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

In March, Gu Ran didn't go to school for two days, so she stopped classes and started intensive training to prepare for the World Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships to be held in Sheffield, England on March 3.

Qi Siyuan, who practiced fencing, even sent him a WeChat message: "I went to your classroom to play with you during recess today, and they said you asked for leave again."

Gu Ran said: "I'm going to participate in the World Championships soon, I'll come back to play with you."

Qi Siyuan came over with a wry smile: "When you come back, I'm going to start training too."

"It's okay, after the World Championships, I won't play until September."

"Okay! I have a chance to learn skating from you."

"I also want to learn fencing from you."

So, two friends with completely different projects and even different seasons made an appointment to learn from each other when they had time.

Since the World Cup, Gu Ran has seen the advantages of many South Korean players in terms of physical flexibility. He usually pays more attention to stretching his ligaments during land training, and sometimes asks Shen Jia for advice.

Shen Jia looked at his sitting position with his body bent forward, his upper body could stick close to his legs, and exclaimed: "Your flexibility is already very good, and it should be considered top-notch in your short track speed skating and speed skating."

"Oh, I remember, you said you learned to dance before."

Gu Ran sighed: "Maybe my mother thinks that she was born an all-rounder and wants her son to try everything."

Shen Jia said: "You are very powerful. When you start to stretch your ligaments at your age, few people can bear this hardship."

Gu Ran asked nonchalantly, "Is it bitter, why don't I feel it?"

Shen Jia squatted down and looked at him carefully: "Brother, don't you feel the sweat from the pain?"

Gu Ran gritted her teeth, her eyes stared like copper bells: "I feel so good!"

Shen Jia patted him on the shoulder: "I figured it out, you are indeed a ruthless person,"

Gu Ran said: "You don't know, the strength and flexibility of the legs of those Koreans are really outstanding, so when they do the movements, they look very reasonable and very stretched."

Gu Ran changed his posture to sitting sideways leg press. Not only can his hands touch the toes, but it is no problem to hold the soles of the feet: "You said, those Koreans can do it, why can't I?"

Shen Jia nodded in admiration: "Your short-track speed skating and the Korean team are considered feuds, and this grievance is simply the motivation for hard training."

Gu Ran asked him: "Then you see that Japan can compete with the United States and Russia in figure skating, don't you have any ideas?"

"Yes!" Seeing how desperate he was, Shen Jia couldn't help but practice with him, "But there are some things that can't be achieved just by practicing."

"What can't be practiced," Gu Ran sneered, "Isn't the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada just practiced batch by batch, if they can do it, we can do it!"

"You are what people call the Juan Wang." Shen Jia was so impressed with him, "No wonder our director Zhang said that a person like you can succeed in anything."

Gu Ran corrected him: "For competitive sports, no matter how hard you work, it's called challenging the limit."

Shen Jia nodded kindly: "That's right, challenge the limit, isn't it your WeChat name."

While speaking, Gu Ran's posture changed to a frog-style stretching again, and the inner legs of her legs were tightly pressed against the yoga mat, which was very soft and could last for a long time.

Shen Jia said: "You can try the splits, it's a split."

Without further ado, Gu Ran gave him another one: "I will do this!"

Shen Jia: "..."

Gu Ran not only pays attention to his flexibility training, but also pays special attention to the norms and standards of his skating posture.At the end of training every day, he would stay to skate hundreds of laps of technical skating.

Not only did he stay by himself, but he also asked Chi Lang to stay: "You just skate with me, and you can do whatever I do."

His skating speed was very slow, and Chi Lang couldn't help overtaking him several times.He surpassed Gu Ran and had to turn around to look at Gu Ran.

Gu Ran usually wears light-colored goggles during training. At this time, she can't help showing contempt: "Idiot."

Chi Lang sighed, there was no way, he was eaten to death by Gu Xiaoran.I had no choice but to go back behind him, forcing myself to be patient and slow down to the slowest speed, focusing on every movement, trying to achieve the same standard as Gu Ran.

Gu Ran doesn't practice too much, only about half an hour a day.They monitor blood lactate levels daily, and everyone else is able to stay within a stable range.Only him, the fluctuation is particularly obvious.

This not only made Gu Ran a little worried, Cheng Sen and Xu Qing were also extremely nervous.The blood lactic acid index indicates the degree of muscle fatigue of the athlete. Once the content is too high, it means that the athlete is in a state of high fatigue and is prone to injury.

But the game is approaching, and it is impossible not to train.We can only try to reduce the intensity for him and let him rest more.

In this way, before the competition, Gu Ran's own performance did not improve significantly, but Chi Lang improved very fast.

Cheng Sen shook his head at Xu Qing and sighed: "It doesn't matter if I scratch my lips, it has to be Gu Ran."

Xu Qing said: "After all, they are teammates. Which athlete has no self-esteem, and can't always watch others improve while standing still."

Cheng Sen agreed with him: "Yes, healthy competition is a good thing, as long as you don't learn from the Koreans."

Xu Qing said: "With you here, do these bastards dare?"

"That's true. The Koreans just have a crooked upper beam and a crooked lower beam."

His three words are not far from the Koreans, and it can be heard that he has deep resentment.Xu Qing was dying of laughter: "You just hate Koreans so much."

Cheng Sen turned to look at him: "Don't you hate it?"

Xu Qing asked back, "What do you think?"

Cheng Sen sighed in his heart, if he said hate, I'm afraid Xu Qing hated Koreans more than anyone else.

He was about to say something, but he heard Xu Qing say: "However, in the arena, the South Korean team is the same as Canada, Italy, the Netherlands... any country. They are our opponents. Only by defeating them can we win the championship."

