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

Ao Ling's last individual competition was the 50-meter butterfly. He lost again, to Fan Yuhao.

Looking at the report card displayed on the big screen, Ao Ling Ao Ling performed at a normal level today, but Fan Yuhao swam his personal best result in more than a year, and it was also the world's best result this year.

After going ashore, Fan Yuhao couldn't wait to run over to show off to Ao Ling: "Brother is doing well today."

Ao Ling asked him: "Have you beaten chicken blood?"

Fan Yuhao approached him mysteriously and said, "Look at the stands over there."

Ao Ling looked in the direction he said, and happened to see Yang Bin with a livid old face.

Fan Yuhao said again: "I have changed coaches, so of course I have to perform well, and I will piss off that idiot Yang Bin."

Ao Ling applauded him: "You succeeded, you look at him like that, he is really angry."

Of course, Yang Bin was very angry. In the past, both the men's and women's teams in Province R had a dominant position in the domestic swimming world.

Since the appearance of Fu Xingtu, they had to give up their advantage in short-distance freestyle swimming. Finally, Fu Xingtu retired, and another apprentice of Fu Xingtu appeared.

Fortunately, they lost their advantage in the short-distance freestyle butterfly and the 200-meter medley.

As Liang Fan and Qi Yi grew up, their positions in short-distance breaststroke and backstroke were also in jeopardy.

As for the women's team, they were hit by teams from other provinces and lost many gold medals.

The performance has been regressing, and the KPI cannot be completed. How should I explain to the leader after I go back.

There is also that Fan Yuhao, who is always against himself, his performance has been sluggish under his own hands, and he hasn't won a championship in two years. How can he change the coach and win two golds and one silver immediately? He is deliberately against himself.

Of course, Fan Yuhao did this on purpose, and he was very motivated, threatening to win a gold medal at the World Swimming Championships next month.

In this championship, although Ao Ling won a lot of gold medals in individual events and relay events, he was still unwilling to lose two gold medals.

Shen Xingguo and Fu Xingtu thought nothing of it, and they would persuade him that winning or losing in international competitions is commonplace, they are all world-class players, no one is worse than anyone else, the game is better than playing on the spot, you play normally, others play super , this matter is out of control.

Ao Ling nodded half-understood, Fu Xingtu looked at him and sighed, the child who started from the highest place, he still has a lot to learn, in addition to skills, responsibility, but also must learn to fail.

Back in Province C, I just took a two-day vacation to catch my breath, and then flew to City H to start a new training camp, this time to prepare for the upcoming World Championships and Pan Pacific Championships.

In addition to Ao Ling, Qi Yi, Liang Fan, and Shen Fei being selected this time, there is also Fu Xingtu. This is the first time he has been selected for the national team since his comeback eight months ago.

When allocating the room this time, Ao Ling decisively chose the latter between Shen Fei and Fu Xingtu.

The captain said that he was too sad: "In the past, my junior brother wanted to cling to me every day and avoid Mr. Fu, but now it's better, they stick together every day, and abandoned me as a senior brother."

Ao Ling forcefully explained: "Isn't this the first time that Master Fu has been selected for the national team? I'm afraid he won't adapt. As a brother, I need to take care of him more."

"..." Shen Fei thought that he had heard it wrong, would Fu Xingtu not get used to it? He is simply a frequent visitor to the national team. When he was a player, he came twice a year and once stayed for half a year. When he became a coach, he always accompanied Ao Ling.

Fu Xingtu didn't say a word, just sat beside him and laughed. As the winner, he was calm on the surface, but in fact he was very proud of himself.

A year and a half ago, when a certain little thing heard that he was going to live in a room with him, he still vividly remembered the despair on his face, with reluctance written all over his body, wishing he could stay in Qi Yi's room for 24 hours and not come back.

Now I don't need to say anything, no matter what the child does, the first thing that comes to mind is to be with him.

The most annoying thing for Fu Xingtu now is Fan Yuhao. His current head coach has not come to the national team, so he is training with Shen Xingguo.

This kid now goes to their dormitory to look for Ao Ling every day. I don't know where the two of them have so much to talk about. Fan Yuhao even dared to ask Fu Xingtu to change rooms with him, but Fu Xingtu gave him a stare.

That night, when Ao Ling came back from Qi Yi's room, he saw Shen Xingguo as soon as he entered the door, and he was sitting and chatting with Fu Xingtu face to face.

Ao Ling smiled embarrassedly: "Did I bother you, or should I sit next to you?"

Shen Xingguo beckoned him in: "It's okay, we just chat casually."

Ao Ling sat down and listened for a while, and found that they were not chatting casually. Fu Xingtu said to Shen Xingguo: "I have thought a lot in the past few months. After this summer championship, I still decided to give up butterfly."

