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

The alumni, staff and researchers of Stanford University are the most efficient in the world who have won the Turing Award. Every year, there are many cooperations between their school and Stanford University.

Although Xu Qing asked Gu Ran which school was better, Stanford or their school, Gu Ran proudly said that their class was number one in the world, but he had to admit that Stanford University's position in the field of computer science was still unshakable.

Many of their seniors and sisters are studying for master's and doctoral degrees here, and they have also achieved some results in scientific research.

When chatting, the seniors and sisters would tell them how strong the academic atmosphere is here, how good the laboratories are here, how much Stanford, Prenston, and MIT like their graduates, and want to come to Continue to study here, and now you can start preparing.

These words made the younger students very excited. When they returned to the hotel, Gu Ran even heard two classmates discussing. One said that his dream since childhood was to do theoretical computer research at Stanford, and the other said that he wanted to go to California. Check out UC Berkeley.

Gu Ran and Wei Yuening looked at each other, but didn't speak to each other.

On the last day they left the United States, a well-known scholar in the field of theoretical computing approached Gu Ran, hoping to have a private chat with him.

The other party said straight to the point: "I know that you are not only an excellent computer major student, but also a top short track speed skater."

Gu Ran nodded slightly: "Thank you."

"What do you think of our school?"

Gu Ran gave an affirmative answer: "It is a university with an innovative spirit, and has made extraordinary achievements in the field of computer science. It is a holy place for countless young people to study."

The man asked again: "So do you want to come here to study? Become my student and explore the mysteries of computer science with me in my laboratory."

Gu Ran didn't agree or refuse, but instead asked, "Why me?"

"Why can't it be you?"

Gu Ran said: "Many of my classmates are better than me, and their research in the computer field is more in-depth than mine."

The professor shook his head: "No, you are different from them."

"So, you came to see me today because someone entrusted you."

The professor smiled knowingly: "You are very smart."

"Thank you!" Gu Ran stood up, bowed to the professor, and said very sincerely, "I have already understood your conditions, but I cannot agree, sorry."

The professor said: "Every year in China, tens of thousands of young people like you apply to American universities. They are eager to come here because they have the best education in the world. You have unparalleled talents. As long as you want, you can stay here , live and learn."

"The premise is that I want to become an American citizen and play for the American short track speed skating team." Gu Ran said the last five words loudly, "but I don't want to."

His attitude was very firm, and there was no room for negotiation at all.The professor didn't force it, he just said something that he hoped he would consider it carefully, and then he left.

Gu Ran has nothing to consider. Being naturalized by the US team, even if he is asked to study at Stanford with a master's degree and stay at the school to teach after graduation, he will not agree.

At this time, Wei Yuening walked in from the door.Gu Ran asked him: "Have you ever thought about coming to the United States to continue studying for a master's degree after graduation?"

Wei Yuening sat on the bed, leaned back, and put his hands behind his back: "I thought about it before, but now..."

Gu Ran asked: "What now?"

"Now I've changed my mind."

"why?"

Wei Yuening took out his phone and searched for a video for Gu Ran to watch.The main reason is that the marketing trumpets how awesome their class is, the top students in the class, and all the high-quality resources of the school.What is the rate of graduates going abroad, and how high is the proportion of immigrants sent by major Internet companies...

Wei Yuening said, "Look at the comments."

Gu Ran clicked on the comment section, and the two comments with the most likes were: "Cultivate talents for the United States." "Cultivate opponents for our country."

Gu Ran handed him the phone: "Everyone has his own aspirations, and everyone wants to have a good future. There is nothing wrong with that."

Wei Yuening asked him, "Then why didn't you agree to their conditions?"

Gu Ran smiled and said, "I told you, everyone has his own ambition."

Back in China, the first thing Gu Ran did was to call Xu Qing: "I only know now why you suddenly asked me about the school the night before you left."

Xu Qing was not surprised: "I really came to see you?"

"Ah."

Xu Qing asked casually: "Then how did you reply to him?"

Gu Ran said: "Of course I agreed, do you need to think about it?"

"Oh," Xu Qing said casually, "then we will hold a farewell party for you."

Gu Ran felt very boring, he couldn't lie to Xu Qing at all: "Why don't you believe it?"

Xu Qing snorted and laughed: "You can be regarded as my raised child, I still don't know what's going on in your mind?"

After counting, this is already the fifth year that Gu Ran has been training with Xu Qing.When encountering such a thing, Xu Qing knew exactly what he thought and what he would do.

Xu Qing asked him: "If you put aside these conditions, do you want to study there?"

Gu Ran replied honestly: "Thought about it."

"still coming back?"

Gu Ran said affirmatively, "Of course I'll be back."

Xu Qing said with a smile: "People say that science and sports have no borders."

"I don't think so." Gu Ran said seriously, "I think on the contrary, science and sports have a very deep national imprint."

