[Short track speed skating] From academic master to Winter Olympic champion

Gu Ran's interviews never disappoint, Qiu Di likes him so much.

Judging from his current personal strength, after this World Championships, there are still many interview opportunities in the future.

All the morning games are over, and the athletes take the time to go back to the hotel for dinner, lunch break, recharge their batteries, and prepare for the afternoon game.

Gu Ran has the 1500m semi-finals and finals in the afternoon, and Gao Ziyi and Lin Jiaxi will also participate.

He was lying on the bed, thinking before he fell asleep, it would be great if they could enter the finals together, and it would be even better if the three of them could stand on the podium together again.

However, in the semi-finals, Gao Ziyi was in the same group as the three Korean players.

This gave the three Koreans a chance to avenge that morning.I don’t know if it was stimulated by the 500-meter race in the morning. Yin Canyu, Zheng Minyu and Jin Xuzhe were united like never before, especially the two young ones behind.

In the end, at the final crossing the line, Gao Ziyi chose to hold them back when he was entangled by the two Korean players so that there was no room for them, creating opportunities for Lin Jiaxi and allowing him to enter the final.

The afternoon game was in stark contrast to the morning game.How high-spirited the Chinese team was in the morning, and how uncomfortable everyone felt when they saw this scene in the afternoon.

Gu Ran finished the game in the group before them. He usually has the best relationship with Gao Ziyi. When he saw this scene, he also felt aggrieved for Senior Brother Gao.

But the game is like this. When you are playing and cooperating to calculate others, you must be prepared to be bullied more or less by others.

When Gao Ziyi returned to the stands, his expression was still calm, but Lin Jiaxi blamed himself a little: "Sorry, I couldn't help you."

Gao Ziyi smiled and shook his head: "They made it clear that they were targeting me. I'm already very satisfied that you can make it to the final."

Gu Ran didn't know what to say, but just handed his brother Gao a bottle of water, leaned over, and rested her chin on his shoulder.

From this angle, Gu Ran could see his Adam's apple rolling up and down when he swallowed, and his hand holding the mineral water bottle trembled slightly.

His heart was far less peaceful than it looked on the surface, he was blaming himself, but Gu Ran didn't know how to comfort him.

"Brother..."

Gao Ziyi tilted his head and glanced at him, his eyes were still gentle.He gave a soft "hmm" and asked, "What's wrong?"

Gu Ran opened her mouth, but she couldn't say the phrase "I'll win it back for you" that he occasionally said to Meng Yuqiao and Chi Lang.

Because, in the 1500-meter race, he didn't have the strength to win the championship, so he didn't have the confidence to say that he would win it back for him.

For a while, he felt mixed feelings, unwillingness and grievance for his senior brother, resentment towards the Koreans, feeling powerless if he wanted to win this gold medal, and even felt a little guilty for his senior brother.

Looking into his eyes, Gao Ziyi guessed eighty-nine percent of what was going on in his mind.

So, he comforted Gu Ran: "Who can say for sure what happens on the field? It doesn't matter, just play hard and don't put too much burden on yourself."

Gu Ran bit her lower lip: "Brother, in the World Cup, I never won a gold medal in the 1500m..."

"But you have this strength, you have to believe in yourself."

Gu Ran said again: "They know very well that 1500 meters is not my strong event. In this event, you are better than me. It happens that the three of you will be in the same group as you in the semi-finals. They think that as long as you can't make it to the finals, you will be in the same group as me. A gold medal for them to win."

This analysis is well-founded, Gao Ziyi nodded: "No way, I can only blame myself for not being strong enough."

"Of course not!" Gu Ran sat up straight, and refuted him solemnly, "In this case, the result is likely to be the same with other people. You have done a good job, at least Jiaxi entered the final at the last moment, And Kim Xuzhe didn't make it, the South Korean team is not much more relaxed than us."

He thought for a moment and then said: "Their plan must be that the three of them advance to the semi-finals at the same time, so that both you and Jiaxi will be eliminated. But they didn't expect Jiaxi to cross the line ahead of Jin Xuzhe in the end."

Gao Ziyi said: "Now we and the South Korean team are two people entering the finals. If you and Jiaxi cooperate well, there is hope to win the championship."

At this time, Lin Jiaxi poked his head over from the side, and said obediently: "Xiaoran, I will definitely cooperate with you."

Gu Ran patted his head: "I can also cooperate with you."

The men's and women's 1500-meter final is the last game today, and the players in the middle have enough time to rest and adjust their status.

