After this practice match, the American athletes were arranged to participate in other activities. The students from the sports school were also arranged by the staff to visit and learn in the training areas of other projects. Soon, only the seven 400-meter athletes, Su Bai and Wang Ting were left on the training ground.
Although the game was over, the atmosphere among the athletes was somewhat stagnant. Even Qiu Wen, the naive guy, seemed a little depressed after two practice matches.
Among all the players on the field, perhaps only Zhang Ziyi had felt this uncomfortable emotion many times. But even so, Zhang Ziyi had only felt this heavy feeling of boredom alone in the international arena in the past. In such an environment as the international arena, not many people could recognize him, Zhang Ziyi. It was internationally recognized that the yellow race had a weaker talent in sprinting, and there were also factors such as long-distance cross-border operations and the impact on status.
Zhang Ziyi, who had always thought that he was serious and responsible in his approach to competition, suddenly realized after this practice match that he had been harboring many self-consoling thoughts in his heart without even realizing it.
Qiu Wen's depression was because he felt that he was too aggressive and had accidentally forgotten the pace of studying that he had been working hard on for the past few months...
As for Li Junhao, Guo Dun, Lin Chuan, Zhou Xu and Zhang Chang, the practice match just now was like a heavy slap in the face, leaving them with nowhere to escape.
Looking at Su Bai who was standing aside with no expression of surprise on his face, they seemed to feel that the word "waste" was engraved in Su Bai's eyes towards them.
It was really...an embarrassing experience.
But it also made them realize thoroughly that there is a deep gap between them, not to mention when compared with the world's top players, but even when compared with world-class athletes.
In the past, they took it for granted to hide on this side of the chasm. Although they knew there was a chasm ahead, they all assumed that they did not have the ability to cross it. In the end, they even regarded the chasm as their protective barrier.
Among all the people, Li Junhao was in the worst condition. During the practice match, he was really holding his breath and running desperately because of his anger towards Su Bai. It was precisely because of this all-out attempt and the final feedback he received that this result was particularly unbearable.
It seemed that every word Su Bai had said before turned into a huge rock again, once again shattering his extremely strong yet extremely fragile self-esteem.
In this atmosphere, there was a continuous silence on the training ground, and no one spoke for a long time.
Looking at the atmosphere at the scene, Wang Ting standing on the side was a little anxious. He wanted to break this atmosphere and cheer up the athletes present, but now he was not the head coach of the 400 meters. When Su Bai was present and had not spoken yet, he could not speak casually, otherwise it would likely affect Su Bai's original plan.
It was not until the hushed and depressing atmosphere at the scene was pushed to a climax due to the long silence that Su Bai, who had been standing in front of the crowd with his arms folded, spoke softly.
"What? Are you depressed now? Why didn't you get depressed during the previous competitions?"
Su Bai's light words almost added salt to the wounds in the hearts of these contestants.
"you!"
Li Junhao had been keeping his head down and clenching his fists. Now he suddenly raised his head and glared at Su Bai with bloodshot eyes.
Zhang Ziyi was not in a good mood either, but he still waved his hand to stop Li Junhao, trying to ease the one-sided tension between Li Junhao and Su Bai.
Su Bai glanced at Li Junhao and Zhang Ziyi and said nothing more. Instead, he took a training plan from the assistant coach next to him and began to announce the next training plan to the almost all depressed athletes in front of him.
"Today is July 23rd. There is only about one day left until the Jakarta Asian Games. The next training plan is a 25-day cycle." Su Bai paused, looked up at the people in front of him who were still depressed, and said: "In the next training cycle, I hope to achieve the following goals."
“First, 80% of all team members’ scores are stable within 46.50 seconds.”
"Second, Zhang Ziyi and Qiu Wen, their results were stable within 46.15 and 46.25 respectively."
“Third, the relay results are stable within 3 minutes and 5 seconds.”
When Su Bai mentioned the first goal, the players present suddenly looked up at Su Bai, including Wang Ting and the assistant coaches present, all of whom felt that Su Bai's goal seemed like a fantasy.
Not to mention anything else, among the players present, Li Junhao's PB was 46.89, Zhou Xu and Zhang Chang's PBs were 46.54 and 46.61 respectively. Not to mention stabilizing their results, even their PBs were not within 46.50, let alone keeping 80% of their results within 46.50? These are two completely different concepts!