Ao Ling's eyes widened when he said that he gave up the butterfly stroke, but Shen Xingguo was sitting there, and he couldn't express any opinions now, so he could only listen to the two of them chatting.

Shen Xingguo's reaction was obviously uncomfortable. Hearing this for the first time: "Have you thought about it?"

Fu Xingtu nodded: "After all, two years have been wasted, and I only picked it up again at this age. I have limited energy. I can only choose to practice one main event first."

Shen Xingguo nodded: "That's true. There is still one year before the Olympics. If you focus on freestyle, you still have a good chance of winning a medal."

This incident made Ao Ling fall into thinking. He used to be a short-distance freestyle swimmer. Later, when he came to the provincial team, Fu Xingtu asked him to start practicing butterfly. He started to practice medley again, and later when he joined the national team, the leader said that he needed to swim the 200-meter freestyle relay, so his concurrent event was expanded to 200-meter freestyle.

It made him have to take care of both this and that in training now, even if he stayed in the swimming pool for eight hours a day, it seemed that there would never be enough time.

He used to always feel that he was the Seventh Prince of the Dragon Palace. As long as he was swimming in the water, what was wrong?

As long as he is willing to work hard and come back for this time, he can practice his physical fitness, practice various swimming styles, and try various distance events.

But the longer he grows up, the more he understands the world fully, and he realizes that he is actually a mortal just like the people around him. There are only 24 hours in a day. There's just not enough time to play.

When Fu Xingtu told Shen Xingguo decisively to give up butterfly tonight, he was both shocked and envious.

Why can't I be as decisive as him?

"Are you asleep?" Ao Ling asked Fu Xingtu in the dark at night.

After a while, he almost thought that Fu Xingtu had fallen asleep before he heard the other party reply him: "Not yet."

Ao Ling asked again: "Are you really willing to give up butterfly?"

"Would you like it, why not? I didn't swim butterfly as the main event. Butterfly was only a part-time event of mine. It's just that when I was your age, my physical fitness and skills were far superior to those of my peers. Even if it was a part-time event, They can't even swim with me."

"..."

Ao Ling didn't expect that the late-night heart-to-heart talk he was looking forward to and the guidance from Fu Xingtu did not appear, but instead he listened to a piece of Versailles literature.

"What's wrong?" Fu Xingtu asked him.

"It's nothing." Ao Ling turned over and faced the wall. The troubles of people are really not connected.

"Speak out if you have any troubles, and I will give you advice."

The sound suddenly rang in his ears, and then Ao Ling felt that the outer mattress sank—a huge body sat beside his bed.

Fu Xingtu turned on the bedside lamp that Ao Ling used to rely on, and the light was dimmed, for fear that the children lying on the bed would not get used to it in the dark.

Ao Ling sat up, he was always greedy for coolness, in summer he would turn on the air conditioner very low, then take off his T-shirt and sleep naked under the quilt.

Now that I got out of the bed, goose bumps immediately appeared on my arms.

Fu Xingtu grabbed the T-shirt that was crumpled up in the corner and threw it to him, then turned up the air conditioner twice: "Tell me, don't you want to swim 200 meters?"

Ao Ling put on a T-shirt and sat facing him, nodded and sighed: "Actually, I didn't want to swim the 200-meter freestyle at first, but Director Song and Director Yang found me to swim the relay and arranged a personal event for me. "

"Don't you know how to reject them?"

"But you told me, they said it was for collective honor, and you told me to win glory for the motherland, how could I refuse them?"

Speaking of this, Ao Ling felt a little wronged, and endured the humiliation and devoted a lot of energy to projects that he was not good at, but Fu Xingtu instead blamed him for not knowing how to refuse.

Fu Xingtu sighed: "Rejecting them does not conflict with winning glory for the country. You are not good at the 200-meter freestyle, and you have never practiced this event before. You are responsible for the collective honor."

What he said made sense, but Ao Ling always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

Fu Xingtu yawned and patted him on the shoulder again: "Just do what I said and tell them, it's getting late, go to sleep."

The bedside lamp went out, and the two of them lay down again. Ao Ling turned over, and then suddenly realized that what is responsible for the collective honor, in the final analysis, is to prevent the relay event that he is not good at from affecting his personal main event.

But this matter did not succeed in the end. Ao Ling was too young after all, and Song Weihua sent him back with a few words. Those who are capable work hard, and young people should exercise more. Not only that, even Fu Xingtu was pulled I went to practice the 4×200m freestyle relay.

When he received the notification, Fu Xingtu was training for four 4-meter freestyle sprints. Shen Xingguo told him before he had even breathed out that he would stay in the connection event after the training.

