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

Everyone was still immersed in the sadness of the captain's retirement for a second, thinking about whether to find a KTV on the weekend to get together again, and the next second when they heard about the selection of a new captain, they lifted their spirits again.

Chi Lang immediately raised his hand: "I recommend Gu Xiaoran, just kidding, five gold medals in the Olympic Games, he can't be the captain, who else can be?"

Cheng Sen smiled meaningfully: "Director Song also means the same."

Gu Ran is now the short track speed skating team, and even a banner of the entire Winter Olympics. She has strength, attention, and a good public image. She is excellent in all aspects.The child is smart and likable, no matter what happens or what activity, the leader must be the first thing that comes to mind.

The old captain retired, and now the team is going to elect a new captain. Although he is the youngest, he is the first person that the leader thinks of.

Liang Kexin said from the side: "Then we will choose the younger brother, and I agree with both hands."

Yang Shanshan also echoed, "I'll also choose the Junior Junior Brother. The Junior Junior Brother has good grades and is handsome. He will be the mascot of our team from now on."

In the eyes of the senior sisters, Gu Ran's role as the captain is to have an extra mascot.

Gu Ran hurriedly hugged Lin Jiaxi who was sitting beside him: "Look, big eyes, round face, our Jiaxi is the mascot."

Liang Kexin said: "You two are a pair of mascots."

At this time, Xu Qing, who was sitting alone on the far side, asked, "What do the others think?" He turned his head to look at Gao Ziyi and Meng Yuqiao who were closest to him, "Talk about it, you two."

Meng Yuqiao pointed to Gao Ziyi beside him: "I choose him."

Sitting behind the two of them, Gu Ran also poked Gao Ziyi with a pen: "I also choose Senior Brother Xiao Gao."

Chi Lang booed from the side: "Xiao Gao is also good."

Cheng Sen asked Gu Ran: "Why don't you want to be the captain?"

Gu Ran said: "I think, I am very willing to serve you." At this point, he smiled again, "But I have to train and attend classes, and my time is limited, so it's not good if I can't finish what the leader ordered. "

Cheng Sen looked at Gao Ziyi again: "What do you think?"

Gao Ziyi turned around and snatched the pen from Gu Ran's hand that kept poking at him: "Xiao Ran usually works too hard, I can do the things in the team."

Cheng Sen nodded: "That's the decision, Xiao Gao is now the new captain of our short track speed skating team."

Liang Kexin smiled and said, "We still need to go through a process, vote or something?"

Cheng Sen snorted, "I didn't say I wanted to vote."

The pen was taken away, so Gu Ran could only poke Gao Ziyi with her finger: "Little Captain Gao, I will rely on you to protect my junior brother from now on."

Gao Ziyi put the pen on his desk, and smiled softly: "Captain, you do it, and I will work for you."

Gu Ran quickly waved her hand: "That's not necessary."

Xu Qing had a sudden idea: "I think you can take turns to be captains in the future, each for a month."

Gu Ran said: "Yes, you can also take turns being the head coach, each for a month."

Chi Lang winked at him: "It's not necessary, is there any difference between them as the head coach?"

"Ah, no!"

Cheng Sen knocked on the table: "If you have nothing to do, go to the gym to practice?"

Everyone shut up, quickly packed their things and prepared to leave the conference room.

Gu Ran was still sitting there, turning the pen back and forth on her fingertips.

Xu Qing asked him: "Are you still leaving?"

Gu Ran smiled and said, "Don't you want to go to the gym to practice?"

"..."

Cheng Sen, who had already reached the door, turned his head and glared at him: "Get out!"

Not long after, Gu Ran received a courier from the United States. When he opened it, it was the golden skates that Mr. Michelle had customized for him.According to his request, the color style is very low-key, the most simple white, dotted with two golden belts, which is very in line with Gu Ran's aesthetics.

In addition to this pair of skates, there is also a pair of skates in the box, which are also white and dotted with light blue, which looks very refreshing and beautiful.

In the accompanying card, Mr. Michel said that his low-key personality probably wouldn't wear gold skates in the game, so another pair was made for him.

Gu Ran quickly sent an email to Mr. Michelle, hoping to pay him the cost of another pair of skates, but Michelle said that it was a gift for him, and hoped that he could wear the skates he made himself in the future and create Greater miracles.

This material, this workmanship, other athletes need to order half a year in advance, and comeback can only be obtained at a high cost.

When I arrived at Gu Ran's place, I even took a green channel, buy one get one free, and received the skates in more than two months.

Moving back to the previous training base, Gu Ranli has also entered a lot of schools. You don't need to use the subway, you can just scan a shared bicycle to get there. You can take care of both training and learning, and you can save a lot of time.

The new season will not start until October in the second half of the year. Gu Ran has enough time to attend classes, review, and prepare for exams at school, and the final exam results are also very satisfactory.

Wei Yuening looked at his report card and said with a smile: "If I post this on the Internet, you will be on the hot search again."