The same situation is with Zhang Ziyi. His best result this season is only 46.16 seconds in the previous Asian Games trials. The 46.23 seconds he ran today is already his second best result this season. Under this circumstance, does Su Bai want him to stabilize his results within 46.15 seconds? !
Not to mention the relay's 3 minutes and 5 seconds... The current national record for the 4*400m sprint relay has also been untouched for more than ten years, and this data that has been untouched for more than ten years is 3 minutes and 3 seconds 66.
After Su Bai stated his three goals, the athletes and coaches present except Qiu Wen thought that Su Bai was talking nonsense. If he was not the current head coach of the national team's 400m project, he would probably be labeled as an ignorant lunatic if he dared to state these goals in front of domestic track and field enthusiasts.
Zhang Ziyi, who was specifically mentioned by Su Bai, almost blurted out - This is impossible!
Most of the remaining players on the field were also confused at this time, and the overall atmosphere on the field changed from the depressing and dull feeling a few minutes ago to a wonderful feeling with a hint of absurdity.
This time, even Li Junhao didn't say anything. He just waited for Su Bai with an incredible look, as if he was looking at some mysterious species.
Su Bai glanced at the players present. Among them, only Qiu Wen, who had already established enough trust in Su Bai, stood there calmly, and was eager to try out the training goals Su Bai mentioned.
"Can't believe it?" Su Bai looked at everyone, waiting for their response.
Zhang Ziyi hesitated for a moment, then said, "Coach, I think our goal should be to proceed step by step?"
Su Bai smiled: "For example?"
Zhang Ziyi was just about to say a performance data that felt more reasonable, but at the same time he remembered that less than half an hour ago, those American athletes had experienced cross-national time differences and two consecutive competitions, and the worst athlete's result was no more than 46.15 seconds. Suddenly, he could no longer say what he wanted to say.
Those athletes were just the top 20 athletes in the United States who couldn’t even be selected for the US national team, but he… was the top athlete in the 400-meter event of the Chinese national track and field team.
Zhang Ziyi clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and shook his head: "No, I am willing to accept all your training arrangements, Coach Su."
Zhang Ziyi, who was about to speak, shut up. Qiu Wen was obviously Su Bai's direct subordinate and would never object to Su Bai's request. Although the other players present were hesitant and worried, after Su Bai arranged a series of swift and decisive measures to arrange the practice match, they no longer dared to directly question him.
Only Li Junhao was still unhappy with Su Bai and found Su Bai's calm appearance particularly unbearable.
He gritted his teeth and glared at Su Bai: "You said this is the goal? Why should we believe that your training plan can lead us to this result?!"
Zhang Ziyi, Guo Dun and Wang Ting were all a little anxious about Li Junhao's reaction, but Su Bai remained very calm. He looked at Li Junhao and said, "I am your head coach now, and I have submitted this performance target to the national team and the Athletics Management Center."
"I dare to bet my future on the effectiveness of my training for you. Do you dare to fight?"
Su Bai calmly glanced at the athlete in front of him who was stunned by his words.
"I know you all are unwilling to accept today's practice match, but this is our current level in the world. Those American players can easily beat your best efforts."
"You can choose to escape, but I think you have already witnessed the results of China's 400-meter performance over the past decade."
"Do you want to continue with this kind of results in the future, in your sports career?"
Everyone present had sour eyes and clenched their fists, obviously very resistant to the possible future that Su Baihua mentioned.
"If you don't want to fall behind, then try your best."
"You were able to stand out from athletes across the country and make it to the national team, which proves your talent in this event. I also recognize your talent in the 400m event."
"As long as you are willing to believe, I will lead you to achieve the goals I set within a month."
At this point, Su Bai smiled slightly: "This plan is my personal idea and responsibility from beginning to end. If it succeeds, your results will take a big step forward. If it fails, I will be solely responsible, and I will resign from the position of head coach of the national team's 400m project, which is about to be determined."
"This game has only benefits for you, no harm, right?"
It was not until Su Bai finished speaking that everyone present truly realized that Su Bai was serious about the goals he had just set, and that he was betting his own future on them.
Everyone looked at Su Bai with disbelief, as if they thought he was crazy, but at the same time, they couldn't help but want to believe in the goal he had set because of Su Bai's determination. Even Li Junhao opened his mouth, then closed it and stopped talking.
Su Bai looked at everyone present and said with a smile, "I have reorganized all your training plans. Starting tomorrow, Coach Wang will cooperate with my requirements and implement the new training plan for everyone."
