After the official selection of trial players for the national team was completed, the players who failed to be selected returned to their original provincial teams in the next two days. Although they were not finally selected for the national team, as players who were rejected in the last round of screening, the coaches of the provincial teams will naturally recognize their value. When they return to their original provincial teams, they will definitely receive more training resources. As long as they train well, their final achievements will not necessarily be much worse than those of the players currently selected for the national team.
The players who were selected to officially join the national team were also given a short vacation, allowing them to return to their respective homes to rest for a while and make preparations to officially join the team.
Winter training will begin in November, and there are only two months left in 2019. Next year will be 2020, which will also be the most important Olympic year for active athletes.
The Olympics is the world's top comprehensive sports event held every four years. In the minds of people all over the world, the impression of the Olympics is "the strongest", with the most events, the highest standards, and the strongest athletes - in short, the Olympics is the strongest.
Although more than one hundred gold medals and hundreds of medals are awarded at every Olympic Games, the number of these gold medals often causes the audience to lose their initial excitement about the athletes winning awards after the Olympic schedule enters the middle stage. They may even only remember the number of gold medals that are born and increase every day, and completely forget the names behind the gold medal numbers. But in fact, for the contestants in each event, there are a group of the world's top athletes competing with them on this field at the same time.
As an athlete, just stepping onto the Olympic stage is just a dream for most players.
While the athletes were taking a short vacation away from the national team, Su Bai, together with the head coaches of various events of the national track and field team, participated in a meeting of the General Administration of Sports entitled "Mobilization and Encouragement for the Sprint of Various Events in the Olympic Year".
Not only the track and field team, but also the main coaches in charge of various projects such as the table tennis team, badminton team, gymnastics team, diving team, etc. are now gathered together, sitting in the auditorium of the Sports General Association, listening to the leaders on the stage arrange the Olympic sprint goals for this year.
This is a common practice before every major event. Each event has task targets that need to be completed. This is because for many countries, the excellence of a country's sports performance, in addition to its competitive sports strength, also implicitly represents the country's own economic strength and national strength - after all, a poor, backward and weak country will not have the spare capacity to develop its sports strength.
Even though there were some routine topics to discuss in the meetings of the sports system, they were generally very neat and tidy. First, the achievements and shortcomings of the last Olympic Games were summarized, as well as some of the summarized experiences. Then the General Administration of Sports observed and recorded the results of various events in recent years, and finally summarized and proposed requirements for Olympic results in different events.
The leaders on the stage announced the requirements for each project one by one. Below the stage, the coaches of each project were looking at the information in their hands, silently calculating in their hearts whether there was hope for their own project to achieve the task, or to see if the General Administration of Sports had any oversights in the calculations for their respective projects. If so, of course they would express the current difficulties of their project to the General Administration of Sports as soon as possible.
For a moment, the only sounds in the auditorium were the lecture from the stage and the rustling of pages turning in the audience. The entire auditorium was extremely quiet.
Su Bai, as the head coach of the 400-meter sprint in track and field, was sitting in the middle of the auditorium. On his left were the coaches of the diving project. As one of the major Olympic gold medal winners in China, the coaches of the diving team were quite experienced. They each glanced at the indicators of the diving team in their hands and just smiled at each other.
Su Bai had just heard the leader on the stage mention the goal of the diving team, which was just a very simple sentence - "strive to win gold medals in all events."
As a team with the title of 'Dream Team', the goal is so simple and direct. Su Bai took another look at the diving team's results from the previous Olympics recorded in the materials in his hand - at that time, the diving team only failed to win gold in two events, and even in those two events where they failed to win gold, the diving team also won one silver and two bronze medals.
After seeing such strength, Su Bai was also amazed.
Su Bai was observing the diving coach. The coaches of the diving team had also noticed Su Bai a long time ago. After all, diving and track and field are two major events. The coaches of the diving team may know that the popularity of track and field events has soared this year, or they may know that there is a coach named Su Bai in the track and field events who has achieved outstanding results, but they have never seen Su Bai in person.
So much so that when everyone sat down at first, the diving coach on Su Bai's left was stunned for a moment - "Isn't there a coaching meeting today? Why are there athletes here too?"
It was because Su Bai was too young that it was difficult for these coaches to realize that he was in the same industry as them. It was not until Su Bai introduced himself that they suddenly realized.
