Chapter 52 (Four in One)
The moment he saw Su Yu's results clearly, Zheng Sheng almost jumped up from where he was.
After he realized what was happening, he grabbed Pei Yongsheng and Sun Gaoshu who were standing beside him and said, "Coach Pei, Coach Sun, this Su Yu, the team has to coordinate and support us in the 200 meters, right?"
This is the first U20 athlete Zheng Sheng has seen since before the winter training whose results have reached the World Youth Championships men's 200m competition standards. Before this, he once thought that the Chinese team could only select athletes to participate in the competition through wild card selection, but Su Yu's performance finally restored his confidence.
Not only Zheng Sheng, but also the track and field athletes who were watching nearby were all surprised after seeing Su Yu's results.
21.35 seconds!
"This Su Yu, after refreshing the 100-meter NU18B, is not far from the 200-meter NU18B..."
By the way, the domestic 200m NU18B holder is also at the national team's winter training site. He is none other than Zhan Youming, the current leader in the domestic 200m event.
"21.35 seconds..."
Zhan Youming touched his chin, then moved closer to Su Yu and looked him up and down.
Su Yu:?
Zhan Youming patted his shoulder and said, "Don't move, don't move. Let me take a look."
Suyu Yanshan Pavilion:? ? ?
After looking at it for a while, Zhan Youming said seriously: "Old man Levington has always told me that my body is ideal for running 200 meters. I thought he was right before, but now I feel something is wrong - I think he must be fooling me."
Su Yu: “…”
Zhan Youming continued to touch his chin and muttered: "Su Xiaoyu, you are only about 172cm tall now, right? You are quite small, and your legs are definitely not as long as mine. When I ran NU18B in 20.99 seconds, I was already 178cm tall..."
Su Yu stared at Zhan Youming in front of him silently - was he mocking him for his short stature and short legs?
Thinking of this, Su Yu glared at Zhan Youming unhappily, then ran to Jiang Yuan, then turned to look at Sun Yuhang not far away, and then looked at Zhan Youming.
Zhan Youming: ...
Although there is no evidence, he seemed to understand the meaning of Su Yu's eyes - look at Sun Yuhang's height, and then look at yourself.
You, Zhan Youming, are short and have short legs.
Zhan Youming: ...Pfft.
Zhan Youming couldn't help laughing and gave a thumbs up to Su Yu who was standing next to Jiang Yuan - good job, Su Xiaoyu, you're quite vindictive.
Indeed, he is now 183cm tall, which is not short, but compared with those guys in the jumping group, he is a complete "shorty".
Having said that, Zhan Youming still thinks Su Yu is quite interesting and awesome. After all, height and leg length have a great impact on a player's stride ability. You can never expect a player who is 170cm tall to have the same stride ability as a player who is 190cm tall.
Domestically, there has always been a large proportion of players with a high cadence type. Su Yu should also be a typical cadence type player. However, in the just-concluded 200-meter test match, Zhan Youming could observe that after the race entered the second half, Su Yu's cadence had reached a relatively high frequency. In the second half, he did not further promote the increase in cadence, but adjusted his cadence rhythm and further increased his stride length.
In the second half, Zhan Youming estimated that Su Yu's stride length should be close to 2.2 meters - relative to Su Yu's height, this is a quite amazing stride length.
On the side, Zheng Sheng was still nagging Pei Yongsheng and Sun Gaoshu, insisting that they agree to let Su Yu compete in the 200m event. And it was obvious that Liu Qinlong, who was competing in the 400m event, was also very envious of Su Yu.
Although the race just now was only 200 meters, Su Yu demonstrated his ability to start on the curve, his curve technique, his ability to connect the curve with the straight, etc. throughout the race. More importantly, Su Yu's ability to self-regulate and control during the race.
Especially the latter ability.
Compared with the 200 meters, the 400 meters has stronger demands on the runners' speed endurance, physical coordination, etc. At the same time, since the 400 meters has reached the sprint stage of the race, which is the final stage, the extreme fatigue caused by the consumption of physical energy and the accumulation of lactic acid will impact the runners' self-control ability.
The athletes' techniques, postures and even muscles will be damaged due to the huge consumption of physical energy and extreme physical fatigue.
For 400-meter runners, competitive state is of course important, but a clear mind - a clear enough self-awareness and a clear mind that can perfectly control one's own rhythm and body movements, is really important!
In fact, when Su Yu told them earlier that he was in a bad state but his mind felt clearer, Liu Qinlong wanted to jump out and say - isn't this their perfect candidate for the 400m? !
