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

After two years, Gu Ran returned to the athlete's apartment again.He has lived here for more than ten years, and when he comes back from the training base every day, the first thing he sees is the banner hanging above the gate—to win glory for the motherland, for the nation, for the Olympics, and for life.

At this moment, standing here again, he realized that these four sentences had already been deeply engraved into his bones, especially the first two sentences.

During lunch, Gu Ran just found a table to sit down, and all the team members gathered around, and a generous girl asked him if he could sit at the same table with him.

Gu Ran nodded: "Sit casually."

Meng Yuqiao silently appeared behind the crowd. Everyone felt the low pressure, and when they turned their heads, they saw his iceberg-like expression, and he walked to the next table with a plate in his hand.

Seeing the children's fear of Meng Yuqiao, Gu Ran remained calm on the surface, and almost died laughing in his heart.He patted his side and said suddenly, "Sister Qiao, sit here."

"???"

The team members often heard Cheng Sen and the others call Meng Yuqiao Da Qiao. Although they were a little surprised when they heard it for the first time, Director Meng is indeed a beauty, so it's nothing to get used to.

Why did he come to Gu Ran's place, Da Qiao directly became sister Qiao.The beauty of the iceberg instantly had the tone of a little wife.

Meng Yuqiao didn't have any objection to this title, and sat down with the plate in hand.

Gu Ran glanced to the side inadvertently, and met the eyes of the person holding the dinner plate not far away, it was that Chen Yuze again.

Gu Ran smiled at him, and the other party opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but before he could speak, he was pulled by his companion again: "Sit down, why are you in a daze?"

"Eat more, and there will be physical training in the afternoon."

Gao Ziyi, Lin Jiaxi, Cheng Sen and Xu Qing also sat down one after another.

Gu Ran stared at Chen Yuze's back: "This kid is quite interesting."

Gao Ziyi nodded: "It's very interesting. I'm usually very active as a child, but today is a bit abnormal."

Xu Qing said with a smile: "This is seeing an idol, I'm a little embarrassed."

Lin Jiaxi said: "Nowadays, children practicing short track all have a common idol, which is Xiaoran. Not only domestically, but also abroad."

At the dinner table, everyone just chatted a few words.Cheng Sen was buried in his meal from the beginning to the end, and hardly spoke much.

After lunch, the team members went back to their rooms to rest.Standing in the corridor, Gu Ran saw the room he used to live in, with Chen Yuze written on the nameplate next to it.

Gao Ziyi pulled him into his room: "Do you want to rest for a while?"

Gu Ran was not polite to his senior brother at all, put down his backpack, took off his down jacket and lay down.

Gao Ziyi pulled the quilt to cover him, Gu Ran patted the empty space beside him: "You also sleep for a while."

After speaking, he turned over and fell asleep.

No matter how long they were apart, in front of Senior Brother Xiao Gao, he would be neither restrained nor embarrassed, nor would he be wary at all.

The two squeezed into one bed and took a nap.Before training started in the afternoon, Cheng Sen came over and called Gu Ran away.

Gu Ran rubbed her hands on her face, put on her glasses, and followed him downstairs.

In this winter, Beijing has just had a snowfall, and there is still snow hanging on the branches.When the cold wind blew, Gu Ran wrapped her down jacket: "Guide Cheng, can't we find a warmer place?"

Cheng Sen turned around and looked at him: "I just want you to wake up."

"..."

Gu Ran stretched out her hand and hugged his shoulder from behind: "Director Cheng, you said that you were a straightforward person when you were young, but why are you so tired when you get older?"

He was wearing a thin T-shirt inside, and a down jacket outside, and the zipper hadn't been closed yet, so it was left open.

Cheng Sen casually helped him gather his collar: "You think you are an omnipotent hero."

"I know I'm not." Gu Ran still put his arms around his shoulders, "I don't want to be a hero either."

Cheng Sen said, "Then why are you coming back?"

