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

Gu Ran looked back and saw that it was an acquaintance. He was so frightened that he quickly hid behind Cheng Sen and Xu Qing: "Director Guo, why are you free to come over today?"

Director Guo is the speed skating coach, the one who called Gu Ran before.

Director Guo said: "I have something to do at the winter management center in the morning. I heard that you are back. I just came to see you."

Cheng Sen's face was sullen, and he spoke very bluntly: "If there's something to see, don't worry about other people's children."

Director Guo smiled: "Oh, you can't say that in the old Cheng's words. Xiao Gu is only training in your team, and it's not your family."

Cheng Sen raised his eyebrows: "He is my son, dear."

Director Guo looked at Gu Ran: "Xiao Gu, we agreed before that if you come back to continue practicing, come to our side of the road."

Gu Ran poked his head out from behind Xu Qing, smiling: "That's what you said, I didn't agree."

Director Guo said: "The way is good, you don't need to go beyond, and you don't need to fight against others. You can skate for another ten years with this body."

Gu Ran thanked Bumin: "I won't go."

"I'll go!" Chi Lang walked to Director Guo with a smile, "Do you think it's too late for me to practice Dao?"

Cheng Sen smiled and said, "That's right, let him go."

Director Guo twitched his eyebrows: "Okay, then come with me."

Chi Lang was taken aback, and quickly waved his hands: "Just kidding, just kidding, isn't this a solution for Gu Xiaoran? I still have work in hand, and I have to fly to Hainan tomorrow."

Xu Qing always stood in front of Gu Ran, like an old hen guarding a chick: "Director Guo hasn't had lunch yet, why don't you come to our cafeteria to have something?"

Director Guo nodded: "Then eat something casually."

Cheng Sen muttered softly: "You can't poach people, and you still eat my meal."

Xu Qing glared at him and told him to shut up.

When Gu Ran returned to the team, his previous room had already been given to someone else, and the dormitory manager assigned him another room.

Gu Ran was moving things upstairs when he happened to run into a team member named Chen Yuze, who took the initiative to come over and say hello to him.

The child looked obviously a little nervous, and kept touching the back of his head when standing in front of him and talking: "Well...or, if I move out, you will still live in the same room as before."

Gu Ran looked up at him, smiled and said, "No, it's the same wherever I live."

Chen Yuze simply offered his hand to help him move things together: "When I first entered the national team, they told me that was the room you used to live in. I was so excited that I didn't fall asleep all night."

Gu Ran asked him: "How old are you this year?"

Chen Yuze said, "It will be in the second half of the year."

Gu Ran asked again: "When did you join the national team?"

Chen Yuze said, "Last April."

Gu Ran smiled and said, "Before you, someone else should have lived in that room."

Chen Yuze's eyes were firm: "So I said to myself, I must work hard to stay in the national team, and this room will only belong to me in the future."

These words startled Gu Ran, she looked at him thoughtfully, and then at the room: "Could it be because the feng shui of that room is good?"

Chen Yuze helped him move the box into the house: "It's because of you."

"..."

Gu Ran understood that this was another fan of his.

Gu Ran lowered her head to pack her things, while Chen Yuze stood quietly aside.The room was quiet for a while, Gu Ran almost thought that his little teammate had already left, but when he turned around, he was still standing at the door, just looking at him without blinking.

Gu Ran said: "Go ahead if you have other things to do, I will clean up slowly by myself."

Chen Yuze walked up to him, squatted down, and asked him, "Do you think I'm different from other people?"

Gu Ran frowned and asked, "What's the difference?"

Chen Yuze said, "Where does my accent sound like?"

Gu Ran suddenly realized: "Like...a southerner."

Chen Yuze nodded sharply: "Yes, I am from the south."

Gu Ran was noncommittal: "Now there are quite a lot of people practicing short track in the south."

Chen Yuze moved his face closer, and said seriously, "Look at me."

Gu Ran pushed his glasses and looked at him carefully: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Chen Yuze sighed: "It seems that you really don't remember."

Gu Ran said, "Have we met?"

Chen Yuze took out his mobile phone, pulled out a photo and showed it in front of him: "Do you remember this?"

Gu Ran glanced at it, it turned out to be a plush doll, maybe it was a souvenir of some event, but he had participated in too many big and small competitions in his life, and the whole room was piled up with such mascots, so he really couldn't remember what it was Where have I seen it.

