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

Next came the award ceremony for the last event of the day. When receiving the award, Gu Ran felt that someone was always staring at him, but he didn't feel embarrassed to see who it was.

The person who presented the awards to them was Song Zhixin again, and Gu Ran was quite impressed with him, especially since he told himself to eat more.

After arriving in the provincial team, the amount of exercise has increased, and Gu Ran's appetite is indeed much larger than before.

Duck legs, duck breast, beef can be eaten in a large plate, with rice and vegetables, and some fruit and yogurt after the meal.

But after eating so much, his head is almost the same as before, and it hasn't grown much.

Song Zhixin smiled and patted him on the shoulder twice: "Young man's physique is still a bit thin, you need to work harder."

Gu Ran smiled awkwardly but politely: "I'm working hard."

The athletes of the three teams of the champion, runner-up and third place took photos with the award-presenting guests and left the field one by one.Before reaching the sidelines, Gu Ran felt a gaze staring at him from behind.

He turned his head around and caught that man right away - it was Liu Xu, the unlucky guy who assisted Chi Lang in the 1000m final and was overtaken by him twice.

From the relay race just now to now, Liu Xu couldn't control his eyes, always looking for Gu Ran in the crowd intentionally or unintentionally.

However, with Gu Ran's head, it's really not easy to be spotted standing in a crowd.

When Gu Ran turned his head, Liu Xu knew that he had been spotted, so he immediately lowered his head, not daring to look at him again.

Gu Ran thought it was very interesting, looking at his small appearance, he seemed a little afraid of himself, but also very curious.

At this time, Chi Lang just walked up to him and asked, "What are you doing?"

Gu Ran looked at Liu Xu behind him and asked, "Why do you always stare at me?"

Hearing him talking to him, Liu Xu shrank back behind Chi Lang like a panicked rabbit.

However, Chi Lang put his arms around his teammate's shoulders and forcibly pulled him to his side, but he said to Gu Ran: "You have caused a psychological shadow on the children of our team."

Gu Ran quickly waved her hand: "No way, how can I be so scary?"

"You surpassed others from heretics twice in a row, it's just crazy." Chi Lang frowned, pretending to stand up for his teammates.

Gu Ran looked at Liu Xu, with two dimples on her face, "Then go back and think about why I was overtaken from the same position twice."

Hearing this, Liu Xu's eyes lit up: "Why?"

Gu Ran generously gave technical guidance to the opponent: "Because you have always focused on the inner lane and completely ignored the situation on the other side, it is easy to be seized by others."

Liu Xu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't understand: "The transcendence of heretics depends on absolute speed, how can this be avoided?"

However, Gu Ran said: "Insiders must have an advantage over outsiders, unless the difference in strength is extremely large, which can be avoided. You have to keep an eye on your opponents at all times and predict their actions."

Yes, everyone knows that if the strength is not particularly disparate, the one who leads the skater must have an advantage.

However, how to maintain this advantage to the end and not be surpassed by those behind is not as simple as it sounds.

Liu Xu looked at Gu Ran with admiration in his eyes: "You are so good, you must have practiced for many years."

Gu Ran showed his dimples to the other party again, and smiled brightly: "I have practiced for nine months."

"what?"

Liu Xu was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, nine months, isn't that just a novice?

However, the person in front of him who won two golds and one silver and played the most eye-catching performance in the audience, doesn't he look like a novice?

Chi Lang knocked on his head: "Ah, what, he won the 500-meter championship for the first time last month."

Liu Xu stood there in a daze: "This must be the legendary genius."

"Isn't it?" Chi Lang joked, "Hurry up and ask him for his autograph. If he wins the Olympic champion in the future, you'll earn money."

Gu Ran smiled and said, "You ate lemon today, is it so sour?"

Liu Xu smirked twice: "The signature is unnecessary, can I add your WeChat?"

"No problem," Gu Ran raised her chin, pointed to Chi Lang and said, "Chi Dali has my WeChat, let him push it to you."

Chi Lang looked unwilling: "Gu Xiaoran, it's fine if you grab my gold medal, but now you want to grab my fanboy."

Liu Xu quickly waved his hands: "No, no, no, you are all amazing, and you are all my idols."

They were chatting lively here, and many pairs of eyes were looking at this side from all directions.

Song Zhixin, who had just finished the awards and sat on the rostrum, looked at this scene and said with a smile to the officials of the winter management center: "Look, our reserve talents are still very united. We are opponents on the field, and we can also compete off the field." Be friends."

Someone next to him echoed him: "In our country, there are only a few ice training bases, and they are all concentrated in the north. The team members often train together and get along all year round. Naturally, the relationship is good."

Song Zhixin laughed again: "Swimming and track and field competitions are not all about cross-unit relay races. We can try it in the future."

"What Director Song said is that cross-unit team relay can not only promote communication between teams, but also not only compete with each other, but also learn from each other."

"..."

The eyes of all the audience in the stands were also focused on them: "I thought they should take the script of the king not seeing the king. I didn't expect that the relationship is so good."

"Now they are opponents, but they are not all teammates when they enter the national team."

"That is, our real opponents are South Korea, the United States, and Canada."

The final part of the competition is the presentation of trophies for the team awards.

This time they are still No. [-] in Province H. They have won numerous medals in men's and women's events of all age groups, far ahead of other teams.