"I just do what I have to do, what I want to do."

Cheng Sen took a deep breath, sucked in a stomach full of cold air, and let it out slowly: "Our relationship, you are just like my son. I don't need to beat around the bush."

Gu Ran smiled wryly: "Brother, don't take advantage of this advantage."

Cheng Sen didn't bother him about this issue, and said directly: "You haven't trained for more than two years. For athletes, you are too old and have a high risk of injury. The most important thing is that it is difficult to continue the previous training. brilliant."

"Once the grades are not as good as before, someone will stand up and criticize them. You know better than me how ugly these people can say."

Gu Ran shrugged indifferently: "I know that this time I will face thorns instead of a smooth road. But since I have made a decision, I must have considered it carefully and will not change my mind easily."

Cheng Sen asked him: "Don't tell me you don't care about these false names, let alone what others think of you."

"I care." Gu Ran laughed twice, "I have such a strong desire to win, how can I not care about other people's eyes at all."

Cheng Sen slapped him on the back, and the force was absorbed by the fluffy down jacket: "Okay, I've eaten too much, go back quickly."

Gu Ran stood there without moving a muscle: "However, these are not important compared to you."

"As long as I fight side by side with you, I don't care what the result is."

"..."

Gu Changfeng and Xu Mei were very surprised to hear that their son had returned to the short track speed skating team.

Especially Xu Mei, whose son finally graduated with a Ph.D. last year and stayed in school as a teacher.According to the process, the next step is to find a girlfriend, fall in love, get married, and give her a grandson or granddaughter in two years, perfect!

But, after going around and around, why did Gu Ran go back to training again?

Xu Mei remembered that a few days ago, Gu Ran took a call from a leader named Song, "Is that Director Song telling you to go back?"

Gu Ran smiled and shook her head: "It is my motherland that calls me back."

Hearing this, Xu Mei smiled clearly, this is her son's behavior style: "Mom supports you."

In fact, on New Year's Day, Gu Changfeng vaguely noticed it, because Gu Ran suddenly found his skates.

"Calm down, I have won a lot of Olympic gold medals, so let's play it again."

These words really put Gu Ran in a good mood, and the 30-year-old couldn't help rushing over to hug his father: "Haha, you are the first person to say that to me, I love hearing that."

Xu Mei patted his head: "Remember, no matter what you do, your parents will support you."

Gu Ran also reached out and hugged her mother: "You are the people I love the most. With your support, it is the happiest thing."

On the first day Gu Ran returned to the team, he had a comprehensive physical examination and physical examination.The result was beyond everyone's expectations.

Cheng Sen took the report, and Xu Qing leaned his head over to look at the indicators with him.

The two of them read one by one, a little impatient, and simply turned to the final epilogue.

The team doctor said from the side: "Although Gu Ran's actual age is 30 years old, his physical age is about 24-[-] years old."

At this time, the team is undergoing physical training.After hearing this, the team members next to him all let out a "wow" and looked at Gu Ran with incredible eyes.

One of the male team members named Tian Mao exclaimed: "It really is the Great Demon King, this is too powerful."

Gu Ran himself is not surprised by this result. He has always had regular living habits, has no bad habits, and has never experienced any major injuries.

Although his physical fitness is worse than before, it is not a big problem, and there is no problem at all for a period of recovery training to participate in the competition.

With age, athletes' ability to respond will decline, but in Gu Ran's body, this kind of situation hardly occurs, and he is more sensitive than before.

The fitness coach looked at him incredulously: "Is this the legendary reverse growth?"

"How is it possible?" Gu Ran took the towel on the shelf to wipe off her sweat, "In the past two years, although I rarely go on the ice, I have been exercising all the time."

Meng Yuqiao asked: "Practice what?"

Gu Ran said: "Fencing, I think it has greatly improved my observation and reaction skills."

Xu Qing raised his head from the report: "The flexibility is also a bit weak, and we need to strengthen training for this."

