Chapter 169 (Four in One)
——"Su Yu, how do you feel about participating in the World Championships for the first time?"
——"Su Yu, as the first contestant who needs the official to prove his age, what do you think?"
——"Su Yu, what aspect of Doha's local customs and culture do you think left the most profound impression on you?"
——"Su Yu..."
A series of "Su Yu Su Yu", some questions are related to the World Championships, while some have nothing to do with the World Championships.
The main point is that these issues are completely unrelated, or in other words, the only associated word for these issues is Su Yu.
Su Yu: “…”
Facing a large number of microphones handed to him, Su Yu took a deep breath and wanted to throw the microphones back into the hands of the reporters. However, reason prevailed in the end and he did not do so.
But in the face of these teasing questions from the reporters, Su Yu was silent for a while, and then asked: "...Can I ask some questions related to the game?"
After hearing Su Yu's question, the reporters present couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Okay, okay, ask questions about the competition!"
After receiving Su Yu's "warning", these reporters all laughed, and then began to seriously ask questions related to Su Yu's World Championships.
——"Su Yu, this is your first time participating in the World Championships, and you are competing in three events alone. Do you feel a lot of pressure before the competition?"
——"As the first yellow athlete to enter the 100m final of the World Championships, how did you feel at that time?"
——"Su Yu, in this World Championships, you have achieved amazing results in the three events of 100m, 200m and 400m. However, as a sprinter, you should still have your main event that you prefer and are good at. Which one do you think is your main event?"
This time, after Su Yu's "protest", the questions from the reporters present immediately became much more serious.
It should be said that the reporters present were indeed from regular media, including Su Yu's old acquaintance, Li Xiang, a reporter from G Province TV Station, who was also in the crowd.
These reporters, who may be from provincial media or above, or professional media such as Sports Express and Sports Times, have very high professional capabilities and asked relatively serious questions after being asked serious questions.
However, even when the reporters present asked these serious questions, they inexplicably had a loving smile on their faces.
Su Yu: ...I just feel it’s very subtle.
Although the atmosphere among the reporters was a bit strange, Su Yu still answered the serious questions honestly.
——"There is still pressure before the game, but it is not the pressure of me fighting three events alone, but the pressure of whether I can perform well in the game."
——"I have Captain Zheng and Brother Chu Ming with me in the 100m event, and Brother You Ming with me in the 200m event, but neither of them can be considered as me competing alone."
——“Every athlete’s performance on the field will fluctuate to a certain extent. I am very happy and lucky to advance in the 100m final this time, but this does not mean that my strength in the 100m event has reached or surpassed Zheng and Chu Ming.
For now, there is still a certain distance between my strength and theirs. I hope that in the next world competition, I can win the qualification for the finals with my more stable strength, rather than relying on occasional luck. ”
——"As for the 100m, 200m and 400m events that I am better at..."
When Su Yu answered this question, he frowned for a while, and finally said: "This question...it's hard for me to answer now."
In fact, if we look at Su Yu's World Championships results alone, many people think that Su Yu's 100-meter sprint result should be the best among the three individual events, while the other 200-meter and 400-meter individual results seem to be slightly worse.
But actually it is not.
This conclusion can be seen from the world rankings of his three best individual results - this performance ranking of the IAAF is not a ranking of athlete points, but purely based on personal performance data.
Among them, in the 100m event, Su Yu's time of 10.02 seconds ranked 28th in the world in the 2019 season.
That is to say, in the 2019 season, Su Yu's result of 10.02 seconds ranked 28th among athletes in the world.
His 200-meter sprint result of 20.21 seconds ranks 31st in the IAAF rankings. Although he has fallen out of the top 30 in the world rankings, it is actually not much different from Su Yu's 100-meter result.
As for his 400-meter sprint result of 44.96 seconds, it also ranked 28th in the IAAF rankings in the 2019 season.
So, you don’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked when you see it.
After Su Yu reported his ranking on the IAAF season list, he looked at the reporters in front of him with a righteous look on his face.
Reporters: “…”
Now the difficult problem is thrown on their heads - based on Su Yu's results, ask them which area Su Yu is better at?
As they were talking, the reporters also saw the three coaches of the national track and field team's sprint group, Sun Gaoshu, Zheng Sheng and Liu Qinlong, not far away.
