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

On the day of the report, Gu Ran was still a little apprehensive. After all, his situation was quite special, and he still needed teachers and classmates to take care of him in his studies.

Fortunately, he was a very popular child since he was a child. He was good-looking, well-spoken, and his academic performance was so good. He was especially liked by the teachers and elders.

Although he was considered a sports student, his performance in cultural subjects was very outstanding. In order to show that he was valued by the school, he was enrolled in the experimental class.

Gu Ran himself was a little embarrassed. He might not be in school for half of the semester, and he still occupied a place in an experimental class.

The head teacher, surnamed Zhang, is a young Chinese teacher.She had heard a long time ago that there was such a special classmate in her class. She was the youngest, had the best grades, and was an athlete. After seeing him, she found that the young man was quite energetic, and she took special care of him.

During the first week of school, Gu Ran sometimes came to class in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, and sometimes all day, mainly depending on the team's training arrangements.

Although the time to go to school is limited, Gu Ran has a good relationship with his classmates.

After all, it is an experimental class of a key middle school. Everyone's high school entrance examination results and their own strengths are placed there. No one is much worse than anyone else, except for some who came in through connections.

When the get out of class is over, the students will discuss with each other.Gu Ran was often unable to go to class, so the monitor and the study committee offered to lend him his notes.

After three weeks of classes at school, in order to prepare for the next China Cup Short Track Speed ​​Skating Elite League, the provincial team will start a two-week training camp.

Once the training camp starts, all players need to suspend class and focus on training.

Gu Ran can't go to school. The content of the first year of high school is actually not too difficult for Gu Ran. He can keep up by reading books and brushing the questions by himself.

But thinking about the three years of high school, he can do it now, what will happen in the future?

So, he found his class teacher, Teacher Zhang, and discussed with her: "Look, can I ask you for a favor?"

Teacher Zhang liked him as soon as he saw him: "Tell me, what's the matter, I will help if I can."

Gu Ran said: "I wonder, on the premise of not affecting the school rules and regulations and the normal study of the students, can you help me record the important courses and send them to me, so that I can study by myself after training."

Teacher Zhang was a little embarrassed: "I can't make the decision about this, I have to communicate with the grade director."

However, the result of the communication is that the grade director believes that the video involves copyright issues, and the school will take the risk, not allowing audio or video recording, let alone dissemination to the outside world.

In this case, Gu Ran can forget about it.But Mr. Zhang still said that he would try his best to help him.I often send him some teacher's lesson plans. Although it is a text version, Gu Ran is also very satisfied.

Now, Gu Ran has to put all his energy into preparing for the China Cup Short Track Speed ​​Skating Elite League.

This is an event hosted by the National Skating Association, with a total of four competitions, divided into adult and youth groups. The adult group is 18 years old and above, and the youth group is 14-18 years old.

As long as the top three players or relay teams in the national youth short track speed skating U series in the first half of the year, the 14-16-year-old group, each sub-station, can qualify for the elite league.

Gu Ran had never practiced 1500 meters before, so this time he only qualified for the 500 meters and 1000 meters.

Whether it is the provincial team or the ice and snow clubs, the reason why they attach great importance to this event is because the Champions League is a qualifying match for many important domestic events.

Interestingly, among the more than 300 participating athletes, there are less than 90 male and female athletes in the adult group, while the remaining more than 200 are all youth group athletes.

There are two main reasons why there are so many more athletes in the youth group than in the adult group.The first reason is that if athletes fail to achieve results after they reach the age of 18, and have no chance to enter the national team or participate in international competitions, they will choose to retreat in time and go to school by taking entrance examinations for sports colleges or college entrance examinations.

Only a small number of people, who have already entered the national team and worked hard to represent the country in international competitions, will choose to continue training and truly regard short track speed skating as a profession.

But such people are a minority after all, and nearly 90 men and women combined is already considered a lot.This also includes college students from some sports colleges and talents independently trained by clubs.

Teenagers under the age of 18 are different. They are young and belong to reserve talents. They have a lot of room for improvement and can strive for more opportunities for themselves.

Therefore, Gu Ran, a kid who has just turned 14, is also the youngest contestant in this competition.

Not only is she the youngest, but also has the lowest qualifications, but she has to participate in the most competitive 500m and 1000m races.

Now, Zheng Wenkang and Wu Kaize, his roommates in the same dormitory, are about to become his opponents.

Zheng Wenkang mainly competes in the 500-meter race and will also participate in the 1000-meter race.Wu Kaize mainly competed in 1000 meters and also reported 1500 meters.

Only Gao Ziyi, he mainly skates 1500 meters.