It goes without saying that he has a clear mind, knows when to speed up and when to slow down slightly to adjust his own rhythm and accumulate physical energy, has strong control ability and accurate technique.
Liu Qinlong dares to guarantee that as long as Su Yu’s physical fitness can keep up, his 400-meter result will definitely not be bad!
But every time he tried to speak, he was suppressed by Pei Yongsheng's eyes.
***
After the two rounds of tests of 100 meters and 200 meters were completed, Pei Yongsheng directly told Pei Dingshan and Zheng Sheng to stay and ask Su Yu for his opinion to see if he had the interest and physical fitness to take on the 200-meter sprint.
This explanation made Liu Qinlong so anxious that he jumped up and down, but Pei Yongsheng still had enough prestige in the short jump group. He signaled Liu Qinlong not to speak first. Liu Qinlong could only grit his teeth and wait until Pei Yongsheng finished explaining everything before following Pei Yongsheng to his coach's office.
Seeing Pei Yongsheng asking him to sit down, Liu Qinlong looked at Pei Yongsheng with a face full of unwillingness to admit defeat.
Liu Qinlong: "Coach Pei, you have seen Su Yu's performance. His conditions are really suitable for the 400m event. Why don't you let him have a try?"
Pei Yongsheng glanced at him and said, "All the conditions are suitable for the 400-meter event? Are you sure? Including strength and physical fitness?"
Liu Qinlong choked when Pei Yongsheng glanced at him, but he still said with his neck stiff: "Su Yu will only be 15 years old next year. It is understandable that his strength and physical fitness are a little weak. This can all be trained..."
Pei Yongsheng looked at Liu Qinlong's expression, shook his head and said, "Qinlong, I know you are anxious, but don't worry."
Liu Qinlong: “…”
Pei Yongsheng sighed and said, "You saw how Su Yu performed after running 100 meters and 200 meters just now. What do you think of his performance after running 200 meters?"
Liu Qinlong wanted to say it was pretty good, but after thinking about Su Yu's terrible face after running 200 meters, he finally said in disappointment: "...not very good."
Pei Yongsheng looked at him and said, "Yes, you have seen that Su Yu is in this situation now. He is a typical player whose physical condition cannot keep up with the development of his mind and technology. He has a very thorough understanding of technology, and even his self-control and adjustment abilities are excellent."
"But at the same time, his physical development, his strength development, his muscle development, these innate physical conditions have limited his further development in technology and personal performance."
At this point, Pei Yongsheng couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "I didn't expect to encounter such a problem with such a young contestant."
Generally speaking, this situation occurs more often in mature athletes with rich experience, such as Zhan Youming before - his skills and personal abilities were basically in place, but it was not until his muscles and strength development had a breakthrough that his results broke through to 20.28 when he was in better condition.
Su Yu is currently very close to this situation - of course, it does not mean that in this situation, the player's performance cannot be improved at all, but that in this situation, the player's basic performance is already relatively stable, and if you want better results, you need the player to have multiple conditions such as competitive state, physical state, technical state, etc., the so-called outbreak of the right time, place and people.
However, compared with those mature players, Su Yu's situation is different from them.
Those players, such as Zhan Youming and Zheng Tianxi, have already passed their developmental period when they enter this stage. At this time, they are faced with the dual hurdles of technology and physical conditions.
But Su Yu is different from them - he is a player who has only been training for less than half a year. At the same time, according to Su Yu’s previous physical examination report, Su Yu’s physical condition has only begun to improve rapidly in the past six months under the guidance of Pei Dingshan.
This child's current physical condition not only combines the physical development period with the rapid recovery period of years of physical weakness. After joining the national team, the national team's nutritionist cooperated with the scientific researchers here. After active discussions, the two sides referred to Su Yu's daily training and learning activities and specially formulated a set of nutritious meals for him that matched his current physical development.
It can be said that under the guidance of Pei Dingshan and with the support and help of the national team's technical team, Su Yu's physical recovery and development are in very good condition.
These improvements in physical condition are also reflected in his strength development, speed ability development, etc., and the improvement in his weakness after the 100m and 200m tests also shows the overall improvement in his physical condition.
In fact, Su Yu's current improvement in the 100m from 10.39 on the first day of winter training to 10.34 now, and in the 200m from 21.95 to the current 21.35, are also related to the improvement in his physical fitness at the current stage.
Next, with the help of the national team's nutritionist team and long-term training adjustments, Su Yu's physical condition will definitely be further improved. He is only 15 years old now, which is the development period of related abilities such as strength and explosive power.
As this series of capabilities improve, it is foreseeable that...
In Su Yu's future growth cycle, there will be a huge explosion in his performance in various projects.