Fu Xingtu was baffled, and only after asking Ao Ling did he find out that Song Weihua not only conveyed Ao Ling's idea of ​​giving up the 4×200-meter relay, but also extracted from Ao Ling's mouth the rhetoric that he gave up butterfly swimming and taught Ao Ling.

As a result, Shen Xingguo received a notice in the middle of the training. After the two old athletes retired, there is a shortage of people in the 4×200m freestyle. Not only Ao Ling, but also Fu Xingtu.

This year's World Swimming Championships kicks off on July 7 in Gwangju, South Korea.

This time Ao Ling has more events than the last Asian Games. The main reason is that he has added two relay races. In this way, he has one or two events every day. The leaders only know that young people work harder , and did not consider that young people's bodies also have limits, and fatigue will also strike.

In fact, since last year's short course championship, Ao Ling's performance has remained at a constant stage, and has not been significantly improved. So far, he has not swam very good results.

This is directly related to his tired physical condition. His performance in the World Swimming Championships was also very average. His best result was only a silver medal in the 100-meter freestyle. three.

When it came to the relay, there was no one to replace except for the two freestyles, and he didn't even play in the finals of the two medley relays. Shen Xingguo replaced him with Fu Xingtu.

Ao Ling suddenly became a little dazed. He didn't know what was wrong. In the past two years, except for being injured half a year ago, his grades have never been so bad.

Six months ago, he failed to win a gold medal at the Short Course World Championships due to a left shoulder joint injury, and negative comments from the outside world rushed to his face.

At that time, he could still comfort himself. It was because of his injury that he couldn’t play well. If he could persist in all the games, he would have a clear conscience. As for the evaluation of the outside world, he didn’t care about it. There are still so many games in the future, and he can prove himself Strength.

But now, he has no physical problems, and his left shoulder is also very good, but he has not won a championship in the World Championships.

He remembered that two years ago, when he lost to Fan Yuhao by 0.01 seconds, he was very sad at that time. He felt that he had lost the gold medal that he shouldn't have lost. He regretted, blamed himself, and was unwilling.

But now, other than being at a loss, he was still at a loss. During the eight-day competition, he didn't even know what happened. From the time he lost his first gold medal, his whole feeling in the water seemed to be different.

Because he was temporarily replaced in the relay race, Ao Ling would have no competition for the next two days. He sat alone in the stands, and the competition on the field became boring to him, even for Qi Yi and Liang Fan. Even the competition couldn't make him interested.

Ao Ling sat alone at the farthest side of the stand on their side, and when someone came to talk to him, he raised his spirits to deal with it, and most of the time he just sat quietly, not knowing what was going on in his little head.

Shen Fei came over to coax him, took yogurt and snacks, but found that even the little guy's favorite chocolate and seaweed, he just shook his head, smiled at himself perfunctorily, and said, "Senior brother, I'm not hungry."

There are times when he is not hungry? !

As long as there was no competition, Fu Xingtu would always sit beside him. The two of them sat quietly without saying a word.

Qi Yi and Liang Fan often came over to tease him, and when he was about to say a few words of comfort, Ao Ling would show them a smile: "I'm fine."

Fan Yuhao ran over to show off his gold medal. He beat Singapore's Sterry in the 50m butterfly. Ao Ling only got No.3.Liang Fan told him to stay alone, don't come over to annoy others.

Ao Ling smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Just wait, I will definitely win back next time."

"Oh," Fan Yuhao sighed, and pinched his face again, "If you can't smile, stop laughing, it's so ugly."

After all the competitions were over, the whole team held a summary meeting together. The leaders emphasized the players who won medals in the competition, including Ao Ling.

However, Shen Xingguo, as his head coach, still made a symbolic criticism, and there was only one sentence, saying: "You are capable of breaking the world record. Although this result is within the normal level, you lost the gold medal. You should go back Think about it for a while."

Then he turned his head to name Fu Xingtu and Shen Fei, nagging and complaining about their many problems.

Yang Bin sat across from him with a sullen old face. He wanted to listen to Shen Xingguo train his team members and watch their jokes, but he said it calmly. He didn't know what kind of criticism it was. Sounds more like showing off.

On the other hand, Fu Xingtu and Shen Fei, who were scolded in vain, and in front of so many people, thought about it, this is the little brother bearing the injury, so they were relieved.

As soon as Shen Xingguo finished his summary, Yang Bin couldn't wait to speak, but he had to pretend to look at others, and seeing that the coaches of other teams didn't intend to speak, he cleared his throat: "Then let me say a few words. "

作者有话要说：感谢在2021-04-2723:48:20~2021-04-2820:21:55期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 pair of glasses and earrings;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!