Before, Gu Ran could not skate better than the two senior brothers. After all, these people were at least two years older than him, and the shortest time to practice short track speed skating was seven years. Compared with those amateur players, he is not as bad as the real professional players.

Now his time can be stabilized at about 42 seconds, and when he plays well, he can reach 41.8 seconds. This time is already very good at his age.

But Gu Ran knew very well in his heart that this was indeed a far cry from those professional players who could really get a place in the competition.

In order to gradually narrow this gap, he was also very focused and worked hard throughout the training process.Work out your fitness and improve your technique.If there are any technical difficulties that cannot be overcome, they will still stalk Xu Qing.

Xu Qing is very patient, whenever he asks, he will give him detailed answers, and accompany him to practice repeatedly on the ice.

In addition to individual events, Gu Ran also participated in the men's 5000-meter relay race, which happened to be a team of four in their dormitory.

During training, Xu Qing will deliberately set aside time for them to carry out handover practice, increase the tacit understanding of several people, and formulate corresponding tactics at the same time.

There is only one last relief left for this day's ice training-starting practice, which is an unshakeable content every day.Usually Xu Qing will arrange 15 times, and after the practice, he can change his clothes and prepare to eat.

Director Wang came over to exchange a few words with him, mainly about the time and place of the joint meeting of the team leaders and coaches.

Xu Qing waved his hands carelessly: "You and leader Zhao go, I won't go."

Director Wang was a little embarrassed: "You are the head coach, so you can't stop going every time."

Xu Qing laughed softly: "I'm too lazy to listen to those leaders. If there are any important regulations and arrangements, you can just let me know when you come back."

Xu Qing is the head coach, and he was recruited by the leaders of the Provincial Sports Bureau after a lot of effort. He is very capable and has a good temper.

He said no, Director Wang really had nothing to do with him.But today he came to deliver a message for the leader, so he still said awkwardly: "The director said, you must attend."

Now that it's all said and done, Xu Qing can't embarrass his colleagues: "Okay."

Because in the U series of competitions, some young players from sports schools won the rankings and qualified for the competition.On the basis of the original 14 people, the provincial team has now expanded to a total of nearly 30 people.Among them, there are only 8 people in the adult group, and the rest are all in the youth group.

The ice training base has a total of five coaches for the short track speed skating team. In addition to Xu Qing and the coach Wang, there is also a technical coach in charge of the women's team, a physical coach, and an intern from the sports institute. Worked as an executive coach for Xu Qing, and was often sent by him to supervise Gu Ran's physical fitness.

Xu Qing turned around and saw that the team members had completed the starting practice one after another, and they were talking and laughing at the side. The atmosphere was not to mention very cheerful.

When there are too many people, the ice rink looks messy, and Xu Qing added the word "more" to his not-so-beautiful mood.

He turned around, but saw a person standing on the starting line, tirelessly repeating the starting practice again and again, while the executive coach was helping him time with a stopwatch.

This person is Gu Ran.

From the expression on his face, it is not difficult to see that he is very dissatisfied with his performance today.

Xu Qing just looked at him through the crowd, started running, swung his arms and sprinted, sprinted for more than ten meters and then turned back, asked Director Li beside him for the time, then frowned, gritted his teeth and said two words from his mouth: "Come again!"

I have to say that the cub's persistence is really touching.

Seeing that he was so demanding on himself, Xu Qing suddenly felt that his mood was not so bad, and the other kids beside him were not so annoying.

"Okay!" He slid to Gu Ran's side and tapped on his helmet, "You won't get anything out of practicing like this, go back and think about it, and practice tomorrow."

Gu Ran frowned, bit her lower lip in the end and nodded, and rowed towards the center of the field where her teammates gathered.

Xu Qing put his whistle in his mouth, and two short whistles sounded on the empty ice rink. The team members who had just been making noise immediately silenced and quickly lined up.

Xu Qing made a summary of today's training. He pointed out everyone's problems one by one: "I have said so much, please give me some thought. If I find out that any of you make the same mistake again tomorrow... "

He didn't finish his sentence, but just showing a smile that was not a smile was enough to make several team members shudder.

Gu Ran has training throughout the day, and only has a little free time at night.At this time, he had time to calm down and study hard.

The dormitory is sometimes very noisy because other teammates come to visit.Seeing that he was studying, they all expressed surprise: "Aren't we here to train so that we don't have to study? You are still doing homework here???"

Gu Ran didn't raise her head: "I didn't do my homework."

The teammate looked down and saw that he was working on an exercise book: "Isn't this a chemistry homework?"

Gu Ran chuckled: "Just like you guys playing games, doing quizzes is also a way for me to have fun."

The teammate was stunned: "Your way of entertaining...is very unique."

On the other side, Zheng Wenkang stuck his head out and laughed, "Don't listen to his nonsense, he usually plays games too."

