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

In a short distance of 500 meters, two people are fighting fiercely at every corner.Chi Lang used his physical advantage, while Gu Ran used his flexibility.

The audience did not expect that the youth competition could be so fierce and beautiful.In the process of surpassing each other, it is inevitable that the two will have some physical contact. At this time, the audience in the stands will sweat for Gu Ran - he is really too thin.

But this is all the illusion of the audience, only Chi Lang knows that he has no advantage in this competition at all.

Every time he wanted to threaten Gu Ran with his body, the other party seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and he didn't fight him physically at all, so he stepped aside.

It was as if he had been punched in the cotton with a fist, and he couldn't exert any strength.

Although Gu Ran let him go, he will definitely try to overtake him at the next bend.

It was also because of his short stature and slender figure that when he saw the right time to overtake, his speed was so fast that he had slipped past in the blink of an eye.Then he went out of the curve and reached the straight road, Chi Lang couldn't do anything.

The two stalemate and came to the last corner.

After leaving this corner, the end is ahead.

When entering the curve, Chi Lang was in front of Gu Ran, but when Gu Ran exited the curve, he chased him from the inner lane to a position almost parallel to him.

At the last moment of the game, the winner was still unannounced. In the stands, many spectators couldn't help becoming nervous.

The area where the players from Province J and Province H gathered was not far away. At this time, the players from both sides rushed to the railing, cheering for their teammates with the loudest shouts.

Generally speaking, when track and field athletes cross the line, they try to stretch their heads forward as much as possible, while short track speed skating is just the opposite.

According to the rules of short track speed skating, the effective part of crossing the line is the ice skate.Therefore, athletes will stretch their feet as much as possible when they reach the finish line.

Seeing that the finish line was about to come, Gu Ran thought that Chi Lang's height and long legs must have an advantage over him.

He went all out and stretched the front leg forward desperately. He was already fast, but when he slid out, he lost his center of gravity, staggered two steps, and was about to fall to the ice.

At this moment, someone stretched out his hand, wanting to grab him. In desperation, Gu Ran grabbed the man's arm.

But this pull, not only did not stop Gu Ran from falling, even the person next to him also fell down with him.

Wrestling is common in short track speed skating competitions, but falling over the finish line is not common.

The two people who were fighting for life and death just now fell into a ball, not to mention how funny the scene was.

There was a burst of exclamation from the stands, and then a roar of laughter.

Gu Ran: "..."

Chi Lang: "..."

If the two runners crossing the line behind were not far enough apart and had a few tenths of a second to react, they might have fallen on them too.

"When are you going to get up?"

"what?"

Gu Ran looked down and saw that Chi Lang, who had been dragged down by him, had an arm under him.

Gu Ran hurriedly got up with both hands and feet, and stretched out her hand to pull Chi Lang: "Sorry."

Chi Lang fended off his hand, stood up by himself, and slid away without looking back.

Gu Ran withdrew her hand resentfully, and slid forward for a while pretending to be nonchalant.

When I got to the sidelines, feeling less embarrassed, I took off my helmet and goggles.

Just now he and Chi Lang crossed the line almost at the same time and fell together again, he didn't pay attention to who took the first place.

At this moment, he raised his head and looked at the big screen.

The audience's attention was already on him, and everyone was talking about him:

"Wow ha ha ha, he blushed, so cute!"

"It's so embarrassing, I can dig a big flat layer on the ice with an ice skate hahahaha!"

"However, he is good-looking, and he is also very good-looking when he blush."

"He still has two small dimples on his face when he smiles, which is too sweet!"

"..."

Gu Ran can't hear these comments now, his name is impressively ranked first, he won the 500-meter gold medal after he beat Chi Lang!

Winning the championship for the first time in the competition, the children were somewhat excited, turned around and slid to the coaching area on the sidelines, where Xu Qing and Director Wang were standing.

Gu Ran opened her arms and rushed towards Xu Qing, wanting to hug him and celebrate.

Xu Qing folded his hands on his chest and raised an eyebrow at him.Gu Ran paused her hand in the air, then turned around and threw herself into Director Wang's arms.

