131 Looking for the Prisoner
◎She is within this framework, but not constrained by it.◎
End of June 2000.
The 8th Table Tennis League has ended.
Because the previous sessions were held in other provinces, this time we returned to the site of the first Table Tennis Challenge League, Chaoyang.
Nowadays, this kind of commercial competition is more of an entertainment activity for the absolute main players like Zhu Qi, Maomao and A Shui.
Zhu Qi was on an astonishing winning streak, so even if Ah Shui and Maomao lost a match or two, it wouldn't shake their standing within the national table tennis team. Players who beat them wouldn't feel like they were destined for a meteoric rise; at best, it was just sheer luck that they ran into these three players when they weren't in top form.
A week after the Ping Tiao League ended, along with the prize money from the competition, Zhu Qi also received news about Jin Lili.
That is - the master video of the 8th Table Tennis League has been circulated again.
Soon after, Zhu Qi found the person who actually sold the video.
Ah Shui felt that Zhu Qi was truly a man of great foresight. How could a person be so smart?
Before the Ping Tiao League, Ren Xinhua followed Zhu Qi's suggestion and found two trustworthy people in his home stadium to watch closely as the master tapes recorded by each camera were copied from the machine into reels of videotape.
The videotapes were then processed.
We found a professional film studio team and put different "small watermarks" on more than 60 master tapes.
In front of the time jump bar in the lower right corner of each master video, there will be a unique mark of an inconspicuous ABC...Z. Mark them in order, and this time also record which letter of the master each provincial team sent out -
Nowadays, although coaches from different provincial teams can communicate with each other by phone, they are still separated by thousands of miles.
The two provinces will not compare their own master tapes with each other's master tapes face to face to find out the difference.
Oh, now I found it.
Jin Lili said that the letter "J" was on the lower right corner of the master tape received by the Korean team.
When Zhu Qi found out, he wasn't too surprised.
This master tape actually circulated from Jianghuai Province.
With solid evidence, Ren Xinhua went to the General Administration of Sports with Jin Lili's testimony.
The General Administration of Sport, after further internal discussions, felt that since there were signs of this, it was necessary to conduct a thorough investigation and put an end to this "eating from one's own side" behavior once and for all.
This matter is serious, how can it not be considered "treason"?
Originally, Ren Xinhua had planned to ask the General Administration of Sport to intervene, and have prosecutors investigate the bank account records of every staff member, starting with the provincial team and working their way down to the municipal team, the sports school, and so on. They would start with the coaching staff, eliminating internal staff. If the coaching staff wasn't found, they could focus on the players or their families. If verbal warnings weren't effective, they would then investigate the bank account records of the players and their families.
But as luck would have it, when the application had not yet been approved, the coach of the Chongqing Provincial Team was also busy during this period.
Hearing that the person selling the video might be from Jianghuai Province, they mobilized all their connections and actually found out that there was someone who could speak Japanese and had coached a Japanese team for three years.
He was the provincial team head coach before He Qianlu. Because Zhu Qi won the Aogong World Cup, he resigned and was demoted to the city team, Coach Wang.
Of course, these are just suspicions.
What finally confirmed that it was Coach Wang was that the prosecutor's office filed an investigation application and retrieved his bank transaction records from major branches, and found that there were overseas remittances within a week after each domestic competition.
There was no online banking at the time, so to transfer money, one had to go to the bank and have the staff write a receipt by hand, and then stamp it with a postal stamp.
Not to mention that overseas remittances also require exchange rate conversion, which is also very rare.
It is almost 100% certain that it is Coach Wang.
He had previously coached the Japanese team and had been in contact with them across the sea via email, occasionally chatting about internal affairs of Chinese table tennis.
Including before the start of the Tokyo World Games.
As an insider in the domestic circle, he also revealed to the Japanese team that the national team's main players Chang Hongxia and Maomao were injured.
