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

When Gu Ran returned to the dormitory, his three senior brothers were very happy and surrounded him.

When Gu Ran was packing her luggage, she took out the snacks in the bag and piled them on the desk, inviting everyone to eat together.

Zheng Wenkang patted him on the shoulder: "Junior Junior Brother, after hearing that, you will train with us."

Gu Ran nodded: "I met Director Xu downstairs just now, he seems to mean that."

Wu Kaize said: "That's good, you don't have to get up so early in the future, and the time to go ice in the morning is very reasonable."

Gu Ran frowned: "I always feel that things are not that simple."

"Welcome to start Director Xu's hell mode."

Gu Ran was confused: "Huh?"

Wu Kaize explained: "It's Director Xu, we all call him Manager Xu."

"why?"

Xu Qing is the youngest coach of the provincial team. He was born as an athlete and has maintained a good figure. He is a god-like existence in the women's team.

Zheng Wenkang said: "Mr. Xu's hometown is close to the sea, and he manages it very leniently. He not only manages training, but also manages daily life."

Wu Kaize interjected: "He likes to make surprise inspections on boys' apartments when he is on duty. That's called a soldier who is in a hurry to take out chickens and dogs."

This Gu Ran met once or twice in the last training, and the battle was indeed a bit scary.

"Especially when returning from holidays, schoolbags, cabinets and suitcases are checked one by one. Once prohibited items are found, the consequences will be disastrous."

Gu Ran asked: "What are contraband?"

Zheng Wenkang picked up a bag of pork shop and a bag of beef jerky: "This is contraband."

"Can't you eat snacks?"

Gao Ziyi, who was sitting opposite, turned around and explained to him: "It's not that we can't, it's just that we can't eat most outside foods, especially all kinds of meat, including ham sausage, luncheon meat, hot pot, braised vegetables, You can't eat foods that contain a lot of spices like grilling."

Gu Ran thought about it intently, but this touched his blind spot of knowledge: "Can't these be eaten?"

"That's not true," Gao Ziyi carefully explained to him, "you can't eat anything from unknown sources."

Zheng Wenkang interjected: "Eat one bite, destroy everything, and the entire Olympic cycle has to be involved."

Gu Ran is not yet a professional athlete, and the doping inspections in youth competitions are not so strict, and they have not done special anti-doping training, so they don't know much about it.

Hearing this, he suddenly realized: "I remembered, I read in the news before that these meats may contain clenbuterol, which may be detected as a doping agent."

Gao Ziyi nodded and looked at him gently: "As a professional athlete, there are many restrictions on basic necessities of life. I hope that one day, all of this will be worth it."

"Definitely!" Gu Ran took a bag of seaweed and walked over, "You can eat this."

Gao Ziyi smiled and put down the book in his hand, and took the seaweed from him.

Gu Ran glanced at the cover: "Ha! Brother Gao is reading English?"

Gao Ziyi looked distressed: "Graduation exams are due in a few months, the grades should not be too ugly, at least go to a physical education institute."

Although Gu Ran was nearly two years younger than them, the three of them had been in a sports school since they were young, with training as their main focus and reading as a supplement, so they naturally graduated later.

Zheng Wenkang also turned his head: "It's too difficult, all my grades add up to less than [-] points."

Gu Ran said: "The graduation exam is very simple."

Wu Kaize waved his hand: "I feel sick when I see the test paper. This is PTSD, no matter how simple it is, I won't do it."

"Don't worry," Gu Ran patted her chest, "With me here, I will ensure that you all pass!"

Zheng Wenkang looked at him suspiciously: "Really?"

Gao Ziyi smiled and said: "That must be true, he usually does math problems to pass the time."

"..."

Gu Ran was quite happy when she came to the provincial team on the first day.After all, he gets along well with his roommates, and they will be teammates in the future. If they want to train together, the brothers will take good care of him.

This saves a lot of trouble, at least you don't have to worry about interpersonal relationships, and you can focus all your energy on training.

At 05:30 the next morning, all team members had morning exercises on time.

In addition to the short track speed skating team, the ice training base also includes other ice events.

There are seven major events in the Winter Olympics, skating, skiing, ice hockey, curling, bobsleigh, bobsleigh and biathlon.

Among them, skating is divided into figure skating, speed skating and short track speed skating.

The dormitories for several ice sports players are also in the same building, and they have morning exercises together every day, but the training items during the day are different.

The young ladies in figure skating are all elegant and beautiful, and the little brother is also very handsome.

Gu Ran also found that speed skating players are generally older than short track speed skating players.

Short track speed skating evolved from speed skating, but they are two completely different events.