Director Wang was happier than him, rubbing his head: "Amazing, you are the youngest and shortest in this group. If everyone is optimistic about Chi Lang, you can still win the gold medal."

Xu Qing said: "It's the youth competition, the referee is not so strict, otherwise you will be a dangerous sprint and your results will be cancelled."

Gu Ran: "..."

At the top of the stand, Cheng Sen, who watched the whole game, commented: "The balance is very good, he is very good at finding opportunities and routes, his body proportion is also very good, he has a very strong desire to win, his skills are average, but he only practiced for seven days. months, it is very rare to have this technology.”

Song Zhixin doesn't care much about what he said, he only cares about one question: "Is this height not enough? He is almost 14 years old."

Before hearing Cheng Sen's answer, someone walked by: "Director Song, the award ceremony is next, and you are the award presenter, let's go down."

顾染拿了No.1，No.2和No.3都被H省拿走了。在他们之前领奖的是U16女子500米的前三。J省拿了个No.2，H省又包揽No.1和No.3。

Only then did he personally feel that Province H is the champion of short track speed skating, and Province J can only be regarded as a younger brother in front of them. The difference is not only in the number of gold medals, but also in scale, history, importance and talent reserves, etc.

With the heavy gold medal hanging around his neck, it was hard to express the excitement in Gu Ran's heart in words.

But this feeling is great, a U-series champion doesn't mean much, but it arouses Gu Ran's desire to win.If he continues to practice, maybe he can also experience what it feels like to win a national championship, a world championship, or even a Winter Olympics championship.

The last part of the award ceremony was to take a group photo with the award presenters and young contestants.Gu Ran's small stature is sandwiched between Chi Lang and another person, and the picture is quite joyful.

Before leaving, Song Zhixin suddenly patted his head and said with a smile: "Little guy, remember to eat more when you go back."

"???"

Before Gu Ran realized what he meant, the other party had already left.

After the awards ceremony, Gu Ran was about to go to the locker room to change clothes, but halfway there she felt someone bumping into his shoulder. Looking back, it turned out to be Chi Lang.

Gu Ran raised her head and looked at him in confusion.Chi Lang frowned, and asked an unexpected question for Gu Ran: "What kind of enmity do we have?"

Gu Ran was puzzled: "It seems that I don't know him."

Chi Lang asked again: "You want to win me that much?"

"It has nothing to do with you," Gu Ran shook the gold medal in his hand, "No matter who it is, I want to win."

Chi Lang's frown deepened, he turned around and left, and before leaving, he still said harshly: "Next month's Qingdao race, I will definitely win it back!"

Gu Ran shook her head nonchalantly: "Let's talk about it next month."

Chi Lang walked out a few steps, Gu Ran suddenly remembered something and reminded: "The dressing room is here."

Chi Lang said without looking back: "I still have a game below me."

"..."

When Gu Ran returned to the stands, he happened to run into Team Leader Zhao.The opponent didn't expect him to enter the final, let alone win the championship.

Gu Ran clearly remembered every word of what was said in the room the night before yesterday.At this time, he stood in front of the other party with a half-smile, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Zhao Ping coughed lightly: "Well... your name is Gu Ran, right? You performed well, but don't be proud. There are still two games to come, and winning the finals is the key. Thinking of a small player like you, even more It should be low-key."

Gu Ran nodded: "Yeah, the team leader said yes, I remember."

In fact, Zhao Ping himself felt embarrassed, and suddenly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, pretended to make a call, and walked to the back of the stands.

Gu Ran just sat down, put down the skates and backpack, and prepared to watch the next game.

After a while, it was the men's 16m final of the U1000 group. The other three were not Chi Lang's opponents at all. He won this gold medal very easily.

Gu Ran discovered that he was really strong. The interval between the two games was only half an hour, but his physical strength was not affected at all, and he even won one gold and one silver.

In the end, Chi Lang also participated in the relay race, and together with his teammates, won another gold medal.

