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

"The jungler on the other side is bloody, don't let him go!" The classmate "corpse" who teamed up with Gu Ran to fight the gangster fell to the ground and shouted excitedly.

Gu Ran glanced at the small map: "Leave it to me."

"But... there is no vision."

"It's okay, I know where he is." Gu Ran said with a faint smile, "Three, two, one..."

The next moment, a voice broadcast sounded on the battlefield: "Anenemyhasbeenslain! (Our side kills the enemy!)"

The classmate blurted out "Awesome".

Immediately after a dialog box popped up, the enemy jungler said, "Damn it, you're out!"

Gu Ran also started typing at full frequency: "It doesn't matter if you have been to elementary school."

Enemy jungler: "???"

"Your final view is near the river, but your first tower is gone, you will definitely choose the grass behind to return to the city. It is known that the length of the middle road river is 1200 yards, and the position from the river to the first tower is about 700 yards. The distance to the bushes behind is about one flash, or 400 yards."

"Your initial movement speed is 360, plus shoes 60, with a 10% bonus for mainstream runes, the movement speed should be 456. Your first skill has two displacements, adding up to 750 yards."

"Then the time for you to reach the grass is about 3.39 seconds, and the error is within 1 second. I am in the grass next to the dragon pit, and the maximum range of my ultimate move is 3000 yards, which is just enough to kill you."

"!!!"

Other teammates and opponents were stunned.A string of "big brother", "awesome" and "666" floated out of the dialog box.

The classmate patted his thigh and laughed wildly: "Is this Xueba playing games?"

Gu Ran said: "I fooled him, you also believe it."

"..."

Gu Ran had just finished pretending to be aggressive, when the screen flickered, the anti-addiction time was up, and he was forcibly logged off.

It's a pity that the game of Dashunfeng didn't reach the end. Gu Ran threw away the phone, fell down on the bed and sighed heavily.

At this time, his mother Xu Mei knocked on the door and walked in: "Playing games again..."

Gu Ran said before her mother chattered: "I am the first in the final exam grade."

Xu Mei liked to hear these words, and didn't mention the matter of playing games: "I have something to ask for your help. Your uncle and aunt have to go to work tomorrow, so you take your cousin to the city sports school to participate in the selection."

Gu Ran turned over: "It's such a hot day..."

Xu Mei interrupted him: "I'll send you a red envelope of two hundred."

Gu Ran reluctantly agreed: "That's fine!"

Even in this northern city, the scorching sun in July can make people dizzy.

The little cousin took Gu Ran's hand and urged him: "Hurry up, you're going to be late!"

Gu Ran wiped the sweat off her brow: "How do you choose people for figure skating outside?"

The little cousin corrected him: "It's short track speed skating."

"Shouldn't short track speed skating be on ice?"

"It is an enlightenment selection for 6-10 years old, testing the most basic physical fitness."

When they arrived, many children and parents had already gathered in the playground.

Gu Ran looked around, and sure enough, they were all children who were about the same age as her little cousin. There were about 20 boys and girls.

After a while, a coach called the children to take a test. Gu Ran and a group of aunts stood under the shade of a tree and watched from afar.

Unexpectedly, the first test was very difficult. Few of the more than 20 children could complete it, and they fell all over the place.

After the first test was over, the children walked over dejectedly.The parents who felt sorry for their children left without saying a word.Those who did not leave were also handing water to wipe their sweat, encouraging them to persevere.

Strictly speaking, Gu Ran is not considered a parent. He doesn't feel sorry for the child at all. He bent his fingers and mercilessly tapped his little cousin on the head twice: "You can't even complete such a simple action?"

The little cousin looked aggrieved: "Jane... is it simple?"

Gu Ran half-closed her eyes: "Is it difficult?"

The little cousin twitched his lips, with a look of disbelief: "Then you try it."

"Hold it!" Gu Ran threw him the mineral water in her hand, imitating the coach's movement just now, stretching her hands forward, raising one leg, and doing a single-leg squat neatly.

"Isn't it simple, huh?"

The little cousin looked at him dumbfounded: "This..."

"This, this, it doesn't matter if you have legs?"

Gu Ran did several more in one breath, and finally increased the difficulty - after squatting, he stood up in a jumping way, and then alternately supported his legs, so he did several more.

The little cousin was too shocked to speak: "Brother..."

