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

There are not a few days off during the Chinese New Year, and it is difficult for athletes to recover after a long break.On the seventh day of the seventh day, everyone returned to the ice training base.

Xu Qing found that Gu Ran's training was even harder when he came back after the new year.

He is still concentrating on studying the cornering technique, just because Xu Qing said that one success does not explain the problem. When you can control it easily every time and flexibly use it in the competition, it is called success.

Gu Ran wrote it down, so, just like before the Chinese New Year, after eating every day, he would return to the dormitory to do his homework as soon as possible. At 07:30, he came to the skating hall on time to start training himself, and returned to the dormitory at [-]:[-] , wash and sleep.

Seeing him running so non-stop between training and studying, Zheng Wenkang felt tired for him: "Little brother, don't you need to rest?"

"I'm resting," Gu Ran said as a matter of course. I sleep eight hours every night, and I have to sleep for an hour at noon. The rest time is enough.

Wu Kaize asked in surprise, "Aside from sleeping, don't you need to take a break at other times?"

Gu Ran thought for a while, and gave an answer that made the brothers vomit blood: "It's considered a rest when you're reading and brushing up questions."

He was telling the truth, but to Zheng Wenkang and Wu Kaize's ears, it was Versailles.Both of them gave him a supercilious look at the same time: "The way you rest is quite unique."

But I have to admit that Gu Ran has made rapid progress.At this time last year, he was still training with the provincial team. Compared with the two senior brothers, the strength of a boy under the age of 14 was still far behind.

Even half a year ago, after ten tests, it would be considered good if Gu Ran beat his seniors once.

But now, whether it is 500 meters or 1000 meters, it is almost impossible for Zheng Wenkang and Wu Kaize to beat him once.

There is no way, who made the little junior so talented and so hardworking.Not to mention Zheng Wenkang and Wu Kaize, apart from Gao Ziyi in the 1500m, the only one who can beat him in the team is the senior who is training in the national team.

If you want to practice a technique to the extreme, it not only needs the accumulation of time, but also requires the athletes to have enough patience to repeat an action thousands of times.

This may require a long process, through quantitative change to achieve qualitative change.

However, Gu Ran's training has not yet achieved a quantitative change, but he has already started to make a qualitative leap. His innate conditions are too good, surpassing ordinary people's sense of balance and flexibility, allowing him to perform stably even when his body is tilted to the extreme. Leg retraction and leg extension movements, the upper body, without any shaking or deviation.

His teammates found it unbelievable to watch him skating on the ice. This kind of acceleration technique in corners is rare among domestic athletes. Even if there is such an example as Meng Yuqiao, he still does not do it perfectly. It will cause the subsequent gliding to lose its own route because the balance of the body is destroyed.

However, Gu Ran can do a good job, from breaking balance to establishing balance, from leaning the body to single-leg support, from the critical point where the blade of the ice skate creates a lateral component with the ice surface, to increasing the speed to pass through the curve.

His movements are smooth and smooth, without any flaws, and the final result can be imagined.

Some people are born for short track speed skating, but some people, as long as they are willing to work hard, they can do everything best.

Xu Qing glanced at the stopwatch again, remembering the bet he made with Gu Ran last year.

Although he added the restriction of "must slip this result in the official competition", he had a strong premonition that he was going to lose.

Gu Ran didn't know that his head coach had such rich inner activities, so he leaned over and asked, "Director Xu, is your stopwatch out of battery? Why didn't you report my results?"

Xu Qing handed the stopwatch in front of his eyes: "Look for yourself."

See it for yourself, Gu Ran looked down - 41 seconds 370, he broke his best time again!

Zheng Wenkang also slid to Gu Ran's side, put one hand on his shoulder, and looked down at the stopwatch: "I'll go! With this result, it's no problem to win the national championship."

Gu Ran has seen the report card of the National Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships in the past two years. Naturally, it is impossible to win the championship with this result, but in domestic competitions, there is no problem in entering the finals.