Not only that, in the end, Province H also won the first place in the group score, and Province J only took the third place.

Gu Ran was envious of seeing it, and secretly made up his mind that he would also sign up for the 1000-meter and relay races next month.

After the awarding of the team awards, the Shanghai Station of the National Short Track Speed ​​Skating Youth U Series Competition is all over.

Gu Ran carried a schoolbag on her back, an ice skate on her shoulder, and a helmet in her hand as she walked out of the skating hall.

As soon as he reached the door, someone blocked his way. When he looked up, it turned out to be Chi Lang.

I don't know why, every time he saw Chi Lang, he frowned slightly, giving off a very impatient feeling.

Gu Ran blinked and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Add a WeChat." Chi Lang handed over the phone, "it's convenient for communication."

"Okay." Gu Ran held the helmet in her mouth, stretched her hands behind her back, took out her phone from her bag, and opened WeChat to scan the QR code.

He glanced down at the other person's name and almost died laughing.Chi Lang's WeChat name is Chi Dali, and his profile picture shows him wearing a sports vest showing off his biceps.

Personality signature is: "Vigorously" produces miracles.

Gu Ran couldn't help but want to laugh, but before he opened his mouth, the helmet was about to fall off, so he quickly shut his mouth again.

However, at this time, his stomach growled.

It was almost one o'clock, and he hadn't had lunch yet.

Through his friend application, Chi Lang took a look at his name, it was an English word called "Limit", and he didn't recognize it.

Chi Lang put away his phone, turned around and left.Then he threw his hand back, and something fell into Gu Ran's helmet impartially.

Gu Ran took it out and saw that it was a small bag of biscuits.

Before he had time to say thank you, Chi Lang had already walked away.

At this time, a female member of another team passing by also followed Chi Lang's example and threw something into his helmet.

Gu Ran: "..."

Immediately afterwards, several girls fed him delicious food.Several things were crackled and thrown in the helmet, including chocolates, cheese sticks, small cakes, and even a box of yogurt.

"..."

Holding the helmet, Gu Ran felt like a stray dog ​​being fed by kind people.

A girl surrounded him and asked him with a smile if he could also add a WeChat account.Just as the corner of Gu Ran's mouth raised, she heard the girl say, "Then you push Chi Lang's business card to me."

Gu Ran: "..."

After returning to Province J, Xu Qing held a meeting for all the team members.

He first summed up the results of this competition, and praised Gu Ran by name: "The new reforms in this year's competition are very unfriendly to him, but he has overcome them one by one through his own hard training. In the competition, all the opponents he faced were older than him. For the 1-2 year old players, he did not give up and won the championship in the end."

"As athletes, I hope you all have such a competitive spirit."

What Gu Ran has never lacked since he was a child is praise. Not to mention that there are only a few dozen teammates, it is a playground with thousands of people. He can still be calm when he is called out for praise.

"Eat lunch, you can go home, have a good year, and then we will announce the next training list. I wish everyone a happy new year, and the meeting is over!"

The team members left one after another, Gu Ran also followed behind everyone, got up to leave, but was stopped by Xu Qing: "You stay here, I have something to tell you."

Gu Ran sat back again, and when everyone left, Xu Qing said, "I heard that you are doing well in your studies."

Gu Ran pretended to be modest and said: "It's average, just the top three in the city."

"Then..." Xu Qing paused for a moment before asking, "If we elect you to the provincial team, would you be willing?"

When Gu Ran heard that he could enter the provincial team, the corners of his mouth involuntarily raised, but he said, "It can be considered."

Xu Qing smiled: "Don't rush to give me an answer, let you enter the provincial team, at least after May. The reason why I tell you now is to give you enough time to think about it."

"I've thought about it." Gu Ran suddenly changed his mind, "Director Xu, as long as you want me, I can do it anytime."

Xu Qing looked at him silently for a few seconds, but he still didn't understand what he meant, Xu Qingfu explained again: "Your identity has changed after entering the provincial team, you are no longer a student, but a professional athlete. Close to the country every month, your main job is to train and compete, understand?"

"..."