The three coaches were looking at them with eyes full of "goodwill" at the same time. The reporters were afraid that if they said that Su Yu had greater potential in event A, the other two head coaches would come over to "check" it.
Under this intimidating gaze, the reporters wisely remained silent and said with a smile: "Oh, Xiaoyu, you are still young. Most players your age are still testing their main direction. Don't worry, we can consider it when we grow up."
Su Yu: "... Yeah, okay."
Anyway, no matter what else, at least this interview was successfully completed amidst a huge crowd of onlookers.
After the interview was over, Su Yu returned the microphone to the reporters and almost immediately stuck to Pei Dingshan. After Pei Dingshan noticed his movements, he also moved aside and let the child sit on his right, where Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, who had just finished an interview, were sitting.
Now, Su Yu was surrounded by Pei Dingshan on the left, Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming on the right. With the three Vajra protecting him, it seemed that even the attention of the onlookers around him was a little weakened.
Su Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming, who were standing nearby, had long known that Su Yu didn't like crowded places, so when they saw him coming over, they didn't mind blocking the way for him.
Finally, after all the interviews were over, the reporters dispersed obediently. Su Yu finally followed the "Three Vajra Guardians" beside him to the bus that came to pick up the national team.
After Su Yu and his friends got on the car, the reporters present couldn't help laughing.
"Ah, what's going on with the track and field team? The leaders of each generation are not easy to interview."
"Who says it's not?"
"Didn't I hear from Liu Ji that Su Yu was quite cooperative with the interview?"
"It's cooperation, but you can see from Su Yu that he's not the talkative type. Liu Ji interviewed Su Yu before when he was still unknown. After he became famous, he was mostly interviewed abroad, with fewer reporters. I guess Su Yu is not that nervous and will cooperate more."
"Hahahaha, I think Xiaoyu was even more nervous when he was interviewed by us than he was in the 100m final of the World Championships, right?"
As everyone was chatting and laughing, they suddenly remembered Li Xiang from the nearby G Province TV station. This Li became famous after interviewing Su Yu, and eventually switched to the sports department to specialize in interviewing track and field events.
Someone asked: "Li Ji, you were the first one to interview the three contestants Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang, right? Was Su Yu so socially anxious at the time?"
After hearing everyone's questions, Li Xiang recalled the original scene and laughed, "It's more than just social phobia. It's simply autism! In the original interview, Jiang Yuan and Su Yu didn't say a word. They just stood in the background. Zhou Yuang was actually the only one being interviewed."
The reporters present thought about the scene at that time, and some of them still remembered the interview video and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
But after laughing, these reporters quickly dispersed - although the interview was over, they still had the task of writing and publishing articles!
There are some interesting interview materials, and whoever posts them first will profit!
At the same time, due to the large flow of people in the airport, a large number of netizens took photos or videos of Su Yu and others on the spot.
In a short while, the topics of #National Track and Field Team Returns Home# and #Suyu Airport Interview# quickly soared on Weibo and Tik Tok.
***
On the bus of the national track and field team's short jump group, Su Yu, who finally got on the bus smoothly, finally breathed a sigh of relief after sitting in his seat.
——Sure enough, he still couldn't adapt to the scene with so many people around.
The national team members on the bus had also witnessed Su Yu's famous social phobia scenes. After laughing, many of them smiled and taught Su Yu the "interview skipping skills".
Unfortunately, in the "Guide to Skipping Classes" given to him by these team members and staff, the key plan for skipping classes was "black face", which mainly referred to the status of Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming.
Su Yu: “…”
However, the ability to put on a bad face also requires a certain level of talent.
Take Zheng Tianxi and Feng Chuming for example. Even without deliberately putting on a stern face, they already look very ferocious when they just have a calm expression.
For example, Pei Dingshan, although he looks good, has an aura that makes him able to control the situation. When he frowns, reporters dare not be too presumptuous.
But if these skills were used on Su Yu, the "baby-faced" girl officially certified by the World Championships...
The final effect is probably that it looks like a sulky child.
Su Yu: “…”
Su Yu looked at his teammates who were laughing happily in the bus and decided to stay alone on the bus for another hour - this team was gradually becoming less friendly (for sure).
That night, when Su Yu and his teammates returned to the national team, hot searches on the Internet had already begun one after another.