"If sports has no borders, what is the gold medal table for? If sports has no borders, why do so many athletes in the United States suffer from asthma and get exemption from doping? If sports has no borders, why does the US team want me to join them?"

"I don't care what other people are standing on the Olympic Games for, but there is one sentence that I always keep in mind, and I am willing to give everything for it-to win glory for the motherland and the nation."

"Science is meant to serve the country. It is ironic to claim that 'science has no borders' while becoming an American citizen and contributing to the development of science and technology in the United States, isn't it?"

Xu Qing was very satisfied with this answer: "Your thoughts and attitude make me more proud than gold medals."

He said this out of the blue, which made Gu Ran feel embarrassed: "Thank you!"

Xu Qing snorted and laughed: "Little brat, be polite with me."

Gu Ran said, "If you're okay, I'll hang up."

"It's really something." Xu Qing stopped him, "During the May Day holiday, there is a program to be recorded, and Director Cheng told you and Chi Lang to participate."

Gu Ran frowned: "What program?"

"A variety show related to ice sports, to promote figure skating, it's in our skating hall."

Gu Ran was puzzled: "Why did Chi Lang and I participate?"

Xu Qing thought for a while and said, "Director Cheng said that you two have a sense of variety."

"!!!"

This variety show is actually very simple. Not only Gu Ran and Chi Lang, but also athletes who won gold medals in speed skating and skill skiing, let them learn figure skating together.For the effect of the program, the program group also arranged several stars to study with them.

The program was recorded in the skating hall where they usually train. It was recorded for three days. On the last day, they showed their learning results, and several coaches on the figure skating side scored.

At the beginning, there was a voting session, allowing the stars to choose their most promising athletes.

Compared with Gu Ran and the other racing athletes, the star is more optimistic about the other skill skiers. It seems that their spin jumps seem to have more in common.

The speed skating buddy is called Qin Feng, and he joked with Gu Ran when he started recording the program: "It seems that only if you two perform a pair skating, can we turn defeat into victory."

Chi Lang became interested: "Pair skating, I can do it."

Gu Ran gave him a particularly disgusted look: "Then do we have to do a lift?"

Chi Lang said, "It's not impossible."

Gu Ran looked him up and down: "Did you lift me up, or did I lift you up?"

Chi Lang immediately squatted down and patted his thigh: "Go!"

Gu Ran was not polite to him, she supported his shoulder with one hand, raised her foot and stepped on it.

Chi Lang looked at the skates under his feet, and immediately retreated: "Why don't you just forget about it, the anti-cut competition suit can't stand you stepping on it."

Gu Ran is now 183 centimeters tall, actually taller than Chi Lang.It's just that Chi Lang is stronger. If the two of them don't stand together, the visual effect of Chi Lang is taller.

They have separate lessons, with the skiers on one rink and the skaters on another.

It happened to be Shen Jia who taught Gu Ran and the others.As soon as the two met, Shen Jia put his chin on Gu Ran's shoulder and said with a smile: "Do you still need to practice? Go directly to the stage and scare them to death."

Gu Ran said: "Ask everyone to make up a short program?"

Shen Jia patted his chest: "Wrap it on me."

Gu Ran: "..."

The show was recorded for a total of three days, but the editing was actually only a few hours, including their final presentation.

There is a female celebrity in their group, who always likes to practice with Gu Ran at first.Gu Ran didn't think too much about it, so if you want to practice, just practice together.

As a result, within half an hour of practicing, the pretty girl's knees and elbows were all bruised.The girl pulled him: "How about... let's rest for a while."

Gu Ran glanced at the wall clock on the wall: "OK, take a 10-minute break, and the training time will be postponed by 10 minutes."

The girl looked at him in surprise: "This is just a variety show, don't take it so seriously."

Gu Ran is right after thinking about it: "Then you rest, I will continue to practice."

"..."

During training, Gu Ran barely spoke, just practiced one movement over and over again, it was very boring, the photographers were not willing to shoot him, and the post-editing only gave him a few shots.

On the contrary, Chi Lang, who changed his pair of skates, would no longer be able to skate. The most basic Yan-style balance can fall into different postures, and the variety show effect is full.

Later, that girl went to practice with Chi Lang, and there was always laughter and laughter from the other side of the ice rink, and the situation continued.

The show was not aired more than a month later, and some viewers were very dissatisfied with the four-hour training clip, and frantically swiped the screen in the barrage: "Why are there so few scenes of Xiaoran?"

"Bad review, I only watch this variety show to watch Xiaoran."

"There are few scenes, which means you didn't watch it. This is a variety show. Why don't you just watch it for fun? Who wants to watch those boring training clips."

"Whoever said that there are few scenes doesn't watch too much, I think Gu Ran's clips are the best."