Chen Yuze looked at him expectantly: "Don't you remember?"

Gu Ran shrugged: "I really can't remember."

"Alas..." Chen Yuze sighed, and flipped through another photo.It was a group photo of Gu Ran and a child. The child was holding the plush doll in his arms. Chen Yuze pointed at the child and said, "This is me."

Gu Ran watched it for a long time before suddenly realizing: "I remembered, Shanghai Super Cup."

Chen Yuze corrected him: "It's not the Super Cup, it's the World Cup."

Gu Ran said, "How can there be a mascot for the World Cup?"

Chen Yuze said: "That year there was the World Cup in Shanghai."

Gu Ran stared at the photo for a long time, then suddenly laughed.Chen Yuze's eyes lit up again: "You remember?"

Gu Ran said, "I was pretty handsome when I was young."

"..."

Chen Yuze gave up completely, so he put away his phone: "You are also handsome now."

Gu Ran said: "The auspicious bedroom was supposed to be given to my mother, but you snatched it away."

"You remembered!" Chen Yuze's mood was like a roller coaster, up and down, "I didn't grab it, it's because you didn't throw it well, my dad caught it as soon as he raised his hand."

Gu Ran saw that he was tired from squatting like this, so she gave him a hand: "Little fan."

Chen Yuze sat beside him: "It's because of you that I made up my mind to learn short track speed skating."

Gu Ran rubbed his head: "That's great, they're all in the national team now."

Chen Yuze nodded: "If it weren't for you, I would have quit practicing a long time ago."

"What does it have to do with me?"

Chen Yuze lowered his head in embarrassment: "Every time you want to give up, just turn over your game and take a look. If you grit your teeth, you can persist for a long time."

Gu Ran smiled and said, "I should thank myself for not giving up."

"I never dreamed that I could really be your teammate."

Gu Ran slapped him gently on the back: "Come on!"

Gu Ran had a week of recovery training, adapted well, and started training on the ice a week later.

On his first day on the ice, the team members were even more excited than him.During the technique slide, Gu Ran was at the front, and all the kids behind were staring at him.

Xu Qing said from the side: "Look carefully, and learn from my brother."

"This technology is too awesome!"

"Absolutely textbook level!"

"The sliding posture is so beautiful!"

"..."

After the training, other people swarmed around Gu Ran and asked him various questions.

Gu Ran is happy to share his experience with everyone, starting from the details, without any reservations.

He wants to get back to his competitive state as soon as possible. After training every day, he will stay to train himself for an hour.Sometimes, Gao Ziyi, Meng Yuqiao or Lin Jiaxi would stay with him, sometimes it was Cheng Sen or Xu Qing, and sometimes it was just Gu Ran.

On this day, another person suddenly appeared on the ice rink. He first watched for a while, and then went up while Gu Ran was resting, and asked, "Can I practice with you?"

Gu Ran looked up, and it was his little fanboy Chen Yuze again, this kid is very clingy.

Gu Ran nodded: "Practice."

So, from this day on, Chen Yuze stayed to train with him every day.

When skating, Gu Ran would deliberately let him slide in front of her, and then observe his movements and habits.

During the break, Gu Ran would communicate with him and give him some pointers.

Chen Yuze listened very carefully, and would try his best to correct his technical movements according to what he said.

But after all, he is seventeen or eighteen years old, and it is not so easy to correct a movement.At this time, he would smile at Gu Ran apologetically: "I didn't do well, do it again."

Gu Ran said: "It's okay, take your time, this will take time."

Chen Yuze suddenly asked a question: "Do you think... do I have talent in short track?"

"Of course." Gu Ran smiled, "You have slipped into the national team, how can you not have talent?"

Chen Yuze was even more embarrassed: "Training with a genius like you, I'm afraid that if you say it a few times and I still can't do it well, you'll think that I'm not suitable for practicing short track at all."

Gu Ran said, "No matter how talented you are, it is impossible to read it once. Everything needs time to accumulate." Gu Ran glanced at the time, "Go on."

Gu Ran's additional training is not limited to ice training, but more often in the gym for physical fitness.