"I hope that in Jakarta one month from now, track and field spectators across the country will be able to see a brand new Chinese 400m track and field team."
Having said that, Su Bai calmly asked the contestants present to temporarily disperse and rest, and told everyone that there would still be a dinner waiting for them in the evening, which he would prepare personally.
It’s a pity that this dinner was the only one in all the time that Su Bai had been the chef that most of the diners found tasteless.
Although the nature of the practice match on that day needed to be kept confidential, there were many people involved after all, so the fact that the national team invited five American athletes to come to the country to have a practice match with domestic athletes was still known to some track and field fans, and then it was exposed on the Track and Field Kingdom Forum.
Subject: [The national team invited American players to China for a secret practice match, and all the national team players were defeated! ! ! 】
Topic content: [Just learned that on the first day of Su Bai taking office as the national team's 400m project manager, he strongly advocated inviting American 400m runners to come to China to have a practice match with our 400m runners. He also invited hundreds of students from the B City Sports School to watch the match. As a result, our runners finished last in two consecutive matches... The students from the sports school present were so embarrassed that they couldn't even cheer anymore and finally all died down...]
2l: […I’ve also heard about this. I can’t understand why Su Bai did this. Is he trying to boost the players’ confidence by competing against international-level opponents? But if this happens, it’s all over, right? 】
5l: What does that mean? Two games in a row? Those American players still won two games in a row and we were defeated? 】
8l: [That’s right, that’s right… I suspect that they originally wanted to boost the confidence of the athletes, but they chose the wrong opponents and didn’t find anyone with a level close to our 400m athletes, so they failed. 】
13l: [No matter what, seeing that all our players are at the bottom of the list, I still feel a little disappointed... It is true that Su Bai has some level, but he made such a stupid move as soon as he took over the national team. Can he still train well in the future? MD, I am a little worried about the Jakarta Asian Games now...】
17l: [Yes, I originally wanted to say that Su Bai’s appointment to the national team would bring some new trends to the 400-meter event and improve the performance of all members. As a result, the current situation... I don’t know what to say. Sigh, I feel sorry for our athletes. Less than a month before the competition, they suffered such a big setback without any mental preparation. Will it affect their competitive state? 】
21l: [It’s so annoying. Could it be that Su Bai has become arrogant because he has brought great results to Qiu Wen, Zhang Wei and Hu Li? I am a little worried now. With such a bad start, I feel like this year's Jakarta 400m event is ruined again...】
In the Track and Field Kingdom Forum, the overall atmosphere of the forum became depressed due to the leak of the results of this practice match. Some people were sad about the national team's two consecutive defeats, some were worried about Su Bai's coaching results, and some were worried that the national team's players' competitive state would collapse and their results would hit a new low in Jakarta.
For a while, the praise for Su Bai in the forum stopped, and many forum users felt that perhaps Su Bai became arrogant because of his previous smooth sailing in the S Province Track and Field Team, and raising his hand when he joined the national team was a bad move.
The national team naturally also has staff members who monitor public opinion. Soon, the public opinion about this incident on the Internet was reported to Pei Jinan, the head coach of the sprint team. Pei Jinan had no choice but to call Su Bai to his office.
"Is it really true that the team doesn't need to intervene in this matter and just let them continue to curse?" Pei Jinan was a little worried. He was not worried about the contestants, but whether Su Bai would be affected by this matter.
Su Bai smiled and shook his head: "No, it's okay. At most one month later in Jakarta, the audience will be able to see the contestants' performances, right?"
At this point, Pei Jinan thought of the training goal that Su Bai handed to him, and couldn't help but have a headache: "Speaking of this... Coach Su, are you really not going to slow down your training goal? Director Jiang of the Athletics Management Center also said before, and I also told you here that we allow strategic abandonment of the Jakarta Asian Games. There is no need to affect your overall training plan because of chasing the results of the Asian Games."
"We can wait until the National Track and Field Championships at the end of September to discuss the results... Besides, we still need to lay a solid foundation. We don't need to try everything at once. We can also allow for a certain fluctuation range in results."
The performance target before the Asian Games that Su Bai handed to him really shocked Pei Jinan. The leap and magnitude of the performance were too big!
Think again about what Su Bai said - something about betting his own future.
To be honest, it is not easy to have a coach like Su Bai in China who can quickly bring results and changes to the players, and who has excellent vision and is young. Pei Jinan and the Athletics Management Center all think that as long as Su Bai can bring certain improvements to the players' performance, he should be kept and trained for a long time.