The full name of short track speed skating is short track speed skating. The total length of the track is only 111.12 meters, and the total length of the speed skating track is 400 meters.

Speed ​​skating wears a hooded jumpsuit that reduces wind resistance. Short-track speed skating is more dangerous, and you need to wear a helmet, goggles, leg guards, and a jumpsuit made of cut-resistant materials.

Speed ​​skating mainly depends on the individual physical strength and ability of the athletes. During the competition, there are internal and external lanes, and everyone does not interfere with each other, purely comparing speed.

Short-track speed skating does not distinguish between courses, and pays more attention to tactics and skills. The competition is more entertaining and dramatic. Until the last moment, you will never guess who the champion is.

Short track speed skating has a shorter exercise cycle. Many athletes will switch to speed skating in the later stages of their careers in order to prolong their professional life.

In the Shanghai competition, the speed skating U-series competition was also held at another venue. At that time, Gu Ran also went to take a look.

After reading it, he found that he still prefers short track speed skating, the infinite fun of fighting wits and speed with opponents.

Morning exercises are very simple, that is, running, doing some simple stretching exercises, and then everyone has breakfast, and the formal training starts in the morning.

Gu Ran had seen Xu Qing train the provincial team members before, and he found it very interesting at that time, thinking that one day he could become one of them.

Unexpectedly, in only one month, he would have this opportunity.

In fact, Gu Ran had a pretty good impression of Xu Qing.Director Xu looks serious during training, and speaks concisely, but he is usually very gentle and reasonable.

The last time Zhao Ping asked him to give up his chance to enter the finals, it was Xu Qing who stood up and said that there is no need to give up, each depends on his own ability.

Therefore, Gu Ran felt that the provincial team's training might be a little harder, but it wouldn't be too bad.

He walked into the ice rink with three teammates, and some older players joked with him: "A little guy came to the team today."

"I heard that Director Xu personally selected you, so it's not bad to be in his eyes."

The senior sisters couldn't help touching their heads and pinching their cheeks: "Wow, she looks so cute."

"This beauty is not inferior to those youngsters in figure skating, we have to take it over to show off."

"..."

Gu Ran is only familiar with a few people in the same dormitory, and he has never talked to these older brothers and sisters.

I thought they were relatively well-known athletes in this field, so they might not be easy to get along with.

Unexpectedly, everyone was so easy-going and warm to him.

Gao Ziyi gave Gu Ran a hand: "Let's go, change clothes first."

A group of people were about to go to the locker room. At this moment, someone called Gu Ran from behind and asked him, "Why are you going?"

Gu Ran turned her head and saw Xu Qing: "I'm going to change clothes and prepare for training."

Xu Qing waved his hand: "No need."

"Ah?" Gu Ran tilted her head, thinking she heard it wrong, "Don't you need to train in the morning?"

Xu Qing said impatiently, "I told you not to change your clothes."

Gu Ran said, "Then...do I need to change my skates?"

"Need not."

Gu Ran had a bad premonition in her heart, and whispered, "If you don't change your shoes, you won't be allowed to go on the ice."

Xu Qing glared at him: "You don't need to go on the ice today, just put your things down and follow me to the playground."

"..."

Xu Qing also called an executive coach to follow him.This coach is very young, a student who came to practice at the Sports Academy, and his surname is Li.

"Warm up first, then run 5000 meters, finish it in 20 minutes, and you time him."

"!!!"

Gu Ran couldn't believe his ears. If he didn't hear wrong, then Xu Qing was wrong.

So, he repeated: "5...5000 meters?"

Xu Qing nodded: "That's right, 5000 meters, there is still a 20-minute time limit. Hurry up and warm up."

"But."

"No buts."

"but……"

Xu Qing interrupted him: "If you don't want to run, go to Director Wang now, and you will still train with them in the future."

Without further ado, Gu Ran immediately started to warm up.

What is the concept of 5000 meters? A standard runway of 400 meters requires 12 and a half laps.

The 100-meter and 200-meter sprints are Gu Ran's strong point, and the 400-meter and 800-meter sprints can also be run, and the results are not too bad.

But he has never run such a long distance as 5000 meters in his life. In school, running 1500 meters was the limit.

The point is, Xu Qing also gave him a time limit - 20 minutes.

This is simply an impossible task.

Gu Ran has never thanked himself for his outstanding mental arithmetic ability like this before. He converted his 1500-meter score and found that it would take at least 5000 minutes for him to run 25 meters.

This is still the most ideal state, the least ideal state is that he may not run at all.

Sure enough, when he ran to 3000 meters, his legs were a little disobedient, as if they were filled with lead, dragging him to sink desperately, sinking...

Then with a "plop", he knelt down on the plastic runway.