This Omega is Sweet and Wild

Chapter 84

The roster for this World Central Conference was reported layer by layer, and finally approved by the general manager of the training center, and quickly distributed back to each team.

Before the list was officially announced, hundreds of team members were summoned to the square for a summary meeting. The leader of the Sports Bureau took the stage to speak, and the speech in his hand had a full three pages.

"...In this World Gymnasium, we must strive to increase the total number of medals while ensuring that the dominant events in previous years do not make mistakes. For this year's new events, we will strive to get the first gold medal!..."

On the stage, the leaders of the Sports Bureau gave an impassioned speech, but off the stage, the athletes were drowsy.

The cold wind was howling, and everyone was shivering and hiding in their down jackets, yawning continuously.Sure enough, no matter when, the leader's speech is so boring.

After the leader's long and boring speech, the coaches of each project led their athletes back to the training hall.

The original relaxed atmosphere dissipated in an instant, because everyone knew that the main event was about to begin at this time.

Dozens of swimmers from the swimming team lined up in two rows on the shore, with girls on the left and boys on the right. All eyes were focused on the thin folder in the hands of the coach.

The four assistants stood behind the coach, and the expressions of the five were equally solemn.

Coach Yu was the first to speak: "I think you all know the weight of this list. What I hold in my hand are the 32 names that will finally participate in the competition; and the remaining 48 people will leave the training base tomorrow and go back to the training ground. to your respective schools."

"I know that other sports will choose a more gentle way to announce the list of players. For example, the diving team next door, their assistant coach will privately notify the unsuccessful athletes and let them pack their bags and leave quietly. But I will not do this—" Coach Yu His eyes are as sharp as knives, and he swipe across the body of every player in front of him, "—The field is like a battlefield, winners and losers, within seconds. Those who are eliminated are not because you are not good enough, but those who stay. Even better than you!"

There was no sound in the team.

There are 32 players left out of [-] players, and the probability of elimination is nearly [-]/[-]!After more than a month of rigorous training, all the athletes who have survived until now have hopes and dreams, and want to set foot on the international arena and touch that distant trophy.

Who would be willing to be eliminated?Who would be willing to be replaced?Who wants to be the "not good enough" one?

Everyone held their breath, even Li Cheng, who was full of confidence, couldn't help but stand upright at this moment, and his eyes fell on the list in the coach's hand.

Although Zhou Jian had reminded him that Coach Yu was related to X City Sports School, his quota might be "hacked", but Li Cheng's results are real, how could he be "hacked" so easily?

In the selection competition, he won No.200 with a clear advantage in both the 100 and 1 self. He didn't believe that the coach would pretend not to see his results!

He waited confidently, waiting to hear his name...

Coach Yu didn't talk nonsense anymore, she opened the folder and read out the final list.According to regulations, the same player can only sign up for two events at most. In the final list, there are players who participate in both events and players who only participate in one event.

The order of announcement is the women's team first, then the men's team, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and finally freestyle.As a result, the men's freestyle list is bound to appear at the end.

As those names were read out one by one, it was natural for some families to be happy and others to be sad.

When the last name of the women's team fell to the ground, the girls who were not selected all shed tears. They didn't cry aloud. They didn't want to provoke other people's sympathy. They could only grit their teeth and hang their heads, but they The trembling shoulders have revealed the pain in their hearts.Seeing the tears in the eyes of the teammate beside her, the eyes of the other selected female players also turned red.

Coach Yu didn't give them time to digest, she quickly turned over the document page and read the men's team roster.

Backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly... Li Cheng has never felt that time passes so slowly.Those unfamiliar or familiar names fell gently in the ears, and the excited or frustrated faces appeared in front of her eyes... Li Cheng put her hands behind her back and clenched her fists.

Finally, finally, the last list.

The final qualifications for men's freestyle are finally announced! !

"Men's freestyle 1500 meters, first body attached middle school, Zhou Jian.

Men's freestyle 800 meters, the first body attached to the middle school, Zhou Jian. "

This answer was as early as everyone expected, and everyone turned their eyes to Zhou Jian with admiration in their eyes.Li Cheng also applauded along with everyone, congratulating him in a low voice.

Zhou Jian turned to him, and instead of saying "thank you", he said "congratulations".

Li Cheng knew what he was "happy with".

Next, it was 400 free, and the coaching staff selected a player from the Northeast Province.

Immediately afterwards, Li Cheng's long-awaited main event of 200 meters and 100 meters——

"—Men's freestyle 200 meters, Hwaseong No. [-] Middle School, Li Cheng."

Hearing his name, Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and finally let go of his high-pitched heart. He swung his fist and punched in the air, his face full of confidence.

Look, it really is Zhou Jian's unfounded worry, what is shady and not shady, as long as Li Cheng swims well enough, how can Coach Yu abandon Li Cheng and choose a player from X City Sports School?

