[Competition] The Road to Champion of the Seventh Prince of the Dragon Palace

After returning home, Shen Xingguo and the leaders of the sports bureau thought that Fu Xingtu's performance this time was already very good.

After all, he has only resumed training for a few months, and it is not something ordinary people can achieve to achieve such a result.

Even Song Weihua called to encourage him, saying that although he watched his game, although it is incomparable with the past, he is still very optimistic about him, and said that he is waiting for the day when he returns to the national team.

But Fu Xingtu himself was not satisfied. Although he still had the same look of "what the hell are you swimming, give me the 1500-meter technical swim" in front of people, Ao Ling could tell that he was actually not feeling well at all.

Ao Ling didn't know how to comfort him, so she stayed with him every day and watched him train harder. She wished she could spend eight hours in the swimming pool and four hours in the gym at night.

During the training, Ao Ling practiced with him. After the training, Ao Ling stood aside and helped him pinch the stopwatch. Seeing him working so hard, he really pushed himself to death. Ao Ling couldn't bear it.

This kind of high-intensity and long-term training also places a heavy load on the heart, and Ao Ling is still very worried about his body.

He mentioned his concerns to Fu Xingtu, who just patted his head and said he understood, and said nothing more.

Ao Ling didn't spend much time back in the provincial team, only three or four days, and then he had to fly to the national team for training.

There were only him and Qi Yi in this training camp, not even Shen Fei and Liang Fan, because they were about to participate in the FINA Championship Swimming Series.

This event is a brand-new event that FINA has only started to hold for several years. The contestants plan to be medalists from the Olympic Games and World Championships. The event aims to provide these high-level swimmers with a brand new world-class platform. They meet at FINA (International Swimming Federation) events. (From Baidu Encyclopedia)

The event is an invitation-only competition, and the invited players will include Olympic champions, world champions, world record holders, and world number one swimmers in various events.

比赛只设置50米、100米和200米自由泳、仰泳、蝶泳和蛙泳的比赛，还包括200米和400米混合泳以及男女4×100米自由泳和混合泳四项接力。

There are a total of 28 competitions for men and women in this event, so there are not many people participating, and the time is only three days.

Qi Yi did not have an individual event, and no Chinese players were invited to his event. He only participated in a 4×100-meter medley relay.

Ao Ling hadn't even participated in the World Championships, and the short course World Championships was completely affected by injuries. This time, she was directly invited to compete with other high-level athletes, and she was still a little flustered.

The location of the national team training this time is the newly built training center in City H. There are not many players from each province, mainly players from Province R. Even their second team has arranged for several small players to follow the national team. train together.

Because of this, Ao Ling also learned a word—substitute training.

I have to sigh with emotion that in addition to being strong in swimming, Province R is also very rich in financial resources. Not to mention the Asian Games just held, it also specially built a training center. The national team trains here several times a year. By the way, let Their players also practiced together.

Because only two players went to Province C this time, there was no coach to lead the team, and the two players went to report by themselves.

It wasn't just a coincidence or intentional arrangement. The two were assigned to Yang Bin's group. Director Yang still looked polite to them on the surface, but spoke in a strange way. He didn't care about them.

Ao Ling and Qi Yi lived in the same room, and at night, Qi Yi's phone would ring on time - it was a video call from Liang Fan.

Although Qi Yi had a disgusted expression on his face, he would pick it up every time, and then connect the phone to the charger, just talking without saying a word until he fell asleep.

Ao Ling was a little confused, what kind of state they were in, they had to click on the video to dislike each other after a distance of a thousand kilometers.

The key is not only to chat at night, the two of them also send WeChat chats during the day when they have nothing to do, especially when eating, Qi Yi is always looking down at his phone.

Apart from Liang Fan and Shen Fei, Ao Ling also misses Fu Xingtu very much. After all, the two of them are like conjoined twins in the provincial team, sticking together wherever they go.

He also often sent messages to Fu Xingtu, but the other party was too busy, whether it was training or the gym, he would concentrate on eating when he was eating, and fell asleep when he returned to the dormitory when he was tired, so he didn't have a chance to look at his phone.

The more he didn't reply to the message, the more Ao Ling couldn't help thinking about what he was doing now. It felt like he didn't say a few words to this person every day, as if something was missing.

In fact, Ao Ling wanted to tell Fu Xingtu that he had been wronged in the national team, and that Yang Bin always targeted him, but Fu Xingtu occasionally replied to him, and he seemed tired between the lines, so he couldn't use his bad thoughts to bother others. .

When Qi Yi and Liang Fan were bickering, Ao Ling occasionally leaned his head over to ask if Fu Xingtu was in the dormitory.

Nine times out of ten the answer was not there, and the other time it was falling asleep.