Previously, Su Yu and his team were competing overseas. From June to August, that is, after his Weibo trending search "top the charts", Su Yu spent most of his time competing overseas. Even in the month after returning to China, he was in the national track and field team training base for the pre-match training for the World Championships. So even though a large number of netizens on the Internet were very interested in him, they could never see him in person.
But this time it was different. A large number of people took photos of Su Yu being interviewed at the airport. What's more, many people went out to play during the National Day holiday and brought professional SLR cameras to take photos...
So soon, the topic #Suyu Airport# began to appear on Weibo.
_(:зゝ∠)_
Those who know think that this is an athlete returning home, while those who don’t think about it might think it is some popular star - after all, there are so many topics about popular stars at the airport, and the format is very unified.
Although Su Yu can now be regarded as a top-tier sports star in the country, it is still a bit far-fetched to say that everyone on the Internet knows him.
Therefore, as the topic #苏洲机场# climbed to the top of the hot search list, some passers-by who were fed up with the traffic stars buying messy topics every day clicked in...
But, just when I was about to curse, I took a closer look and saw that the various high-definition pictures on the topic square showed a player wearing the national team's uniform sports jacket... ?
Passerby:?
Looking further ahead - the national track and field team will return home tonight.
Passerby:? ?
After going around in circles, these passers-by suddenly realized that they had seen a lot of hot topics related to track and field in recent times, but after all, they had not paid special attention to them, so they didn’t know that the athletes of the track and field team had returned home today?
Just...
When passersby clicked in, the first picture they saw was Su Yu holding a bunch of microphones and recorders in his hands, facing a group of reporters alone.
To be honest, if Su Yu wasn't wearing the national team's uniform sports jacket, it would be really hard to recognize him as an athlete of the national team.
After all, she does have a face suitable for being a star.
Some passers-by looked at the name Su Yu and realized belatedly - hey, this kid is called Su Yu, and he is a member of the national track and field team? ! So is he the one that was fought over by Q University and B University a few months ago? !
After getting the answer of 'yes', even passers-by couldn't help but sigh - you see, sometimes, God is really unreasonable.
To use a classic description on the Internet today - when Nuwa was shaping the human body, the one she gave to Su Yu was probably a meticulously crafted work of art, while the one she gave to herself was probably just a casually thrown dot of mud.
…
Along with the huge hot searches about the return of the national track and field team and the series of interviews that followed, not only did Su Yu inexplicably gain a wave of fans, but he also received a large number of advertising business invitations and invitations to film and television variety shows.
In fact, this is a common thing. It’s not because the national track and field team returned home that it suddenly broke out, but because next year is the Olympic year, and next year is the Tokyo Olympics held in Japan!
what does that mean?
This means that most of the domestic audience can watch the game simultaneously!
If it is still like the last Rio Olympics, with a 10-hour time difference, it will be difficult for domestic audiences to follow the events simultaneously - even if the sports channels push the events 24 hours a day, the attention will be much lower than that of the Tokyo Olympics.
Being in the same Asian country, there is only a one-hour time difference, which is basically the same as watching the games at home. Also, because the Olympics are held during the summer vacation, a large number of spectators plan to go to Tokyo, Japan to watch the Olympic Games in person.
With this level of attention, advertisers are naturally flocking to it.
It can be said that the Olympic Games held every four years is the busiest period for the business work of various sports associations.
At times like this, wealthy advertisers or brands will look for the favorites to win medals. Whenever they win a gold medal in the Olympics, advertisements will be released simultaneously, and the brands will naturally make a lot of money from the popularity.
For example, top brands with a lot of money often invite popular players for an entire project all at once, with the main idea being that "if player A doesn't win the gold medal, there's still player B who can."
Most brands are betting on a certain player, and some are even betting on potential players.
In past Olympic Games, there have been many myths of dark horse athletes winning gold medals, and the exposure and popularity that brands that bet on dark horse athletes before the game can obtain are particularly outstanding - using the invitation price of an unknown athlete to win an Olympic gold medalist, this is the dark horse myth of advertisers.
Of course, the advertisers who have found the track and field team now, especially those who specifically want to find sprinters, are not betting on the Olympic gold medal - they are betting on whether one of the sprinters in the Tokyo Olympics can make it to the Tokyo Olympic final next year.