Gu Ran said casually: "Then you post it."

Wei Yuening raised his eyebrows: "Really?"

Gu Ran sneered: "After posting, our friendship is over."

Everyone around her knows that Gu Ran is a very low-key person who never shares her life online, not even her training.That is, during the Winter Olympics, I was stimulated by the athletes of the Korean team and shared the food at the restaurant in the Winter Olympics Village for half a month.

He doesn't like being spied on by others, and he doesn't have a strong desire to share. He is a standard science student who likes to live a step-by-step life every day. He believes that as long as he works hard, he will surely achieve his goals.

The life of balancing the two is actually very hard. While going to school and training, you need to get up early and stay late, and you have to find time to make up for the missed homework when classes are suspended for training camps and competitions.

But Gu Ran didn't find it hard, but enjoyed it.

In the past few years of competition, although he has not been smooth sailing, and occasionally suffered a little injury, there were some accidents in the competition, and he lost one or two gold medals, but overall it did not have much impact.

He is still the king of short track speed skating who has a unique dominance in the eyes of the world's ice fans.

在顾染20岁这一年的世界杯盐湖城站，他又打破了男子1500米世界纪录，成绩是2分07秒863。

So far, the men's three world records in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m events have all been held by him alone.

In the year Gu Ran graduated from university, half of the students in their class decided to go abroad for further study, and they all chose the United States without exception.

Of the four people in their dormitory, only Wang Bowen chose to go abroad. Gu Ran, Wei Yuening, and Yan An all chose to apply for the postgraduate entrance examination of the school.

Gu Ran feels that he has accomplished a major event in his life, and in the next few years, he will continue to travel back and forth between the training base and the school.Learning and training are things he is used to and enjoys, and this kind of life makes him very satisfied.

There is not much difference between the days of postgraduate study and the undergraduate course except for the courses, and even the dormitory is shared with the classmates from the undergraduate period.

The first time Gu Ran participated in the Winter Olympics was when she was an undergraduate, and the second time was when she was a graduate student.

This year, he was still under 23 years old, and he was still the holder of three personal records.At the Milan Winter Olympics, he still didn't give others any chance, won five gold medals again, and set a new world record in the 2000-meter mixed relay with his teammates.

The third time to participate in the Winter Olympics was when Gu Ran was 27 years old.

This year, Gu Ran has already received a Ph.D. because of short-sightedness, she has lost her eyes.

Over the years, international short track speed skating has undergone earth-shaking changes.There are very few of Gu Ran's former opponents who are still on the field.

Fortunately, Gao Ziyi, Meng Yuqiao, Lin Jiaxi and Chi Lang were still by his side along the way.

Although many excellent short track speed skaters have emerged in various countries over the years, they have challenged Gu Ran's dominance in a certain period and in a certain event.

But these talents are either short-lived or can only be ranked second. No one has really shaken his No.1 position in the history of men's short track speed skating.

It has been 14 years since he started his career at the age of 13, and he has gone smoothly without any setbacks.Although his appearance has changed somewhat with age.But the temperament of the whole person is not much different from when he was a teenager.

When he stepped onto the ice rink, he was still a super idol loved by hundreds of millions of ice fans all over the world.The athletes who competed with him were not much younger than him, but when they saw him, they shouted "Idol" excitedly.

For them, it is a great honor to be able to compete with their idols, defeating him to win the championship?It may be possible in the World Cup, but in the Winter Olympics, they dare not even think about it.

Gu Ran, who is under 27 years old, still maintains the peak state of technology and physical fitness. In individual events, his opponents can't even pose any real threat to him. The gold medal seems to have engraved his name, and the goal of others is just Just get on the podium.

Not only individual events, but in the relay event, Chi Lang and his teammates have been partners for more than ten years, and the level of tacit understanding is beyond the reach of other teams.

For other teams, the relay race candidates have to be replaced several times in one Olympic cycle.In the two events of the 2000-meter mixed and men's 5000-meter relay, the Chinese team miraculously did not change a main player for 12 years.

This group of Chinese team members represented by Gu Ran has won three Winter Olympics and two gold medals in relay events.

So much so that some national teams have even given up on men's events and turned to training female players wholeheartedly.

This includes the South Korean team, whose women's team is unimaginably fierce.Cui Zhien, who is the same age as Gu Ran and has won the 500-meter champion twice in the Winter Olympics, did not even enter the Korean team's entry list for the Winter Olympics this time.

Although Gu Ran has been able to remain unmoved by Ms. Cui's various overtures for so many years, after all, they have known each other for more than ten years since the first match in the World Youth Championship, and Gu Ran still has feelings for Cui Zhien. I must understand.

At least judging from the World Cup two months ago, she was in very good condition, and it was impossible for her team to not even qualify for the Olympics.

Gu Ran guessed that there might be some unknown black-box operation inside the South Korean team, but this has nothing to do with him, he is just a reasonable guess.

