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

There was no training that afternoon, and the staff took them to visit the environment of the Haigeng training base.

The athlete's apartment where they live has a meeting room, a restaurant, a physiotherapist, and a swimming pool for hydrotherapy.

There are football fields, track and field fields, swimming pools, basketball halls, gymnasiums and ice skating halls outside, involving a lot of training items, which can accommodate hundreds of athletes for training.

The skating hall is newly built with a very modern appearance. There are stands around the skating hall. In addition to training, it can also hold some medium-sized events.

When walking into the skating hall, Gu Ran saw at a glance that there was a circle of posters pasted on the surrounding walls, who were the outstanding athletes of the national team.

Gu Ran searched carefully, and it was not difficult to find Cheng Sen, Xu Qing, and even Cheng Lan.

A banner hangs in front of the stands on the lowest level. The slogan on it is the same as the slogan in front of their apartment building in Beijing—“To win glory for the motherland, for the nation, for the Olympics, for life.”

There is also a national flag directly in front of the skating hall, as well as the gym.Let the players always remember when they are training that every penny spent on them comes from the motherland and the people. As professional athletes under the national system, every drop of sweat on the training ground is for winning in the future. champion.

These elaborate arrangements are already used to Gu Ran and the veteran players who have been in the national team for several years.However, for new players like Liu Xu, it is still very shocking, and the sense of national honor emerges spontaneously, which makes them more motivated to train hard.

Before coming to Kunming, Gu Ran had already made plans to train well during the day and spare time to study at night.

The first two days were just restorative training, mainly on land, and the intensity was not great.After two days of training, Gu Ran felt pretty good, and her body was getting used to it.

However, as the training plan progressed to the loading period, and the intensity of ice training and physical training gradually increased, Gu Ran began to feel something was wrong.

The amount of training that can usually be completed in one breath is very difficult to complete now, and I am panting a lot, my heart rate has increased a lot, and my training performance has dropped instead.

It's not just him, there are several other players in this situation, but everyone's degree is different.He was the most serious one, followed by Meng Yuqiao.

Athletes like Lin Jiaxi, Gao Ziyi, and Luo Mengyao who have relatively good endurance and are good at long-distance skating are relatively less prone to this situation.

The team doctor said that this is caused by the lack of oxygen in the body due to strenuous exercise. To put it bluntly, it is altitude sickness.

The lactic acid index in Gu Ran's blood reached an unprecedented height, which shocked the team doctors.

This matter is not easy to handle. Originally, I came to Kunming for high-altitude training to improve the acid resistance of the athletes' muscles.

Cheng Sen and Xu Qing were so worried about this matter that they couldn't eat and couldn't sleep well.Gu Ran's blood lactic acid was monitored every day, and the value was still high.

Gu Ran himself was also very uncomfortable. During training, the dizziness caused by the lack of oxygen in the brain and lungs under intense exercise made him often unable to support his body and almost fell on the ice.

More than a dozen people were training on the ice rink. Everyone lined up in a single file. When skating so fast, if he fell, the people behind couldn't stop their legs and bumped into him. The skates were so sharp that they accidentally cut him. But it is dangerous.

Seeing that he was not in the right state several times, Xu Qing quickly stopped everyone, helped Gu Ran to the sidelines, and asked him to drink some water and rest for a while.

After the training, Gu Ran's feeling didn't get better, but got worse.

He felt very tired physically, he was not interested in doing anything, even eating became a coping, and he just wanted to go back to the room, cover his head with a quilt and sleep soundly.

His condition is so poor, Gao Ziyi is also very anxious, taking care of his daily life even more meticulously.

A few days later, Meng Yuqiao's condition has gradually improved, but Gu Ran has not improved.

Cheng Sen discussed with Xu Qing in private: "It's really not possible, I can only return to Beijing in advance."

Xu Qing asked: "Let him go back alone?"

Cheng Sen thought for a while: "Let's go back together."

Xu Qing smiled and shook his head: "Based on what I know about this child, he definitely disagrees."

Cheng Sen sighed: "Then what do you say?"

Xu Qing pondered for a moment: "Observe for a few more days, if it's really not good, then I'll go back with him."

Gu Ran also knew that his condition was very bad, his brain seemed to be dead, it couldn't function at all, and he couldn't think normally.

Chi Lang and the others would come to see him every day, talking non-stop.

Meng Yuqiao could best understand his feelings at this moment, and covered Chi Lang's mouth: "Be quiet and let him have a good rest."

Gu Ran was in a daze and didn't know what they were talking about.I heard Lin Jiaxi seem to mention something: "I overheard the conversation between the two guides, saying that if Xiaoran is still in this state and does not improve, he will be sent back to Beijing."

These words lingered in Gu Ran's mind all night, and when he got up the next day, he sat by the bed for a long time.

Gao Ziyi came over and asked with concern: "What's the matter? Are you uncomfortable? I'll call the team doctor."

Gu Ran grabbed his wrist: "It's okay, I just want to..."

Gao Ziyi asked: "What do you want?"

Gu Ran said: "I just want to train well, I don't want to be separated from you, and I don't want to go back to Beijing."

"..."

In this way, Gu Ran persisted for another two days, keeping the same schedule and training plan as his teammates.The team doctor helps him with physical therapy every day and helps him adjust his physical condition.The lactic acid index in the blood was maintained at a constant state, although it did not decrease, it did not increase either.

After another three days, Gu Ran's state finally gradually improved, the lactic acid value was dropping, and the mental state of the whole person was much better.