Xu Dong told Zhu Qi that when Ren Xinhua brought people from the General Administration of Sports to find Coach Wang, Coach Wang admitted that he was the one who sold the master tape, but did not think his behavior was serious.
"He said that domestic competitions can be watched on TV, and anyone who wants to watch the national team's domestic competitions can watch them. There is no such thing as a secret. He also said that the national team is making a fuss out of nothing. He often gets a lot of game videos from Japan, exchanges them for videos of the Chinese team and occasionally collects some money. He thinks this is normal 'academic exchange'." When Xu Dong said this, Zhu Qi listened with a frown.
Ah Shui could tell Coach Wang was being sophistry, and he blustered, "Come on, stop flattering yourself. What? He made a killing by leaking videos of national team players playing in domestic matches, and we should thank him? Traitor, running dog, and a traitor. He even picked out Bao Bao's videos to post, isn't it just because he's resentful that he was demoted to the city team?"
There is currently no Internet law, let alone regulations restricting information exchange.
However, since the first China Games, it was discovered that information about domestic competitions had been leaked abroad.
The General Administration of Sport held a meeting on this matter and issued some official documents to remind people that there is no such thing as not understanding the seriousness of the situation.
As a result, Coach Wang did not restrain himself, but continued to do such things.
This is a knowing and deliberate act.
And I heard that when the national team began to investigate strictly who leaked the videotape, they deliberately spread rumors that it was someone from the Chongqing Provincial Team who leaked it to the external team.
There is also an element of sowing discord in this.
Ren Xinhua was very angry.
Two months later, Zhu Qi learned of the subsequent consequences for Coach Wang: his coaching license was revoked and he was expelled from the city team. Prosecutors intervened and began investigating whether Coach Wang had committed other violations. The General Administration of Sport would then refine the penalties and prevent similar cases from occurring again.
This incident was also written by Sen Qiaobei in the magazine "Table Tennis World", with the title "Who Betrayed Us".
Describe the incident in detail, clear the name of the Chongqing Yu team, and warn people like Coach Wang to stop having such evil thoughts.
However, the General Administration of Sports thinks that Zhu Qi's method of adding watermarks to videos is very good.
If there are people selling video masters to others, we can also use this method to exclude a large group of people first, and then accurately target a small number of people for investigation.
For this, Zhu Qi also received a 200 yuan opinion bonus from the General Administration of Sports.
Zhu Qi planned to split it in half with Song Linzhou. When Song Linzhou found out, he was surprised: "Why?"
"Didn't you introduce that editing studio to Chairman Ren? You've done a great job by finding the person who sold the master tapes."
Song Linzhou scratched his head and smiled shyly: "It's nothing..."
Although they have been partners for such a long time, Song Linzhou has always been polite to Zhu Qi, with a very strange sense of reserve.
Sometimes Qin Xiaoba felt a little awkward when watching.
Zhu Qi clearly got along very naturally with Maomao and Ah Shui, and they had a closeness that came from years of interaction. Song Linzhou had always been incredibly approachable on the men's team, and the new players loved to joke around with him, but they would automatically quiet down around Zhu Qi.
"Why are you so polite to my sister?" Qin Xiaoba didn't understand. Taking advantage of the lunch break and taking a shower, he walked to Song Linzhou with his bare chest and asked while drying his hair.
The national team has placed a new row of hair dryers in the locker room of the collective bathhouse. Many players found it novel and even did stupid things like taking a shower just to blow dry their hair.
Song Linzhou had just put the hair dryer back on the shelf when he heard Qin Xiaoba's nonsensical words.
He didn't know why he was in this state in front of Zhu Qi, he just felt a kind of... hard to describe feeling of looking up.
Perhaps, Song Linzhou has been in this state since the first time he knew Zhu Qi's name, and he has become accustomed to it over the years.
Although the first time they met was on the plane to the Macau World Cup, it was on the field that I learned that Zhu Qi was an athlete like me.
Zhu Qi was only fifteen years old at that time.