"—Men's 100m freestyle swimming, X City Sports School, Dai Yujing."

In the next second, the cruel reality was like a heavy punch, hitting Li Cheng's heart hard.

Li Cheng was stunned.

His brain was blank, and there seemed to be a huge hole in his chest. The happiness and pride just now disappeared in an instant, leaving only an endless pit.

What did he hear?

What did he hear?

His main item 100 was actually lost? !After he got the first place in the trials, he, unexpectedly, lost, was elected! ! !

And the person who replaced him was none other than that hairtail spirit from X city! !

A smile hung on the corner of Li Cheng's mouth last second, but now, the blood in his whole body is frozen through.He stood there blankly, he could feel everyone's gazes on him, and some sparse voices of discussion surrounded him, as if everyone was pointing fingers at him.

Zhou Jian looked at him worriedly, and asked in a low voice, "Li Cheng, are you okay?"

Li Cheng's voice was hoarse: "I'm not fine at all."

As for the other protagonist of this "civet cat for prince", he was standing beamingly, accepting the congratulations from the people around him.

The men's team was full of rustling noises, but Coach Yu, standing at the front of the team, didn't hear it. He just raised his eyes and glanced at the people who were talking.

A teaching assistant stood up to organize discipline and asked everyone to keep quiet.

Li Cheng was in the crowd, clenched his hands into fists, and tightly clenched his pants.

Why... why? ! Both 200 and 100 are his main projects, why should he hand over one of the projects?

After the list of all members was announced, Coach Yu put away the folder in his hand, and the deep wrinkles on his face seemed to be engraved.

"Okay, the list of entries for all individual events has been announced." Her tone was unwavering, like a robot without temperature. "Now, those who have not read their names can leave."

Before she finished speaking, suddenly, a hand was raised in the crowd, stretching straight into the air, making it impossible to ignore.

Everyone looked at that hand.

——The owner of the hand is Li Cheng.

The Omega boy raised his arms straight up, and looked straight at Coach Yu with his red eyes.

"Coach," he said loudly, regardless of the gazes of the people around him, "I have doubts about the result!"

Zhou Jian tugged at him violently, and whispered: "Li Cheng, calm down, don't be impulsive!"

The team rules are strict, the first one is to respect the coach and never contradict.

Zhou Jian knew that Li Cheng must have complaints about the results of this reading, but he never expected that this hedgehog-like boy would tear this matter up in front of everyone.

"..." Coach Yu looked at Li Cheng calmly, and said a word, "Oh?"

Li Cheng said loudly: "During more than a month of special training, my 100-meter time has improved by half a second. In the final trials, I was also the first to touch the wall! Why is the [-]-meter quota not mine? !"

The players were silent for a while, and then there were swarms of discussions. Everyone was actually very curious. With Li Cheng's ability, it was easy to get the places for the two games. Why did Coach Yu distribute 100 points to other players?

Almost everyone has heard about the fact that "X City Sports School has recommended places", and the current situation proves the authenticity of this matter.

The player from City X who was being discussed blushed. He was questioned in public, so of course he had to refute himself: "Li Cheng, what do you mean by that? Do you think you are the only one who is good? You are indeed outstanding. !And I participated in the post-mortem meeting when I was in junior high school, and I have experience in participating in international competitions. This alone is much better than you, a bumpkin who has only participated in provincial competitions!!"

What he said is indeed true, and his reasons are also tenable if explained empirically.

But Li Cheng sneered: "Since you have experience and you are a veteran, how many medals did you win last year?"

Dai Yujing was speechless for a moment.The World Central Association is held every four years. The last time he participated in the competition, he was still in the third year of junior high school. The internal competition was not fierce in that session, so he followed his teammates to participate in the competition, and then...won No.4.

It doesn't matter if the ranking is at the bottom, but he took No.4! No.4 and No.3 were just a little bit short, but it was this little gap that made him miss the medal.Holding his breath, he wanted to avenge his shame in this session, and expressed his determination to Coach Yu in private, and finally got the spot to return to the competition in this session.

Coach Yu listened to their quarrel calmly, and asked back: "Li Cheng, are you questioning my quota allocation?"

Li Cheng is like a little beast who has been walking like a predicament, even though he knows the road ahead is dangerous, he still keeps going forward.He looked at Coach Yu aggressively: "You just said that the game is like a battlefield, winners and losers, and everything is based on grades. Isn't my grades not good enough?"

"Of course your grades are good enough." Coach Yu nodded, "You are the one with the greatest potential among the several student athletes I have coached."

"Since my grades are good enough, why do I give the 100 places to X City Sports School?"

He was so stupid and straightforward, he didn't even think about the consequences after he said these words.He knew that he questioned the coach and challenged her authority in front of everyone. This kind of behavior seriously violated the team rules. If he got on the line, he might be expelled from the team!

