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

With the last corner left in the race, the Korean refused to give up and was still making attempts.

Gu Ran didn't give him any more chances, and the speed increased again.

He no longer cared about the situation behind, and only focused on his own skating, as long as he kept the fastest speed, the opponent would never even think about overtaking him.

At the last corner, his speed had been pulled to the extreme, and his body was tilted sharply.The audience was heartbroken watching the scene. Is the angle between the body and the ice really enough to support him not to fall on the ice, and can he return to his normal flat state when he exits the corner?

In the next second, Gu Ran gave the answer - yes!

His turns were especially smooth and smooth, with his whole body supported only by his left hand and the left skate, as light as if he was flying over the ice.

Such a large inclination angle of the body not only did not affect his speed, but also did not affect his pedaling and skating when he exited the corner.When the eyes of the audience shifted from him to the Korean player behind him, they suddenly realized that Jin Xuzhe could no longer catch up with him.

The finish line was ahead, and in less than a second, the elegant figure in the red jumpsuit had rushed over.

Immediately burst into applause and screams from the audience, the last four laps of the race was really exciting.The duel between two talented teenagers, the competition of speed and speed, surpassing and anti-surpassing, in the end, the Chinese boy crossed the line first.

Although this does not mean that he is the champion, the result of the game depends on whether the referee makes a penalty, but judging from the game on the court, the two people did not have physical contact during the game, and there should be no accident for the champion.

After the game, Gu Ran turned his head before he could catch his breath, ignored the Korean, and looked at Chi Lang.

He had been focusing on his own competition just now, and didn't pay attention to the situation of the next three or four. He didn't know what Chi Lang's final score was, and whether he had skated over the American player.

Who would have thought that as soon as he turned his head, he was hugged by Chi Lang who rushed over from behind, and Chi Dali strangled him so hard that he couldn't breathe, and shouted loudly in his ear: "Gu Xiaoran, you are too proud of your father!" Alright."

Gu Ran asked: "What about you?"

Chi Lang laughed twice: "I don't know."

"???" Gu Ran was shocked, "Don't you know how many times you skated?"

Chi Lang shrugged: "You can watch the replay later."

At this moment, the American team member suddenly came over.Standing in front of them, he took off his helmet and goggles. He has blue eyes, a high nose bridge and dark brown hair. He is a very energetic American guy.

Miller-Brown greeted them both with a smile: "Hey, how are you."

The two were taken aback for a moment. The other party spoke Chinese, but they didn't expect to be of Chinese descent.Although I don't know the reason and purpose of the other party's conversation now, I still replied: "Hello."

Chi Lang didn't speak. He had been entangled with the American player for nine laps just now. Neither of them accepted the other, and they had frequent physical contact. He didn't know how the referee would judge.

The Americans were so confident that they even came over to say hello to them before the results came out, and even introduced themselves: "My name is Miller Brown, my grandfather is from Taiwan, and I can be considered half Chinese."

Chi Lang replied bluntly: "Taiwan belongs to China, but you may not."

Gu Ran almost didn't laugh out loud, Chi Dali is usually a naive person, but he didn't expect his brain to react very quickly at this time.

I don't know if the American brother didn't hear Chi Lang's words, or didn't care about him, just smiled, but stared at Gu Ran: "Congratulations on winning the championship."

Gu Ran was noncommittal: "Not necessarily, the results haven't come out yet."

"But your performance is amazing. You are the most talented short-track athlete I have ever seen." He thought for a while, and then revised his statement, "If you go to practice Dao, you will definitely have good results."

The avenue he was talking about was speed skating. This shot pushed Gu Ran far away, but Gu Ran just smiled and said nothing.

At this time, the results on the big screen came out.Without a doubt, No.1 Gu Ran, 1 minute 26 seconds 337! ! !

Under Gu Ran's name was the Korean Jin Xuzhe, who was 0.2 seconds slower than him.

Gu Ran's gaze moved down eagerly, and he fell to the third place. He saw the bright five-star red flag, followed by Chi Lang's name in pinyin at 27.

Chi Lang won the bronze medal in the 1000m! ! !

Gu Ran turned around and hugged her best friend, her arms tightly wrapped around Chi Lang's neck, because he was a bit shorter than Chi Lang, the whole person seemed to be hanging on Chi Lang's body, big by his ear Shout: "Chi Dali, you are amazing!"

Chi Lang patted him on the shoulder: "I won a bronze medal, why are you happier than you won a gold medal?"

"Must!" Gu Ran laughed, "My son is doing well now, so Dad is naturally happy."

The two of them, one gold and one bronze, hugged each other excitedly to celebrate, but left the American aside.Miller-Brown shrugged, turned around and left with interest.

Chi Lang glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and said with a sneer, "I just don't like this banana man."

Gu Ran laughed to death: "Just because you almost got into a fight with someone on the court?"

Chi Lang shrugged: "Look for yourself."