Ao Ling was very worried about Fu Xingtu's health, and asked Liang Fan to persuade him that it was still a long time, so don't push yourself too hard.

As a result, even Liang Fan disappeared the next day, and no one answered Qi Yi's video.

After finally connecting, I found him and Fu Xingtu practicing in the gym together.

Qi Yi was very curious: "Boss Fu tied you up?"

Liang Fan wiped the sweat off his face: "How is it possible, I'm going by myself."

"You still have something that fell into Mr. Fu's hands."

"..." These words seemed to hit Liang Fan's pain, he hastily said: "I'm going to take a shower, you two rest early, we'll talk tomorrow." Then he hung up the video.

It wasn't until the FINA Champions Swimming Series official competition that Ao Ling discovered that the Olympic Qualifying Tournament was nothing more than FINA's private goods.

A good swimming pool is just like a concert scene, with gorgeous lighting and dance beauty, cheerleading dance at the beginning, and billboards everywhere. The swimming pool has only four lanes.

The most conspicuous place in front of the swimming pool is a huge screen with geometric patterns spelled out with the logos of the patrons and fathers.

Even the appearance of the athletes is like walking on the red carpet, full of strong commercial atmosphere.

Everyone’s competitions are like playing games. In other competitions, they are sprinting at the end of the road. In the championship competition, they will slow down when they can’t swim at the end. It fully demonstrates what is friendship first and competition second. .

In the 200-meter medley competition, Ao Ling competed alone against three American players. In the end, he had already reached the finish line, and No.2 was at least two positions away from him.

At the end of the last three competitions, Ao Ling also won the best athlete award in Budapest, and the president of FINA personally presented him with the trophy.

Many sponsors saw his commercial value after last year's Asian Games. The crazy soaring topic was full of traffic, and it would be a pity not to use it to realize it.

The first domestic competition of the FINA Champions Swimming Series was also full of seats, and 99% of the audience came to see him.

The sponsor did not go directly to Ao Ling, but continued to talk to the leaders of the National Aquatics Center.

The leader called Ao Ling over, moved him emotionally and rationally, and asked him to have a sense of community, and he was not alone in shooting commercials. There were several members in the team, including Han Xinyan, Fan Yuhao and three other people from other provinces. player.

This cannot be rejected, Ao Ling can only reluctantly agree.

He agreed, but Fan Yuhao disagreed. It was said that the brand had a conflict of interest with his personal sponsor. He had a contract with them, so how could he advertise with other products of the same type.

The leader was very dissatisfied with this, but he didn't show anything. However, the next day, Fan Yuhao was called out by Yang Bin to have a private conversation. When they returned to the swimming pool, both of them looked livid.

In fact, as early as the National Swimming Championships, Ao Ling discovered that the atmosphere between Yang Bin and Fan Yuhao was not right.

When he came to the national team, he heard from He Jiaxuan in private that Fan Yuhao seemed to have a big opinion on Yang Bin. It was just a small matter at first, and it gradually developed into training.

It also involves a series of problems within their team, which is very complicated. Ao Ling doesn't want to hear it, and he can't understand it.

Later, Ao Ling heard Fan Yuhao personally talk about the shooting of the advertisement, and Yang Bin called him out, saying that this was a task assigned by the leader, and he had to do it even if he broke the contract.

Fan Yuhao grew up abroad, so he couldn't understand his style of disregarding the spirit of contract and following what the leader said, so the two of them argued.

In the end, Yang Bin told Fan Yuhao that if he wanted to continue to join the national team in the future, he had to obey the organization's arrangements.

Of course, the leaders of the national team would not say that. Business activities are business activities, and competition is competition. No matter what, they will not be confused.

Yang Bin's words were obviously spoken to Fan Yuhao as the head coach of Province R. This "obedience to the organization's arrangement" is not just a matter of fingering the advertisement.

Fan Yuhao is also a tough guy, he made it clear that he would rather die than obey, which completely angered Yang Bin.

The next day, Yang Bin began to treat him as transparent, not talking to him, not arranging training plans for him, and not even letting him stay in the swimming lane he used for training.

When he did this, the other coaches didn't dare to let Fan Yuhao train with his team, and the other team members didn't dare to provoke him, so they kept a distance from Fan Yuhao intentionally or unintentionally.

When Fan Yuhao was in glory two years ago, these people surrounded him, called him brother Hao, and praised him as the ceiling of butterfly swimming in China. Yang Bin also regarded him as a treasure. Fan.

Now his position has been replaced by Ao Ling, and his performance has stagnated for more than half a year, and he seems to be fading away from everyone. After all, he is not a player brought up by himself, and his personality is relatively public. Take him very seriously.