This year's National Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships will be held from March 3th to March 28th. The participating teams will generally arrive at the venue two days in advance to participate in the joint meeting of team leaders, coaches and referees, and conduct ice training to familiarize themselves with the venue.

After counting, Gu Ran hasn't seen Chi Lang for three months.The two usually contact each other through WeChat. During the Chinese New Year, they teamed up to play a game or two. Later, Chi Lang wanted to ask Gu Ran, but he couldn't.

Chi Lang was quite dissatisfied with this: "Your schedule is fuller than those in the entertainment industry."

Gu Ran didn't bother to pay attention to him, games are something that can be entertained when you have time, and it's not for work, you have to clock in every day.

This time, they didn't live in the same hotel as WE Club.So, the first time Gu Ran met Meng Yuqiao was during ice training, Gu Ran had just finished, and Meng Yuqiao was about to start.

The two chatted for a while through the crash pad, and Meng Yuqiao asked him, "How are you practicing?"

Gu Ran smiled modestly: "It's not bad, I just found some feeling."

Meng Yuqiao raised his eyebrows: "Then see you on the field." As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately turned and returned to the ice rink.

There are four players from the WE club. Except for Meng Yuqiao who participated in the 500 meters, there is another one who participated in the 1500 meters, and the other two participated in the relay race.

Not many people came from Province J this time, 8 men and [-] men each, participating in all the small events.

Although the national championship does not divide into youth and adult groups, but this time the national team members participated in the World Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships abroad. Due to time conflicts, they did not come to participate in the national championship.

Therefore, the most favorable contenders for the championship, except for a few adult athletes whose strength is hovering on the edge of the national team, are those in the national youth team.

Taking Gu Ran to be 15 years old in three months, he is still the youngest among the contestants in this competition.

In last year's elite league, he ranked first in the 500-meter youth group with total points.At that time, in the sub-section of the ice and snow sports forum, there were netizens who didn't know much about the event and rankings, and were attracted by the beauty of several young athletes. With such a good result, if this momentum is maintained, will it be the turn of the Koreans to be arrogant in the future?

But the post was slapped in the face not long after it was posted, and a netizen replied: "That's because the boss deliberately released water in order to get more qualifications for the juniors in his team. It doesn't explain the problem at all."

Some people said: "The boss deliberately released water, so why didn't the other people get the first place in the summary score, and let a 14-year-old kid get it, don't you like it?"

So, after this post, there was a quarrel, and there was a quarrel for hundreds of floors, and it was very lively for a while.

The name Gu Ran is now well known by all representative teams, and is often used by coaches as a control group for their own players.After listening too much, the team members naturally developed a rebellious mentality, waiting to see his performance in this national championship.

Of course, Gu Ran didn't know about these things.On the first match day, when he walked into the arena with his teammates, he always felt that many eyes fell on him, most of them were looking at him, but some were not friendly.

As in previous competitions, the first race day will be the preliminaries and quarter-finals for individual and relay events.

But the schedule of the second competition day is different. The competition will start with the semi-finals of 150 and 500, the finals of these two events in the afternoon, and finally the semi-finals of the relay race.

On the third day, there will be 1000m semi-finals, finals, relay finals, and a super 3000m final.

The Super 3000m is just a points race. The participating athletes are based on the total points of the individual results of the 500m and 1000m. The top eight players are eligible to participate.

On the first day of the preliminaries and the quarter-finals, Gu Ran skated very easily.

以他现在的成绩，500米能够稳定在41秒5以内，1000米也能滑到1分30秒以内。

With such a result, in the preliminaries and the quarter-finals, he didn't need to show his full strength at all, and he was guaranteed to enter the next round as the first in the group.

In fact, everyone is keeping their strength, which does not explain the problem.

However, after the game ended, the grouping of the semi-finals came out. Gu Ran ranked sixth among the eight contestants who entered the semi-finals, and was divided into the second group.

