After a summer vacation, a classmate became an Olympic champion?

Chapter 34: Start preparing for skateboarding

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Shi Mingbo, assistant coach of the swimming team, stared blankly at Chen Shu walking towards the locker room and took a picture of his last attempt at 200m freestyle.

1 minute 45 seconds 90!

It was 0.03 seconds faster than his best 200m freestyle at noon before going to bed.

Moreover, Chen Shu swam 4 or 5 times, and the time was around 1 minute 46 seconds, which was as steady as an old dog.

Such stability made Shi Mingbo send every result of Chen Shu's swimming to Cui Dengrong.

Coaches Zheng Kunliang and Cui Dengrong had already gone to the competition venue.

Because there were also 6 games in the evening, and three finals and three semi-finals.

Among them, the women's 100m butterfly and 100m breaststroke are still gold medal battles. Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang can launch a favorable impact on the gold medal. The two were very excited when they saw the 4*100m men's relay yesterday.

After changing his clothes, Chen Shu rushed to the dormitory of the skateboarding team in the Olympic Village.

Yes, he has two dormitories, but unlike the dozens of people in the swimming team who live in the Olympic Village, the skateboarding team, including Chen Shu and the team leader, has a total of 9 people.

There are five players.

Chen Shu is the only male skateboarder, and the other four are all girls. The youngest Zheng Haohao is only 11 years old, and Cui Chenxi is not much older, one year older than Chen Shu, 14 years old.

Why are they so young? That's because skateboarding is a very age-sensitive sport.

If you are too young, you can't perform high difficulty.

So between 12 and 18 years old is the most ideal age for skateboarding.

And the taller and heavier you are, the harder it is to perform many high-skill skateboarding moves. You must meet the height, weight and age requirements to perform them.

There are only two skateboarding events in the Paris Olympics, namely street style and park bowl.

Chen Shu played street style, which is to complete a difficult skill on a straight lever or ladder. The more difficult and stable the skill is, the higher the score; while park bowl is much simpler.

It is in a semicircular bowl, skateboarders and people complete various tricks together. The more difficult the tricks are, the higher the score.

There is still a big difference between the two.

The former street style focuses on quality, and there is only one challenge opportunity in each round; while the latter focuses on quantity, you can complete many moves and let the judges score.

"No one?"

Chen Shu looked around the skateboard dormitory, but he didn't find anyone.

Zheng Haohao should be there, because she is the only Chinese skater participating in the bowl pool of the skateboard park. The other three female players, including Cui Chenxi, are all street skaters.

"Oh, the women's street skaters are competing today!"

Chen Shu remembered and quickly sent a WeChat message to the skateboard leader Liu Junjun: "Captain Liu, this is Chen Shu, where are you?"

"The venue is at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Find a volunteer and send me a message when you arrive."I'll pick you up!"

"Okay!"

Chen Shu hurried out of the Olympic Village and found a Chinese volunteer, who arranged a car to take Chen Shu to the skateboarding competition venue - Paris Concorde Square.

This is the largest square in France, built by King Louis XV in the 18th century.

It was originally built to show the world his supreme imperial power, and was named "Louis XV Square".

During the French Revolution, it was also called "Revolution Square" and was used by the French people as a stage to show the destruction of the royal power.

In 1795, it was renamed "Place de la Concorde". During the Paris Olympics, in addition to skateboarding, breakdancing, three-on-three basketball, etc. were held here.

The entire square is octagonal, with a huge Egyptian obelisk standing in the center, which was presented to Charles V by the Governor of Egypt.

There are 8 statues around the square, symbolizing the 8 major cities in France. The skateboard street style was held under a statue. When Chen Shu arrived, the women's street style final was about to take place.

"Captain Liu!"

Chen Shu, wearing a skateboard suit, greeted the team leader Liu Junjun who came to pick him up. This is the leader of the General Administration of Sports.