After all, they have been paying attention to the World Championships during this period. You have to know how much attention the previous World Championships have received in China. This is something that can be found out by pulling out various data on the Internet.
This year's World Championships has been frequently searched, and the sprint events and records can almost be said to be unprecedented.
This group of advertisers immediately acted like cats smelling blood, and immediately sent various business invitations to the Agricultural Management Center.
However, the Athletics Administration Center did not intend to take over immediately. Instead, they suppressed the matter and said they would wait until the national team returned home.
In fact, the Athletics Administration Center has the authority to directly accept this kind of business invitation on behalf of the coaches and athletes of the national team. However, the Athletics Administration Center still respects the opinions of the athletes, so they plan to wait until the national team members come back to ask.
After all, even if it is about making money, it would be best if the Athletics Management Center, the national team and the athletes can make the money happily.
Therefore, when Su Yu and his colleagues returned to China the next day, what they received was not a holiday notice or a winter training notice, but a review notice for various business contents.
Su Yu was stunned when he saw the thick stack of cooperation invitations that Pei Dingshan brought to him.
After hesitating for a while, Su Yu asked, "Is this the invitation for cooperation received by everyone in the sprint group?"
Pei Dingshan glanced at him, put the invitation plans on his desk, and said calmly: "It's yours."
After a pause, he added: "This is the first batch."
Su Yu: “…”
Over the past six months, although Zhou Yuang and others have been saying that he has become very popular, since he has been participating in competitions abroad, we don’t actually feel much of it.
The most I feel is that the number of his fans on Weibo seems to have increased a lot, but he seldom goes on Weibo, and when he does he just posts something and then leaves, so I really don't know how popular he is.
This time when he returned to China, he did feel something at the airport, but apart from the interview with reporters last night, Su Yu did not have the opportunity to feel more.
Pei Dingshan glanced at the child in front of him and said to him, "You should continue with the distance learning course for the next half month, and don't go to Q University for classes for the time being."
Su Yu was stunned for a moment, but after seeing Pei Dingshan's serious face, he realized the weight of Pei Dingshan's words, so he nodded obediently: "Well, I understand."
After all, he is a student as well as an athlete and has the responsibility to take care of his health.
In an environment as crowded as the airport last night, if he were alone, he might get into trouble... In that situation, it would be normal to get injured accidentally in the crowd.
Just as he was thinking about it, his cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and saw that it was a voice call from his senior sister on WeChat.
"Hello, is this Xiaoyu?"
"Senior sister, what's wrong?"
Su Yu asked the person on the other side: "Do you need to go to school for something?"
"No!!"
After hearing Su Yu's words, the female voice on the other side immediately stopped him sternly: "I am here to inform you on behalf of all your seniors. Don't come to school in the next few days!"
As he spoke, Su Yu seemed to hear the senior sister opposite him sighing faintly: "Especially on weekends, don't come!"
As Su Yu listened to his senior sister's words, a huge question mark slowly emerged in his head.
"Our Q University's mini app for booking campus tours has crashed several times in the past few days. It's all about scrambling for weekend tour spots."
The senior sister was still saying, "If you come to school from Monday to Friday, at most the students in our school will surround you. If you dare to come to school on weekends, you don't know who will block you..."
"Anyway, even if you have to go to school on weekends, remember to avoid the gates where outsiders come in and out..."
Su Yu listened to the earnest instructions of the senior sister on the other end of the phone and obediently responded with "OK".
After hanging up the phone, he blinked slowly, finally accepting the reality that he now received an absurd amount of public attention.
After hanging up the phone with his senior sister, Pei Dingshan asked a new question: "The Field Management Center has received not only these advertising business invitations, but also several guest invitations from popular variety shows. They want to invite you..."
This time, Su Yu didn't listen to Pei Dingshan's words and shook his head frantically: "I refuse!"
You know, given his current popularity, he has almost reached the point where he has to be careful when going out. If he participates in some variety shows...
Su Yu felt that he could already foresee the horrible scene of "everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone" being doubled.
Moreover, variety shows were also an occasion for him to socialize with others. He felt that he probably wouldn't like them too much, especially since he had watched some variety shows with Zhou Yuang, and they all looked very noisy...
In comparison, it would be better to rest and recover my physical strength here at the track and field base, and take remote classes with my seniors.