Although Pei Yongsheng had already anticipated these things after seeing Su Yu's performance on the test field, he couldn't help but feel hot in his heart when he thought about the possibilities of what would happen next.
Of course, this does not mean that Su Yu's skills are fully mature and he does not need any guidance and he only needs to wait for his physical development to improve. The skills of the athletes are matched with their physical conditions at the current stage. For example, Su Yu's current physical condition, due to his lack of physical strength, he cannot place his hands too wide to support his body when preparing to start like some mature athletes. That will make his body lack the strength to support it and it will not be conducive for him to maintain a higher center of gravity.
In other words, as Su Yu's physical condition gradually improves and his body develops further, Su Yu's personal skills also need to be adjusted synchronously to match his current physical condition.
For athletes, there is never the so-called perfect technique. They can only constantly adjust, match and train to achieve the technique that suits them best at the current stage.
In short, putting all these aside, Su Yu’s current situation did indeed surprise Pei Yongsheng greatly.
But at the same time, we must recognize that Su Yu's physical condition, including strength and physical fitness, is indeed recovering and developing rapidly, but the current degree of recovery and improvement is still very limited.
Pei Yongsheng said to Liu Qinlong, "It's not that I don't want you to talk to Su Yu, but given Su Yu's current physical condition and situation, are you sure he will agree to let you do another 400 meters after talking to him?"
Pei Yongsheng looked at Liu Qinlong and said, "When Su Yu was analyzing his 100-meter performance, what did you think of this kid?"
Liu Qinlong was silent for a moment, then said, "Very smart."
Pei Yongsheng asked Liu Qinlong: "Do you think this child will ignore his physical condition and irrationally accept concurrent requirements that exceed his current abilities?"
When Liu Qinlong heard this, he was silent for two seconds and shook his head: "No."
Smart players know where their strengths lie and will not accept requests to compete in events that are meaningless.
Given Su Yu's current physical condition, competing in both 100m and 200m is already his limit. It is impossible for him to give up 200m and choose 400m.
This has nothing to do with Su Yu's personal wishes, it is simply because his current physical condition cannot bear it.
Seeing Liu Qinlong regain his senses, Pei Yongsheng patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "Wait a minute, he may not be able to make it in this winter training, but with Su Yu's performance and ability, he should be officially called up to the national team after the trial training. We'll see next season. This kid has a strong desire to win, and he is willing to continue to grow and challenge. When the time is right, you may have a great runner in the 400 meters."
Liu Qinlong listened to this and sighed slightly. In the end, he could only accept it. He looked at Pei Yongsheng and smiled bitterly, "I hope so."
***
After the training that night, another string of messages popped up in the 'Su Yu and his friends' group:
Ye Minghao: [^^@Zhou Yuang, there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear? 】
Jiang Ruohui: [? Xiaoyu eating melon gif]
Zhou Yuang: [Xiaoyu’s frightened gif, @Ye Minghao, what’s the good news? What bad news? 】
Jiang Yuan: [^^ Xiaoyu eating melon gif]
Ye Minghao: [^^The good news is that you are not alone anymore, Angzi. There is someone in our group who will accompany you to compete in the 200m event! 】
Zhou Yuang: [……]
Zhou Yuang: [Xiaoyu Damei gif, has your good news been delayed for too long? 】
Zhou Yuang: [Xiaoyu started training 200m techniques with me 3 months ago, okay? 】
Zhou Yuang: [Xiao Yu proud gif. Speaking of which, hehe, although I haven’t been able to train with the national team during this period, I also have good news! 】
Zhou Yuang: [Xiaoyu's proud gif, in the provincial team tests these two days, my 200m result has been below 22.20 seconds, and my current best result is 22.18 seconds. Although there is still a gap with Xiaoyu's 21.95 seconds, the winning score in the previous U16 base competition was only 22.53 seconds. If I were to participate in the national U16 base competition, I would already be able to win the championship! 】
Jiang Ruohui: [Wow! It’s incredible! 】
Jiang Ruohui: [@Zhou Yuang, Xiaoyu and your coach are right, you are very talented in 200 meters! 】
Zhou Yuang: [Hey, that’s right! Xiaoyu proud gif】
Zhou Yuang: [However, I still can’t train the rhythm and physical distribution of 200 meters well. In the latter part of the race, I always want to speed up the pace, but the stride length cannot be opened. 】
Zhou Yuang still has a lot of problems in the 200 meters. Although Pei Dingshan gives him remote guidance, he is not around and cannot watch him train. Pei Dingshan also asked the coaching staff of the S Province Sports Team to help record some side running videos and training videos of Zhou Yuang, but this is still no match for on-site teaching.