"That's right, only by defeating them can we win the championship."

Xu Qing flipped through the notebook in his hand and took out a piece of paper: "Last year's World Championship results, South Korea won seven gold medals, Canada won three gold medals, and we had one silver and three bronzes."

He slapped the piece of paper in Cheng Sen's hand: "Director Cheng, have you figured it out? What grades do we need to get back this time before we can hand over the job."

Cheng Sen crumpled the piece of paper without looking at it, and threw it outside the ice rink with a wave: "Take as much as you can."

In the last one or two days of training, Cheng Sen completely lowered the intensity, and together with Xu Qing every day, he led the players to slide, let them feel the entire sliding route, and grasp the rhythm of the entire competition by controlling the route.

Xu Qing, as a technical guide, is dedicated to every team member, and personally leads them to slide over and over again. After a few days, he, the coach, is the one who exercises the most.

After the training, Cheng Sen helped him to the medical room, and couldn't help scolding him: "Why are you working so hard?"

Xu Qing lay on the treatment bed and asked the team doctor to give him physical therapy: "Isn't this an upcoming game? I want to take them more."

Cheng Sen leaned against the physiotherapy bed next to him: "Those who didn't know thought you were going to play."

Xu Qing buried his head in the hole in front of the physiotherapy bed: "I think so."

"Don't think about it." Gu Ran just saw Xu Qing walking out of the ice rink with Cheng Sen's support, and knew that his back injury had happened again, so he hurried over after changing his clothes, "I will go to the competition, and I will replace you for the champion take"

Hearing his voice, Xu Qing raised his head subconsciously to look at him: "Little brat."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was pushed back by the team doctor: "Lie down, lie down, the needle missed in a while."

Gu Ran leaned next to Cheng Sen: "Who gave me your helmet number, isn't your dream my dream."

Cheng Sen didn't like it very much: "I don't know how the Skating Federation assigns helmet numbers, but they gave mine to Chi Dali."

"Idol, I will be very sad if you say that."

At this time, Chi Lang, Gao Ziyi and Meng Yuqiao also walked into the medical room.

Chi Dali failed to have a cute and pitiful face, but he insisted on putting on an aggrieved expression, which made Cheng Sen just want to beat him up.

After more than ten hours of flying, when he arrived in the UK, Gu Ran first turned on his mobile phone and glanced at the Premier League schedule: "Wow! Arsenal's away game against Sheffield United, I really want to go and see it."

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows: "I remember you were a Meilingge (Real Madrid fan), why did you become a Gunners fan (Arsenal fan) again?"

Gu Ran chuckled: "I like Real Madrid in La Liga, and I like Arsenal in the Premier League. There is no conflict."

He suddenly looked at Xu Qing with a vigilant look: "Don't tell me you like Tottenham."

"That's not true," Xu Qing smiled calmly, "But I like Manchester United better."

Gu Ran took off his suitcase from the conveyor belt: "Isn't that the same? Anyway, they are the opposite."

After he finished taking his own, he turned around to help other teammates, especially the senior sisters of the women's team, as long as they waited comfortably, the junior brother would bring their suitcases over.

Their luggage is quite special. There are skates and skates inside, which can only be checked in. Every time they fly by plane, it takes a long time to pick up the luggage.

When he arrived at the hotel, according to the habit, he still lived in the same room as Gao Ziyi.The two took out each other's skates from their respective boxes and handed them to each other.

This is also a habit of them, because there are many accidents on long-distance flights. In order to prevent luggage loss, athletes usually bring two sets of equipment and put them crosswise in the boxes of teammates, so as to ensure that the normal competition will not be affected.

Gu Ran remembered that now he and Lin Jiaxi had no jet lag, so he quickly took out his phone and sent him a message, and then told Lin Jiaxi what Cheng Sen had told him before: "You must perform well in this competition. Our director Cheng said that as long as you can get in the top three, he can talk to the leader about this matter."

Lin Jiaxi was very excited after hearing this: "Thank you, Xiaoran!"

"Why are you being polite to me? I'm just asking for you and sending a message."

Lin Jiaxi said: "No, no, this is very important to me! At first I wanted to go back to China, but I was not sure if the Chinese national team would accept me. At that time, my family even gave me advice, asking me to find a The club practices first, then participates in domestic competitions, and then selects into the national team step by step."

Gu Ran said: "Jiaxi, you have to be more confident. In fact, your strength is very strong. In the domestic 1500-meter event, apart from my senior, few people can compare with you."

"You are talking about Gao Ziyi, right? I also think he is very strong. I have always been optimistic about him. One day, he will surpass that of the Korean team, Yin Canyu."

Gu Ran laughed: "Haha, I thought so too."

Lin Jiaxi added: "However, I think there is another person who is also very strong. In the future, he will definitely surpass Yin Canyu, and even Gao Ziyi."

Gu Ran asked, "Who is it? You probably didn't mean me, did you?"

"It's you!"

"real or fake?"

"Really!" Lin Jiaxi said with great certainty: "In my heart, you are so strong. I think that in the Beijing Winter Olympics, you can even win all the gold medals!"

Gu Ran said: "It will take more than two years, let's think about this competition first."

Lin Jiaxi asked: "Which projects did you apply for this time?"

"Same as in the World Cup, 500m and 1000m individual events, then 2000m mixed relay and 5000m relay."

Lin Jiaxi breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I can rest assured."

Gu Ran asked: "What are you worried about?"

"If you didn't sign up for 1500 meters, I would have a chance to enter the top three. If you signed up, then the top three must be you, Gao Ziyi and Yin Canyu. What else can I do?"

Gu Ran made a knock on his head: "I told you, be more confident, you can do it!"

"Well! I will definitely do it!"