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

"Xiaoran," Gao Ziyi sharpened his skates, watched Gu Ran study the competition route, and couldn't help calling him, "Actually, you don't have to pay too much attention to the results of the first round."

"Well," Gu Ran held the tablet without raising her head, "It's all over anyway, so it's useless for me to care."

Gao Ziyi pushed the whetstone back and forth on the blade of the ice skate: "What I mean...Actually, according to the rules of the elite league, only the best results of three races are counted. This year the rules were changed, and only the results of races 2-4 were counted, so... "

Gu Ran frowned and asked, "Why didn't you hear from Manager Xu?"

Gao Ziyi struggled for a while, and chose between the coach and the junior, he chose to favor the junior, and sold the coach out: "He purposely didn't tell you, because he was afraid that you guys wouldn't take the game seriously."

Gu Ran was convinced: "Mr. Xu, does he belong to a fox? He's full of bad food."

Gao Ziyi reminded Xu Qing as if he had realized his conscience, "He also wanted to motivate you."

Gu Ran changed his posture, put the tablet on the pillow, and continued to study his route, where and how to slide, and marked them out one by one: "So, from now on, it is the real competition, and everyone will take it seriously. "

"..."

There was nothing wrong with what he said, Gao Ziyi lowered his head and continued to sharpen his skates. After sharpening his own, he also sharpened Gu Ran's skates. He carefully checked the edges and checked that there was no problem. Then he put the skates aside and came over to lie on Gu Ran's side Next to Dye, the two of them studied together.

Gao Ziyi discovered that Gu Ran's little head was really aura.He will plan his own route for the whole race, detailing every lap and every position, and what he should do.What to do when you are ahead, what to do when you are behind.

This is the ability that an excellent short track speed skater should have, but at their current age and stage, they can't actually understand it so thoroughly.

The two lay on Gu Ran's bed, sorted out tomorrow's game, then took a bath and went to bed.

Only by ensuring adequate sleep will you be able to meet the game energetically the next day.

Unexpectedly, the next morning, when he and Gao Ziyi went to the restaurant for breakfast, they saw a cloud of blue and white, which almost filled the entire cafeteria.

They actually lived in the same hotel as Province H this time.

Gu Ran was in a bad mood, before he could react, as expected, Chi Lang came out from nowhere, and the very domineering president frowned: "What's going on with you recently?"

Gu Ran followed Gao Ziyi to pick up the meal: "What's the situation?"

Chi Lang also took a dinner plate and followed him: "I sent you a message recently, and I haven't received your reply for three or five days."

Gu Ran said casually: "Oh, my mobile phone was confiscated by Manager Xu."

In fact, he has to train and do homework, and he has to give himself extra training. He thinks he doesn't have enough time every day, so how can he have time to chat with him.

Chi Lang continued to complain: "I asked you to play games on weekends and you didn't go online, so I lost several stars."

Gu Ran laughed at him: "Aren't you a wild king?"

"The wild king also needs help."

Gu Ran said: "I don't play support!"

"All right, all right!" Chi Lang changed his words in a good manner, "I'll help you, okay, you're a big shooter."

Gu Ran took a cup, hesitated for a moment and took a cup of milk: "I wish I had 48 hours a day, when will I play games?"

Chi Lang couldn't understand: "Is your team training so hard? What are you busy with all day long?"

"Brother, I have several homework to do every day, formulas to review, and texts to recite. I'm still practicing listening in bed at night, and I wear headphones to recite vocabulary in the morning after morning exercises."

"!!!"

Chi Lang stared at him dumbfounded: "Are you going to... Tsinghua University?"

Gao Ziyi answered for Gu Ran from the side: "It must be a test."

Zheng Wenkang and Wu Kaize sat down with dinner plates, and the latter said: "Little brother, I don't think you need to work so hard. With your talent, train hard, and you will enter the national team and win a few world championships in the future. You don't have to pick a good school."

Gu Ran smiled noncommittally, picked up the glass of milk, and drank it with the momentum of "three bowls but no post".

Coming to the skating hall after breakfast, Gu Ran went to sit in the stands, and saw athletes from other teams entering the arena one after another, and also saw many familiar figures.

The people are still the same people, and the projects they participated in are still the same, but everyone's mental outlook is really different.

As Gao Ziyi said, the results of the first race are not included in the total points ranking, and the real competition starts from this race.

All-around competitions are held not only in the elite league and the National Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships, but also in the World Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships. In fact, it is only a point competition, and there is no special "all-around competition".

主要积分规则为获得每个个人单项No.1：34分，No.2：21分，No.3：13分，No.4：8分，No.5：5分，No.6：3分，No.7：2分，No.8：1分。

The points of the three races are added up to calculate the total ranking of athletes in each group.

The individual all-around rankings for men and women are the top 32 for the adult group, and the top 24 for the youth group.

However, there were only more than 40 athletes participating in the adult group, and more than ten people were eliminated in the end.

The youth group is different. There are more than 100 male and female athletes. In the end, according to the ranking, only the top 24 can qualify for the national championship, and about 100 people need to be eliminated.