In recent years, the development of short track speed skating has been changing with each passing day.In fact, since the last Winter Olympics, Gu Ran has already felt that everyone's skills have undergone new changes. After he left for two years, the arena is no longer the same as before, and the opponent is no longer the same.

In the past few years, everyone paid more attention to the personal skills and transcendence of athletes.But in recent years, when many countries train athletes, they pay more attention to the sturdy leading skating ability, as well as strength and endurance.

In the 500-meter race, there is almost no overtaking. Even in the 1000-meter race, many athletes slide as if they are anaerobic.

In this form, it is even more difficult for him, a 30-year-old veteran.

But Gu Ran is not worried about this. He has been away from the game for two and a half years, not four or five years.

In the past two and a half years, he has also often paid attention to short track speed skating competitions, and he has not completely fallen behind the times.

Gu Ran is very confident in his skills, and he also clearly realizes that what he urgently needs to strengthen now is still his physical fitness.

Three weeks later, they will start signing up for the fifth and sixth World Cups.

According to the requirements of the Winter Management Center, the team needs to organize qualifying competitions to select players for all competition qualifications.

During the meeting, Cheng Sen mentioned to the team members: "This year's competition time is relatively late, at the end of February and early March. We will conduct selection after the Spring Festival, and make good preparations during this time."

At this time, Gu Ran raised her hand: "Director Cheng, I want to sign up too."

Cheng Sen glanced at him: "Good boy, don't make trouble."

He quickly recounted the content of the next meeting: "Have you heard everything clearly?"

"Listen clearly."

Cheng Sen looked at Xu Qing again: "Director Xu, is there anything else you want to say?"

Xu Qing's attention was always on Gu Ran, when he heard Cheng Sen calling him, he shook his head: "No."

"Dismiss."

The team members left one after another, but Gu Ran was still sitting there.Cheng Sen and Xu Qing walked up to him together.Cheng Sen said: "It took less than two months from your resumption of training to the World Cup. The time is too short."

Gu Ran nodded: "I know the time is short, but I want to try."

Xu Qing propped his hands on the table: "This afternoon, your 500-meter test score was 41 seconds."

Gu Ran has been away for two and a half years, and it has only been three weeks since he came back to resume training. It is already very impressive to be able to slip out of this result, and even get a place in the domestic competition.

However, in international competitions, this result may not even make it into the top eight.

Gu Ran smiled and said, "Isn't it still nearly a month away? If I practice again, my grades will still improve."

Cheng Sen folded his hands and leaned against the table in front: "Do you think Director Xu is afraid of your poor grades?"

Gu Ran smiled and shook her head: "I know Director Xu is afraid that I will be hit, affect my mentality, and worry that I will get hurt."

"It's good to know."

"But," Gu Ran leaned forward and calculated for them, "There are only three games left in this season, two World Cups and one World Championship."

Xu Qing said: "In my plan, I didn't plan to let you participate in these few games."

"But I need to get back to the state I was in during the game." Gu Ran stood up, walked around the table and walked to him, "There is only one year left until next year's Winter Olympics. All four World Cup games next season will be held in the Winter Olympics In the qualifiers, there are only these three games that allow me to adjust my state."

Cheng Sen and Xu Qing looked at each other and admitted that what he said was indeed reasonable.

Xu Qing was still worried: "Then wait for the World Championships."

Gu Ran still shook her head: "The importance of the World Championships is second only to the Winter Olympics. If I don't perform well, it will affect the morale of the whole team, and everyone will be under pressure."

"I need the first two World Cups to adapt to the game. With two games, I can play more stably in the World Championships."

Cheng Sen said: "Don't think about the things in the team, no matter how great the pressure is, we will bear it. Take care of yourself."

Gu Ran raised her arm and put it on Cheng Sen's shoulder: "Director Cheng, whether you admit it or not, what I just said is the most reasonable solution so far."

Cheng Sen rolled his eyes at him: "It's a fart."

Xu Qing looked at him worriedly: "I was worried that you would get hurt."

"Oh, it's just the World Cup. It's just like playing for me."

The three of them were silent for a while, but the two coaches didn't let go.

Gu Ran looked at Cheng Sen and then at Xu Qing, and immediately adjusted the attack target.Leaning over, resting your chin on Xu Qing's shoulder: "If not, let's take a step back. You guys let me participate in the team selection. If I get the qualification, I will participate in the competition."