Pei Dingshan saw how quickly the child in front of him refused, so he silently raised his hand to rub his head and said with a smile: "Okay, don't be nervous, I will refuse for you."
Su Yu looked at Pei Dingshan who had no hesitation at all, and he himself began to hesitate.
After a moment, he said to Pei Dingshan who was about to leave: "...Coach, did the Athletics Management Center say that we must accept the invitation?"
Pei Dingshan was stunned for a moment, then comforted him: "It's okay, since you rejected the invitation, the national team can also consider recommending other players."
Su Yu hesitated: "Aren't those variety shows more likely to cause injuries?"
At least the popular variety shows he watched were all about running and jumping. From an athlete's perspective, it felt a bit dangerous - mainly because, as an athlete who was going to compete in the Olympics next year, if he got injured outside the stadium or training ground...
Pei Dingshan looked at the child's tangled appearance and said with a smile: "Those invitations that are easy to get hurt will not be approved by the Field Management Center."
After saying that, Pei Dingshan selected one of the invitations in his hand and handed it to Su Yu: "Can you take a look at this invitation?"
Su Yu pursed his lips and took the printed document from Pei Dingshan's hand. He saw that the content on it was an invitation to the 'Super Brain Observer'.
"Super Brain Power" is a talent show that brings together a large number of talented contestants. When these talented contestants are solving problems, there will be some people such as "team leaders", "assemblers" and "observers" on the field.
The main purpose is to give some exclamatory praise to the contestants during or after their competition or performance.
Among them, the 'leader' and 'assembler' have other tasks, but when it comes to the 'observer', the only task is... to be a qualified flatterer.
Most of the time, the observer is just a background figure on the field.
Su Yu remembered that the program "Super Brain Power" had been held for many seasons. When he was still at home a few years ago, he also watched this program with his parents, so he also had an impression of the identity of "observer".
The few observers who occasionally appear don't even need to praise the contestants, they are just pure background boards.
After seeing this requirement and content, Su Yu suddenly felt... if it was a variety show like this, it wouldn't be impossible?
The main reason was that he felt that if he did not accept any invitation, it would be troublesome for the coach to reject the invitation that had already been approved by the Athletics Management Center.
Pei Dingshan looked at the conflicted look on the child's face and couldn't help laughing.
This little guy Su Yu is completely different when he is in competition and in private.
When facing opponents on the field, he was proactive and had a strong desire to win. Even when he made a request to Su Yu, saying that in the future he would need to take on the main role in the three events of 100m, 200m and 400m sprints and shoulder most of the responsibilities, the child's response was very responsible.
Including the previous interview with overseas reporters at the World Championships, Su Yu's response was full of leadership qualities. Afterwards, the coaches and staff of the national team were shocked when they learned that Su Yu was surrounded by foreign reporters, but they were relieved after reading the content of the interview.
Sun Gaoshu also sighed at the time: "At such a young age, he is incredible!"
As a result, after the competition, the little guy became introverted and didn't want to socialize again, and his temperament became much softer.
Although he still hides his gloomy appearance every day, more and more people are seeing the friendliness hidden beneath his appearance.
Just like today's simple invitation, for Pei Dingshan, although it would take some more effort to reject this invitation, he felt that it was no big deal for him to reject it on behalf of the child.
It’s just that the little guy was obviously thinking about him, and probably also thought about his responsibility as a member of the national team to participate in related publicity.
Pei Dingshan felt that there was no need to force Su Yu to participate in a program he didn't want to attend, so he said to him again: "It's okay, if you don't want to go, I can refuse for you."
Su Yu thought about it and said, "Let's go..."
After a pause, he did not mention the invitation from the Field Management Center, but said: "My parents seem to like watching this show."
What I mean is - if he goes on the show, he can also give his parents a surprise.
Pei Dingshan knew that this was probably an excuse Su Yu tried to find for himself. His heart softened inexplicably because of Su Yu's behavior. Finally, he smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll give feedback to the team. You just accept the invitation for this show. There won't be more."
"After all, you have too many projects to do. The upcoming winter training will be more tiring than last season's winter training."
Su Yu nodded.
He had already prepared himself mentally for this.
After all, with the start of winter training for the new season, in addition to the previous individual training of 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters, he will also begin to receive relay-related training for the 4*100m relay team.