This competition is fierce. Only the top eight can get points. The better the ranking, the more points, and the difference between No.1 and No.8 is more than 30 points.

The first competition on the first competition day was the 1000-meter preliminaries. Gu Ran took a look at the women's team's competition and found that there was pressure to advance to a higher level competition. Compared with one station, it is completely different.The scale of the referee's penalty is correspondingly stricter.

This time, there have been many accidents since the preliminaries, with frequent starting and sliding penalties, and more frequent physical contact between athletes.

Gu Ran played in the sixth group. He had watched a lot of fun in the first five groups, but when it came to his group, it was much calmer.

His three opponents, judging from the last ranking, are all average in strength, and there has never been a situation where Liu Fei and Ren Yongjie are drawn into the same group by lottery.

Gu Ran has been leading the skater at the front, keeping a certain distance from No.2. The three people behind are fighting to the death for a promotion spot, which has nothing to do with him. In the end, he successfully advanced as the first in the group.

In the quarter-finals, he also entered the semi-finals without much effort.

On the other hand, good friend Chi Dali fell twice in two matches, and he didn't know how he advanced to the semi-finals.

Gu Ran came to the coach's command area, and said with a bit of luck: "I feel that this time I have better luck than last time. I didn't meet the boss before the semifinals."

Xu Qing chuckled: "It's nothing to do with luck. It's because your grades have improved, while some opponents are still standing still."

"A month ago, you were in the same group as them, maybe it was another result."

Gu Ran took a look at her own results. Indeed, Manager Xu made a lot of sense. Although the gap between the results this time and the last time was only 0.1-0.2 seconds, only she could feel the feeling when skating.

When walking to the stands, he met Chi Lang again, and Chi Dali moved his shoulders dejectedly.

Gu Ran asked him, "Are you injured?"

Chi Lang shook his head: "No, it's just a little awkward."

When he said that, Gu Ran was even more worried, and pushed his hand on his back: "Don't be careless, go back and let the team doctor take a look."

Chi Lang turned his shoulders twice: "It's all right. I just want to..."

Having said that, he frowned again and shook his head.

Gu Ran knew that he was worried about tomorrow's semi-final.After all, the first two matches were so strenuous. There are nine players in tomorrow's semi-finals. With their current strength, they are just below average.If you want to advance to the final, you have to skate the semi-final as if it were the final.

"What are you thinking about?" Gu Ran pushed him forward, "It's useless to think about it. Another way of thinking, even if you are ranked last, you still have a point."

Anyway, Province H and Province J are not far away, so Gu Ran simply accompanied Chi Lang there and handed him over to the team doctor of Province H in person.

Chi Lang turned to look at him: "Are you stupid? There will be 9 people in the semi-finals tomorrow, and the last one won't get any points."

Gu Ran said: "Then you can fight for No.8, okay?"

Chi Lang finally smiled: "Then you are the No.9."

"Bah!" Gu Ran also laughed, "I'm going to the finals."

When talking, two people have arrived. Gu Ran, the team doctor of Province H, also saw it, and pushed Chi Lang over.

Many team members in Province H turned their heads to look at him, and Liu Xu took the initiative to greet him.Compared with his brother, this classmate is really not a star and a half, but this time it can be regarded as an improvement. He was eliminated in the preliminaries last time, and this time he even entered the quarter-finals.

Next is the 500-meter preliminaries and the quarter-finals, which are much more intense than the 500-meter competition.

Almost every group is rushing, and it takes a long time after each group finishes the game to get the result.

In fact, there is almost no difference between the 1000m and 500m contestants. Most of the contestants participated in these two events at the same time.

Therefore, when the big screen shows the list of semi-finalists, take a closer look, and it is similar to the 1000-meter race.

In the 1000m semi-finals, Gu Ran and Zheng Wenkang were in the same group. In their group were Liu Fei, another player from Province H, No. 308 named Yang Chenyu, and No. 35 from Province R. It's called He Yang, and there are five people in their group.

Liu Fei is the strongest, there is no doubt about it, he will definitely occupy a place, and the remaining four people will fight for another promotion place.

There are two people in province J, and there are also two people in province H. Don't think about it, both sides will definitely consider team fighting, one main force and one auxiliary.As far as possible, ensure that your team has a place for promotion, and guarantee that the first will compete for the second.

Xu Qing closed the order book and raised a cruel but realistic problem that he had to face: "To protect the first and fight for the second, that is the goal of H province, not ours."

"Our tactic is that the two of you have to work together to fight for a promotion spot."

The two people from Province H are stronger. In the first round of the 500-meter final, Zheng Wenkang didn't skate past Yang Chenyu, and Gu Ran didn't even make it to the final.

What Xu Qing said is right, they have the capital to keep the first and fight the second, but they don't.If they can snatch a promotion spot, this semi-final will be regarded as earned.

Taking a step back, even if neither of them entered, it doesn't matter much.In the other group is Wu Kaize, who has a greater hope of advancing to the final.

Once the goal is determined, it is time to formulate specific tactics.

In normal training, Zheng Wenkang is slightly stronger than Gu Ran in the 500-meter race.