Players in the same group as him include Ren Yongjie, an athlete from province R, number 181, and an athlete from province H, number 251. Both of them were in the adult group in the elite league before.

The other group is Liu Fei, Chi Lang, Meng Yuqiao and Zheng Wenkang.

According to the list of semi-finalists, it is not difficult to see that except for the seven or eight members of the national team in the adult group, the level of the other people who have qualified for the national championship is actually the same, but it is not as good as the youth group. teenager.

China's short-track speed skating has been silent for many years in the world, and it has actually come to an era of sluggishness.

Judging from the grouping, Gu Ran and his group are stronger, but it is the second group. He is familiar with everyone, and he can even guess who will enter the final.

The first group of semi-finals ended quickly. As expected, Liu Fei and Meng Yuqiao advanced, and Zheng Wenkang and Chi Lang were eliminated.

In their group, although there are two new opponents, Gu Ran has paid attention to these two people in yesterday's preliminaries and quarter-finals, and their strength is average.

But he didn't dare to take it lightly. After all, at this age, he has practiced for at least ten years, and has been in the provincial team without retiring. He must have strength.

Gu Ran was in the third lane, standing in front of the starting line, she looked like the thinnest one, sandwiched between two adult male players, she really looked like a child.

The moment he started running, Gu Ran's reaction was the fastest, but before he started running, he was squeezed behind by two opponents on the left and right.

He is thin and can't squeeze other people, so forget it, if he doesn't win, he can squeeze together.

Instead, I watched from behind as the two of them scrambled for the second place.After looking around, I found that none of them had spared any strength, and had already used all their strength. The speed was not bad, but it was not as good as Gu Ran.

On the second lap of the race, as soon as he slid out of the curve, Gu Ran used his inertia to cut directly to the outer lane, kicking on the ice continuously to accelerate, and passed the two people at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before a corner, he merged steadily into the inner lane and fell behind Ren Yongjie.

At the same time, he used his right hand to slightly protect his own route, and carried it behind his back.

Immediately afterwards, the moment he exited the corner, he had already opened the distance from the two people behind him.

From the curve to the straight, and then to the curve, within two or three seconds, he overtook the two from the outer lane in one breath. There was no fierce competition or any physical contact during the whole process, even if it was a swing of the arm, He also keeps a non-interfering distance from his opponents.

Until the final overtaking to open the distance, his series of movements looked light and elegant, even if he stepped forward with the knife in a row, he could not see that he had used a lot of force to kick the ice.

The audience in the stands were a little confused when they saw this scene. It seemed that there was no difficulty. I can do it as long as I have legs.

However, he overtook two people in one breath, and he still went straight. Isn't that purely based on speed?

However, does he have any obvious acceleration?It seems not.

In the end, Gu Ran took the second place in the group in an unremarkable slide.

After the game, Gu Ran didn't look very tired, because he didn't use much energy at all.

He didn't even slide too much on the ice, so he came directly to the sidelines, quickly set up the skates, and was ready to go out.

Because there was no physical collision, there was no penalty point, and the result of the game came out quickly.

Gu Ran's score was 41 seconds, not very good, but not bad.

In the final, his opponents will be Liu Fei, Ren Yongjie and Meng Yuqiao.

These three people have played against each other many times in the elite league.

Gu Ran has lost and won before, more times when she loses, and less time when she wins.

Moreover, the two big brothers did not show their real strength at that time.

But this time it's different, they don't have to think about their teammates, they entered the finals, that's for the championship.

As for Meng Yuqiao, Gu Ran could also tell that he had made great progress in the past three months.

That being the case, in the finals in a while, everyone will have a hearty competition!

Due to the change of the schedule, after the 1500m final, there will be the 500m final.

Gu Ran didn't even go to the stands, and went straight to the inspection. After Gao Ziyi's match, he could play.