Liu Junjun seemed very polite and enthusiastic: "Chen Shu, awesome, you already got a gold medal? ”

China’s youngest Olympic champion!

If it were an ordinary person, Liu Jun would certainly not look at him well. After all, the men’s skateboarding competition was about to start in one day, and this guy just came; however, he won a gold medal for the swimming team, and it was the first gold medal in the relay. Liu Jun dared not say a word about this.

This may be the leader of the swimming team in the future. If this kid is unhappy, Liu Jun will have a hard time.

“I was also lucky. I relied on three good teammates, especially Pan Zhanle!”

Chen Shu said modestly, and rushed to the stadium with Liu Jun.

How could Liu Jun not know how his skateboarding team members won the gold medal? He said as he walked: “Xiao Chen, you are too modest. How did you swim? It was reported in the news. You also made a great contribution to this gold medal! ”

The two came to the area of ​​the Chinese Skateboard Team. In front of them was a well-designed street skateboarding arena, with blue stair irons, pink stair steps, and skateboard slopes... It looked very fresh. Chen Shu's preliminary round will also be held here tomorrow.

The competition venues for men and women are the same, but the scores for the required moves are different; men's skills are many times higher than women's, and the viewing experience is completely different; Chen Shu can win the championship with just one move on the women's side.

And the moves of the women's champion may not make it to the finals on the men's side.

"Coach Yu, Coach Cai, Peter~~~"

Chen Shu greeted the three coaches of the skateboarding team. Yu Wenhao was the head coach, Cai Xiaolei was the coach who was responsible for training Chen Shu when he was in the national team, and Peterson was a foreign coach, a specially invited master. Before he retired, he was a world top ranked player.Ten skateboarders.

The three are not very old, in their 20s, which is the current situation of skateboarders. Most of them retire and become coaches in their 20s.

Yu Wenhao used to be a boxer, and he loves skateboarding privately. Because of the new gold medal in skateboarding at the last Tokyo Olympics, China temporarily formed this national skateboarding team in 2019. They couldn't find anyone to manage it, so they had to call Yu Wenhao over.

Cai Xiaolei is a serious skateboarder, but his strength is average. The strongest foreign coach here is Peterson.

The three people obviously didn't say anything when they saw Chen Shu. With the gold medal in hand, this is their biggest reliance.

"Chen Shu, the women's competition will be over soon, you should practice hard!"

"Although you have strong skills, you haven't practiced for a few days, so you are not so good, right?"

Cai Xiaolei said to Chen Shu, and Chen Shu did not argue: "Got it, Coach Cai!"

"Oh, Cui Chenxi advanced to the finals?"

Chen Shu glanced at the players who were warming up for the finals in the training field. A thin figure in red clothes made Chen Shu's eyes light up; but there were two teammates, but he couldn't find them.

The strongest one is actually Zeng Wenhui, who ranked sixth in street skateboarding at the last Tokyo Olympics.

However, when you are old, you may not be able to perform skills sometimes, so you may make mistakes and get low scores; it is normal not to advance to the finals. Skateboarding is a very cruel and uncertain sport. Unlike swimming, you are strong if you are strong, such as Pan Zhanle, who is very stable in getting a medal.

Even if the state and performance are not good, the gold medal will become a bronze medal at most.

But it is normal for the current world No. 1 skateboarder to fail to enter the finals, because in an unsuitable venue, he may fall down continuously.

No skateboard athlete can guarantee 100% completion of high-scoring moves. Luck and the success rate of normal moves are crucial!

"Well, Xiao Cui is not bad, very stable!"

"It's a pity for Wen Hui, she made mistakes twice..."

Cai Xiaolei shook his head: "Don't learn from her. She fell behind in the last challenge and failed!"

"Play steadily first and advance to the finals first!"

Cai Xiaolei explained, Chen Shu said "oh", but didn't say anything, because the final of the women's street skateboarding started.