But in the 1000-meter race, the two were on par. Both of them were physically weak. After half a year of rigorous physical training, Gu Ran was even slightly better, but Zheng Wenkang's performance was more stable than Gu Ran's.

The two brothers in the same dormitory looked at each other, and Zheng Wenkang opened his mouth, just about to speak.

"I'll protect you." Gu Ran was the first to speak before him, "I'll help senior brother."

Zheng Wenkang waved his hand immediately: "No, no, let me..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Qing: "Okay, that's the decision." He took the tablet and clicked on it, "Next, let's talk about your opponents..."

"..."

After the regular meeting, the team members went back to their rooms to rest.

As soon as he walked out of Xu Qing's room, Zheng Wenkang hugged Gu Ran: "Little brother, why are you so humble?"

Gu Ran leaned back, and most of her body weight fell on the opponent: "You are indeed faster than me."

Zheng Wenkang took advantage of the opportunity to push him: "You are not slow. Five people compete, and the scene may not be chaotic. If you have the opportunity, you will go up. Do you hear me?"

Gu Ran was pushed by him and staggered two steps, turned around and put his arms around his neck, and led him into his room. Gao Ziyi who was in front of him was bumped by the two of them and almost fell to the ground, so he avoided it quickly, so as not to be hurt by Chi Yu .

Gu Ran said: "This is a team sport. The two of you must cooperate. We fight on our own. We can only lose."

Zheng Wenkang was much taller than him, and it was really uncomfortable to be strangled by him like this, but Gu Ran refused to let go, so he simply put him on the bed and pushed himself up: "It makes sense, as a junior, you should Brother, sacrifice yourself."

Gu Ran kicked him on the leg: "Go away! I'm dead, if you don't lose weight, it's up to you to help me next time."

Zheng Wenkang turned his head to look at Gao Ziyi with a bitter face: "Old Gao, this little brother's mouth is too annoying, let's donate it to him."

When it came to the semi-finals, the first match was another group. There were only four people in this group, Ren Yongjie, Wu Kaize, Chi Lang, and Meng Yuqiao.

Gu Ran wasn't worried about his senior brother, but was sweating for Chi Lang. Chi Dali and the three of them were divided into groups.

But after the game really started, he found that Chi Lang was not as bad as he thought.

Meng Yuqiao had a strong explosive power and rushed to the first place, followed by Chi Lang, but Ren Yongjie and Wu Kaize fell to third and fourth.

With their hands behind their backs, the two of them slid along in a calm and unhurried manner.Until the fifth lap, Meng Yuqiao in front couldn't hold on anymore.

From this point of view, he is a standard short-distance player, seriously biased, rushing too hard in the front, but unable to do so even if he wants to speed up the sprint behind.

When Chi Lang slowed down a little, he overtook him without hesitation.Meng Yuqiao still wanted to struggle, but although they were about the same height, their physiques were slightly different.

The key is that Chi Lang has already surpassed half of his body. If he confronts Chi Lang, it is very likely that there will be an accident and he will fall down by himself.

Although her physical fitness was poor, Meng Yuqiao was still clear-headed and had to give up the track.

As soon as he gave way, the two big bad wolves behind also took the opportunity to follow, and directly threw him to the end.

Chi Dali was flanked by two big bosses, this kind of experience has also happened to Gu Ran, and he can understand his mood at this moment.

Ren Yongjie crossed the line first, followed by Chi Lang and Wu Kaize shoulder to shoulder.

Wu Kaize is stronger than Chi Lang, but he can't hold back Chi Lang's good physical fitness. The two of them refuse to accept each other. In the end, they even got a little physically entangled.

But fortunately, there were no accidents and they all crossed the line smoothly.Meng Yuqiao was at the end, Gu Ran saw him panting like that, and thought of herself half a year ago.

Because there was contact between Chi Lang and Wu Kaize in the end, the referee might make a penalty, so the time dragged on a little longer.

Zheng Wenkang stood aside, still a little nervous.If Wu Kaize fails to make it to the final, the pressure will fall entirely on him.

Coupled with Gu Ran assisting him, if he fails to enter the finals, he will not be killed by Manager Xu after returning.

The referee watched the replay and thought that this level of physical contact was within a reasonable range and did not affect the result, so no penalty was given.

The final result came out, Wu Kaize was 0.08 seconds faster than Chi Lang and advanced to the final.

Zheng Wenkang breathed a sigh of relief at the side, and Gu Ran glanced at him: "Brother, you have to take on some responsibilities."

Zheng Wenkang said: "Senior brother has no confidence."

Not far away, Liu Fei heard their conversation, and took a meaningful look at Gu Ran.

After the staff simply cleared the ice, it was time for the second group to play.

In the quarter-finals, Gu Ran's results were not bad, and she was ranked third, with Liu Fei and Zheng Wenkang on the left, and Yang Chenyu and He Yang on the right.

Before the starting gun fired, the first penalty appeared on the field, and the No. 35 He Yang of the R province pressed the line with the tip of the ice skate.

This was a very low-level mistake, and Gu Ran seriously suspected that he did it on purpose.

The author has something to say: Gu Xiaoran: Come on, drink this cup of pure milk!