If he was smart, he should endure it and at least keep a place in the competition-but in that case, he would not be Li Cheng.

Li Cheng hopes that the swimming pool he loves will always be clean.He is idealized in this way, but is idealization wrong?

Zhou Jian looked at him worriedly, wanted to speak several times, but finally gave up... because Zhou Jian found that compared with Li Cheng, he was too cowardly.He changed his mind, if he encountered Li Cheng's predicament, would he dare to question the coach face to face?

No, he dared not.He should adopt a more "smooth" method and tell his personal trainer about this matter, so that the personal trainer can "chat" with Coach Yu through private contact.

——He didn't have the courage to be like Li Cheng.

Facing Li Cheng's straightforward questioning, unexpectedly, there was no trace of anger from coach Yu.

"Since we're talking about this, why don't we all talk about it." Coach Yu put his hands behind his back, looked around all the players, and said in a calm tone, "I actually knew what you guys were talking about me in private. Yes, I always thought those rumors were too absurd and didn’t need an explanation at all——Li Cheng, have you heard that I have a master-student relationship with the coaches of X City Sports School, so I will recommend places to them every year? So you Do you think I took away the quota that should belong to you and distributed it to Dai Yujing?"

Li Cheng: "...Yes."

Instead, Dai Yujing yelled: "What the hell? What else is going on????"

Not only his eyes were full of shock, but even his alumni from the same school were also surprised. The expressions of the two did not seem to be fake, but as if they were really hearing this for the first time.

If they acted...then they acted too well.

Coach Yu nodded: "Their coach is indeed a student I have taught before."

This is completely "self-destruct"!

However, Coach Yu didn't finish the second half of the sentence: "Not only him, the coach of the First Physical Education High School was also my student."

Everyone's eyes shifted to Zhou Jian again.

Zhou Jian who was accidentally shot: "...???"

"Not only the two of them are related to me, but also the principal of xx sports school, who was my former leader; the director of the academic affairs office of oo school, who was my former teammate; the coach of dd school, who was my former colleague... "She called out the names of many schools in one breath, and the students who were called up were both selected and unsuccessful, but everyone looked at a loss, and they had never heard of this relationship.

Coach Yu said: "Now you think that this circle is so big that there are new athletes emerging every year and some people retire sadly every year. When you came to my seat at that time, you would find that this circle is actually Small, heads up, heads down, acquaintances everywhere - if I had to give 'special attention' to every acquaintance, then instead of coaching the national team, I might as well be a baby swimming teacher."

"..."

"What's wrong?" Coach Yu frowned and looked at them, "Aren't my jokes funny? Why don't you laugh?"

Everyone: "..."

In other words, the uproarious "recommendation" before is just a non-existent thing?

Thinking about it carefully, X City Sports School is originally a strong swimming school and has trained many champions. It is not impossible for players to enter the competition list based on their strength.

but……

Li Cheng said: "Even if you can prove that you are not partial in the selection, I still don't understand why you only give me one place to compete?"

Coach Yu took a deep look at him: "When did I say that I only give you one place to compete?"

Li Cheng was stunned. "……What?"

Not only did he fail to react, but the other players who were watching and eating melons were also stunned.

Coach Yu said that she was tired. She was originally unwilling to talk too much. Apart from scolding people during training, this was the first time she spoke so much.

She took the hot water cup from the teaching assistant, threw the list into her arms, and signaled her to continue reading with her eyes.

So the teaching assistant obediently opened the list, read it aloud with nearly a hundred eyes on it.

"——This year's new event: men's and women's mixed 4x100, contestants: women's backstroke, ..., men's breaststroke, ..., women's butterfly, ..., men's freestyle, Hwaseong No. [-] Middle School, Li Cheng."

Everyone: ! ! !

Li Cheng:! ! !

Li Cheng was knocked out by the sudden reversal.

For a long time, men's and women's medley swimming has not been a competition event in the World Central Association. I didn't expect it to be added to the schedule this time!

Thinking of the "new event won the gold medal" mentioned in the leadership meeting just now, could it be referring to the men's and women's medley swimming?The first gold medal of each new project often has extraordinary significance far beyond the ordinary. This is like the "first kill" in the game, which is an absolute glory.

Li Cheng is not familiar with the women's team, but the breaststroke swimmer sent by the men's team is indeed an elite in breaststroke, and Li Cheng has an absolute advantage in the 100-meter freestyle -- there is no doubt that the four of them The combination is the "King Zha" sent out after careful consideration!Coach Yu's ambition is clear, and he aims at the championship!

Precisely because a contestant can only apply for two events, in order to save energy, these four contestants had only qualified for one event before.

Everyone finally understood what Coach Yu was planning.

However, this matter did not "end here" -

The teaching assistant cleared his throat and read the last sentence on the list.

"——Captain of the swimming team of this World Middle School, Hwaseong No. [-] Middle School, Li Cheng!"