So Zhou Yuang did have a lot of questions accumulated, and when he arrived at the training base of the B City National Track and Field Team, he quickly went to ask Pei Dingshan a bunch of questions.
Ye Minghao: [^^ Congratulations to Angzi for running under 22.18 seconds (win your luck with a red envelope)]
Zhou Yuang has received your red envelope.
Jiang Yuan has received your red envelope.
Jiang Ruohui has received your red envelope.
Su Yu has received your red envelope.
After a series of red envelope receipt records popped up, a long row of emoticons of Xiaoyu thanking the boss appeared in the group. Perhaps because he had been polluted by this group for a long time, Su Yu no longer had such a strong resistance to posting his own emoticons - this was probably the joy of decadence.
Just when Zhou Yuang happily grabbed the title of the luckiest person for this red envelope and was about to feel proud of himself, a new lucky red envelope popped up in the group.
Zhou Yuang:?
Zhou Yuang subconsciously clicked to grab the red envelope first, and then he saw the content of the red envelope clearly - Congratulations to Xiaoyu for running 10.34 seconds in the 100 meters! (Xiaoyu Thai cool spicy gif)
The next second, Ye Minghao, the red envelope devil, sent out another red envelope. At this time, Zhou Yuang finally had some bad ideas in his mind. Then, after clicking on the red envelope, he saw a new line of congratulations - Congratulations to Xiaoyu for finishing 200 meters in 21.35 seconds! (Xiaoyu Thai cool spicy gif)
Zhou Yuang: [……]
Jiang Ruohui: [Xiaoyu is stunned gif]
Jiang Yuan: [Xiaoyu eating melon gif]
Su Yu: [……]
Zhou Yuang: [? ? ? ! ! ! 】
Zhou Yuang: [@苏岛@苏岛@苏岛! ! QAQ Su Xiaoyu! ! ! 】
Ye Minghao: [^^]
Ye Minghao: [^^@Zhou Yuang, congratulations, there is a new goal to sprint towards! 】
Zhou Yuang: [……QAQ]
Zhou Yuang was really about to cry. He thought that he had worked hard and was almost able to catch up with Su Yu, but the reality told him - you haven't.
Not only that, but the distance is apparently getting bigger and bigger!
Zhou Yuang was desperate. He felt that Dormitory 303 had changed from a three-way balance of power to a balance of two bking twins and a useless piece of shit.
Zhou Yuang: [QAQ@Su Yu, my heart hurts. I feel isolated by the bking brothers in room 303. I need the red envelopes from the bking brothers to stand up...]
Su Yu: [……]
Su Yu: [Zhou Yuang stood up (trying for a lucky red envelope)]
Jiang Yuan: [Puff. 】
Jiang Yuan: [Zhou Yuang stood up^^ (try your luck to win a red envelope)]
Zhou Yuang: [……QAQ]
Zhou Yuang is really numb, his heart is tired, and he doesn't know how to love anymore. Ever since he joined this group, it seems that he is always the one who gets hurt. Why is this?
Zhou Yuang felt that he didn’t understand - he was really miserable. (?)
Of course, no matter how miserable it was, he still had to open the two red envelopes - and he had to do it viciously!
After everyone in the group gave out red envelopes and made jokes, Zhou Yuang ran to the corner crying. Instead, Jiang Ruohui came out and said that he would go to City B for the New Year's Day holiday in a few days. The New Year's Day holiday is from January 2, 2018 to February 14, 2018, the 29th day of the lunar year. The training period for the Olympic reserve talent training is this one and a half month period.
Compared with the national team's winter training, the training at the Olympic training base is of course much simpler and takes much less time.
For the national team, there is no concept of Spring Festival holiday. At most, there is a group gathering during the Spring Festival. In recent years, there will also be a party with several good national teams during the Spring Festival to liven up the atmosphere, but it is impossible to stop training.
Winter training is a critical period for athletes to reserve physical strength for the new season next year. If training is suspended due to the Spring Festival, then after a seven-day break, most of the efforts in the previous few months of winter training will be wasted.
But there is no such problem at the Olympic training base. After all, most of the trainees are young U18 players and they don’t need to worry about issues like physical reserves for the coming year.
However, although there is a big gap between the two, the training camp at the Olympic training base is actually arranged in the national team's training base. The training ground and the national team's winter training ground are not in the same place, but the dormitory is in the same building, just on different floors.
Knowing the specific time when Jiang Ruohui and Zhou Yuang would come to City B, everyone in the group, from Ye Minghao to Jiang Yuan and Su Yu, expressed their welcome. The most "enthusiastic" of course was Ye Minghao's red envelope, but Jiang Yuan and Su Yu were also very much looking forward to the arrival of the other two friends.