"Do what you did just now." Gu Ran turned her head, and there were a few people with stopwatches standing beside her, who were the coaches who selected the players.

The person talking to him was an old man in his 50s, and the person next to him called him Director Jiang.

Gu Ran hesitated for a moment, so many people looked at him and felt embarrassed to walk away, so he did as he said.

Then that director Jiang said to him: "We still have a few tests to do next, you can complete them together."

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, Gu Ran is a little unhappy.The little cousin beside Naihe pulled his T-shirt and whispered: "Brother, he is the coach of the city team."

The little cousin looked at him expectantly, Gu Ran had no choice but to agree.

The next tests are relatively simple, standing long jump, sit-ups, 100 meters, 200 meters sprint.It was easier for Gu Ran to finish, and her grades far surpassed other children.

Several coaches surrounded Director Jiang, their eyes were shining when they looked at Gu Ran:

"Look at this slender waist and hips, it is naturally conducive to occupying space!"

"The balance, flexibility and explosiveness are also great!"

"Perfect body proportions and excellent joint flexibility!"

"..."

After the selection, the children went home and waited for the announcement.Gu Ran was also preparing to leave with her cousin.Not long after he walked out, he was called back by that director Jiang again.

The other party asked him to go to the office and sit down for a chat, "My name is Jiang Yan, and I'm the coach of the city's short track speed skating team. What's your name?"

"Gu Ran."

Jiang Yan nodded: "Well, you call your parents now and ask them to come over."

"Huh?" Gu Ran felt that he might have guessed it. The coach didn't like his cousin, but him.

"We decided to admit you."

"Admit me?" Gu Ran couldn't help laughing, "But I don't meet your age requirements."

Director Jiang looked him over from top to bottom: "Your head should only be eleven or twelve years old."

Gu Ran seemed to have suffered a great insult: "On the 30th of last month, I just turned 13."

Jiang Yan really didn't see it: "It's a little bit older, and it's a little late for enlightenment now. But it doesn't matter, you have talent, and God rewards you."

I have heard this sentence many times since I was a child: "God rewards me with too much food, I can't eat it."

"How to say?"

Gu Ran said, "The academic performance is not bad, it's not a big problem to work hard to get into an ideal university."

Jiang Yan waved his hand: "If you win the Olympic champion in the future, you can choose a good school!"

"..."

After thinking about it, Gu Ran still called his parents.

Soon, his parents came over.After communicating with Jiang Yan, the couple were first happy about their son's talent, but they disagreed not long after.

Gu Ran's father, Gu Changfeng, was very happy: "Professional coaches say that my son is talented, and maybe he can join the national team to win glory for the country, win an Olympic champion or something."

Gu Ran gave his father a thumbs up: "You are really enlightened, but you think too far."

Xu Mei glared at her husband: "There is only one Olympic champion, but there are countless people practicing short track speed skating all over the world. How do you know that your son must be the one who laughs last?"

"There are 1000 million people in the country who take the college entrance examination every year. How many of them can get into Qingbei?" Gu Changfeng put his arms around his son's shoulders, "Dad doesn't mean that you can't pass the exam, what Dad means is that we can have another choice ,Am I right."

Gu Ran thought for a while and said, "It makes sense."

"The child's energy is limited, and he will not be able to take care of both ends. Besides, which sportsman is not injured all over? I don't want my son to suffer this."

"Then..." The last point made Gu Changfeng a little shaken, and he couldn't bear to let his precious son get hurt, but he still whispered, "It's not bad to just treat it as a hobby and exercise your body and will."

Xu Mei saw that her son was much shorter than his peers. The doctor also said that at this age, strengthening physical exercise can promote growth and development.

She thought about it and felt that what her husband said made sense, but she was still worried that it would affect her studies, so she couldn't make up her mind for a while.

So, she turned her head and looked at Gu Ran: "You are not young anymore, you should make your own decisions."

"???"

Gu Ran shrugged: "But I don't know much about this sport."

Jiang Yan said: "Come learn from me, and you will understand."

Gu Ran thought for a while: "But, I'm not interested."

Xu Mei said, "That's fine, let's go home."

Jiang Yan at the side heard something was wrong, and immediately came over to stop them: "This is really the most talented child I have ever seen, can you discuss it again?"

Xu Mei smiled politely: "Director Jiang, the child also said he's not interested, so let's just forget about it."