However, province R, the second oldest in the millennium, did not even hold on to the second position this time, and was overtaken by province J with 10 points in the last relay event.

Originally, when they lost the gold medal, several players from Province R were unhappy, but now they even lost the second place in the team, and the coach and team leader were also unhappy. The atmosphere of the whole team seemed particularly solemn.

The team leader's expression was not good, and the team members did not dare to say anything.

In Province J, Team Leader Zhao was all smiles, and he didn't remember the last competition. He even asked Gu Ran to sacrifice this event for collective honor, and said without changing his expression that he was the future hope of Province J's short track speed skating team. Delegate, to accept the award.

Everyone is the captain, Gu Ran is a new team member, who has the nerve to join in the fun, quickly waved his hand, and sat behind Xu Qing.

Zhao Ping raised his eyebrows and scolded him: "You child, why are you so ignorant? I let you go to give you this opportunity to show your face in front of the leaders. Maybe the next time the national youth team trains, they will think of you. ?"

Gu Ran was annoying him to death, and he didn't know who was ignorant. Their captain was sitting next to him. Fortunately, he didn't care about other people's feelings and said such words.

Zhao Ping didn't think there was anything wrong with him either. Competitive sports didn't just focus on grades. Whoever had good grades, he would focus on taking care of them. What's wrong with that?

However, Gu Ran has her own set of principles for being a human being, and if she can't do it, she won't do it: "Then I hope they think of me because of my grades, rather than that I show my face more."

"..."

Seeing that Zhao Ping was about to train someone again, Xu Qing quickly patted the captain on the shoulder: "Don't be dazed, you are the captain, this is your job, go down quickly, the awards will be presented soon."

After the game ended and returned to province J, Gu Ran didn't need to go back to the city team, but stayed in the provincial team to continue training.

However, because they didn't take a vacation during the training camp, Xu Qing still gave him two days off.

Gu Ran stayed at home for two days, chatting with her parents about the competition, how she surpassed her opponents, how she broke the competition record, how she made a correct judgment when everyone was wrong about the number of laps. I told my parents again.

After hearing this, Gu Changfeng was even more excited than his son: "If one day, you can participate in the Winter Olympics, I will gather all your relatives and friends to witness your winning moment together."

Xu Mei sneered: "He has just participated in two youth competitions, and you are starting to dream of becoming an Olympic champion."

"Dreams are always necessary, just in case they come true someday." Gu Changfeng patted his son's head, "Besides, my son is a genius, I believe he will be able to do it."

Xu Mei gave him a white look: "You are a father, you write unrealistic ideas all day long, you should worry about your son's study."

Gu Changfeng was very surprised: "When did my son let me worry about studying?"

Speaking of study, Gu Ran thought about the provincial team again.During this period of time, he also went to several culture classes with Gao Ziyi and the others.

To be honest, he knew what the teacher said in elementary school.

It is impossible for him to give up studying because of short track speed skating, and he is reluctant to give up short track speed skating because of learning.

It was already April, and there were still two months before the end of the semester. He had to find a way to solve this matter.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and Gu Ran had to return to the provincial team to continue training.

When he left this time, he deliberately took a few high school textbooks and planned to read them in his spare time.

However, his schedule is full from morning to night, and he doesn't have much spare time.

After a month of separation, I finally looked forward to my son's return, but I haven't seen enough, Gu Ran is leaving again.

Xu Mei was very reluctant and prepared a lot of food for him.

Gu Ran picked and picked, and took out all the inedibles.

Xu Mei asked: "Didn't you like to eat this brand of beef jerky before?"

Gu Ran smiled and shook her head: "I won't eat it in the future."

Xu Mei was puzzled: "Why?"

"Affects the urine test."

"..."

"Xiao Ran," Xu Mei looked at her son intently, "Mom can tell that you really like skating."

"Really?" Gu Ran was somewhat disapproving, "It's okay."

"But you give up a lot of things for short track speed skating."

Gu Ran continued to pack her things: "You didn't teach me, no matter what you do, or you don't do it, you have to do your best."

After returning to the provincial team, Gu Ran started another month of devil training.The first two weeks were Xu Qing's tailor-made physical fitness and small-scale instruction techniques for him, and the next two weeks were ice training for competitions.

Gu Ran was still a bit overwhelmed by the 5000-meter run, and vomited for several days. His score was stable at around 23-25 ​​points, and there was no significant improvement.

During the ice training at night, Xu Qing had stricter and stricter requirements on him, especially the control of the details, even a slight deviation was not acceptable, and he must be satisfied until he was satisfied.

Most of the technical moves, with Gu Ran's brain and talent, can be done three or five times.

But there are also certain movements, Xu Qing is not satisfied no matter how he practices them, and he is asked to do them dozens or even hundreds of times over and over again.

"Director Xu," Gu Ran put his hands on his hips, looking at Xu Qing helplessly, "You are not picking on bones, you are picking on bacteria."

Xu Qing smiled lightly: "Little friend, in another two years, you will come back to thank me."

Gu Ran waved her hand: "It won't take another two years, I am very grateful to you now."

Xu Qing snorted and said, "Come on! Tomorrow's 5000 meters, there will be no less laps."

Gu Ran: "But..."

"Also, if you don't score 22 points, you will be fined a hundred push-ups."

Gu Ran gritted her teeth: "Really... I want to thank you."