Only then did Cheng Sen and Xu Qing breathe a sigh of relief, but they were not completely relieved.The team doctor said that Gu Ran should be given a detailed examination, including a series of biochemical indicators.

Soon, the results came out, everything was normal, and the situation was slowly improving.

Cheng Sen and Xu Qingxuan's heart can be regarded as down, but they still told the coaching staff that the nutritionist should specially prepare three meals a day for him, and the physical coach should also adjust his training plan. Special attention should be paid to ice training, and you must not get injured.

Yu Jie made a joke: "This is just like a giant panda, the key protection object."

The fitness coach smiled and said, "It's more precious than giant pandas."

On this day, after training in the morning, Gu Ran and his teammates went to the restaurant for dinner.

Fang Xiaoqi put the plate in front of him, Gu Ran was stunned for a few seconds without moving her chopsticks.

Gao Ziyi asked him, "Are you uncomfortable?"

Gu Ran shook her head: "No."

Fang Xiaoqi frowned: "Not to your liking?"

"No."

"Then what happened to you?"

Gu Ran said: "I remembered, it's time to check the grades today."

At noon, Xu Mei also called him specifically to remind him of this matter: "I specially called you after your training is over."

When other people's children checked their grades, their parents stood by nervously.

Their family is fine, and they have to make a special call to remind their son—your college entrance examination results are out.

So, the whole team knew that Gu Ran was going to check his grades. This was a new thing, and the teammates who usually had a good relationship crowded into their room.

Chi Lang rubbed his hands: "Hurry up, I can't wait."

Gu Ranbai glanced at him: "I'll check my grades, what can you wait for?"

Chi Lang said: "In case you fail the exam, I will comfort you as soon as possible."

Gu Ran sneered: "That may disappoint you."

Meng Yuqiao frowned suddenly: "Even if he failed the exam, he still scored above 700."

Gu Ran turned around and looked around. It seemed that his teammates were all nervous, but he was the only one who was calm.

At this time, Cheng Sen and Xu Qing walked by the door and saw so many people coming in to join in the fun: "If you don't go back to sleep, what are you doing here?"

Lin Jiaxi said: "Xiaoran wants to check the results of the college entrance examination, everyone is very nervous."

When Xu Qing heard that Gu Ran was checking the college entrance examination results, he also became interested, and sat down beside him: "I also want to witness the high school entrance examination scores of Xueba."

Cheng Sen leaned against the wall: "Then I'll take a look too."

Gu Ran: "..."

He was obviously not nervous at all, but the group of people behind him stared at him, but he was a little uncomfortable.

He clicked on the query page, entered his ID number and verification code, and then pressed the query button.

Several heads came over from behind, staring intently at the loading page, and they filled the tense atmosphere.

I don't know if the network is too slow or there are too many people inquiring. I have been stuck on the loading interface for a long time without jumping.

Chi Lang said: "My palms are sweating."

Gu Ran calmly picked up the water glass on the side and took a sip of water.

The moment he raised his head to drink water, the result came out.

Chi Lang reacted faster than him, staring at the screen of the notebook, ignoring the scores of individual subjects, and looking directly at the column of total scores below: "712."

"Wow!!!" Hearing this result, the whole room cheered, everyone was happy for Gu Ran.

Even Cheng Sen stretched out his hand to Xu Qing, and said with a smile, "Look, our child is not only the world champion, but also the number one in the college entrance examination."

Gu Ran corrected him: "Not the champion."

Cheng Sen said: "In my heart it is!"

Among them, apart from Gu Ran, the only one who had taken the college entrance examination seriously was Meng Yuqiao.

Meng Yuqiao studied liberal arts, and her grades were not bad, she just passed the first line.

However, even so, his grades were far behind Gu Ran's.

Even if other people have not taken the college entrance examination, they have read a lot of news related to the college entrance examination at this time of year.

In a certain province, the score of the top scorer in the college entrance examination is generally somewhat impressive.

Only Lin Jiaxi, who came back from abroad, knew nothing about China's college entrance examination and college entrance examination scores: "Xiaoran, can you get into your ideal university with this score?"

Cheng Sen snorted: "As long as he wants, he can go to any university."

Gu Ran was still very calm, picked up the phone and took a picture of the computer screen, and sent it to his parents at the same time.

Xu Mei immediately peeled off the phone, her voice was trembling with excitement on the other end of the phone, her speech was a little incoherent, and she kept repeating a sentence: "Baby, you are amazing, mom is proud of you."

Gu Ran had a casual chat with his mother, then hung up the phone. His father had already sent him more than twenty WeChat messages.He said roughly the same thing as his mother, and sent him several red envelopes in one breath.

After a while, Gu Ran saw a post from his father's female secretary in Moments.The general meaning is that the boss's son has a score in the college entrance examination and gives red envelopes to the employees.

Everyone congratulated Gu Ran one after another, and the latter thanked Yiyi.Cheng Sen called everyone to go back and rest for a while, there was training in the afternoon.

After everyone left, Gu Ran thought about it, and then sent Wei Yuening a message: "The results are out, have you checked?"

Wei Yuening replied in seconds. "It's been checked a long time ago."

Gu Ran said: "I just remembered this when I came back from training."

"Send the report card."

So the two exchanged screenshots of their scores.

Gu Ran clicked his tongue twice: "This is the provincial champion of science."

Wei Yuening said, "You're not bad either, you're only 10 points lower than the No. [-] scholar in science."