The controversial part of the game just now is being played on the big screen.One of the scenes is that Chi Lang and the American are fighting for a position. Chi Lang is on the inside, and the American is trying to squeeze in front of him from the outside. The skate moves horizontally and almost kicks Chi Lang's skate.

This action is very dangerous, if not, Chi Lang will fall down, Chi Lang is also strong, the Americans can't help him head-on, if it is a slender figure like Gu Ran or Meng Yuqiao, he may fall out of the field.

It can be seen from the playback footage that Chi Lang was not polite to him, and pushed him at that time.However, when there is illegal physical contact between the two, there will be a penalty for the first mover. Whoever commits the foul first will be punished. The actions of the latter touching each other in order to maintain balance, or to block by dating are reasonable and will not be punished.

Chi Lang stopped Gu Ran's shoulder and said with a smile, "It's called being the first to flirt."

Gu Ran rolled her eyes and said to him, "Read more books."

The two returned to the coach's bench, Cheng Sen and Xu Qing hugged the two cubs one by one.Chi Lang took the initiative, rushed forward and threw himself into Cheng Sen's arms, giving the idol a bear hug.

After hugging, he wanted to hug Xu Qing again, but Cheng Sen grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him back: "You Director Xu's old waist can't stand such a toss."

Xu Qing just smiled, reached out and patted Chi Lang on the shoulder: "Nice job!"

Chi Lang waved his hand: "It's all based on the Americans. It's a pity that I haven't done that Korean."

Xu Qing said with a smile: "There will be opportunities in the future."

Gu Ran said: "Director Cheng, look, now the men's three individual gold medals are all ours."

He sighed again: "Unfortunately, I failed to break the tournament record."

His result is still a little short of the men's 1000m competition record.

Xu Qing said with a smile: "The Korean in front of you still disrupted the rhythm, and the two of you have been entangled for too long, so the speed is slower."

Cheng Sen said with a smile: "Although it is the World Youth Championship, you have also seen that the performance of outstanding athletes is almost the same as that of the World Championships and even the Olympics."

"You can be regarded as a rising star now. Although you are not yet old enough to participate in adult competitions, after you go back, many countries will start to study your style with videos."

Gu Ran asked: "So, they will target me in the future?"

Cheng Sen bent his fingers and tapped his helmet twice: "We'll talk about the future, and there's the last relay race, it's up to you."

Before the relay race, Gu Ran had to participate in the 1500-meter points race with Gao Ziyi and Meng Yuqiao. There were no medals, but points for the all-around event.

This is the first time Gu Ran has skated 1500 meters in a competition. Although it is only a points race, it allows him to really find the rhythm of this event on the field.

To be honest, it consumes a lot of physical energy. Even if you slide with your hands behind your back, you will be tired after ten laps, let alone two and a half laps of sprinting at the end.

Gu Ran holds two individual gold medals and ranks first in the all-around standings, followed by his senior brother Gao Ziyi, who is now leading the 1500m points race.He didn't care about the final result at all, he just wanted to preserve his physical fitness and prepare for the final men's 3000m relay final.

Not to mention Meng Yuqiao, his physical fitness is far behind that of Gu Randu, let alone Gao Ziyi.

In the end, Gao Ziyi took first place, Canadian kid Lin Jiaxi took second place, Gu Ran took third place, and Meng Yuqiao took sixth place.

After the competition, Gu Ran ranked No. 1 in total points and won the all-around gold medal, Gao Ziyi won the silver medal, and Lin Jiaxi won the bronze medal.

When they came down, Xu Qing looked at Meng Yuqiao and smiled kindly, and asked a question that was irrelevant to the competition: "Do you know how Gu Ran trained when he first arrived at the provincial team?"

As soon as Gu Ran heard this, the alarm went off in his head, and he couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat for Senior Brother Da Qiao.

Meng Yuqiao just raised her eyebrows and said honestly, "I don't know."

Xu Qing smiled again, put his arms around his shoulder and patted him: "You will know when you go back."

Meng Yuqiao nodded and said, "I will prepare for the college entrance examination when I go back."

"It doesn't matter, take the test first, and then talk after the test."

The three of them walked towards the stands at the back, Gu Ran stretched out five fingers and waved in front of Meng Yuqiao: "Seek good luck."

Meng Yuqiao thought that Xu Qing would fine him fifty laps after returning home, but she thought it was not much.Even if it is technical skiing, no speed is required, within 15 minutes is enough.

So he nodded: "Nothing."

Looking at his expression, Gu Ran knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, so she was not in a hurry to explain, and waited to see his jokes when she went back.

In the women's 3000-meter relay final, the Dutch women's team overwhelmed South Korea and China and won the championship at home. The South Korean women's team came second, and the Chinese team only won a bronze medal.

For this reason, the girls Liang Kexin and Yang Shanshan were a little sad. They spent a lot of time studying tactics and practicing handover during training in order to prepare for the relay race. They were aiming at this gold medal, but the final result was not theirs. want.