Before this, although the Chinese team did not achieve very good results in the World Championships, the top eight results in the World Championships were enough for the Chinese team to qualify for the men's 4*100m relay and women's 4*100m relay in the Tokyo Olympics.
And just as he said before the World Championships, at the Tokyo Olympics, in addition to completing his individual events, he must also officially become a member of the national men's 4*100m relay team.
Thinking of this, he nodded seriously to Pei Dingshan: "Coach, I understand."
"I will take this winter training seriously."
Pei Dingshan looked at the serious look of the little guy in front of him, and couldn't help but raised his hand to rub his head again, and said with a smile: "Okay, I believe you."
***
After Pei Dingshan left, Su Yu looked at the project invitation in his hand and the large stack of advertising invitations waiting to be screened. He lay down on the bed with a rare melancholy look on his face, curled up in a daze.
When Jiang Yuan came back, he saw Su Yu curled up into a ball.
He was stunned for a moment, then quickly took a few steps closer, thinking that Su Yu might have suddenly become unwell.
When he got closer, Jiang Yuan saw that Su Yu's face didn't seem to have the bad complexion and condition he had in the past when he was sick. He first breathed a sigh of relief, then lowered his head and touched his forehead with a smile. Finally, after confirming that there was no problem, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Su Yu was silent for two seconds: "...Brother, I am autistic."
Jiang Yuan nodded with amusement: "Well, I see. Then what? Why are you autistic?"
Su Yu said sadly: "The coach said that the Athletics Management Center has approved invitations to several popular variety shows, and I agreed to participate in one of them."
When Jiang Yuan heard this, he understood instantly.
In fact, it's not just Su Yu. He, Sun Yuhang, Zheng Tianxi, etc., are also included. Anyway, all the players with high reputation and popularity in the national team have basically been invited.
There are just a lot of programs that specifically want to invite Su Yu.
Jiang Yuan heard in the team that the track and field team also wanted to promote star athletes like other teams to increase the popularity of the event, so the Athletics Management Center did issue an order to try to accept invitations to the show without affecting the athletes' training and health.
Pei Dingshan was able to push Su Yu to only be invited to participate in one of the programs, which showed his strong hand.
Su Yu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and said: "The coach originally told me that I could turn them all down..."
Jiang Yuan was also stunned after hearing this, and finally shook his head and smiled: "I didn't expect that Coach Pei, who looks serious, actually takes good care of you."
After all, if a coach were to ask the Athletics Management Center to forcibly turn down all invitations from his athletes, it would easily leave the Athletics Management Center with the impression that he is unable to coach and manage his athletes.
Especially since Pei Dingshan is young, it is easier for people to think that young people are not good at leading players.
Jiang Yuan didn't think that Pei Dingshan would not know what the consequences would be if he helped Su Yu reject all invitations, but Pei Dingshan had promised Su Yu anyway.
Su Yu didn't know that there were so many twists and turns in this. After all, although he was smart, he was very naive when it came to interpersonal relationships. Jiang Yuan had always taken care of him in the past, and after he joined the national team, Pei Dingshan protected him. He had never really thought about these twists and turns behind the scenes.
Jiang Yuan looked at Su Yu and knew that Su Yu probably felt sorry for Pei Dingshan.
He then rubbed Su Yu's head and comforted her, "It's okay. Coach Pei's family has a deep foundation in the sports system. Even if you don't count him, his family has three national coaches, and they also have various connections in the system. This is why he has the confidence to help you refuse."
Then he said to Su Yu, "Ye Zi and Hui Zi's training is almost over. They asked if we can meet in the cafeteria later."
When Su Yu heard this, he immediately sat up and nodded.
During this period, before they returned to China, the training camp at the Olympic Reserve Talent Training Base had already begun - for example, the materials he and Pei Dingshan had read together in the hotel room in Doha were sent from the Olympic Training Base.
The assembly and start of this training camp were very quick, mainly because with the national team returning home, the national team's winter training will begin in late October or early November.
The national team's coaching staff hopes that after the final selection, this group of athletes participating in the Olympic training base can be directly incorporated into the winter training team. This will make it easier for the national team's coaching staff to take over their training and achieve a direct improvement during the winter training stage.
It would be a bit of a pity if I missed the entire winter training.
So before Su Yu and his team returned to China, Ye Minghao, Jiang Ruohui and their team had already been training in the national team for some time.