"Oh! I know you, Coach Su Baisu... Sorry, sorry, I really didn't realize you were so young."
Given Su Bai's age, it was indeed very out of place among this group of coaches, which attracted the attention of many coaches.
At this moment, the presentation on the stage had just turned to the track and field event. The leaders of the General Administration of Sports on the stage highly praised the various breakthroughs in the track and field event in the past two years, and then also put forward new requirements for the track and field event.
"For the men's and women's 400m sprint, we will at least make it to the semifinals and strive to enter the finals to achieve a breakthrough from 0. For the men's 4x400m sprint and the mixed men's and women's 4x400m sprint, we will strive to make it to the semifinals and at least be in the top ten in the total score."
Compared with the previous requirements of the Sports General Administration for the diving team, the goal set by the Sports General Administration for the 400-meter sprint can be said to be moderate. However, compared with the previous Olympics, the 400-meter sprint event had never obtained Olympic qualifications in either individual events or relays. This time, under the leadership of Su Bai, except for the women's 4x400-meter sprint relay, the acquisition of four Olympic qualifications is already a historic progress.
After the meeting, the leaders of the General Administration of Sport specifically explained to the coaches of each sport: "The assessment period for Olympic qualification has not yet ended. Everyone must work hard to adjust the status of each athlete and strive to obtain more Olympic quotas before the assessment period ends."
After the meeting, Wang Zhengsheng, director of the Track and Field Management Center, also met with Su Bai separately to find out from him whether there were any other athletes who had hope in the 400-meter sprint event besides Zhang Ziyi and Chen Yada.
"For the women's team, Lin Huan and Lin Yao are still far from 51.35 seconds. They can definitely improve their performance during winter training, but it is still too difficult to break into this standard."
Su Bai answered directly. Currently, both Lin Huan and Lin Yao have not yet reached the qualifying result for the women's 400m in the previous World Championships, let alone the qualifying result for the Tokyo Olympics, which is known as the "most stringent qualifying standard in history"?
"As for the men's team... Qiu Wen still has some hope." Su Bai frowned and calculated. In the previous World Championships, Qiu Wen's PB had reached 45.01 seconds. This result has not yet broken the 45-second mark, but it is already very close. If Qiu Wen can make new gains in rhythm perception and control in the coming winter training, and break 44.90 seconds before the deadline for next year's Olympic assessment... there may be hope.
After hearing this, Wang Zhengsheng nodded solemnly, patted Su Bai on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I believe in your judgment."
Soon after this meeting, not only the national team, but the entire country and all provincial teams entered a state of tension and excitement for the upcoming 'Olympic year'.
The workload of the coaches in the national team has also increased sharply, including a comprehensive review of the just-concluded World Championships, the selection and recruitment of winter training athletes, the formulation of winter training plans, 20-year full-year training for key athletes, athletes' sprint for Olympic quotas, arrangements for some athletes to brush up on IAAF points, and arrangements for competition plans...
There are many things to consider, and as a coach of the national team, there are bound to be invitations to give lectures, so even though the players are on vacation, the coaches' workload has not decreased at all.
This is already the second year of winter training since Su Bai was transferred to the national team. Although there are more young players joining the team this year than last year, Su Bai has been quite organized in arranging the entire winter training and other matters. The only slight annoyance is that Cui Luoheng, who gave up his vacation and did not go home, can almost "accidentally" meet him in the national team's restaurant for three meals a day.
Cui Luoheng also understood how busy Su Bai was right now. During this vacation period, he only carried out basic maintenance training and did not need to bother Su Bai. He just watched for the three meals and waited for the food in the cafeteria.
Su Bai didn't notice it at first, but he went to the cafeteria five, six or seven times in a row and met Cui Luoheng every time. No matter how slow Su Bai was, he knew that this guy A Luo was waiting for him in the cafeteria on purpose. He subconsciously wanted to change the meal time, but that time he arrived at the cafeteria an hour later than usual for dinner, and then he saw A Luo still squatting in the cafeteria. He didn't perk up until he saw him.
After that, Su Bai gave up on treatment - just let it go.
Thinking of the pitiful look of A Luo when he first entered the cafeteria, Su Bai thought about it and admitted that he did feel a little soft-hearted after seeing it.
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