"This was originally a program to promote figure skating. Only when Gu Ran was training, he would seriously discuss every movement, popular science terminology, skills and difficulty with Shen Jia. The other guests had to struggle for a long time before they stood up. , but also forcibly brag about how difficult and strong they are."

"I think the training of those skiers is also very interesting. I even saw some people practicing some difficult rotations. I am looking forward to their final performance."

This variety show is divided into three episodes, and all the performances are in the last episode.The show is very formal, from music to Costen to makeup, all are in place.

Athletes of technical skiing do have an advantage. They can practice a seemingly difficult spin or jump in a short period of time. Interspersed in short dance-based programs, it seems to make the audience shine. Feel.

Although Chi Lang and another speed skater can't spin and jump, they can complete some basic movements. The key is that they have no dance foundation. The scene is all in hahahahahahahahaha, the effect of the program is very good.

Several other celebrity guests came here simply for soy sauce. It would be good for several of them to learn how to skate in three days, let alone complete the movements.

The last one to play was Gu Ran, who was wearing the simplest and most classic white top and black pants.He was already tall, but after wearing it like this, he looked even more slender, long-legged and upturned, with exquisite facial features and fair skin. When the lights on the ice rink were turned on, just one opening move was amazing enough.

He is the only one who has completed the two-and-a-half-minute short program as required from beginning to end, including steps, rotations, jumps, and even joint jumps... Although all the movements are the most basic and simple, his completion very high.

Smooth gliding, clean blade, both speed and strength, good movement connection, and utilization of ice space.The most valuable thing is that during the whole performance, his body movements are very graceful, which can perfectly integrate with the artistic conception of the music, and he can even intuitively express the emotions contained in the music through choreography.

Several coaches of the figure skating team are very familiar with him, and it is not surprising to see that he can retreat to a short program of this quality.

The audience was shocked: "This... is he really not from the figure skating team?"

"There is no basis for a few years, can it slip out of this level?"

"In fact, the level is not high. They are all very basic things. Just a few jumps are a little difficult. The key is the innate artistic expression. It's a pity that he doesn't practice figure skating."

"I don't think it's a pity. Can figure skating allow him to win five gold medals in a single Winter Olympics?"

"..."

The host asked the audience a question they were most concerned about: "Is this really something that can be practiced in three days?"

"Of course..." Gu Ran paused for a moment, "Of course it's impossible."

The host then asked: "How long have you practiced?"

Gu Ran counted: "About four years."

The host looked disbelieving: "Four years?"

Gu Ran smiled and said: "When I first joined the national team, I was too young. The whole team didn't take me out to compete. The brothers and sisters in figure skating took me to play together. These are what they taught me over the past few years. The one just now I have practiced for a long time for the two-week jump."

In the commentary, Director Zhang joked: "Four years ago, when I first met him, I told him to transfer to our team. Maybe we can compete for a good place in this year's Winter Olympics. , It's a pity that Director Cheng refuses to let him go."

In the end, Gu Ran took No.1 as no surprise, but it didn’t make any sense at all. He just joined with other athletes to appeal to the audience in front of the TV to pay more attention to ice and snow sports, whether it’s speed skating, figure skating, or other ice sports. , Snow projects, you can participate in it and feel the fun brought by ice and snow projects.

The program group also revealed that there will be a second season of this variety show, which will be about short track speed skating.They will also invite some athletes and stars from other sports to conduct a three-day short-track speed skating training. At that time, Gu Ran will be the coach to train everyone in speed skating.

This program once again made Gu Ran a hot search. The number of views of his short program on various video platforms exceeded [-] million in just a few days. Ice fans watched it repeatedly. I hope he can record more figure skating variety shows. , is really beautiful.

I have seen crossovers, but I have never seen such a professional crossover.Otherwise, he was a short-track speed skater, and he would have thought he was practicing figure skating.

"Don't limit yourself to the short program, practice the free skating too!"

"I just want to ask, what surprises does Xiaoran have that we don't know about."

"Is there a possibility that Xiaoran participates in other variety shows and can also show the Summer Olympic Games?"

"However, I want to see him participate in "The Most Powerful Brain". Xiaoran must be very good at doing the questions."

"Let other players experience the feeling of being crushed by the IQ of sports students."

"..."

After Gu Ran participated in this variety show, the short track speed skating team ended their vacation and resumed training.Since then, he has not appeared in any interviews or variety shows.

On the first day of resuming training, Cheng Sen announced to everyone that their captain, Luo Mengyao, had decided to officially retire.

In fact, when the Winter Olympics ended, Gu Ran had a faint feeling.Luo Mengyao participated in three Winter Olympics and finally realized her dream of gold medal.

With her current age and competitive state, he might not choose to persist for another four years to participate in the next Winter Olympics.

At this time, rapid retreat is the most correct choice.

The captain has retired, so a new problem arises, and now a new captain has to be elected.