But the fighting spirit in my bones has a very strange magic.
In fact, every step she took, every swing of her racket, and every hit of the ball was not standard.
Many coaches also use a rote learning approach when coaching players, requiring all players to have their arms and shoulders at a certain angle when swinging the racket, how they should step, and how they should move when swinging the racket.
But all of Zhu Qi's actions were based on her own thoughts.
She is within this framework, but not constrained by it.
In fact, the players who can really play well are often those who like to think and whose movements are not "standard".
Song Linzhou likes watching her play ball.
Sometimes when I was practicing, the image of Zhu Qi swinging the racket would appear in my mind.
Now many players in the team admire Zhu Qi very much. She herself is a trophy that everyone is vying to hold.
She herself has also clearly defined the direction of her future development. If someone disturbs her at this time and tries to make her change her future plans, it would be impolite.
He didn't know what kind of person could be called the most fashionable title nowadays, sports star.
Zhu Qi should be it.
He felt that he was still some distance away from Zhu Qi. He had only won the Pembroke Cup, but Zhu Qi had won the Grand Slam.
He hoped he could win more medals, more, and be closer to her.
Before this, he felt very happy just to be able to see Zhu Qi compete and play basketball.
Because the goal he is working towards is right in front of him.
"You've known each other for so long, after all, but when you see each other, you usually talk about nothing but practice. Lately, the topic of the racket shop has been added, but that's about it. Sometimes it's really hard to talk to you two. Look at that new kid on the Hong Kong team, he's always hanging around the women's team. I told you back then that he had ulterior motives, but you and Brother Xiong didn't believe me..."
Huang Jiajia is lively and likes to joke. When she arrived in Chaojing, they could eat and chat together. Her Mandarin improved by leaps and bounds, and she could even teach Lulu a few sentences occasionally.
Although the two members of the men's team, Caribu and Mori Yunan, are also training normally, they usually train separately and don't interact much.
Therefore, Song Linzhou felt that what Qin Xiaoba said was a bit exaggerated: "Sen Yunan and Huang Jiajia are the seeded mixed doubles players of the Hong Kong team, so they usually spend more time training together. Anyway, they will all go back at the end of this year..."
"Yeah, we'll be rivals if we meet again."
Qin Xiaoba scratched his wet hair. Gao Xiaofeng had shaved his head in Florida before, and it had finally grown back, making him cherish it even more.
His thoughts are relatively simple.
Although recruiting some foreign players to train with the national team can earn some reputation for the Chinese team and enhance its ties with other countries.
But as a player, Qin Xiaoba does not want the national team to continue recruiting "foreign students".
When he was young, he also trained with He Qianlu in the Jianghuai Provincial Team for a period of time, and heard about what Han Taiyang did after returning to South Korea.
Therefore, Qin Xiaoba has always had a knot in his heart. To put it bluntly, he never considered these outsourced people as his own people.
Ah Shui had heard Qin Xiaoba mutter about this before, and he also said that Qin Xiaoba was too narrow-minded.
Qin Xiaoba thought he was narrow-minded, but who would have thought that he is now in the national team and seems to have integrated into the team.
But after they go back, who knows if they will become the second or third Han Taiyang?
"Don't say this kind of thing again. If the coaches hear it, they will say you are trying to sow discord among international parties," Song Linzhou reminded.
"Oh, I know, I know. I'll just say a few more words to you."
The young men in the mirror were huddled together, their thin skin covering their thick muscles. Every time they raised their arms to grab their heads, the muscle lines developed from years of practicing swinging the racket became extremely clear.
The sound of water in the bathhouse stopped for the most part, and the other men's team members had almost finished washing, so they all rushed out.
When there are more people in the locker room, the noise becomes very noisy.
Sports students get together.
The room was filled with hormones.
"Look, look, my Gada meat is okay, right? I've been lifting weights for half a year, and only someone with my physique could develop such a powerful arm."