In fact, Qin Xiao was in the same situation with Yang Bin, but Qin Xiao's personality was not as distinct as Fan Yuhao's, and he knew how to follow Yang Bin's hair, so life was relatively easy.

Ao Ling has always had a good relationship with Fan Yuhao, and has conflicts with Yang Bin. The most important thing is that Xiaolong Cub has a strong sense of justice. He thinks that Fan Yuhao did the right thing in this matter, and Yang Bin used it to bully others.

So, Yang Bin didn't arrange training tasks for Fan Yuhao, Ao Ling arranged for him, Yang Bin didn't care about him, Ao Ling would train with him next to the swimming pool with a stopwatch every day after training.

Sometimes Ao Ling had to train himself, so he would think of ways around, sometimes it was the cleaning lady, sometimes it was the doorman who was watching the fun, and sometimes it was the team doctor who was on the sidelines to prevent accidents.

Anyway, after catching someone, he stuffed the stopwatch into their arms and asked them to help Fan Yuhao time.

Fan Yuhao asked him: "They have drawn a clear line with me now, at least in front of Yang Bin, why do you still help me?"

Ao Ling hooked his neck with one hand, and waved the other nonchalantly: "Everyone can see this, he deliberately targeted you, and the others didn't want to keep a distance from you, it's just that it's not good to be open in front of Director Yang. Against him, they support you in private, so don't think too much about it."

In fact, what Ao Ling said was correct. Fan Yuhao himself knew that the brothers He Jiaxuan, Zhang Yiyang, and Guo Zifan had all approached him several times behind his back, asking him to give in to Yang Bin, train hard first, and return home after the game. Let's talk in the team.

Fan Yuhao refused to accept this softness to the death, and felt that two outsiders, Ao Ling and Qi Yi, were willing to stand by him. Usually, his teammates got along well with him as brothers and sisters, but now they played it safe.

Qi Yi was not as polite as Ao Ling: "We have conflicts with Yang Bin, and we are not his team members. Of course we dare to confront him. Your teammates, they still have to live under him. You have to rebel against him." You can't force people to follow you to rise up."

"That's right," Ao Ling nodded, he didn't listen to the second half of Qi Yi's sentence, but he still agreed with the first half, "We have conflicts with him, I wish I could confront him and piss him off."

Fan Yuhao sat on the stool: "I trained well in Moscow, I don't know why I have to run back."

"Yes, you should think about this issue clearly." Qi Yi sat at the table, his eyes sharp as a knife, "Do you have a sense of identity with this country and are willing to work for it, or do you just think that the competition here is less. "

"..."

It was already June 6th after the three rounds of the Champion Swimming Series. When Ao Ling and Qi Yi returned to Province C, Shen Fei's college entrance examination had already ended.

Ao Ling walked around Shen Fei as if he had just finished the college entrance examination, asking him how he was doing in the exam, whether he was planning to go to Peking University or Tsinghua University.

Shen Fei patted his head lovingly: "Which university does Xiaoqi want to go to in the future?"

Ao Ling didn't think about this question, so he said casually: "Just go to university in the provincial capital, I don't want to go to other places."

At this time, Fu Xingtu, who had finished training, walked in from the outside, and Ao Ling was shocked when he saw him for the first time.

Ao Ling left the provincial team in early April to go to the national team for training, so they haven't seen each other for two months.

Fu Xingtu's hair grew a little longer, and the broken hair draped over his forehead softened his originally tough facial features a lot.The whole person has lost a lot of weight, from an oval face to an oval face, and the tight muscles on his body can be felt through the T-shirt.

Ao Ling's impression of him is still from two months ago. If he meets him on the road, he will probably only be recognized by his height.

Fu Xingtu laughed when he saw Ao Ling, who rushed over to hug him, and asked with a smile, "Did you watch my game?"

"must have."

"How do you feel, Director Fu will comment."

Fu Xingtu propped himself on the cabinet with one hand, and put his arm around him with the other: "Although I won a lot of championships, I feel like I haven't made any progress. It's a waste of time."

Qi Yi gave a rare laugh: "It hits the nail on the head."

Ao Ling stood up straight and slapped him hard on the shoulder: "It sounds like you've made great progress."

Fu Xingtu smiled noncommittally: "It's okay."

"Then I'll have to check it out tomorrow."

"Yes, but you have to tell me about your situation in the national team first."

Fu Xingtu didn't feel very good. He knew what kind of personality Yang Bin was, and he wouldn't make things difficult for them, but he would never care about them, so he wanted to know more about it.

"Wait a minute, wait a moment." At this time, Shen Fei who was sitting at the table suddenly interrupted them, "Brother, my college entrance examination is over, and next, I have to prepare for the summer championship, can we switch dormitories?" came back?"

Fu Xingtu threw the backpack on his desk: "I won't change it."

"..."

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