Jiang Yuan: [^^Welcome, we are waiting for you. 】
Su Yu: [Welcome. 】
***
In the following period of time, after the sprint group took the lead in launching the internal test match, other events in the national team also launched internal test matches one after another at the halfway point of winter training.
For example, in the jumping event group, since they shared a training ground with the sprinting group, when the jumping event group conducted an internal test competition, sprinting group athletes such as Su Yu became spectators watching from the sidelines.
Compared with the last test of the sprint group, the most watched tester last time was Su Yu who competed in two events. The same was true for the jumping event group this time. The most watched tester was Jiang Yuan who also competed in two events.
During this two and a half month long winter training period, Jiang Yuan also made great progress. Under the guidance of Pei Yongsheng, a famous player in the national team's high jump and long jump, his performance in the two events, or especially in the long jump, improved significantly.
With the help of Pei Yongsheng, Jiang Yuan has made further improvements in his run-up, take-off and aerial posture in the long jump. Pei Yongsheng repeatedly emphasized to Jiang Yuan the importance of the run-up rhythm and accuracy. In past competitions, although Jiang Yuan's run-up was already very good and his accuracy seemed to be very good, after Pei Yongsheng repeatedly confirmed with the side-running video recorded by Jiang Yuan during training, he reviewed it with Jiang Yuan again and finally figured out how Jiang Yuan achieved such a precise run-up.
This is probably a common problem among athletes with high IQs - Jiang Yuan would look at the taking-off board during his run-up and then forcibly adjust his pace.
This is actually correct, and most athletes do this. They will adjust the distance between themselves and the take-off board in the final stage to ensure that they can step onto the take-off board smoothly.
But at the same time, a problem arises. The other contestants will trust their own body muscle memory more than their visual results. Because of long-term training, the body muscle memory of these long jump athletes has been firmly engraved in their bodies.
However, Jiang Yuan's previous training time and intensity could not be compared with those athletes. Compared with the muscle memory of his body, he trusted his visual results more.
In the end, although the effect seems to be the same, Jiang Yuan, who pays more attention to visual results, cannot perfectly achieve the effect of a running start.
Therefore, since the winter training, Pei Yongsheng has strengthened Jiang Yuan's training in the running approach, hoping to achieve the effect of allowing Jiang Yuan to have a more accurate muscle and brain memory of the rhythm of the running approach and the length of each stride, and to reduce Jiang Yuan's reliance on judging the board position by visually observing the take-off board.
Other members of the national team have no idea about the effectiveness of Jiang Yuan’s training, but Gao Xu, who watches Jiang Yuan train every day, has many feelings - in a word, some people’s talents are naturally enviable.
After the test of the jumping items officially began, Jiang Yuan's performance completely confirmed what Gao Xu said.
In the six consecutive trial jumps, this time Jiang Yuan did not apply for exemption after the first jump, but jumped all three trial jumps - the final results were 8.12 meters, 7.96 meters and 8.06 meters respectively.
Compared with his score of 7.91 meters in the S City leg of the National Track and Field Grand Prix, it can be said that he has made great progress. At the same time, this result ranks second among all the athletes in the national track and field team. Gao Xu almost went all out to jump 8.27 meters in his third jump, surpassing Jiang Yuan and maintaining his reputation as the number one long jumper.
As for the other high jumper, he was still nonchalant before the test started, but ended up meeting Jiang Yuan's gaze.
Jiang Yuan glanced at him and asked with a smile, "Senior, you want to give me another 5 centimeters?"
Sun Yuhang: “…”
Sun Yuhang coughed dryly and snorted, "What a joke! You've been in the national team's winter training for two and a half months, and you still have the nerve to ask me to give you 5 centimeters? No way."
Jiang Yuan: “^^ Yeah, okay.”
Sun Yuhang looked at Jiang Yuan's good-tempered appearance and felt so frightened that he quickly hid beside his teammate Zhang Xujian.
Zhang Xujian looked at him and said speechlessly, "What are you doing?"
Sun Yuhang wore a mask of pain on his face: "As for Jiang Yuan, I always feel that he is not a good person!"
Zhang Xujian: “…”
Zhang Xujian looked at him speechlessly: "Okay, Sun Yuhang, with that mouth of yours, are you a good person?"
"If you hadn't said before that you would give him 5 centimeters, would Jiang Yuan have held a grudge against you?"
Sun Yuhang muttered in dissatisfaction: "Didn't Lao Pei ask me to provoke him? I am innocent too!"