Now that Su Yu and his friends have finally returned home and have some time off, Ye Minghao and his friends want to get together with Su Yu and his friends.
After all, there are only a few good friends in the group, and I haven’t seen them for a long time.
Su Yu immediately switched from the emo state curled up on the bed, sat up, changed his shoes and socks, and prepared to go out at any time.
***
Finally, at six o'clock in the evening, after finishing a day's training and returning to the room to wash and dry themselves, Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui met Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang outside the national team's cafeteria.
The few people hadn't seen each other for a long time. After hugging each other, Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui congratulated Su Yu and Jiang Yuan in person on their achievements in the World Championships.
After hearing these congratulations, Zhou Yuang looked sour: "What about me, what about me, what about me?"
Ye Minghao looked at Zhou Yuang with amusement, and Jiang Ruohui beside him added directly to the ridicule: "Did you play in the World Championships? Didn't you go to Doha just for fun?"
Jiang Ruohui then said seriously, "Then... congratulations on your trip abroad at public expense?"
Zhou Yuang: “…Puff!”
He pretended to be stabbed by a knife, stretched out his hand, and said in a weird way: "What a cruel knife..."
While covering his 'wound', Zhou Yuang was still mumbling: "Huizi, I didn't expect you to be this kind of Huizi..."
Jiang Yuan and Ye Minghao watched Zhou Yuang's acting with a smile on their faces for quite a while, until Su Yu said expressionlessly "I'm hungry", and then they decisively bypassed Zhou Yuang who was still acting and walked into the cafeteria. After seeing everyone running away, Zhou Yuang didn't care about his "wound" and turned around and chased after them into the cafeteria.
Once they entered the cafeteria, everyone first found an empty table for six people. After taking their seats, they dispersed to get their food.
The national team's canteen is very large, spacious, bright and clean. There are various self-service food stalls in the canteen. The canteen is not outsourced, but specially hired by the national team.
The restaurant is headed by a top chef, who has a complete team of chefs and nutritionists under him.
Members of the national team like Su Yu don't actually just pick up their meals casually on a daily basis - although it's all buffet style, the facial recognition machine in the national team will scan your face before each meal, and then the screen of the machine will display the nutritional meal standards formulated by the national team nutritionist for specific players.
For example, how much vegetables, how much protein, and at the same time the interface will show which side dishes the corresponding nutrients can be obtained from.
Athletes can then take meals according to the recommended menu and recommended portions.
The same nutritional value can be obtained through a variety of different dishes. Contestants can choose their favorite dishes without worrying about eating things they don’t want to eat.
In the national team, regular players like Su Yu have a dedicated nutritionist every month to coordinate with the physical coach and head coach on training plans. Different arrangements are also made for the nutritional rations of the players, whether they are in the recovery period after a competition, or in the training period, before a competition, and other different stages.
For contestants like Ye Minghao in the training camp, the nutritionist cannot follow up with every contestant in detail, so he gave them a unified meal standard that is less likely to make mistakes.
When Su Yu and the others finished their meals and returned to the table, Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui couldn't help but exclaimed: "Although this is not the first time to come to the national team's base for training, the food here is really good."
The G Province Track and Field Team is already a very wealthy and well-funded track and field team, but when it comes to the nutritional balance of the athletes and the reserves in the kitchen, it is still somewhat inferior to the national team.
Zhou Yuang also nodded in agreement, showing his big white teeth and smiled: "Isn't that right?"
Several people laughed at Zhou Yuang's appearance. Jiang Ruohui began to stimulate Zhou Yuang again, asking him if he enjoyed watching the game in Doha.
Zhou Yuang rolled his eyes on the spot: "Humph, at least I went to watch the game for free!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the injured player became Jiang Ruohui.
A table of good friends hadn’t seen each other for such a long time. When they finally met up, they had endless things to talk about and endless arguments (?).
Several people were chatting and laughing while eating.
Halfway through the meal, Jiang Yuan asked Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui: "How was the training camp for you two? Are you sure you can stay?"
After hearing this question, Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui looked at each other first, and then Ye Minghao said: "There shouldn't be any problem with me."
After all, although the performance gap between Ye Minghao and Su Yu is quite large, he also ran a time of 10.33 seconds in the World Youth Championships last season.
Although he failed to break his PB this season, he has run a time equal to his PB, proving his strength and potential.