The two coaches also called Gu Ran and Lin Jiaxi over, seized the time to arrange tactics for them, listed all possible situations that might be encountered on the field, tried to be as thorough as possible, and thought of countermeasures.

Cheng Sen finally patted Gu Ran and Lin Jiaxi on the shoulders: "That's right, Xiao Gao is our strongest player in this event and the most hopeful to win the championship. But the matter is now, we can't change anything, we can only rely on You two."

Gu Ran nodded heavily: "I will try my best."

Xu Qing put his hands on his shoulders: "Little friend, this doesn't look like your style at all."

Gu Ran frowned: "What style?"

"You usually have a confident look. 'Don't worry, I will definitely win' and 'I will definitely win him' are your mantras, but 'Do your best' is not."

Gu Ran didn't speak, Xu Qing pressed down with the hand on his shoulder: "Just try your best, it's good."

Gu Ran sat silently in the inspection room. Lin Jiaxi next to him wanted to say something, but he didn't want to speak, so he didn't speak.

Lin Jiaxi patted him on the shoulder until the two of them walked out, waiting for the live broadcast to introduce the athletes to the field according to the times.

Gu Ran turned around: "What's wrong?"

Lin Jiaxi hugged him: "Xiaoran, trust me."

"Ok?"

Gu Ran was preoccupied with her own affairs, and didn't immediately realize what he meant by this.

At this time, his name was being called on the radio, and Gu Ran followed him out.

Until standing in front of the starting line, what Gao Ziyi said to him was still in Gu Ran's mind: "You have this strength, you have to believe in yourself."

He tilted his head and glanced at Yin Canyu who was in the first lane, and then the referee issued an order, and the game was about to start.

When starting to run, the others were stunned for a moment before running out.Only Gu Ran, who still maintains the habit of skating short distances, started quickly, came to the first corner, and took the leading position.

But this is a 1500-meter race, and everyone didn't want to exert their strength in the first half, and everyone was skating slowly.

But because of Gao Ziyi's unexpected exit in the semi-finals, Gu Ran had an unspeakable emotion hidden in his heart, a little uneasy and a little anxious.

So, he suddenly accelerated the pace of ice pedaling, the speed reached the extreme in an instant, and the distance with No.2 Yin Canyu was opened in an instant.

In the stands, the audience immediately exclaimed one after another.This is a 1500-meter race, not a 500-meter race. Who would rush so hard when they come up, exhausting too much energy, and how to skate in the second half of the race?

This is the World Championships, not the World Cup. In such an important event second only to the Olympic Games, athletes will take the lead in seeking stability and then surpassing it.It is very rare for someone to use the ring tactics from the beginning, which is very risky.

Just when Gu Ran distanced himself from the five competitors behind him, Lin Jiaxi also immediately cut to the outsider.

His starting speed was not to go forward to catch Gu Ran, the rabbit, but to slide in front of Yin Canyu, get stuck, and try to buy time for Gu Ran.

However, Yin Canyu didn't give Lin Jiaxi a chance to take his own position, and he also started to speed up, chasing after Gu Ran's figure.

He knew very well that at Gu Ran's skating speed, once the distance was too far, as long as the opponent gritted his teeth and persisted in the second half of the journey, it would be almost impossible for him to chase him back.

Lin Jiaxi glanced at Yin Canyu's figure, his body was faster than his mind, and his first reaction was to catch up.

Soon, he forcibly suppressed his impulse again.What Xu Qing said to him before the game came to mind.

There are still four people behind, and he must at least block the positions of these four people.

So, when Zheng Minyu also wanted to catch up with speed, Lin Jiaxi didn't give him this chance.

He sped up, and Lin Jiaxi also sped up, with only one thought in his mind, to stop him behind him and not give him a chance to help.

After all, Yin Canyu is a long-distance skating skater, and his skating speed and mid-way start-up ability are worse than Gu Ran's. He and Gu Ran always keep a half-circle distance.

If he wanted to catch up, he would have to consume more physical energy.The risk of doing this is that in the last few laps, his physical strength may not be as good as Gu Ran.

So, he had no choice but to follow along first.Gu Ran can't keep up with such a fast speed all the time.When his physical energy is exhausted and his speed slows down, it won't be too late for him to catch up.

Gu Ran could still hold on for the first few laps, but after five laps, Gu Ran felt his muscles start to feel sore.This level of fatigue is nothing to him, and he can persist with gritting his teeth.

On the eighth lap, Gu Ran's body energy decreased further, his body's oxygen consumption increased, and his heart could only beat faster to pump blood to the whole body.