Zhang Xujian was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he ruthlessly left five big words: "You are innocent."
Fortunately, Sun Yuhang, who was of "innocent height", knew the situation well and recognized Jiang Yuan's growth rate, so it was impossible for him to give the "preferential policy" of "giving up five centimeters".
In short, Sun Yuhang, the top high jumper, managed to keep his status and face. As for Jiang Yuan, he successfully jumped over 2.30 meters in the test match, pushing his upper limit of high jump a little higher. Although the speed was a bit slow, considering that he was only 15 years old when the new year came, the high jump result of 2.30 meters was enough to amaze everyone.
At the same time, the result of 2.30 meters is not much different from WU18B's 2.33 meters.
Although Jiang Yuan's current record in official competitions is only 2.28 meters, Pei Yongsheng believes that as long as Jiang Yuan is given enough time to grow, he will definitely have the opportunity to challenge the WU18B (world U18 best result) record that has not been broken for decades in the coming 2019 and 2020 seasons.
***
Just after the national track and field team had completed internal test matches halfway through their winter training, in the blink of an eye, time had passed the last day of 2017 and the time on the calendar began to move towards 2018.
On the first day of 2018, that is, New Year's Day, the official website of the Athletics Administration Center released the competition schedule for domestic and international competitions throughout 2018.
Among the domestic competitions, apart from the various races of the National Athletics Grand Prix, the most important one should be the National Athletics Championships. This is the time for provincial track and field teams to compete for victory, and it is also the time for track and field teams from various provinces to wave their arms and show their muscle strength.
As for the national team, domestic competitions are not the main focus of the players. For the players of the national team, the domestic competitions are more about adjusting their own rhythm and finding the feeling of formal competition through these competitions. In short, these domestic competitions are more like warm-up matches for the players of the national team.
For the national team's main players, the 2018 international competition schedule is their main focus - such as the IAAF Challenge Tournaments throughout the year, and the higher-level IAAF Diamond League, these are what the national team players need to focus on.
2018 is not a big year for competitions, with neither the Olympics nor the World Championships. However, for the Chinese team's athletes, there is still an event that deserves special attention - the Asian Games to be held in Jakarta from August 22 to 29 this year.
As the highest-level sporting event in Asia, the Asian Games is also an important event that countless athletes look forward to participating in, and this is certainly true for the Jakarta Asian Games.
At the same time, as the most powerful sports kingdom in Asia, China's pursuit of the Asian Games has long since changed from striving for gold medals in the early years to striving to secure the first place in both the gold medal table and the medal table.
In order to successfully achieve this goal, various domestic advantageous or non-advantageous events will naturally receive medal tasks from the General Administration of Sports, including the track and field team, which also shoulders the medal-winning mission issued by the General Administration of Sports.
Now, banners reading "Make all-out preparations for the Jakarta Asian Games" have been posted on the walls of the national team's indoor track and field training ground. Even on New Year's Day, a countdown to the Jakarta Asian Games was posted on the wall. All of a sudden, the atmosphere of preparing for the Asian Games seemed to have become stronger.
As for the Asian Games, since the national team shoulders the heavy burden of winning medals, naturally not every athlete has the opportunity to try his luck at the Asian Games.
Therefore, in the domestic competition schedule released by the Athletics Administration Center, the National Track and Field Grand Prix Championship from June 15 to June 17, 2018 will also serve as a qualifier for the Asian Games. At that time, athletes who meet the requirements will be selected in the championship, and the list will be reported to the General Administration of Sport to finally confirm the final Asian Games roster.
Of course, things like the Asian Games trials and Asian Games qualifications are still relatively distantly related to Suyu. In this event schedule, it seems that the one that is most closely related to Suyu is the World (U20) Athletics Championships to be held in Tampere, Finland from July 10 to July 15.
Similarly, in order to ensure that the athletes selected by the national team are indeed capable, all athletes who want to qualify for the U20 World Championships will participate in the National (U20) Youth Athletics Championships and World Youth Championships Qualifications in J Province from May 11 to May 13.
After the 2018 competition schedule came out, Pei Dingshan simply marked out two major events for Su Yu: the National Youth Championships and the World Youth Championships.
"These two events are the focus of your season. I will also arrange some extra training and competitions for you based on your situation, so that you can be in better shape and perform better in the World Youth Championship."
Su Yu listened to Pei Dingshan making plans for him without asking for any opinions and just nodded.
Then he saw that Pei Dingshan had marked several races of the National Track and Field Grand Prix with stars. Su Yu glanced at the stars and asked, "Why do you need to mark them with stars?"