"Come on, the ball you hit feels like cotton. It's just a bunch of stupid muscle. What's the point?"
"Look, you're sore. If you don't agree, go to the pool table this afternoon and try it out. I'll give you two balls."
"You don't need to use a hair dryer anymore. Just let him blow and your hair will be dry in no time."
The men's bathhouse next door is noisy, while the women's bathhouse here is harmonious and quiet.
Ah Shui had already changed his clothes and was sitting on a stool waiting for Zhu Qi to change his clothes. He was speechless when he heard the noise next to him.
Who says women are noisy?
Only when these men are gathered together can we understand what it means to have monkeys crying on both sides of the river.
After getting married, Xu Dong stayed in the national team for another half a year.
Because He Qianlu had to deal with subsequent handover issues in Jianghuai Province, the Jianghuai Provincial Team had recently released him. Furthermore, He Qianlu had previously received excellent reviews for his work with the Provincial Team and had been awarded a small house of over 40 square meters by the Provincial Government.
After He Qianlu sold this house, he added some of the money he had saved from his previous job and the share of Zhu Qi's racket shop, and bought a new house only ten minutes away from the national team.
Xu Dong also added 10,000 yuan to buy furniture. After the decoration and formaldehyde removal, it is estimated that he will not be able to officially move in until the end of the year.
During the past six months, Xu Dong has maintained the same high level of work as before marriage, working even more dedicatedly than before.
On several occasions, Zhu Qi even found Xu Dong sewing socks for the girls in his group during breaks.
For athletes, in addition to rubber and rackets, which are consumed a lot, socks and shoes are also high-consumption items.
Shoes tend to become loose after being worn for a long time, and socks tend to wear out after being worn for a long time.
In recent years, athletes' salaries and bonuses have skyrocketed, and now that people have more money, they are not as frugal.
Generally, when socks are worn out, they are just thrown away.
The men's team is even more wasteful, their socks are basically disposable.
At a time when an egg was only a dime, they treated branded cotton sports socks that cost ten yuan a pair as if they were in stock, and bought more than a hundred pairs every time they went to the sports store. Sometimes the socks were not even torn, but if they smelled, they were too lazy to wash them and just threw them away.
For this reason, Ren Xinhua also talked about this matter separately and asked the men's team not to be so extravagant.
So Xu Dong set an example himself.
Since the establishment of major sports teams in New China, Xu Dong is the only coach who can sew socks for players.
The players from other groups cried with envy.
Zhu Qi put his dirty jersey into the inside of his ball bag, preparing to take it back to the dormitory to wash it in the evening. When he was packing up, he found that Xu Dong had sewn a cute white "centipede" on one of his new socks. Although it was not beautiful, it was definitely sturdy.
"I really envy you." Ah Shui is now in Chang Hongxia's group, so naturally there is no logistics service such as sewing socks. She can only sew them by herself. "I didn't expect that my medal-winning hands would have to use needle and thread."
Maomao smiled and comforted: "Labor is the most glorious."
The days go by.
Many players are not used to the days without games.
I feel like I've been training for so long and never have a chance to play, which is too boring.
The team has issued a new training plan.
Ren Xinhua is not too worried about the performance of the women's team, but the performance of the men's team has not been as stable as that of the women's team.
Although Song Linzhou and Daxiong can handle most of the outsourcing, they have not made any technological breakthroughs for a long time, and as they get older, they have more or less developed some problems.
Although Qin Xiaoba is in the growth stage, his condition is up and down. When things are good, anyone can win, and when things are bad, anyone can lose.
On the other hand, Hong Kong's Mori Yunan has thrived in the national table tennis team over the past two years, training harder and more diligently than 90% of the national table tennis team's players. His skills are also improving rapidly, and he may become the team's biggest obstacle in the future.
Ren Xinhua was thinking that the FIFA World Cup in Lyon, France would soon be coming in October.
She gathered all the coaches of the boys' team and announced.
"I need to adjust the training plan for the men's team later."
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