Gu Ran said, "You won't let me run 5000 meters, it's limited to 20 minutes."

Xu Qing smiled kindly at him: "I won't stop you if you want to run away."

When Gu Ran laughed, her two dimples were particularly obvious: "Forget it, forget it, I was joking."

Resuming training is easy to say, but it is not that simple for Gu Ran to actually start practicing.

The professional training is very different from the usual training by himself. The whole week before was a recovery training with less intensity, which allowed him to adapt slowly.

Cheng Sen also specially arranged for him a physical coach, a physiotherapist, and a nutritionist, and asked Gao Ziyi to follow him every day, basically assigning him a team.

The two coaches stood outside the gym and peeked at Gu Ran's training. Xu Qing said, "Don't let so many people follow him every day, he will be under a lot of pressure."

The few people Cheng Sen arranged were all in the team before Gu Ran retired, and they were all his acquaintances, who could help him quickly return to his previous state.

Gu Ran was doing back stretching under the guidance of a fitness coach, and Gao Ziyi was also watching. After completing a set of exercises, several people had to discuss it.

Cheng Sen's face was full of the pride of his old father: "Look, not only is he not under pressure, but he adapts quickly."

Xu Qing sighed: "He has been like this since he was a child, no matter what, once he decides to do it, he can quickly get involved."

Gu Ran's training was over, so she exchanged a few words with the fitness coach, and then walked out with a towel.

As soon as they walked outside the door, they saw the two of them standing side by side, with their hands behind their backs, and their necks stretched out to look inside.

Gu Ran raised her eyebrows: "It's already lunch time, why don't your elders hurry to have lunch?"

"Just finished training," Xu Qing poked Cheng Sen who was next to him with his arm, "Director Cheng must come up to see you."

Gu Ran said, "Afraid I'll be lazy?"

Cheng Sen slapped him on the back of the head: "What if you practice too hard and get injured?"

Gu Ran chuckled, and pointed to Gao Ziyi beside him: "You all sent Brother Gao to monitor me, don't you feel relieved?"

Gao Ziyi smiled helplessly and dotingly: "Who is watching you?"

Gu Ran said, "I'm just joking with the old couple."

This time Xu Qing didn't hold back either, and slapped him on the back: "Du graduated, can you be more steady?"

"I don't need stability." Gu Ran jumped in front of him, "I need vitality."

"When I lived in the laboratory, I missed the days in the team the most. I missed you very much, and I just wanted to stay with you."

Cheng Sen couldn't help laughing and cursing, "Silly boy."

"So," Gu Ran said with a smile, "It's also my heart's desire to come back, and I can't bear to part with you."

Hearing these words, Cheng Sen took a deep breath and quickly turned his head to the other side.

Xu Qing winked at Gu Ran: "Stop talking, Director Cheng is going to cry."

"Really?" Gu Ran quickly stood on the other side of Cheng Sen, "Let me see."

"Fuck off!"

When Chi Lang heard that Gu Ran had returned to the national team, he was still recording in Hainan the first day, and flew back to Beijing the next day.

At noon, he pinched a little and waited downstairs in the apartment.Seeing Gu Ran come back, he went up and gave him a bear hug: "My God! Gu Xiaoran, you are so cool."

They were both wearing down jackets, so hugging them was really uncomfortable.Gu Ran hurriedly pushed him away: "Okay, okay, I can hardly breathe."

Chi Lang said, "I want to come back too..."

"Don't think about it," the voice came from behind Gu Ran.Cheng Sen and Xu Qing walked up to them, Director Cheng glanced at his fanboy with disgust, "I don't like you at your age."

Chi Lang said: "I'm only two years older than Gu Ran."

Gu Ran smiled and said, "That's right, I'm only two years old, and I'm 33 this year."

"..."

Just as everyone was saying this, another person walked in from behind: "Oh, Xiao Gu, I came here specially to find you."

When Cheng Sen saw this man, alarm bells went off in his mind!