After a pause, Su Yu asked, "Is it because these several races of the National Track and Field Grand Prix are so important?"
Pei Dingshan glanced at him and said calmly: "No, the National Track and Field Grand Prix may not be important, but as long as you are a domestic athlete and want to accumulate personal domestic competition points, so as to get more opportunities to participate in international competitions, then the National Track and Field Grand Prix is an indispensable event."
Su Yu understood after hearing this: "Well, it is necessary, but not necessarily important."
Hearing Su Yu's answer, Pei Dingshan smiled lightly and said "hmm" without further explanation - although Su Yu is only 15 years old now, it may be a bit arrogant to say this, but from Pei Dingshan's point of view, the significance of the National Track and Field Grand Prix for Su Yu will gradually decline sooner or later.
As long as Su Yu continues to improve, the National Track and Field Grand Prix will sooner or later become a pure 'warm-up match' for Su Yu, just like other players in the national team.
However, there is still some distance to reach that stage.
***
After listening to Pei Dingshan's preliminary plan for his annual competitions, Su Yu nodded first, then suddenly asked: "Coach, in your plan, does the championship game from June 15th to June 17th have anything to do with me?"
In the previous introduction, Pei Dingshan did not mention this championship match, but it was obvious that Su Yu still noticed his hidden arrangement.
Pei Dingshan looked at Su Yu's questioning expression and smiled: "It could be related, but it is also possible that there is no relationship."
At this point, Pei Dingshan paused again and said seriously: "Xiaoyu, with your current strength and results, I can basically guarantee that you can qualify for the 6.15 Championship, but in the Asian Games trials, the players you face will be completely different from the ones you face now."
"Take the 100m as an example. Zheng Tianxi will also return to China to compete. Chen Peijie, who lost to you in the 100m test a few days ago due to unstable condition, has also achieved a 10.19 second PB for the 100m."
"Before you, there are at least five or six strong players who will also go all out to compete for the only one spot in the Asian Games men's 100m competition - I said only one spot, and I'm sure you understand why."
Su Yu nodded.
He knew that because Zheng Tianxi had the ability to break ten seconds in the 100-meter run, there was a huge gap in strength between Zheng Tianxi and other 100-meter runners in the country. It was hard to say who would win or lose among the other runners, but as long as Zheng Tianxi took part, he would definitely get a place.
Su Yu heard Pei Dingshan's advice to him - if he wanted to join the competition for the 100-meter qualification of the Asian Games, he must be mentally prepared to face so many strong opponents ahead.
However, even though Su Yu knew that his chances of qualifying for the competition were slim, he still thought about it and said, "Coach, I want to try."
He doesn't necessarily have to strive for the qualification to participate in the Asian Games, but he wants to try to see if he has the opportunity to compete with these top domestic 100-meter athletes - even if he comes in last in the final, it will not hinder his desire to challenge himself.
Pei Dingshan looked at him steadily for a while, and after a moment, he finally chuckled and said "OK".
***
After setting such an ambitious goal of 'striving for the Asian Games qualification', Su Yu thought carefully and felt that he did not seem to be carrying any unbearable mental pressure.
For him, it's about deciding on something and then doing it.
He has a goal and direction to strive for. It doesn’t matter when he will succeed. He will not give up his struggle.
For a moment, he felt that this was somewhat similar to the experiments he had done in the laboratory - determining the objectives of the project and then verifying them through continuous experiments.
In the process of moving towards the project goal, there will always be countless failures waiting for him. Each failure may consume tremendous effort and even a large amount of experimental funds. In this process, it is possible to waste a lot of time and energy due to the wrong experimental direction, but as long as you move forward step by step, you can always find the final direction.
Thinking of this, Su Yu suddenly realized that Pei Dingshan did not list the championship as an important annual event to him because Pei Dingshan did not want him to care too much about the Asian Games trials, thus causing a change in his mentality due to the setbacks he might encounter in the Asian Games trials.
In the reference books and online papers given to him by Pei Dingshan, Su Yu had seen many such examples - young talented players who suffered accidental setbacks in competitions and then began to fall into despair.
"Xiaoyu, what are you thinking about?"
On the way back to the dormitory, Jiang Yuan noticed that Su Yu seemed to be in a daze, so he asked a question with a smile.
Su Yu blinked and shook his head: "Nothing."
Hearing Su Yu say this, Jiang Yuan didn't mean to ask more questions. He rubbed Su Yu's head, then suddenly smiled and said, "Xiao Yu, I told my coach that I will try to sprint for the national championship on June 15 - that is, the Asian Games trials."
When Su Yu heard this, he blinked again and turned to look at Jiang Yuan.