"Is this good?" Jiang Yan put forward a plan in a hurry: "Let the children come to the trial training for three weeks first, and it will be a summer interest class, giving each other a chance to try."

Before Gu Ran could speak, Jiang Yan put forward an additional condition: "If you agree, the kid next to you can also come to the trial training together."

The little cousin posted all over Gu Ran: "Brother~~Brother~~Brother~~~"

Gu Ran glared at him: "Are you going to lay eggs?"

The little cousin looked at Xu Mei pitifully: "Auntie, I want to go..."

Xu Mei looked at her son, Gu Ran thought that it would be better for him to learn how to skate during the summer vacation than for his mother to enroll him in those messy training classes.

Besides Jiang Yan and his little cousin, Gu Ran's father was the happiest.That night, I spent thousands of dollars buying equipment for my son, including skates, skates, helmet, gloves, jumpsuit, goggles, shin guards, and even a whetstone.

Gu Ran really admired his father's character of saying that the wind is the rain, adding endless fun to the boring family life.

Just like that, Gu Ran brought her little cousin to the ice skating hall in City C with the intention of taking interest classes for free, and trained with a group of children who were at least three years younger than him.

It started with five days of land training that mostly mimicked the basics of skating.This is not difficult for Gu Ran, as long as it is a task assigned by Jiang Yan, he can easily complete it.

But he attributed this to the fact that he was older and had a better understanding ability, so he naturally did better than those children, which is nothing unusual.

Five days later, Gu Ran ushered in her first training on the ice. When she put on the skates and stepped on the ice, she had an indescribably wonderful feeling.

It's strange that he can't skate, but he can feel that delicate balance, and find the center of gravity by feeling.

Jiang Yan told him a few movement essentials, and asked him to practice while holding on to the railing, and then turned to look at the other players, intending to come back to him in 15 minutes.

In less than 5 minutes, Jiang Yan just turned around inadvertently, and saw Gu Ran let go of the railing, leaning forward, and carefully walked a few steps on the ice.

With these few steps, his sense of balance surpassed that of ordinary people, his grasp of the center of gravity, and the angle of his body when he leaned forward, made Jiang Yan feel that as long as he was carefully trained, this kid would at least be a world champion for at least five years.

Jiang Yan asked Gu Ran: "You have learned to skate before, right?"

"No."

"That is to learn roller skating."

"nor."

Jiang Yan said with emotion: "It really made me discover a genius."

"..."

Three weeks passed quickly, with five days of training on land and sixteen days of training on ice, Gu Ran had initially mastered the basics of short-track speed skating, skating steadily and quickly on the ice with skates, The pose looks the same too.

In Jiang Yan's words, what other children need to practice repeatedly for half a year to master, he did it in three weeks.

Finally, Jiang Yan also arranged a small test for Gu Ran and a few team members to race a 500-meter race.

Gu Ran didn't take it seriously at first, because other than him, the team members were all children under the age of 10, and he won't win by force.

Just for fun.

However, after setting off, he felt something was wrong.

One of the children jumped out at the moment the whistle sounded, and his movements were skillful, and the frequency of kicking the ice was very fast.

Gu Ran's eyes lit up, and he felt that when he was pedaling, his movements looked well-coordinated and beautiful, and his speed was also very fast, so he couldn't help but followed suit.

The child talked faster and faster, and Gu Ran kept speeding up his ice pedaling in order to keep up with him.

He didn't think too much about it, he just felt that it would be too embarrassing if he was thrown too far away by a child who was several years younger than himself.

However, when crossing a corner, due to the effect of centrifugal force, his body tilted too much, and he almost fell down.

Gu Ran quickly supported the ice surface with his hands, and the buttons on his fingertips swept across the smooth ice surface. When he came out of the curve, he stood up again.

In the past three weeks, he had only learned some basics. Jiang Yan didn't teach him the technique of supporting the ice with his left hand when crossing a curve.

Jiang Yan was already surprised when he saw him supporting the ice, and he was even more surprised when he saw him naturally establish a balance.

In the final half of the journey, Gu Ran began to correct his movements according to the opponent's movements.

Lean your body forward to reduce air resistance, gather yourself up as much as possible, kick off the ice before entering the corner, and add another knife when you exit the corner...

The child in front had already thrown away the distance from him, and he chased him up after just a bend.

There is only one step away from the finish line. Jiang Yan said that the way of hitting the line in short track speed skating is not the body, but the skates.