Wu Kaize also turned around and said: "It's just that his way of playing games is different from ours."

Teammates are curious: "What's the difference?"

Zheng Wenkang pointed to his temple: "It's different here."

Zheng Wenkang put down his phone and began to blow: "He will clearly remember the refresh time of each buff, whether the enemy has a big move, whether there is a flash, and whether it is within his range, he can clearly calculate it."

Wu Kaize went on to say: "What kind of equipment does the other party have, what inscriptions they may bring, how much HP, how much defense, how much attack, how much movement speed, he can calculate the difference to a good degree. It’s like playing for fun.”

"Damn it!" The teammate's eyes began to shine, and he hugged Gu Ran tightly, "Boss, please take me with you."

Gu Ran didn't raise her head, and the pen was still checking the calculation on the draft paper: "Call me Dad."

"Dad, please bring me!"

"Hey, Dad is not free now."

"!!!"

Zheng Wenkang and Wu Kaize were lying on the desk laughing like crazy, Gao Ziyi glanced at the time, took a box of milk and put it in front of Gu Ran: "You haven't had the milk tonight, don't forget the calcium tablets and vitamin D3. "

In the past few months, Gu Ran has at least two boxes of fresh milk every day, just like completing a task.He used to drink one box in the morning and one box after lunch.

Later, I got tired of drinking, and felt like throwing up when I heard the word "milk".So, move the morning to noon, and the noon to the evening.Now I don't want to drink at all, and I want Gao Ziyi to remind him every day.

But his height has indeed grown a lot compared to before, and his latest measurement has grown to 167 centimeters.

Before starting the game, in the last training session, Xu Qing conducted an in-team test.

Including Wu Kaize in the team, there are a total of four male players in the youth group skating 500 meters.Just in time for a mock game.

The four of them unanimously decided to decide the course by guessing the shells. Gu Ran was lucky and got the first course smoothly.

Wu Kaize was in the second lane, Zheng Wenkang was in the third lane, and the other weaker teammate was in the fourth lane.

As soon as the whistle sounded, the four of them rushed out at the same time.

Gu Ran had been dissatisfied with her starting reaction speed before, but after a period of repeated training and continuous improvement of technique, she has improved a lot now.

Among the four, his start was the fastest.Then through high-frequency arm swing sprinting, the first to enter the corner and obtain the most powerful position.

Zheng Wenkang followed closely behind, looking for opportunities to surpass Gu Ran.

However, every time he finds a chance and wants to take advantage of the situation and complete the overtaking, that round buttocks will always tilt in his direction for the first time, firmly locking the position.

"!!!"

Zheng Wenkang gritted his teeth and scolded him in his heart: "Your ass is up, you are amazing."

After several unsuccessful attempts, it was Zheng Wenkang who couldn't hold back his mentality. At the last corner, Wu Kaize caught up with him and almost overtook him.

Seeing Gu Ran cross the finish line, Xu Qing pressed the stopwatch.Looking down at the grades, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth unconsciously.

Gu Ran propped her hands on her knees and took a few breaths.He feels great today, his whole body is so good that he is flying, and he feels that he should be able to skate a good result this time.

"Xiao Li," Xu Qing called his executive coach, "show me the stopwatch."

The stopwatch directed by Li showed the results of the four people just now. Xu Qing glanced at each of them and handed the stopwatch back to him.

Gu Ran couldn't wait to slide to Xu Qing: "Let me see the results."

Xu Qing showed him the stopwatch, which showed 41.79 seconds, and Gu Ran immediately showed a bright smile: "My personal best time has been refreshed again."

Xu Qing sneered: "This is not a competition, it doesn't count."

Gu Ran was not convinced: "Doesn't that also prove that I am making progress?"

Xu Qing nodded and agreed with his statement: "Indeed, the progress is very fast."

Gu Ran leaned over, bumped her arm with her shoulder, and asked mysteriously, "Director Xu, are you scared?"

Xu Qing looked ahead, and Director Wang was organizing the female team members to test: "What am I afraid of?"

Gu Ran said: "As for the bet we made before, you are afraid of losing."

"Cut!" Xu Qing couldn't help but sneer, "Young man, if I remember correctly, the two of us blocked your time to 41.2 seconds in one year. According to your official competition results, you are still 0.8 seconds behind .”

Gu Ran immediately corrected him: "We didn't agree on the result of the game when we bet."

"What do you look at if you don't look at the competition results? Only the competition results will be recognized." Xu Qing glanced at him provocatively, "If I tell you that what I look at is the competition results recognized by the International Skating Federation, you will definitely lose."

"..."

Gu Ran gritted her teeth: "You are lying!"

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