He couldn't hear a word from the din, the lap times and the leading runners on the radio, all he could hear was his own heavy breathing and the thunderous beating of his heart.

His legs became softer and softer, his muscles began to tremble slightly, and he needed more energy from his body to control the skates under his feet.

Behind him, Yin Canyu has already caught up.

Not only Yin Canyu, but others are also speeding up.The eighth circle, the ninth circle, the tenth circle...

The advantage established in the early stage is getting smaller and smaller, and he can clearly feel that Yin Canyu has chased him not far behind.

In the stands, Chi Lang was about to die of anxiety: "There are two and a half laps left, that Yin Canyu is getting faster and faster, and he will catch up before the next bend."

"No," said Gao Ziyi, with his hands crossed on his chin, his eyes following Gu Ran on the field, and looking behind him from time to time, "Yin Canyu's physical fitness is also declining, he is not a superman, no Possibly an endless continuation of revs."

Sure enough, just like what he said, Yin Canyu was a little bit immobile at the back.

Instead, the four behind narrowed the distance from the two in front.

Lin Jiaxi and that Zheng Minyu entangled for ten laps all the way, and the two kept exchanging positions between surpassing and counter-surpassing.

Zheng Minyu has been trying hard to get rid of Lin Jiaxi, but the latter just bites him tightly and won't let go.

Lin Jiaxi is a typical endurance player, who is good at developing strength in the back, and the closer the game is to the end, the more he can show his advantage.

The race came to the No.12 lap, and before he knew it, Lin Jiaxi had already caught up with Yin Canyu.

In the last lap and a half, Gu Ran could no longer slide. He felt that his knees would give way at any time, and he would kneel directly on the ice.The reason why he has not knelt down is that his tenacious and unyielding will does not allow this to happen.

The trembling of his legs was visible to the naked eye, the soreness of his muscles had reached a limit, his heart was beating rapidly and violently, and it might pop out of his throat in the next second.

However, when he came out of the corner, he still forced himself to take two extra steps, defying the instinct of his body to increase his speed again.

This precarious state made the audience tremble with fear, for fear of falling off the track.

Yin Canyu was also exhausted, but he knew that there was a high probability that he would lose to Gu Ran in the 1000 meters tomorrow.

At this moment, the 1500m is his only chance to win the championship. He doesn't want to lose, and he can't lose.

There was still half a lap left in the race, just as he was gritting his teeth and wanted to add another knife, a figure appeared next to him.

That is Lin Jiaxi.

At some point, Lin Jiaxi was already standing shoulder to shoulder with him.

Something called despair suddenly enveloped the famous Korean general's head.His top priority is not to surpass Gu Ran, but to prevent being surpassed by Lin Jiaxi.

In front of him, Gu Ran has successfully crossed the finish line.

At this moment, all the audience stood up, and warm applause sounded from all around the venue, which lasted for a long time.

This is not a hearty game, nor is it the kind of carefree rushing past the point.

In the morning, the young man who broke the game record in one breath and defended the 500-meter gold medal is now skating silently on the ice with his hands on his knees and bending over.

Then he came to the sidelines, put his hands on the crash pad again, lowered his head, and kept adjusting his breathing.

It is not difficult to see that he has tried his best for this gold medal.The process of the competition has gone beyond the results themselves.

Fortunately, the result was very satisfactory, and he won the championship.

The results came out much faster than everyone expected. The referees didn't watch the video playback, and the rankings were directly displayed on the big screen.

The audience yelled out the name at the same time - Gu Ran!

This is the first time that Gu Ran and Gao Ziyi did not appear in the finals together.

Before the competition, he was in a very uneasy mood, not knowing what kind of results he would be able to skate out in the end.

During the entire skating process, he became more and more determined in his belief.

It's an individual game, but it's also a team game, and even if he's alone on the field, he's not alone.

His coaches, his teammates are on the sidelines and they will always be with him.

Lin Jiaxi came, beside Gu Ran, and patted him on the back gently.

After a while, he asked softly, "Is it better?"

Gu Ran evened out her breath, and felt her heartbeat calm down a lot.Only then did he straighten his upper body, gave his teammate a hug, and whispered in his ear, "Thank you!"

"Thank you, we are teammates, this is my duty and what I should do for you."

Gu Ran turned his head to look at the results, he skipped his name and looked at No.2.

The moment Gu Ran saw Lin Jiaxi's name, an indescribable emotion welled up in Gu Ran's heart, and she almost shed tears.

That was a completely different throb from winning the medals in the morning.