Even if such a young and capable coach has not been able to produce athletes with particularly outstanding results in recent years, as long as he maintains this vision and gradually improves his coaching level, it is almost certain that he will be able to produce record-breaking 400-meter athletes in the future.
They all don't want Su Bai to really leave the national team because of what he said.
Hearing Pei Jinan's words, Su Bai smiled again: "Don't worry, Coach Pei, I don't mean to joke about my future."
Pei Jinan was startled: "So what do you mean?"
"As for laying the foundation, among the current athletes in the team, except Qiu Wen, the remaining six have already laid a solid foundation in the 400m event. All they need to do is make some changes."
"To be precise, with the solid foundation they have laid over the years and their own talents, it shouldn't be a problem for them to run under 46.50 seconds more stably."
Hearing Su Bai's resounding reply, Pei Jinan was speechless for a moment.
"You mean... they should have been able to run under 46.50?"
"Yes." Su Bai nodded affirmatively: "It's just that due to some technical habit problems and insufficient training of certain physical qualities, their results cannot reach the level they should have."
“It’s the so-called barrel effect.”
During these days, Su Bai did not relax at all in his research on the abilities and characteristics of several players. It was only after detailed and repeated confirmation that Su Bai clarified the final training target result.
These players all have similar problems to Zhang Wei and Hu Li to a greater or lesser extent, in addition to the mental limitations that have always existed, which are the reasons why they are unable to fully and stably display their own strengths.
Pei Jinan was a little unconvinced: "Then Coach Su, what you mean is that after a short period of training and adjustment, they should be able to run a stable time of less than 46.50 seconds?"
"Yes." Su Bai affirmed: "So I said, at this stage, there is no need for any slow development. I just want to let them return to their original level and appearance within the planning of this cycle."
"As for after this stage, there will of course be appropriate goals to match different players."
Seeing Su Bai say this, Pei Jinan wanted to believe it very much, but he was a little bit unbelievable. After all, most of the current players were those who were often selected for the national team in the past. Pei Jinan had some impression of these players' performance and training status. He also discussed the respective problems and situations of different players with Wang Ting and the scientific researchers in the team. However, in the final results, there was progress, but it could not be said to be as affirmative as Su Bai.
But no matter what, Pei Jinan decided to believe Su Bai's words and actions - anyway, he would definitely receive news about the next training data synchronization, and he would have a rough idea of what the actual effect would be by then.
I hope... everything is as Su Bai said.
When Su Bai came out of Pei Jinan's office, he went to the office of Lu Shengbin from the hurdles group and briefly communicated with him about Cui Luoheng's training situation.
Lu Shengbin said that Cui Luoheng's training was progressing normally according to Su Bai's training plan, but Cui Luoheng's temper was really bad. He looked very bad all day long, which made the assistant coach a little afraid of him.
After hearing what Lu Shengbin said, Su Bai suddenly remembered that Cui Luoheng was probably in a cycle of forcing himself to eat every day. His overly sensitive sense of taste made it difficult for him to enjoy the pure pleasure even when eating.
However, these days all his attention was focused on the athletes in the 400-meter event, and he temporarily forgot about Cui Luoheng's dietary problem.
Thinking of this, Su Bai rubbed his forehead and decided to find a way to find time to prepare some midnight snacks. Not to mention Cui Luoheng, if the athletes in the 400-meter event could get some extra training bonus buffs, it would also be helpful for their training in the coming period.
Fortunately, the S Province track and field team made several splashes in the past period of time, including sweeping the top three in the 400m, and Cui Luoheng and Qiu Wen in the trials.
His explosive performance in the past few years has made more track and field spectators know him, which has caused his reputation to surge in the short term. He does not have to worry about the depletion of his reputation in the near future for the time being.
and……
The reason why Su Bai rejected Pei Jinan's clarification just now was because he unexpectedly discovered that these discussions on the Internet were also increasing his reputation. In this case, it didn't matter at all if he was just criticized by netizens online.
Thinking of this, Su Bai took out his mobile phone and saw that someone was @ing him on Weibo, asking him not to be complacent and to consider the mentality of the 400-meter runners and not to let the runners lose their mentality.
Su Bai thought about it, smiled and forwarded the message to his homepage, then replied: [Thank you all for your concern. Without destruction, there is no construction.^^ All the results will be revealed in Jakarta. 】
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