solve.
On the second day after the members of the national track and field team returned home, they were still in the process of adjusting to the jet lag. Although their daily routines had been barely adjusted back to normal, with the end of the World Championships, this year's outdoor season competitions have basically come to an end.
The off-season has arrived. They will have a short vacation and then enter formal winter training again in early November to start preparing for the Tokyo Olympics.
However, the off-season and holidays do not mean that they will completely give up training. It's just that during this period, they will do more relaxing training to make up for the physical strength and condition consumed during the World Championships cycle.
Of course, on the second day of the return journey, as usual, there was another event - a commendation meeting within the team.
This commendation conference is a separate commendation by the Athletics Management Center and the team to the athletes and coaches who have achieved outstanding results. In addition to this commendation conference, the relevant departments and units in the provinces and cities where the athletes are from will usually give the athletes corresponding rewards.
Just like Su Bai, he received a call from Zhao Heping shortly after he got up early this morning. The call told him that the S Province Track and Field Team had approved separate awards for him, Cui Luoheng, Qiu Wen, Wang Shen and others. Not only from relevant units, but also from the counterpart sponsors of the S Province Track and Field Team, they had prepared additional rewards for them, and were just waiting for them to find time to go back and hold a separate commendation meeting.
This is considered a common practice. The basic salary and subsidy income of athletes are not high. In track and field events, the prize money levels of many competitions are also relatively ordinary. However, as long as they can achieve certain results and receive various sponsorship rewards, the economic benefits are actually not bad.
Su Bai felt very happy when he heard Zhao Heping telling him to take care of his health on the phone. He then made an appointment with Zhao Heping that he would find time to return to City S and visit his master's wife, brother, and sister-in-law.
When Zhao Heping heard Su Bai's words, his voice was full of smiles. He repeatedly reminded him not to work too hard before hanging up the phone.
After answering the call from his master Zhao Heping, Su Bai also received a notice from the team that a commendation meeting for this World Championships would be held in the auditorium at 9 a.m., and he must arrive on time.
There is no need to mention the achievements made by the national track and field team in this World Championships. As the competition entered the last few days, the domestic national team had already begun preparing for this commendation conference. Although this is only an internal commendation, for the athletes and coaches who received the commendation, its significance is no less than the awards given by the relevant departments of their hometowns.
Starting at 8:40 in the morning, members of the national team arrived at the auditorium one after another. Not only the athletes who were going to Doha, but also the athletes who did not qualify were among them, waiting together for the upcoming commendation.
Because the final selection of the 400-meter sprint trial team members has not been completed yet, these trainees have now come to the auditorium, waiting for the commendation ceremony to begin with some nervousness and excitement.
During this period of trial training, Qiu Mingjie, Zhuo Yutang and Wu Tian have developed a good relationship. At this moment, the three of them are gathered together, communicating nervously and excitedly in low voices - of course, the ones who are nervous and excited are mainly Qiu Mingjie and Wu Tian.
"Ahhh, there are so many big guys here, they are all so awesome!"
"Help! This is the first time I'm standing in the same place with so many big guys. I'm so nervous. Oh my god, there are reporters. Can we be in the camera with the big guys?"
Zhuo Yutang glanced at his two good friends, feeling rather helpless: "...When you were trying out for the national team, you should have known that these top players were also on the national team, right?"
Qiu Mingjie immediately refuted righteously: "You know it, but you haven't seen it before, right?!"
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Okay.
Qiu Mingjie and Wu Tian were like two star-chasing paparazzi who had accidentally walked into a celebrity's dinner party. They looked left and right, and discussed with each other which big shot had a more impressive aura. Of course, the final conclusion of the discussion was that Team Zhang before the World Championships had a more impressive aura.
While the team members were chatting and waiting, the commendation meeting for the national track and field team of the Doha World Championships officially began. The director of the Athletics Management Center, Wang Zhengsheng, accompanied by several deputy directors including Jiang Wentao and Liao Jie, personally encouraged all the track and field athletes. They also personally presented corresponding awards to the athletes and their coaches who had outstanding performances and achieved breakthrough results in this competition.
Among all the events that received awards, the most outstanding one was the 400-meter event led by Su Bai himself - all the 400-meter athletes who went to Doha won awards.
In this Doha World Championships, not to mention the performance of Zhang Ziyi and others in the men's 400m sprint, the two relay events, the mixed 4x400m relay and the men's 4x400m relay, also broke the national record again in the competition.
At this World Championships, every athlete in the 400m event made due contributions to this result.
When all the athletes in the 400-meter event, including Su Bai, were invited to the stage to receive their awards, there was prolonged and enthusiastic applause from the audience.
Qiu Mingjie and other members of the 400-meter sprint trial team looked at the 400-meter sprint regulars and Su Bai on the stage, their eyes shining with hope.
The 400-meter sprint, an event that once seemed mediocre in the national team, has now shown its grandeur.
Along with the regular awards such as honorary bonuses, Su Bai also received a special award dedicated to him from Wang Zhengsheng - with his achievements in leading the 400-meter sprint event, he has met the criteria for exceptional promotion to the coaching rank and has become the highest level national coach.
At the same time, he is also the youngest national-level coach in the country's history.
Along with the press release of the National Track and Field Team Commendation Meeting, the news that Su Bai had exceptionally obtained the national coaching certificate was also revealed at the meeting. The national coach, who was only 24 years old, attracted a lot of attention.
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