Cheng Sen was not surprised by this result. South Korea and the Netherlands are world-class teams, and the Netherlands still has home court advantage. It is indeed not an easy task to win against them.

There are many objective factors in the relay race itself, and all kinds of accidents will happen on the field. In the game just now, the four girls of the Chinese team did make many mistakes.

Yang Shanshan wiped her eyes, bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from crying.Liang Kexin on the side was also very unwilling, Xu Qing comforted them: "It's okay, come back next time."

Next is the last event of this competition, the men's 3000-meter relay.

The men's relay event in the World Youth Championship is the same as the women's, with 3000 meters and 27 laps.The four players of the Chinese team are Meng Yuqiao, Gu Ran, Chi Lang and Gao Ziyi.

The four participating teams are China, South Korea, Canada and Russia.

Meng Yuqiao slipped the first pole because of her explosive power and fast starting speed.As soon as he started, he firmly occupied the first position. The Korean behind him has been chasing him desperately, but the baton will be handed over after the first lap.

The second player of the Chinese team is Gu Ran. He is in the first position, and no one can catch up with him. The Koreans can only see his figure behind him, but they have no chance to surpass him.

Gu Ran took a lap and a half, handed it over to Chi Lang, and then Gao Ziyi. Everyone performed very stably, without any mistakes or accidents.

South Korea began to change tactics after more than ten laps, from adjusting the position of the baton handover of the players, to adjusting the number of laps each player skated, and finally even the time of baton handover has changed.

It can be seen that this is a tactic they prepared in advance, and the purpose is to disrupt the rhythm of others.

But they were in second place, and what disrupted was the rhythm of Russia and Canada behind them, which had no effect on the Chinese team.

On the contrary, after the number of laps increased, the Koreans themselves were a little confused. They couldn't tell who should take the baton. Therefore, the players who took over the baton started a little late, but they were overtaken by Canada behind.

The Chinese team led the slide all the way, and slid down lap after lap according to their own rhythm, and the advantage was getting bigger and bigger.

This feeling of gliding with peace of mind without being disturbed by others is really great.Gu Ran felt that both Meng Yuqiao and Chi Lang were much faster than their skating speed in individual events.

In the last two laps, Gu Ran and Meng Yuqiao completed the handover, accelerated and slid to the finish line with all their might.

Not only for the gold medal, but also for breaking the tournament record for the fourth time!

The Chinese team was in great shape and kept the lead until the end.On the other hand, the South Korean team followed skating in embarrassment. I couldn't remember my complicated tactics. You thought I should be on it, but I thought I should be on it again after I just finished skating. When they quarreled on the field, they really presented a comedy show on the short track speed skating field to the audience.

The more they want to catch up with the Chinese team in front, the more Canada will chase them after them.Especially the kid Lin Jiaxi, he probably didn’t like Koreans very much. Every time it was his turn, he rushed forward with all his might. silver medal.

The South Korean team could only rank third. After the game ended, several players were still complaining to each other.

Gu Ran took a look, and it seemed that one of the team members did not participate in individual events, but only participated in the relay race.He looked very young, and was criticized by several of his seniors in turn, so he had to stand up and take the blame.

Gu Ran and his four teammates stood on the sidelines, putting each other's shoulders on each other, waiting for the final result.

Gu Ran said, "I'm a little nervous."

Chi Lang on the side sneered: "We will definitely win the championship, why are you nervous?"

Gao Ziyi smiled and said, "Xiao Ran wants to break the record."

Meng Yuqiao stood at the very edge, raised her head, stared at the big screen without saying a word.

Cheng Sen and Xu Qing stood behind them, separated from them by an anti-collision wall.At this moment, the two coaches were both excited and excited, and a little complicated.

There is no suspense about the gold medal, but as Gao Ziyi said, they are also looking forward to breaking the record in this relay event.

Soon, the big screen showed the results, No.1, the Chinese team!Score: 3 minutes 58 seconds 501.

When seeing the ranking and results, Gu Ran still suppressed his emotions, until he saw the "MR", he raised his hands and shouted.

Chi Lang's loud voice rang in his ears: "Break the record, break the record, Gu Xiaoran, let's break the record!!!"

The four Chinese teenagers hugged each other tightly, and countless flash lights gathered at their positions on the sidelines.

In this session of the World Youth Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships, they shined brilliantly, beat South Korea, won all the men's events and mixed relay gold medals, and used their own strength to show the demeanor of Chinese teenagers to the world!

They also let all the national teams present, especially the Koreans see the rise of China's short track speed skating. The white track in the future will never be ruled by them!

The author has something to say: 5000 meters was written earlier, but it is actually 3000 meters.

In addition, this result is the result of the Chinese team in the men's relay at the Montreal World Youth Championship, and broke the tournament record. It is a small easter egg.