"Because of Sun Yuhang?"
Jiang Yuan smiled: "That's part of the reason, but the other part is that I've rushed too fast in the long jump and high jump events so far - my victory came a little too easily - of course, I know I've put in a lot of hard training, but compared to my current achievements, I feel like everything seems a little too easy."
Su Yu tilted his head and listened to Jiang Yuan continue talking.
Jiang Yuan sorted out his thoughts and said, "So I want to go to a higher and more difficult competition venue to see what all the contestants look like when they try their best, and also see the heights that I can hardly reach even if I try my best."
Jiang Yuan smiled gently: "Although it may sound a bit unreasonable to say this, I think I need a basin of cold water - to sober myself up, so that I won't fall even harder when I reach a higher level."
At this moment, Su Yu's eyes widened for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal.
Under Su Yu's gaze, Jiang Yuan asked him with a smile: "Does my idea seem crazy?"
Hearing Jiang Yuan's question, Su Yu shook his head decisively: "No, brother, I think you are right."
Jiang Yuan has talents in the long jump and high jump that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. If he continues to go smoothly without any setbacks, then even if Jiang Yuan has a scale in his heart, he will probably lose the standard unconsciously.
It's not a bad thing to suppress it now.
At the same time, Su Yu also realized the reason why Jiang Yuan said that to him.
After a brief thought, he said to Jiang Yuan, "I will also strive to qualify for the championship on June 15."
The two brothers seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding at this moment.
At the same time, what Su Yu did not say was what he was thinking about when he was in a daze before - neither Jiang Yuan nor Pei Dingshan probably knew that before this, he had experienced countless failures.
Solving unknown scientific problems is an extremely testing process. Every day and night in the laboratory and every failed experiment have honed his ability to remain calm.
He pursues victory and success, and at the same time, he does not feel unnecessary pressure because of the possibility of failure - if he fails, he will keep trying, and he will eventually succeed.
***
When Su Yu and Jiang Yuan walked to the bottom of the dormitory, they found that there were many unfamiliar faces downstairs of the national team's dormitory building today. They all looked like teenagers around 16 or 17 years old. Some of them were moving luggage, and some were taking pictures of each other.
When Su Yu saw these people appear, he remembered that they should be the training players of the Olympic training base.
When they arrived at the bottom of the dormitory building, some athletes from the Olympic training base spotted them and greeted them enthusiastically: "Hello, I didn't seem to see you when I arrived this afternoon. I'm Li Yongming from the junior group of the J Province Sports Team. How about you?"
Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "We are from the S Province Sports Team."
It can be seen that Li Yongming is a very enthusiastic person. He looked at Jiang Yuan and Su Yu who were packing up without any luggage and asked curiously: "Are you going to the indoor training ground for training?"
Su Yu thought about it and nodded: "Yes."
Li Yongming was immediately in awe: "Great, you guys are really working so hard, right? I haven't even thought about training since this afternoon, after all, there's a month and a half of intensive training time left."
As he spoke, Li Yongming and Su Yujiangyuan walked into the elevator together and asked the two, "Which floor is your dormitory on? I'm on the 8th floor, room 813. Come visit when you have time!"
Jiang Yuan smiled and replied, "Okay." After a pause, he said, "What a coincidence, we have a friend who is also in 813, Zhou Yuang from the S Province Sports Team."
Li Yongming immediately laughed: "Hey, there are acquaintances here! That's great! Where are you? I'll go and play with you guys later with Angzi!"
As they were talking, the elevator stopped on the third floor. Li Yongming looked at the two people who were about to leave and asked in confusion, "Hey, wait, the third floor is the dormitory for the national team's winter training players..."
After saying this, Li Yongming stared at Jiang Yuan and Su Yu for a while, then slapped his forehead and said, "Hey, you two are Angzi's roommates who are trying out for the national team, right?"
Seeing Li Yongming clinging to the elevator door, Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't explain it to you clearly just now."
Li Yongming thought about it, walked out of the elevator, and said with a smile: "Hey, excuse me, can I come over to join in the fun?"
"At first, Angzi said that you two would probably finish training soon, and he planned to come and give you a surprise."
Hearing this, Jiang Yuan's smile widened, and he nodded with a smile: "Of course no problem."
As for Zhou Yuang...
Since he didn't say in the group that he was coming to find them, it was obvious whether he was planning to surprise or scare them.
But today, both coaches Pei Dingshan and Pei Yongsheng kept them to explain the schedule for next year, so they returned to the dormitory much later than usual after training. So it seemed natural that they did not receive a "shock" at the corner of dormitory 303 but instead saw Zhou Yuang frozen into silence.
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