In fact, Ye Minghao is only 17 years old this year. As a 17-year-old teenager, he can run a time of 10.33 seconds, which can be regarded as a young genius no matter where he is.
In other words, with Su Yu's presence in the domestic sprint events, it is easy for other young athletes to overshadow them.
But if we don’t compare him with Su Yu, but with other adult players in the country.
Currently in the domestic men's 100-meter sprint, Gao Tianwu is 25 years old, with a personal best of 10.21 seconds, Yu Shaojie is 22 years old, with 10.23 seconds, Chen Peijie is a little older, 26 years old, with 10.16 seconds, and the rest are like Zhao Yingping, whose current PB is only 10.33 seconds.
As for Feng Xiaofeng, who is from the same province G as Ye Minghao, he is 18 years old this year and has never run a time under 10.45 seconds in an official competition.
From this list and data, we can see how outstanding Ye Minghao is as he can run 10.33 seconds at the age of 17.
It can be said that among domestic young athletes in the men's 100-meter sprint event, apart from Su Yu, the second is Ye Minghao.
Especially after joining the national team this time, Ye Minghao's performance in training was also excellent.
So even though the training has only started for less than a week, Ye Minghao dares to say that there should be no problem for him to stay.
As for Jiang Ruohui, his situation is slightly worse.
His performance in training is not too far behind Feng Xiaofeng, but he has run a time of 10.44 seconds this season, which makes him better than Feng Xiaofeng in terms of PB.
It’s just that Feng Xiaofeng once ran a time of 10.41 seconds during training.
For Feng Xiaofeng, what he lacks is probably luck or a mentality that can allow him to remain stable in official competitions.
In other words, if we have to talk about strength, Feng Xiaofeng may be slightly better than Jiang Ruohui, but judging from their actual results, Jiang Ruohui is still in the lead for the time being.
Although the national team will select potential players from among these young players, there will not be many players who will be given priority in each individual event.
Because the national team also stated that starting from this year, the national team will conduct corresponding youth player selections every year. After being selected into the national team, you can't sit back and relax. If you can't reach the strength to participate in world-class competitions within 3-4 years, you will be sent back to the local team by the national team.
Under such circumstances, there is no need for the national team to select too many players at one time, especially this season, which is the first trial of this plan. At the same time, next year is the Olympic year, which is the most important season in four years for the national team. The resources that young players can share after being recruited into the team will not be too many. It is unnecessary to recruit too many players at one time.
Therefore, after discussion, the coaching staff of the national team finally decided on the final number of 2 places for a single event - after all, next year's World Youth Championships only requires 2 athletes in a single event, and for some events, the national team already has athletes with sufficient strength, such as Zhou Yuang in the 200 meters.
Therefore, the data of 2 athletes in each event will basically not change.
In other words, if Ye Minghao is basically confirmed as the winner of the 100-meter event, then for the remaining spot, it is hard to say whether the coaching team will focus on Feng Xiaofeng's performance in training or Jiang Ruohui's condition in the competition.
After hearing this, everyone present felt a bit of a headache.
After all, from the perspective of Su Yu and others, they certainly hope that their good friend can successfully enter the national team.
However, after Ye Minghao and Jiang Ruohui saw Su Yu and the others' troubles, Jiang Ruohui hesitated for a moment and suddenly whispered: "...Actually, I have another idea."
Su Yu:?
Zhou Yuang:? ?
After hearing this, Jiang Yuan first glanced in Ye Minghao's direction and found that there was no surprise in Ye Minghao's eyes, so Jiang Yuan also knew what was going to happen - Jiang Ruohui's next words had probably been discussed with Ye Minghao, but he probably hadn't had the chance to tell them yet.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan turned his gaze towards Jiang Ruohui.
Jiang Ruohui took a deep breath and said seriously, "After tomorrow's training starts, I want to ask the coach for permission - I plan to switch to the 400m event."
Zhou Yuang:? !
Su Yu was a little surprised after hearing Jiang Ruohui's decision, but after reviewing the past games he had played with Jiang Ruohui and the videos of Jiang Ruohui's games that he occasionally saw, he frowned and thought for a while.
Zhou Yuang was shocked and asked, "Huizi, you want to run 400 meters?"
After thinking about it, Su Yu blinked and said, "...It seems that it is not impossible?"
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