After the Winter Olympics, the South Korean media broke the shocking scandal of their national short track speed skating team. Under the instruction of the coach, the women's team members competed maliciously and scratched their teammates' faces with ice skates during the competition.

This teammate is Cui Zhien.

According to the pictures exposed by this media, it can be seen that there is a shocking scar on Cui Zhien's face, from the corner of the left eye to the right chin. If the ice skate cuts a little higher, it is likely to scratch her eyes.

Gu Ran and the others were very shocked when they saw this news. Cui Zhien is also an old member of the Korean team. When the men's team was suppressed by the Chinese team, it was this girl Cui who saved the Korean short track by herself. Speed ​​skating a touch of face.

They were able to do such a thing to heroes.

The head coach of the South Korean team is no longer the mustache coach of the past, and has changed several rounds during the period.It's not difficult for Gu Ran to understand after thinking about it for a while. Once the emperor and courtiers, the new coach also has his own cronies.Cui Zhien has a stubborn personality. Wouldn't it be better to kill her and put a more obedient team member in charge.

Of course, this is all after the Winter Olympics.

Gu Ran still played steadily in this Winter Olympics, once again made history, won all the championships in all competitions, and won five gold medals in three consecutive Winter Olympics.

Three Winter Olympics, a total of fifteen gold medals, making him the first in the history of the Winter Olympics.The No.2 gold medalist in Olympic history is a Norwegian female alpine skier with eight gold medals, only half of his.

He not only won the gold medal himself, he also won the championship with his teammates.Although others have not won a gold medal in an individual event, they have won at least three gold medals in relay events in the past three years.

The current Gu Ran is no longer No.1 in short track speed skating, but a veritable No.1 in Winter Olympics.

Therefore, Gu Ran has been thinking about a problem - he has already won all the championships and honors he should have won, and in the future, there will be no challenges for him.

After getting a Ph.D., compared with the undergraduate and master’s stages, the pressure of scientific research is very high. In fact, he has no way to take care of both. If he insists on participating in the next Winter Olympics for another four years, there is a high probability that he will not be able to graduate with a Ph.D. and will have to wait until he retires. Then go to school wholeheartedly.

But he is only 26 years old, which can be considered the golden stage of an athlete.With his current physical and competitive state, it is not impossible for him to practice for another four years.

Other athletes retire because of injuries or age, but it is good for him. He has no challenge, so he has the idea of ​​retiring.

Before Gu Ran raised this question with Chen Sen and Xu Qing, someone else raised it first.This person is Meng Yuqiao.

Meng Yuqiao is 30 years old this year. Being able to stand out among a group of young players means that after their group of athletes, there has never been a particularly outstanding male player, and they have to rely on their group of veterans for support.

However, he has reached this age, and he will definitely not be able to persist in the next Winter Olympics. All he can do in the team is to lead a group of young players.

But there is Gu Ran in the team, no matter in terms of strength, age or qualifications, he is the one who is most qualified to lead young players.

Meng Yuqiao didn't have so many worries, and proposed the idea of ​​retiring.

After all, we have been in the same boat together for so many years, and it was a little hard for others to accept that he was going to retire suddenly.

When Gu Ran came up with the idea of ​​retiring, he didn't feel any melancholy in his heart, but when he heard that Meng Yuqiao was going to retire, he understood it intellectually, but found it difficult to accept it emotionally.

"Sister Qiao is in her prime, why is she about to retire?"

Over the years, Meng Yuqiao couldn't change the habit of scratching his chin: "I'm going to be 31 soon, and I'm still in my prime."

Chi Lang said, "That's called an old lady."

Successfully provoked a severe beating from Da Qiao.

Cheng Sen sighed: "There is no banquet in the world that lasts forever." He looked at Xu Qing on the other side, "I'm afraid we two old guys will be left in the end."

Xu Qing nodded: "You are old enough, you should retire after a few more years."

Cheng Sen calculated, "I'm only 41, and I'm still 20 years away from retirement."

"Are you really going to work until retirement?"

"if not?"

"..."

Cheng Sen didn't bother to quarrel with him, and turned around to get down to business: "Next month is the World Championships, let's finish this season before we retire."

Meng Yuqiao nodded without thinking, "Okay."

Gu Ran adjusted her glasses: "Actually, I also..."

He was originally the one with delicate facial features, fair skin, and wearing glasses that looked bookish.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone on the street knew him now, how could he be thought of as an all-powerful athlete on the ice rink just by looking at his appearance.

Cheng Sen slapped him on the top of the head, and rubbed it twice in a rude manner: "Think again."

Gu Ran knew that he was the pinnacle of the short track speed skating team, and the two coaches needed him to stay, at least to be able to bring a group of young players and let them go out to compete with him, so they felt more confident.

Gu Ran temporarily dismissed the idea of ​​retiring.

However, the plan did not change quickly, a sudden change disrupted everyone's plans, including Gu Ran.